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LA School Superintendent Raid Update: He's an "Undocumented Immigrant" and He's Being Investigated for Stealing School Funds

You may remember a post yesterday evening about the LA School Superintendent whose home and offices were raided by the FBI. People were guessing what the probe might be about.

Well, he's an illegal alien who has been working in the US for 20 years, and on top of that, he sure seems very, very rich for a public " " " servant " " ".

This article does not say he's being investigated for embezzlement of school funds but the facts sure do suggest that.

Embattled Alberto Carvalho's multi-million dollar real estate portfolio revealed as LAUSD corruption probe rumbles on

LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has an extensive real estate portfolio, with more than $6.3 million in properties across California and Florida, The California Post learned.
The revelation comes as the embattled schools chief is dealing with federal officials raiding his office, Los Angeles home, and a Miami property tied to the investigation. The raids are tied to allegations of fraud and corruption, a source told The Post.

They're using the word "corruption," which can mean a lot of things, but I think it's clear they mean misappropriation of public funds and/or kickbacks from contractors. A high-ranking school official has a lot of juicy, rich contracts to spread around, you know.

Carvalho owns at least six homes in Florida's Broward County and one in Los Angeles along with his wife, Maria. The schools head used to be Miami-Dade County Public Schools' Superintendent for more than a decade before joining LAUSD in 2022.
His main 3-bed, 3-bath San Pedro home is worth about $1.6 million, according to Zillow. The multi-floor single-family home is around 2,000 square feet.
Carvalho's most valuable home, according to Zillow, is his 5-bed, 4-bath Miami Shores home. It's valued at $2.4 million and has 3,576 square feet of space. He also owns two Miami condos worth around $1.4 million combined, per Zillow.
The LAUSD schools head earns $440,000 per year, and signed a new four-year contract last year.
Three more homes in Fort Lauderdale come in at around $1.3 million combined.
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The investigation is reportedly tied to a failed AI company called AllHere, which created a chatbot program for LAUSD with Carvalho at the helm, the program was later pulled.

Ah. So he diverted taxpayer funds to pay himself for a failed AI chatbot program.

Unbelievable. This is the kind of blatant self-dealing that Republicans almost never attempt, not because we're saints, but we know that we, unlike protected Democrats especially of the Oppressed Minority variety, would be instantly punished.

The home at the center of the Miami raid belongs to Debra Kerr, one of the leaders of AllHere.

More: He came here at age 17 as an illegal alien.

I don't know when, or if, he got his immigration status fixed.

Born in Portugal as one of six children, Carvalho was the only of his siblings to graduate high school. He came to the United States at age 17 as an undocumented immigrant.
...
While Carvalho keeps his personal life largely private, the Miami Herald reported that he was married to Maria Florio Borgia Carvalho and the couple has a daughter.
Carvalho has also been outspoken on immigration issues.
At a September 2025 news conference, he said students and families should be protected from "immoral, unethical and illegal actions" while referring to ICE raids in LA, describing an "unbearable lack of humanity."
In July 2025, he criticized ICE agents for allegedly urinating on the grounds of a Pico Rivera school, calling it a "new level of despicable insult."
Carvalho faced scrutiny before arriving in Los Angeles.
In 2020, while school superintendent in Miami, the district's Office of the Inspector General reviewed a $1.57 million donation made to a nonprofit he chaired, the Foundation for New Education Initiatives. The office questioned the timing and oversight of the contribution, asking that the donation be returned.

Weird how he keeps directing taxpayer money towards entities he controls or owns.

In 2008, Carvalho, then a senior Miami-Dade school official, was linked to a series of suggestive emails with Miami Herald reporter Tania deLuzuriaga while he was married. The emails included flirtatious messages such as "Will you be completely offended if I jump into your arms the next time I see you?" and expressions like "Love, love, love you. xoxoxo." The messages surfaced publicly after he was named superintendent, and he denied having an affair.
...
In 2025, former LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner and several students sued the district, alleging that approximately $77 million in Proposition 28 funds intended for arts and music education were misused. The LAUSD denied wrongdoing and said it is clarifying compliance with state requirements.

🏫 LAUSD Supt Alberto Cavalho's $6.5 Million real estate portfolio

He and his wife own 6 homes, including 2 luxury waterfront condos in Miami.

🟢 95th St, Miami Shores = $2.4M
🟢 900 Biscayne #5008 = $925K
🟢 900 Biscayne #1905 = $560K
🟢 Royal Palm Way, Ft Lauderdale = $576K… pic.twitter.com/JQEkKaVaeH
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) February 25, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:10 PM

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1 Hmmmmm.

Posted by: Emmie at February 26, 2026 05:12 PM (FMtrg)

2 I read that he had become a citizen at some vague point in the past, but could never find confirmation of that. Now I know why.

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (98kQX)

3 Florida or California?

I figured LAUSD was California.

Posted by: Emmie at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (FMtrg)

4 I'm sure he didn't embezzle anything.

He just bet well on cattle futures.

Posted by: mikeski at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (CUqCx)

5 Willowed:
Heh, leave it to the Japanese to make epic Trump animes:
Posted by: Thrawn

Not to shit on the parade but it's not Japanese. It's just a rando using AI.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (diia5)

6 So close to Pride Month?!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (ZOv7s)

7 If on November 6 the Democratic Party makes the net gain of 24 seats needed to win control of the House of Representatives, former CIA agents, military commanders, and State Department officials will provide the margin of victory and hold the balance of power in Congress. The presence of so many representatives of the military-intelligence apparatus in the legislature is a situation without precedent in the history of the United States.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 05:15 PM (RHGPo)

8 "Embattled" LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has an extensive real estate portfolio, with more than $6.3 million in properties across California and Florida

The LAUSD schools head earns $440,000 per year

Doing the jobs Americans won't do!

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 05:15 PM (pP3eq)

9 Lloyd wins. Go, Lloyd!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 26, 2026 05:16 PM (YlWIZ)

10 Undocumented=illegal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:16 PM (c27kw)

11 "Embattled"

I hate that word.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2026 05:16 PM (06Hmj)

12 "He's an "Undocumented Immigrant"

I've heard this story before. I'll tell ya, every normal man...

Posted by: fd - "No" is a complete sentence at February 26, 2026 05:17 PM (vFG9F)

13 White man would go to prison for this shit.

He'll probably get a star on the walk of fame.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:17 PM (WcDsy)

14 10 Undocumented=illegal.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:16 PM (c27kw)

A "dreamer"

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 05:17 PM (VE6XX)

15 Well he was stealing. That must be illegal?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (c27kw)

16 Not having the documents is itself the problem.

It's not a euphemism. It's not like you just misplaced some documents.

The documents don't exist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (06Hmj)

17 Corruption on a grand scale. No longer feel guilty about stealing the office pens.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (ehY6c)

18 15 Well he was stealing. That must be illegal?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (c27kw)

It's in FL so there's a chance

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (VE6XX)

19 Unvisaed?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:19 PM (c27kw)

20 LAUSD is the most corrupt org I ever did projects for.

Nobody else even comes close. More layers of markup and beaks getting wet than anything I ever saw in 30 years.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:19 PM (WcDsy)

21 Making Somalians look legit

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 05:19 PM (Ia/+0)

22 Not to shit on the parade but it's not Japanese. It's just a rando using AI.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (diia5)
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Parades used to just get rained on. When did we graduate to shit?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 05:19 PM (i1VVh)

23 21 Making Somalians look legit
Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 05:19 PM (Ia/+0)

I wouldn't go that far..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 05:19 PM (VE6XX)

24 Well he was stealing. That must be illegal?
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What if stealing was part of his dreaming?

Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 05:20 PM (TN0g+)

25 Unified School District.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:20 PM (c27kw)

26 I’m in the wrong business. Do you think I could renounce my citizenship and then stay illegally?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 26, 2026 05:21 PM (j9Zac)

27 Why don't i just go around saying I'm the undocumented Mayor of Philadelphia?

Just roll in hot, start firing people, do some real Mister Mayor type shit, and say "what? I'm totally the mayor, guys. I'm just undocumented. No one is a fake mayor on stolen land."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2026 05:21 PM (06Hmj)

28 He was magically planted in LA by a flying gay unicorn riding a beam of light from Uranus.

Undocumented my ass. He's an illegal alien the same as the broad selling Chicklets at Otai Mesa.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:21 PM (WcDsy)

29 15 Well he was stealing. That must be illegal?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (c27kw)

No theft is illegal on stolen land!

Posted by: Unless the thief is a white US citizen at February 26, 2026 05:21 PM (TbWk/)

30
Born in Portugal as one of six children, Carvalho was the only of his siblings to graduate high school. He came to the United States at age 17 as an undocumented immigrant.

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

How inspiring! (sob)

Posted by: AWFL at February 26, 2026 05:21 PM (5pERN)

31 Parades used to just get rained on. When did we graduate to shit?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 05:19 PM (i1VVh)

It's what the pervert fetishists in the pride parades wanted.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 26, 2026 05:21 PM (CNl8/)

32 yay hordeminde

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (06Hmj)

33 And how did he get to be LA Schools Superintendent ? My Niece is a Superintendent in the Sacramento area and she had to work really hard and rise through the ranks.. Of course she's white and American born

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (VE6XX)

34 Horses shit on parades all the time.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (j9Zac)

35 They must be peasants if they are covered in $hit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (c27kw)

36 30.

My heart bleeds for him.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (WcDsy)

37 Parades used to just get rained on. When did we graduate to shit?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Shitting on a parade would be tough, unless you had a good manure spreader like the French farmers use in protests.

Posted by: Honey Wagon Hank at February 26, 2026 05:23 PM (oftw2)

38 6 homes? And 5 of them in one state? And even on 440k/yr, how does he afford all those mortgages?

Speaking of, 440k/yr, wtf, how does a district superintendant make more than the President of the US?

Posted by: RandomDave at February 26, 2026 05:23 PM (aJQbY)

39 I read that he had become a citizen at some vague point in the past, but could never find confirmation of that. Now I know why.
Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (98kQX)
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I'm guessing that he told the district that he got it fixed and was legal and that absolutely no proof was demanded because that would be RAAAAACIST.

But he was illegal the whole time and didn't care, and California goes the extra mile not to notice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2026 05:23 PM (ZOv7s)

40 Synchronicity, next door neighbor has Mex crew repairing siding with full radio mex music blaring. Wife naps, not bothered at all. She can't hear anything. Hearing is shot.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 05:24 PM (ehY6c)

41 I'm now declaring myself an undocumented doctor. I wonder how long I can practice medicine.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:24 PM (WcDsy)

42 I’m an undocumented gynecologist.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 26, 2026 05:24 PM (j9Zac)

43 33 And how did he get to be LA Schools Superintendent ? My Niece is a Superintendent in the Sacramento area and she had to work really hard and rise through the ranks.. Of course she's white and American born
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (VE6XX)

The education establishment protects its own, or people part of the clique.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 05:25 PM (9Ovst)

44 I hate the term "undocumented immigrant." It's illegal alien, AKA, a fucking criminal shitbag.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 26, 2026 05:25 PM (XMwZJ)

45 sniffy, and the wife appreciates your bedside manner, right?

Posted by: RandomDave at February 26, 2026 05:25 PM (aJQbY)

46 40.
Mariachi music blaring on a job site is the same thing as the call to prayer. It announces that it is a Mexican only site. All others will collect drywall screws in their tires.

We call it the Call to Bud Lite in the trades.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:25 PM (WcDsy)

47 Carvalho in his previous job as Miami Dade superintendent was also deeply involved in Obama's programs to end the school to prison pipeline. Instead of filing criminal charges for yutes involved in some pretty serious crimes on school grounds, they were diverted into programs like in school suspension, etc. One such graduate was one Trayvon Martin who FAFO later leading to his demise.

This program and its grants also influenced the neighboring district of Parkland, FL (Broward County) where a similar thug, Nicholas Cruz got diverted rather than charged in the criminal justice.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)

48 Speaking of, 440k/yr, wtf, how does a district superintendant make more than the President of the US?
Posted by: RandomDave

It's so easy.

Posted by: Every Div. 1 Football Coach at February 26, 2026 05:26 PM (oftw2)

49 "More: He came here at age 17 as an illegal alien."

One of two things happened, either they did not check his background or they didn't care that he was an illegal. I am betting they didn't check because they didn't care that he was an illegal alien.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 26, 2026 05:27 PM (0N4FZ)

50 Horses shit on parades all the time.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (j9Zac)
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If your parade has an equestrian component, the marching bands always want to be in front of them. If not, there are regular warnings from the front ranks and the files gently sway back and forth along the route.

I recall one Homecoming Parade where there was a particularly fetching equestrian cop and the killer joke was some guy who said he was insanely jealous of her saddle.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2026 05:27 PM (ZOv7s)

51 44 I hate the term "undocumented immigrant." It's illegal alien, AKA, a fucking criminal shitbag.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 26, 2026 05:25 PM (XMwZJ)

And it pisses me off when they say most of the "immigrants" ICE arrest have committed no crimes.. BS.. Coming here illegally is a crime... And I'm sure they get fake SS #'s and subsidies to boot...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 05:27 PM (VE6XX)

52 It's mind boggling how pervasive this shit is. Every dem run city/county/state appears to be chock-a-block full of illegals infiltrating themselves into government and leaching off the taxpayers.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 26, 2026 05:28 PM (XMwZJ)

53 I'm now declaring myself an undocumented doctor. I wonder how long I can practice medicine.
Posted by: sifty boones

Yeah, but did you grajuate the Quality Learing Center?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:28 PM (diia5)

54 Wife just woke up, comes into office; ask her how she slept thru the mex music; she says, " I don't hear much". Truth

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 05:28 PM (ehY6c)

55 I'm sure Carvalho is a legal immigrant now and sincerely cares about the education of every child. Right?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 05:28 PM (HYqoK)

56 Denaturalize, confiscate, execute, deport.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2026 05:28 PM (LqCKJ)

57 If that last allegation is true "In 2025, former LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner and several students sued the district, alleging that approximately $77 million in Proposition 28 funds intended for arts and music education were misused. The LAUSD denied wrongdoing and said it is clarifying compliance with state requirements." Carvalho must be spreading a lot of the money around, has a hookers and blow addiction or gambling addiction and loses way more than he wins.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 05:29 PM (Sokdp)

58 Good old fashioned corruption allegations! How refreshing to find a Democrat who isn't involved in a plot to overthrow our Republic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 05:29 PM (4nevv)

59 Newsome recently praised him highly in a ceremony. Because, Newsome

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2026 05:29 PM (PYyV9)

60
But seriously, forget insurance fraud, drugs, prostitution. Public office is the new racket for these illegal alien scamsters, and also homegrown criminals. Someone has figured this out, including the Somali thieves.

One of the latest: A guy in Fresno who is LITERALLY A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER is openly running for the City Council!!!! "We need someone from outside the box," he says. The contenders for the seat are:

AJ Rassamni
Nav Gurm
Ariana Martinez
Rene Campos (registered sex offender)

wtf, are white people banned from public office in Fresno? Conservatives have GOT to start running for these low-level local offices. School boards, city councils, we need to get in.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 05:29 PM (5pERN)

61 > It's mind boggling how pervasive this shit is. Every dem run city/county/state appears to be chock-a-block full of illegals infiltrating themselves into government and leaching off the taxpayers.
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This is how you reach a $38 trillion dollar deficit.

And every goddamn taxpayer should be livid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 05:29 PM (jtM2q)

62 I wouldn't put it past most school districts steal funds one way or another. Billions spent to teach ABCs andd 1,2,3?

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 05:29 PM (Ia/+0)

63 Speaking of, 440k/yr, wtf, how does a district superintendant make more than the President of the US?
Posted by: RandomDave

It's so easy.

Posted by: Every Div. 1 Football Coach at February 26, 2026 05:26 PM (oftw2)

The highest paid federal employees are the football coaches at the academies.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 26, 2026 05:30 PM (CNl8/)

64 I personally know a guy from Costa Rica who came to California after graduating HS in Costa Rica and was let BACK into a high school in Lancaster, CA so he would play on their soccer team.

I shit you not. He graduated twice. Whole family lived on welfare while doing it.

California is rotten to the core and top to bottom.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:30 PM (WcDsy)

65 Des Moines and LA seem to have a problem with hiring criminal, illegal alien superintendents. Huh.

Good job, people.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 26, 2026 05:30 PM (U/Byj)

66 Alberto Carvalho looks white. Can he be prosecuted?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:30 PM (dAq3u)

67 I'm sure Carvalho is a legal immigrant now and sincerely cares about the education of every child. Right?
Ummm...no. It is my experience that NO educrat gives a shit about educating children.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 26, 2026 05:30 PM (XMwZJ)

68 The former Des Moines superintendent is small potatoes compared to this guy.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 26, 2026 05:31 PM (cpo0V)

69 He has a lot of stolen land.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 05:31 PM (n5tGW)

70 This guy must have the same stock broker as Pelosi.

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 05:31 PM (G0vdT)

71 58 Good old fashioned corruption allegations! How refreshing to find a Democrat who isn't involved in a plot to overthrow our Republic.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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See above, Carvalho conspired with Obama Democrats to keep young criminals out of jail. Project Promise.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:31 PM (E4rtv)

72 How refreshing to find a Democrat who isn't involved in a plot to overthrow our Republic.

Just an invader looting the country.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2026 05:31 PM (LqCKJ)

73
Every dem run city/county/state appears to be chock-a-block full of illegals infiltrating themselves into government and leaching off the taxpayers.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

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And too many of them ARE run by dems, I'd bet even in conservative jurisdictions. I read somewhere that conservatives are falling behind in this.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 05:31 PM (5pERN)

74 This program and its grants also influenced the neighboring district of Parkland, FL (Broward County) where a similar thug, Nicholas Cruz got diverted rather than charged in the criminal justice.
Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)
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Yes, lots of magical thinking and white-knighting going on. Our school board president kicked the cop out of the high school because George Floyd overdosed, and the place went to shit, fighting, guns on campus, and the Karens went into full scale rebellion, resulting in mass expulsions and security officers being hired.

The board president - a lesbian who had a thing for adopting black boys - refused to put actual cops on campus less they go into a racist shooting rampage. She subsequently ran for city council against the guy she fired and got her ass thoroughly kicked. There is justice in the world.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM (ZOv7s)

75 "I can't wait to vote for more guys like this!!!"
--Californians

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM (PYyV9)

76 He probably votes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM (dAq3u)

77
Why don't i just go around saying I'm the undocumented Mayor of Philadelphia?

Baron of Arizona.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM (Cqx++)

78 "LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has an extensive real estate portfolio, with more than $6.3 million in properties across California and Florida, The California Post learned."

What's the ratio of CA to FL deeds? 'Cause if it's mostly CA, it could be a zero lot outhouse and be valued pretty robustly.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM (gLikB)

79 wtf, are white people banned from public office in Fresno? Conservatives have GOT to start running for these low-level local offices. School boards, city councils, we need to get in.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 05:29 PM (5pERN)
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Wouldn't surprise me at all if applications to run for office by white folks were "misplaced" or found "invalid" for various reasons.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM (ESVrU)

80 Blonde Morticia, there is not a dem running for public office in my county.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 05:33 PM (+nEug)

81 Today I called the Social Security Administration on the phone and talked for several minutes to an actual person. I thought this could not happen.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 05:33 PM (ZxPkt)

82 No, no! Portugees are not white!

Posted by: Haakon Gustavson at February 26, 2026 05:33 PM (oftw2)

83 Easier to land on the Moon than for a white guy to get a job at CalTRANS or LAUSD. Been that way since the 80's.

Thanks Reagan and Teddy Murderbubbles.

Heckuvajob.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:33 PM (WcDsy)

84 ...that should be leeching off taxpayers...though leaching sorta works there.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 26, 2026 05:34 PM (XMwZJ)

85 67 I'm sure Carvalho is a legal immigrant now and sincerely cares about the education of every child. Right?
Ummm...no. It is my experience that NO educrat gives a shit about educating children.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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No more than the DMV worker gives a shit about whether you can actually drive safely.

There was an interesting book in the 70's of workplace sociology called Street Level Bureaucracy.

Money quote from review, "The core dilemma of street-level bureaucrats is that they are supposed to help people or make decisions about them on the basis of individual cases, yet the structure of their jobs makes this impossible. Instead, they are forced to adopt practices such as rationing resources, screening applicants for qualities their organizations favor, "rubberstamping" applications, and routinizing client interactions by imposing the uniformities of mass processing on situations requiring human responsiveness. "

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:34 PM (E4rtv)

86 He's registered to vote in Florida. Prosecute him every time he voted.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:34 PM (dAq3u)

87 What's the ratio of CA to FL deeds? 'Cause if it's mostly CA, it could be a zero lot outhouse and be valued pretty robustly.
____

6 homes in FLA, one in CA. It's all information that is available in the post. You simply just have to read it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 05:34 PM (Dv3i1)

88 Corruption
Corruption
Corruption
How much are we going to take???

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 05:34 PM (2WIwB)

89 "Carvalho owns at least six homes in Florida's Broward County and one in Los Angeles along with his wife, Maria."

So, 6:1 ratio.

Welp, that explains that. Yep, very sus.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 26, 2026 05:34 PM (gLikB)

90 81 Today I called the Social Security Administration on the phone and talked for several minutes to an actual person. I thought this could not happen.
Posted by: Don Black
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Trump forced through a major reshuffling on SSA call and work priorities through his HHS secretary.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv)

91 Urban school sup is a super sweet gig. They make a ton of money, don't have to do much, and there are mucho opportunidos for graft. Metro Nashville has been some doozies. Pedro Garcia came from Miami, hired for obvious reasons, no connection at all to the area. Flipped out the first time it snowed. Left for the West Coast after a couple of years. No obvious corruption, just completely incompetent.

He was replaced by race hustler from Baltimore. A real piece of work. Hateful, race-obsessed, and crooked as the day is long. Hired all his B'more cronies at outrageous salaries. Eventually, the stealing got too blatant - notably with corrupt kickback book purchase deal, and I think he was allowed to take cushy super position in some other poor city prior to be arrested.

Much to everyone's surprise, Metro seemed to learn their lesson, at least a little bit. They hired black woman (of course) from inside. At least she is quiet.

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 26, 2026 05:35 PM (sFNX2)

92
37

Shitting on a parade would be tough, unless you had a good manure spreader like the French farmers use in protests.
Posted by: Honey Wagon Hank at February 26, 2026 05:23 PM

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Use one of these new electric personal helicopters.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 05:35 PM (VWtfl)

93 Chuck Martel: "You simply just have to read it."

Surely you jest.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 26, 2026 05:36 PM (gLikB)

94 6 homes? And 5 of them in one state? And even on 440k/yr, how does he afford all those mortgages?

Speaking of, 440k/yr, wtf, how does a district superintendant make more than the President of the US?
Posted by: RandomDave at February 26, 2026 05:23 PM (aJQbY)

Well affording all those mortgages assumes that the extra properties are not rented out and paying for themselves. But still seems like a lot of property for him to have been able to acquire.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 05:36 PM (Sokdp)

95 Everyone stand back...come on ....clear out. Ok...thank you....HERE i GOOOOOOO!!!!!

* POUNCE *

Posted by: Orson at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (dIske)

96 Surely you jest.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel

Correct. But don't call me Shirley.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (Dv3i1)

97 🚨 HOLY CRAP! Secretary Noem just revealed @ElonMusk
helped find that a few DHS staffers installed SPYWARE on her phone and computer, as well as on the devices of of other political hires

These people need to be JAILED! There HAVE to be consequences, or they’ll keep doing it!

In addition, Noem and her team found "secret, secure rooms with hidden files that we turned over to attorneys."

I don't care what anyone says: the deep state is alive and well.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (RHGPo)

98 Sorry to hear he’s “embattled. “. How about we embattle his ass right back to whatever s—- hole he came from.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (XqFM2)

99 wtf, are white people banned from public office in Fresno? Conservatives have GOT to start running for these low-level local offices. School boards, city councils, we need to get in.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 05:29 PM (5pERN)
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Wouldn't surprise me at all if applications to run for office by white folks were "misplaced" or found "invalid" for various reasons.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM

White people in california are too embarrassed from their white privilege to run for office. They never apply to run for anything unless they are white liberal lesbians, they automatically get elected.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (0N4FZ)

100 > 20 LAUSD is the most corrupt org I ever did projects for.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:19 PM (WcDsy)

On the other hand, I don't recall any LAUSD school board members being found floating face down in the river after a dispute over who got the lunch contract.

People just don't realize how much money is involved in big school districts... CPS has over 300,000 students enrolled. Figure breakfasts and lunches at $10 per day (probably more, but let's be conservative), and that's three million bucks a day.

Yeah, more than enough to attract the attention of gentlemen with Sicilian last names.

Posted by: Chicago Public Schools FTW at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (IG3/x)

101 He was Superintendetin in Florida first.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (dAq3u)

102 Cartel needs schools to watch their young ones during the day.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (WcDsy)

103 "Carvalho has also been outspoken on immigration issues."

***

You don't say.

Posted by: LASue at February 26, 2026 05:37 PM (qu4ub)

104 Did the "jump into your arms" and "xoxo" come from him or the chick? Because no straight dude talks like that.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 26, 2026 05:38 PM (3uBP9)

105 CPS has over 300,000 students enrolled.
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How many can read?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 05:38 PM (Dv3i1)

106 > These people need to be JAILED!

I'd say charged with treason.

Which is still a capital crime.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2026 05:38 PM (IG3/x)

Update: Kash Patel Fires 10 of the FBI Agents That Eagerly Acted as Joe Biden's Secret Police

The NY Post:

FBI fires 10 involved in Jack Smith's classified docs probe of Trump
By Josh Christenson
The FBI has dismissed 10 agents and analysts involved in former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents prosecution of President Trump, a spokesperson for the bureau confirmed Thursday.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that subpoenas were sent to Kash Patel, who now serves as FBI director, and Susie Wiles, now Trump's White House chief of staff, during the 2024 campaign.
Patel told Reuters, which first reported on the subpoenas, that agents had sought his phone records "using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight."

If you recall, these rogue agents previously claimed that their targets could not be warned by the phone company that they were being wiretapped, claiming that they were "flight risks" who would flee the country if they knew the feds were on to them.

Under questioning, various malefactors were forced to admit that no, they never really thought Republican Senators were "flight risks" at all.

An FBI official told The Post that it wasn't "just phone records and subpoenas -- but a massive targeting operation" that likely involved more than just the two Trump administration officials.
A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which -- like other firings by Director Patel -- violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."

Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

Related: It's the Russiagate Plot's ten year anniversary.

Russiagate began 10 years ago today, documented in a Clinton campaign email discussing their Swiftboat project to smear Trump. So much evil was set in motion that day, and yet absolutely no one has been held accountable. pic.twitter.com/XVfT2VE8QK
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) February 26, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:10 PM

Comments

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1 ST.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:10 PM (c27kw)

2 Firings aren't nothing.

Even if they don't get prosecuted, at least they got fired.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 04:11 PM (a+4eV)

3 Prosecutions?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (c27kw)

4 In before the ham and eggers comment

Posted by: Beartooth at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (ggkmJ)

5 Good lord

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (wBaIH)

6 Even if they don't get prosecuted, at least they got fired.

Indeed, they are no longer ham-and-egging. I'd like to also see them forced to listen to Kamala's speeches on a loop, but firings are a good start.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (2ocoG)

7 >>>Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

Seize their phone records and see who put them up to it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (dK+Kv)

8 It's a start.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (zjgNU)

9 Prosecutions?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (c27kw)

But this is how it would actual prevent the next time.

So there's going to be a next time when the Democrats get power again.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (zjgNU)

10 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

@ElonMusk
and his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings. They had done that to several of the politicals."

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

11 Things seem to be starting to come out. Maybe these were teed up to start as a trickle and increase to a flood starting with SOTU and through to the mid-term election. I can hope anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)

12 Who knew Elon Musk would go from being an interesting figure to being an amazingly important figure.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 04:15 PM (pZEOD)

13 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
[ . . . ]
Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

The Resistance is burrowed in like a tick.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (rbvCR)

14 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

Sounds like more firings inbound.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (2ocoG)

15 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

Let's see if she fires people.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (a+4eV)

16 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

@ElonMusk
and his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings. They had done that to several of the politicals."
Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

TREASON.

They should be dragged out onto Union Square and summarily executed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (zjgNU)

17 They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings. They had done that to several of the politicals.
____

Will these employees get the gibbet, or be tossed into the oubliette?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (Dv3i1)

18 I wonder how long Noem's team were watching the staffers suck up the information off her phone and noting who they were transmitting it to.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)

19 Abolish the FBI.

Posted by: Ham N Egger at February 26, 2026 04:18 PM (hXJe5)

20 A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which -- like other firings by Director Patel -- violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."

Good. Now we know that the FBI Agents Association is fine with its members participating in intelligence operations against the political leadership's enemies.

Had this organization been smart, it would have denounced the rogue agents or at the very least, kept its head down and its mouth shut.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 04:18 PM (COQGW)

21 violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."

OK, I'll bite. How exactly did these people risk their lives to protect our country? What did they do that protects our country?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 26, 2026 04:19 PM (FMtrg)

22 Let's see if she fires people.

I mean, we know what she does to dogs...

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 04:21 PM (2ocoG)

23 How exactly did these people risk their lives to protect our country?
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Same way Lt Col "Bearclaw" Vindman did.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:21 PM (Dv3i1)

24 "The Resistance is burrowed in like a tick." Posted by: Kindltot

yes, but ticks don't have foreign and domestic enemies supporting them.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (vbXSk)

25 I wonder how long Noem's team were watching the staffers suck up the information off her phone and noting who they were transmitting it to

If Elon was involved, that means probably Big Balls and others were too, and I'm sure they probably did that.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (2ocoG)

26 I worked for a large corporation. One of our founders died. The next day was business as usual. I retired; the company is still making money.

What makes these government drones think they are so important that the country can't go on without them?

Posted by: Wally at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (pduCL)

27 Significantly worse than Watergate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (Dv3i1)

28 A Wall of Shame in the lobby might be a start.

Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (FhXTo)

29 Well they had her purse didn't they?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (c27kw)

30
Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

@ElonMusk
and his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings. They had done that to several of the politicals."
Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

WTF is right and what really galls me is their hubris that they'll never be found out.

They really think it's their birthright to rule over the rest of us.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 04:23 PM (ANQtD)

31 If Trump was really in the Epstein files in a bad way, there would have been no reason for the Dems to set up this Russia nonsense.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 26, 2026 04:23 PM (PoA2o)

32 You WANT heads on pikes.
You would settle for long prison terms.
You will get- - -

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:23 PM (pDt9x)

33 Biden's controllers' Secret Police.

Shouting and whispering Joe was just the front man.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (NFX2v)

34 You're fired.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (c27kw)

35 18 I wonder how long Noem's team were watching the staffers suck up the information off her phone and noting who they were transmitting it to.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)
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Yep, that's what I'm wondering. I wonder if that story of her flying around in a luxury jet was part of the mole hunt.

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (G0vdT)

36 Due process rights? Even though those agents violated the constitutional rights of others? I guess I’m not understanding what a fireable offense must entail when working for the FBI!
Giving a pass to the alphabet intelligence community solves misconduct, how? Does everyone who isn’t a republican get to pick and choose which laws to follow? If the democrats win the house and senate, there is no America. They’ll get the progressive utopia they want and deserve.
I’m glad that I’m on the back nine of life!

Posted by: Unkaren at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (duOzU)

37 Things seem to be starting to come out. Maybe these were teed up to start as a trickle and increase to a flood starting with SOTU and through to the mid-term election. I can hope anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)
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That's an interesting point...Didn't a whole lot of stuff start happening immediately after President Trump's initial address last year?

(It was technically not a SOTU, but close enough for government work...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (ESVrU)

38 Who is this Haman Egger fellow?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (JRP2U)

39 Can't SOME of these people face criminal charges?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (AlhUl)

40 "We should seize all of your retirement money."

And hound them until they are lowered into the ground. I don't want them working even as a mall cop.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 26, 2026 04:26 PM (N39Ws)

41 They are not subject to the law.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:26 PM (c27kw)

42 38 Who is this Haman Egger fellow?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (JRP2U)

Haman? Yeah that guy. Worked for a Persian King who had a Jewish girlfriend. He was asshoe.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (pDt9x)

43 So, the fibbies have a union. That’s good to know

Posted by: Accomac at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (/Chlc)

44 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

--

Nice to see that Sec. Noem has never read the language that pops up on every government device prior to login, notifying you that you have no presumed right to privacy on this device.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (qAuhB)

45 38 Who is this Haman Egger fellow?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (JRP2U)

Austrian bodybuilder, went on to make movies.

Posted by: I'll be back at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (TbWk/)

46 36 Due process rights?
_____

Violate the law, get found out, get fired. Sounds like sufficient due process. Now if we were to move to gibbeting, then I may concede that additional due process is required, which would include a chance to confess to everything and humbly ask for mercy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:28 PM (Dv3i1)

47 I have completely lost faith in all things official and political. I look forward to the next art thread.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:28 PM (ZxPkt)

48 The Tarpian Rock is thirsty.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:29 PM (c27kw)

49 47 I have completely lost faith in all things official and political. I look forward to the next art thread.
Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:28 PM (ZxPkt)

Would you settle for afternoon Pet Cafe Thread?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:29 PM (pDt9x)

50 32 You WANT heads on pikes.
You would settle for long prison terms.
You will get- - -
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agita

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (Dv3i1)

51 43 So, the fibbies have a union. That’s good to know
Posted by: Accomac at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (/Chlc) on the back nine of life!
Posted by: Unkaren at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (duOzU)

This is one of the reasons why bad cops are so hard to get rid of. Even when they've done something so unbelievably egregious that the police chief fires them outright instead of defending them to the death, the police union sweeps in and forces arbitration to get them reinstated.

Posted by: Enshittification ain't just for software at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (TbWk/)

52 Looking forward to Andy McCarthy saying the brave men and women of the FBI are super, duper patriots...

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (9mw3J)

53 "Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer"

They were just trying to be helpful by keeping good records.

Posted by: Ripley at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (GUOwU)

54 Now fortified with giraffes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (c27kw)

55 The Horde is - restive.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:31 PM (pDt9x)

56 Andy McCarthy reminds me of Mortimer Snerd.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:31 PM (ehY6c)

57 This shit has convinced millions of AWFLs that Trump is Putin's stooge and Russia fixed the 2016 election and they will NEVER be convinced otherwise

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 26, 2026 04:31 PM (REq0p)

58 Good I guess, but why did it take them a year to get to this?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2026 04:32 PM (PYyV9)

59 Yes, still like cafe thread with the funny animal videos.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:32 PM (ZxPkt)

60 Well one glimmer of hope is that the AWFL base is not a reproductive powerhouse.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:33 PM (pDt9x)

61 I saw Hammond Eggar open for Trans Siberian Orchestra at Live Aid

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2026 04:33 PM (PYyV9)

62 Public hangings would likely deter some agents from future FAFO activities.

Low cost, high return. 👍

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (jtM2q)

63 58 Good I guess, but why did it take them a year to get to this?
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They likely worked from this to determine where the others are and who is their sugar daddy. Fibbies don't do this shit without a golden parachute promise.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (pZ64F)

64 Russia Russia Russia!

It was the weirdest thing, because it was turned on like a light switch. Couldn’t believe it. After 95 years of leftists being in bed with the Soviets, albeit well meaning perhaps in some instances, all of a sudden Russians were the bad guys, and the Donald in their employ. Beware The Red Menace!

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (1meqy)

65 Headline (The Hill IMPORTANT DATE TIMELINE 02/09/25)

"Noem defends Musk’s access to personal data"

Just more than a year ago, Noem had to defend Musk's access to DHS sensitive information.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

Excerpt:

"“But this, this audit needs to happen to make sure that we are going through a process that adds integrity back into these programs and people’s personal information has been out there in these case works that have been closed for a long time, that people are getting responses now that they haven’t had before,” she added."

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2026 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

66 44 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

--

Nice to see that Sec. Noem has never read the language that pops up on every government device prior to login, notifying you that you have no presumed right to privacy on this device.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ

True. 'Spyware' is something else though. Now, who put it on, who authorized it, and what was it used for. That message that appears on every Government device isn't the same as 'spyware'. The FedGov watching everything going in and out on there machines isn't 'spyware'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 26, 2026 04:35 PM (sAmhv)

67 Going to need to edit my X feed. No more news. Just football, funny animal videos, and photography from around the world. And space stuff.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:35 PM (ZxPkt)

68
44

Nice to see that Sec. Noem has never read the language that pops up on every government device prior to login, notifying you that you have no presumed right to privacy on this device.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM

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"No presumed right to privacy" is not the same as underlings being allowed to plant unauthorized spyware on the boss's phone.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 04:36 PM (PbePe)

69 As usual, the question behind all this seems to be,

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:36 PM (ESVrU)

70 Does everyone who isn’t a republican get to pick and choose which laws to follow?

There is a D get out of jail card for people high in the party or high level contributors until the crime bosses decide you are no longer useful to the party.

See Bill Cosby, he lent his name to a book decrying the uneducation of black youth "Come on People" I believe was the title; then he could be prosecuted.

Harvey Weinstein, I don't think prosecuted, but they turned on their donor when it suited them.

Eric Adams. I don't think he actually did anything wrong but he crossed the party by decrying the illegals as Mayor of NYC and they found something to charge him with.

Might be part of why Demonrats are so unhappy, they can get away wtih a lot, but the party might decide to throw them under the bus at any time.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 04:36 PM (Sokdp)

71 67 Going to need to edit my X feed. No more news. Just football, funny animal videos, and photography from around the world. And space stuff.
Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:35 PM (ZxPkt)

I read “ pornography” instead of “ photography” on initial glance. Oops, oopsie. Apologies I suppose.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:37 PM (pDt9x)

72 You WANT heads on pikes.
You would settle for long prison terms.
You will get- - -

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:23 PM (pDt9x)

Sternly worded letters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 04:37 PM (fJci/)

73 28 A Wall of Shame in the lobby might be a start.
Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (FhXTo)

Walk of Shame …

Posted by: Head Sparrow at February 26, 2026 04:37 PM (pY+ea)

74 There's no such thing as "due process" for employment termination.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 26, 2026 04:37 PM (5slMQ)

75 Remember:
The same people that put out a very serious allegation that Trump hired whores to piss on the bed Obama slept in in Moscow ....

Somehow, for some reason, kept all the proof of Trump and Epstein secret.
For over 10 years.
While in their absolute sole custody and control.

"Whores pissing on beds?"
That they will release.
And repeat endlessly.

"Trump cavorting with pedos?"
Nope. Best keep that a secret.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (HXT0k)

76 I am glad for a quantum of solace ...

Posted by: Adriane the Lens Cap Covered Camera Photography Critic . . . at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

77 67 Going to need to edit my X feed. No more news. Just football, funny animal videos, and photography from around the world. And space stuff.

Also a great time to start gardening. Growing season approaches. I started a couple of seed trays last evening.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (DgMqy)

78 Looking forward to Andy McCarthy saying the brave men and women of the FBI are super, duper patriots...

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (9mw3J)

They must have video of him fellating a goat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (noKdt)

79 'Dismissed'?! Holy cow, we're as ruthless as Nazi Germany.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (3s43i)

80 They must have video of him fellating a goat.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (noKdt)

Goat(s).

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (9Ovst)

81 "FBI fires 10 involved in Jack Smith's classified docs probe of Trump"

Guaranteed that either MSPB or a federal judge will rule their firing unconstitutional and make them be rehired with back pay and promotions.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (0N4FZ)

82 Burn it all down. Spring is coming and new life will take root and renew the natural order.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (gVUi7)

83 And it's probably time to start working on my bucket list.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (ZxPkt)

84 If you read up on the FBI Agent's Association it is basically a union organization for FBI agents and like most unions, defends even the most corrupt of their lot.

Yes, what Ace said, Fuck them.

Posted by: Cheri at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (oiNtH)

85 "Related: It's the Russiagate Plot's ten year anniversary."

I can kind of understand people thinking that nothing will happen.

Posted by: fd - "No" is a complete sentence at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (vFG9F)

86 "Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money."

At this point we should harvest their organs. Recidivism rate 0.0. Otherwise they'll be back under the next donk that steals the election.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 26, 2026 04:40 PM (DWTpY)

87 Good I guess, but why did it take them a year to get to this?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

The mill of the god grinds lowly ???

Posted by: Adriane the Lens Cap Covered Camera Photography Critic . . . at February 26, 2026 04:40 PM (3ZUWJ)

88 Guaranteed that either MSPB or a federal judge will rule their firing unconstitutional and make them be rehired with back pay and promotions.
____

FBI needs a base in Antarctica for the re-hired staff.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM (Dv3i1)

89 Plot twist.

>>
@MarcACaputo
·
24m
>>The lawyer representing Susie Wiles at the time of this incident categorically denies he allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI w/out her consent

>>I understand she believes him & that the Biden-era FBI may have lied about it

>>Here’s what the lawyer told me: “If I ever pulled a stunt like that I wouldn’t – and shouldn’t – have a license to practice law. I’m as shocked as Susie.”

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM (viF8m)

90 Am I missing something?
It looks like they are beginning to clean house. Hope so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (Sh6IX)

91 We should seize all of your retirement money.

“I’ll give you something to cry about!”

These guys need a serious spanking. And then have their allowance taken away.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (1NuH7)

92 Judicial action will force the fbi gropers rehiring; so relocate their desks to the storage basement, bare lightbulb, one out of order phone. Let them do inventory of gov furniture. Every day.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (ehY6c)

93 Under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) an incumbent President can grant "special access" to records for executive branch purposes, even if the former President claims executive privilege. In this case, President Biden, through the White House Counsel's Office, affirmed the DOJ's request, allowing NARA to provide the FBI access to the records.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), as the legal owner of presidential records, had facilitated the Department of Justice's (DOJ) access to the documents as part of a criminal investigation into potential violations of federal law.

Each and everyone at NARA involved, should have been thoroughly investigated and likely dismissed with appropriate charges. IIRC, all or most retired right around the raids on Mar-A-Lago.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 04:43 PM (NFX2v)

94 Related by Ed Morrissey
Today's Deep Question: Why Did Biden-Era DoJ Spy on Wiles' Call With Attorney?

https://is.gd/Q8QGrP

Posted by: No Name Today at February 26, 2026 04:43 PM (8mulE)

95 "I’m as shocked as Susie."

Hmmm... Maybe we'll find out who's lying here. But I doubt it. Dude's a lawyer. His mouth moved.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 04:44 PM (DgMqy)

96
89 Plot twist.

>>
@MarcACaputo
·
24m
>>The lawyer representing Susie Wiles at the time of this incident categorically denies he allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI w/out her consent

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM

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If that's true, it doesn't mean that the FBI didn't tap the phone. It means they lied about having consent.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 04:44 PM (PbePe)

97 You WANT heads on pikes.
You would settle for long prison terms.
You will get- - -
Posted by: tubal

A shake weight

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 26, 2026 04:44 PM (GgstE)

98 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
===

Straight up espionage

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)

99 For all of those who have been angry about lack of indictments and movement against the Deep State, these people as well as the crap done to spy on Noem, is the crap the Trump and reformers are facing. Rearguard actions all the way

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 04:45 PM (HYqoK)

100 24m
>>The lawyer representing Susie Wiles at the time of this incident categorically denies he allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI w/out her consent

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM

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If that's true, it doesn't mean that the FBI didn't tap the phone. It means they lied about having consent.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 04:44 PM (PbePe)
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Yep.

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:46 PM (G0vdT)

101 hahaha

"DHS tells @realDailyWire that ICE arrested Elmina Aghayeva, an illegal alien from Azerbaijan, at Columbia University after her student visa was terminated in 2016 under the Obama administration for failing to attend classes.

The officers were let into her apartment by the building manager and her roommate, DHS said.

Meanwhile, the school asserts that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”"

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 26, 2026 04:46 PM (V6W16)

102 SHOCKING: Suzie Wiles lawyer complicit with the FBI.

The breadth and depth of the administrative state's desire to eliminate Trump's progress is frightening.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:46 PM (Sh6IX)

103 98 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
===

Straight up espionage
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)

Seems it really is, but unfortunately not being treated as such. Why is a question I do not have an answer for.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:47 PM (pDt9x)

104 7 >>>Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

Seize their phone records and see who put them up to it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
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And put them all in jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (Sh6IX)

105 Meanwhile, the school asserts that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”"
____

Azerbaijan was missing her, so technically true.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (Dv3i1)

106 Judicial action will force the fbi gropers rehiring; so relocate their desks to the storage basement, bare lightbulb, one out of order phone. Let them do inventory of gov furniture. Every day.
Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (ehY6c)
---
And take away their red Swingline staplers!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (ESVrU)

107 The lawyer representing Susie Wiles at the time of this incident categorically denies he allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI w/out her consent

Posted by: JackStraw
=======
He pretty much has to otherwise he is cooked before the Bar Association and perhaps being impoverished by a lawsuit from Wiles. If he survived with his law license intact, it would still mean no other serious client would want to work with the guy nor that firm ever again.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (E4rtv)

108 Straight up espionage
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)

Seems it really is, but unfortunately not being treated as such. Why is a question I do not have an answer for.
Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:47 PM (pDt9x)
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We'll see how serious based on whether noem/Patel fire people and/or press charges

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:49 PM (G0vdT)

109 >>Good I guess, but why did it take them a year to get to this?

Well for one thing the files were hidden, even from FBI employees, under a classification called Prohibited. It was done for express purpose of keeping this stuff from ever being uncovered.

But as I've been saying since last fall a grand jury was seated in Ft. Pierce Florida in January to start hearing evidence of a decade long conspiracy against Trump to deprive him of his rights. It potentially includes ever plot starting with spying on Trumps campaign back in early 2016 to Russia, to Ukraine, the Mar A Lago raid to everything in between. And the judge overseeing the GJ is Aileen Cannon, same judge who has been smacking Jack Smith around since she shutdown his illegal investigation of Trump last fall.

This week she ruled the report he developed from the investigation be permanently sealed because it never should have happened. Now this. Seems awful coincidental that some of this stuff is surfacing just as the GJ is hearing evidence.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:49 PM (viF8m)

110 uck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

Seize their phone records and see who put them up to it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
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And put them all in jail.

You misspelled "firing squad".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

111 Due process rights?

Posted by: steevy at February 26, 2026 04:50 PM (YwEeS)

112 A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents..."

That's nice. Now, please tell us more about your relationship with these traitorous co-conspirators. Be thorough and speak clearly into the mic.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 26, 2026 04:50 PM (625EN)

113 If the lawyer did consent, it was undoubtedly because the FBI threatened him with some kind of prosecution. Probably over some unrelated manner.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (8mulE)

114 103 98 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
===
Straight up espionage
Posted by: It
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It's time to round them up and put them in jail.

By what law can we legally do this?

The J6 law authorizes their indeterminate detention until their crimes are adjudicated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (Sh6IX)

115 Seems it really is, but unfortunately not being treated as such. Why is a question I do not have an answer for.
Posted by: tubal
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My guess is some ostensible claim about records preservation or some other bullshit reason like computer security.

Assume all work computers are compromised always and the same goes for work phones.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (E4rtv)

116 >>He pretty much has to otherwise he is cooked before the Bar Association and perhaps being impoverished by a lawsuit from Wiles. If he survived with his law license intact, it would still mean no other serious client would want to work with the guy nor that firm ever again.

Yep. But it should be fairly easy to prove one way or the other. I gotta believe a lawyer of that caliber wouldn't make a handshake deal on something like this with the FBI. There should be a paper trail.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (viF8m)

117 Since we are talking FBI incompetence and chicanery, I wonder if we will ever get the straight story on the shootings at that concert in Las Vegas.

(No I don't)

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (cYBz/)

118 The evil and corruption in America is discouraging but God the Father spared President Trump at Butler to serve God's purpose. Have faith in His supremacy. God's never been defeated.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:52 PM (ehY6c)

119
Firings are an invitation to litigation in front of anti-Trump courts.

Reassign them to Injun reservations in the Black Hills, Flint, Michigan or resident FBI agents at McMurdo, to take immediate effect. They still have jobs, but there's nothing saying that they deserve to work in DC as opposed to other areas of the country which need competent FBI agents.

If they voluntarily quit, that's on them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (y9nCu)

120 THIS LEGISLATURE SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE OIL AND
GAS PRODUCERS AND REFINERIES THAT MESSAGE WAS AND HAS BEEN YOU DON'T HAVE A FUTURE HERE.

THE MARKETS RESPONDED. CAPITAL LEFT. REINVESTMENT SLOWED. AND NOW WE'RE SEEING REFINERIES HAVE CLOSED DOWN IN 1982 THERE WERE 40 REFINERIES IN CALIFORNIA TODAY WE HAVE SEARCHING MEANWHILE DEMAND IS UP, CALIFORNIANS ARE PAYING ABOUT 50% MORE AT THE PUMP THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.

WE PRODUCE ROUGHLY 20% OF THE CRUDE OIL THAT WE CONSUME. AND MORE THAN 65% OF THAT COMES FROM FOREIGN SOURCES. WE ARE ONE MORE REFINERY CLOSURE, ONE MORE PIPELINE FAILURE AND WE'LL BE STARING AT CATASTROPHIC INSTABILITY.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (RHGPo)

121 117 Since we are talking FBI incompetence and chicanery, I wonder if we will ever get the straight story on the shootings at that concert in Las Vegas.

(No I don't)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (cYBz/)

That unpleasantness has been memory holed nearly completely, by nearly everyone.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (pDt9x)

122 "DHS tells @realDailyWire that ICE arrested Elmina Aghayeva, an illegal alien from Azerbaijan, at Columbia University after her student visa was terminated in 2016 under the Obama administration for failing to attend classes.

The officers were let into her apartment by the building manager and her roommate, DHS said.

Meanwhile, the school asserts that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”"

Visa terminated in 2016 for not attending class but she was still in a campus apartment 10 years later? Yank federal funding for Columbia, charge someone there for harboring an illegal.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (Sokdp)

123 He pretty much has to otherwise he is cooked before the Bar Association and perhaps being impoverished by a lawsuit from Wiles. If he survived with his law license intact, it would still mean no other serious client would want to work with the guy nor that firm ever again.
Posted by: whig
__________

I'd like to believe it, but then there's Kevin Clinesmith.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (XvL8K)

124 106 Judicial action will force the fbi gropers rehiring; so relocate their desks to the storage basement, bare lightbulb, one out of order phone. Let them do inventory of gov furniture. Every day.
Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (ehY6c)
---
And take away their red Swingline staplers!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (ESVrU)

Man, you watched the opening scenes of the Night Agent...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 04:54 PM (tOcjL)

125 117.

Curious myself. Day 1 the news said the loony recorded videos all through the Mandalay rampage and before.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 04:54 PM (WcDsy)

126 67 Going to need to edit my X feed. No more news. Just football, funny animal videos, and photography from around the world. And space stuff.
Posted by: Don Black
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Here's a hankie, pushes soft cotton kerchief through usb port to Don

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:54 PM (Sh6IX)

127 It was the weirdest thing, because it was turned on like a light switch. Couldn’t believe it. After 95 years of leftists being in bed with the Soviets, albeit well meaning perhaps in some instances, all of a sudden Russians were the bad guys, and the Donald in their employ. Beware The Red Menace!
Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (1meqy)

Putin made the unforgivable error of telling his Oligarchs they couldn't steal things and sell them to the West for pennies.

Never tell your abuser "no" if you have no support

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:55 PM (rbvCR)

128 Man, you watched the opening scenes of the Night Agent...

S3 is apparently not doing the gangbuster numbers of the first season, but I'm not sure why. I think it's very well done.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

129 I bet I can point our a few families in Texas and Idaho who don't care one bit what the FBI Agent Assholeciation thinks.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 04:56 PM (WcDsy)

130 Prosecutions?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (c27kw)

I suppose they could put the matter before a grand jury in DC. You know, the ones who refuse to indict leftists for anything.

Feel better now?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

131 114 103 98 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
===
Straight up espionage
Posted by: It
-----------------

It's time to round them up and put them in jail.

By what law can we legally do this?

The J6 law authorizes their indeterminate detention until their crimes are adjudicated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (Sh6IX)

If the spyware was directly installed, yes, espionage charges. But it's probably run of the mill "oops we missed that this app comes with this spylike program - our bad"...or at least, that will be the claim.

Seems like DHS has some techies to fire...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 04:57 PM (tOcjL)

132 Reassign them to Injun reservations in the Black Hills, Flint, Michigan or resident FBI agents at McMurdo, to take immediate effect. They still have jobs, but there's nothing saying that they deserve to work in DC as opposed to other areas of the country which need competent FBI agents.

If they voluntarily quit, that's on them.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (y9nCu)
---
Making employees miserable enough to quit is a time-honored tradition among employers who don't want to deal with potential legal hassles.

Believe me, I know.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (ESVrU)

133 The Tarpian Rock is thirsty.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:29 PM (c27kw)

Hey, what about me? When's it my turn again??

Posted by: The Gladius, quite possibly the weapon with the highest body count in history at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (i711p)

134 128 Man, you watched the opening scenes of the Night Agent...

S3 is apparently not doing the gangbuster numbers of the first season, but I'm not sure why. I think it's very well done.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

B/c people, like me, watched the Olympics and are catching up on other streaming, and have planned to watch it later this spring. I have heard it's good from others, and glad you think it is, too...may move up my watchlist!

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (tOcjL)

135 111 Due process rights?
Posted by: steevy

Scotus in a 1978 case with far cruder technology allowed access to what is called toll records of incoming and outgoing calls for billing purposes. Goes to the third party doctrine where you can assert your own privacy but if you involve others, they can willfully disclose information about you upon being presented with an administrative subpoena. That has expanded to an panopticon where you can literally sit at a computer at LEO HQ and request subpoenas of existing banking, telephone, texts, emails, and billing information from vendors from a wide variety of sources with the person never even knows in a lot of cases that their records have been rifled through. Add in separate commercial databases of residences, names, aliases, credit history, cars, location data via cell phone towers, affinity programs, FLOC cameras, etc.

An analyst can rapidly create a dossier on anyone they please between coming in and the first coffee break.

Privacy is dead unless you want to live unplugged and as a hermit in the woods buying and selling nothing. Even there, open fields would allow surveillance by game wardens and their planted cameras/drones

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

136 I really look askance at anyone using "swiftboating" as a term. That was made derogatory by the left truing to discredit very legit attacks on Kerry.

Fun rabbit hole: Kerry most likely got in deep shit and UCMJ'ed and got his record rehabilitated by Carter.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (+RkG8)

137 131

If the spyware was directly installed, yes, espionage charges. But it's probably run of the mill "oops we missed that this app comes with this spylike program - our bad"...or at least, that will be the claim.

Seems like DHS has some techies to fire...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 04:57 PM (tOcjL)

If Noem et al roll for that weak tea blowoff that’s a tell that it’s all failure stuff that had best been left unspoken.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

138 This caught my eye earlier:
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DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
·
7h
I already generated a dossier on Spanberger, but the most interesting part of it is that she is part of a cohort of 50+ military-intelligence veterans that have been recruited to run as Democratic candidates starting in 2018.
@SomeBitchIIKnow
first hypothesized this, but my new dossier pipeline independently captured them.

A Democrat retires. A CIA member takes over.

Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.
========
Apologies if this has already been pointed out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 04:59 PM (jtM2q)

139 "Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer"
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I think we now know how that Atlantic reporter was added to Hegseth's Signal chat.

It wasn't an accident.

Someone stole log-in credentials and logged in as one of the member of the chat and added him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 04:59 PM (HXT0k)

140 136.

Only Jenjiss Khan knows for sure.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:00 PM (WcDsy)

141 Ace: "Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money."

Amen. They're fortunate that the entire agency wasn't eliminated. A not insignificant proportion of leadership should be in prison for the way they massaged illegality into legal and for selective, unjustifiable persecution.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 26, 2026 05:00 PM (gLikB)

142 I'd like to believe it, but then there's Kevin Clinesmith.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

He did it for the FBI and thus qualified immunity. In his case, it was not the spying but the lying to a court for a surveillance warrant that did him in.

A private law firm lawyer has a shitload to lose if it gets out he is consenting to law enforcement sitting in on calls with clients---no future clients, no money going forward. And that is if he kept his law license and was not sued into oblivion.

Plus, not all jurisdictions are as lawless as Democrat run DC.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:01 PM (E4rtv)

143 It wasn't an Swiftboat operation. Swiftboat allegations were true.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 26, 2026 05:01 PM (cntUY)

144 Ace been the Best Ace for months now.

Top Notch work for about a year running, Chief.

Must be the creatine.

Pardon me. I gotta go clean my nose now.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:02 PM (WcDsy)

145 Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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I saw that earlier on X and you did well to point this out.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:02 PM (E4rtv)

146 Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (c27kw)

147 Not seeing the problem here

@Breaking911 16m
Papa John's plans to close 300 of its restaurants by the end of 2027 as it moves to cut costs. -CBS

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (diia5)

148 Remember the CIA ads that ran during the Biden years -- trying to lure all those rainbow-flag-waving malcontents into the fold? The ONE THING you need to be as an intelligence officer is coolly objective. Literally the opposite of what they were trying to draw from the swamp under Biden.

Posted by: red speck at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (Ve/HL)

149 146 Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (c27kw)

The old saying - plants are what my food eats.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 05:04 PM (pDt9x)

150 Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.
Posted by: Boss Moss

...Said the Fungi from Yuggoth

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:04 PM (diia5)

151 You know what would really cut costs? Closing all of them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:04 PM (c27kw)

152 Not seeing the problem here

@Breaking911 16m
Papa John's plans to close 300 of its restaurants by the end of 2027 as it moves to cut costs. -CBS
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (diia5)
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Well, we can say goodbye to "better ingredients, better pizza."

(I don't care much for Papa John's. I think their standard crust tastes like cardboard.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (ESVrU)

153 Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (pZEOD)

154 A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which -- like other firings by Director Patel -- violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."
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This fuckwad can suck the sweatiest area of my nutsack after a vigorous gym session and a five-mile run in the Texas summer heat, then eat the biggest pile of shit I can find, and wash it down with jizz.

Fuck you.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (3BwY8)

155 153.

This will only encourage that one guy's Dachshund from yesterday.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:06 PM (WcDsy)

156 Fire the FBI agents association.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:06 PM (c27kw)

157 Piper: "Who knew Elon Musk would go from being an interesting figure to being an amazingly important figure."

I knew the instant he bought and reigned in Twitter. He still deserves a Medal of Freedom for that act alone. It was one of the most consequential acts preserving the country at the time (and perhaps still) given the lockstep marching of pretty much all of social media and Silicon Valley titans. I hope that "investment" by Musk is never memory-holed. The man is a patriot.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 26, 2026 05:06 PM (gLikB)

158 Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.
Posted by: Piper

For no obvious reason, I am strangely aroused by this.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (cYBz/)

159
Making employees miserable enough to quit is a time-honored tradition among employers who don't want to deal with potential legal hassles.

Believe me, I know.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (ESVrU)

The "Slow Horses" gambit.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (y9nCu)

160 Useless statement but no government agency should have a union.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (+nEug)

161
Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Crisco Kid
Was a friend of mine

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (Cqx++)

162 Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.
========
Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026

While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

163 Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (pZEOD)
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Is it a sure-fired cure for knee fungus?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (ESVrU)

164 Closing Papa Johns? Nein! Nein! Nein!

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (c27kw)

165 I’m sure Spamburger’s puppet masters are eagerly gobbling up disgruntled spooks of all types now. Our very own SPECTRE

Posted by: banana Dream at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (cO9Uq)

166 160 Useless statement but no government agency should have a union.
Posted by: Ben Had
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9th Circuit decision today allows the president to limit collective bargaining rights for agencies.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv)

167 FBI Probes Effort To Impersonate Top Trump Advisor Susie Wiles | 10 News First

3,111 views May 30, 2025
She’s one of the most important people within Donald Trump’s inner circle, but now the White House says someone is trying to impersonate White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
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Several months ago.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (NFX2v)

168 I noted this AM that it's also dripping out that the J6 Committee was coordinating with the Biden WH, Fanni and Jack Smith.

They were issuing subpoenas for witnesses and evidence that the others couldn't legally obtain.

Then passing that along.

I'll bet Marc Elias is hip-deep as the hub for laundering communications among all them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (HXT0k)

169 Good ridden
Bet they kept spying and spreading to Democrats Propaganda Ministry

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 05:09 PM (Ia/+0)

170 162 Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.
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Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026

While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

That's what I said on Tuesday...she's a blank wall, and Dems love to run them...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 05:09 PM (tOcjL)

171 Plants are your friends.

...with benefits!

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at February 26, 2026 05:09 PM (S/IIZ)

172 Slow Horses may be back in the fall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (c27kw)

173 Making employees miserable enough to quit is a time-honored tradition among employers who don't want to deal with potential legal hassles.

Believe me, I know.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (ESVrU)

The Japanese put managers they want gone in an empty office with just a desk with nothing to do.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (cntUY)

174 While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

She's making quite the name for herself in VA.. And it's not positive

Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

175
She's making quite the name for herself in VA.. And it's not positive
Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

Off sock/

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

176 SAT race to the bottom.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (YlWIZ)

177 Heh, leave it to the Japanese to make epic Trump animes:

"BREAKING: President Trump’s State of the Union address has been turned into an anime-style animation and is going viral"

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/2027003864625672253

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (9Ovst)

178 Regarding 'spyware'. All depends on if it's work computer/phone or personal. Personal, there's a problem. Work-issue, for us mere peons at least it's... not nice, but not unusual for things like keyloggers to be installed and other such 'spy on everyone in the agency' stuff. If it's "only the political appointees", or they were insisting that the political appointees "just put this totally not suspicious software on your personal computer/phone so we can get you up and running faster", we're back to having a problem.

Posted by: RandomDave at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (aJQbY)

179 Due process rights? Even though those agents violated the constitutional rights of others? I guess I’m not understanding what a fireable offense must entail when working for the FBI!

Very simple. They want their "due process" in Babylon DC where it is NEVER a crime to attack Republicans. What would normally be insubordination, sedition or even treason is perfectly acceptable before a DC judge and jury.

I would bet good money that if a Fed assassinated any Republican, that a DC jury would nullify the crime.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (rgGn5)

180 Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.
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Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 04:59 PM (jtM2q)

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Not trying to dismiss it, but this has been obvious. Elements in the Democrat party have figured out that the purple-hair noserings are a loser on a national basis, so they're trying to co-opt a section that has always been a strong point for the GOP, which is former military and intel folks.

Too bad that all the former mil and intel folks that are Democrats are just as fucking weird as the rest of the Democrats. The strategy will fool some people for a while though.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (3BwY8)

181 >>>Making employees miserable enough to quit is a time-honored tradition among employers who don't want to deal with potential legal hassles.

Believe me, I know.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

>Simply attrition. Put 12 men in an office meant for 2 and let them smell each others' farts for several months. The vermin will take over and you'll have a 3rd world shithole.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (gVUi7)

182 174 While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

She's making quite the name for herself in VA.. And it's not positive
Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

Stasi. That’s the vibe I get from her.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

183 She could replace one of our fuckwit Senators in four years.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (c27kw)

184 174 While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

She's making quite the name for herself in VA.. And it's not positive
Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

She's just doing a disappearing act for most things...everything uber liberal is quiet...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (tOcjL)

185 (I don't care much for Papa John's. I think their standard crust tastes like cardboard.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Only remember buying it once. It had like 3 slices of pepp on the whole medium pie. Chintzi.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (diia5)

186 Release the SAT and ACT scores. Neither a tax, nor a HIPAA violation.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 26, 2026 05:12 PM (YlWIZ)

187 Albinogale Skankberger looks like the unloved abandoned bloodless child of Paul Reubens and Nosferatu.

All wrapped up in a snug bag of CIA

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:12 PM (WcDsy)

188
Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.
Posted by: Piper

For no obvious reason, I am strangely aroused by this.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (cYBz/)

Woof Woof!

Posted by: Toby the Beagle at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (y9nCu)

189 What was that all you can eat shitty pizza place?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (c27kw)

190 f' Willowed again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (diia5)

191 I would bet good money that if a Fed assassinated any Republican, that a DC jury would nullify the crime.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (rgGn5)
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Wouldn't even make it to trial.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (3BwY8)

192 And now I realize the real reason the J6 Committee password-protected and deleted the entire Committee file:

It's not what they collected.

It's who they shared it with.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (HXT0k)

193 Cici's?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (c27kw)

194 Meanwhile Jesse Jackson's funeral has finally interrupted McCains.

Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (FhXTo)

195 Nood

Posted by: Emmie at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (FMtrg)

196 189 What was that all you can eat shitty pizza place?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (c27kw)

I think that's Cici's pizza.

Apparently if you go there you can get unlimited pizza and a show depending on the Cici's location.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (9Ovst)

197 What was that all you can eat shitty pizza place?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (c27kw)
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Pizza Inn?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (ESVrU)

198 Yep. But it should be fairly easy to prove one way or the other. I gotta believe a lawyer of that caliber wouldn't make a handshake deal on something like this with the FBI. There should be a paper trail.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Depends on what his practice area was. A criminal attorney certainly would do that. A lot of other attorneys on issues like real estate, investments, elder care etc. might not. Law firms have their own cozy little networks of associated people and often lawyers often do quid pro quo trades off the books on a surprising number of areas.

Reason why you should be careful with lawyers in general and only deal with well established ones or ironically family associates if the matter and privacy is crucial.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)

199 Wikipedia - John Hampton "Papa John" Schnatter is an American entrepreneur who founded the Papa John's pizza restaurant chain in 1984. Schnatter started the business in the back of his father's tavern after selling his car and using the proceeds to purchase used restaurant equipment. As of 2017, his net worth was more than $1 billion.

Schnatter stepped down as CEO on January 1, 2018, after controversy around his comments that the National Football League (NFL), who had a business affiliation with Papa John's, had not done enough to stop national anthem protests by NFL players, and that the protests had hurt his business. Before he stepped down, his comments had resulted in the NFL cancelling its association with Papa John's.

After stepping down as CEO, Schnatter remained chairman of the board of directors until July 2018, when it was revealed that he had used a racial slur during an internal sensitivity training May 2018 conference call, claiming without evidence that Colonel Sanders had used the same word without backlash. Schnatter resigned when the comment became public, but has since maintained that the board conspired against him and unfairly forced him out of his position.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)

200 194 Meanwhile Jesse Jackson's funeral has finally interrupted McCains.
Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (FhXTo)

I had forgotten that he died. Is that racist?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 05:15 PM (pDt9x)

201 Meanwhile, the school asserts that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”"
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I don't care if they executed a warrantless search, battered her as part of the arrest, and tossed her belongings into the street. She wasn't supposed to be here, period. Had she not been here, none of whatever took place would have taken place.

Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 05:16 PM (TN0g+)

202 162. While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper

Interesting. But AOC and several others would be leading a DEI riot at the DNC, so make her VP.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 05:16 PM (NFX2v)

203 Never ate Papa Johns, used to see their commercials, they had some cute ones. But I buy a lot of store brands cuz I figure I don't need to pay for the billion dollar ad campaigns. Sounds like Papa Johns was similar, spend more on advertising than pizza ingredients.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 05:17 PM (Sokdp)

204 Nood already?

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (Ia/+0)

205 Well, we can say goodbye to "better ingredients, better pizza."

Better than what? Leprino Foods is one company that pretty much makes all cheese for every pizza chain, including the frozen pizza variety. 85% of all pizza uses their cheese - including Papa Johns.

That is why they all taste the same.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (nCgQz)

206 Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.
Posted by: Boss Moss
......

I like bugs too. And I don't eat them either.

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 05:20 PM (UjdFS)

207 Here's some more "news"
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BREAKING:
BlackRock is in major trouble 👇

Today, a seismic shift has happened in the antitrust case brought against the ESG asset manager cartel of
BlackRock, StateStreet, and Vanguard_Group.

Vanguard_Group is admitting defeat, agreeing to settle the lawsuit brought by a coalition of State Attorneys General, led by KenPaxtonTX.

As part of the settlement they will pay $30 million in fines, turn over all documents related to their coordinated ESG activism, and end all ESG activism for years to come.

This is a massive win. The reckoning is here.
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FWIW $30M for this group is nothing. The other stuff?
YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 05:21 PM (jtM2q)

208 The legal system is the very mechanism of the ratchet that drives the nation to doom and the left.

There is structural play built into the system, a requirement of anything human and fallible, that is always fully engaged and used to great advantage in one direction, but fully resisted in the other. And that is regardless of who is in charge.

Everyone knows how the ratchet works and cooperates with its operation. Because one side sees it as an obvious and direct route to power and the other rightly fears a world without legal mechanisms. It’s all understandable.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (cO9Uq)

209 153 Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (pZEOD)

Reminds me of that Jack Nicholson movie where he tells the waitress to put the chicken between her knees.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM (8mulE)

When Congressmen Began Chanting "USA! USA!," Deportable Treasonous Jihadi Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib Began Shouting "KKK! KKK!"

The NY Post, again:

Vance blasts Omar, Tlaib for 'talking loudly' at State of Union: 'nails on a chalkboard'
By Steven Nelson
Vice President JD Vance blasted Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for "talking loudly the entire time" during President Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union speech -- saying he had to restrain himself as he sat over the president's shoulder in the House chamber.
Omar (D-Minn.) and Tlaib (D-Mich.) heckled Trump throughout his annual address -- with Omar shouting her opposition to his mass-deportation drive in Minneapolis and Tlaib at one point turning to Omar and appearing to say "KKK! KKK! as other attendees chanted "USA! USA!"
"They're sitting next to each other, and they're talking loudly the entire time," Vance said during a stump speech in Wisconsin urging voters to re-elect incumbent Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden.
"It's just nails on a chalkboard. They're talking. They're interrupting. The president was completely unfazed by it," Vance said.

He also faulted the Queen of Government Graft Nancy Pelosi for not standing up to applaud Trump's call for the outlawing of insider trading by Congressmembers. You'd think that would be an obvious slam-dunk, but no, congresspeople love their graft and insider trading.

"My hope for all of you is that you find somebody who loves you as much as Nancy Pelosi loves insider trading, because then you will have a very good life indeed," Vance said.

Even Democrats are "uncomfortable" with Ilhan "Omar" Nur's and Rashida Tlaib's third-world behavior.

Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said there is frustration within the Democratic Party over the "unhinged way" some members protested Tuesday's State of the Union.
President Donald Trump called out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday for their heckling during his speech, suggesting they "should either be institutionalized or deported." Following this annual speech, Bedford said there is "discomfort" within Democratic circles over how some members appeared as Trump spoke at the Capitol.
"That's not something the Democratic congressional leadership wanted to see from their members, there was a sort of admonition from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY] for just everyone to cool it, don't make us look dumb, and it feeds into the narrative that Donald Trump has about congressional Democrats when he stood there at the podium and called them crazy and said they're impossible to work with and they're irrational," Bedford said on the Hugh Hewitt Show, guest-hosted by Kurt Schlichter.
"Then in some ways, a few of them sort of proved Donald Trump right by screaming at him and refusing to stand for the notion that the government should support American citizens over illegal immigrants," Bedford said. "They sort of played right into Donald Trump's trap, so optically, it wasn't a very good night for Democrats."

In case you were unsure, a black female Democrat politician confirms that even asking Democrats to stand to show their support of American citizens is, in fact, racist.

I know that was weighing on many of you. At least now you have an answer, though I'm sure that answer is bitter to your racist brains.

Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump's request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist" and said the moment made her "uncomfortable."
...
When asked what she thought about Trump's question, Bynum said, "I think you can agree with the 'what,' like standing up for American citizens. But I disagreed with the 'how.'"
"There's thinly veiled racist language, anti-immigrant language in what he was asking and that was uncomfortable," she continued.
Bynum wasn't the only Democrat to slam Trump's address. Rep. Robin Kelly (D., Ill.) made light of Trump's presentation of military awards, including the Medal of Honor, to veterans during his address. "It was like an award show, 'You get a medal! You get a medal! You get a medal!'"
Trump honored five military members with awards for their service, including two Medals of Honor. Army chief warrant officer Eric Slover, who was wounded as a helicopter pilot in the raid to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, received the nation's highest award for valor in action. So did 100-year-old retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams, who Trump said had a "legendary dogfight" with seven Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Trump also gave out two Purple Hearts and one Legion of Merit award.

The patriotism!

And a GOP-aligned group is already running video of the Democrats' disgraceful third-world conduct in campaign ads.

The television ad marks the GOP's first effort to use the moment to build momentum for Republicans campaigning across the country ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The 30-second video is set to play all year nationally as part of a seven-figure ad campaign focused on immigration, according to Politico. It will particularly target key states Michigan, North Carolina, and Georgia, where Republicans are defending vulnerable incumbents, and eying possible pickup opportunities to hold on to their narrow majority in the House and Senate.
"Democrats are for illegal immigrant criminals. Republicans are for you," the ad states.
The quote plays off a successful ad strategy during the 2024 election, when Republican Political Action Committees commissioned an ad that read "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:10 PM

Comments

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1 Democrats are bad people.

Change my mind.

Posted by: Ann at February 26, 2026 03:12 PM (w9jrX)

2 I called the others

Posted by: Ann at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (w9jrX)

3 She will just lie when someone confronts her about her "chant". And nothing will change.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (0N4FZ)

4 Birth of a Nation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (c27kw)

5 NYC police officers participating in a Muslim prayer before a meal with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

NYC is lost. Get out while you can.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (abIsI)

6 "If it's not 1963, I have no purpose."
-the entire fucking Democrat Party 60+ years later

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

7 KKK?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (Kt19C)

8 Obama's best friend was screaming about the US of KKK A

Just a guy in his neighborhood.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (wIg5s)

9 I know nothing.

Posted by: Mike Johnson at February 26, 2026 03:15 PM (abIsI)

10 7 KKK?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (Kt19C)

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Three swinging strikeouts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

11 It's racist to be racist

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

12 Dumbkopf.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:15 PM (c27kw)

13 Great Ad ...

Unfortunately, it won't register with the brainwashed...

Posted by: Space Cockroach in an Edgar suit at February 26, 2026 03:15 PM (3sXRv)

14 And it was days after 9/11 when most people were in mourning but the libs were shucking and jiving on graves from the pulpit

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:16 PM (wIg5s)

15 Black like Me.

Posted by: Gavin Newsome at February 26, 2026 03:16 PM (c27kw)

16 Willowed and apropos:

139 Kei Bennett may just be the most beautiful black woman I've ever seen, and she's based.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_sVoKa1ayM

Here are two more of her posts.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2026451196756603250
https://is.gd/3XkhnV

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 03:17 PM (Riz8t)

17 Everything is racist even Tourette's!

Posted by: steevy at February 26, 2026 03:17 PM (YwEeS)

18 I reassured a Jewish co-worker: the Klan in Oregon only hated republicans and Catholics. You will be fine.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 03:17 PM (rbvCR)

19 Pelosi passed out cold.

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 03:18 PM (UjdFS)

20 Willowed, but seems trenchant if not ebullient.

@Breaking911 2m
🚨 Target has paid $110 million to terminate its lease in Minneapolis after months of sustained protests across Minnesota, during which protesters occupied stores and office spaces in an effort to pressure the company to meet their demands.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 03:18 PM (diia5)

21 Not only is she very mean spirited and a Muslim, but she's historically stupid. There were. A Whole lot of Democrats in the KKK. Who's she suggesting is in the KKK? Trump?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 03:18 PM (PFs9e)

22 When I was young, democrats were the party of Kennedy, optimistic, we had the best schools, low crime, we put a man on the moon

Now, they are just horrible treasonous anti American

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (nGraA)

23 Terrorism works.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (c27kw)

24 Damn, complaining about someone receiving the CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR, before the group who the Award is named after.... literally given in THEIR Name...

Wow.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (mP0Kj)

25 I hope Trump invites Tourette's guy next year

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (wIg5s)

26 Not only is she very mean spirited and a Muslim, but she's historically stupid. There were. A Whole lot of Democrats in the KKK. Who's she suggesting is in the KKK? Trump?

The parties flipped in the 60s!

JFK and FDR? Both saints I tell you, saints!

Posted by: Your average leftist at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

27 Trump could have said, "An insult or an endorsement? And if the former, why are you with the Democratic party?"

He'll stick it to them eventually.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:20 PM (NFX2v)

28 26
The parties flipped in the 60s!

JFK and FDR? Both saints I tell you, saints!

Posted by: Your average leftist at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

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I prefer the rare leftist who claims that the parties switched in the 80s.

The 1880s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

29 He could introduce Green.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:20 PM (c27kw)

30 "There's thinly veiled racist language, anti-immigrant language in what he was asking and that was uncomfortable," she continued.

I like my racist language the way I like my women: thinly veiled.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 03:21 PM (COQGW)

31 Sad sacks of crap.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 26, 2026 03:21 PM (Q4PjO)

32 Rep. Janelle Bynum...
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Of circus fame?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 03:21 PM (plFPI)

33
the "unhinged way" some members protested Tuesday's State of the Union.

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Ilhan really did look unhinged. Usually she's smirking and above-it-all, but I think he's got her raging the same way he did to Hillary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 03:21 PM (5pERN)

34 There were. A Whole lot of Democrats in the KKK.

The KKK was essentially a Democrat creation. They were the shock troops.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded in late 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six former Confederate Army veterans as a social club, but it rapidly evolved into a violent white supremacist terrorist organization opposing the Republican Party's Reconstruction policies aimed at granting civil and political rights to newly freed Black Americans. These founders and early members were overwhelmingly affiliated with the Democratic Party, which at the time dominated the South and aligned with former Confederates in resisting federal efforts to enforce equality. The KKK functioned as a paramilitary arm to undermine Republican governments, suppress Black voters and officeholders, and restore white Democratic control through intimidation, lynchings, and murders.
While the Democratic Party as an institution did not formally "create" the KKK, the group's origins and activities were deeply intertwined with Democratic politics in the post-Civil War South, where it served to advance the party's interests against Republicans.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 03:21 PM (Riz8t)

35 We imported people who hate us and want to rule over us.

And the left will screech that we're racist if we want to send them back.

(I love how not wanting people from a totalitarian religion regardless of race makes you a racist.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 03:22 PM (zjgNU)

36 Italics stuck?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:22 PM (c27kw)

37
Target has paid $110 million to terminate its lease in Minneapolis after months of sustained protests across Minnesota, during which protesters occupied stores and office spaces in an effort to pressure the company to meet their demands.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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My willowed response: that looks like lefties mad about rainbow flags and illegal aliens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 03:22 PM (5pERN)

38 Democrats have always been lying racist commie shitbags.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:22 PM (wIg5s)

39 Find Omar's (D-Minn.) and Tlaib's (D-Mich.) undocumented relatives and deport them on one large plane.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:23 PM (NFX2v)

40 In 100 years they'll be calling Republicans antifa

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:23 PM (wIg5s)

41 Find Omar's (D-Minn.) and Tlaib's (D-Mich.) undocumented relatives and deport them on one large plane.

What's wrong with shorter trips in helicopters?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 03:24 PM (COQGW)

42 Th midwest must be a $hithole.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:24 PM (c27kw)

43 >>>President Donald Trump called out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday for their heckling during his speech, suggesting they "should either be institutionalized or deported."

>In some countries, these outspoken, defiant women would be buried up to their necks and left for the wild dogs.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 03:24 PM (gVUi7)

44 43 >>>President Donald Trump called out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday for their heckling during his speech, suggesting they "should either be institutionalized or deported."

>In some countries, these outspoken, defiant women would be buried up to their necks and left for the wild dogs.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 03:24 PM (gVUi7)

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The countries they come from?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

45 Wild dogs gotta eat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:25 PM (c27kw)

46 Leftists want the USA destroyed and turned into Communists

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 03:25 PM (Ia/+0)

47 Dumbkopf.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:15 PM (c27kw)

Hey, I'm dyslexic man!

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at February 26, 2026 03:25 PM (COQGW)

48 >In some countries, these outspoken, defiant women would be buried up to their necks and left for the wild dogs.
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Or high tide. Arrgh.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (pZ64F)

49 "Democrats are for illegal immigrant criminals. Republicans are for you," the ad states.

"Yes we're for you. Right up to the point we make sure only citizens are voting. That's a bridge too far."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (9C/Xw)

50 Remember Somalia is a beautiful wonderful place with an amazing culture AND that if you call to send her home you are a NAZI that wants her dead.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

51 The parties flipped in the 60s!

JFK and FDR? Both saints I tell you, saints!

Posted by: Your average leftist at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

And somehow we kept McCarthy too

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (wIg5s)

52 41. What's wrong with shorter trips in helicopters?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I'm supporting Affordability.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (NFX2v)

53 51 The parties flipped in the 60s!

JFK and FDR? Both saints I tell you, saints!

Posted by: Your average leftist at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

And somehow we kept McCarthy too

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (wIg5s)

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I think that was a cash only trade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

54 Wow, who thought Democrats would be chanting "KKK!" again?

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 26, 2026 03:27 PM (f1kZG)

55 54 Wow, who thought Democrats would be chanting "KKK!" again?

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 26, 2026 03:27 PM (f1kZG)

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I heard it and was convinced the Somali fraud is a creation of the right wing media machine.

I will now vote Democrat for the rest of my life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

56 54 Wow, who thought Democrats would be chanting "KKK!" again?
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Biggest Klan rally was in NYC and NJ.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:27 PM (pZ64F)

57 Somalis ~~bilked~~ built this country.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 03:27 PM (COQGW)

58 The parties flipped in the 60s!

-
Yeah? Well, they done flipped back!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 03:28 PM (FXNzP)

59 I prefer the rare leftist who claims that the parties switched in the 80s.

The 1880s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Arguably Grover Cleveland was the last of the old rural Democrat elected presidents. By Wilson's time, the Solid South still voted for Dems at teh presidential level but the urban machines in the NE and Midwest had become the drivers of Democrat policies. That led to a bifurcated Democrat caucus split--Urban Dems and the rural South and Western Dems. This split became worse after FDR passed to the degree that Southern Democrats using the Committee system of seniority basically ran the House and Senate to the dismay of urban and minority Democrats. The massive influx of Democrats in 1974 elections from the North, Western urban areas, etc. then made the Democratic Caucus king via rules changes demoting seniority in both House and Senate and made the committee chairs subservient to the Caucus and party leadership.

Dave Rohde has an interesting book about it--and wrote about Conditional Party Government in the House.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

60 Why were they called Knights? Did they ever joust?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:29 PM (c27kw)

61 And the. D candidate is for they/them, R candidate is for you should be able to be re-used. Lot of Ds are still doubling down on "transgender rights" vs the rights of young women to not have to compete against young men on the girls BB, volleyboll, soccer etc teams.

I sure hope we can displace some of the GOPers in the primaries and then make the case to voters that voting for the D, no matter how moderate that D seems to be is voting for releasing the illegal alien rapists to prey on their daughters, nieces, sisters, wives etc.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 03:29 PM (Sokdp)

62 Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump's request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist" and said the moment made her "uncomfortable."

Bynum, who represents suburban Portland, actually voted for ICE funding. The Portland Antifa and DSA-types has been savaging her ever since, so she's been overcorrecting.

She represents a very purple district, so hopefully the hard-core Leftist running against her in the primary wins, so the Republicans can regain the seat in November.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 03:29 PM (n1OCj)

63 Shame Congressman ard not required to be American born.

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 03:29 PM (Ia/+0)

64 The KKK took my baby away!

Posted by: Joey Ramone at February 26, 2026 03:29 PM (oftw2)

65 I think that was a cash only trade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

Player to be named later

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:29 PM (wIg5s)

66 57. Somalis bilked built this country.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Yeah? No.

Only State and non-profit employment & benefits in MN and Maine.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:30 PM (NFX2v)

67 They hate you.

Trump's just in the way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 03:30 PM (RIvkX)

68
"There's thinly veiled racist language, anti-immigrant language in what he was asking and that was uncomfortable,"

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

It's always "thinly veiled," "coded," "dogwhistled." So many Linguistics professors and discourse analysts among those clever Dems!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 03:31 PM (5pERN)

69 Dems should change their party name to Somalis.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:31 PM (pZ64F)

70 The Dems are the Party of Death is more ways than one.

In the vid they look like not-so-fresh corpses dumped into the seats.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 03:31 PM (DgMqy)

71
Vice President JD Vance blasted Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for "talking loudly the entire time" during President Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union speech

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One pair of shrieking towel heads
Different as dirt and clay

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 03:31 PM (qsezt)

72 But the right and MAGA are the Nazis and crazy ones. Sure, Jan.

Posted by: turambar at February 26, 2026 03:32 PM (Q0yOR)

73 So good ol boy Clinton was an R from one of these "southern states" that renounced Democrats 20 years earlier, right?

And Al Gore Sr., a foremost opponent of Civil Rights had a kid that went Republican. Si?

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:33 PM (wIg5s)

74 I thought the parties flipped in & for Charlottesville.

What do I know?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:33 PM (NFX2v)

75 Bynum, who represents suburban Portland, actually voted for ICE funding. The Portland Antifa and DSA-types has been savaging her ever since, so she's been overcorrecting.

Zeva Rosenbaum, who is running against Bynum in the primary, is a hard-Left, anti-Israel Jew.

Perfect for Portland, but she'll get slaughtered in her suburban district in November if she wins the primary.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 03:33 PM (n1OCj)

76 73 So good ol boy Clinton was an R from one of these "southern states" that renounced Democrats 20 years earlier, right?

And Al Gore Sr., a foremost opponent of Civil Rights had a kid that went Republican. Si?

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:33 PM (wIg5s)

======

Robert Byrd just said what he needed to in order to be elected. He didn't believe any of the racist stuff he said.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

77 It's always "thinly veiled," "coded," "dogwhistled." So many Linguistics professors and discourse analysts among those clever Dems!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 03:31 PM (5pERN)

For the billionth time: If you can hear the dogwhistle...

YOU'RE THE DOG!

Posted by: pookysgirl, getting out her megaphone at February 26, 2026 03:33 PM (Wt5PA)

78
Bynum wasn't the only Democrat to slam Trump's address. Rep. Robin Kelly (D., Ill.) made light of Trump's presentation of military awards, including the Medal of Honor, to veterans during his address. "It was like an award show, 'You get a medal! You get a medal! You get a medal!'"

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Believe it or not, a lot of these people aren't very smart.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 03:34 PM (qsezt)

79 Even Democrats are "uncomfortable" with Ilhan "Omar" Nur's and Rashida Tlaib's third-world behavior.
____

There are vids out there of third-world 'parliamentarians' acting in uncivil ways. Now we've imported them here.

Diversity!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 03:34 PM (Dv3i1)

80 Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump's request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist"

America is so racist that Bynum got elected in a district which is about 0.5% black.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 03:34 PM (n1OCj)

81 Another Troon shooting at Border Patrol in NH

"🚨MORE TRANS VIOLENCE🚨

Blu Zeke Daly, 26, who identifies as trans, was ARRESTED in New Hampshire for allegedly opening fire on Border Patrol agents after being stopped near the Canadian border.

Daly reportedly tried to flee and crashed into a snow bank, where law enforcement… pic.twitter.com/BSjXYPHSjg

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 25, 2026

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 03:35 PM (E4rtv)

82 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 03:31 PM (5pERN)

Note they are the only ones who ever hear these dog whistles, which makes them the dogs.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:35 PM (wIg5s)

83 There were. A Whole lot of Democrats in the KKK.

The KKK was essentially a Democrat creation. They were the shock troops...

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 03:21 PM

Same role that "Antifa" plays now.

They changed the color of the robes, but still the same violent thugs.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 03:35 PM (zjgNU)

84 Rashida Tlaib is like Narcan for viagra overdose

Posted by: Halfhand at February 26, 2026 03:35 PM (5slMQ)

85 84 Rashida Tlaib is like Narcan for viagra overdose
Posted by: Halfhand at February 26, 2026 03:35 PM (5slMQ)

Hey hey not cool.

Posted by: Rosa delauro at February 26, 2026 03:36 PM (i0Hi3)

86 It’s not the medal presentations but the patriotism that makes the Dems uncomfortable. Whether it be the hockey players or our boys overseas defending the free world, they could not stomach recognizing people acting out of love of country.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 03:37 PM (fYhK6)

87 Pretti Good Daly. Why no mag dump?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:38 PM (c27kw)

88 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Thanks for the prayers yesterday; just met with the oncologist, and he is not worried by anything that he saw on the PET Scan. Whew!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 26, 2026 03:38 PM (AeamU)

89 I always like how the liberals don't like to feel uncomfortable. Life is f'ing uncomfortable, buck up buttercup!

Not to mention any statement they don't agree with is thinly veiled or has undertones.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 03:38 PM (n5tGW)

90 Thanks for the prayers yesterday; just met with the oncologist, and he is not worried by anything that he saw on the PET Scan. Whew!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 26, 2026 03:38 PM (AeamU)
====

Best news!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 03:39 PM (RIvkX)

91 Even Democrats are "uncomfortable" with Ilhan "Omar" Nur's and Rashida Tlaib's third-world behavior.

When they're willing to stand up and publicly rebuke these two harridans, I might take them a bit more seriously. But as JD pointed out from his vantage point during SOTU, they're cowards, and were looking around to see what was expected of them.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 03:39 PM (Riz8t)

92 The parties flipped in the 60s!
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Well, Sen John Curtis in Utah flipped from D to R recently. And he's one of the pricks preventing SAVE act from going forward with talking filibuster. Utah is the next one to drink the Flavor-Aide like Colorado. Shame.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)

93 Somalia isn't terrible by default, Somalians just make everywhere they are shitty.

Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at February 26, 2026 03:39 PM (sk8Gr)

94 Wish I knew what Omar was yelling. Any lip readings out?

Some congresswoman in front of her did turn around and scowl. Democrat?

Posted by: Random PJ at February 26, 2026 03:40 PM (+jscL)

95 Parties flipped! Republican Southern Strategy is the proof!!!

Posted by: JROD at February 26, 2026 03:40 PM (IlL6s)

96 The militant branch of the Democrat Party. Don't know much about history.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:40 PM (c27kw)

97 >>>>Blu Zeke Daly, 26, who identifies as trans, was ARRESTED in New Hampshire for allegedly opening fire on Border Patrol agents after being stopped near the Canadian border.
Daly reportedly tried to flee and crashed into a snow bank, where law enforcement… pic.twitter.com/BSjXYPHSjg
Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 03:35 PM (E4rtv)
********
Blu Zeke is a great name, or names, for a dog, probably should have identified as a furry.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 26, 2026 03:40 PM (edK1B)

98 > There were. A Whole lot of Democrats in the KKK.

The KKK was essentially a Democrat creation. They were the shock troops...
Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 03:21 PM

Same role that "Antifa" plays now.

They changed the color of the robes, but still the same violent thugs.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 03:35 PM (zjgNU)
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Maybe the Republicans should get their own "shock troops" and even the playing field?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 03:40 PM (jtM2q)

99 The only true democrat in the Democratic Party is actually brain damaged. The rest are just communists.

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 26, 2026 03:41 PM (23/y9)

100 Yeah but Republicans want to send gays to death camps and force Women to have 7 babies each. So we have no choice but to vote for these people.

Posted by: 46-48% of voters at February 26, 2026 03:41 PM (WVjB9)

101 Thanks for the prayers yesterday; just met with the oncologist, and he is not worried by anything that he saw on the PET Scan. Whew!
Posted by: Teresa
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Fantastic news TiFW. Glad to hear it.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 03:41 PM (E4rtv)

102 Daly reportedly tried to flee and crashed into a snow bank, where law enforcement… pic.twitter.com/BSjXYPHSjg
___

where law enforcement... what? beat him to a bloody pulp I hope?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 03:41 PM (Dv3i1)

103 I'd like to see the math on that Target payout. How much lost due to theft that didnt happen offsetting the settlement amount etc.

But math

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 26, 2026 03:41 PM (cS1cw)

104 Robert Bryd. Exalted Cyclops of the KKK.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 03:42 PM (+nEug)

105 Wonderful news Teresa of Fort Worth.
And all things, whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Matthew 21 : 22

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 03:42 PM (ehY6c)

106 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

Thanks for letting us Know, Teresa, That is good news and prayers will continue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 03:42 PM (8Xy/A)

107 The only response anytime Democrats and liberals state that something you say or do is "racist", should be abrupt dismissal, contempt, or derision - without a hint of hesitation or backpedaling.

It is way, way too old and doesn't even merit the courtesy of engagement anymore.

Posted by: RM at February 26, 2026 03:42 PM (n/1Oj)

108 Blu Zeke is a great name, or names, for a dog, probably should have identified as a furry.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly
=========
Would not be surprised if that trannie was involved in that trans cult that has already resulted in several murders including law enforcement.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 03:42 PM (E4rtv)

109 Amazing News Teresa ❤️

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:43 PM (wIg5s)

110 The bastard people have lost Target.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:43 PM (c27kw)

111 Let the pouncing and seizing commence!

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 26, 2026 03:43 PM (Qh10Q)

112 The militant branch of the Democrat Party. Don't know much about history.

To be fair, they don't know much about biology, science, French, geography, trigonometry, algebra, or what a slide rule is for. They don't know much about pretty much anything, other than that they should be in charge.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 03:43 PM (Riz8t)

113 Simultaneous phone call and all of them get off their hands.
Message from control central.

Much legal chatter on X regarding the deportation of
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Condensed the chatter resolves to:

Hey, hey, ho, ho
Seditious bitches got to go

There are laws. Enforce them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 03:44 PM (Sh6IX)

114 where law enforcement... what? beat him to a bloody pulp I hope?

Posted by: Chuck Martel
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WMUR, "Daly was severely injured in the shooting and remains in the hospital at this point, said U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan. While investigators have not been able to speak with Daly yet, Creegan said they are speaking with “people associated with the defendant” to get a sense of why they might have acted in the way that they did."

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)

115 Maybe Rashida was trying to organize a Congressional KKK group amongst the seated Democrats.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 03:44 PM (8Xy/A)

116 100 Yeah but Republicans want to send gays to death camps and force Women to have 7 babies each. So we have no choice but to vote for these people.
Posted by: 46-48% of voters

Republicans are just like Muslims!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 03:44 PM (Dv3i1)

117 How do the ranks work? Exalted Cyclops Grand Dragon Democrat Party Whip?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:45 PM (c27kw)

118 "Democrats are for illegal immigrant criminals. Republicans are for you,"

Probably should have been "criminal illegal aliens"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 03:45 PM (a+4eV)

119 Vance definitely has the right idea. If Trump isn't giving him the imagery ammo, then we are in good hands for 2028.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:46 PM (wIg5s)

120 Rep. Robin Kelly (D., Ill.) made light of Trump's presentation of military awards, including the Medal of Honor, to veterans during his address. "It was like an award show, 'You get a medal! You get a medal! You get a medal!'"

Sen. Chuck Schumer hasn't given a hoot about veterans. He focused on protecting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) STAFF* and services in 2025-2026, opposing efforts to cut the workforce and reducing union rights.

(*Lots of Trump h8ers.)

Further, Chuck Schumer has not served in the U.S. military, but it's played that as a long-serving U.S. Senator and Leader, he heavily influences military policy, funding, and infrastructure.

Further, several of the Congressional democrats who've served seemed to try to lead the U.S. military into bad paths with the current administration.

Illinois. She can suck the Chicago mayor's .....

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:46 PM (NFX2v)

121 Some of the Republicans are a pretend controlled opposition.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:46 PM (c27kw)

122 to get a sense of why they might have acted in the way that they did."
Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)

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It's a mystery.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 26, 2026 03:47 PM (2UnvF)

123
The KKK was formed from the democrat party. So it isn't the first Democrat to chant "KKK" from their side of the aisle.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 26, 2026 03:47 PM (IifOV)

124 >>>he is not worried by anything that he saw on the PET Scan.
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Teresa, wonderful news.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 03:47 PM (Sh6IX)

125 The victims of the KKK were almost entirely Republicans.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:48 PM (wIg5s)

126 Well the crowd was chanting USA USA to celebrate America, One can only assume that Rashid was shouting KKK to celebrate the Klu Klux Klan. Someone should ask her why she celebrates them.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 03:49 PM (Sokdp)

127 88 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Thanks for the prayers yesterday; just met with the oncologist, and he is not worried by anything that he saw on the PET Scan. Whew!
Posted: tifw

Super! 🙏 will continue.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:49 PM (NFX2v)

128 Secret Kleagle?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:49 PM (c27kw)

129 Wonderful news, Teresa!

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at February 26, 2026 03:50 PM (R3yzU)

130 TiFW - Wonderful news!

Posted by: Patches, mostly lurking at February 26, 2026 03:53 PM (BkZ3B)

131 @EYakoby

In the middle of Dearborn, Michigan an entire crowd chants “Death to America.”

Rashida Tlaib, when asked, refused to condemn it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 03:54 PM (Sh6IX)

132 At least it will be the last SOTU Steny Hoyer gets to see. It's way past his bedtime anyway.

Posted by: Early Bird Special Ed at February 26, 2026 03:55 PM (oftw2)

133 Ok! Death to Dearborn!

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 03:55 PM (+nEug)

134
Ilhan Omars's family were tribal aristocrats whose faction came out losers in a Somali inter-tribal conflict. Using immigration fraud, they fled to the USA, and brought their crooked tribal pirate bullshit here. And their infernal arrogance.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 03:56 PM (qsezt)

135 The KKK was the militant wing of the democratic party until that position was filled by Weather Underground types and Antifa

Posted by: Josephistan at February 26, 2026 03:56 PM (y9ksN)

136 "Shh. A women of color is speaking..."

"Yeah we know, we're trying to hear the movie..."

Posted by: old classic at February 26, 2026 03:56 PM (jGJov)

137 @LauraLoomer 3h
NEW:

Jihadist Reps. Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib Attempted To Hijack Trump’s State Of The Union, Now He’s Telling Them To Self Deport

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 03:57 PM (Sh6IX)

138 That is awesome, Teresa!

My wife counseled me to try not to borrow trouble when I had a pet scan. Nevertheless, it was a great feeling when the oncologist gave me the same news you received. Enjoy!

Posted by: RM at February 26, 2026 03:57 PM (n/1Oj)

139 Very happy to hear the good news TiFW!

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2026 03:57 PM (V7158)

140 These people need to go. Clearly they hate America and they hate Americans. They want globalist, communist, open borders, sharia madness, and they need to be someplace else.

It's within their best interests to be elsewhere.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 03:58 PM (gVUi7)

141 Good news, Teresa, but shouldn't they be running you through the Human scanner, not the one they use on Pets?

Posted by: Fluffy the Cat at February 26, 2026 03:59 PM (oftw2)

142 Headline (Mirror-us):

"Hockey fans boo Democratic governor during ceremony honoring Olympic hero"

Excerpt:

"After Hughes finished speaking with the home crowd, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill appeared and joined Hughes and Olympic teammate Tage Thompson for a photo. But when she was introduced to the ice with her husband, the arena responded with loud boos. The reception came after a furious Heated Rivalry star slams Team USA's actions with Trump."

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2026 04:00 PM (rj6Yv)

143 🥒

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:01 PM (c27kw)

144 "It's within their best interests to be elsewhere."

Well Ilhan and her gang have procured at least $8B for her Somali jihadist cause, so that is in their interest. She's loyal to Somalia, and is just here for the paycheck, as she stated. Of course the paycheck includes billions in frauds across the country, apparently.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2026 04:01 PM (vbXSk)

145 Ilhan Omar is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with her, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at February 26, 2026 04:02 PM (hXJe5)

146 Make Somalia Great Again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:02 PM (c27kw)

147 I've always wondered how Congress exempting itself from insider trading laws isn't a violation of the 14th Amendment.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at February 26, 2026 04:05 PM (5IFb9)

148 >>>Yeah but Republicans want to send gays to death camps and force Women to have 7 babies each.

Is that wrong?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 04:05 PM (dK+Kv)

149 Is 7 enough?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:06 PM (c27kw)

150 Please spare a prayer for my mom. She just fell and she is in a ton of pain. Her leg and hip are hurting her. Dementia and no balance. No strength in legs. Getting her up is a chore in itself. Rescue squad coming.

Thank you.

Posted by: turambar at February 26, 2026 04:06 PM (Q0yOR)

151 turambar, prayers for you both.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 04:07 PM (+nEug)

152 Did Ace die? Cuz Imma thinking Ace has died.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 04:07 PM (pZ64F)

153 Posted by: turambar at February 26, 2026 04:06 PM (Q0yOR)

Of course.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 04:07 PM (8Xy/A)

154 Hi friends! Also, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been allowed to walk free. When the Dems sat down when asked if they put Americans first, they did it knowing their constituents are fine with this - how are we supposed to move forward with this crowd when they are absolutely fine with letting human traffickers just go? We are shocked by the UK doing this - but it’s happening to us, too.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 04:07 PM (Wmg4n)

155 turambar

Ouch!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 04:08 PM (Kt19C)

156 I finally watched the SOTU address. Wow. Trump pounded the Democraps bigly.

He sure knows how to put on a show.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2026 04:09 PM (qFwJc)

157 Ace, everyone, have a look:

https://tinyurl.com/y9rrxxb6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 04:09 PM (plFPI)

158 Did Ace die? Cuz Imma thinking Ace has died.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 04:07 PM (pZ64F)

Shelf-inflicted head wound.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 04:09 PM (dK+Kv)

159 Bring put your dead.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:09 PM (c27kw)

160 154 Hi friends! Also, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been allowed to walk free. When the Dems sat down when asked if they put Americans first, they did it knowing their constituents are fine with this - how are we supposed to move forward with this crowd when they are absolutely fine with letting human traffickers just go? We are shocked by the UK doing this - but it’s happening to us, too.

I havent heard a good explanation of why they brought this barbarian back to the states.

Posted by: GigantorX at February 26, 2026 04:10 PM (x8k2o)

161 In the perfect world, those two bints, Omar and Tlaib, would be stripped of their citizenship and shipped back to the cesspool countries they came from.

And no pension for either of them.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 26, 2026 04:10 PM (4q/mG)

162 Shotput your dead >>> Bring put your dead.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:10 PM (Dv3i1)

163 Even James Carville wants I. Omar out of the Dem Party.

When you've lost Serpent Head, it's a whole new ball game.

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2026 04:11 PM (rj6Yv)

164 New thread.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:11 PM (c27kw)

165 >>>Ilhan Omar is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with her, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke

>Strip them of all committee appointments, confine them to their constituency, and let's see that play out, when the gravy train runs dry. Make them work, write bills and present them for a vote.

I didn't vote for these cunts. Get them off of the federal teat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 04:11 PM (gVUi7)

166 Please spare a prayer for my mom. She just fell and she is in a ton of pain. Her leg and hip are hurting her. Dementia and no balance. No strength in legs. Getting her up is a chore in itself. Rescue squad coming.

Thank you.
Posted by: turambar at February 26, 2026 04:06 PM (Q0yOR)

Blessings to you for helping your mom. It hurts terribly. My father was in much the same situation.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (rbvCR)

167 150 Getting her up is a chore in itself. Rescue squad coming.

Thank you.
Posted by: turambar

I am so sorry, prayers said and keep us posted.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (pZEOD)

168 Piper, Garcia is not being detained but he is still facing smuggling charges.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (+nEug)

169 Foreigners are not American when they just get here

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 04:26 PM (Ia/+0)

170 a GOP-aligned group is already running video of the Democrats' disgraceful third-world conduct in campaign ads.

= =

STOP IT RIGHT NOW! You make us look like incompetent buffoons who could be doing lots of things to support American conservatism but instead sit on our hands and collect a paycheck while whinging about Trump.

Posted by: The Republican National Committee at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (m0WlR)

171 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Thanks for the prayers yesterday; just met with the oncologist, and he is not worried by anything that he saw on the PET Scan. Whew!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 26, 2026 03:38 PM (AeamU)
==
Hey - excellent news!!!

Posted by: Black JEM at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (GZYu7)

Another Harvard Professor Exposed as Friend of Epstein

As I mentioned earlier -- but which you might have missed because I added it as a late update -- the WEF's President and CEO resigned after the board began to investigate him for his "three dinners" (uh-huh) and extensive correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Despite kindling this friendship in 2018-2019 -- nine or ten years after Epstein's conviction for soliciting a teenager -- he claims he had absolutely no idea at all that Epstein was associated with any scandal.

On to the newest Harvard professor exposed.

We already knew that Harvard's Larry Summers, who was also Obama's chief economic advisor, was a close pal of Epstein's. He resigned from the school a few months back.

Now we find out aHarvard math professor was also a FoJ.

Harvard math professor Martin Nowak -- once dubbed Jeffrey Epstein's "inside man" at the university -- has been put on leave after college bosses learned "new information" about his links to the convicted pedophile.
University bosses' bombshell decision comes after ex-Harvard president Larry Summers, also scrutinized over his relationship with the financier, announced his resignation.
Nowak, who was gifted $6.5 million by Epstein to create the now-closed-down Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), will be the subject of a fresh probe investigating whether he breached the university's conduct policies, according to a letter first revealed by the Harvard Crimson on Wednesday.
...
Nowak's links to Epstein are well-documented.
The ex-Wall Street financier visited PED offices at least 40 times between 2010 and 2018.
Nowak gave Epstein "unlimited access" to school grounds, supplying a keycard and a passcode, according to a 2020 review carried out by the university.

Huh. Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong?

Damning Department of Justice-released emails revealed Nowak's plans to visit Epstein's infamous island.
One such correspondence from 2012 featured JetBlue flight arrangements between Boston and St. Thomas.
An email from February 2014 contained the subject: "Does JE want Martin Nowak to visit him on the island March 1?"
Nowak has denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.

Boy that sure sounds familiar.

...
Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, reportedly enjoyed their honeymoon on Epstein's private island -- and they flew on his infamous "Lolita Express" jet.
Also on board the flight was Epstein's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
"Mr. Summers and Ms. New spent their honeymoon in St. John and Jamaica in December 2005, which was long before Mr. Epstein was arrested for the first time," a spokesperson for Summers told the Crimson last November.

The spokesperson stressed that Summers and his wife were on Epstein's island "for less than a day."
Summers and Epstein also spoke about women, fundraising and politics in communications that have since been released.

You know, the "elite's" eagerness to break bread with this man could be explained away as something non-sexual. non-pedophilic if we had any claims that Epstein was just some kind of Svengali-like tornado of charisma and intellect.

But I never hear that. I just hear that he really liked jailbait.

And if no one can offer an innocent reason for seeking his company, I have to assume they just like jailbait too.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 FIRST WITH THE BLADE BEING FIRST AND ALL THAT SHIT

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

2 Are we sure it wasn't the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Overseas (PEDO)?

Posted by: Steeldoc at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (f4qjg)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (LdBR/)

4 Call Big Lou. He's like you. He likes jaibait, too!

Posted by: B. Clinton at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (Cqx++)

5 *Nods approvingly*
Yup, that's how you do it.

Posted by: Jimmy Savile at February 26, 2026 02:33 PM (f4qjg)

6
Huh. Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong?

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Dude. He was looking for nuclear physicists.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:35 PM (5pERN)

7 Reading through the released emails, Epstein had a lot of friends in academia, because he was giving them money and perhaps girls.

But this wasn't a one way thing, one academic and unfortunately I forget which, had an email begging Epstein to come to an academic event he was hosting with the promise their would be young coeds...

Now of course that means the girls were off age, but offering access to your TAs/RAs in return for $$$ has to violate pretty much every college's rules right?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

8 []i]Nowak, who was gifted $6.5 million by Epstein to create the now-closed-down Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), will be the subject of a fresh probe investigating whether he breached the university's conduct policies, according to a letter first revealed by the Harvard Crimson on Wednesday.

I heard he had two programs. One was PED, and the other, geared towards Obama, was the Program for Overseas Nontraditional Coital Exercises, or PONCE.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 02:35 PM (Riz8t)

9 Now we find out a Harvard math professor was also a FoJ.

Friends Of Carlotta > Friends of Jeffrey

Posted by: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid at February 26, 2026 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

10 You know, the "elite's" eagerness to break bread with this man could be explained away as something non-sexual. non-pedophilic if we had any claims that Epstein was just some kind of Svengali-like tornado of charisma and intellect.

But I never hear that. I just hear that he really liked jailbait.

For some of some of them it is pretty clear they wanted $$$ and access to other rich people to get more $$$. They didn't care what Epstein was doing as long as they got paid.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:36 PM (sKqQm)

11 Seems like all of our “Betters” are perverts and liars.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 02:36 PM (W2Pud)

12 Nowak, who was gifted $6.5 million by Epstein to create the now-closed-down Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED),

There's no way that wasn't an intentional troll on Epstein's part.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (Fs0KI)

13 Huh. Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong?

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Dude. He was looking for nuclear physicists.

That's ridiculous. The woman in question looks nothing like a nuclear physicist.

Posted by: Christmas Jones at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (Riz8t)

14 And reportedly Hillary said she had no idea about Epstein and yet there is a Chelsea wedding that might say different.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (n5tGW)

15 "And if no one can offer an innocent reason for seeking his company, I have to assume they just like jailbait too."

Money, Ace. Money.

Epstein was a very rich and powerful guy, had connections to even richer and more powerful guys, and surely threw his and their money around for the reasons all rich guys do: influence, prestige, leverage, and connections.

Sex too, of course, but that's often ancillary and used like currency to get the influence, prestige, etc.

The article you linked notes that this Nowak professor got $6.5 million from Epstein. That's all the reasons in the world to stay nice and chummy with the guy. Hell, with that kind of money, Nowak can go get his own girls.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

16 I saw an interview with Eric Weinstein about the time he met Epstein.

His argument was that he was forced into it by Harvard (who wanted Epstein's $$$) and that he had initially assumed as an investment banker Epstein wanted access to Weinstein for some of the mathematical modeling work he had done but that in person it was quickly clear that Epstein wasn't a financial guy at all...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (sKqQm)

17
if no one can offer an innocent reason for seeking his company, I have to assume they just like jailbait too.

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Catch me up. HAS anyone offered an innocent reason for seeking Epstein's company?

I don't know if they liked jailbait, but they liked money. What exactly was Epstein doing for them in this regard? Yes, funding things like the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, but in exchange for what? $6.5 million seems like a high price to pay for access to the campus, which he could have gotten by getting one of his own agents hired to security (cf. Somali airport employees in Minnesota) or other, cheaper means.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (5pERN)

18 Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college.

Yeah, but there's nothing for him there.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (a+4eV)

19 Lots of Leftists getting caught ion Epstein Island
Who hasn't yet?

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (Ia/+0)

20 Riiiiighhhht. Haaahhhhvaaahrd had NO idea those professors were involved with Epstein. The admin probably steered them to Epstein to tap into the potential Epstein money. They probably nudged a bunch of their professors to be friendly with Epstein but the more normal ones were repulsed.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (Sokdp)

21 Dude. He was looking for nuclear physicists.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:35 PM (5pERN)

***Thumb and Pinky extended***

Call me ...

Posted by: Christmas Jones at February 26, 2026 02:40 PM (3sXRv)

22 I bet they regret that "release the files" drumbeat...

Posted by: steevy at February 26, 2026 02:40 PM (YwEeS)

23 I was on instagram and enjoying some pictures of Jakob Slavin of the Carolina Hurricanes sharing his gold medal with his teammates in Raleigh.
Then I read the comments and they were universal condemnation of Slavin for accepting the invite to the White House and partying it up with Kash. Amongst the accusations I saw leveled at Slavin is that he freely associated with a man who "willingly covered up for child sex trafficking."
What in the Epstein files would indicate that Trump covered up for Epstein? Are the basis of these accusations the wild unsubstantiated and unverified call-in accusations that were part of the file release that the DoJ warned about?

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 26, 2026 02:41 PM (WYStd)

24 One of the most interesting connections in the Epstein emails is the exchange between Edward Jay Epstein and Maxwell where this Epstein (no relation) invited Maxwell onto a "secret 9/11 commission".

Note, this is before Maxwell got her TerraMar grift, so she was publicly nothing more then a cut out for Jeffrey Epstein.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

25 Larry Sanders > Larry Summers

Posted by: Zombie Gary Shandling at February 26, 2026 02:41 PM (hXJe5)

26
offering access to your TAs/RAs in return for $$$ has to violate pretty much every college's rules right?
Posted by: 18-1

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Violates a few rules of human decency, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:41 PM (5pERN)

27 "Nowak, who was gifted $6.5 million by Epstein to create the now-closed-down Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED)..."

There is absolutely no way that we are not living in a simulation.

Posted by: Croaker at February 26, 2026 02:42 PM (+BcZI)

28 >>Reading through the released emails, Epstein had a lot of friends in academia, because he was giving them money and perhaps girls.

You fish where the fish are.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 02:42 PM (1Udfd)

29 He was only there for less than a day? Molesting kids, but not for that long, you guys.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 26, 2026 02:43 PM (/H71T)

30 There is absolutely no way that we are not living in a simulation.
Posted by: Croaker at February 26, 2026 02:42 PM (+BcZI)

Told ya that years ago ...

Posted by: zombie Scott Addams at February 26, 2026 02:43 PM (3sXRv)

31 Here is the interview of Eric Weinstein on meeting Epstein: https://tinyurl.com/59rcu5fd

Not this interview is from a few years ago so before Trump released the Epstein files

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

32 TRUMP!!! curse!

Posted by: fd - I am happy because I am not that guy at February 26, 2026 02:44 PM (vFG9F)

33 "Nowak has denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes."

In 2018?? Two years into Trump 1.0 where every media outlet in the country was screaming about Epstein to try to get Trump??

It's not possible as of 2018 to not know about this guy, his guilty plea, and the endless sordid details of the allegations against him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

34 Harvard math professor Martin Nowak -- once dubbed Jeffrey Epstein's "inside man"

That sounds unclean.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 02:44 PM (abIsI)

35 Larry Sanders > Larry Summers

Posted by: Zombie Gary Shandling at February 26, 2026 02:41 PM (hXJe5)

Larry Sanders > Larry Summers > Leisure Suit Larry

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 02:45 PM (plFPI)

36
What in the Epstein files would indicate that Trump covered up for Epstein? Are the basis of these accusations the wild unsubstantiated and unverified call-in accusations that were part of the file release that the DoJ warned about?
Posted by: Defenestratus

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There are photographs of them together at social events predating Trump's discovery that Epstein was a sleaze. From this, every lefty knows that "Trump is all over the Epstein files" and "Trump raped children." I kid you not, I know of two lefties who say exactly that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:46 PM (5pERN)

37 Haaavard professor is inside man?
What, sending co-ed students to Epstein Island?

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 02:46 PM (Ia/+0)

38 And nary a word about Trump.

Which was why all of the Dems wanted the files released in the first place, right? They were SO sure that a lot of dirty laundry was going to spill on him.

Well, the files have been opened now - it's just too bad for them that all of the revelations involve THEIR people and not Trump.

Keep reminding them that they wanted this....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 26, 2026 02:46 PM (OdA1E)

39 >> Harvard math professor Martin Nowak -- once dubbed Jeffrey Epstein's "inside man"

Bulg has one of those.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 02:46 PM (1Udfd)

40 It's not possible as of 2018 to not know about this guy, his guilty plea, and the endless sordid details of the allegations against him.

The FNM takes NYC party pictures from the early 2000s where Epstein and Trump are at the same parties and tells us that means Trump was an Epstein client but someone cavorting with Epstein in 2018? Well obviously he didn't know

Note: Epstein first hit the news in a big way in 2015 though he was originally convicted in FL in 2008. He wasn't convicted in NYS his main hunting ground...ever...because Cyrus Vance jr was protecting him.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:47 PM (sKqQm)

41 Remember, the left bookend to Epsteins life was being hired by Donald Barr to teach math at a private school, maybe their is a secret math cult running the world and not artistocrat pedophiles?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 02:48 PM (+N6ee)

42 hILLRY tried to sell Chelsea to Epstein but she was too ugly.

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:48 PM (UjdFS)

43 14 And reportedly Hillary said she had no idea about Epstein and yet there is a Chelsea wedding that might say different.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (n5tGW)

I'm sure that will be explained away as Epstein and Maxwell being part of the Groom's invitation list.

Never underestimate the Clinton's willingness to throw non family members under the bus or be put on the suicide list.

Remember, Webb Hubbell is the only member of the family to not get the Clinton treatment.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 02:48 PM (k1E2D)

44 Wasn't Reid Hoffman's excuse for visiting the island repeatedly that he was raising money for Harvard?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:48 PM (2ocoG)

45 Trump raped children." I kid you not, I know of two lefties who say exactly that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

And after he raped them, he ate them.

A patient told me that two weeks ago.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 02:49 PM (W2Pud)

46 Remember, the left bookend to Epsteins life was being hired by Donald Barr to teach math at a private school, maybe their is a secret math cult running the world and not artistocrat pedophiles?

This is the part that still amazes me. How did someone go from being a teacher to being one of the world's top investment bankers in a few years?

Obviously the answer is "someone gave him a ton of money for other reasons" but...this is the point that should be getting the most scrutiny...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

47 Larry, Darryl, and Darryl > Larry Sanders > Larry Summers > Leisure Suit Larry

Posted by: Moron Math at February 26, 2026 02:50 PM (JCZqz)

48 Larry Sanders > Larry Summers
Posted by: Zombie Gary Shandling at February 26, 2026 02:41 PM (hXJe5)

***

Larry The Cable Guy > Larry Sanders > Larry Summers

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 26, 2026 02:50 PM (affD0)

49 43 "I'm sure that will be explained away as Epstein and Maxwell being part of the Groom's invitation list."
- - - - - - - -
Groom. Grooming. Close enough for government workers.

Posted by: Another Anon at February 26, 2026 02:50 PM (4h45B)

50 Trump raped children." I kid you not, I know of two lefties who say exactly that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

And after he raped them, he ate them.

A patient told me that two weeks ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 02:49 PM (W2Pud)
_____

What did they taste like?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

51 From this, every lefty knows that "Trump is all over the Epstein files" and "Trump raped children." I kid you not, I know of two lefties who say exactly that.

It's obfuscation by way of projection. I've heard lefty NPCs say Trump showered with his 13 year old daughter and it was in her diary.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:50 PM (2ocoG)

52 Democrats knew what was in the files. They believed they were going to get released anyway so they got out ahead and tried to hang it all on Trump and figured their screams will be enough to keep that going. Did Bondi help? Maybe...

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (wIg5s)

53 And after he raped them, he ate them.

A patient told me that two weeks ago.

The craziest one I've heard so far is Trump impregnated a girl then performed an abortion on her on a boat on one of the Great Lakes and then threw the baby into the lake.

Now...isn't the left always telling us abortion is a sacrament?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm)

54
"Nowak has denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes."

In 2018?? Two years into Trump 1.0 where every media outlet in the country was screaming about Epstein to try to get Trump??

It's not possible as of 2018 to not know about this guy, his guilty plea, and the endless sordid details of the allegations against him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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

Let's not get carried away with any notions that Our Betters know a damned thing. I'm still shaking my head over the fact that Bill Ackman was shocked -- SHOCKED -- that racial discrimination was going on this establishment that he was donating $50million to! And this was when Harvard was the plaintiff in a landmark, earth-shaking ruling at fucking SCOTUS.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (5pERN)

55 41 Remember, the left bookend to Epsteins life was being hired by Donald Barr to teach math at a private school, maybe their is a secret math cult running the world and not artistocrat pedophiles?

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: epstein-barr virus at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (sGtp+)

56 What did they taste like?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

Chicken of course ...

Posted by: zombie Scott Addams at February 26, 2026 02:52 PM (3sXRv)

57 This is the part that still amazes me. How did someone go from being a teacher to being one of the world's top investment bankers in a few years?

As Mike Benz told it on Rogan about a month ago, Epstein was hired at Bear Stearns, started dating the CEO's daughter, and was put on the BCCI (aka CIA) account and made partner basically out of sexually transmitted nepotism. From there it was relatively easy to make money.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:52 PM (2ocoG)

58 All of these people who are getting removed from their positions are in the twilight of there careers or older. This will help the younger crazier leftists in taking over the party. Keep yelling "Epstein" Dems, it's working out so well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 02:53 PM (HYqoK)

59 What did they taste like?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

***

Long Pig

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 26, 2026 02:53 PM (affD0)

60 54 Let's not get carried away with any notions that Our Betters know a damned thing. I'm still shaking my head over the fact that Bill Ackman was shocked -- SHOCKED -- that racial discrimination was going on this establishment that he was donating $50million to! And this was when Harvard was the plaintiff in a landmark, earth-shaking ruling at fucking SCOTUS.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (5pERN)

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People live in bubbles, no one more bubble bound than the rich and famous. Also academics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

61 was put on the BCCI (aka CIA) account and made partner basically out of sexually transmitted nepotism.

I bet it takes a lot more than some antibiotics to cure that.

Posted by: Not a Doctor at February 26, 2026 02:54 PM (JCZqz)

62 57 This is the part that still amazes me. How did someone go from being a teacher to being one of the world's top investment bankers in a few years?

As Mike Benz told it on Rogan about a month ago, Epstein was hired at Bear Stearns, started dating the CEO's daughter, and was put on the BCCI (aka CIA) account and made partner basically out of sexually transmitted nepotism. From there it was relatively easy to make money.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:52 PM (2ocoG)

======

I've seen this answer give like 4-5 times in the last couple of weeks.

And people still act like it's never been addressed before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

63 I filmed for more than 4 hours.

And I'm only 2/3 of the way through the Oscar ranking video.

What's the Hammer ranking video going to be like?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

64 "Nowak has denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes."

In 2018?? Two years into Trump 1.0 where every media outlet in the country was screaming about Epstein to try to get Trump??

It's not possible as of 2018 to not know about this guy, his guilty plea, and the endless sordid details of the allegations against him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Let's not get carried away with any notions that Our Betters know a damned thing. I'm still shaking my head over the fact that Bill Ackman was shocked -- SHOCKED -- that racial discrimination was going on this establishment that he was donating $50million to! And this was when Harvard was the plaintiff in a landmark, earth-shaking ruling at fucking SCOTUS.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (5pERN)
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Ackman definitely knew about the discrimination. He was OK with it. He was also OK with a little anti-Semitism at Harvard too. It was only when Harvard started acting like Nazi death camp executioners that he suddenly got concerned.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

65 13 That's ridiculous. The woman in question looks nothing like a nuclear physicist.

she doesn't have the healthy glow?

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 02:55 PM (sGtp+)

66
And after he raped them, he ate them.

A patient told me that two weeks ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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My God. I don't think anyone ever even accused Hitler of cannibalism.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:56 PM (5pERN)

67 It's clear to me now that the US Senate absolutely refuses to pass the SAVE Act.

It will not pass.

And Trump will not attack Iran.
And the Republicans are shuffling face first into a buzzsaw at the midterms.

Pass the Dammitol.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

68 “The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests—we did.”

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at February 26, 2026 02:56 PM (gUutX)

69 What's the Hammer ranking video going to be like?

I don't know, but the hammer is my penis.

Posted by: Nathan Fillion at February 26, 2026 02:56 PM (2ocoG)

70 66
And after he raped them, he ate them.

A patient told me that two weeks ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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"You should take this evidence to the police!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

71 Remember, ASS occasionally tries to troll us with the idea that Hillary takes endochronine (or whatever it is, first time I've ever tried to spell it).

But the left is out there peddling ideas that Trump literally eats babies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

72 College girls? Wouldn't they be too old for these purposes?

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 26, 2026 02:57 PM (aYlkz)

73 Heh, you say Harvard has, how you say, a large endowment?

Posted by: THE Paolo at February 26, 2026 02:57 PM (oftw2)

74 Huh. Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong?

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Many children attending college?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

75 Isn't raping and eating people literally what Jeffrey Dahmer did?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 02:58 PM (+N6ee)

76 I've seen this answer give like 4-5 times in the last couple of weeks.

And people still act like it's never been addressed before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

If it's not spoon fed to some folks ...

***shrugs***

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 02:58 PM (3sXRv)

77 A patient told me that two weeks ago.

The craziest one I've heard so far is Trump impregnated a girl then performed an abortion on her on a boat on one of the Great Lakes and then threw the baby into the lake.

Now...isn't the left always telling us abortion is a sacrament?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm)

That is weirdly specific. So which dem actually did this?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 02:58 PM (i0Hi3)

78 It seems a more descriptive alternate name for the Martin Nowak/Jeffery Epstein Harvard program could have been the Program for Erections Dynamic Outcomes (PEDO).

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (BnDlA)

79 And after he raped them, he ate them.
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This guy sounds like a real jerk

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (wIg5s)

80 "...will be the subject of a fresh probe."

What goes around comes around. Karma's a bitch.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (Ys3Ta)

81
Ackman definitely knew about the discrimination. He was OK with it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Then he sure pretended good when he met with Steven Pinker and others.

As for tolerating a little anti-semitism, it seems unlikely given what a white knight he is for his Israeli wife (he always points out that she's Israeli when she's criticized).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (5pERN)

82 77 A patient told me that two weeks ago.

The craziest one I've heard so far is Trump impregnated a girl then performed an abortion on her on a boat on one of the Great Lakes and then threw the baby into the lake.

Now...isn't the left always telling us abortion is a sacrament?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm)

That is weirdly specific. So which dem actually did this?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 02:58 PM (i0Hi3)

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It's in the Epstein files. I've read the page.

Must mean it's true.

It's also in the Epstein files that Biden died in 2019 and that he's been a body double ever since.

Must mean it's true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

83 unitalic, dammit.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (Ys3Ta)

84 Isn't raping and eating people literally what Jeffrey Dahmer did?
Posted by: Thomas Bender
.......

Kemper only raped them after they were dead. Standards.

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (UjdFS)

85 Ooooops!
Ooooooopsie!!

How’d that happen?!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 03:00 PM (Hkcdp)

86 Epstein's heir and last girlfriend Karyna Shuliak was supposedly 20 when they met.

Presumably he didn't just like underaged girls.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

87 I guess Larry got Nudged.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:00 PM (pZ64F)

88 That is weirdly specific. So which dem actually did this?

Right? That *has* to be projection.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 03:01 PM (2ocoG)

89 86 Epstein's heir and last girlfriend Karyna Shuliak was supposedly 20 when they met.

Presumably he didn't just like underaged girls.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

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His pick up line was, "I run an international pedo sex ring and coerce people into doing the will of Mossad. Want in?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

90 It's also in the Epstein files that Biden died in 2019 and that he's been a body double ever since.

Must mean it's true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (GBKbO)
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Well ... that one might actually be true

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

91 87 I guess Larry got Nudged.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:00 PM (pZ64F)

Don't blame this on me ...

Posted by: Cass Sunstein at February 26, 2026 03:01 PM (3sXRv)

92 90 It's also in the Epstein files that Biden died in 2019 and that he's been a body double ever since.

Must mean it's true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 02:59 PM (GBKbO)
__________

Well ... that one might actually be true

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

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BECAUSE IT'S IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

93 Huh. Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong? -Ace-

To be fair, college age girls are legal and therefore likely safe from JE's predations.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 26, 2026 03:02 PM (Hx0tZ)

94 Are ther videos of sex acts? Recorded by Epstein? Of famous, powerful, rich, connected people who would suffer riun in sacadal? As judge whats his name said in Caddyshack, "Well? We're waiting."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 26, 2026 03:03 PM (YlWIZ)

95 Born in Vienna, Austria, on April 7, 1965.[3] He studied at the Albertus Magnus Gymnasium in Vienna [de] and the University of Vienna, where he earned a doctorate in biochemistry and mathematics in 1989. During his studies, he collaborated with Peter Schuster on quasispecies theory and with Karl Sigmund on the evolution of cooperation.[5] Nowak received the Sub auspiciis Praesidentis award upon completing his doctorate at the University of Vienna.[6][7]

Another with a glowing educational background, great talent and accomplishments so brought into the fold both for what he could do and contacts, including young women? (Transactional relationships.)

Mata Hari, WW1; Iva Toguri D’Aquino, WW2

Then men trusting men more than they trusted women? idk

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:03 PM (NFX2v)

96 Why does this Trump scandal keep taking down Democrats?!?!?!?

Posted by: Tom Tuppance, Middleborough, MA at February 26, 2026 03:03 PM (qUkBO)

97 My God. I don't think anyone ever even accused Hitler of cannibalism.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Interesting consideration. I've seen plenty of Lefties lie and say "Reagan/Bush were bad, but at least rational, and much better than Trump." I'd laugh my ass off if Hitler got the same treatment.

"Sure, Hitler murdered some groups and started a war, but he increased access to public Healthcare and believed in mass transit, and even made a "people's car."
Trump is genociding EVERYONE who isn't a straight white Christian, literally kidnapped a foreign leader, and is a pedo!"

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2026 03:03 PM (JCZqz)

98 His pick up line was, "I run an international pedo sex ring and coerce people into doing the will of Mossad. Want in?"

I suspect Trump was onto the source of this particular romance when he noted some women will do anything for a rich powerful man...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

99 94 Are ther videos of sex acts? Recorded by Epstein? Of famous, powerful, rich, connected people who would suffer riun in sacadal? As judge whats his name said in Caddyshack, "Well? We're waiting."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 26, 2026 03:03 PM (YlWIZ)

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"It's a fact that there is 16K video of every powerful cultural, financial, and government person on the planet having sex with three year olds on Epstein Island that the CIA has in its vaults, and it's refusing to release it because it would destabilize the world."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

100 Were there dingoes on the island?

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld Reference at February 26, 2026 03:04 PM (Vb3xW)

101 The craziest one I've heard so far is Trump impregnated a girl then performed an abortion on her on a boat on one of the Great Lakes and then threw the baby into the lake.

I mean, it was done hygienically and all ...

There was a Sturgeon on board

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 03:04 PM (3sXRv)

102 "Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong?"

Well, it is Harvard. I'm guessing there's not a whole lot of desirable underage mish that a middle-aged rich guy could get hold of there.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 26, 2026 03:04 PM (eStot)

103 If you were going to pick a body double for Biden why would you pick a guy with dementia?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

104 103 If you were going to pick a body double for Biden why would you pick a guy with dementia?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

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"For the implication."
-Dennis

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

105 There was a Sturgeon on board Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 03:04 PM (3sXRv)

Who had a porpoise.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 26, 2026 03:05 PM (eStot)

106 sorry for the black pill
I don't know what else to think at the moment

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 03:05 PM (ZxPkt)

107 PED?

PED???????????

Good Lord, the fucking BALLS on these guys...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 26, 2026 03:05 PM (wtvvX)

108 No, I'd pick his brother or another 'double."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 03:05 PM (NFX2v)

109 The craziest one I've heard so far is Trump impregnated a girl then performed an abortion on her on a boat on one of the Great Lakes and then threw the baby into the lake.

I mean, it was done hygienically and all ...

There was a Sturgeon on board
Posted by: browndog says woo

That smells like a bunch of carp.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 26, 2026 03:05 PM (BnDlA)

110 90 It's also in the Epstein files that Biden died in 2019 and that he's been a body double ever since.

Quit pickin' on me. I'm Stage 9.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at February 26, 2026 03:06 PM (oftw2)

111 Strictly speaking, everyone at a college should be of age in normal circumstances.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 26, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s)

112 TJM of course waiting for next video but it gets up when it grts up

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 03:06 PM (Ia/+0)

113 There was a Sturgeon on board
Posted by: browndog says woo

That smells like a bunch of carp.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 26, 2026 03:05 PM (BnDlA)
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These puns are pretty crappie.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 03:06 PM (i1VVh)

114 All I know is that if I were given top level access to query Sentinal, Trident or Echelon, my first quarry would be, MKultra, Cointelpro, Operation Northwoods, Black Budget, Roswell, Bigfoot, Jeffrey Epstein.

In that order.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 03:06 PM (+N6ee)

115 As judge whats his name said in Caddyshack, "Well? We're waiting."
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 26, 2026 03:03 PM (YlWIZ)

***blusterblusterbluster***

WHAT'S HIS NAME ...

Posted by: Judge Smails at February 26, 2026 03:07 PM (3sXRv)

116 106 sorry for the black pill
I don't know what else to think at the moment

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 03:05 PM (ZxPkt)

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1. Trump won 2024 without the SAVE Act and before the DOJ started using its power to sue blue states to clean up their voter rolls, which they are doing now.

2. Democrats taking the House will affect shockingly little. Oh, no! Impeachment! All while DOJ and ICE remain fully funded and operational.

3. A war in Iran would be a terrible political loser, so I don't know why you're acting like it's a terrible thing he's not doing it from a political point of view.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

117 That smells like a bunch of carp.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Puhleese, not the time or plaice.

Posted by: Gadabout Gaddis at February 26, 2026 03:07 PM (oftw2)

118 112 TJM of course waiting for next video but it gets up when it grts up

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 03:06 PM (Ia/+0)

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Tomorrow.

I need to finish editing it, but I'm tired from filming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

119 Epstein's heir and last girlfriend Karyna Shuliak was supposedly 20 when they met.

Presumably he didn't just like underaged girls.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

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His pick up line was, "I run an international pedo sex ring and coerce people into doing the will of Mossad. Want in?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:01 PM (GBKbO)
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The youngest girl they've actually identified claimed to be 17 at the time. All the "victims" paraded around by the media are very vague as to exactly how old they were at the time.

So while Epstein's a creep and sleaze, I'm not getting where all the "underage" "pedo" stuff comes from. Actually, I do know: it's the FL plea deal. But the age of consent is 18 in FL. So 17 is technically illegal. But 17 is legal in most other states. Hell, Leonardo DiCaprio has dated girls a few months into their 18th year.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 03:08 PM (iFTx/)

120 Ok, I guess if he's a pedophile, then hang him if you want.

But he's already slated for the rope, being a college professor, and all that. So you'll have to take sloppy seconds.

Posted by: Civilizational Tech Support at February 26, 2026 03:08 PM (BI5O2)

121 119 The youngest girl they've actually identified claimed to be 17 at the time. All the "victims" paraded around by the media are very vague as to exactly how old they were at the time.

So while Epstein's a creep and sleaze, I'm not getting where all the "underage" "pedo" stuff comes from. Actually, I do know: it's the FL plea deal. But the age of consent is 18 in FL. So 17 is technically illegal. But 17 is legal in most other states. Hell, Leonardo DiCaprio has dated girls a few months into their 18th year.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 03:08 PM (iFTx/)

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I feel like I remember Maxwell testifying to the pedo things in her trial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

122 Saw a YouTube vid of a “victim” who claims she was trafficked by Epstein.

How you might ask did it happen?

Well she met Epstein at an event. Then Epstein introduced her to some big wig in Hollywood. The bigwig said we’re casting for a movie come out Los Angeles and audition. She flew to LA, by herself with nobody forcing her to do so, as she admits. She then went to a party where the bigwig also was in attendance. Then she fucked the bigwig.

She ended up not getting the role.

But yeah she was totally trafficked dude!!!

Posted by: Not how it works at February 26, 2026 03:09 PM (Vb3xW)

123 3. A war in Iran would be a terrible political loser, so I don't know why you're acting like it's a terrible thing he's not doing it from a political point of view.
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My guess is the threat of war ties down Russia, China and Iran (also - the broader Mid East and NATO). I would expect him to flip the table and clean up Cuba and likely Mexico.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:10 PM (pZ64F)

124 3. A war in Iran would be a terrible political loser, so I don't know why you're acting like it's a terrible thing he's not doing it from a political point of view.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

Mark Levin is crushed, CRUSHED I say, by the implications in this final bullet point.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 03:10 PM (rbvCR)

125 You know who else was born in Austria?

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:10 PM (wIg5s)

126 103 If you were going to pick a body double for Biden why would you pick a guy with dementia?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

++++

I can and will believe a lot of things but this one I won't buy.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 26, 2026 03:10 PM (ycLNs)

127 How pathetic that is it that Carlos Danger, Barry Soetoro and Client #9 aren't mentioned in any of this?

The swamp is deep, but there are multiple pools off in the shallows.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 03:10 PM (gVUi7)

128 123 3. A war in Iran would be a terrible political loser, so I don't know why you're acting like it's a terrible thing he's not doing it from a political point of view.
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My guess is the threat of war ties down Russia, China and Iran (also - the broader Mid East and NATO). I would expect him to flip the table and clean up Cuba and likely Mexico.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:10 PM (pZ64F)

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We prepped for months to do the surgical strike on Venezuela, while the revolutionary efforts in Iran kind of just happened without the US prepping for it.

It seems obvious that Trump is using his foreign policy tools to continue heavy pressure on Iran right now, but people like Bonchie demanding troops on the ground for carpet bombings or whatever just seem bloodthirsty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

129 So Biden wasn't a guy in a rubber skin suit?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:12 PM (c27kw)

130 125 You know who else was born in Austria?
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Julie Andrews?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:12 PM (pZ64F)

131 So while Epstein's a creep and sleaze, I'm not getting where all the "underage" "pedo" stuff comes from. Actually, I do know: it's the FL plea deal. But the age of consent is 18 in FL. So 17 is technically illegal. But 17 is legal in most other states. Hell, Leonardo DiCaprio has dated girls a few months into their 18th year.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 03:08 PM (iFTx/)

It is like PDiddy getting time for trafficking to himself. It is the minimum charge that gets time, makes people stop thinking (because eww), and doesn't poke into any element of secrets that the powers that manage the world want to remain hidden.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)

132 new thread up

Posted by: Ann at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (w9jrX)

133 You know who else released videos?

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (wIg5s)

134 129 So Biden wasn't a guy in a rubber skin suit?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:12 PM (c27kw)

I prefer a human ...

Posted by: Space Cockroach in an Edgar suit at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (3sXRv)

135 Where did they lear this new information from?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (c27kw)

136 114 All I know is that if I were given top level access to query Sentinal, Trident or Echelon, my first quarry would be, MKultra, Cointelpro, Operation Northwoods, Black Budget, Roswell, Bigfoot, Jeffrey Epstein.

In that order.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 03:06 PM (+N6ee)

don't forget Black Briar...

Posted by: Jason Bourne at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (mP0Kj)

137 Big if true, and funny as hell

@Breaking911 2m
🚨 Target has paid $110 million to terminate its lease in Minneapolis after months of sustained protests across Minnesota, during which protesters occupied stores and office spaces in an effort to pressure the company to meet their demands.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (diia5)

138
The youngest girl they've actually identified claimed to be 17 at the time. All the "victims" paraded around by the media are very vague as to exactly how old they were at the time.

I haven't seen conclusive evidence but I have seen it mentioned that some of the "Epstein victims" the FNM trots out not only were of age at the time they worked for Epstein but helped recruit over girls.

The FL investigation started over a claim that Epstein tried to get a "massage" from a 14 year old. There were two sisters that tried to get Epstein arrest in NY in '96 who were 16 at the time

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

139 Kei Bennett may just be the most beautiful black woman I've ever seen, and she's based.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_sVoKa1ayM

Here are two more of her posts.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2026451196756603250
https://is.gd/3XkhnV

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (Riz8t)

140 I don't think we will be the boots on the ground thing for a long time, we could take out Iran in roughly a day, the issue has always been, what do you get afterwards.

Trumps not a cowboy no matter what the left says.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (+N6ee)

141 You know who else was born in Austria?
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 03:10 PM (wIg5s)

The guy who invented the Glock brand horse inseminator.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 03:14 PM (rbvCR)

142 Big if true, and funny as hell

@Breaking911 2m
🚨 Target has paid $110 million to terminate its lease in Minneapolis after months of sustained protests across Minnesota, during which protesters occupied stores and office spaces in an effort to pressure the company to meet their demands.

Good. They've earned it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 03:15 PM (Riz8t)

143 Nood

Posted by: Space Cockroach in an Edgar suit at February 26, 2026 03:16 PM (3sXRv)

144
Target has paid $110 million to terminate its lease in Minneapolis after months of sustained protests across Minnesota, during which protesters occupied stores and office spaces in an effort to pressure the company to meet their demands.

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

This sounds like lefties insisting on rainbow flags and illegal aliens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 03:17 PM (5pERN)

145 It seems obvious that Trump is using his foreign policy tools to continue heavy pressure on Iran right now, but people like Bonchie demanding troops on the ground for carpet bombings or whatever just seem bloodthirsty.
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It is obvious. It is obvious that China, Russia and Iran are immobilized and cannot aid Cuba or Mexico. China continues to lose influence while America establishes dominance over South and Central America. Taking out the Cartels is probably the goal but without China drugs the Cartels lose money and men daily. Its a blockade that kills them.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 03:17 PM (pZ64F)

146
What did they taste like?

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McDonald's

Posted by: Hannibal Trump at February 26, 2026 03:18 PM (PoA2o)

147 What’s become comical about all of this is that you know the media would love to claim Trump is doing this to go after his enemies - except Trump fought harder than anyone else to keep it under wraps.

So he’s not in the files, and he’s totally inoculated from blame or criticism of the consequences of releasing them. Nice place to be.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 03:19 PM (k/Sbk)

148 Why is it that non of these fuckers have been arrested? What is the whole point of releasing these files? Just to throw shade on a bunch of guys, have them leave their positions(jobs) then after a few years they can just step back out into the sunshine and keep on truckin' on??? WTF That's like -oh, let me declare bankruptcy, protect all that I have while other people get fucked in the process but in a year or two, I'll start up another business. I want to see some jail time for these abusers. I also want these women to start pointing fingers. If they can do that honestly. hum.

Posted by: sidney at February 26, 2026 03:20 PM (Uy/WF)

149 148 Why is it that non of these fuckers have been arrested? What is the whole point of releasing these files? Just to throw shade on a bunch of guys, have them leave their positions(jobs) then after a few years they can just step back out into the sunshine and keep on truckin' on??? WTF That's like -oh, let me declare bankruptcy, protect all that I have while other people get fucked in the process but in a year or two, I'll start up another business. I want to see some jail time for these abusers. I also want these women to start pointing fingers. If they can do that honestly. hum.

Posted by: sidney at February 26, 2026 03:20 PM (Uy/WF)

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What crimes are being revealed that the DOJ can act on?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

150 There's got to be more to this than hanky panky or patty cake.

SHOCKING is Suzie Wiles lawyer complicit with the FBI. The breadth and depth of their (administrative state) desire to eliminate Trump's progress is frightening.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 03:26 PM (Sh6IX)

151 What crimes are being revealed that the DOJ can act on?

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PEDO LOVER!

Posted by: Tommie Masshole at February 26, 2026 03:35 PM (PoA2o)

152 WEF

Whore
Employment
Foundation

Posted by: UncleJefe at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (gAuAm)

153 >Huh. Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong?

To be fair, even the incoming freshmen (freshwomen? I want to be sensitive) have aged out of Epstein's pull pool.

Posted by: malaking baboy at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM (HB1XT)

Biden's Corrupt and Soviet FBI Wiretapped Key Political Opponents Kash Patel and Suzie Wiles (Trump's Chief of Staff)

Weird how all of the targets of Biden's FBI just happened to be political opponents he wanted dirt on.

This is Nixon Squared. And the leftwing media insists this is all perfectly normal, and that Trump is The Real Authoritarian Here.

Phone records belonging to FBI Director Kash Patel and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles were subpoenaed by the bureau back in 2022 and 2023 as part of a "massive targeting operation" undertaken by the Biden administration, The Post has learned.
The subpoenas were issued when both Patel and Wiles were private citizens, as special counsel Jack Smith probed President Trump's handling of classified documents and his alleged efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
An FBI official told The Post that the information was contained in files found at the bureau's headquarters in Washington, DC -- similar to the "Arctic Frost" disclosures unearthed from apparent burn bags last year.
"It's not just phone records and subpoenas -- but a massive targeting operation," the official noted, indicating the use of both technical tools and human intelligence. Several FBI employees were fired Wednesday related to the discovery.
The existence of the subpoenas was first reported by Reuters.
Patel and Wiles' phone records were found in files labeled, "Prohibited," according to the outlet.
"It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records -- along with those of now White House chief of staff Susie Wiles -- using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight," Patel said in a statement.
The FBI director noted that he recently barred bureau employees from labeling files "Prohibited."
Purported "burn bags" related to the "Crossfire Hurricane" probe -- the FBI's investigation into alleged links between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia -- were also discovered by the bureau last year.
In official parlance, "burn bags" refers to containers that hold sensitive documents that are meant to be destroyed after a certain period of time.

Will Chamberlain points out there's more to the story -- the FBI asked Suzie Wiles' lawyer to secretly tape record her calls, and he did.

@willchamberlain

Everyone's buried the lede here.

It's not just that the FBI subpoenaed Kash and Susie's phone records. The FBI surreptitiously recorded a phone call between Wiles AND HER LAWYER! Even worse, the lawyer KNEW the FBI recorded the conversation, and didn't tell Wiles!

Disbar him, charge Jack Smith and his seditious Soviet FBI agents, and wiretap Chris Wray.

Thanks to Chuck Martel.

The Biden FBI secretly obtained Susie Wiles's phone records, including from *when she was Trump's campaign manager,* and they even recorded a phone call she had with her lawyer. Wild story. pic.twitter.com/2qklc2Y3nI
— Sarah Bedford (@sarahcbedford) February 26, 2026

This is going to be another slow blogging day. My cold includes a fever, and I keep going from burning up to shivering with cold sweats.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM

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1 Ham and eggers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:20 PM (ExV1e)

2 I have informed the previous thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:20 PM (ExV1e)

3 yay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (CWTWj)

4 Is that legal?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (c27kw)

5 lies! biden would say that if he knew where he was

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (CWTWj)

6 Should we not have done that?

Posted by: Democrats at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (wIg5s)

7 4 Is that legal?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Depends on your connections.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 01:22 PM (+4yJ5)

8 Need rope.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 01:22 PM (plFPI)

9 At least he didn't watch a hockey game.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:22 PM (c27kw)

10 They impeached Trump because "he told the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 01:22 PM (RIvkX)

11 And nothing will happen

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (NmE0/)

12 Ace a prayer for complete and immediate healing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (RIvkX)

13 Disbar him, charge Jack Smith and his seditious Soviet FBI agents, and wiretap Chris Wray.

Would be nice, not holding my breath.

But exactly right, Nixon did nothing even close to as bad as this.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (n5tGW)

14 Something happened today in Hillary's deposition on Capitol Hill involving Lauren Boebert and Benny Johnson.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (Y1sOo)

15 They impeached Trump because "he told the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 01:22 PM (RIvkX)

I believe they said "his opponent". In 2019. Before a single primary vote was "cast".

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (wIg5s)

16 Is there going to be any accountability?

Magic 8-ball says; doubtful

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (jtM2q)

17 So we go from tapping Russian Floozies to tapping phones, just like that?

Posted by: All Tapped Out at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (oftw2)

18 . And the leftwing media insists this is all perfectly normal, and that Trump is The Real Authoritarian Here.
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DARVO

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:24 PM (wIg5s)

19 This is going to be another slow blogging day. My cold includes a fever, and I keep going from burning up to shivering with cold sweats.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM

You caught the flu bug... Make sure to hydrate

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:24 PM (NmE0/)

20 Watergate would be a nothing-burger today.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at February 26, 2026 01:24 PM (EaLNz)

21 wiretap Chris Wray

You misspelled beat with a barbwire wrapped bat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:24 PM (ExV1e)

22 Oh. Ace. I'm sorry you're having such a hard time. Are you taking anything? Do you need to?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 01:25 PM (PFs9e)

23 Good thing we aren't a nation of laws.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:25 PM (c27kw)

24 Ace, it might be time to turn to Bourbon.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 01:25 PM (pZ64F)

25 You want surveillance? You ain't seen nothing yet.

Posted by: AI at February 26, 2026 01:25 PM (Q+gd/)

26 Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (RIvkX)

Amen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 01:25 PM (PFs9e)

27 Nicotine ftw.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:26 PM (c27kw)

28 Covid has been going around again. I had it in November. Mega chills.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:26 PM (wIg5s)

29 Why its almost like there are two Americas or something. One for connected Democrats and one for everyone else

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

30 I saw Nixon Squared open for The Narrative...

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 01:26 PM (aykVA)

31 Watergate would be a nothing-burger today.
Posted by: 40 Miles North at February 26, 2026 01:24 PM (EaLNz)

Not true. Nixon was a Republican. Watergate would still have been the greatest threat to democracy in the history of ever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)

32 We are so far away from a Representative Republic I don't know if it is recoverable.

Trump, as good as he's been in some areas, is a puppet; The Swamp remains deep and wide, there are elites and everybody else, taxation is theft and will only get worse, the lefties and isllaam are well fed and well organized and they will kill you.

The US is an unofficial matriarchy and has been since about 1980.

Are we ready for anything but "Please don't kill me", or "Retreat!"?

Posted by: Dan Patterson at February 26, 2026 01:26 PM (m0F9m)

33 20 Watergate would be a nothing-burger today.
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Watergate was all about a passed over FBI Deputy Director who was mad at Nixon cuz he was passed over for Director FBI.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 01:27 PM (pZ64F)

34 Get some rest, Ace. And some whiskey. But mostly some whiskey.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 01:27 PM (bFu5X)

35 Ace, there is no better sleep than what you get with a fever under a pile of blankets. And it's the best thing for you.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 26, 2026 01:27 PM (GPa4z)

36 You youngsters have no idea. The media treated Watergate like it was literally world-ending for 18 months while both the Middle east and Southeast Asia burned.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (RIvkX)

37 But but boomcession

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (wIg5s)

38 Conjure up the image of FJB, ranting in front of the mood lit ReichsLibertyHall, and ithis type of operation doesn't seem outrageous at all.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (sfpgX)

39 I wonder if we will ever know how close we came to losing America? Or learning just how corrupt the Obama/Biden administrations were? And this disdain for the Constitution and for the country was reflected in the actions of the democrats in the SOTU.
They hate us.
They are not our opponents; they are the enemy.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (2WIwB)

40 Tennessee Honey from JD.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (c27kw)

41 28 Covid has been going around again. I had it in November. Mega chills.
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:26 PM (wIg5s)

Da fuq ellipses ? And I say this with love to a fellow Moron:

It's the goddam FLU

Stop with this COVID SHIT

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (3sXRv)

42 I am sorry to announce that nothing will happen.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (vFG9F)

43 Who is this lawyer who allowed the feds to listen in on an attorney-client conversation? He should be flayed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 01:29 PM (COQGW)

44 But but boomcession
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (wIg5s)

The Dow has collapsed. It's down a whole third of a point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:29 PM (ExV1e)

45 And Wiles should sue his ass and report him to the state bar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 01:29 PM (COQGW)

46 Just put up open threads, Ace, and take care of yourself

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 01:29 PM (ix8EF)

47 Yeah, a fever means it's more than a cold.

Rest and fluids. I recommend Relenza for flu (not Tamiflu). Believe it or not, ivermectin is often helpful for respiratory illnesses, depending on the pathogen.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 26, 2026 01:30 PM (3twu3)

48 #42
Nothing?
Not anything?

Posted by: He who questions all of it at February 26, 2026 01:30 PM (m0F9m)

49 Bear market!

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:30 PM (c27kw)

50 Wiles lawyer should be disbarred. DC lawyers also cooperated with the 1/6 prosecutors. DC is one big incestous mess.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (HYqoK)

51 ...all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC...

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (2WIwB)

52 "Something happened today in Hillary's deposition involving Lauren Boebert and Benny Johnson."

It's my first 3 way involving a Johnson.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (pduCL)

53 Da fuq ellipses ? And I say this with love to a fellow Moron:

It's the goddam FLU

Stop with this COVID SHIT

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (3sXRv)

Sorry bro I love you too, but I like to know when I have an engineered bioweapon inside me. Forewarned is forearmed.

BTW I had the flu ONCE. Covid three times now.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (wIg5s)

54 'Nothing?
Not anything?
Posted by: He who questions all of it "

A whole lot of nothing.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (vFG9F)

55 49 Bear market!
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:30 PM (c27kw)

Bear one day bull the next.. Sort of a hybrid/low bred...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (NmE0/)

56 39 I wonder if we will ever know how close we came to losing America?

The problem is that they aren't going to stop until the country is destroyed.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 01:32 PM (+4yJ5)

57 If I were Susie my lawyer would be hearing from my other lawyer.

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2026 01:32 PM (98kQX)

58 Bear one day bull the next.. Sort of a hybrid/low bred...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (NmE0/)

Bearbullsion

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:32 PM (wIg5s)

59 fever then chills, sounds like covid, if able test, if not ok, take Tylenol and rest. True test of Covid is no taste, food taste like nothing. Peter RN

Posted by: Peter Seniuk at February 26, 2026 01:32 PM (6ol6c)

60 I like to know when I have an engineered bioweapon inside me.

That's what Melinda Gates said but Bill kept things on the down low.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:32 PM (ExV1e)

61 You know.... I think it's just standard practice anymore to spy on your political adversaries. Maybe it's really not such a "big deal." Especially if Trump's administration is doing it too.

I'm not saying they are... but if they're not they're being played big time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 01:33 PM (jtM2q)

62 Da fuq ellipses ? And I say this with love to a fellow Moron:

It's the goddam FLU

Stop with this COVID SHIT

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 01:28 PM (3sXRv)

Sorry bro I love you too, but I like to know when I have an engineered bioweapon inside me. Forewarned is forearmed.

BTW I had the flu ONCE. Covid three times now.
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (wIg5s)

*puts M-95 mask over the USB port*
*moves keyboard 6 feet away*

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 01:33 PM (2WIwB)

63 close enough to 100, allow me to repost my willowed prose.

There once was a fellow from Redmond
Who's bell end had started to redden.
He said with no glee, it burns when I pee!
Hey Melinda, drink this and ask me no questions.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:33 PM (zncNU)

64 This is so much worse than what the Clintons did with Filegate and Craig Livingstone getting raw background check material from the FBI and I don't know how they aren't in jail and any attorney that participated disbarred.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 01:34 PM (Pt3hn)

65 Also, while I can't make any claims about steam saunas or infrared saunas, I know from experience that using a dry sauna with temperatures between 185 and 200 degrees two or three times per week will prevent respiratory illnesses.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 26, 2026 01:34 PM (3twu3)

66 close enough to 100, allow me to repost my willowed prose.

100 post limit doesn't matter for Ace posts. We'd have to read the content for it to be an issue.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:34 PM (ExV1e)

67 Attacking a country with 6 times your population. You are landlocked.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:34 PM (c27kw)

68 Couldn't have that twice by the CIA and O & Joe related administrations. The FBI was 'it.'
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In 2014, the CIA was found to have secretly searched computers used by Senate Intelligence Committee staff investigating the agency’s detention and interrogation program. CIA personnel bypassed agreed-upon protocols to spy on committee staff, prompting accusations of constitutional violations and, ultimately, an apology from CIA Director John Brennan.

What else wasn't found? /r

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 01:35 PM (NFX2v)

69 This is so much worse than what the Clintons did with Filegate and Craig Livingstone getting raw background check material from the FBI and I don't know how they aren't in jail and any attorney that participated disbarred.

They scored big with that kind of stuff though - it allowed them take down Newt and Craig Livingstone.

Probably where they found out about Hastert to blackmail him as well

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

70 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:33 PM (zncNU)

It was good

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:35 PM (wIg5s)

71 19 This is going to be another slow blogging day. My cold includes a fever, and I keep going from burning up to shivering with cold sweats.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM

You caught the flu bug... Make sure to hydrate
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:24 PM (NmE0/)

Seconded! Can't hurt.
Pixy's been a bit under the weather, too, with a migraine.

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 01:36 PM (+YA9H)

72 Leeches work every time they are tried, and maggots for open wounds.

Posted by: Flora N. Fauna at February 26, 2026 01:36 PM (oftw2)

73 Tylenol is no bueno with Covid. Aspirin is better.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 26, 2026 01:36 PM (3twu3)

74 Dang ace sorry to hear about your bug. I'm due, have luckily not been sick in ages. You know what to do. Gotta wait it out.

US institutions, many of them, are at Third World levels of corruption. Most importantly - this is entirely unimportant to 10s of millions of (mostly) Dem voters, of all ages, including older ones who lived much of their lives in a different country. Of course they largely didn't know, understand, or care, probably.

Now the full lawless totalitarian instincts of much of America are on display, have been since 2020. And the pipeline of dumbed-down brainwashed mis/uneducated youngers Americans is just beginning to disgorge its contents, implying much worse to come.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 26, 2026 01:37 PM (U/Byj)

75 We are just one dem president away from re-opening the border for 20 million more illegals, and susan rice letting us know we will all be punished for being collaborators for being white or conservative.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 01:37 PM (n5tGW)

76 Everyone criticizes all the illegal spying, but quite conveniently forgets p-wordgate. The greatest crime committed in history.

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 26, 2026 01:37 PM (Qh10Q)

77 Hot Iron.

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2026 01:37 PM (Q+gd/)

78 73 Tylenol is no bueno with Covid. Aspirin is better.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 26, 2026 01:36 PM (3twu3)

Tylenol sucks for everything.. Ibuprofen is better.. Unfortunately for me I'm on blood thinners and can't take Ibuprofen....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:37 PM (NmE0/)

79 Colds don't really have fevers higher than 100...Ace, if you are going above that, you should really think about flu and other illnesses that might benefit from a doctor's call to get antivirals...or to really confirm it's a cold only...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 01:38 PM (tOcjL)

80 OK, Judges are supposed to protect citizens against bad faith or illegal Search Warrants...

What Judge signed off on this crap?

THEY need to be held accountable, as they helped take away a Civil Right under cover of Law... this is EXACTYLY the type of situation that Law was created to fix... when the LEGAL system itself, is used to take away Rights.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2026 01:38 PM (mP0Kj)

81 Two years ago, I got Covid, and a month later the flu. I will take Covid every day over the flu.

Rest up Ace.

BTW, anyone starting to think that this Jack Smith fella is a bit of a sucker of cock?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 01:38 PM (k1E2D)

82 "Something happened today in Hillary's deposition involving Lauren Boebert and Benny Johnson."

Perhaps Benny Thompson?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 01:38 PM (abIsI)

83 100 post limit doesn't matter for Ace posts. We'd have to read the content for it to be an issue.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Yes, I know. Ace says it often enough. But I think it is a courtesy to let others who have something related to current post to have priority.

(also that should have been *whose in the limerick )

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:38 PM (zncNU)

84 People still believe in covid?

The CDC has changed a bunch of its graphs to skip the 2020-2021 season.

"Estimates are not available for the 2020-2021 season due to minimal flu activity."

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (aykVA)

85 65 Also, while I can't make any claims about steam saunas or infrared saunas, I know from experience that using a dry sauna with temperatures between 185 and 200 degrees two or three times per week will prevent respiratory illnesses.

good advice, and I do the Japanese thing (proven effective!) of gargling with salt water at least nightly, often in winter whenever I return from pretty much anywhere. back of the throat is where these things start - hit them right away!

I also sometimes do the thing with iodine in water ... same basic idea but that probably is a better antiviral mix

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (j+aD2)

86 "Just put up open threads, Ace, and take care of yourself"

Can we do a open thread on daily affirmations? I've got some good ones.

Posted by: fd - I am allowed to take up space at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (vFG9F)

87 @67 the Taliban doesn't care. They're primitive and death means nothing to them. Plus there's a lot of Pashtuns on Pakistan who would fight alongside their Afghan Pashtun brothers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (HYqoK)

88 Sorry to hear about you feeling poorly.
I recommend tea, honey, lemon and brandy. Lots of brandy. It won't cure you but you'll feel a lot better and not give a sh*t.
Did I mention brandy?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (2WIwB)

89 Take Sominex tonight and sleep....
Safe and restful sleep, sleep, sleep....

Posted by: Dozing Off.... at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (oftw2)

90 Team Obama goes total Stasi and his useful idiots think it is limited to targeting Team Trump... and also believe they would never go as far as fortifying the election. Except those that chear it on.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (/lPRQ)

91 82 "Something happened today in Hillary's deposition involving Lauren Boebert and Benny Johnson."

Perhaps Benny Thompson?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 01:38 PM (abIsI)

Or MIke Johnson ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (NmE0/)

92 I saw an amusing meme.

Top part a scruffy looking guy saying, "Of course capitalism will collapse our society in a few years. We should all be planning for this!"

Bottom part: "Yes I live in a big city dependent on food imports, do white color work, and no I've never learned any survival skills...why do you ask?"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (sKqQm)

93 Blood letting is the way to go.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (abIsI)

94 What Judge signed off on this crap?

If I had to guess, gun to head, I would guess something that rhymes with Coasberg.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (ExV1e)

95 there are lots of viruses that cause fevers. it doesn't have to be COVID or influenza

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (j+aD2)

96
There once was a fellow from Redmond
Who's bell end had started to redden.
He said with no glee, it burns when I pee!
Hey Melinda, drink this and ask me no questions.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:33 PM

Nicely done.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (Pt3hn)

97 14 Something happened today in Hillary's deposition on Capitol Hill involving Lauren Boebert and Benny Johnson.
__

Boebert took a (secret) photo of Hillary Rotten in the middle of the deposition today and emailed it to Benny Johnson, who promptly put it on the internet, and as a result the deposition has been suspended while everyone in the country wonders why Boebert is so fucking retarded.

Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (qUkBO)

98 The flu disappeared as Covid was running rampant.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (c27kw)

99 I recommend tea, honey, lemon and brandy

yes also this!

but whiskey

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (j+aD2)

100 "Blood letting is the way to go.
Posted by: Maj. Healey "

Naw. Snort two packs of BC.

Posted by: fd - I am allowed to take up space at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (vFG9F)

101 Yo, Ace. Be careful. When the fever, chills, and cold sweats appear with a cold, it could mean your immune system is actively fighting an infection.

Flu; bronchitis or sinus infections; bacterial infections: strep throat, pneumonia, severe dehydration.

A doctor & chicken soup is called for.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (NFX2v)

102 Best think for a cold/sinus infection is warm salt air.

Of course 2/3s of the US are undergoing cold and snow so good luck with getting that...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm)

103 >> My cold includes a fever, and I keep going from burning up to shivering with cold sweats.

Hot Soup
Hot Shower
Warmest socks you own.
Sleep.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (1Udfd)

104
Boebert took a (secret) photo of Hillary Rotten in the middle of the deposition today and emailed it to Benny Johnson, who promptly put it on the internet, and as a result the deposition has been suspended while everyone in the country wonders why Boebert is so fucking retarded.
Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (qUkBO)

Did Hillary pay her off ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (NmE0/)

105 Lol
That is not going to be a midterm winning point

After a brief 1 point gain in the odds polymarket is offering on the GOP keeping the majority in the House it again fell back to 14%

Totally corrupt Clinton's live most of the time in a suburb of NYC
That they bought 23 years ago for 1.5 million
They were never motivated by asking huge amounts of money. They chóse to live well but modestly. Neither need the hold toilets that Saddam and Trump feel they need

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (jX/I6)

106 *yawns* Wake me when someone goes to trial and PITA prison.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (g8Ew8)

107 Also, flush your sinuses with some mild peroxide while you are in the shower.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (1Udfd)

108 Hope you feel better soon, Ace.

I've been really enjoying having a heating pad on my back and an electric shawl over my front for my latest cold.

Gives a nice targeted "fever" near the lungs and throat, rather than frying the brain as much, and relaxes the muscles so everything hurts less.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (a+4eV)

109 Can we do a open thread on daily affirmations? I've got some good ones.

Posted by: fd - I am allowed to take up space at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (vFG9F)

I will not kill anybody... today.

Posted by: Daily Affirmation at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (Q+gd/)

110 Boebert demonstrates that she's not ready for prime time and may be brain damaged

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (HYqoK)

111 Midterms will be decided by how people think the economy is doing around the end of the summer start of the fall. Oh, and how much fraud Trump and co actually manage to stop

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

112 Something happened today in Hillary's deposition involving Lauren Boebert and Benny Johnson."

Were they in a movie theater?

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (aykVA)

113 *yawns* Wake me when someone goes to trial and PITA prison.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

People actually being fired is no small thing.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 01:43 PM (a+4eV)

114 Lauren, call me, I'll advise you on politics and we can go to the movies together

/wink

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:43 PM (sKqQm)

115 I heard that you were feeling ill
Headaches fever and a chill
I came to help restore your pluck
'Cause I'm the nurse who like to .

Posted by: Save Ferris! at February 26, 2026 01:43 PM (9C/Xw)

116 99 I recommend tea, honey, lemon and brandy

yes also this!

but whiskey
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM

This is the way.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 01:43 PM (Pt3hn)

117 I still think the fib does more harm than good. I still want to see the agency dismantled. I don't care that the "good guys" are now in control. I want states to take care of problems and to work together when needed.

Dismantle the FBI.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 26, 2026 01:44 PM (RkOfE)

118 I keep going from burning up to shivering with cold sweats.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

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

This sounds like malaria.
Or radiation poisoning.

Now if you were bittern by a radioactive mosquito, that might come with superpowers -- Have you noticed anything?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:44 PM (zncNU)

119 Yo, Ace. Be careful. When the fever, chills, and cold sweats appear with a cold, it could mean your immune system is actively fighting an infection.

Flu; bronchitis or sinus infections; bacterial infections: strep throat, pneumonia, severe dehydration.

A doctor & chicken soup is called for.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (NFX2v)
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Heavy on the chicken soup.

Plus 8000 units daily minimum of vitamin D, even when you've recovered.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 01:44 PM (plFPI)

120 Thanks, ASS!

Posted by: fd - I am happy because I am not that guy at February 26, 2026 01:44 PM (vFG9F)

121 The flu disappeared as Covid was running rampant.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (c27kw)

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Bring back COVID!!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 26, 2026 01:44 PM (g8Ew8)

122 PS - Ace, even if you started with a cold (say a few days ago), you can either develop a follow on bacterial infection OR catch a 2nd different virus b/c of your weakened immune system from the 1st illness...

TL/DR - call the doc for a telehealth appointment (or go to Urgent Care if it gets really bad today)...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 01:44 PM (tOcjL)

123 Sorry you are not feeling well ace, may you feel better soon!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 26, 2026 01:45 PM (RkOfE)

124 118 I keep going from burning up to shivering with cold sweats.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

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

This sounds like malaria.
Or radiation poisoning.

Now if you were bittern by a radioactive mosquito, that might come with superpowers -- Have you noticed anything?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Could be Dengue fever.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 01:46 PM (abIsI)

125 Fever? One prescription: More Cowbell.

Posted by: Chriss Walken at February 26, 2026 01:46 PM (Q+gd/)

126 Ace do something unusual. Drink a fifth of bourbon and get laid. The eat some junk food.

You’ll be good or dead. Either way, the cold is gone.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 26, 2026 01:46 PM (AydIQ)

127 59 fever then chills, sounds like covid, if able test, if not ok, take Tylenol and rest. True test of Covid is no taste, food taste like nothing. Peter RN
Posted by: Peter Seniuk at February 26, 2026 01:32 PM (6ol6c)

Huh. Useful. Thank you!

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 01:46 PM (+YA9H)

128 I've been arguing for a while that there should be an independent agency charged with investigating corruption, funded separately by and answerable to the states collectively.

Call is the State Investigative Agency. The head gets a 2 year term and need the vote of 26 governors to stay another term.

This breaks the explicit conflict of interest in having the FBI be part of fedgov and yet the agency in charge of investigating fedgov.

Also, showing up to the governors meeting and telling them, "Nope didn't find any corruption at all!" will get you fired...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm)

129 Ace, get under blankets and sweat it out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:46 PM (HYqoK)

130 Did Hillary pay her off ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (NmE0/)
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Nah. Hillary just promised Boeboe that Boeboe wouldn't commit suicide.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 01:47 PM (plFPI)

131 It’s Lupus.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 01:47 PM (W2Pud)

132 Slap Hot Iron on it.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 01:47 PM (pZ64F)

133 Midterms will be decided by how people think the economy is doing around the end of the summer start of the fall. Oh, and how much fraud Trump and co actually manage to stop

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

If Republicans have their way it will be decided by a rash of mystery retirements or some rando with an R that announces in late September that "rape is God's plan".

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:47 PM (wIg5s)

134 >>fever then chills, sounds like covid

What a relief.

Glad it is nothing serious.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 01:47 PM (1Udfd)

135 COVID was in the top 5 flus I've had. But maybe #4.

Good thing we locked down the country over it.

And speaking of which, you could mostly stop the yearly influenza outbreaks by blockading China but for some reason that's beyond the pale.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)

136 Healing crystals cure all. Be sure to check your horoscope first.

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 26, 2026 01:47 PM (Qh10Q)

137 Polymarket says that 99.9% of people refuse to visit your mom because they believe "she has hyperclap."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 01:48 PM (BI5O2)

138 Time to divvy up the Vespa yet? Shelving?

Posted by: Semper Paratus! at February 26, 2026 01:48 PM (oftw2)

139 Bad week for Jack Smith. On Monday, Judge Cannon permanently bars the release of the report he filed with Garland about his investigation of Trump for the idiotic documents case and now this. Interesting timing.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 01:48 PM (viF8m)

140 Telemedicine. Stay inside, resting.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 01:48 PM (NFX2v)

141 Stop eating plants.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:48 PM (c27kw)

142 "as special counsel Jack Smith probed President Trump's handling of classified documents and his alleged efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. "

By efforts interfere I think they mean trying to win.

Don't mess with the Dem machine. If they need you in office they will let you know.

Posted by: Ripley at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (GUOwU)

143 The filthy scandi's would say, go for a 500 degree sauna and then jump in a freezing lake.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (abIsI)

144
If Republicans have their way it will be decided by a rash of mystery retirements or some rando with an R that announces in late September that "rape is God's plan"./i]

It is amazing how like clockwork the FNM finds some random Republican nobody and makes him the face of the party when he says something stupid.

One of the positive side effects of Trump though is the FNM can't do that when Trump is on the ballot because he becomes the face of the R party.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

145 Chicken Soup.

Posted by: Mother at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (Q+gd/)

146 Honestly, the best thing is to drink electrolytes. (with real sugar - gatorade, or Pocari Sweat when in Japan.)

A lot of fever complications come from dehydration. Your body needs a lot of energy, and a lot of liquids to keep a fever up and fight infection.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (zncNU)

147 We can't simultaneously believe that covid was secretly engineered in a lab in China and funded by us to derail elections etc *and* that it's a giant made up nothingburger. I don't think that tracks.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (wIg5s)

148 >>> the lawyer KNEW the FBI recorded the conversation, and didn't tell Wiles!

You need to understand that lawyers are paper pushers and not suited to the harsh climate of the Aleutian Archipeligo. He had to comply.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (/lPRQ)

149 Administer 100 units of Ringers Lactate.

Posted by: Rampart Base at February 26, 2026 01:50 PM (abIsI)

150 Illness is nothing to trifle with. Ask all the Yellow Fever victims buried in our basement.

Posted by: Teddy Brewster at February 26, 2026 01:51 PM (oftw2)

151 Feel better, Ace!

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at February 26, 2026 01:51 PM (eAAqq)

152 Viruses typically "crowd out" each other in any given season. So while there was likely vast over-detection of COVID infections in 2020, and sloppy/$ incentiveized mischaracterization of flu cases, there was also likely a crowding out happening.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 26, 2026 01:52 PM (U/Byj)

153 67 Attacking a country with 6 times your population. You are landlocked.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:34 PM (c27kw)

I'm sure Russia, China, and India will all be happy to supply them with weapons.

Remember when we were in Afghanistan, and Bush got Putin to allow us to transfer materials and heavy equipment through Russia to Afghanistan? And then Obama/Biden decided that Putin needed to be the enemy so they pissed him off and he cut off the land bridge to Afghanistan which meant that we had to leave all that equipment there instead of moving it back west. Good times from the smartest guys in the room.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 01:52 PM (k1E2D)

154 While young, Judge Cannon is 'schooled' and has recognized a government charlatan, and the bending of laws allowing one to run amok.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 01:52 PM (NFX2v)

155 Seems like a good candidate story for some "get this" verbiage.

Posted by: Guy who always enjoys a good Get This at February 26, 2026 01:52 PM (K9zfY)

156 Put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up.

Posted by: Harry Nilsson at February 26, 2026 01:52 PM (Q+gd/)

157 We can't simultaneously believe that covid was secretly engineered in a lab in China and funded by us to derail elections etc *and* that it's a giant made up nothingburger. I don't think that tracks.

My own take:

It was an accidental release that China spread intentionally after they realized it happened

It was fundamentally a bad flu (and we treat other coronavirus outbreaks like they were the flu you'll note)

The left did plan for this stuff, but what really got the ball rolling is when Fauci leaned on Pfizer/Moderna to save his ass and they lied to him about their clot shots being effective.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

158 Administer 100 units of Ringers Lactate.
Posted by: Rampart Base at February 26, 2026 01:50 PM (abIsI)

Bwando. It's got electrolytes.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 26, 2026 01:53 PM (g8Ew8)

159 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 01:52 PM (k1E2D)

That can't be. He was in mirror sunglasses on the cover of Time.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:53 PM (wIg5s)

160 If Kash and Wiles object to being monitored, they are clearly hiding illegal activities.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 26, 2026 01:54 PM (9C/Xw)

161 It's never lupus.

Posted by: House at February 26, 2026 01:54 PM (K9zfY)

162 152 Viruses typically "crowd out" each other in any given season. So while there was likely vast over-detection of COVID infections in 2020, and sloppy/$ incentiveized mischaracterization of flu cases, there was also likely a crowding out happening.

Posted by: rhomboid
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What is more likely is that we have no idea since if you crank the cycles up high enough a moon rock will have covid and gov. wasn't paying for flu cases.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:54 PM (zncNU)

163 I got a URI at the end of January.

Fatigue, but no chills. Left me with a lingering cough that is just now finally ending.

Burned through a lot of cough drops.

Get well.
Get well soon.
We want you to get well!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 01:54 PM (DgMqy)

164 Coffee and Kruellers, stat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:55 PM (c27kw)

165 Tomato soup and grilled cheese.

Posted by: Couldn't hurt at February 26, 2026 01:55 PM (K9zfY)

166 What is more likely is that we have no idea since if you crank the cycles up high enough a moon rock will have covid and gov. wasn't paying for flu cases.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:54 PM (zncNU)

The moon is a Jewish plot.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:55 PM (wIg5s)

167 The moon isn't even a solid object.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:56 PM (c27kw)

168 77 Hot Iron.
Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2026 01:37 PM (Q+gd/)

Like davidt said.

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 01:56 PM (+YA9H)

169 I know its been said over 1000 times but Democrats don't just dream up things to accuse their opponents of doing. They draw from the list of illegal and/or immoral things they are doing themselves.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 01:57 PM (Sokdp)

170 Bear market!
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:30 PM (c27kw)

Bear one day bull the next.. Sort of a hybrid/low bred...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 01:31 PM (NmE0/)

It's a K-shaped market

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 26, 2026 01:57 PM (Hx0tZ)

171 125 Fever? One prescription: More Cowbell.
Posted by: Chriss Walken at February 26, 2026 01:46 PM

125 comments to reach cowbell?

It's like I don't even know you people anymore.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 01:57 PM (bFu5X)

172 *The moon is a Jewish plot.*
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We meet on the first Wednesday night at 7pm at the VFW. Come join us.

Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at February 26, 2026 01:57 PM (K9zfY)

173 The Biden Administration's actions are blatant and egregious, and perfectively reflective of the mentality of the Left's base voters.

Unfortunately, that's an advantage. Because any actions taken to punish the Biden Administrations actions are going to be called simple unfounded retribution by those same people on the Left, and some of those wafflers on the Right as well as a form of political expedience.

Having morals and supporting the actual law, unfortunately, creates its own limitations.

Posted by: Orson at February 26, 2026 01:58 PM (dIske)

174 Hillz should be happy she looks halfway decent in that photo

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 01:58 PM (j+aD2)

175 My own take:

It was an accidental release that China spread intentionally after they realized it happened

It was fundamentally a bad flu (and we treat other coronavirus outbreaks like they were the flu you'll note)

The left did plan for this stuff, but what really got the ball rolling is when Fauci leaned on Pfizer/Moderna to save his ass and they lied to him about their clot shots being effective.

Posted by: 18-1
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I concur, but I would add
- It was an accidental release of a bioweapon designed (poorly) to cause havoc. And which had been planned for by the commies for years

- It was only a "bad flu" because it was new and more people got it than a typical year where 2/3 of population has acquired immunity to circulating strains. ie, there is nothing special about it now that everyone has been exposed.

- the vaccine was a much bigger problem and I hope no one is still getting boosters of that crud.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:59 PM (zncNU)

176 Please, no one tell Candace that the moon is a Jewish plot. She'd go completely loony.
On second thought....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:59 PM (HYqoK)

177 84 People still believe in covid?

The CDC has changed a bunch of its graphs to skip the 2020-2021 season.

"Estimates are not available for the 2020-2021 season due to minimal flu activity."
Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (aykVA)

"... due to we're still making it up as we go along."

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 01:59 PM (+YA9H)

178 Chicken Soup.
Posted by: Mother at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (Q+gd/)

With a healthy tablespoon of Colemans prepared mustard in it...enough to rip the virus-infested lining off your sinuses. They'll grow back all shiny and new..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 26, 2026 01:59 PM (nbLIj)

179 Comer was among the GOPers who instantly folded and burbled some nonsense about ICE being nicer or something when the Mpls idiocy was raging and the two retards got themselves kilt.

Coming primaries might signal a change (2.3% chance), but very little has changed with the GOP. Like the (still mostly) corrupt institutions, they're waiting out Trump, nothing more. Enjoy!

Posted by: rhomboid at February 26, 2026 02:00 PM (U/Byj)

180 Illness is nothing to trifle with. Ask all the Yellow Fever victims buried in our basement.
Posted by: Teddy Brewster at February 26, 2026 01:51 PM (oftw2)

NO YELLOW!

Posted by: Hunter at February 26, 2026 02:00 PM (Hx0tZ)

181 that covid was secretly engineered in a lab in China and funded by us to derail elections etc *and* that it's a giant made up nothingburger. I don't think that tracks.

Are you afraid of covid and viruses in general? That fear is what was manufactured- by the TV. They didn't need to actually make a virus, just wait for the flu to come around.THEN they could suffocate grandma and push the engineered bioweapons into your arm.

Diabolically effective.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 02:00 PM (epmXU)

182 169 I know its been said over 1000 times but Democrats don't just dream up things to accuse their opponents of doing. They draw from the list of illegal and/or immoral things they are doing themselves.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 01:57 PM (Sokdp)

Preemptive Accusation. Like a naughty child. "HE did it!!"

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2026 02:01 PM (Q+gd/)

183 We can't simultaneously believe that covid was secretly engineered in a lab in China and funded by us to derail elections etc *and* that it's a giant made up nothingburger. I don't think that tracks.
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (wIg5s)

Of course we can:
1) engineered, sure.
2) fairly benign.
3) used as a pretext and I slated in importance to secure that pretext to secure wish list items from the statists world wide. China got to liquidate the growing resistance in Hong Kong (remember those protests) and the dems got to do their thing with the election.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 26, 2026 02:01 PM (zZu0s)

184 Eat boogers.
Moron homeopathy.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 02:01 PM (Kt19C)

185 Say what you will about the FBI, Patel and Wiles have not suicide bombed any skyscrapers since they were investigated.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:02 PM (FXNzP)

186 184 Eat boogers.
Moron homeopathy.
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This. We have fingers, people!

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 02:02 PM (pZ64F)

187 103

Hot Soup
Hot Shower
Warmest socks you own.
Sleep.
Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (1Udfd)

This sounds heavenly in any event.

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 02:03 PM (+YA9H)

188 @179, the funny part is that the GOPe thinks that things will go back to "normal" in DC after they get wait Trump out. If the Dems take over after Trump it will be a full scale assault on Republicans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 02:03 PM (HYqoK)

189 We invented the moon as a ruse to hide our gold, and we faked the moon landing using Dispensationalist goy stooges to trick everyone into believing it was just a bunch of rocks.

We always store just enough gold in there keep the tides optimal for our Muslim-eating sharks, and to cause maximal problems for non-Israeli fisheries, of course.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 02:03 PM (BI5O2)

190 I need thicker lounge pants.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:03 PM (c27kw)

191
Hot Soup
Hot Shower
Warmest socks you own.
Sleep.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 01:41 PM (1Udfd)

+++

I second this. And will add - turn your back on this blog. You work harder and put more out there (which is stellar and superior) than anyone else We can manage without you, truly.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 26, 2026 02:04 PM (ycLNs)

192 Eat boogers.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 02:01 PM (Kt19C)
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I was told the opposite, that it's snot recommended.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 02:04 PM (plFPI)

193 >>I need thicker lounge pants.

Wading Socks.

Cabelas has Heavy Socks that go up to your knee for Winter Fishing.

The best investment you can make for staying warm in the winter.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 02:04 PM (1Udfd)

194 BREAKING: Hillary Clinton testified she has no information on Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and that she doesn't recall meeting him.

Clinton appeared before House lawmakers for a closed-door deposition as part of the congressional investigation into Epstein.

She shared her opening statement online, which reads, in part:

"I had no idea about [Jeffrey Epstein's and Ghislaine Maxwell's] criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island homes or offices. I have nothing to add to that."

Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, is scheduled to testify tomorrow in the investigation.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 02:05 PM (RHGPo)

195 *The moon is a Jewish plot.*
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We meet on the first Wednesday night at 7pm at the VFW. Come join us.
Posted by: The Flat Moon Society

Splitters!

Posted by: Selene Cheddar FanClub at February 26, 2026 02:05 PM (FhXTo)

196 This is still all just deck chairs on the titanic. Nobody will be held accountable until the republic dissolves, either due to the left kicking it off, or the left getting the WH again and pushing until the right kicks it off

There is no coexistence with these people.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 02:05 PM (nH+RN)

197 Plus 8000 units daily minimum of vitamin D, even when you've recovered.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 01:44 PM (plFPI)

I highly recommend Vit D injections ...

Posted by: The Paolo at February 26, 2026 02:06 PM (3sXRv)

198 The problem is not necessarily that you can get the FBI to do shady underhanded sh*t, the problem is that a GOP administration will not be allowed to do it by the Deep State.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 02:06 PM (KkEUk)

199 The mirror didn’t lie. It never does when you’re this far gone. My face stared back—puffy, red, eyes like boiled eggs floating in blood. A small blister had formed right under my left eye, pulsing in time with my heartbeat.

It looked innocent enough at first. A zit. A shaving nick. But then it swelled. Christ, it swelled—like a balloon being inflated by a madman with a bicycle pump. The skin stretched thin, translucent, and I could see the shadow inside.

Something thick.

Something alive.

Moving...

Posted by: Doc at February 26, 2026 02:06 PM (+rKuc)

200 157 We can't simultaneously believe that covid was secretly engineered in a lab in China and funded by us to derail elections etc *and* that it's a giant made up nothingburger. I don't think that tracks.

My own take:

It was an accidental release that China spread intentionally after they realized it happened

It was fundamentally a bad flu (and we treat other coronavirus outbreaks like they were the flu you'll note)

The left did plan for this stuff, but what really got the ball rolling is when Fauci leaned on Pfizer/Moderna to save his ass and they lied to him about their clot shots being effective.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

I think it was kind of both. Wreck the economy for a few months, make the US pharmaceutical industry reliant on India and China, flood the US with cheap illegal drugs, flood the US with illegals, and then sit back and watch the US burn. All of those strengthen China and weaken the US, especially a US with a brain dead POTUS.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 02:07 PM (k1E2D)

201 Is it excessive vitamin C that makes you poop?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:07 PM (c27kw)

202 Please, no one tell Candace that the moon is a Jewish plot. She'd go completely loony.
On second thought....
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:59 PM

You're saying her response would be....lunatic?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 02:07 PM (bFu5X)

203 Could be Dengue fever.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 01:46 PM (abIsI)

Were that the case, ace would not be posting.

Ask me how I know ...

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at February 26, 2026 02:07 PM (3sXRv)

204 Pure as the driven snow.

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton testified she has no information on Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and that she doesn't recall meeting him.

Clinton appeared before House lawmakers for a closed-door deposition as part of the congressional investigation into Epstein.

She shared her opening statement online, which reads, in part:

"I had no idea about [Jeffrey Epstein's and Ghislaine Maxwell's] criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island homes or offices. I have nothing to add to that."

Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, is scheduled to testify tomorrow in the investigation.

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Well, in fairness, Bill probably didn't want wet blanket Hillary along to harsh his mellow.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:07 PM (FXNzP)

205 We can't simultaneously believe that covid was secretly engineered in a lab in China and funded by us to derail elections etc *and* that it's a giant made up nothingburger. I don't think that tracks.

It was absolutely engineered, but to typical Chinese standards. So it's not nothing, but it's also not what Bill Gates wanted it to be.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:07 PM (2ocoG)

206 Screw worms?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:08 PM (c27kw)

207 Does Hillary remember Ghislaine being at Chelsea's wedding?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 02:08 PM (0nHVk)

208 COVID was real, it certainly looked from the outset like it was engineered (Furin cleavage), but almost the entirety of the "policy response" was absurd, destructive, and completely unscientific. "Mitigation" of prevailing highly contagious viruses doesn't work (duh). Mortality was highly focused in the usual demos (elderly, compromised), completely normal. "Vaccine"? More complicated, but no strong or clear evidence of benefit from decades of "flu shots", so this would be no different.

Compare excess deaths in Sweden (almost no "policies") with Peru or some other high-death country with all the stupid "mitigation", adjusted for demographics and especially "dry tinder", and you don't get a meaningful difference. Which is the bottom line. Everything in the end confirmed the basic outlines of epidemiologic common sense as evolved over a century - all of which was tossed out from the get-go (except in a few places like Sweden).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 26, 2026 02:08 PM (U/Byj)

209 >>Does Hillary remember Ghislaine being at Chelsea's wedding?

Who approved the Guest List?

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 02:08 PM (1Udfd)

210 Could a GOP administration conjure an investigation of say Susan Rice and start tapping her wires?

Obviously not because Deep State operatives would whistle blow so fast that Paul Lynne’s head would spin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 02:09 PM (KkEUk)

211 Please, no one tell Candace that the moon is a Jewish plot. She'd go completely loony.

The Dindu Crew dug up and posted a bunch of old Candace stuff yesterday that she thought she had deleted, including a video where she says she has herpes. Her followers were not amused, but everyone else was.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:09 PM (2ocoG)

212 Of course we can:
1) engineered, sure.
2) fairly benign.
3) used as a pretext and I slated in importance to secure that pretext to secure wish list items from the statists world wide. China got to liquidate the growing resistance in Hong Kong (remember those protests) and the dems got to do their thing with the election.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 26, 2026 02:01 PM (zZu0s)

The plan for pandemic was a solid one, but the plotters forgot something absolutely crucial - that cheap chinese knock off crap never does everything it's supposed to, and it always breaks down after a couple of months.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 02:09 PM (/QdgR)

213 Don't know much about Epstein. Don't know much about wiping hard drives.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:09 PM (c27kw)

214 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 26, 2026 02:01 PM (zZu0s)

I suppose. The "fairly benign" thing is a leap but would indeed tie the two together.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:10 PM (wIg5s)

215 207 Does Hillary remember Ghislaine being at Chelsea's wedding?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 02:08 PM (0nHVk)

Probably never got to that question since her Lawyers cancelled the testimony after Boebert took a picture of Hillary and sent it out to an online blogger who posted it...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:10 PM (NmE0/)

216
Reminder: Shortly after the Covid pandemic began, the head of the Wuhan Virology Institute was hustled up to the roof of the place by "security," and thrown off to his death.

I always wondered why they didn't just quietly make him disappear.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 02:11 PM (VWtfl)

217 157 We can't simultaneously believe that covid was secretly engineered in a lab in China and funded by us to derail elections etc *and* that it's a giant made up nothingburger. I don't think that tracks.

My own take:

It was an accidental release that China spread intentionally after they realized it happened

It was fundamentally a bad flu (and we treat other coronavirus outbreaks like they were the flu you'll note)

The left did plan for this stuff, but what really got the ball rolling is when Fauci leaned on Pfizer/Moderna to save his ass and they lied to him about their clot shots being effective.

Posted by: 18-1

I think your hypothesis tracks. It is clear that the SARs-1 virus was hacked by CRISPR adding in genes that were not natively present. SARs-1 is the forgotten predecessor (from Chinese bats) to Covid and far more deadly (about 10 percent mortality) in an Guangdong outbreak from 2002-2004.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 02:11 PM (E4rtv)

218 Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeacon

Nancy Pelosi complains that Trump’s State of the Union address had too much patriotism in it.

“You know, it‘s one thing to acknowledge patriotism and people getting well and everything when you have absolutely nothing to do with their courage or the rest, but you spend an hour and a half doing it?”

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 02:11 PM (RHGPo)

219 "I know its been said over 1000 times but Democrats don't just dream up things to accuse their opponents of doing. They draw from the list of illegal and/or immoral things they are doing themselves.
"

They probably use Grok.

Hey Grok, what can I accuse Trump and the Republicans of this week? It doesn't have to sound true.

Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2026 02:11 PM (+rKuc)

220 More People Hate Cuck Schumer Now Than at Any Time in His Over Quarter-Century Senate Career according to a Marist poll released today.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (abIsI)

221 216
Reminder: Shortly after the Covid pandemic began, the head of the Wuhan Virology Institute was hustled up to the roof of the place by "security," and thrown off to his death.

I always wondered why they didn't just quietly make him disappear.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
=========
Covid hurt China badly and if the accidental release was his fault, his official death would have served as a warning to others. I think the realization that Covid-19 was going to seriously harm China going forward is why they chose to spread it at the worldwide military games in Wuhan fall of 2019.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (E4rtv)

222 Nancy Pelosi complains that Trump’s State of the Union address had too much patriotism in it.

“You know, it‘s one thing to acknowledge patriotism and people getting well and everything when you have absolutely nothing to do with their courage or the rest, but you spend an hour and a half doing it?”
Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 02:11 PM (RHGPo)

Nacy.. It's called America First.. I know that concept is foreign to you

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (NmE0/)

223 second this. And will add - turn your back on this blog. You work harder and put more out there (which is stellar and superior) than anyone else We can manage without you, truly.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 26, 2026 02:04 PM (ycLNs)

I thought you were saying this to garrett for a second and I was like "yeah he's a swell guy and all that but 'work harder?'"

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (wIg5s)

224 Crisis!

Governor Josh Shapiro
@GovernorShapiro
Too many girls have to miss school because they don't have access to period products. It's unacceptable to me and to your First Lady.
Lori has been a major advocate in this space — and thanks to her work, we've secured funding for two years in a row that have helped more than 650,000 young women across PA access the period products they need.
My latest budget continues our commitment — let's get it to my desk.

-
Tampon politics worked out so well for Timpon Walz.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (FXNzP)

225
Is that legal?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (c27kw)

Of course it is, under the OrangeManBad Doctrine.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 02:14 PM (y9nCu)

226 The tape-recording of a call between a client and her lawyer is being cast as some kind of "consent to recording" issue. But the real story is that this was a record conversation between an attorney and client. It's privileged. It's insane that a lawyer would allow a privileged conversation to be recorded.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

227 The leftist media reports what they are told to report.
We all know that. Truth is not and will never be in their vocabulary.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2026 02:14 PM (Z3Kkg)

228 195 Posted by: Selene Cheddar FanClub

tasted more like wensleydale to me.

Posted by: wallace at February 26, 2026 02:15 PM (sGtp+)

229
Screw worms?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:08 PM (c27kw)

Bring me.... the bore worms.

Posted by: Klytus at February 26, 2026 02:15 PM (y9nCu)

230 ...The blister ruptured with a wet pop that echoed like a starter pistol in my skull. And there it was—pushing through the hole in my cheek like a newborn demon from hell.

A hideous red worm, thick as a pencil, head waving blindly in the air like a tiny hooded cobra tasting the rot of the American Dream. It snapped left, right, dripping clear fluid that burned where it touched.

One inch. Two. Three. More kept coming, uncoiling from deep inside my face, sliding out between my teeth, brushing my tongue with its slick, muscular horror.

I could taste it—metallic, ancient, full of the mud and misery of some godforsaken Sudanese watering hole.

...

Posted by: Doc at February 26, 2026 02:15 PM (+rKuc)

231 >>Too many girls have to miss school because they don't have access to period products. It's unacceptable to me and to your First Lady.
Lori has been a major advocate in this space — and thanks to her work, we've secured funding for two years in a row that have helped more than 650,000 young women across PA access the period products they need.

I am sure those numbers are Padded.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 02:15 PM (1Udfd)

232 215 207 Does Hillary remember Ghislaine being at Chelsea's wedding?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 02:08 PM (0nHVk)

Probably never got to that question since her Lawyers cancelled the testimony after Boebert took a picture of Hillary and sent it out to an online blogger who posted it...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:10 PM (NmE0/)

Just a reminder, a big bra size doesn't equate to a big IQ number.

See Boebert, Lauren and Occassio-Cortez, Alexandria

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 02:15 PM (k1E2D)

233 OT: The new concept is that we're heading for a "Black recession" - yup, everyone does well but blacks...

It is a spin on the Boomcession...and all the typical DEI advocates are pushing it.

It's an article on my local news with the concept term, Black recession...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 02:15 PM (tOcjL)

234 It cannot be emphasized enough how big a breach of all ethics what her lawyer did was.
You'd get a lesser punishment for stealing from your client.
The fact that her lawyer agreed to it and didn't tell her not only should end his career and merit a lifetime ban, it likely should end the entire law firm he worked for.
Like a death penalty for allowing their attorney to do so with no oversight or prevention.

Wiles has a lawsuit against him and his firm.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 02:16 PM (HXT0k)

235 I see that in MN some of the umm..ICE protesters/rioters have applied for 12 weeks leave from govt work under an injury program because of tear gas or something. Good job MN taxpayers.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 02:17 PM (n5tGW)

236 224 Crisis!

Governor Josh Shapiro
@GovernorShapiro
Too many girls have to miss school because they don't have access to period products. It's unacceptable to me and to your First Lady.
Lori has been a major advocate in this space — and thanks to her work, we've secured funding for two years in a row that have helped more than 650,000 young women across PA access the period products they need.
My latest budget continues our commitment — let's get it to my desk.

-
Tampon politics worked out so well for Timpon Walz.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (FXNzP)

The girls miss school b/c they can be sick during their periods (usually from the cramping), not b/c they don't have a pad. I'm betting there will be the same number of absences both before and after this initiative of taxpayer waste...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 02:17 PM (tOcjL)

237 Didn't some "judge" in NY (federal or state part of the Legal Cult's pernicious jalopy of a "system") approve penetrating Trump's attorney-client privilege in service of one of the absurd and vile trumped up prosecutions up there?

Hey, when a brand-new president's first phone call with a foreign leader (Australia, January 2017) is leaked within hours - something that had never happened before - what's a crude and outrageous violation of a sacred principle of the legal system? Meh.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 26, 2026 02:17 PM (U/Byj)

238 Would Lauren Boebert be considered a spinner?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 02:17 PM (abIsI)

239 Without severe consequences, this will just keep happening whenever Democrats get power.

And since there won't be any consequences, this is what we can expect whenever the Democrats get power.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 02:17 PM (zjgNU)

240 Wasn't there records set for all kinds of black and hispanic employment under Trump Uno?

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:17 PM (wIg5s)

241 224 Crisis!

Governor Josh Shapiro
@GovernorShapiro
Too many girls have to miss school because they don't have access to period products. It's unacceptable to me and to your First Lady.
Lori has been a major advocate in this space — and thanks to her work, we've secured funding for two years in a row that have helped more than 650,000 young women across PA access the period products they need.
My latest budget continues our commitment — let's get it to my desk.

-
Tampon politics worked out so well for Timpon Walz.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (FXNzP)

Can't they buy these products with the ebt cards if they are that poor? Why some special tax fir them?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 02:17 PM (i0Hi3)

242 Governor Josh Shapiro
@GovernorShapiro
Too many girls have to miss school because they don't have access to period products. It's unacceptable to me and to your First Lady.
Lori has been a major advocate in this space — and thanks to her work, we've secured funding for two years in a row that have helped more than 650,000 young women across PA access the period products they need.
My latest budget continues our commitment — let's get it to my desk.

-
Tampon politics worked out so well for Timpon Walz.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
===

What has he done for the boys with blue balls?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 02:18 PM (/lPRQ)

243 161
It's never lupus.
Posted by: House

Quack.

Posted by: Doogie Howser, M.D. at February 26, 2026 02:18 PM (UjdFS)

244 Ace, you need a doctor visit and a chest X-ray from your description.

Posted by: epador at February 26, 2026 02:18 PM (TRnzq)

245 Now we have two male Dem governors talking about feminine hygiene products. That's just weird

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 02:18 PM (HYqoK)

246 Most people's lawyers in DC would or have done the same thing. The DoJ owns them all, one or way another.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 02:18 PM (BI5O2)

247 All a happenstance. The pure as snow demons would never do anything like this.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 26, 2026 02:19 PM (AQYBD)

248 240 Wasn't there records set for all kinds of black and hispanic employment under Trump Uno?
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:17 PM (wIg5s)

But now not in Trump Dos yet...Asian Americans have the lowest unemployment, followed by Whites, Hispanics...and then Blacks...there is a gap between the Blacks and the three (who are all surprisingly close together)...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 02:19 PM (tOcjL)

249 Shapiro is a midwit weasel

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:19 PM (j+aD2)

250 Can't they buy these products with the ebt cards if they are that poor? Why some special tax fir them?
--------------
Vagina Lives Matter! H8TR

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 02:20 PM (pZ64F)

251 Crisis!

Governor Josh Shapiro
@GovernorShapiro
Too many girls have to miss school because they don't have access to period products. It's unacceptable to me and to your First Lady.
Lori has been a major advocate in this space — and thanks to her work, we've secured funding for two years in a row that have helped more than 650,000 young women across PA access the period products they need.
My latest budget continues our commitment — let's get it to my desk.

-
Tampon politics worked out so well for Timpon Walz.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (FXNzP)
______

How did girls ever deal with their periods for the 100,000 years before this hero governor intervened?

This is 100% just graft. 99% of the money extracted from taxpayers for this program will be stolen.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

252 104 Boebert took a (secret) photo of Hillary Rotten in the middle of the deposition today and emailed it to Benny Johnson, who promptly put it on the internet, and as a result the deposition has been suspended while everyone in the country wonders why Boebert is so fucking retarded.
Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 26, 2026 01:40 PM (qUkBO)

Did Hillary pay her off ?

$20. same as downtown.

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 02:20 PM (sGtp+)

253 Can't they buy these products with the ebt cards if they are that poor? Why some special tax fir them?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Their moms have other priorities. Nails, hair, lashes, etc. Those are cheap haters!!

Posted by: Cheri at February 26, 2026 02:20 PM (oiNtH)

254 You'd think that employment for all groups would go up as the illegals were shipped out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 26, 2026 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

255 If his wife isn't Abby Shapiro then I don't care

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:21 PM (wIg5s)

256 "Black unemployment increased from 6.2% in January of last year to 7.5% in December, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Comparatively, in that final month of 2025, the unemployment rate for white people was 3.8%, for Asian Americans it was 3.6% and for Hispanics it was 4.9%."

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 02:21 PM (tOcjL)

257 244 Ace, you need a doctor visit and a chest X-ray from your description.
Posted by: epador at February 26, 2026 02:18 PM (TRnzq)

nahhhh

Ace needs a manservant. A Kato to his Clouseau ...

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at February 26, 2026 02:21 PM (3sXRv)

258 "208 COVID was real, it certainly looked from the outset like it was engineered (Furin cleavage"

It has patented COTS genetic elements in it that are marketed for engineering custom viruses. It's man made, period. Either Ecohealth made it under Ralph Baric, or Baric was tapped to run the alternative proposal. We don't know which yet because the paper trail we have stops after DARPA said "fuck no this is insane" and rejected it.

The amount of fraud involved in the hidden additions to the jab makes any reasonable person suspect the jab was the goal from the start

Note also that the really harmless strain that displaced the original ones seems obviously engineered as well, AFTER the pandemic started, with individual alterations tested in trial runs for ~2 years before being assembled all together. It's clearly visible in sequences collected all over the world.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 02:21 PM (23NNO)

259 Their moms have other priorities. Nails, hair, lashes, etc. Those are cheap haters!!
------------------
Then there are weaves.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 02:21 PM (pZ64F)

260 Maybe girls shouldn't go to school. That would solve it. Jus' sayin'.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 02:21 PM (BI5O2)

261 Maybe Pennsylvania girls can just get their supplies in the boy's bathroom.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (0nHVk)

262 254 You'd think that employment for all groups would go up as the illegals were shipped out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 26, 2026 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

Blacks were disproportionately fed gov employees.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (tOcjL)

263 Too many girls have to miss school because they don't have access to period products.

I grew up in a fairly poor area in a time before fedgov and the states had unlimited dollars to throw at welfare and somehow people were able to clothe and feed their kids, and I assume buy the girls "period products"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (sKqQm)

264 Probably never got to that question since her Lawyers cancelled the testimony after Boebert took a picture of Hillary and sent it out to an online blogger who posted it...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:10 PM

This is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (bFu5X)

265 >>It cannot be emphasized enough how big a breach of all ethics what her lawyer did was.

I'm curious to hear his excuse. Wouldn't surprise me if he claims he was threatened as a potential target if he didn't cooperate.

Doesn't excuse what he did but there must have been some reason he did something so stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (viF8m)

266 249 Shapiro is a midwit weasel
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:19 PM (j+aD2)

Are we sure he's not a capybara ???

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (3sXRv)

267 Had to resort to the Urban dictionary.

Spinner.
A petite woman. Denoted as a joke, whereby the petite woman is so thin she is able to be mounted and spun in a circle on an erect penis.

I think Boebert is qualified.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (abIsI)

268 Fedcession!!

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (wIg5s)

269 147 We can't simultaneously believe that covid was secretly engineered in a lab in China and funded by us to derail elections etc *and* that it's a giant made up nothingburger. I don't think that tracks.

ctHILLARY leering down from her pedestal of cyclopian darkness find your lack of faith most disturbing.

why settle for the Lesser Evil?
ctHILLARY:: She *STILL* has such sights to show you!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 26, 2026 02:23 PM (u8KYe)

270 This is Watergate level espionage. Nixon resigned for doing this shit.

Posted by: Indy Bill at February 26, 2026 02:23 PM (Oe2Ms)

271 media is burying the recording of attorney phone call aspect and emphasizing it as a "mere" subpoena of phone records

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 26, 2026 02:23 PM (V6W16)

272 What has he done for the boys with blue balls?

---

He offered to cut them off and give them hormones.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 26, 2026 02:23 PM (aYlkz)

273 Blacks were disproportionately fed gov employees.

And I suspect cut backs from NGOs and state offices that were laundering federal dollars as I well.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)

274 251 Crisis!

Governor Josh Shapiro
@GovernorShapiro
Too many girls have to miss school because they don't have access to period products. It's unacceptable to me and to your First Lady.
Lori has been a major advocate in this space — and thanks to her work, we've secured funding for two years in a row that have helped more than 650,000 young women across PA access the period products they need.
My latest budget continues our commitment — let's get it to my desk.

-
Tampon politics worked out so well for Timpon Walz.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (FXNzP)
______

How did girls ever deal with their periods for the 100,000 years before this hero governor intervened?

This is 100% just graft. 99% of the money extracted from taxpayers for this program will be stolen.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

Stronk empowered women who dont need no man except fir to buy her tampons and shit.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 02:23 PM (i0Hi3)

275 Doesn't excuse what he did but there must have been some reason he did something so stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (viF8m)

There might be a lot of reasons. Millions of them.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (wIg5s)

276

Posted by: rhomboid

Basis was worry about the parent virus attributes--SARs-1 which was a much higher mortality event (about 10 percent). Covid was a novel aka new virus made from a high mortalityh virus (which makes sense because it was engineered) and thus no one really knew for months what the actual mortality rate would be. Depending on whether you give credence to an early examination of the virus furin cleavage by Indian scientists (first half of 2020), they found signs of similar attributes of the AIDs virus which allows rapid mutations compared to more fixed viruses.

Trump is risk averse and he was being played by Fauci, Collins, NIH funding Chicom research on the downlow, his own intelligence community, and the hysterics in DC. It wasn't his area of knowledge and he got took.

Truth is that the Swedes naively assumed the virus was natural and followed the do nothing approach except for hi risk populations. But their scientific medicine apparatus probably had little idea that the origin was an engineered virus.

It is unclear whether a engineered super respiratory virus that spreads fast, mutates a lot, and keeps being deadly is possible.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)

277 It's not just that the FBI subpoenaed Kash and Susie's phone records. The FBI surreptitiously recorded a phone call between Wiles AND HER LAWYER! Even worse, the lawyer KNEW the FBI recorded the conversation, and didn't tell Wiles!

===

WHOA!

Posted by: runner at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (/M/4v)

278 273 Blacks were disproportionately fed gov employees.

And I suspect cut backs from NGOs and state offices that were laundering federal dollars as I well.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)

100% - especially the make work ones...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (tOcjL)

279 I think Boebert is qualified.

I think we need to test this.

For science!

Posted by: Some Moron Scientist at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (sKqQm)

280 >>With a healthy tablespoon of Colemans prepared mustard in it...enough to rip the virus-infested lining off your sinuses. They'll grow back all shiny and new..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 26, 2026 01:59 PM

The other night I sneezed a mouthful of green chile stew juice through my nose. Probably a similar effect. Would not recommend.

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (98kQX)

281 as a result the deposition has been suspended
.......

Nobody wants to see pictures of hILLRY o O.

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (UjdFS)

282 A beer for sports in special cups that hold two quarts!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (Kt19C)

283 >>How did girls ever deal with their periods for the 100,000 years before this hero governor intervened?

Those were...not good times.

Posted by: Moss Covered Rock at February 26, 2026 02:25 PM (1Udfd)

284 Nancy Pelosi complains that Trump’s State of the Union address had too much patriotism in it.

“You know, it‘s one thing to acknowledge patriotism and people getting well and everything when you have absolutely nothing to do with their courage or the rest, but you spend an hour and a half doing it?”
---
That chart going around of the polling of patriotism by party and the complete collapse by the Dems?

Apply that to the 250th Birthday Celebration of the USA.

Yeah, the Dems have no idea what's going to hit them--nobody they know is patriotic.
Why are all these stupid Americans getting upset at them for shitting on the Fourth of July?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 02:25 PM (HXT0k)

285 277 It's not just that the FBI subpoenaed Kash and Susie's phone records. The FBI surreptitiously recorded a phone call between Wiles AND HER LAWYER! Even worse, the lawyer KNEW the FBI recorded the conversation, and didn't tell Wiles!

===

WHOA!
Posted by: runner at February 26, 2026 02:24 PM (/M/4v)

We should be posting the lawyer AND the firm's name everywhere. The firm will unpartner the lawyer so fast his head will spin.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 02:25 PM (tOcjL)

286 There's no excuse for that kind of name calling!

Dr. Simon Goddek
@goddek
These are the people who were paid to call Candace Owens evil or a demon. Whatever you think of her, smearing someone for money is morally bankrupt.

https://is.gd/jUG1xI

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:25 PM (FXNzP)

287 265 >>It cannot be emphasized enough how big a breach of all ethics what her lawyer did was.

I'm curious to hear his excuse. Wouldn't surprise me if he claims he was threatened as a potential target if he didn't cooperate.

Doesn't excuse what he did but there must have been some reason he did something so stupid.
Posted by: JackStraw
========
CTH had Grok try to figure out who the lawyer was and he posted the name and its work on X. Will be interesting to see the fallout as the lawyer named was pretty connected.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 02:25 PM (E4rtv)

288 >>There might be a lot of reasons. Millions of them.

Maybe. But Jack Smith's style is usually more threats.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 02:25 PM (viF8m)

289 "The girls miss school b/c they can be sick during their periods (usually from the cramping), not b/c they don't have a pad. I'm betting there will be the same number of absences both before and after this initiative of taxpayer waste...
Posted by: Nova Local "

Which is why girls should all be granted three free days every month from school to deal with this issue. And to make it fair boy must be granted this time too or else girls might feel embarrassed/uncomfortable about their time off.

That is how equity works.

Posted by: Ripley at February 26, 2026 02:26 PM (GUOwU)

290 The other night I sneezed a mouthful of green chile stew juice through my nose. Probably a similar effect. Would not recommend.

Ah yes, hot spices in the nose will allow you identify what color the number seven sounds like

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:26 PM (sKqQm)

291 ace:

Call Me

Posted by: Iver Mectin at February 26, 2026 02:26 PM (TezPK)

292 224 Crisis!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I swear we've done that before. The PA - and especially this SE county (Delco) - give aways & seizing land by eminent domain - just goes on the on.

AI - Delaware County, PA, actively combats period poverty through annual donation drives (Dec-Jan) in libraries and partnerships with the Delaware County Health Department. Free products are available at the 69th Street Transportation Center kiosk and via The Period Project at St. Katharine Drexel Food Pantry. State-wide initiatives also provide funding for school-based, free menstrual products.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 02:26 PM (NFX2v)

293 All jokes aside, I've spent more than enough $$$ on feminine products for my own women, it ain't gonna stop soon, and I don't want to buy anyone else's.

Go down to the laundromat, steal someone's sock, and stick that between your legs, honey.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 02:27 PM (BI5O2)

294 Watergate would be a nothing-burger today.
Posted by: 40 Miles North

If Watergate occurred today it would be as big a deal as back then, because it’s who, whom. LBJ did far worse things than Nixon, but LBJ was a Democrat, and so above reprimand. Nixon was a Republican, so guilty from the get-go.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 26, 2026 02:27 PM (DsDRo)

295 270 This is Watergate level espionage. Nixon resigned for doing this shit.

https://tinyurl.com/ForWARd-theOBAMANOMICON
OBAMA/as Dr McSocialism, is the New Nixon.

It was Obama who orchestrated the FBI and CIA to create what is now understood as the “Russia Collusion Hoax” and used it in attempts to destroy his political rival President Donald Trump. He set them like attack dogs on the American presidency, to rip it apart after the American people had elected Trump as their president. Once Obama’s cabal of Deep State secret intelligence chiefs were exposed, their methods opened to public scrutiny, the public began asking questions. The fall from grace is impossible for a political immortal.

https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-NotJustMistakenEvil

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 26, 2026 02:27 PM (u8KYe)

296 283 >>How did girls ever deal with their periods for the 100,000 years before this hero governor intervened?
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Those were...not good times.
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Women would wash clothes down by the river a lot.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 02:27 PM (pZ64F)

297 I guess stupidity would be the occam's razor choice for what Boebert did. But my brain leaves room for the cynical of its all planned and all a show.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 02:27 PM (n5tGW)

298 I thought you were saying this to garrett for a second and I was like "yeah he's a swell guy and all that but 'work harder?'"

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 02:13 PM (wIg5s)

++++

I wouldn't say anything like that to Garrett. It would give him a swell-head.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 26, 2026 02:28 PM (ycLNs)

299 ______

How did girls ever deal with their periods for the 100,000 years before this hero governor intervened?

This is 100% just graft. 99% of the money extracted from taxpayers for this program will be stolen.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
=====

There was this one tribe where the women had a separate compound they had to go to and just sort of hang out, eat bon-bons, whatever. Men were forbidden to go there as it was certain death...
Oddly, the women claimed that periods lasted from two to three months. Wasn't until modern (~1900s) anthropologist visited that the men found out the truth.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 02:28 PM (/lPRQ)

300 sockOFF

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 02:28 PM (1Udfd)

301 Spinner.
A petite woman. Denoted as a joke, whereby the petite woman is so thin she is able to be mounted and spun in a circle on an erect penis.

-
Not to be confused with a helicopter mom.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:28 PM (FXNzP)

302 286 There's no excuse for that kind of name calling!

Dr. Simon Goddek
@goddek
These are the people who were paid to call Candace Owens evil or a demon. Whatever you think of her, smearing someone for money is morally bankrupt.

https://is.gd/jUG1xI
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Whole shit show on X the last several days between the Candy Stripers and the MAGA influencer structure is going on. Goddek is apparently a groyper POS that has done similar crap before and his posts along with a fake AI generated list of alleged MAGA influencers like Cat Turd etc. secretly got paid to label Candace Ovens a demon. Loomer somehow is involved and as usual is engaged in several different fights almost simultaneously.

Reminds me of junior high crap.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 02:29 PM (E4rtv)

303 UNCLEAN

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:29 PM (UjdFS)

304 Looks like the SAVE act is dead.. Thune won't do the talking filibuster...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:29 PM (NmE0/)

305 I wonder if Boebert's plan was to force the FNM to cover the Clintons talking about their good friend Epstein?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

306 It cannot be emphasized enough how big a breach of all ethics what her lawyer did was.

I'm curious to hear his excuse. Wouldn't surprise me if he claims he was threatened as a potential target if he didn't cooperate.

Doesn't excuse what he did but there must have been some reason he did something so stupid.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 02:22 PM (viF8m)
_______

I suspect he'll claim crime-fraud exception ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

307 Blacks were disproportionately fed gov employees.
Posted by: Nova Local

Yes and the stopping of DEI hiring in Fed.Gov has had a dramatic effect in a short time.

Posted by: Cheri at February 26, 2026 02:29 PM (oiNtH)

308 Boebert pointed out that Hillary had demanded the hearing be televised live so she can't complain about a still photo. The hearing then resumed.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:30 PM (2ocoG)

309 303 UNCLEAN
Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:29 PM (UjdFS)

SHAME

Posted by: High Sparrow at February 26, 2026 02:30 PM (3sXRv)

310 246 Most people's lawyers in DC would or have done the same thing. The DoJ owns them all, one or way another.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 02:18 PM (BI5O2)

They all want to be a judge, and you gotta believe that the DOJ vets them all for the Senate. Don't want to piss them off too much or they may find an ex[girlfriend/boyfriend that you pissed off that will accuse you of something.

Remember the Kavanaugh hearings when the Dems demanded the FBI investigate that crazy bint's fantasy? The FBI looked into it, found she was crazy, and said there was nothing going on. The Dems were shocked that it didn't take years to investigate her ramblings.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 02:30 PM (k1E2D)

311 308 Boebert pointed out that Hillary had demanded the hearing be televised live so she can't complain about a still photo. The hearing then resumed.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:30 PM (2ocoG)

Boebert was still an idiot

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:31 PM (NmE0/)

312 Lawyer bias but I think private suits could go a long way to get the facts before the wider public (that doesn't read AoS or Epoch Times etc).

But it may need a conservative Sugar Daddy to create a legal fund to incentivize this. I'm not looking for the biz but I think a few (dozen) suits for violation of civil rights (42 USC 1983) could yield some real damages, and would put these bastards on the record in depositions. The trickiest part would be to find a venue outside the DC swamp.

Posted by: Zek at February 26, 2026 02:31 PM (5FPX4)

313 Boebert is an attention whore and Benny Johnson is a fucking retard.

Of all the right-o-sphere I find that guy to be the most autistically infuriating of all. He is a dipshit.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 02:31 PM (5aZAZ)

314 @297

>> I guess stupidity would be the occam's razor choice for what Boebert did. But my brain leaves room for the cynical of its all planned and all a show.

If it’s true, she should be censured and an ethics investigation opened.

As mentioned up thread, this is why we can’t have nice things.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 02:31 PM (89HIl)

315 Eh, judging from what I hear about wasted school time these days, pretty sure girls and boys could skip a week of school and not be worse off. How terrible they should miss an ICE protest or gender class.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 02:31 PM (n5tGW)

316 >> Looks like the SAVE act is dead.. Thune won't do the talking filibuster...

Did they offer to put a chair in the corner and let him watch an actual man do the job for him?

Because, that might work.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 02:31 PM (1Udfd)

317
Did they offer to put a chair in the corner and let him watch an actual man do the job for him?

Because, that might work.
Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 02:31 PM (1Udfd)

Well... I'm not a fan but 4 "Republicans" will not vote for it.. The usual subjects I hear

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (NmE0/)

318 So what is Thune's malfunction?

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (UjdFS)

319 It's not just that the FBI subpoenaed Kash and Susie's phone records. The FBI surreptitiously recorded a phone call between Wiles AND HER LAWYER!
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a phone call?

While, that is true if they recorded ALL the calls.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 02:33 PM (/lPRQ)

320 304 Looks like the SAVE act is dead.. Thune won't do the talking filibuster...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:29 PM (NmE0/)
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He doesn't have the votes to do it.

Tillis, McConnell, whats-his-nuts from Utah, and one other fucktard won't give him the votes to move to the bill and force a talking filibuster, because they're idiots and/or assholes.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 02:33 PM (5aZAZ)

321 Thune can’t act. There are four senators in opposition.

Murkowski
McConnell
Tillis
John Curtis, Utah

Without those four votes it doesn’t matter.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 26, 2026 02:33 PM (kIFVO)

322 318 So what is Thune's malfunction?
Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (UjdFS)

Like I said not a fan of his but Murkowski and McConnell plus 2 others are not helping

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:34 PM (NmE0/)

323 300 sockOFF

sockON

Posted by: the socker at February 26, 2026 02:34 PM (sGtp+)

324 Well... I'm not a fan but 4 "Republicans" will not vote for it.. The usual subjects I hear

They have 50 sponsors, so if the vote is held JD can put it over the top. Thune is literally the Democrat Party's last hope, and he's sure acting like it.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:34 PM (2ocoG)

325 Bright spot - Seems the Afghans and a few other ethnic groups have so many babies in a row, they must be clear of the period poverty issues.

But then there's the Delco Family Village.

Meanwhile, the elderly are hanging in here on a thread thanks to rising taxes.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 02:34 PM (NFX2v)

326 The GOPe are all "Oh hurr durr I'm a cosponsor of the SAVE Act!" as a way to get their constituents to stop blowing up the office phones, but also won't give Thune the votes to move onto the debate and force the filibuster. Pure, unadulterated failure theater.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 02:35 PM (5aZAZ)

327 This is Watergate level espionage. Nixon resigned for doing this shit.

https://tinyurl.com/ForWARd-theOBAMANOMICON
OBAMA/as Dr McSocialism, is the New Nixon.

I'd say that this is far beyond Nixon and some fumbling "plumbers" going in to DNC headquarters, 30 minutes of missing tape, etc.

Watergate was a tiptoe through the tulips compared to this.

Posted by: Cheri at February 26, 2026 02:35 PM (oiNtH)

328 The GOPe are all "Oh hurr durr I'm a cosponsor of the SAVE Act!" as a way to get their constituents to stop blowing up the office phones, but also won't give Thune the votes to move onto the debate and force the filibuster. Pure, unadulterated failure theater.

Hold up. You have a list of cosponsors who have also said they won't vote for cloture?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:36 PM (2ocoG)

329 Oh, and I thought it was simple brain damage.

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:36 PM (UjdFS)

330 They have 50 sponsors, so if the vote is held JD can put it over the top. Thune is literally the Democrat Party's last hope, and he's sure acting like it.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:34 PM (2ocoG)
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They have 50+1 votes, theoretically, for the SAVE Act itself, but not enough votes to move to the debate on the bill and force a talking filibuster, due to the aforementioned fuckheads.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 02:36 PM (5aZAZ)

331 >>There might be a lot of reasons. Millions of them.

Maybe. But Jack Smith's style is usually more threats.
Posted by: JackStraw

Threats like having MS-13 kill your favorite niece in their usual style.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 02:36 PM (/lPRQ)

332 272 What has he done for the boys with blue balls?

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He offered to cut them off and give them hormones.

that sounds like an awful lot of work

Posted by: canadian maid at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (sGtp+)

333 Customer service.

https://is.gd/wflBAD

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (FXNzP)

334 Thune reminds me of a gay chess player that thinks he's a tough guy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (abIsI)

335 A fuckheadocracy, if you can keep it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (c27kw)

336 Hold up. You have a list of cosponsors who have also said they won't vote for cloture?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:36 PM (2ocoG)
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It's not cloture, its a vote to move the Senate onto the debate on the bill, which would force the talking filibuster.

And yes, there are four fuckheads who won't vote to do so.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 02:37 PM (5aZAZ)

337 326 The GOPe are all "Oh hurr durr I'm a cosponsor of the SAVE Act!" as a way to get their constituents to stop blowing up the office phones, but also won't give Thune the votes to move onto the debate and force the filibuster. Pure, unadulterated failure theater.

we need to chimp out on this front, as some on X say.

it's unacceptable

they acted like they'd vote for SAVE, but knew they'd block it with nonsense

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

338 What has he done for the boys with blue balls?

Liberal Science teaches us that boys are merely defective girls, so the defect can be resolved with gender affirming surgery.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (2ocoG)

339 And yes, there are four fuckheads who won't vote to do so.

who are they - I know one is Tillis

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

340 Curtis used to be a Dem so his opposition is not surprising

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (HYqoK)

341 The worm kept coming, looping over my chin, glistening under the buzzing light like fresh blog traffic on election night. I grabbed it—pure instinct, pure gonzo panic—and pulled. Pain detonated like a bad Art thread.

The mirror showed me the horror show: eyes bulging, mouth open in a silent howl, this obscene red rope dangling from my face like the blog itself was giving birth to its own demise.

Hallucinations swarmed in—CBD standing behind me in the reflection, grinning, holding a vial labeled “Special African Blend.” rendered in some bold, neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface.

Buck Throckmorton laughing in the corner wearing a crown. The entire commentariat chanting “CBD! CBD!” while lizards in blood dripping MAGA hats gnawed on the Wi-Fi router.

Posted by: Doc at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (+rKuc)

342 And yes, there are four fuckheads who won't vote to do so.

Are the fuckheads also co-sponsors though?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (2ocoG)

343 Well... I'm not a fan but 4 "Republicans" will not vote for it.. The usual subjects I hear

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (NmE0/)

Donate today!

Posted by: Republicans at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (wIg5s)

344 they acted like they'd vote for SAVE, but knew they'd block it with nonsense
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)
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What's past is prologue.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (5aZAZ)

345 333 Customer service.

https://is.gd/wflBAD
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!
LOL
Should have dumped the fry oil bucket on his head.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (abIsI)

346 How is sawing off your tweeter gender affirming?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (c27kw)

347 339 And yes, there are four fuckheads who won't vote to do so.

who are they - I know one is Tillis
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)
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Murkowski
McConnell
Tillis
John Curtis, Utah

Posted by: Marcus T at February 26, 2026 02:33 PM (kIFVO)

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 02:40 PM (5aZAZ)

348 Remember the Kavanaugh hearings when the Dems demanded the FBI investigate that crazy bint's fantasy? The FBI looked into it, found she was crazy, and said there was nothing going on. The Dems were shocked that it didn't take years to investigate her ramblings.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper
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The left did not know that Kavanaugh kept a careful journal throughout their alleged crap op. That destroyed the vague it happened to a friend but I was there shit concocted by the beach friends conspiracy. Kavanaugh could account for events decades ago in enough precision as to make Blowzy (sp) Ford's recollections legally dangerous for her to spout her tales.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 02:40 PM (E4rtv)

349 They have 50 sponsors, so if the vote is held JD can put it over the top. Thune is literally the Democrat Party's last hope, and he's sure acting like it.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:34 PM (2ocoG)

So close again! What a coincidence!

Posted by: Republicans at February 26, 2026 02:40 PM (wIg5s)

350 A retardocracy, and it's here to stay.

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:40 PM (UjdFS)

351 I hope McConnell is suffering

I hope he lives forever, in pain

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:41 PM (j+aD2)

352 Like water off of a turtles back.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:42 PM (c27kw)

353 I suspect he'll claim crime-fraud exception ....
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It only strips attorney client privilege for past communications.
Permits disclosure after-the-fact.

It does not allow the lawyer to record a client ever.
To try and gather evidence of a crime.

This lawyer burned down his entire career and reputation because he feared the feds.
Or hated his client.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 02:42 PM (HXT0k)

354 351
I hope he lives forever, in pain
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Should I stop stabbing my voodoo doll of him with Ukraine pins?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2026 02:42 PM (abIsI)

355 Kavanaugh could account for events decades ago in enough precision as to make Blowzy (sp) Ford's recollections legally dangerous for her to spout her tales.

BUT she had to install a second front door to get away from him!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 02:43 PM (/lPRQ)

356 You need to understand that lawyers are paper pushers and not suited to the harsh climate of the Aleutian Archipeligo. He had to comply.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 01:49 PM (/lPRQ)

Do NOT send that shit up here. Not again.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 26, 2026 02:45 PM (RQvuv)

357 The GOPe are all "Oh hurr durr I'm a cosponsor of the SAVE Act!" as a way to get their constituents to stop blowing up the office phones, but also won't give Thune the votes to move onto the debate and force the filibuster. Pure, unadulterated failure theater.
Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 02:35 PM (5aZAZ)

*goose meme* Are the 4 no votes also cosponsors?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:45 PM (2ocoG)

358 *goose meme* Are the 4 no votes also cosponsors?

just Tillis

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:46 PM (j+aD2)

359 344 they acted like they'd vote for SAVE, but knew they'd block it with nonsense
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)
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What's past is prologue.

what is, was. what was, will be. what will be *was*, but will be again.

Posted by: the wisdom of arnold horschack at February 26, 2026 02:49 PM (sGtp+)

360 342 And yes, there are four fuckheads who won't vote to do so.

Are the fuckheads also co-sponsors though?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 02:38 PM (2ocoG)

No, co-conspirators.

Lisa Murk is one. Every year, she looks more and more like a spawned out humpy. Every year, she acts more like one, too.

She represents nothing but her pocketbook, which she uses to buy Native votes. In face, I am beginning to believe she is something of a twat.

One dude up here on the main highway north has a huge sign on his front fence that says DUMP MURKOWSKI. Nobody likes her.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 26, 2026 02:50 PM (RQvuv)

361 346 How is sawing off your tweeter gender affirming?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (c27kw)

I don't need my gender affirmed, because I don't have one.

I am an 'ette. That's all anyone needs to know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 26, 2026 02:51 PM (RQvuv)

362 Gender deniers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:54 PM (c27kw)

363 So what is Thune's malfunction?
Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 02:32 PM (UjdFS)

*searches logs*

Oh, yeah... this is definitely the problem. He's a Republican. As long as these guys around, it'll never work. Call a fumigation and gas them, and call me in the morning.

Posted by: Civilizational Tech Support at February 26, 2026 02:56 PM (BI5O2)

364 Maybe he mathed out that he didn't have the votes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 02:57 PM (c27kw)

365 Definitely take ivermectin. I had that flu for three weeks. Tried to turn into a sinus infection then. And the usuals, zinc, vitamins C and D. Oil of Oregano helps too

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 26, 2026 02:58 PM (gQ15S)

Bill Gates Is Very, Very, Very Sorry He Inadvertently Consorted With a Convicted Child Trafficker and Banged Russian "Dates" Procured by Jeffrey Epstein
UPDATE: President and CEO of the WEF Resigns Over Epstein Ties

You wouldn't believe how sorry he is about the "mistake" he made in becoming BFFs with a guy who just got convicted of soliciting a 14-year-old girl.

It's a real Oopsie Moment, all right, and he promises he'll #DoBetter now that Epstein is dead.

One of two Russian women Bill Gates admits having affairs with during his 27-year marriage was helped financially by Jeffrey Epstein -- who used the sordid secret to try to blackmail the billionaire Microsoft co-founder.

Gates tries to portray these women as, I josh you not, a "nuclear physicist" and a "bridge player."

But they were kept women, paid for by Jeffrey Epstein. I think the "nuclear physicist" was chiefly concerned with splitting the Nut Atom. (To borrow a joke from Empire of Jeff, I think.)

Gates' surprising mea culpa Tuesday was a questionable attempt to cleanse his image over his friendship with Epstein, which ex-wife Melinda French Gates largely blames for destroying their marriage.
"I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player ... and one with a Russian nuclear physicist," the billionaire told staff at a town hall for his Gates Foundation, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Gates admitted the affairs while maintaining that he did nothing "illicit" with his now-dead pedophile pal.
However, rumors of the fling with the bridge player, Mila Antonova, first emerged over her own ties to Epstein -- ones featured heavily in damning exchanges in the Epstein files.
Antonova was also an acquaintance of notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman, with a photo capturing them strolling near Wall Street before Chapman, the daughter of a former KGB officer, was booted out of the country.
Gates was 53 when he was first pictured with Antonova, who was in her 20s, at a national bridge event in Washington, DC...
However, one of Gates' main advisers and confidants, Boris Nikolic, introduced her to Epstein in 2013 -- when he'd already convicted of child-sex offenses -- as she sought help getting money to start an online business to teach people how to play bridge.
Epstein also paid Antonova so she could attend a programming camp as part of helping her pursue a career in software development, she told the Wall Street Journal in 2023, when she had initially refused to confirm the affair with Gates.

This sounds like he was paying money so that she could develop interests that could help her get close to Gates.

"Epstein agreed to pay, and he paid directly to the school," she explained at the time. "Nothing was exchanged. I don't know why he did that. When I asked, he said something like he was wealthy and wanted to help people when he could."
However, he appeared to have a far more sinister motive -- and try to force Gates to pay him that money and more under the threat of exposing his cheating to his then-wife.
A Gates spokesperson previously claimed that Epstein "tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates."
In a July 2017 email released by the Department of Justice, Epstein also made a string of allegations against Gates, branding his one-time friend "so cheap" for the way he'd treated his mistress.
"After I sent her that note she said she had little money, couldn't afford air conditioner, was living on a friends couch. Really needed money. I sent her some," he emailed Boris Nikolic.
"Your friend Bill is nuts," Epstein continued in the typo-filled rage. "His former girl. Can't afford air con. Can't afford to travel to bridge.The richest man in the world is so cheap, his former bridge girl and toy, lives on a friends sofa."
...
Gates, meanwhile, has repeatedly expressed regret at his involvement with the late pedophile, and insisted he had no involvement in any of his wrongdoings.
"I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit," Gates said in the town hall meeting Tuesday, according to the WSJ. "To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him."

We'll see. Why would you purposely develop a friendship with a man just convicted of soliciting an underage girl, if not for a shared interest?

Do these billionaires just donate to left-wing causes like environmentalism so they have an excuse to ditch their wives, attend conferences, and score some Russian kept woman mish?

Answer: Mostly.

In some minor Epstein news, Epstein blamed then-Prince Charles for former Prince Andrew being stripped of his trade envoy job. Which he allegedly used to deliver UK state secrets to the pedophile financier.

Jeffrey Epstein blamed "Charles" on the day Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lost his UK trade envoy job.
On 21 July 2011, the day it was announced that the former prince would step down from the role, Epstein wrote: "I assume he knows that this is Charles doing."

Finally, Bill and Hillary Clinton will finally be questioned about their contacts with the known and notorious pedophile and whoremonger.

They will, as usual, blend perjury with strategic obfuscation.

It depends on what the definition of "underage" is.

House members are eyeing a new phase in their monthslong investigation into Jeffrey Epstein: A race to produce results that match the stunning Epstein fallout across the globe and satisfy an electorate clamoring for accountability.
This week's interviews of Bill and Hillary Clinton -- who are scheduled to testify to lawmakers under subpoena and behind closed doors about their relationships with Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell -- could be a pivotal moment in this effort.
Bill Clinton has maintained that he was an acquaintance of Epstein's but stopped communicating with him at least a decade before his arrest in 2019, and he has not been accused of wrongdoing.
His spokesperson Angel Ureña posted on social media in 2019 that the former president traveled on Epstein's plane four times internationally in 2002 and 2003, but that Secret Service details were present "on every leg of the trip." Hillary Clinton has said she has no memory of meeting Epstein at all. A spokesperson for the Clintons did not respond to a request for comment.
But the Clintons' depositions before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee come as the recent arrests in Britain of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, and ex-ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson, have only intensified the pressure on Congress to produce similarly dramatic impacts closer to home.
That means both Clintons will be put under a microscope for any potential transgression, whether it relates to the late financier's sex trafficking conviction or not.
"Obviously, the committee wants to see some people be held accountable," said Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) in an interview in advance of the high-profile depositions. The former president will testify Friday, and the former secretary of state Thursday, both in Chappaqua, New York.
Roughly 19 committee members are expected to be on hand for the depositions, and Comer said he suspected questions to focus on what interactions the couple had with Epstein -- in the White House or elsewhere.
"I think what you're seeing in Britain is, the charges against Prince Andrew and the former ambassador weren't sex-related crimes. They were more with respect to treason and selling secrets and things like that," he explained. "We were just fascinated how Epstein was able to surround himself with so many high-profile government figures, not just in the United States, but in other countries, so I think there will be a lot of questions."

Good afternoon!

Update: Like I said, these people just arrange left-wing conferences to pork prostitutes.

Oops.
Another torpedo circled back and hit a globalist. Now we see why the deep state never "released the files". Lol. All Trump had to do was call it a hoax and Dems let their TDS override their protection racket. @TaraServatius @instapundit
— Ralph Cassitto (@RgCassi) February 26, 2026

Update: Boy, Epstein must have been a fantastic dinner guest to earn so many high-profile dining partners.

Brende has acknowledged he dined with Epstein three times between 2018 and 2019 and communicated with him by email and text, but said he was "completely unaware" of his past criminal activity.

Via Instapundit.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:13 PM

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (W2Pud)

2
ESPONJA!!1!!1!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (tljrc)

3 Good morning, ace.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (W2Pud)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (NcvvS)

5 Epstein... that's a jooo name innit?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (Kt19C)

6 Billy Gates.... trying hard as he can to play his "man card" and spits out a Joker.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 12:14 PM (jtM2q)

7 He should bring in a note from his mom.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:15 PM (c27kw)

8 We did nothing.. But Trump's a pedophile

Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

9 As with everyone on the left, they are always VERY SORRY that they got caught.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 12:15 PM (zjgNU)

10 It depends on what the definition of "underage" is.

As a devout Muslim, I am bound by the timeless rules of the Quran and example of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Who am I to say sex with a 9 year old girl is wrong, when the epitome of man did it?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 26, 2026 12:15 PM (JCZqz)

11 My Varney & Co trivia question got willowed - #272 on Monkus Threadus

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 26, 2026 12:16 PM (QGaXH)

12 who used the sordid secret to try to blackmail the billionaire Microsoft co-founder.

Epstein should have blackmailed him into making a version of Windows that doesn't suck.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 12:16 PM (+4yJ5)

13 Afternoon, Ace!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:16 PM (bFu5X)

14 It depends on what the definition of "underage" is.
-----

I await suggestions from Clippy...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:17 PM (XeU6L)

15 Bill Gates Is Very, Very, Very Sorry He Inadvertently Consorted With a Convicted Child Trafficker and Banged Russian "Dates" Procured by Jeffrey Epstein

Billy boy, you don't have to tell us how sorry you are...we already know.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:17 PM (bFu5X)

16 I'm glad I've faded from memory enough that no one mentioned me in last threads discussion about Prius and funny alternate names...

Posted by: Reince Priebus at February 26, 2026 12:18 PM (JCZqz)

17 The Bills are both very sorry they got caught but nothing happened and nothing will.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 12:18 PM (vFG9F)

18 Epstein should have blackmailed him into making a version of Windows that doesn't suck.
Posted by: NR Pax
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[looks in rearview mirror, at Win 7]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:18 PM (XeU6L)

19 It depends on what the definition of "underage" is.
-----

I await suggestions from Clippy...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:17 PM

It looks like you're trying to bang a 12-yr-old...can I suggest some methods of self-deletion?

Posted by: Clippy at February 26, 2026 12:19 PM (bFu5X)

20 The SVR (Russian equivalent of the CIA) is very good at honeytrap operations.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 12:19 PM (n1OCj)

21 They made one after Windows 7?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:19 PM (c27kw)

22 Feeling any better today, ace?

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:20 PM (1Udfd)

23 Ooopsie 2.0

Still better than Windows 8.

Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 12:20 PM (FhXTo)

24 Need more nicotine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:20 PM (c27kw)

25 The untold story of Epstein is that this was also a visa fraud and illegal immigration scam.

There are many witness statements and hundreds of flights for girls from Russia, Poland, Belarus, Latvia, and ... you guess it ... Ukraine.

It was the usual: fake visas, phony asylum claims, and political fixers intervening to keep these yacht girls in the country.

https://tinyurl.com/37chvxmn

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

26 So how I understand this is to recognize that Elon Musk and countless others can spread their seed all around and no scandal.

The problem is that Ba'al Gates used the wrong pimp.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 12:21 PM (NzX/y)

27 Good afternoon Ace!

Really fun to watch Gates' evil FINALLY biting him in the ass. I swear he lived to destroy people.

and that's just with the Win os!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 12:21 PM (j+aD2)

28 Gates tries to portray these women as, I josh you not, a "nuclear physicist" ..."

Bill was going out with Christmas Jones too?

That two timing bitch ...

Posted by: James Bond at February 26, 2026 12:21 PM (3sXRv)

29 The SVR (Russian equivalent of the CIA) is very good at honeytrap operations.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 12:19 PM (n1OCj)

Selling the prospect of pussy to a straight man isn't exactly hard work.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 26, 2026 12:22 PM (Hx0tZ)

30 L.O. freaking L. Attending a programming camp? 1. No way in hell she knew anything about computers. Completely male dominated in early 2000s Russia. Like not even close. There were no women in St Petersburg State Universitys Programming Department (they call it a Faculty over there) in 2004 to 2005. Sociology, philology, economics, and law...that's where the women went.

Posted by: mishdog at February 26, 2026 12:22 PM (3+j0o)

31 You mean like with a cloth?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:22 PM (c27kw)

32 Holy crap Mila Antonova looks like a 12 year old Greta Thunberg!
https://tinyurl.com/4nxxz25r

Posted by: anon2020 at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (RqMDa)

33
Gates tries to portray these women as, I josh you not, a "nuclear physicist" ..."

Bill was going out with Christmas Jones too?

That two timing bitch ...

Posted by: James Bond at February 26, 2026 12:21 PM (3sXRv)

So I guess Christmas DID come more than once per year...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (y9nCu)

34 Nobody seems to be asking the truly relevant question:

Did Bill Gates pay Russian hookers to pee in his bed?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (ESVrU)

35 12 who used the sordid secret to try to blackmail the billionaire Microsoft co-founder.

Epstein should have blackmailed him into making a version of Windows that doesn't suck.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 12:16 PM (+4yJ5)

Windows 7 was the apex. Everything after that has been total ass.

Posted by: The enshittification continues apace at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (TbWk/)

36 So his wife leaving him when these reports started to become public, what is his answer for that?

The depressing part of Epstein is this really was a 99% Democrat scandal, but somehow Trump got a part of the stink on him.

I know a guy that absolutely hated Biden and yet he's totally bought into "Trump is hiding things" with Epstein.

Posted by: Leupold at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (CH8Rt)

37 Need more nicotine.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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I would suggest a caffiene/nicotine mix. Really gets the old thumper working.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (XeU6L)

38 Members of the committee, I know she's only 14 in these photos of her with me, but just look at that ass. Like, damn. She was ready. Tell me you guys wouldn't...hell, I know several of you HAVE.

Posted by: Bill Clinton, knowing his audience and explaining why the hearing is closed at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (JCZqz)

39
Gates either needed more swirlies as a kid, or fewer. Not sure which.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (zncNU)

40 A decade ago, we had an even bigger idiot than Bill:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force general who was fired from command of U.S. land-based nuclear missile forces had engaged in “inappropriate behavior” while on official business in Russia last summer, including heavy drinking, rudeness to his hosts and associating with “suspect” women, according to an investigation report released Thursday.

How was I to know that the Russians would target me, just because I commanded all the American ICBMs?

Posted by: World's Dumbest General! at February 26, 2026 12:24 PM (n1OCj)

41 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 12:24 PM (lddk3)

42 We're Russian hookers responsible for Windows ME?

Posted by: mishdog at February 26, 2026 12:24 PM (3+j0o)

43 Excuse me but who the hell cares about Bill Gates?

Really, he's just your standard sleezebag businessman who happens to be in the computer business.

Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2026 12:24 PM (+rKuc)

44 Problem is, dees ho's always run their damn yaps, that's why ya gotta keep a strong pimp hand on these ho's and let them know it ain't their money, it's yo money.

Knowwhatimsayin?

Posted by: Silky Johnson at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (k1E2D)

45 Yeah - Gate is only sorry because he got caught and gave the clap to his wife, but mostly 'cause he got caught,.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (NgqoH)

46 Did Bill Gates pay Russian hookers to pee in his bed?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

in a Moscow hotel room? (if I remember the story correcly)

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (quOho)

47 Gates tries to portray these women as, I josh you not, a "nuclear physicist"

Who amongst us hasn't thought Denise Richards did not portray the very image of a nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough? I'm incensed, incensed, that you would think otherwise~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (diia5)

48 So is Gates trying to make it not look so sketch by telling us these weren't run of the mill hookers, these were high class hookers that have day jobs?

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (Pt3hn)

49 Holy crap Mila Antonova looks like a 12 year old Greta Thunberg!
https://tinyurl.com/4nxxz25r
Posted by: anon2020 at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM

O_o

Now I can never unsee that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (bFu5X)

50 Bill Floodgates has got some 'splaining to do.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (Ys3Ta)

51 Oh wait is this why the troll was going hard on the pedo trump thing this morning?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (bss/y)

52 Of course, these limited disclosures are designed to deflect from Gates' frequent visits to Pedo Island.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (n1OCj)

53 Who amongst us hasn't thought Denise Richards did not portray the very image of a nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough? I'm incensed, incensed, that you would think otherwise~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM

Yeah, but...Sophie Marceau...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (bFu5X)

54 Never met a high class hooker. What is that?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (c27kw)

55 The main problem with a limited hangout is that you can only use it once.

This is about the 4th time for Gates, but here it is again -- OK, I cheated, and I knew Epstein. And I was at the Island. But I never met any "victims."

Sure Bill, sure.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (zncNU)

56 So.

Who gave him the STD?

The Chess Player or the Physicist?

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (1Udfd)

57 Oh wait is this why the troll was going hard on the pedo trump thing this morning?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (bss/y)
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AI Copilot trying to divert attention?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (ESVrU)

58 Epstein... that's a jooo name innit?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (Kt19C)

Puerto Rican. That's what "Welcome Back, Kotter" says anyways.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (/HDaX)

59 Really, he's just your standard sleezebag businessman who happens to be in the computer business with enough money power and influence to effect policy decisions on a global level and thinks himself to be a god.
Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2026 12:24 PM (+rKuc)

fify

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (Hx0tZ)

60 Members of the committee, I know she's only 14 in these photos of her with me, but just look at that ass. Like, damn. She was ready. Tell me you guys wouldn't...hell, I know several of you HAVE.
Posted by: Bill Clinton
-------

"She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing..."

Posted by: McMurphy at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (XeU6L)

61 >> Never met a high class hooker. What is that?

If you have to ask, you can't afford her.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (1Udfd)

62 32 Holy crap Mila Antonova looks like a 12 year old Greta Thunberg!
https://tinyurl.com/4nxxz25r
Posted by: anon2020 at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (RqMDa)

:::squirt:::

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (k1E2D)

63 A lot people like Bill Gates needs to meet Pippa the Rippa's woodchipper.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (utjax)

64 Who amongst us hasn't thought Denise Richards did not portray the very image of a nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough? I'm incensed, incensed, that you would think otherwise~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 12:25 PM (diia5)

'Busty Nuclear Physicist' does not return any results besides Atomic Heart porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

65 Of course, these limited disclosures are designed to deflect from Gates' frequent visits to Pedo Island.

"Haven't I suffered enough?", to steal a page from our playbook.

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM (quOho)

66 "Hey, I bought her a Schwinn Pixie bike, the pink one with those things on the handlebars. How was I to know?".

Bill Gates

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 26, 2026 12:28 PM (gm9Sb)

67 I will say, I still have the hots for Anna Chapman, or at least the version of her in that dedicated sit-down interview she did. You can say a lot of things about the KGB, but they really knew how to select the hottest possible honeypot traps.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2026 12:28 PM (Ys3Ta)

68 Nothing says class like selling your ass.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:28 PM (c27kw)

69 I am truly sorry for not having vaccinated all the african and indians! Yeah, and I am real sorry you have to see my large man boobs flip and flap with my erect nipples in the wind! Real sorry! I am also sorry Amy Conehead Barrett has collected all the african trophy children before I could! Fuck her!

Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo with Man Boobs at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (hXJe5)

70 > How was I to know that the Russians would target me, just because I commanded all the American ICBMs?
---------
How about the retired fighter pilot who was arrested for training Chinese pilots in air combat tactics?

Oh, and he was familiar with the F-35 too.

That fucker needs to swing...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (jtM2q)

71 A goodly portion of the "Trump is a pedo" stuff, aside from being their final attempt to brand him with complete undisprovable bs, is "I just want to see the fucker deny it".

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (wIg5s)

72 Puerto Rican. That's what "Welcome Back, Kotter" says anyways.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 26, 2026 12:27 PM

Dear AoSHQ,

Please leave Juan out of this discussion.

/s/ Epstein's Mother

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (bFu5X)

73 Never met a high class hooker. What is that?
Posted by: Boss Moss

$8000 an hour. The moose out front should have told'ya.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (diia5)

74 Microsoft was an amazing company. No culture, no products anyone liked, yet wildly successful.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (GPa4z)

75 It is hard to believe trips to Epstein Island were just to paid full to pal around with your BFF.

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (lddk3)

76
And she looks like she's about 15. OK, 14 then. In fact I know she's 14, because I was dating her a year ago.

Posted by: Roland T Flackfizer at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (y9nCu)

77 The main problem with a limited hangout is that you can only use it once.

This is about the 4th time for Gates, but here it is again -- OK, I cheated, and I knew Epstein. And I was at the Island. But I never met any "victims."

Sure Bill, sure.
Posted by: bob
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Ah. You may be overlooking the 'I don't recall' gambit.

Posted by: McMurphy at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (XeU6L)

78 I thought Greta von Thule always looked 12?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (utjax)

79 He got it from the toilet seat.
It jumped right up and grabbed his meat.

Posted by: Why does it hurt when I pee at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (+rKuc)

80 I for one support vaccinating all the indians and africans.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (c27kw)

81 Yeah, but...Sophie Marceau...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (bFu5X)

:::squirt:::

Posted by: James Bond at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (k1E2D)

82 I guess all these billionaires were building bunkers to keep the FBI out, not nuclear fallout.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (quOho)

83 I think the "nuclear physicist" was chiefly concerned with splitting the Nut Atom. (To borrow a joke from Empire of Jeff, I think.)

hmmm.... *scribbles note* sequel to "young einstein" in which young marie curie splits the nut atom.

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (sGtp+)

84 >>Nothing says class like selling your ass.

Lease to Moan

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (1Udfd)

85 Yeah, but...Sophie Marceau...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (bFu5X)

:::squirt:::

Posted by: William Wallace at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (k1E2D)

86 32 Holy crap Mila Antonova looks like a 12 year old Greta Thunberg!
https://tinyurl.com/4nxxz25r
Posted by: anon2020

That is seriously disturbing.

You have 50 billion dollars, and you choose to cheat with THAT?

Worse the John Lennon choosing Yoko One over every hot chick on Earth.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (Ys3Ta)

87 71 A goodly portion of the "Trump is a pedo" stuff, aside from being their final attempt to brand him with complete undisprovable bs, is "I just want to see the fucker deny it".
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (wIg5s)

That too, but they also know it is one of the few taboos left. Which sidenote was one of the things that always made the tranny grooming kids thing so baffling to me.

So, repeat repeat repeat and you tar just by repetition.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (bss/y)

88 In too late to make the first Clippy joke...
Good morning, all.

Posted by: PabloD at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (uXs/5)

89 Worse the = Worse than

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (Ys3Ta)

90 Gates' "apology" was surely lawyer-written. It gives the impression of only two "affairs," but read carefully, he could have admitted to dozens or hundreds of bouts of adultery.

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (sFNX2)

91 Bill Gates admitting something as bad as these hooker relations is an attempt to front-run that something from coming out. So I assume someone threatened him, and or he had some other knowledge these wee going to be revealed.

I assume there is more to learn, but it will only be revealed if he is forced to come clean. But does anyone think this is all the bad stuff there is in Gates-world?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (DJGRv)

92 Yeah, but...Sophie Marceau...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (bFu5X)

Ooof, gross.

Posted by: Prince Edward at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (k1E2D)

93 54 Never met a high class hooker. What is that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (c27kw)
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One that charges $1000/hr

Posted by: anon2020 at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (RqMDa)

94 Never met a high class hooker. What is that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (c27kw)
________

Not $20. $2000.

These are the ladies of the night you will find in very expensive hotel bars, at very exclusive VIP events, and in the contacts list of very rich men. Prices start at $5k a night.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

95 85 Yeah, but...Sophie Marceau...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:26 PM (bFu5X)

:::squirt:::
Posted by: William Wallace at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (k1E2D)

***glgghrejf***

Posted by: Stroked out Edward Longshanks at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (3sXRv)

96 Mila Antanova looks like a slightly less spergy Greta Thunberg. You sold your wife, life, and soul out for that? I guess money doesn't buy brains.

Posted by: DPICM at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (zt2eU)

97 I imagine Gates "affair" to be similar to that Goebbels scene in Inglorious Bastards

Posted by: Halfhand at February 26, 2026 12:32 PM (5slMQ)

98 "I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit," Gates said in the town hall meeting Tuesday,
____

He's stealing our schtick!

Posted by: Sgt. Schultz AND the Clintons at February 26, 2026 12:32 PM (Dv3i1)

99 A goodly portion of the "Trump is a pedo" stuff, aside from being their final attempt to brand him with complete undisprovable bs, is "I just want to see the fucker deny it".
Posted by: ...

==

Absolutely. I do think though it was a bad political miscalculation that Trump tried to change course on just not releasing everything.

The reality is, Trump had zero to do with Epstein, it was clear they hated each other, but it gave his opponents a narrative.

The Epstein people on the Left are far worse than QAnon. The media just openly pretends that Trump was on pedo island and these charges have legitimacy.

Posted by: Leupold at February 26, 2026 12:32 PM (eIzlH)

100 "How about the retired fighter pilot who was arrested for training Chinese pilots in air combat tactics?"

He's not the first one.

The Chicoms must be offering some serious cash to turn these guys.

Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2026 12:32 PM (+rKuc)

101 Money can't buy you ethics or class.

Exhibit A. Bill Gates.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 12:32 PM (utjax)

102 79 He got it from the toilet seat.
It jumped right up and grabbed his meat.
Posted by: Why does it hurt when I pee at February 26, 2026 12:30 PM (+rKu

Shoulda called Peterrooter right away.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 12:33 PM (i0Hi3)

103 18 [looks in rearview mirror, at Win 7]
Posted by: Mike Hammer

OK, a fair point.

(And before the ackshually crowd chimes in, I know Gates stepped down a while back. Turn off the autism and just enjoy the joke.)

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 12:33 PM (+4yJ5)

104
I will say, I still have the hots for Anna Chapman, or at least the version of her in that dedicated sit-down interview she did. You can say a lot of things about the KGB, but they really knew how to select the hottest possible honeypot traps.
Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2026 12:28 PM (Ys3Ta)

Y'know, I always thought that zombie was a hawt Asian chick. Please tell me I was right...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 12:33 PM (y9nCu)

105 I went home with a waitress the way I always do
How was I to know she was with the Russians, too?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

106 Microsoft was an amazing company. No culture, no products anyone liked, yet wildly successful.
Posted by: Oglebay
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Meh. I used, and still use MS Basic.

Posted by: McMurphy at February 26, 2026 12:33 PM (XeU6L)

107 "Bill Clinton has maintained that he was an acquaintance of Epstein's but stopped communicating with him at least a decade before his arrest in 2019, and he has not been accused of wrongdoing."

Oh yeah? Is that a fact? Well that's easily fixed: I hereby accuse Bill Clinton of wrongdoing.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (CKIwv)

108 Everyone who wanted this stuff buried is suspect.

Everyone.

Posted by: Release the Kraken! at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (mgmW3)

109
but somehow Trump got a part of the stink on him
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Oh yeah - "somehow".

It's called another billion dollar intelligence operation. It's not "somehow".

The intent of the operation (among other things) was to divide MAGA and Republicans as close to down the middle as anyone could.

But Trump very smartly saw it coming, recognized it, and thoroughly defused it, which had everyone shaking their heads one sunny day last year.

And yes this is what the defused version of the Epstein Trump Op looks like.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (wIg5s)

110 There hundreds of thousands of crippled indian women that got vaxxes from gates.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (c27kw)

111 101 Money can't buy you ethics or class.

Posted by: Anna Puma

But it can buy you a capybara and enough land to raise it. Who doesn't like capybaras?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (+4yJ5)

112 "She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing..."
Posted by: McMurphy

You are thirteen, going on old-man peen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and don't tell
Wash my cock in the sink

Posted by: The Sound Of Pedophile Music at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (JCZqz)

113 #metoo

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (RIvkX)

114 74 Microsoft was an amazing company. No culture, no products anyone liked, yet wildly successful.
---

The power of the monopoly. They had infinite DOS money, which they used to destroy anybody who might imperil their infinite DOS money.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (8/Qda)

115 105 I went home with a waitress the way I always do
How was I to know she was with the Russians, too?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

Might I suggest trying the Waffle House ...

Posted by: Eldrick Woods at February 26, 2026 12:34 PM (3sXRv)

116 Of all the events at which nothing will happen, nothing will happen the most in the depositions of Bill and Hillary.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 12:35 PM (5aZAZ)

117 Capybara remind me of Democrats on the dole.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 12:35 PM (utjax)

118 Ok, well Sorry makes it all better sweetheart, you can just sleep in this morning instead of sweatin' to the oldies on my obstacle course.

Posted by: Every DI, Ever at February 26, 2026 12:35 PM (7Q0e+)

119 My question for multimillionaire Gates: why does he need more than 640K?

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 26, 2026 12:36 PM (Y74bn)

120 This Mila chick has beady eyes and a perma-smirk. Might as well have just banged Boris Badenov and cut out the middlebroad.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 12:36 PM (BI5O2)

121 91 Bill Gates admitting something as bad as these hooker relations is an attempt to front-run that something from coming out. So I assume someone threatened him, and or he had some other knowledge these wee going to be revealed.

I assume there is more to learn, but it will only be revealed if he is forced to come clean. But does anyone think this is all the bad stuff there is in Gates-world?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 12:31 PM (DJGRv)

My money is on email about his plan to depoplate Africa via mosquito Bourne rna virus that makes you sterile.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 12:36 PM (i0Hi3)

122 I read a great book that was a guide to gambling by Edwin Silberstang. Interestingly enough he included a chapter on Bridge. He included a story from a very high level Bridge player who asserted that he taught his partners what he was looking for. He wasn't looking for a high-level Bridge player, just one who would follow his directions.

And those directions included reading and sending subtle signals regarding what each player had in terms of cards. Touching a nose meant something, adjusting one's glasses signaled something else, etc. Its fascinating to think that even a genteel game could include such shenanigans.

Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 12:36 PM (TN0g+)

123 They will, as usual, blend perjury with strategic obfuscation.

Ace, you are far too young to be so cynical.

Besides, what difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 26, 2026 12:36 PM (0sNs1)

124 She should have a hump with a face like that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:36 PM (c27kw)

125 illicit

adjective

Breaking social norms
Unlawful

* was this helpful? *

Posted by: Clippy at February 26, 2026 12:36 PM (jtM2q)

126 Dang autocorrect - multi-billionaire.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 26, 2026 12:36 PM (Y74bn)

127 These are the ladies of the night you will find in very expensive hotel bars, at very exclusive VIP events, and in the contacts list of very rich men. Prices start at $5k a night.

A banking consulting firm I worked with had several on staff to help close deals.

They were a lot of fun. I'll just leave it at that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 12:37 PM (9s47C)

128 It's not that Bill Gates had to pay for Antonova for sex, it's that she had to be paid to have sex with Bill Gates.

Imagine having to pay big money to have a 4 have sex with you when as a billionaire you could have 8's, 9's and 10's lining up at your hotel door wanting to bang you. For free.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 12:37 PM (k1E2D)

129 Capybaras are the camels of Rodentia. They don't spit, which is a plus

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 12:37 PM (rbvCR)

130
Who hasn't banged a couple of Russian hookers and caught the clap at least a couple of time in one lifetime?

Posted by: Who wants to be a millionaire? at February 26, 2026 12:37 PM (IifOV)

131 Nancy Mace to force a House vote of sexual misconduct report and harassment by congress members and staff. The wood chipper is no respecter of persons. Do it.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 12:37 PM (ehY6c)

132 My money is on email about his plan to depoplate Africa via mosquito Bourne rna virus that makes you sterile.
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Gates wanted an airbourne Covid vax to be developed so that NOBODY could "opt out".

Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 12:37 PM (TN0g+)

133 Posted by: Leupold at February 26, 2026 12:32 PM (eIzlH)

Yeah I can't speak to the not releasing stuff stuff. Trump will have his reasons and they will be good ones. He won't release them against those good reasons just to clear his own name. But whatever has gone on was planned for quite some time. It was supposed to be the New Russia and ruin his third term. And they want to make it his legacy and wrap it around us forever.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (wIg5s)

134 A goodly portion of the "Trump is a pedo" stuff, aside from being their final attempt to brand him with complete undisprovable bs, is "I just want to see the fucker deny it".
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:29 PM (wIg5s)

And the continuing hysteria over the name Epstein. OMG! This person was arrested, or resigned, over being associated with Epstein. Why haven't there been arrests and executions.

Well, because in most cases, there's exactly zero evidence of criminal activity. Seedy activity, yes, crimes, no. And, in the cases where crimes exist, they're financial.

But everyone sees Epstein and their brain goes pedo, pedo, pedo, pedo.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (ExV1e)

135 I'm so sick of Gates and those like him. I want them finished. Will this finish Gates? I doubt it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (fZiTB)

136 Imagine having to pay big money to have a 4 have sex with you when as a billionaire you could have 8's, 9's and 10's lining up at your hotel door wanting to bang you. For free.
____

Free?

Posted by: Paternity Suit at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (Dv3i1)

137 "His former girl. Can't afford air con. Can't afford to travel to bridge.The richest man in the world is so cheap, his former bridge girl and toy, lives on a friends sofa."
Well, if she couldn't find someone else to take up the role of sugar daddy, she must not have been a very skilled whore.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (0Htd1)

138 Imma surprised Bill didn't focus on Asian pussy. It would have made his dick look bigger.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (pZ64F)

139 Donald Trump attracts attractive ladies.

Bill Gates attracts Eyegor in drag.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (utjax)

140 So he's not all bad?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:39 PM (c27kw)

141 Do these billionaires just donate to left-wing causes like environmentalism so they have an excuse to ditch their wives, attend conferences, and score some Russian kept woman mish?

Answer: Mostly.
_________

Most people will be very surprised how common it is for business travelers -- all kinds of business travelers -- to bang whores in foreign cities. It's like a Big Thing. Just go to any hotel bar and you'll see the ladies hovering around. The ultra-rich have other ways of procuring their whores.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

142 Gates was doinking so many “chess grand masters” he caught an STD, gave it to his wife and then secretly dosed her with an antibiotic that Epstein got him.

But yeah, nothing was done with forethought, devious intent or malice.

*makes ok sign*

Posted by: Vengeance at February 26, 2026 12:39 PM (T7fic)

143
Bridge playing Russian hookers?

Right.............

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 26, 2026 12:39 PM (IifOV)

144 The power of the monopoly. They had infinite DOS money, which they used to destroy anybody who might imperil their infinite DOS money.

DR DOS was faster and better, compatible with everything that ran on MS-DOS

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (9s47C)

145 Most people will be very surprised how common it is for business travelers -- all kinds of business travelers -- to bang whores in foreign cities. It's like a Big Thing.
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No way.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (pZ64F)

146
Gates wanted an airbourne Covid vax to be developed so that NOBODY could "opt out".
Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 12:37 PM (TN0g+)

I think I've seen this zombie film before....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (y9nCu)

147 But everyone sees Epstein and their brain goes pedo, pedo, pedo, pedo.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (ExV1e)

They chose this as the New Russia precisely because the name had all that power in it. The demented part is the name had all that power due to THEIR malfeasance and coverups. It's insanity but that's the mindfuck world we live in.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (wIg5s)

148 They've read all of those sad sack russian poets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (c27kw)

149 131 Nancy Mace to force a House vote of sexual misconduct report and harassment by congress members and staff. The wood chipper is no respecter of persons. Do it.
____

Comity!

Posted by: Congress at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (Dv3i1)

150 see update. WEF President and CEO resigns over Epstein ties.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (1wjle)

151 No yellow!

Posted by: Hunter B. at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (0sNs1)

152 Occasionally the thought flits through my mind that society will one day pay a price for its casual "it's only sex" ethos.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 26, 2026 12:41 PM (GPa4z)

153 Resign?

Woodchipper

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 12:41 PM (utjax)

154 That is seriously disturbing.

You have 50 billion dollars, and you choose to cheat with THAT?

Worse the John Lennon choosing Yoko One over every hot chick on Earth.
Posted by: zombie

To be fair (God, how did I get here?), average looking girls are often targeted for these kinds of things. They don't get much male attention, have low self-esteem and self-worth, so they're often easier to manipulate. And, unlike really hot girls that may get a lot of other suitors (and maybe wise up, or learn to blackmail the man), average looking girls may stay "loyal" longer.

Super hot girls know it, have options, and may be a pain in the ass.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 26, 2026 12:41 PM (JCZqz)

155 Another torpedo circled back and hit a globalist.
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Nothing rhymes with torpedo.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:42 PM (wIg5s)

156 That is seriously disturbing.

You have 50 billion dollars, and you choose to cheat with THAT?

I only buy middle school yearbooks for the articles.

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 26, 2026 12:42 PM (/nX+B)

157 Sharknado?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:42 PM (c27kw)

158 The ultra-rich have other ways of procuring their whores.

Usually the local security teams on foreign travel certainly have an interesting Rolodex.

the ultra-rich always have a posse that includes someone who can arrange for local talent.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 12:43 PM (nCgQz)

159 Vile
Nasty
Scum
Debauched
Evil

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 12:43 PM (2WIwB)

160 Epstein, the gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2026 12:43 PM (0Htd1)

161 Don't hate me just because I'm just another example amongst thousands that every girl loves a sharp-dressed man.

Posted by: billg@microsoft.com at February 26, 2026 12:43 PM (0sNs1)

162
Nothing rhymes with torpedo.
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:42 PM (wIg5s)

Speedo

For those of you who now have the unfortunate mental picture of Billy Gates at the beach wearing Speedos... you're welcome.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 12:43 PM (y9nCu)

163 Fredo the torpedo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 12:43 PM (utjax)

164 Nevermind Bill Gates, Im hearing Hillary actually ate children

Any truth to this? because my inclination is to believe its true given shes a witch from hell

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (REq0p)

165 A goodly portion of the "Trump is a pedo" stuff, aside from being their final attempt to brand him with complete undisprovable bs, is "I just want to see the fucker deny it".

It’s also deflection from Ashley Biden. Half the lib NPCs conflate them to the point of saying “Trump showered with Ivanka when she was 13”.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (2xIZL)

166 This all just further proves Trump is protecting pedos!!
/s/ the entire left

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (HXT0k)

167 Imagine having to pay big money to have a 4 have sex with you when as a billionaire you could have 8's, 9's and 10's lining up at your hotel door wanting to bang you. For free.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper

Nothing's free when it comes to a 70 year old pud like that. Ask his ex.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (diia5)

168 Denise Richards did not convince me of her nuclear scientist bona fides.

Totally believe she piloted a giant starship to go fight bugs, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (6ydKt)

169 I thought herpes was the gift that keeps on giving?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (c27kw)

170
OUT: Word Economic Forum
IN: World Economic Foursome!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (wtvvX)

171 "This week's interviews of Bill and Hillary Clinton -- who are scheduled to testify to lawmakers under subpoena and behind closed doors about their relationships with Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell -- could be a pivotal moment in this effort."

Does anybody actually believe that? LOL! They are naive fools.

Bill and Hillary will just lie, obfuscate and not be able to recall and that will be the end of that.

Posted by: Ripley at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (GUOwU)

172 Not sure what to make of this -

X @willchamberlain
Everyone's buried the lede here.

It's not just that the FBI subpoenaed Kash and Susie's phone records. The FBI surreptitiously recorded a phone call between Wiles AND HER LAWYER! Even worse, the lawyer KNEW the FBI recorded the conversation, and didn't tell Wiles!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (Dv3i1)

173 Nothing rhymes with torpedo.
-------------------
Libido, Speedo, Toledo...

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (pZ64F)

174 Nothing rhymes with torpedo.
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:42 PM

libido, lido and tuxedo.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (0sNs1)

175 So Alex Jones was more right than wrong about the world being run by Satanist pedophiles.

Posted by: Go figure at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (TbWk/)

176 Gates is a social retard. He should be allowing his lawyer(s) to speak for him. Instead, he spits out garbage that only makes him look worse, more stupid and evil.

But... yea, he's a certified genius for copying intellectual property from others and branding it as his own.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (jtM2q)

177 155 Another torpedo circled back and hit a globalist.
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Nothing rhymes with torpedo.
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:42 PM (wIg5s)

Torpedoed by their own libido.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (i0Hi3)

178 Holy Toledo!
Here comes a torpedo!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (2WIwB)

179 "Update: Like I said, these people just arrange left-wing conferences to pork prostitutes."

I suspect the WEF slimefuck was involved with financial scams, and not sex, but we'll see. Eurotrash elites have their own local prostitution and sex-ring networks. They don't need Epstein for that.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

180 And the ghey frogs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (c27kw)

181 155 Another torpedo circled back and hit a globalist.
---------

Nothing rhymes with torpedo.
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:42 PM (wIg5s)

Your Speedo

Posted by: Which I'd rather not contemplate at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (TbWk/)

182 Turned on the local channel to check the weather (nice, but windy thank you), and natch right after the bill and hillary story of course they had to give some stupid "people say" thing about Trump missing from the Epstein files.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 12:46 PM (n5tGW)

183 175 So Alex Jones was more right than wrong about the world being run by Satanist pedophiles.
Posted by: Go figure at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (TbWk/)

I know, right ...

Posted by: Cassandra at February 26, 2026 12:46 PM (3sXRv)

184 Most people will be very surprised how common it is for business travelers -- all kinds of business travelers -
------

Hey, don't forget us!

US Secret Service Cartagena scandal 'involved 20 women'

Posted by: Obama's Secret Service at February 26, 2026 12:46 PM (XeU6L)

185 Torpedo?

The deck Lido.

Posted by: Cap'n Bill at February 26, 2026 12:46 PM (jhJkx)

186 Your Speedo

Posted by: Which I'd rather not contemplate at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (TbWk/)

Wouldn't take long

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:47 PM (wIg5s)

187 "Another torpedo circled back and hit a globalist."
______________

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo,
I love to sink her with my pink torpedo.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

188 179 "Update: Like I said, these people just arrange left-wing conferences to pork prostitutes."

I suspect the WEF slimefuck was involved with financial scams, and not sex, but we'll see. Eurotrash elites have their own local prostitution and sex-ring networks. They don't need Epstein for that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

Don't care. They cavort in the muck, I don't much care which specific muck sticks to them.

Posted by: Hoist on their own petard at February 26, 2026 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

189 Borge Brende was hiding in plain sight. He has angry pedophile written all over his face.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at February 26, 2026 12:47 PM (EaLNz)

190 Everyone's buried the lede here.

It's not just that the FBI subpoenaed Kash and Susie's phone records. The FBI surreptitiously recorded a phone call between Wiles AND HER LAWYER! Even worse, the lawyer KNEW the FBI recorded the conversation, and didn't tell Wiles!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (Dv3i1)

Is this the part of the movie where Harvey keitel says , "well someone's got to go to jail"?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 12:47 PM (i0Hi3)

191 "This week's interviews of Bill and Hillary Clinton -- who are scheduled to testify to lawmakers under subpoena and behind closed doors about their relationships with Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell

To show photos, laugh and swap stories of their own romps with Epstein's stable.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 12:47 PM (9Hs2w)

192 More pedo

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:48 PM (wIg5s)

193 Borge is properly spelled Børge.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 26, 2026 12:48 PM (0sNs1)

194
Bill Gates consorted with many prostitutes. Despite his wealth, the women all called him things like "garden gnome" and "potato butt" when he was out of the room.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 12:48 PM (VWtfl)

195 My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo,
I love to sink her with my pink torpedo.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Damnnn Blade ...

Though that should make comments of the week

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 12:48 PM (3sXRv)

196 Nothing rhymes with torpedo.

Speedo? Cheet-oh? Neat-o!

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 12:49 PM (aykVA)

197 But everyone sees Epstein and their brain goes pedo, pedo, pedo, pedo.

Sex sells. Epstein’s real businesses were arms trafficking and money laundering, with yacht girls to make deals go smoother (and probably goats for the Muslims). But we’re far less likely to get much detail on those things.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 12:49 PM (2xIZL)

198 Well, I cosplayed as a Republican this morning and voted in the primary. Hopefully, Lord willing, when Cornyn loses his seat he won't suddenly decide that he no longer supports the SAVE Act.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 12:50 PM (ExV1e)

199 This is the story where the lede was buried -

X - @FoxNews
NEW: The FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel's and Susie Wiles' phone records in 2022 and 2023, when both were private citizens and as part of a federal probe into President Trump, Fox News has confirmed.

In a statement to Fox News, Patel called the move "outrageous and deeply alarming."

"It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records – along with those of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight," he said.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 12:50 PM (Dv3i1)

200 Wasn't it said that his house was wired for sound and video?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:50 PM (c27kw)

201 26 So how I understand this is to recognize that Elon Musk and countless others can spread their seed all around and no scandal.

Oh puhleeze, Elon Musk at least had the decency to get married 19 times, and have his 27 children be legitimate. Or however many times he's been married.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2026 12:50 PM (0Htd1)

202
The libs are throwing around the label "Pedo" so much they're diluting it to the point of what their accusations of"racist" is now.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 26, 2026 12:50 PM (IifOV)

203 Microsoft was an amazing company. No culture, no products anyone liked, yet wildly successful.
__________

I used a Windows phone until '22, long after support ended. Liked the interface way more than Android or Apple. No apps, but that was just one less reason to be tied to your phone. Also considered MS slightly less evil than Google and Apple.

And I still use my Zune HD.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 12:51 PM (XvL8K)

204 But everyone sees Epstein and their brain goes pedo, pedo, pedo, pedo.

It's the story that trained all our attention on the very mundane world of international government corruption.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 12:51 PM (aykVA)

205 Gates and Andrew, pouring pure ethanol on their own funeral pyres.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 26, 2026 12:51 PM (wtvvX)

206 Laser disc player?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:51 PM (c27kw)

207 I'd wager that, before long, it will come out that he was banging underage girls.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (dK+Kv)

208 My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo,
I love to sink her with my pink torpedo.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Damnnn Blade ...

Though that should make comments of the week
Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 12:48 PM (3sXRv)
______

I can't take credit for that. It's from Spinal Tap ("Big Bottom").

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

209 167 Imagine having to pay big money to have a 4 have sex with you when as a billionaire you could have 8's, 9's and 10's lining up at your hotel door wanting to bang you. For free.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper
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There is no pussy on this earth that's free.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (5aZAZ)

210 The libs are throwing around the label "Pedo" so much they're diluting it to the point of what their accusations of"racist" is now.
____

Have you tried our new "Racist Pedo" label ?

Posted by: Libs at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (Dv3i1)

211 The libs are throwing around the label "Pedo" so much they're diluting it to the point of what their accusations of"racist" is now.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 26, 2026 12:50 PM (IifOV)

You know who this benefits?

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (wIg5s)

212 libs are throwing around the label "Pedo" so much they're diluting it to the point of what their accusations of"racist" is now.

Well, they did drive "nazi" into the ground.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (HTa/G)

213 DR DOS was faster and better, compatible with everything that ran on MS-DOS
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Yup. And the Press all acknowledged this while saying "Still, you should stick with MS-DOS so you don't get fired."

The Tech Press in the '80s and '90s was just awful.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (8/Qda)

214 see update. WEF President and CEO resigns over Epstein ties.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2026 12:40 PM (1wjle)

this is what amazes me, the richest of the administrative elite plot to control the world, control who spends and who buys, forcing any who oppose them to be slain or bound as prisoners are; trampling the nations of man beneath their economic and social sovereignty. Their creation will be the unending control of the future and understanding of the past making the eternal present captive to their whims and plans. They plot to say who lives and dies, to darken the heavens and chain the oceans, and then they resign and try to commit suicide when it was found they were playing patty-cakes with a guy who owns an island and ran massive shadow banking system.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (rbvCR)

215 And I still use my Zune HD.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 12:51 PM

I loved Zune. So much better and easier to use than that damned Apple Itunes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (IifOV)

216 Gates wanted an airbourne Covid vax to be developed so that NOBODY could "opt out".
Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 12:37 PM (TN0g+)

There was a lot of that shit which is also getting forgotten. I remember I was in the breakroom and they had Colbert on. I was hustling through to avoid listening but caught him making a joke about using the military to catch, vaxx and release people like animals.

I really would have liked to have shot Colbert right then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:52 PM (bss/y)

217 These are the ladies of the night you will find in very expensive hotel bars, at very exclusive VIP events, and in the contacts list of very rich men. Prices start at $5k a night.

==

they are just working their way through law school

Posted by: runner at February 26, 2026 12:53 PM (/M/4v)

218 Holy crap Mila Antonova looks like a 12 year old Greta Thunberg!

The heart wants what the heart wants.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2026 12:53 PM (0Htd1)

219 I was a pretty critical commander in an area heavily targeted for Russian collection activity. I was briefed about honeypots and other collection techniques. I was ready...

I never got my Anna Chapman 😢

Posted by: Military Moron at February 26, 2026 12:53 PM (JCZqz)

220 Bill Gates Is Very, Very, Very Sorry He ~~Inadvertently~~ Consorted With a Convicted Child Trafficker

I now rate this as 100% true.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 26, 2026 12:53 PM (8mulE)

221 I can't take credit for that. It's from Spinal Tap ("Big Bottom").
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

The looser the waistband
The deeper the quicksand

Posted by: 'Nuff Said at February 26, 2026 12:53 PM (Dv3i1)

222 I was briefed about honeypots and other collection techniques.

As one co-worker put it. "I know how ugly I am. Any woman who starts flirting with me is more than likely a foreign agent."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 12:54 PM (+4yJ5)

223 There is no pussy on this earth that's free.

Except for trophy hunters who go after NBA types.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 12:55 PM (kHd4y)

224 The main problem with Bill Gates is the fact that he is so frigging rich. Many people are awe-struck over his billions, his huge success with Microsoft. His nerdy looks are a misconception, and it has allowed him to experiment with vaccines, attempting to "block out the sun", and other destructive notions because it is Bill Gates! Bill Gates!, the computer genius! He is just an ordinary person who has a junior-high sexual mentality who probably struck out with the girls in school and is making up for lost time.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 26, 2026 12:55 PM (ycLNs)

225 I think the "nuclear physicist" was chiefly concerned with splitting the Nut Atom. (To borrow a joke from Empire of Jeff, I think.)

Wouldn't that be "bust the nut atom"?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 26, 2026 12:55 PM (W6ZwL)

226 Doubt anything will come of it, but glad that it's causing the Clintons a modicum of distress. Goose, gander, assemblage.

And it can always be known that Bill and Hillary are part of the Pedo Cartel.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 12:55 PM (n5tGW)

227 This was a lot easier with background videos still playing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:55 PM (c27kw)

228 OUT: Word Economic Forum
IN: World Economic Foursome!
Posted by: Tex Lovera

I'm in!!!

Posted by: Former Rep Katie Hill at February 26, 2026 12:56 PM (JCZqz)

229 Rupert Lowe sounds better than Trump.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:58 PM (c27kw)

230 The libs are throwing around the label "Pedo" so much they're diluting it to the point of what their accusations of"racist" is now.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 26, 2026 12:50 PM (IifOV)

Racist used to mean "people who hate minorites"
Racist now means "people minorities hate"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 12:58 PM (rbvCR)

231 > US Secret Service Cartagena scandal 'involved 20 women'

That never got the full attention it deserved. Everyone basically focused on USSS stupidly having sex with prostitutes. Nobody I saw paid attention to the fact that prostitution in Cartagena is run by the cartels. USSS handed some of the most dangerous people on the planet inside access and blackmail opportunity for ongoing access.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 26, 2026 12:58 PM (Yp6az)

232 223 There is no pussy on this earth that's free.

Except for trophy hunters who go after NBA types.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Yeah, no cost at all...

Posted by: Zombie Kobe Bryant at February 26, 2026 12:58 PM (JCZqz)

233 Flags ordered at half mast in Michigan today for The reverend Jackson.

Whitmer would pull down old glory if she had a bloody dump this morning.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 12:59 PM (5z+pZ)

234 I loved Zune. So much better and easier to use than that damned Apple Itunes.
Posted by: Frank Barone
__________

And the monthly subscription included five MP3s that were yours to keep even if the subscription was cancelled.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 12:59 PM (XvL8K)

235 And the continuing hysteria over the name Epstein. OMG! This person was arrested, or resigned, over being associated with Epstein. Why haven't there been arrests and executions.

Well, because in most cases, there's exactly zero evidence of criminal activity. Seedy activity, yes, crimes, no. And, in the cases where crimes exist, they're financial.

But everyone sees Epstein and their brain goes pedo, pedo, pedo, pedo.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (ExV1e)

Epstein sold access and information, the girls were just the side business to gather the access and information.

Some of the people in the files had nothing to do with the pedo activities, they were just people that happened to have an interaction with Epstein/Maxwell. It would be like being accused of being a pedo because you are friends with someone on Facebook who was arrested for kiddie porn. You were only "friends" because you went to the same elementary school 35 years prior and hadn't seen the guy in 30 years.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 12:59 PM (k1E2D)

236 Is he still dead?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (c27kw)

237 I was a pretty critical commander in an area heavily targeted for Russian collection activity. I was briefed about honeypots and other collection techniques. I was ready...

I never got my Anna Chapman 😢
Posted by: Military Moron
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I recall the security briefings where we were constantly reminded that breachs very often involved women and alcohol. After one such briefing I commented to the presenter that I most certainly had never compromised anything...but...on the other hand, I'd never been offered whiskey and women.

Turns out, not everyone appreciates my sense of humor.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (XeU6L)

238 Stand by for media narrative change: Out - everything in the Epstein files is true. In - nothing in the Epstein files is true unless it smears Trump.

All these scum bags are now admitting everything because they know there is no chance of prosecuting anybody for any of this.

So, please let the inter-webs move on to something else.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (9X60i)

239 138 Imma surprised Bill didn't focus on Asian pussy. It would have made his dick look bigger.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 12:38 PM (pZ64F)

Eric Fartwell - "That's my bag, baby - the Panda Express 5's are mine!".

Also, aren't their bottom teeth slanted? Might have been a turn off for Bill.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (9Ovst)

240 Do Russki prostitutes reek of cheap perfume and borscht?

Posted by: The Sniffer at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (oftw2)

241 Gates’s cheapness verified. My friend used to work as a limo driver at a very famous golf course in GA. He once said he drove Mr Gates from the airport to the course and back. Mr Gates did not offer a tip. The friend also said Mr Gates would not offer tips to the caddie either. It was also rumored that Mr Gates once made a hole in one and skipped out on buying drinks for everyone afterwards.

Posted by: Mark in SC at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (Vvo0d)

242 The Epstein Op worked better than anyone thought.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 26, 2026 01:01 PM (IivNP)

243 So far the left's response on Epstein is...

All these leftwing people were tricked, scammed, and scapegoated...BY DRUMPF!!!!

Who is the only real Epstein client!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

244 Trafficking women to no one is highly proffitabe. How does that work?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:03 PM (c27kw)

245 I would have chased the rocket ship scientist.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2026 01:03 PM (VyHk9)

246 What a horrible man. I wonder if any of his kids think he's a weirdo with sociopathic tendencies or the money makes up for that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 01:03 PM (PFs9e)

247 Gates’s cheapness verified. My friend used to work as a limo driver at a very famous golf course in GA. He once said he drove Mr Gates from the airport to the course and back. Mr Gates did not offer a tip. The friend also said Mr Gates would not offer tips to the caddie either. It was also rumored that Mr Gates once made a hole in one and skipped out on buying drinks for everyone afterwards.
Posted by: Mark in SC at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (Vvo0d)

According to John Dvorak, Gates used to buy coach tickets on planes and then "allow" himself to be upgraded to 1st class by the airlines.
This ended after he got hit with a cream pie.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 01:03 PM (rbvCR)

248 Afternoon Ace.
Wonder if Hillary has killed any of the Republicans yet .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:03 PM (HYqoK)

249 how good could the snatch have been? Alas Windows never dumped Solitaire for Bridge

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 26, 2026 01:04 PM (FZYNt)

250 so, just dining with Epstein a couple times, over the period of a year or so, is damning enough to make a person have to resign as the head of WEF? I would think it would take something big, something really important, to make someone let go of something as prestigious and powerful as being the President and CEO of this organization.

But all he did was have dinner a couple of times. Uh huh. I'm not sure I really want to know all the things these people did, with or because of, or in service to Epstein.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 26, 2026 01:05 PM (nz1sK)

251 Trafficking women to no one is highly proffitabe. How does that work?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:03 PM (c27kw)

Step 1: Do a lot of mission critical work for the CIA
Step 2: Know enough to seriously damage the CIA if brought to trial for anything.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

252 Whiskey and women almost wrecked my life.
If it wasn't for whiskey and women,
I'd have money today.

Posted by: Skid Row Stanley at February 26, 2026 01:05 PM (oftw2)

253 Everybody knows this is an admission of a Mann Act criminal violation, right?

Posted by: Nom de Blog at February 26, 2026 01:05 PM (pk0sF)

254 Those poor Russian hookers. Forced to touch Bill!

Posted by: RandomDave at February 26, 2026 01:05 PM (aJQbY)

255 how good could the snatch have been? Alas Windows never dumped Solitaire for Bridge
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 26, 2026 01:04 PM (FZYNt)

It must have been the elusive snapping pussy

Posted by: MAC V SOG at February 26, 2026 01:07 PM (G00x4)

256 Except for trophy hunters who go after NBA types.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 12:55 PM (kHd4y)
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Do you actually think even those women just put out and then go away? LMFAO

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 01:07 PM (5aZAZ)

257 Do you actually think even those women just put out and then go away? LMFAO
Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 01:07 PM (5aZAZ)

I thought one paid these broads to just go away?

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 01:08 PM (9Ovst)

258 Mann Act? Is that the one with the stately lions and immortal porpoises?

Posted by: 101 Jokes For All Occasions at February 26, 2026 01:08 PM (oftw2)

259 Do you actually think even those women just put out and then go away? LMFAO
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You pay them to go away. Duh.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 01:09 PM (pZ64F)

260 I suspect the WEF slimefuck was involved with financial scams, and not sex, but we'll see. Eurotrash elites have their own local prostitution and sex-ring networks. They don't need Epstein for that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

And I'm sure that you can still get underage stuff in Cuba, possibly other areas of South America, and most of Asia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

261 George Best : I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars . The rest I squandered

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:10 PM (HYqoK)

262 Im not a fan of tipping either. But im not as rich as Bill Gates. Who is only super duper rich because IBM wouldn't pay Gates a lump sum for DOS and instead only paid per unit installation on what they thought would be a limited run of machines.
Boy were they wrong.
Now WE have to pay a yearly subscription or figure out work arounds while Gates figures out reach arounds.
It's disgusting.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2026 01:10 PM (VyHk9)

263 You pay them to go away. Duh.

==

that's what I thought!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 26, 2026 01:10 PM (/M/4v)

264 War breaking out between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 01:10 PM (+nEug)

265 The Chess Player or the Physicist?

So, that whole Chest Player thing, exactly what kind of boob action is that?

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2026 01:10 PM (0Htd1)

266 258 Mann Act? Is that the one with the stately lions and immortal porpoises?
Posted by: 101 Jokes For All Occasions at February 26, 2026 01:08 PM (oftw2)

The Mann Act is when you have scientific data that conflicts with your (alarmist) hypothesis and/or model and thus you "hide the decline" in order to make the nu-data "fit" your model.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (9Ovst)

267 Do Russki prostitutes reek of cheap perfume and borscht?
Posted by: The Sniffer at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (oftw2)
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They used to.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (RIvkX)

268 259 Do you actually think even those women just put out and then go away? LMFAO
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You pay them to go away. Duh.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 01:09 PM (pZ64F)
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Yes, hence my original comment that there is no pussy on earth that's free.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (5aZAZ)

269 246 What a horrible man. I wonder if any of his kids think he's a weirdo with sociopathic tendencies or the money makes up for that?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Given that they will be inheriting about $1 billion each that probably makes up for it.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (+4yJ5)

270 252 Whiskey and women almost wrecked my life.
If it wasn't for whiskey and women,
I'd have money today.
Posted by: Skid Row Stanley at February 26, 2026 01:05 PM (oftw2)

Birds, booze, and fast cars ...other than that I wasted my money

Posted by: zombie Georgie Best at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (3sXRv)

271 234 I loved Zune. So much better and easier to use than that damned Apple Itunes.
Posted by: Frank Barone
__________

And the monthly subscription included five MP3s that were yours to keep even if the subscription was cancelled.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 12:59 PM (XvL8K)

Learned very quickly to burn everything to a physical CD wav file once all of my LEGAL Napster tunes all of a sudden stopped working when the DRM was removed from them. I haven't bought a song on Itunes in years and burn all my music from Youtube and the local library.

:::inserts .gif of black dude pointing at his head:::

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (k1E2D)

272 I sure hope no one wins. Is India gonna put up with this lying down?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (c27kw)

273 War breaking out between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

===

hmm...any chance Pakistan nukes Afghanistan ??

Posted by: runner at February 26, 2026 01:12 PM (/M/4v)

274 264 War breaking out between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 01:10 PM (+nEug)

Yup, and a lot of that military equipment the Taliban is sending to the Pakistani border looks awfully familiar.

https://x.com/RealestMercury/status/2027064582527713379

Gee, wonder where they got that US gear from?

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 01:12 PM (9Ovst)

275 264 War breaking out between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Ben Had

Rooting for huge casualties on both sides.

Posted by: Inshallah! at February 26, 2026 01:12 PM (oftw2)

276 Back in the day, I was stationed for 4 years at NAS Moffett Field in Mountain View, CA. There was a Russian consulate in San Francisco at the time. There were KGB all over the Bay Area looking for information. We were repeatedly warned about them. Never was approached by a honey pot, darn it.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2026 01:13 PM (Y1sOo)

277 275 264 War breaking out between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Ben Had

Rooting for huge casualties on both sides.
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Hopefully, it lasts for years. Anyway....

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 01:13 PM (pZ64F)

278 hmm...any chance Pakistan nukes Afghanistan ??
Posted by: runner

Seems like a waste of money.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 01:13 PM (diia5)

279 Racist used to mean "people who hate minorites"
Racist now means "people minorities hate"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 12:58 PM (rbvCR)

We would have also accepted people who disagree with the Left

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 01:13 PM (wIg5s)

280 261 George Best : I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars . The rest I squandered
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 01:10 PM (HYqoK)

That's what I get for stepping away for a moment.

Birds, booze, and fast cars ...other than that I wasted my money
Posted by: zombie Georgie Best at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (3sXRv)

Posted by: zombie Georgie Best at February 26, 2026 01:13 PM (3sXRv)

281 War breaking out. Let them fight.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 01:14 PM (ehY6c)

282 240 Do Russki prostitutes reek of cheap perfume and borscht?

is trick question. cheap perfume is borshch.

Posted by: anastasiya at February 26, 2026 01:14 PM (sGtp+)

283 hmm...any chance Pakistan nukes Afghanistan ??
Posted by: runner at February 26, 2026 01:12 PM (/M/4v)
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Bomb them forward to the Stone Age? I doubt they'd want to do them that much of a favor.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 01:14 PM (5aZAZ)

284 Those things look like MRAPs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:15 PM (c27kw)

285 Yes, hence my original comment that there is no pussy on earth that's free.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (5aZAZ)

Well I have a pretty open schedule

Posted by: Jonah G. at February 26, 2026 01:15 PM (wIg5s)

286
And I'm sure that you can still get underage stuff in Cuba, possibly other areas of South America, and most of Asia.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

You can go to LA where the prostitutes ply their trade on the street and there are underage girls there today, sadly.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 01:15 PM (Pt3hn)

287 Url shorteners are your friends.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:15 PM (c27kw)

288 You can go to LA where the prostitutes ply their trade on the street and there are underage girls there today, sadly.
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Yep. CA really, really, really sucks.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 01:16 PM (pZ64F)

289 Denise Richards did not convince me of her nuclear scientist bona fides.

Totally believe she piloted a giant starship to go fight bugs, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (6ydKt)
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Bring her back!

https://tinyurl.com/yrteb9wh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 01:16 PM (plFPI)

290 Well I have a pretty open schedule
Posted by: Jonah G. at February 26, 2026 01:15 PM (wIg5s)
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I lol'd

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 01:16 PM (5aZAZ)

291 Pakistan has oblitered eastern Afghanistan, causing fives of dollars in damages.

Posted by: Wally at February 26, 2026 01:16 PM (pduCL)

292 Trafficking women to no one is highly proffitabe. How does that work?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:03 PM (c27kw)

'Prince' Andrew and Lord Mendelson weren't arrested for sex crimes. You know what's really, really profitable? Investing in something that the government will announce next week to be getting a huge amount of tax dollars.

No trafficking of girls required.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:16 PM (ExV1e)

293 You can go to LA where the prostitutes ply their trade on the street and there are underage girls there today, sadly.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 01:15 PM (Pt3hn)

But are they conversant in Thermo Nuclear Warhead design?

Posted by: zombie Georgie Best at February 26, 2026 01:17 PM (3sXRv)

294 War breaking out between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 01:10 PM

A plague on both their houses.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 01:17 PM (bFu5X)

295 I honestly believe that the public's overwhelming fascination with the "sex-capade" aspect of the Epstein matter is exactly what The Powers That Be are praying continues. As horrible as it is, the girls were just party favors for clients. The real story is about money. Epstein's business was about moving/hiding/washing large sums of money for his clients. That's the information that will bring down banks and governments. And that's the information they hope to distract attention form with lurid tales of sex.

Posted by: lxim at February 26, 2026 01:17 PM (rH8/3)

296 Do you actually think even those women just put out and then go away? LMFAO

Years ago, this one woman was interviewed by some sports oriented channel in response to several NBA players, trying to explain their infidelity, that there are indeed a number of 9's and 10's who seek out these high status players at away games who want to add to their sexual résumé high profile men.

And yes, there are some women who get knocked up by these guys and then seek paternity payoffs. (which is what kicked off the discussions on Side Line Hotties back in the 80s and 90s)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 01:17 PM (kHd4y)

297 Can we haz panoramic view turdworldfuckstains?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:18 PM (c27kw)

298 Birds, booze, and fast cars ...other than that I wasted my money
Posted by: zombie Georgie Best
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Henry Manney, commenting on the E-type Jag: "The greatest crumpet-catcher known to man"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 01:18 PM (XeU6L)

299

"All Trump had to do was call it a hoax and Dems let their TDS override their protection racket. "

It's a shame people think he's a moron. LOL.

"War breaking out between Pakistan and Afghanistan."

Can you imagine the body odor stank. Woof.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at February 26, 2026 01:18 PM (et1vG)

300 Now WE have to pay a yearly subscription or figure out work arounds while Gates figures out reach arounds.

L-I-N-U-X.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:18 PM (ExV1e)

301 Wait...is Itunes still a thing? Spotify is free.
And get off my lawn.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2026 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

302 War breaking out between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
___

Just great. Roberts just took away Trump's ability to use tariffs to negotiate a cease fire.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 01:18 PM (Dv3i1)

303 272 I sure hope no one wins. Is India gonna put up with this lying down?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 01:11 PM (c27kw)

It would be nice to see a 3 Way Dance for the Shitbag World Championship belt.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 01:19 PM (k1E2D)

304 "A plague on both their houses"

Is that an order?

Posted by: Fauci's Chinese Bioweapons Lab at February 26, 2026 01:19 PM (pduCL)

305 The real story is about money. Epstein's business was about moving/hiding/washing large sums of money for his clients. That's the information that will bring down banks and governments. And that's the information they hope to distract attention form with lurid tales of sex.
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Bingo. Its like 'investigative journalists' don't want to investigate. I wonder why?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 01:19 PM (pZ64F)

306 There once was a fellow from Redmomd
Who's bell end had started to redden.
He said with no glee, it burns when I pee!
Hey Melinda, drink this and ask me no questions.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 26, 2026 01:19 PM (zncNU)

307 Henry Manney, commenting on the E-type Jag: "The greatest crumpet-catcher known to man"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 01:18 PM (XeU6L)

He's not wrong ...

Posted by: zombie Georgie Best at February 26, 2026 01:19 PM (3sXRv)

308

There's a guy on X named Dave Collum, smart dude.

Don't scroll his feed before going to sleep.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at February 26, 2026 01:20 PM (et1vG)

309 200 Wasn't it said that his house was wired for sound and video?

these days he'd just use bluetooth

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 01:20 PM (sGtp+)

310 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 01:20 PM (Pt3hn)

311 Nood. FBI.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:20 PM (ExV1e)

312 Windows 7 was the apex. Everything after that has been total ass.
Posted by: The enshittification continues apace at February 26, 2026 12:23 PM (TbWk/)

I agree!

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (fYhK6)

313 Apparently, war broke out between Lauren Boebert and Hillary Clinton today, as well, during that hag's testimony on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (Y1sOo)

314 300 Now WE have to pay a yearly subscription or figure out work arounds while Gates figures out reach arounds.

L-I-N-U-X.

nothing bad could ever happen to that

Posted by: systemd is getting larger at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (sGtp+)

315 Marjorie Wallace was Miss USA and later Miss World. While she was in London, she "dated" Tom Jones, George Best, and race car driver Peter Revson. Revson was married, so that caused a scandal and Marjorie became the first beauty queen to be dethroned, decrowned, or whatever it is that they do to pageant winners.

Posted by: Hot Blonde Follies. at February 26, 2026 01:21 PM (oftw2)

316 You don't say.

>>"I think what you're seeing in Britain is, the charges against Prince Andrew and the former ambassador weren't sex-related crimes. They were more with respect to treason and selling secrets and things like that," he explained.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 01:22 PM (viF8m)

317 289 Denise Richards did not convince me of her nuclear scientist bona fides.

Totally believe she piloted a giant starship to go fight bugs, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 26, 2026 12:44 PM (6ydKt)
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Bring her back!

https://tinyurl.com/yrteb9wh
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 01:16 PM (plFPI)

She was hot back in the day. She turned 54 on Feb 17.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 01:22 PM (fYhK6)

318 Good, everyone's running upstairs--

Help, Horde! I got a call this morning from (turns out to be) a medical transport company in S. Idaho-- missed the call--

I think BIL is on his way here! Aw, sh!t...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (rdVOm)

319 286
And I'm sure that you can still get underage stuff in Cuba, possibly other areas of South America, and most of Asia.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

You can go to LA where the prostitutes ply their trade on the street and there are underage girls there today, sadly.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 01:15 PM (Pt3hn)

You can find that in every town in the US sadly. Plenty of illegals using the drug trade to finance the ho bidness.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (k1E2D)

320 "Which is what kicked off the discussion of sideline hotties back in the 80s and 90s"

Well, not to brag, but I might have had a little to do with that discussion in the 90s.

Posted by: Magic Johnson at February 26, 2026 01:23 PM (pduCL)

321 "However, one of Gates' main advisers and confidants, Boris Nikolic, introduced her to Epstein in 2013..."

CKGSB, Cheung King Graduate School of Business,
Trans-Siberian to Startup: How Boris Nikolic Found His Path in Cleantech

Life at CKGSB
2014 Intake
Politics
Business

Fascinating. "In January 2011, he took up a job at the mayor' office in Belgrade."

(Note: Serbia became a Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) partner, receiving security assistance for peacekeeping, and, in July, aided the U.S. by resettling two former Guantanamo detainees in 2011.)

Then he traveled and finally decided to pursue an MBA in China, where he did research on wind and solar power.
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Database notion site
Boris Nikolic, Physician

"House Oversight emails show Nikolic was part of Jeffrey Epstein's social and networking circle from at least 2012 through 2019, serving as a bridge between Epstein, Bill Gates, European media elites, and global political networks.
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Sounds like a bunch of spies. 🤔

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 01:26 PM (NFX2v)

322 imho, Bill Gates deserves everything he gets after his malaria operations in other countries. (And the old lady isn't faultless either.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 01:30 PM (NFX2v)

323 Is it a secret that Davos is flooded with high-priced hookers every time the "World Economic Forum" comes around?
WEF...the Whore Employment Foundation.

Posted by: UncleJefe at February 26, 2026 01:39 PM (gAuAm)

324 Other than a pervert, Borge looks like a very mean man who would look comfortable in a SS uniform.

I still want to know how Gates was going to secretly give Melinda antibiotics. Empty capsule in her OJ? Sedate her and inject her hip?

Pretend they are love pills..."Honey, I got these pills which promise tantric sex. Sting recommends it! You can achieve this but without all the yoga."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 26, 2026 01:56 PM (WONhk)

325 BREAKING: Hillary Clinton testified she has no information on Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and that she doesn't recall meeting him.

Clinton appeared before House lawmakers for a closed-door deposition as part of the congressional investigation into Epstein.

She shared her opening statement online, which reads, in part:

"I had no idea about [Jeffrey Epstein's and Ghislaine Maxwell's] criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island homes or offices. I have nothing to add to that."

Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, is scheduled to testify tomorrow in the investigation.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 02:07 PM (RHGPo)

326 I was a pretty critical commander in an area heavily targeted for Russian collection activity. I was briefed about honeypots and other collection techniques. I was ready...

I never got my Anna Chapman 😢
Posted by: Military Moron
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I recall the security briefings where we were constantly reminded that breachs very often involved women and alcohol. After one such briefing I commented to the presenter that I most certainly had never compromised anything...but...on the other hand, I'd never been offered whiskey and women.

Turns out, not everyone appreciates my sense of humor.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 01:00 PM (XeU6L)

Read a memoir of a Soviet GRU spy who once had a car collision with someone in Austria and exchanged contact information found out the dude worked at a major NATO base in Italy. Sadly for the spy, they were forbidden by Moscow to continue with this one guy, but his boss told him that hitting his car on purpose would be a good way to make a contact and the agency would pay for the damages.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 26, 2026 02:39 PM (8avO+)

327 Boebert is better looking on her worst day than Hillary on her best ever day.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2026 03:09 PM (3IEWI)

328 Who did Gates bang other than Natasha Fatale? How about Boris or Fearless Leader?

Posted by: Bill been bad at February 26, 2026 03:42 PM (fKeBm)

329 Hillary can't remember anything except wiping Bill's hard drive

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at February 26, 2026 04:15 PM (BGV86)

The Morning Rant: The Biggest Boondoggle In History?

The maniacal push for total conversion of our transportation network to EVs is part of the now-discredited and equally insane Global Warming/Climate Change power and money grab. At its heart it is two things: the first is raw, naked power. The elites want to control us, and transportation is a huge part of the modern world. The second is the degradation of our standard of living. EVs are inherently shorter range, more expensive, and more difficult to recharge on the go, so that will keep us closer to home...that mythical 15 minute city!

Sounds like socialism to me, because it is. And like socialism, it is failing because of that pesky little thing that guides civilizations' economic decisions....the market. Or Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand," which is merely the sum of all of the billions of individual decisions made by us for our own benefit.

But central planning, one of the tenets of power-mad socialists, ignores those individuals and instead decides what demand for goods should be. For economics geeks there is even a law -- Say's Law -- that suggests that supply can drive demand. But real-world evidence says that is mostly incorrect, and the socialists don't understand that law anyway.

So the mad push for EVs by automobile companies assumed that if they built those cars, no matter how expensive and inconvenient and dangerous (Lithium battery fires for the win!) they are, American consumers would buy them because...uh...reasons!

Those "reasons" can be distilled into one thing...worship at The Sustainable Organic Church Of The Carbon Apocalypse, which is Buck Throckmorton's brilliant term for the factless faith in EVs, renewable energy, a carbonless future, and unicorns!

Sadly, this hysterical conviction has spread to the C suites of our automobile manufacturers, and they fought the immutable laws of economics for years, until they simply ran out of other people's money...mainly their investors'!

Are EVs The Biggest Boondoggle In Human History?

hen Stellantis last week announced it was writing down $26 billion, the CEO of the car company that now owns Chrysler, Antonio Filosa, said it was “part of a decisive process we started in 2025 to once again make our customers and their preferences our guiding star.”
Which begs the question: What was Stellantis’ guiding star before if not its own customers?
For that matter, who or what has been guiding General Motors (which announced a $7.6 billion writedown last month), Ford ($19.5 billion), and other automakers that’ve written down a total of $140 billion in just the past three years?
Anyone who has followed the auto industry over the past decade knows the answer. All of these losses are the result of automakers chasing the phantom known as “zero emission” cars.

Those losses are staggering, and while I would suggest that the Soviet Union's grand experiment with socialism was a more comprehensive economic boondoggle, EVs are definitely in the conversation; the arrogance and stupidity of the automobile manufacturers' executives is certainly on par with the central committee of the Soviets!

There is some welcome news here. What the experience with the EV debacle shows is that consumers are still in the driver’s seat – no pun intended.

And now we find the crux of the problem. Consumers are ALWAYS in the driver's seat. Companies that provide what customers want are usually successful. Companies that lose sight of that axiomatic economic rule are rarely successful.

It's simple really. Free markets are successful for exactly that reason, and command economies will always fail because it is almost impossible to predict and guide demand through supply. I say "almost," because of course demand for EVs can be created by destroying the market for alternatives, but that is an economy-crushing behavior, and one that we see being played out in other countries.

Experimenting with people's economic lives rarely turns out well, and America's astounding economic success is a result of mostly avoiding that temptation!

[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 Primus

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:00 AM (zjgNU)

2 And: MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:01 AM (zjgNU)

3
ESPONJA!11!11!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 11:01 AM (tljrc)

4 ALrighty!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:02 AM (tj6OY)

5 > The second is the degradation of our standard of living. EVs are inherently shorter range, more expensive, and more difficult to recharge on the go, so that will keep us closer to home...that mythical 15 minute city!
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A mobile society is difficult to subjugate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 11:02 AM (jtM2q)

6 Hard to say which is bigger.

Covid was a harder hysteria and insanity in a smaller timeframe.

The climate bullshit has been a more enduring and pervasive one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 11:02 AM (bss/y)

7 "The Morning Rant: The Biggest Boondoggle In History?"
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I wouldn't say The Rant is that bad. It has its ups and downs, but still.

Posted by: Another Anon at February 26, 2026 11:02 AM (4h45B)

8 Boondoggle?
That's racist.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 11:02 AM (Kt19C)

9 EVs are the biggest boondoggle in human history SO FAR.

However, that's also because we have so much more money. It's like how every bad hurricane is the most destructive hurricane ever... because we have so much more stuff in the way for it to destroy.

If we get to a boondoggle that's so bad that it knocks us out of the industrial age... THEN it will be the biggest boondoggle in human history. Until then, it's always just the biggest so far.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:03 AM (zjgNU)

10 They put out another super secret podcast yesterday. Don't tell anyone.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:03 AM (c27kw)

11 Who was the fella that said "a sucker is born every minute"?

From the taxpayers to the customer to the chinese slave labor to the battery fires...

Posted by: EV's Are A Swindle at February 26, 2026 11:04 AM (hXJe5)

12 Booncession!

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

13 The Circus guy?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:04 AM (c27kw)

14 EVs suck balls.

The entire push to unseat the internal combustion engine when it's at the height of its efficacy curve was a retarded attempt at social engineering to better control the movements of the populace and nothing more.

It never made sense unless you think of the idea that the government would really love it if we weren't able to drive more than about 200 miles at a time and never really get far from home because it's too much of a pain in the ass to travel.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (5aZAZ)

15 >9 EVs are the biggest boondoggle in human history SO FAR.

Hold my beer.

Posted by: Net Zero Retards at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (NgqoH)

16 The Cybertruck is a really ugly, really heavy, really fast, really expensive...El Camino.

Posted by: Change my mind at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

17 Companies that provide what customers want are usually successful. Companies that lose sight of that axiomatic economic rule are rarely successful.

The problem is that the companies keep hiring people who are certain that they can make reality bend to their will and make people buy the shiny new product.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (+4yJ5)

18 P.T. Barnum.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (c27kw)

19 I really wonder if in 50 or 75 years people will look back at our time and it will be commonly accepted that we lost our collective minds.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (cxFcK)

20 Amusingly the same oligarchs that funded global warming now see the opportunity to get more wealth and power with AI and are dropping the push for global warming crap and this...THIS...is what might finally kill it.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

21 16 The Cybertruck is a really ugly, really heavy, really fast, really expensive...El Camino.
Posted by: Change my mind at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

It really has grown on me though. Once you see it as a Halo warthog, it starts seeming a lot cooler.

It is something about the tires.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)

22 Of note, there are some frightening people who think that AI can alleviate the knowledge problem of socialism. (See: F. A. Hayek)

They think that with enough computing power, centralization of all decisions will be possible.

It's hubris, and hubris ALWAYS leads to nemesis. (Or, in more recent terms: The gods of the Copybook Headings)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:06 AM (zjgNU)

23 Now do recycling.

Posted by: It's a religion at February 26, 2026 11:06 AM (2Ez/1)

24 "Experimenting with people's economic lives rarely turns out well, and America's astounding economic success is a result of mostly avoiding that temptation!"

Big media and Madison Ave. would beg to differ.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 11:07 AM (Y8DZL)

25
The Cybertruck is a really ugly, really heavy, really fast, really expensive...El Camino.

Posted by: Change my mind at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM

how soon until we start seeing them up on cinder blocks in front of a double-wide?

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 11:08 AM (tljrc)

26 EVs suck balls.

The entire push to unseat the internal combustion engine when it's at the height of its efficacy curve was a retarded attempt at social engineering to better control the movements of the populace and nothing more.

It never made sense unless you think of the idea that the government would really love it if we weren't able to drive more than about 200 miles at a time and never really get far from home because it's too much of a pain in the ass to travel.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (5aZAZ)

This.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 11:08 AM (snZF9)

27 In the middle, it's not fraud. It's a purposeful operation to kill the Western economies. The goal was and is to eliminate actual free markets and Republics. Those that are able to program this insanity want to be the world-striding aristocrats . Fraud -> revolution -> Fraud.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 11:08 AM (diia5)

28 If the cybertruck had the ability to generate its own power.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:09 AM (c27kw)

29 They think that with enough computing power, centralization of all decisions will be possible.

It's hubris, and hubris ALWAYS leads to nemesis. (Or, in more recent terms: The gods of the Copybook Headings)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:06 AM (zjgNU)
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This was the essence behind Isaac Asimov's "psychohistory."

While you couldn't predict a single individual's behavior, with a sufficiently large dataset, you could steer the masses of humanity in a desired direction.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 11:09 AM (ESVrU)

30 Those CEOs were fighting not only the laws of economics, but the laws of physics as well. That's always a losing proposition. Idiots.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 26, 2026 11:10 AM (U7oUJ)

31 The Cybertruck is a really ugly, really heavy, really fast, really expensive...El Camino.

Posted by: Change my mind at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

Some dude put a Hemi in one. I'm thinking it probably weighed a hell of a lot less. The mods to do that must have been epic.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 11:10 AM (snZF9)

32 Or Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand," which is merely the sum of all of the billions of individual decisions made by us for our own benefit.

But central planning,...

Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand"- i.e. "Gosh! It's what the market wanted!" makes a lot more sense to me if you think of him as a group of Malthusian Luciferians.

There's a lot more money to be made from an abundant, thriving society of healthy citizens, food, medicine, etc., but the "free market" never seems to decide in our favor, does it? That's odd.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:10 AM (w4PfG)

33 I think in the larger sense, it is an inversion of World War II Strategic Bombing Survey towards Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Applied to America.

To deny the ability to wage war, or even more importantly to mount a defense - by destroying key “choke points” in an economy.

The attacks on coal, petroleum, gas & oil - energy. There is absolutely no viable alternative on the horizon. Nuclear energy held a lot of promise. But effectively neutered.

For all that, I doubt there is a single ball bearing manufacturer in the U.S.A. It’s all really just a little too convenient, ain’t it?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 11:10 AM (yfFl/)

34 Now do recycling.
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Yes, its another example of exerting *control* of people for the pure sake of power. It was never about the environment, and I believe that a LOT of the stories that say "We followed the recycle trucks after pickup and they just dump the recycle stuff at the same dump as the other trash" are TRUE.

Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 11:10 AM (TN0g+)

35 Here's an idle observation:

I (and many others here) have noted that we NEVER had the power generation to support a move to full EVs. (Among the multiple problems with EVs).

The foolish car makers didn't take note of the fact that ZERO governmental authorities (or quasi-governmental power companies) made any effort to increase power generation to support this "transition." IF they had smart people on their staff, the car makers could have realized their efforts were doomed.

HOWEVER, now that AI needs massive amounts of power for it's ~~server farms~~ err.. "data centers", governments are falling all over themselves to build more power generation.

Government REALLY wants the power of AI. For what purpose? (Hopefully they're just as wrong about the future potential of AI for their aims, but we're going to find out.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU)

36 Say's law isn't about a given good creating demand for itself, but that the supply of one good is the source of purchasing power, ie demand, for another good. So universal oversupply isn't possible, while local/good-specific oversupply is.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at February 26, 2026 11:12 AM (okun6)

37 Some dude put a Hemi in one. I'm thinking it probably weighed a hell of a lot less. The mods to do that must have been epic.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Twin smokestacks, I hope? That would be pretty awesome.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:12 AM (w4PfG)

38 For all that, I doubt there is a single ball bearing manufacturer in the U.S.A. It’s all really just a little too convenient, ain’t it?
Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 11:10 AM (yfFl/)

NAFTA hit about the same time as the genesis of the global warmening.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 11:12 AM (bss/y)

39 I really wonder if in 50 or 75 years people will look back at our time and it will be commonly accepted that we lost our collective minds.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM

For humanity's sake, I hope so.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 11:12 AM (bFu5X)

40 After they sort the recycling the belt went to the trash can. Most of these sorters disappeared in these parts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:12 AM (c27kw)

41 As for taking a laughably bad idea to its ultimate terrible absurdity, the adoption of EVs as SCHOOL BUSES takes the cake. Thankfully the Biden-era idea to take that one step further and adopt them for the battlefield has been scuttled...for now.

Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 11:13 AM (TN0g+)

42 You are correct. And by the way, tariffs are also one of the tools of the central planner.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 26, 2026 11:13 AM (+48wn)

43 I would never own an EV, but if I did, it would be a cyber truck.

But as noted, I’ll never own an EV.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 11:14 AM (vgwWi)

44 Meanwhile, fascism is unfolding in Kansas for the millions of transgender drivers in the state.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

The Kansas legislature passed a bill saying that your driver's license is invalid unless your actual sex is on the driver's license, not your made-up sex. The governor vetoed the bill, but the legislature overrode the veto.

Kansas DMV sent out letters to the trannies saying their driver's licenses are invalid, as of today, and that you have to get a new driver's license corresponding to your actual sex.

Literally Hitler.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 11:14 AM (n1OCj)

45 We can't advance until the sun comes out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:14 AM (c27kw)

46 Whatever happened to the Moron who used to comment as "Adam Smith's Pimp Hand"?

Posted by: pookysgirl might be misremembering at February 26, 2026 11:15 AM (Wt5PA)

47 I recently bought a Honda Civic hybrid. It may be the best car I've ever driven. Fifty miles per gallon. Unbelievable tech that I'm still learning. Two hundred hp, zero to sixty in 6.4 sec.

Point being, this hybrid technology might be the only glimmer of a dividend I get from climate hysteria. Honestly, it wasn't worth it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 26, 2026 11:15 AM (cxFcK)

48 I still say: Diesel generator, electric motors. Cybertruck platform might be the best to try it on. Generator just runs to top off battery (which can e smaller since it is fed.) You get all the benefits of the electric motors with the range of a diesel. Might have to figure out if the fuel tank has to go in the bed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 11:16 AM (bss/y)

49 A mobile society is difficult to subjugate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

tee hee

Posted by: 2026 govt mandated kill switch at February 26, 2026 11:16 AM (L1v+w)

50 If the cybertruck had the ability to generate its own power.
Posted by: Boss Moss

So, whatchur sayin' is a mini nuke, right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 11:16 AM (diia5)

51 Kansas DMV sent out letters to the trannies saying their driver's licenses are invalid, as of today, and that you have to get a new driver's license corresponding to your actual sex.
_____

Wow, millions of KS drivers suddenly not able to drive. That might make commutes a little easier though. I'm torn.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 11:16 AM (Dv3i1)

52 As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse

They should have kept their hands off of kids.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 11:17 AM (+4yJ5)

53 The Kansas legislature passed a bill saying that your driver's license is invalid unless your actual sex is on the driver's license, not your made-up sex. The governor vetoed the bill, but the legislature overrode the veto.

Somebody noted on X that for red states that are worried about blue state refugees moving to their states and continuing to vote for stupid blue state policies, that passing largely symbolic laws like this are important.

Hopefully these laws will serve as garlic to the blue state vampires considering a move.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 11:18 AM (n1OCj)

54 For all that, I doubt there is a single ball bearing manufacturer in the U.S.A. It’s all really just a little too convenient, ain’t it?
Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 11:10 AM (yfFl/)

I have to deal with shit tons of different bearings with the harley. Occasionally I still see USA bearings. Usually the timken company, but its getting scarcer over the years. We'll use japanese bearings if we can't get USA. China ones go straight into the trash.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 11:18 AM (snZF9)

55 Obligatory:

I saw Malthusian Luciferians open for MegaDeath at the Orpheum in 1984 ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 11:18 AM (3sXRv)

56 Kansa is a schizophrenic state.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

57 Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand"- i.e. "Gosh! It's what the market wanted!" makes a lot more sense to me if you think of him as a group of Malthusian Luciferians.

There's a lot more money to be made from an abundant, thriving society of healthy citizens, food, medicine, etc., but the "free market" never seems to decide in our favor, does it? That's odd.
Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:10 AM (w4PfG)

Can someone translate this for me?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:19 AM (zjgNU)

58 Kansas.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:19 AM (pDt9x)

59 Give up your car and use public transportation, they said. Your carbon footprint will be much better, and life will be so much better, they said. 15 Minute Cities are the Way of the Future!!

Uhhhhh. . .?

https://tinyurl.com/2wp64ap6

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:20 AM (tj6OY)

60 If the cybertruck had the ability to generate its own power.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The wind-powered clippertruck.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:20 AM (w4PfG)

61 56 Kansa is a schizophrenic state.
Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

Heh. Try Kentucky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)

62 >>I saw Malthusian Luciferians open for MegaDeath at the Orpheum in 1984 ...

Was that the one where Stabbing Westward was originally meant to open, but ended up touring with Catherine Wheel instead?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:21 AM (tj6OY)

63 I guess Buck’s going to need to do a movie review or something tomorrow since Punk Chimp bogarted his EV rant.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at February 26, 2026 11:21 AM (2uFUy)

64 It is a pain in the ass to travel. Not very many of us have private jets. Or wide open roads. Or pockets full of money to dish out for car repairs and tickets.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2026 11:21 AM (Z3Kkg)

65 I was thinking more along the lines of an internal combustion engine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:21 AM (c27kw)

66 As for taking a laughably bad idea to its ultimate terrible absurdity, the adoption of EVs as SCHOOL BUSES takes the cake.
——

Re-chargeable snow plows!

Conventional school bus are expensive. Blue Bird. They don’t always take care of them the way they should. The Diesels have four (4) big batteries wired in series/parallel. About $200 a pop.

They park them in the summer, and the batteries discharge and sulfate up in the heat, and come Fall they need new batteries. It ain’t their money, they don’t care.

I’m sure quite a lot of effort is expended making rechargeables idiot-proof. They are fires waiting to happen, and require very careful monitoring for any sign of cell reversal. Every single one ideally is the same temperature, age, internal resistance, even the same production run and lot number, due to internal chemistry. One cell out of 3000 starts hogging current. Oops

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 11:21 AM (yfFl/)

67
The Cybertruck is a really ugly, really heavy, really fast, really expensive...El Camino.
Posted by: Change my mind

Put astro-turf in the back of that baby!

Posted by: B. Clinton at February 26, 2026 11:22 AM (Cqx++)

68 "Companies that provide what customers want are usually successful. Companies that lose sight of that axiomatic economic rule are rarely successful."

Childcare centers in Minnesota have found a better way.
They don't even need customers, they just fill out forms and the money rolls in.

Way too many have gotten filthy rich that way, including a lot of oligarchs and globalists. But yes, underlying all the fraud are real companies that play by the economic rules, and provide a "better mousetrap".

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2026 11:22 AM (vbXSk)

69 If you want an EV that's fine, but trying to force them on us is a big no....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 11:22 AM (VE6XX)

70 EVs were always going to be a luxury item for those who could afford it, and who did not depend on it for their daily life or livelihood. IMHO. I've toyed with buying one because I could afford one and I don't need it.

I think the other shoe to drop that will eclipse the EV thing is the massive need for electricity for data centers. Our lords and masters have their priorities.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 26, 2026 11:23 AM (MZ+PY)

71 Trollop.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:23 AM (c27kw)

72 Was that the one where Stabbing Westward was originally meant to open, but ended up touring with Catherine Wheel instead?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:21 AM (tj6OY)

Why yes ... yes it was

Big mistake ... BIG!

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 11:23 AM (3sXRv)

73 Kansa is a schizophrenic state.
Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:18 AM

I told you! Did I not tell you?!

Posted by: Thomas Frank at February 26, 2026 11:23 AM (bFu5X)

74 Thune doing an all star job for the ages with SAVE ACT. We have never, ever seen a failure theater like this.

No time to pass it! ---Senate has time for dog parades.

Never mind him playing procedural failure chess the whole time.

Repeal the 17th so we can recall these sacks of shit eating cockroaches.

Posted by: GigantorX at February 26, 2026 11:24 AM (x8k2o)

75 if the fuel tank has to go in the bed.

Sleep on the wet spot?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 11:24 AM (Kt19C)

76 I'm gonna take a slightly contrary position here. I generally agree that some people push EVs for the reasons stated, but most don't. I think most people who are on the EV bandwagon sincerely and truly believe that they will solve all of the problems imagined without any of the downsides. The problem is not that they are insincere, it's that they are wrong. EVs are like Santa Clause - sure it would be awesome if there was a jolly fat guy who travels around the world on one night delivering presents to every kid on earth, but it just isn't true. People who push EVs don't have any idea what they actually are, how they work, what their disadvantages are, or how we will fix that. They want magic to be real, but it ain't.

Posted by: DPICM at February 26, 2026 11:24 AM (zt2eU)

77 I like em young. So incredibly young. The younger the better.
Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:22 AM (OXrVF)

HOW DOES BIDEN HAVE ACCESS TO THE PRESIDENT'S ACCOUNT!?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:24 AM (zjgNU)

78 They park them in the summer, and the batteries discharge and sulfate up in the heat, and come Fall they need new batteries. It ain’t their money, they don’t care.

See the private sector knows how to handle this. After one incidence like this you'd get a, "Your bonus/salary budget will be deducted by the cost of any batteries replaced in less then 5 years. "

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

79 >>> The maniacal push for total conversion of our transportation network...

Transportation made be a bigger chunk of the national economy than the medical industry.

It was always just commies statist authoritarians (whatever you want to call them) trying to take control.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 11:24 AM (/lPRQ)

80 Dumb ideas and beliefs will always remain one Democrat president away from being a brilliant plan.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 26, 2026 11:25 AM (9C/Xw)

81 Coal fired Cypertrucks ftw.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:25 AM (c27kw)

82 OXrVF

Gunner! Sabot! Troll!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X)

83 Anxiously waiting for a group of stockholders to sue these CEOs for failing to live up to their fiduciary responsibility.
Probably shouldn't hold my breath.

Posted by: Chemist at February 26, 2026 11:25 AM (DWkkI)

84 I'm gonna take a slightly contrary position here. I generally agree that some people push EVs for the reasons stated, but most don't. I think most people who are on the EV bandwagon sincerely and truly believe that they will solve all of the problems imagined without any of the downsides. The problem is not that they are insincere, it's that they are wrong. EVs are like Santa Clause - sure it would be awesome if there was a jolly fat guy who travels around the world on one night delivering presents to every kid on earth, but it just isn't true. People who push EVs don't have any idea what they actually are, how they work, what their disadvantages are, or how we will fix that. They want magic to be real, but it ain't.
Posted by: DPICM at February 26, 2026 11:24 AM (zt2eU)

We used to have an intelligent populace. American's were KNOWN for engineers.

Then Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:26 AM (zjgNU)

85 >>Kansas DMV sent out letters to the trannies saying their driver's licenses are invalid, as of today, and that you have to get a new driver's license corresponding to your actual sex.

Here's a thought: By choosing to defy genetic sex you are putting so many things in the hands of other people to make your life possible - your license, your healthcare, your ability to engage in sports. If you don't want to be "erased," then don't make your gender reliant on validation from other people and institutions.

You are being *enslaved* not empowered by this.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:26 AM (tj6OY)

86 The corollary to the EV boondoggle is the continued fuel efficiency stupidity. Replacing reliable 6 or 8 cyl engines with scandalously self-grenading turbo 4 cyl shit still robs all but consumers of considerable means of any real choice. Either buy an older car, or bend over while the stealership breaks it off in your ass. The garbage built today will never make it to the used market. Cuba here we come...

Posted by: 2026 govt mandated kill switch at February 26, 2026 11:26 AM (L1v+w)

87 Awww...the troll thinks it's clever.

Here, have a cookie and fuck off.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X)

88 The left is in a really odd place with young women right now.

They'll tell you the only reason a younger woman would have a relationship with an older man like say Leo D, is that they are naive and easy to control

Then, since young women are their strongest demographic they'll tell you that young women are "the voice of the future" and the people we should get our ideas about politics from.

Well which is it? You can only pick one

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:27 AM (sKqQm)

89 Seems like a missed opportunity not mentioning Government mandates.

The car CEO's just drove off a cliff of their own accord.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 26, 2026 11:27 AM (cS1cw)

90 sock off, heh

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 26, 2026 11:27 AM (L1v+w)

91 The Accord is a Honda.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:28 AM (c27kw)

92 >>Why yes ... yes it was

Big mistake ... BIG!

It was torture!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:28 AM (tj6OY)

93 Ivanka in her teen years was the best. Mmmm daddy like.

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:28 AM (vkUf8)

94 Well which is it? You can only pick one
____

Both, silly!

Posted by: Doublethink is my Superpower at February 26, 2026 11:28 AM (Dv3i1)

95 I find it funny that the left is going all in on the "TRUMP IS A PEDO" when their the ones that voted for Senile Grandpa Stranger Danger. (And then stole the election for him)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:29 AM (zjgNU)

96 It all makes ya wonder just how much lower our taxes would be if government didn't waste money on crap like this. And also the pure corruption.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 11:29 AM (2WIwB)

97 The Tesla cybertruck... IMHO, one of the most hideous atrocities on the road. I see a few around here; now since their owners wanted them, great! Have at it... but man do they look ugly on the road!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 11:29 AM (xT8gx)

98 Kansas DMV sent out letters to the trannies saying their driver's licenses are invalid, as of today, and that you have to get a new driver's license corresponding to your actual sex.

----------

University towns hardest hit.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 26, 2026 11:29 AM (g8Ew8)

99 Pink Shrinp is the best.

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:30 AM (vkUf8)

100 They park them in the summer, and the batteries discharge and sulfate up in the heat, and come Fall they need new batteries. It ain’t their money, they don’t care.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 11:21 AM (yfFl/)

I went to a Christian high school that provides bus service for their local Christian grade school. The only time in the summer that the busses were not being used to ferry the baseball/softball teams around was the first two weeks of August... which was their annual tune-up. It worked out pretty well.

Posted by: pookysgirl is a fan of efficiency at February 26, 2026 11:30 AM (Wt5PA)

101 They can change hashes now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:30 AM (c27kw)

102 Washington Free Beacon Staff
Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump’s request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist" and said the moment made her "uncomfortable."

TBF, she does have a nice rack, as the yutes say.

https://tinyurl.com/23mv34kz

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 11:30 AM (Dv3i1)

103
Well which is it? You can only pick one
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:27 AM (sKqQm)
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:31 AM (zjgNU)

104 I love the uneducated.
But I love young girls even more.

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:31 AM (2Xqwd)

105 >>The Tesla cybertruck... IMHO, one of the most hideous atrocities on the road.

The other day I saw a Tesla sedan painted MaryKay/Barbie pink. Looked like a huge hunk of Bazooka bubblegum.

Now THAT was an atrocity!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:31 AM (tj6OY)

106 See the private sector knows how to handle this. After one incidence like this you'd get a, "Your bonus/salary budget will be deducted by the cost of any batteries replaced in less then 5 years. "
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:24 AM (sKqQm)
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They expect results.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 11:31 AM (i1VVh)

107 The Tesla cybertruck... IMHO, one of the most hideous atrocities on the road. I see a few around here; now since their owners wanted them, great! Have at it... but man do they look ugly on the road!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 11:29 AM (xT8gx)

Frankfort School styling.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 26, 2026 11:31 AM (g8Ew8)

108 Kansas is a schizophrenic state.
Posted by: tubal

Tell me about it. One minute I'm just riding my bike to take that mangy little dog to the sheriff, the next, I'm riding a broom around the Emerald City skywriting "Surrender Dorothy."
-- Elmira Gulch

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

109 There's a guy around here with a Cyber Truck. Painted it black. Got graphics on it that kind of resemble an Imperial Tie Fighter from Star Wars.

It moves the needle a bit with me for coolness factor.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 11:31 AM (jtM2q)

110 I find it funny that the left is going all in on the "TRUMP IS A PEDO" when their the ones that voted for Senile Grandpa Stranger Danger. (And then stole the election for him)

Oh this is one of their dumber propaganda ops. The same people, literally the same people, that said for 4 years there were no Epstein clients and that you can't just call politicians you don't like pedos are saying Trump is a pedo because their are sekret unreleased Epstein documents saying he is.

AND!!! at the same time they are trying to legalize underage prostitution in CA and stop the right from banning pron being given to children.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

111 Most of the thinhs you learn in school aren't even true.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:32 AM (c27kw)

112 Younger
Fresher
Sweeter
Nice!

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:32 AM (bg88N)

113 I wonder why they never noticed Trump was this big pedo back when they were complaining he was a Russian Agent and twenty other things. Might have been worth mentioning.

Or why they didn't investigate Epstein when they had the chance and instead chose to cover it up. So strange.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:32 AM (wIg5s)

114 >>Well which is it? You can only pick one

Schoedinger's Feminism
Are they a girlboss?
Are they a victim?
Will they try to claim they are both at the same time.

Yes.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:32 AM (tj6OY)

115 They can change hashes now.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:30 AM

They're evolving...mutating.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 11:32 AM (bFu5X)

116 26 Billion.

That's quite the write off.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:32 AM (1Udfd)

117 45 We can't advance until the sun comes out.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:14 AM (c27kw)

Gird your loins! We attack tomorrow!

Posted by: Annie at February 26, 2026 11:32 AM (w/O5Q)

118 We have a great many 20 and 30 somethings as members of my SBC church. What is noticeable is that the unmarrieds tend to pair off and marry after a time. Then they, get this, start having children!!! The moms stop working and the dads bust ass making money for them to live on. Weird, right? After the iids get old enough, moms start working again, some. Crazy place, my church.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:33 AM (pDt9x)

119 stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist"

There are Americans of every ethnicity. Favoring American citizens over non-citizens cannot be racist.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:33 AM (sKqQm)

120 She’s 15?
Ewww too old.

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:33 AM (wWWkd)

121 I find it funny that the left is going all in on the "TRUMP IS A PEDO" when their the ones that voted for Senile Grandpa Stranger Danger. (And then stole the election for him)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Irritating spam.
Kind of like tossing green dildos onto basketball courts...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 11:33 AM (/lPRQ)

122 The Accord is a Honda.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:28 AM (c27kw)
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The Snark is a Boojum.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 11:33 AM (i1VVh)

123 Oddly, no one is trying to conquer Russia for their electrical grid. Oil and gas is another story.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 11:33 AM (pZ64F)

124 The farmers and ranchers already know this, of course, but having an actual truck that can do truck things is really fucking important for self-reliance.

I hope more people figure this out before something dumb happens like the Dems getting the WH again and continuing on with their plan to separate the peasants from their vehicles.

Personally, I'm never going without at least a 3/4 ton pickup again. Freedom tends to be heavy and sometimes needs moved long distances.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 11:34 AM (NufQ3)

125
The Left: Trump is a pedo

Also the Left: We are coming to sexualize your children and if you object you are going to jail

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:34 AM (wIg5s)

126 >>The Tesla cybertruck... IMHO, one of the most hideous atrocities on the road. I see a few around here; now since their owners wanted them, great! Have at it... but man do they look ugly on the road!

There is a guy here with a purple one. Looks almost Anodized.

Nothing pegs the 'idiot' meter like a Cybertruck, for me.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:34 AM (1Udfd)

127 Ivanka was a naughty girl and I spanked her .

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (TtdNq)

128 Lucid widely misses earnings expectations, forecasts slowing EV growth in 2026.

Why aren’t large manufacturers licensing any of their technology, like their engine technology? Why aren’t Fords using Lucid engines?

I'm assuming Lucid is keeping it all close to the chest because without this highly efficient and elegant motor and other hardware designs they've done, they really have nothing to differentiate their EVs. Or, their hardware has been severely overhyped.

the hate in this sub for Lucid is always surprising to me. They make the best driving, roomiest, most efficient vehicles in their respective classes. And yet somehow they still catch so much hate.

I still have high hopes for this company. Not selling any of my stock and just recently added more to my portfolio. It's in the red but I'm comfortable with high risk.

It may look bad now but I'm betting in the next 2-5 years things are going to look a lot better...

Cheap EVs!!! That’s all customers want. But carmakers are busy dropping $60k plus cars with 200 mile real world range with unpolished battery management systems and overly complex infotainment buttonless systems.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (JCZqz)

129 I hates whitey is such a uniting political statement.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (c27kw)

130 78 They park them in the summer, and the batteries discharge and sulfate up in the heat, and come Fall they need new batteries. It ain’t their money, they don’t care.

Big Battery doles out the vig. Director of Transportation at school districts vacation in Aruba.

Posted by: Hundred-Dollar Handshake at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (oftw2)

131 Oh look, someone has a VPN.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (pDt9x)

132 Nothing pegs the 'idiot' meter like a Cybertruck, for me.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:34 AM (1Udfd)

Prius

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (wIg5s)

133 >> I'm never going without at least a 3/4 ton pickup again.

Long Box. They are almost useless unless you have an 8 foot bed.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (1Udfd)

134 It all makes ya wonder just how much lower our taxes would be if government didn't waste money
——-

Taxation isn’t really about revenue. Not since they went to an “elastic currency”. Beardsley Ruml was a former Macy’s account executive who went to work for FDR and implemented income witholding.

Prior to that individuals filed quarterly just like business. He gave a speech after the war, pointing out the federal government has a printing press, and no longer has a need for taxation as such, as was necessary when the money supply was relatively fixed or constrained.

It’s more about control, or “for other purposes”.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (yfFl/)

135 Well which is it? You can only pick one
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:27 AM (sKqQm)

I think it goes hand in hand, and makes perfect sense from the Left's perspective. Shut up and do what I tell you, and that will make the future yours. Well, ours, but you helped by doing what we told you. Now shut up. It's ours.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (MZ+PY)

136 Okay.. Do we have a new troll or a disguised troll ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 11:35 AM (VE6XX)

137 >>AND!!! at the same time they are trying to legalize underage prostitution in CA and stop the right from banning pron being given to children.

They didn't say dick about Biden "losing" over 300,000 children who were sex trafficked into the US during his term and they are fighting ICE and BP who are trying to find them.

And the Clintons are giving depositions about their dealings with Epstein today. They know Bubba is guilty of everything they accuse Trump of doing and they don't care.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 11:36 AM (viF8m)

138 It is a pain in the ass to travel. Not very many of us have private jets. Or wide open roads. Or pockets full of money to dish out for car repairs and tickets.
Posted by: Case at February 26, 2026 11:21 AM (Z3Kkg)

Man it's easy I be collecting ebt and other freebies and I bees flying Spirit Air all them places on the weekends. It all comes from Obamas stash!

Posted by: Shameeka Johnson at February 26, 2026 11:36 AM (hXJe5)

139 AND!!! at the same time they are trying to legalize underage prostitution in CA and stop the right from banning pron being given to children.

The pervert-enabler in California, Scott Weiner, explained that he didn't want to criminalize a high school kid buying sex for $20 from another high school kid.

Knowing Scott's proclivities, it is far more likely that he didn't want to criminalize a 45-year-old homosexual buying sex from a high school kid.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2026 11:36 AM (n1OCj)

140 >>I wonder why they never noticed Trump was this big pedo back when they were complaining he was a Russian Agent and twenty other things. Might have been worth mentioning.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE NYC GOSSIP COLUMNIST AJ BENZA SAID TRUMP WAS HIS BIGGEST SOURCE IN THE 80'S/90'S. DIDN'T EVEN ASK BENZA TO SUPPRESS STORIES ABOUT HIMSELF IN RETURN, ONLY ASKED HIM TO SPELL HIS CURRENT MODEL'S NAME AND GET HIS CURRENT NET WORTH RIGHT.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 26, 2026 11:36 AM (tj6OY)

141 Also the Left: We are coming to sexualize your children and if you object you are going to jail
Posted by: ...

Don't forget that they came up with the term "Minor Attracted Individuals" and insist that it's a beautiful lifestyle. So their hatred of Trump is a bit baffling.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 11:36 AM (+4yJ5)

142 Awww...the troll thinks it's clever.

The comment itself serves as a troll's hash, but, there are very few people here- one-and-done hashes could be flagged for inspection on the backend.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:37 AM (quOho)

143 >>Prius

Prius at least affords a benefit, mileage is a real concern for some. Of course, you have to throw safety out the window...but I can see being that frugal.

I can't find anything of benefit to Cybertruck ownership.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:37 AM (1Udfd)

144 "121 I find it funny that the left is going all in on the "TRUMP IS A PEDO" when their the ones that voted for Senile Grandpa Stranger Danger. (And then stole the election for him)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Irritating spam.
Kind of like tossing green dildos onto basketball courts...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 11:33 AM (/lPRQ)

The Dems consist of two main groups, if you set aside who is calling the shots:
- the literally retarded, like sub-90 IQ, who aren't going to remember last week anyways
- those that know their talking points are full of shit and don't care because they're evil

That old saw about "the right thinks the left is stupid, the left thinks the right is evil" is exactly why we've been steadily losing ground for a century and a half. The stupid don't matter, and it's the rest of the left that IS evil that is the problem - along with the grifters and professional trough vacuums on the right.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 11:37 AM (NufQ3)

145 All my hash is missing is the lace

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:37 AM (wIg5s)

146 At least off the top of my head, I can't think of a nothing burger topic that has been more shrieked about than "Epstein files!!!!"

And I'm one who thinks he was a creep and had lots of creepy (rich) friends. I'm just not buying any vast "control the world with kiddy diddling kompromat" conspiracy...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 11:37 AM (xT8gx)

147 👍

>Stellantis
Profit sharing for Stellantis UAW workers drops to $0 for first time since 2011, Feb. 26, 2026

I tend to think where they - the alleged environmentalists AND big business - have us by the short hairs is electricity. Simply, the control of the electrical grid, investments, and ever rising prices.

EVs were present in California and other U.S. states over a century ago. Early, popular electric cars were widespread in the 1900s-1910s, with significant numbers in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. The 1970s oil crises spurred niche production, and California mandated early ZEVs in the 1990s.

Wind turbines gained significant popularity in the U.S. during the 1970s and 1980s; solar panels gained popularity and widespread adoption in the 2010s.

Ebb and flow.

Even now, wind turbines require power from the grid to operate internal components (motors, heaters, controllers) when not producing energy. Solar PV systems require inverters to convert DC to AC electricity. And, of course, EVs need electricity, too.

Electricity is essential.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 11:38 AM (NFX2v)

148 I do not, nor would, own a Prius. But they are time tested and work well. Their concept is sound.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:38 AM (pDt9x)

149
P.J. O'Rourke's last car review was for the Ford Flex, which people considered ugly and was discontinued. He correctly called it dad's station wagon; it was mercilessly mocked by Mel Gibson in "Daddy's Home 2".

It goes 450 miles on a tank of gas, gets at least 200,000 miles of use, and now costs about $10,000 if lightly used. 20 years of service. Unparalleled highway and snow condition driving.

Now do the math on your Tesla.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 11:38 AM (Y8DZL)

150 Young
Younger
Youngest

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:39 AM (XnGdi)

151 Cheap EVs!!! That’s all customers want.
——-

Otherwise known as “Golf Carts”. Which would be perfect for certain folks in certain places. And probably don’t need 500 amp residential service and building new power generation capacity, and don’t cost $65000. But they aren’t “safe” you see

So that’ll never do.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 11:39 AM (yfFl/)

152 Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:37 AM (1Udfd)

The difference to me is a cybertruck person knows they look like an idiot where a Prius person thinks they look smart

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:39 AM (wIg5s)

153 "125
Also the Left: We are coming to sexualize your children and if you object you are going to jail
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:34 AM (wIg5s)"

Well, to get back on topic from the last thread;

"Dear moonbats:
I own an antitank rifle. Get fucked.

Thank your for your attention to this matter"

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 11:39 AM (NufQ3)

154 >>All my hash is missing is the lace

5 Wigs.

For the Bald and Smart.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:39 AM (1Udfd)

155 Irritating spam.
Kind of like tossing green dildos onto basketball courts...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 11:33 AM (/lPRQ)

Green dildos have comedic value. That's just pooping on the sidewalk. Oh, wait. makes sense now.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 26, 2026 11:40 AM (w/O5Q)

156 I want one. Does it have fake wood paneling?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:40 AM (c27kw)

157 The very best
The very youngest
It’s what Donnie Daddy likes

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:40 AM (m+gHC)

158 For the Bald and Smart.
Posted by: garrett

The Bald and the Smart was my favorite soap opera.

Posted by: Confused Moron at February 26, 2026 11:40 AM (JCZqz)

159 I see Hillary "testified" today and said she knows nothing about Epstein...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 11:41 AM (VE6XX)

160 26 Billion.

That's quite the write off.
Posted by: garrett

You know about the write-off sizes, Jerry?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

161 I keep seeing younger 'tards trying to use things like Rivians for outdoor adventuring.

Sooner or later one of them is going to die after being stranded in the desert, or stuck in the snow in winter, after running out of juice. There is a subset of the under-35 crowd that fundamentally doesn't understand how shit works, which is also why they drool over "green energy" and other such bullshit.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 11:41 AM (NufQ3)

162 One of the top guys that has switched from "we need less power generation to save the earth, you proles are going to have to make sacrifices" to "AI is going to make us, and I mean me, richer, so sorry proles we need more power plants" is...Bill Gates.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 11:41 AM (sKqQm)

163 I see Hillary "testified" today and said she knows nothing about Epstein...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 11:41 AM (VE6XX)

For the Most Qualified Person Ever she sure doesn't seem to know nothing about nothing.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:41 AM (wIg5s)

164 I can't find anything of benefit to Cybertruck ownership.
----------------
You can pretend you are part of the Star Fleet. Total Geek Machine.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 11:42 AM (pZ64F)

165 67 The Cybertruck is a really ugly, really heavy, really fast, really expensive...El Camino.
Posted by: Change my mind

Put astro-turf in the back of that baby!

organic, sustainable astro-turf?

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 11:42 AM (sGtp+)

166 Wait... so Prius people actually are smart? I'll be honest I had no idea.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:42 AM (wIg5s)

167 152
‘ The difference to me is a cybertruck person knows they look like an idiot where a Prius person thinks they look smart’

I looked smart both before and after owning a Prius.
It’s a good commute to work car.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2026 11:43 AM (jbnUc)

168 Can we do home sized modular coal reactors?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:43 AM (c27kw)

169 Is strongly suspect all these massive write-downs aren't just because of EV. Car companies didn't just fuck the pig with EV. They made some other terrible decisions over the last 5 years.

Usually, when a company has piles of steaming dogshit on its books, it purges all of the dogshit at once, and blames the most convenient thing.

Right now, the most convenient thing is EV. A few years ago, it was Covid, then before that the financial crisis, then before that ...

This practice is so common it has a name: the "Purge Quarter." A company chooses a quarter, dumps all of its dogshit, blames some external factor -- never company management! -- and starts "clean" (or at least "cleaner").

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

170 Apparently the LA Unified School District has needed *$5.4 BILLION* to settle recent sexual harassment suits. No details.

Making the rubble bounce in terms of the state of the country, like so many other eye-popping atrocities, and of course probably many pathologies nested in this: legit harassment cases, or shake-downs ("me too"), as extortion via the courts is now a significant % of the economy.

Anyway, even today, an astonishing number. And this is entirely separate (I think) from the apparent massive corruption scandal which has the superintendent in lock-up.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 26, 2026 11:43 AM (U/Byj)

171 I see Hillary "testified" today and said she knows nothing about Epstein...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 11:41 AM (VE6XX)
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Didn't Epstein have a painting of WJC in a dress in his apartment?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 11:43 AM (i1VVh)

172 Cybertruck is just the Delorean taken to its logical conclusion.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:44 AM (1Udfd)

173 My truck can crawl up the side of a rocky hill if need be. Where I live that can be useful. A cybertruck would just whimper and die. Usage. It determines so much.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:44 AM (pDt9x)

174 LOL. So they switched back to Epstein? I figured the one article 'Epstein files should never have been released' signaled they would swap to something else.

I guess the performance at the SOTU means they have to scramble.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 11:44 AM (bss/y)

175 Didn't Epstein have a painting of WJC in a dress in his apartment?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 11:43 AM (i1VVh)

Yes . And Maxwell was at Chelsea's wedding....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 11:44 AM (VE6XX)

176 Lolita

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:44 AM (ArHOS)

177 168 Can we do home sized modular coal reactors?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:43 AM (c27kw)

Wasn't that a coal fired furnace?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 11:45 AM (bss/y)

178 American auto manufacturers jettisonned the profit motive.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:45 AM (c27kw)

179 That old saw about "the right thinks the left is stupid, the left thinks the right is evil" is exactly why we've been steadily losing ground for a century and a half.
Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 11:37 AM (NufQ3)

I used to think that.

I've come to realize the left is actually evil. Some of them serve evil from ignorance and foolishness, some of them enthusiastically serve evil, but they all serve evil.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:45 AM (zjgNU)

180 Well the auto execs thought the Dems would stay in power and the government would mandate EVs soon, and with the rising cafe standards people would choose an EV rather than some tiny engine ICE vehicle that could go more than 40 miles per hour.

But Trump beat the cheat twice, and the assassins twice (thank you God) and spared us from communism for at least a while.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 11:45 AM (Sokdp)

181 The difference to me is a cybertruck person knows they look like an idiot where a Prius person thinks they look smart
Posted by: ...

I owned a Prius. It was great. Enough room in the trunk to haul a deer during bow season, great mileage, I bought it used for a great price and got years of no-issue driving out of it you'd expect from a Toyota. Hit a deer on the interstate going 70 in it one night, smashing up the front passenger corner, but still able to drive the remaining 120 miles home with no issue.

Insurance decided it was cheaper to scrap than repair (it was like a 2009 with 250k miles on it....in 201

. Replaced it with an almost identical 2010 Prius, and my daughter still drives it today.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 26, 2026 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

182 178 American auto manufacturers jettisonned the profit motive.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:45 AM (c27kw)

Tbf a lot of businesses did.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 11:45 AM (bss/y)

183 >>At least off the top of my head, I can't think of a nothing burger topic that has been more shrieked about than "Epstein files!!!!"

I think people are focusing on the real result because they are so focused on pedo trafficking. The president of the WEF just resigned over Epstein. A former Norweigan PM reportedly tried to commit suicide. Larry Summers just resigned from Harvard. Obama's top lawyer Ruemmler resigned from the top lawyer job at Goldman Sachs. And many more.

Epstein and Steve Bannon traded many emails about Trump. Reid Hoffman, who not only financed E Jean Carroll's bullshit lawsuit and a number of other election related interference projects, has gone to ground over Epstein.

There are a lot of people going down because of Epstein and most of it has nothing to do with pedo shit. Money and power.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 11:46 AM (viF8m)

184 For the Most Qualified Person Ever she sure doesn't seem to know nothing about nothing.
____

Stop stealing my schtick!

Posted by: Sgt. Schultz at February 26, 2026 11:46 AM (Dv3i1)

185 >>My truck can crawl up the side of a rocky hill if need be.

Rogue / Unsanctioned Boat Launching was a major factor in my Guiding Career.

My 3/4 Ton Longbox was integral in this. You could climb a tree in 4 Low in that thing, if you knew what you are doing.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:46 AM (1Udfd)

186 arghh. Coffee has not kicked in yet. meant to type COULD NOT go more than 40 mph.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 11:46 AM (Sokdp)

187 It’s a good commute to work car.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

A former co-worker of my wife's had to commute from Front Royal, Virginia to National Harbor, Maryland. She had a Prius and loved it.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 11:46 AM (77rzZ)

188 I see Hillary "testified" today and said she knows nothing about Epstein...

In front of Congress? She's among friends.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:47 AM (quOho)

189 In front of Congress? She's among friends.
Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:47 AM (quOho)

"Friends" ... no

Conspirators ... yes

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 26, 2026 11:48 AM (3sXRv)

190 If they find you to br lying there is contempt of Congress.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 11:48 AM (c27kw)

191 I've come to realize the left is actually evil. Some of them serve evil from ignorance and foolishness, some of them enthusiastically serve evil, but they all serve evil.
Posted by: Formerly Virginia

This.

Leftists are demonically possessed.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

192 Or Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand," which is merely the sum of all of the billions of individual decisions made by us for our own benefit.

**********

What better way to gather, collate, analyze and codify billions of individual data points than A.I.?

Adam's Invisible

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 11:48 AM (qgHp7)

193 Adam's Invisible

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 11:48 AM (qgHp7)

Aka Michelle Obama

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:49 AM (wIg5s)

194 192
Adam's Invisible

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 11:48 AM (qgHp7)

You left out “ Pimp Hand”.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:49 AM (pDt9x)

195 So it's "racist" to choose American Citizens over illegals ? Does she know Americans are not all white ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 11:49 AM (VE6XX)

196 At least off the top of my head, I can't think of a nothing burger topic that has been more shrieked about than "Epstein files!!!!"

Follow the money. He facilitated huge global flows of illicit money.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:50 AM (quOho)

197 Lolita
Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 11:44 AM

You know nothing of my work, troll.

Posted by: Vladimir Nabokov at February 26, 2026 11:51 AM (bFu5X)

198 I do not, nor would, own a Prius. But they are time tested and work well. Their concept is sound.
Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:38 AM (pDt9x)

I would try to re-write this as a Dr. Seuss pastiche, but I have run out of rhymes for "torso"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 11:51 AM (rbvCR)

199 196 At least off the top of my head, I can't think of a nothing burger topic that has been more shrieked about than "Epstein files!!!!"

Follow the money. He facilitated huge global flows of illicit money.
Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 11:50 AM (quOho)

Yeah my take is that the Flesh Trade was just a rather minor side hustle in his criminal enterprise.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:51 AM (pDt9x)

200 Texas Tribune - "Dallas U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett has a double-digit lead over Austin state Rep. James Talarico in the final days of Texas’ Senate Democratic primary, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

In the survey, fielded from Feb. 2 to Feb. 16, Crockett garnered the support of 56% of voters, while Talarico got 44%. For the Democratic primary, pollsters from the University of Texas’ Texas Politics Project surveyed a sample of 369 voters, producing a margin of error of +/-5.1 points.

As in other polls, Crockett had a massive advantage with Black voters, drawing 87% support. The Dallas congresswoman also led among seniors and voters without a college degree."

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 26, 2026 11:51 AM (V6W16)

201 >>As in other polls, Crockett had a massive advantage with Black voters, drawing 87% support. The Dallas congresswoman also led among seniors and voters without a college degree."

Can you imagine voting to give this dumb cunt a 6 year term in the Senate?

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:52 AM (1Udfd)

202
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 11:52 AM (y9nCu)

203 >>Follow the money. He facilitated huge global flows of illicit money.

I get that the pedo thing grabs outrage and eyeballs but the question about where did Epstein get his seemingly endless amount of money never gets a fraction of the attention.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 11:52 AM (viF8m)

204 148 I do not, nor would, own a Prius. But they are time tested and work well. Their concept is sound.

i live in california, wear birkenstocks, and drive a prius, which is the nicest car i've ever owned. do i need to surrender my moron card?

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 11:52 AM (sGtp+)

205 Two guesses where the money for the right off came from.

Somewhat explains a truck for 75K+.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 26, 2026 11:53 AM (cS1cw)

206 To our troll:

Keep posting. Maybe your father will finally notice you.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 11:53 AM (+4yJ5)

207 >>I get that the pedo thing grabs outrage and eyeballs but the question about where did Epstein get his seemingly endless amount of money never gets a fraction of the attention.

Almost as if the CIA was the one pulling the strings from GO...

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:53 AM (1Udfd)

208 Talk about imposing supply over demand, I can only think of imposing requirements for something like insurance on folks private and corporate from cars to health, also creates a supply, not of insurance, for which there is a demand, but regulators, regulations, increased costs, fraudsters, etc. of which NO ONE WANTS.

Posted by: epador at February 26, 2026 11:54 AM (TRnzq)

209 Lot of Tesla "trucks' here in the Bay Area. Lot of Tesla everything here actually. Most of the trucks I see are business owners that use its a rolling billboard. They do a wrap with whatever business they own. Seems clever.
Some people have done wraps with a military themed wrap WWII plane/bomber or tank. Some of the things people do with them are pretty cool.

Posted by: JROD at February 26, 2026 11:55 AM (IlL6s)

210 >>i live in california, wear birkenstocks, and drive a prius, which is the nicest car i've ever owned. do i need to surrender my moron card?

NOFX - JEFF WEARS BIRKENSTOCKS :

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=1r39CH9N9qI

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:55 AM (1Udfd)

211 "I wonder why they never noticed Trump was this big pedo back when they were complaining he was a Russian Agent and twenty other things. Might have been worth mentioning.
Posted by: ..."

Actually you think they might have noticed before Trump entered politics and Dems sought his money and hanged with him at parties.

Posted by: Ripley at February 26, 2026 11:55 AM (GUOwU)

212 Epstein may be analogous to a Cartel money launderer. His sticky end kind of confirms my theory.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:55 AM (pDt9x)

213 i live in california, wear birkenstocks, and drive a prius, which is the nicest car i've ever owned. do i need to surrender my moron card?
Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 11:52 AM (sGtp+)
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No. But we've got our eye on you.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 11:55 AM (i1VVh)

214 201 >>As in other polls, Crockett had a massive advantage with Black voters, drawing 87% support. The Dallas congresswoman also led among seniors and voters without a college degree."

Can you imagine voting to give this dumb cunt a 6 year term in the Senate?
Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:52 AM (1Udfd)

The nazi sympathizer polling ahead of Collins in Maine is even worse, and far more dangerous.

Crockett is going to lose to Paxton by a wide margin. Black voters make up a large part of the Texas Dem primary voters, but only 12% of the general electorate in Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 11:57 AM (/QdgR)

215 Wtf is this "you come to us" bullshit with Clintons?

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 26, 2026 11:57 AM (61TgR)

216 215 Wtf is this "you come to us" bullshit with Clintons?
Posted by: melodicmetal at February 26, 2026 11:57 AM (61TgR)

Hubris.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:57 AM (pDt9x)

217 really wonder if in 50 or 75 years people will look back at our time and it will be commonly accepted that we lost our collective minds.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Yes, when they update that book of financial manias such as the tulip and south seas mania, this EV thing will take top billing.
It differs from previous in that it was imposed top down, and to a great degree was knowingly fraudulent from the start as opposed to a free over enthusiasm by the participants.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 26, 2026 11:58 AM (sl73Y)

218 Can you imagine voting to give this dumb cunt a 6 year term in the Senate?
Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 11:52 AM

Says a lot about the electorate, doesn't it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 11:59 AM (Qse7a)

219 I looked into buying a Toyota Priapus. It could go all day but the price was too stiff.

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 11:59 AM (qgHp7)

220 I have to put my Ackbar hat on for this...while searching Reddit for Hillary testimony discussion, I stumbled across this article from 4 months ago:

Hillary Clinton draws Sydney Sweeney comparisons with 50th wedding anniversary throwback post: ‘I see the vision, Bill’
Story by Fabiana Buontempo

As the youngsters say, she was a baddie.

Hillary Clinton celebrated her and former President Bill Clinton‘s 50th wedding anniversary with a series of throwback pictures posted to X (formerly Twitter) — and people are losing their minds over it, many claiming actress Sydney Sweeney is her doppelganger.

- To be fair, they have one or two pics of her I don't recall ever seeing before, and she's kinda cute, but Sydney Sweeney?!?!?
https://tinyurl.com/y8rhm49z
(No, not a trap this time)

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 26, 2026 11:59 AM (JCZqz)

221 >>Almost as if the CIA was the one pulling the strings from GO...

And foreign intel groups. The Church Committee didn't reform the CIA, it drove it further underground and toward greater "cooperation" with foreign intel agencies.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)

222 29 They think that with enough computing power, centralization of all decisions will be possible.

It's hubris, and hubris ALWAYS leads to nemesis. (Or, in more recent terms: The gods of the Copybook Headings)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 11:06 AM (zjgNU)
----
This was the essence behind Isaac Asimov's "psychohistory."

While you couldn't predict a single individual's behavior, with a sufficiently large dataset, you could steer the masses of humanity in a desired direction.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 11:09 AM (ESVrU)

Trump is the Mule.

Posted by: a.moron at February 26, 2026 11:59 AM (X5Jzz)

223 It's amusing to me to see that people (especially the Democrat establishment) are surprised by Jasmine Crockett's ability to hijack their party out from under them. I've watched Texas Dem's for years, and I've been saying for almost a year now that Crockett was going to run away with the Dem nomination if she went for it.

When the Texas Lege redistricted her out of her congressional seat, they guaranteed that she would go for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:00 PM (/QdgR)

224 Epstein may be analogous to a Cartel money launderer.

Speaking of which, Jeb Bush will eventually make the news, too.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 12:00 PM (quOho)

225 I looked into buying a Toyota Priapus. It could go all day but the price was too stiff.
Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 11:59 AM (qgHp7)
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If you buy a Toyota Prepuce, you might get clipped.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 12:00 PM (i1VVh)

226 209 Some people have done wraps with a military themed wrap WWII plane/bomber or tank.

'round here, there's a mustang (ford) wrapped to look like a mustang (p-51).

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 12:00 PM (sGtp+)

227 Amen. Thank you, brother.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at February 26, 2026 12:01 PM (SoQfb)

228 Eins zwei drei vier.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:01 PM (c27kw)

229 Says a lot about the electorate, doesn't it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 11:59 AM (Qse7a)

Jasmine's voting base, even in her old south Dallas Congressional seat, was always pimps, ho's, crack dealers and their customers.

In today's Texas Dem Party, that's a majority. (plus the trannies, furries, and twinks)

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:02 PM (/QdgR)

230 > eally wonder if in 50 or 75 years people will look back at our time and it will be commonly accepted that we lost our collective minds.
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I think that will depend on "who wins."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 12:02 PM (jtM2q)

231 @204 anachronda-no you're good. Look at the new Chevrolet Corvette C8 ZR1X. Its the fastest production, do everything car on the planet.........it's a hybrid. I lantwait for the rumored Toyota hybrid super car. Basically a Prius on steroids.

Posted by: JROD at February 26, 2026 12:03 PM (IlL6s)

232 224 Epstein may be analogous to a Cartel money launderer.
-----------------
Look no further than Adam Schiff.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 12:03 PM (pZ64F)

233 I looked up # of cybertrucks in Colorado. To my surprise it was fairly low , I see them fairly often on my commute. But my commute is to Boulder, and Boulder + Denver are probably over 90% of them in the state.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 12:04 PM (Sokdp)

234 i live in california, wear birkenstocks, and drive a prius, which is the nicest car i've ever owned. do i need to surrender my moron card?
Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2026 11:52 AM (sGtp+)
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I dunno about your Moron card, but your Man card has suddenly become questionable...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 12:04 PM (ESVrU)

235 she's kinda cute, but Sydney Sweeney?!?!?
https://tinyurl.com/y8rhm49z
(No, not a trap this time)

That's a nice picture, they seem so fresh-faced and young.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 12:04 PM (quOho)

236 "I wonder why they never noticed Trump was this big pedo back when they were complaining he was a Russian Agent and twenty other things. Might have been worth mentioning.
Posted by: ..."

Actually you think they might have noticed before Trump entered politics and Dems sought his money and hanged with him at parties.

Posted by: Ripley at February 26, 2026 11:55 AM (GUOwU)

Dudes like trump never had to go pedo. Dudes like that with serious money can get the finest seasoned poon and wouldn't saddle themselves with underage chicks that would gag on their dick. Trump didn't look like the bridge troll harvey weinstein. He had his choice of legal exotic chicks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 12:04 PM (snZF9)

237 230 > eally wonder if in 50 or 75 years people will look back at our time and it will be commonly accepted that we lost our collective minds.
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I think that will depend on "who wins."
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It all worked out great after Stalin, Mao, and Castro took over...right? And if not, they're weren't real communists, and we'll do it right.

Posted by: Retarded Leftist at February 26, 2026 12:04 PM (JCZqz)

238 What is California going to do in 2035?

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM (f1kZG)

239
I do not, nor would, own a Prius. But they are time tested and work well. Their concept is sound.
Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:38 AM (pDt9x)

If the tree-hugging Green Manalishis had just shut their traps and simply embraced the hybrids as a welcome alternative for some people, rather than getting all self-righteous about them, there wouldn't be nearly the pushback.

There's a reason that South Park got so much mileage out of the term "Smugmobile".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM (y9nCu)

240 19 I really wonder if in 50 or 75 years people will look back at our time and it will be commonly accepted that we lost our collective minds.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 26, 2026 11:05 AM (cxFcK)

I would argue that humanity loses it's collective mind every third or fourth generation. At least (so far) we aren't burning half the world to the ground this time.
But it ain't over til its over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM (/QdgR)

241 223 It's amusing to me to see that people (especially the Democrat establishment) are surprised by Jasmine Crockett's ability to hijack their party out from under them. I've watched Texas Dem's for years, and I've been saying for almost a year now that Crockett was going to run away with the Dem nomination if she went for it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:00 PM (/QdgR)

rooting for Crockett in the primary just to stick it to Colbert

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM (V6W16)

242 >>Look at the new Chevrolet Corvette C8 ZR1X. Its the fastest production, do everything car on the planet

Ever checked one out up close? Plastic. The bodies are reminiscent of the RC Car Bodies of my youth.

Like a Saturn. But, not as well built.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM (1Udfd)

243 Platner and Crocket are going to get blown out in the general.

Mills and Talarico had a bit of a shot but the heart wants what the heart wants. Nazis and fake ghetto bitches.

Posted by: MJ at February 26, 2026 12:06 PM (XOmY9)

244 The Clintons were dorks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:06 PM (c27kw)

245 >>really wonder if in 50 or 75 years people will look back at our time and it will be commonly accepted that we lost our collective minds

Hopefully by then many more people will understand we've been subjected to the same type of color revolution our government had been orchestrating in countries around the world for years. Changing the trajectory of a population is a lot easier when you control the messaging then it is to control it with bullets.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 12:06 PM (viF8m)

246 China will become the EV dominant global player while the US fades away. All so maga could own the libs.

Posted by: Yeay at February 26, 2026 12:06 PM (wrRTB)

247 Since about 2000 Western Civilization has burned through over $16 Trillion on the BlowBull Warmering scam.

PS Using real world measurement there has been no measurable sea rise this millennium.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 12:06 PM (gbOdA)

248 244 The Clintons were dorks.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Their hair was luxurious and voluminous, as was the style of the time.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at February 26, 2026 12:07 PM (JCZqz)

249 Calling EVs stupid is pretty US centric. They make a lot of sense in certain settings. Like China.

They are useful but have limits like anything. It's the one size-fits-all management fetish that took over. That and the US Government being addicted to picking winners and losers and only the anointed ones being allowed to feast on the masses of dummies.

Time to scale it back to where it works as part of a mix of transportation technologies. The same thing is going on with solar power. It works but it's not THE ANSWER.

The problem is that the government is fucking out of control.

Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2026 12:07 PM (+rKuc)

250 @204 anachronda-no you're good. Look at the new Chevrolet Corvette C8 ZR1X. Its the fastest production, do everything car on the planet.........it's a hybrid. I lantwait for the rumored Toyota hybrid super car. Basically a Prius on steroids.
Posted by: JROD at February 26, 2026 12:03 PM (IlL6s)
_______

All supercars are hybrid, or soon will be.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

251 EV is crashing and China is dominating the crashing technology.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:07 PM (c27kw)

252 If EVs were a rational alternative, the market for them would not have been forced.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:08 PM (1Udfd)

253 EVs are a boondoggle, but AI is probably going to be bigger when that bubble finally pops.

Posted by: Rick T at February 26, 2026 12:08 PM (xeXUW)

254 Don’t drunk tweet, Hillary!
You were never close to Sydney Sweeney, because Sydney is a happy gal who revels in her femininity, especially her generous rack.

You were always a strident, intentionally unfeminine lesbo.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 12:08 PM (Hkcdp)

255 They'll tell you the only reason a younger woman would have a relationship with an older man like say Leo D, is that they are naive and easy to control

Then, since young women are their strongest demographic they'll tell you that young women are "the voice of the future" and the people we should get our ideas about politics from.

Well which is it? You can only pick one
Posted by: 18-1

You only think it's "Pick one". It's actually "Listen to the voice of the future from these these naive and easily controlled (by us) young women whom we've told what to say about politics"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 12:09 PM (a+4eV)

256 rooting for Crockett in the primary just to stick it to Colbert
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM (V6W16)

Believe it or not she's not as bad as the sad white twink Talerico, who's said in public that it would have been just fine if Mary would have chosen to abort Jesus. (Yes he said that in an interview)
He's a clever demon that playacts as some kind of perverse "pastor" of an anti-christian church.

I think it's quite comical that the Texas Dem Party went out of their way to find the two most loathsome people in the entire state and got them to run against each other for the Senate nomination.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:09 PM (/QdgR)

257 2025 global ev sales was 20% higher vs 2024. It’s not crashing.

Posted by: Yeay at February 26, 2026 12:09 PM (wrRTB)

258 Since about 2000 Western Civilization has burned through over $16 Trillion on the BlowBull Warmering scam.

PS Using real world measurement there has been no measurable sea rise this millennium.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 12:06 PM (gbOdA)

~~Yes, but we only have 12 years until Florida is underwater- 1990~~

~~Yes, but we only have 12 years until Florida is underwater- 2000~~

~~Yes, but we only have 12 years until Florida is underwater- 2010~~

Yes, but we only have 12 years until Florida is underwater- 2020

There we go, fixed it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 12:09 PM (zjgNU)

259 Well to be fair to Texas Dems, Jasmine's D primary opponent is weirdo James Talarico. I wonder if the DNC was pushing James to try to protect Jasmine from defeat in the general or the DNC is so racist they think a weird white dude has a better chance of stealing the senate seat. You'd think after Beto O'Rourke the DNC would know better but perhaps they don't count Beto as 'white'

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 12:09 PM (Sokdp)

260 I would argue that humanity loses it's collective mind every third or fourth generation. At least (so far) we aren't burning half the world to the ground this time.
But it ain't over til its over.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM

That would explain a few things, including the left's attempts to burn half the world to the ground.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 26, 2026 12:10 PM (e7ATA)

261 Short sell or buy puts on RIVN

Posted by: Lex at February 26, 2026 12:10 PM (l5xX+)

262 China will become the EV dominant global player while the US fades away. All so maga could own the libs.

Posted by: Yeay at February 26, 2026 12:06 PM (wrRTB)

OH NO!

... anyway

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 12:10 PM (zjgNU)

263 If you make data farms build their own powerplants, after they crash you still have the powerplants.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:10 PM (c27kw)

264 > China will become the EV dominant global player while the US fades away.
--------
Depends on the customer base. China is set to begin exporting ICE vehicles to North America (Canada) if things work out for them. If/when the left regains the levers of power I'd wager they'll outlaw any personal transportation and begin corralling us into their 15 minute camps for their own "final solution."

So... realistically... it's a moot point.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 12:10 PM (jtM2q)

265 The Toyota Precipice is too edgy.

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 12:11 PM (qgHp7)

266 Look at the new Chevrolet Corvette C8 ZR1X. Its the fastest production, do everything car on the planet

Ever checked one out up close? Plastic. The bodies are reminiscent of the RC Car Bodies of my youth.

Like a Saturn. But, not as well built.
Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM (1Udfd)
______

I drove one on track. Or at least the ZR1 (the non-hybrid version). A lot of car for the money. Performance to equal or even surpass cars costing 4x as much. But you get what you pay for. Pretty cheaply made. Not very reliable.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 26, 2026 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

267 "For economics geeks there is even a law -- Say�s Law -- "

Fix the broken character, please?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 26, 2026 12:11 PM (O7YUW)

268 2025 global ev sales was 20% higher vs 2024. It’s not crashing.
Posted by: Yeay at February 26, 2026 12:09 PM (wrRTB)

Source?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (zjgNU)

269 Toyats Priaprism.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (c27kw)

270 246 China will become the EV dominant global player while the US fades away. All so maga could own the libs.

Posted by: Yeay

So where does the infrastructure to power all these magical EVs that are going to save the world come from?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (+4yJ5)

271 Y'all are cracking me up with the car model names

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (e7ATA)

272 Good Morning Horde

Great rant CBD - We're still living under the threat of EV tyranny here in California - since PDJT won't be president forever.

Todays Varney & Co Trivia Q from Fox Biz - might be controversial - I don't entirely agree with the answer....

Who discovered that the Earth revolves around the sun?

Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Nicolaus Copernicus

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (QGaXH)

273
China will become the EV dominant global player while the US fades away. All so maga could own the libs.

China is already the big producer of EV and alternative power shit being sold to the West. But they're not stupid enough to use it themselves when it's a lot cheaper to build filthy coal power plants all over China.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (y9nCu)

274 I think it's quite comical that the Texas Dem Party went out of their way to find the two most loathsome people in the entire state and got them to run against each other for the Senate nomination.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:09 PM

For those of us not on the ground in TX, how's Tony Gonzales doing these days? Cruising to victory? Controversial? Embattled?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (bFu5X)

275 Like a Saturn. But, not as well built.
Posted by: garrett

I had a Saturn wagon back in 2002. It's engine blew up on the autobahn when I was driving at 120 mph downhill lol

Posted by: Military Moron at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (JCZqz)

276 @242 Garrett-true but it's like that across the board with all the euro super/hypercars. Anymore to get something sporty/luxury you need to look at the Mercs, BMW, Audi........eh, gotta throw in Porsche but even they're suffering a bit. I have my 2020 Shelby GT 500. It's still "just a Mustang" and kinda plastic too. (but with the new motor I'm having built its going to be 1100rwhp instead of my last set up at 950rwhp) I can't wait.

Posted by: JROD at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (IlL6s)

277 I would argue that humanity loses it's collective mind every third or fourth generation. At least (so far) we aren't burning half the world to the ground this time.
But it ain't over til its over.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:05 PM

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times"

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (zjgNU)

278 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (NcvvS)

279
If EVs were a rational alternative, the market for them would not have been forced.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:08 PM

This.

had the market been allowed to run it's course, we'd be well in to the second (or third) generation of hybrids

hybrids are the next logical step from the internal combustion engine, not EVs

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (tljrc)

280 Ever checked one out up close? Plastic. The bodies are reminiscent of the RC Car Bodies of my youth.

Like a Saturn. But, not as well built.
Posted by: garrett
-------

Spied a Mustang Mach-E in a parking lot yesterday. My first thought was 'WTF?'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (XeU6L)

281
nood bill gates

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (tljrc)

282 Toyata should name their next model the Herro.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 12:13 PM (c27kw)

283 I honestly do not get the hatred of EVs. It’s an option among a bazillion car options. If you do not want one do not get one. I’d never buy a monster truck but I don’t care if anyone else does. If that’s your thing, have at it. find it bizarre that people go out of their way to hate on someone’s car purchase.

Posted by: Yeay at February 26, 2026 12:14 PM (wrRTB)

284 257 2025 global ev sales was 20% higher vs 2024. It’s not crashing.
Posted by: Yeay at February 26, 2026 12:09 PM (wrRTB)

"Global." Related?

>>>demand for EVs can be created by destroying the market for alternatives, but that is an economy-crushing behavior, and one that we see being played out in other countries

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 12:15 PM (+YA9H)

285 I’m just hoping Honda reintroduces the Honda Fit.

I regret selling that car.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 12:15 PM (EH7w1)

286 For those of us not on the ground in TX, how's Tony Gonzales doing these days? Cruising to victory? Controversial? Embattled?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (bFu5X)

yeah, he's the one who's hot latina staffer girlfriend poured gasoline over herself and set herself aflame in her own backyard, while her mother watched. Bizarre.

I think he can probably stick it out. Most of the criticism of him seems to be coming from faux republicans like Massie, Boebert, and Nancy Mace. Of course they want Hakeem Jeffries to take over the house, which is why they are making noise.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 12:16 PM (/QdgR)

287 It wasn't just stupidity that drove automakers to embrace EVs.
The heavy hand of government regulators can't be ignored. The Big 3 thought their customers would buy EVs because they wouldn't have any other choice (other than keeping their old cars.)
If Kamala had won, new ICE-powered vehicles would have been all but outlawed by the end of her term.
Automakers chose to get on the crony-capitalism bandwagon and team up with government rather than try and fight it. At the time it was a very understandable position to take. Having a product line that is illegal to sell isn't a great business strategy either.

Posted by: Matt at February 26, 2026 12:17 PM (GggzH)

288 Great essay CBD.

I am forever amazed at the devotion to "climate science/change" among the worldwide secular elite. I see it here in my own community in spades; society ladies hold lunches and make speeches to each other about it, people buy electric cars and ostentatiously drive them around, and they talk about it at cocktail parties as common sense fact. But it's all silly make-believe, or most of it anyway.

Only the amazing strength of the capitalist economy prevents these people from suffering the effects of making these crazy decisions. The wealth created by American know-how and hard work has saved us all.

But will the ladies who lunch ever realize that fact? Don't bet on it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 12:17 PM (DJGRv)

289 I honestly do not get the hatred of EVs.

Posted by: Yeay at February 26, 2026 12:14 PM (wrRTB)

Because they have been subsidized to the tune of many billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

Read the post. It may help you understand.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2026 12:18 PM (rezCL)

290 I don't believe the EV effort was only those things you put up there CBD. It was deeper and more sinister than that.
What they wanted was to upend the entire petroleum infrastructure; if you look at those companies, they are mostly right- leaning. If you look at the green ones, they are of course left. By forcing everyone to green, they get control of the entire infrastructure, and the means to production, and the money involved. Removing a great heap from the right-leaning folks. Then all of the other situations fall in under that- the pretext was 'save the planet'.

Posted by: Mr Wolf at February 26, 2026 01:03 PM (L/m7v)

291 Tesla will sell about 2 million cars world wide

Lol you guys were also the people who bitched about Obama saving the American car industry by losing GM e4 billion

Do I t recall anyone ever admitting they were in error.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 26, 2026 01:35 PM (Q1J0a)

292 Windmills, solar panels, EV's...
You fuckers just wait...
I still have my Pet Rocks, and I'm pretty sure they're pregnant, and will be having little Pet Rockies soon!!!
I'll be rich, rich I tells ya!
Mwahahahaha!

Posted by: UncleJefe at February 26, 2026 01:42 PM (gAuAm)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
Mary Cassatt

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 ART

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+)

3 Lydia quietly tweaking .

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (Kt19C)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

5 nice hat.

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+)

6 Lydia was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

7 She has an interesting expression on her face.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 09:32 AM (bss/y)

8 picking at the tiny freckle. over and over.

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 09:32 AM (R11M+)

9 It's OK. A little on the crudely rendered side, but not unpleasantly so.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 09:32 AM (DgMqy)

10 pick, pick, pick.

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 09:32 AM (R11M+)

11 She looks bored.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 09:33 AM (jtM2q)

12 "Crocheting in the Garden."
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at February 26, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

13 She does not look happy!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 09:34 AM (0nHVk)

14 Lydia at Marly is pale. Almost like she’s a ghost.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

15 A lot of detail on the sleeves of her dress and her lacy bonnet. I like it!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 09:34 AM (ix8EF)

16 Don't get on her bad side. She looks crotchety.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2026 09:34 AM (8zz6B)

17 Alternate Title: Lydia Dreams Wistfully of the Day She Will Have a New Sock

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 09:36 AM (+HNx/)

18 She's doing what with her croch?!?!?

Posted by: AoSHQ Art Critic at February 26, 2026 09:36 AM (tj6OY)

19 She's naked under those clothes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:36 AM (GBKbO)

20 I watched my mom crochet about a million miles of afghans, but never while wearing gloves.

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2026 09:37 AM (98kQX)

21 Hang on. Let me study it some more. I'm sure there's a phallic symbol in here somewhere.

Posted by: Sexually frustrated high school female art teacher at February 26, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

22 Always liked Cassatt. Like this one.
Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 09:37 AM (HYqoK)

23 It seems this was painted in a transitional period for Cassatt. She just started painting impressionistically, but the composition is quite conventional, not as bold as her mature work.

Sorry I couldn't think of anything funny to say, not even a dumb pun.

I like Cassatt.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 26, 2026 09:37 AM (BHrzb)

24 Irie, mon!

I and I welcome you!

Posted by: Lydia Meets Bob Marley at February 26, 2026 09:38 AM (IG3/x)

25 Show us your boobs, Lydia!

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

26 Comprehensive name. Meh picture.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 26, 2026 09:38 AM (sl73Y)

27 How does one get to crochet in the garden all day? Sure beats what I'm doing.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 26, 2026 09:38 AM (/XV1M)

28 Lydia is rolling a fattie

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 26, 2026 09:39 AM (9C/Xw)

29 Something something midget something thigh something something bean.

Posted by: Obligatory lewd comment at February 26, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

30 > 28 Lydia is rolling a fattie
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 26, 2026 09:39 AM (9C/Xw)

Where you tink she got de ganja, mon?

Posted by: Lydia Meets Bob Marley at February 26, 2026 09:40 AM (IG3/x)

31 Aunt Lydia looks content.

"Oh sweet Mary, why would you want to paint me? Your lovely nieces are playing near the herb garden. Surely there are better subjects?"

"Well if you must, just let me keep working. I've got to finish this for your cousin's trousseau. . . "

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:40 AM (tj6OY)

32 I don't know enough about crocheting to critique her form. Would hang in my sewing/knitting/crocheting circle's room at church, though.

Posted by: pookysgirl wants to know what the project is at February 26, 2026 09:40 AM (Wt5PA)

33 full sleeve tats.

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 09:41 AM (R11M+)

34 Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at February 26, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

35 Getting old is not all fun and games.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2026 09:41 AM (Z3Kkg)

36 >> How does one get to crochet in the garden all day? Sure beats what I'm doing.

THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:41 AM (tj6OY)

37 Was this before or after Lydia’s sideshow gig as the tattooed lady?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

38 Other titles in the series:

Lydia Baking a Baguette in the Kitchen

Lydia Changing the Sheets in the Guest Bedroom

Lydia Cleaning the Cat Box in the Garage

Lydia Driving the Automobile to the Cafe

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 09:43 AM (+HNx/)

39 chlamidyer, chlamidyer, i just can't get rid o' yer...

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 09:43 AM (R11M+)

40 30 Where you tink she got de ganja, mon?

Posted by: Lydia Meets Bob Marley at February 26, 2026 09:40 AM (IG3/x)

Bumboclaat, bwica bwica.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2026 09:43 AM (6Uni8)

41 She looks like Anne Heche.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 09:43 AM (pZ64F)

42 38 Other titles in the series:

Lydia Baking a Baguette in the Kitchen

Lydia Changing the Sheets in the Guest Bedroom

Lydia Cleaning the Cat Box in the Garage

Lydia Driving the Automobile to the Cafe

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 09:43 AM (+HNx/)

=====

Jumped the shark with Lydia Scissor Kicking Aliens like a Badass, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:43 AM (GBKbO)

43 "How does one get to crochet in the garden all day? Sure beats what I'm doing."
+++

Her leisurely lifestyle is underwritten by income from the Quality Learing Center.

Posted by: Nick Shirley at February 26, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

44 38 Lydia Baking a Baguette in the Kitchen

Lydia Changing the Sheets in the Guest Bedroom

Lydia Cleaning the Cat Box in the Garage

Lydia Driving the Automobile to the Cafe

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 09:43 AM (+HNx/)

Lydia having a Grand Mal Seizure

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2026 09:45 AM (6Uni8)

45 Mary Cassatt is an interesting artist. Her portraits, especially the faces, are more realistic than the backgrounds and landscapes. Her still life of lilacs is quite Impressionistic but still conveys the essence so strongly you can almost smell the bouquet in the vase. In today's example the woman's figure and face are realistic but the clothing, plants and reflections of color in the glass could have been done by Monet. It's a pleasant combination. After the sharp lines and dull colors of yesterday's art, this is lively and enjoyable.

Posted by: JTB at February 26, 2026 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

46 >>Other titles in the series:

Lydia Baking a Baguette in the Kitchen

Lydia Changing the Sheets in the Guest Bedroom

Lydia Cleaning the Cat Box in the Garage

Lydia Driving the Automobile to the Cafe
- - - -

Lydia reading by the fireside

Lydia cradling her granddaughter

Lydia gathering herbs from the garden

Lydia sipping tea at the cafe by the museum

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:45 AM (tj6OY)

47 39 chlamidyer, chlamidyer, i just can't get rid o' yer...
Posted by: cmeat

A shot of rocephin and a gram of azithromyacin.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 09:46 AM (A5RD0)

48 How does one get to crochet in the garden all day? Sure beats what I'm doing.

Really? Talk about boring.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

49 Beautiful painting.

And if you want to watch how something like this is made…

Here is a video of James Gurney painting a garden.

https://tinyurl.com/3yysfvmk

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 09:46 AM (ah1Rv)

50 Granny Guthrie...prostitute in the park.

Posted by: Cross Eyed Mary at February 26, 2026 09:47 AM (hXJe5)

51 Lydia lurking on AoSHQ

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

52 full sleeve tats.

Groucho sings:
Lydia, oh Lydia, oh have you met Lydia?
Lydia, the Tattooed Lady!
She has eyes that folks adore so,
And a torso, even moreso!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 26, 2026 09:47 AM (BHrzb)

53 Hobby thread!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 26, 2026 09:47 AM (vfth7)

54 Makes me think I've got eye googies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 09:47 AM (RIvkX)

55 I assume this is her most famous painting, only because I've seen it before.

https://tinyurl.com/4c79euzx

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (XvL8K)

56 Two days, two woman artists whose production could not be more different. I caught the juxtaposition, CBD. Vastly different views of the world, and life.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (pDt9x)

57 Oddly, she isn't wearing stretch pants.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (pZ64F)

58 Lydia: "I can't find my hat."
Martha: "Just tie this lampshade on your head. you'll be fine."

Posted by: red speck at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (Ve/HL)

59 Lydia drinking a martini
Lydia blowing her nose
Lydia scratching where it itches

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (A5RD0)

60 She has eyes that folks adore so,
And a torso, even moreso!
Posted by: Pete in Texas

Wait, I was told only yesterday that nothing rhymes with "torso."

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

61
Lydia getting treated for the clap at the free clinic.

Posted by: A painting you'll never see at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Vitamin D3 deficient for sure.

Posted by: Knit Picker at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (oftw2)

63 Lydia about to rip an earthshaking fart

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (6Uni8)

64 Lydia reminisces about the raging affair she had with her niece's art instructor before she was married. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:49 AM (tj6OY)

65 That outfit is SPF 25,000.

Posted by: red speck at February 26, 2026 09:49 AM (Ve/HL)

66 Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
Mary Cassatt

***************

A young girl named Lydia, from Marley
Had gluten intolerance, quite gnarly
She just could not eat
Pumpernickel, rye, or wheat
Only one grain she could stand...but just barley

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 09:49 AM (qgHp7)

67 9 It's OK. A little on the crudely rendered side, but not unpleasantly so.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

Give it time to fully download and render!!!

Posted by: Online porn experience circa 1999 on dial-up modem at February 26, 2026 09:50 AM (JCZqz)

68 Gregory Corso
Called her a whore so

Posted by: Lydia Meets Bob Marley at February 26, 2026 09:50 AM (IG3/x)

69 >>Wait, I was told only yesterday that nothing rhymes with "torso."

Not true -- or so we've been told

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:50 AM (tj6OY)

70 Day 26 of Granny Guthrie disappearance. And all this time, she's been crocheting in the garden.

Posted by: Good Work, Coppers! at February 26, 2026 09:50 AM (oftw2)

71 Why is she outside crocheting with her gloves on?

Posted by: dantesed at February 26, 2026 09:50 AM (Oy/m2)

72 I thought you played crochet by knocking balls through hoops with a mallet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 09:50 AM (FXNzP)

73 MET

Title: Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
Artist: Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)
Date: 1880
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 13/16 x 36 7/16 in. (65.6 x 92.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, 1965
Object Number: 65.184

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:51 AM (gbOdA)

74 57 Oddly, she isn't wearing stretch pants.
Posted by: pudinhead

She could be wearing anything under that dress...or nothing at all...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 26, 2026 09:51 AM (JCZqz)

75 71 Why is she outside crocheting with her gloves on?

Posted by: dantesed at February 26, 2026 09:50 AM (Oy/m2)

To hide her man-hands, and that she used to be Carl.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2026 09:51 AM (6Uni8)

76 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: Limerick Lover at February 26, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

77 It one of those toilet paper holder thingys you see at the Great Aunts house.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (gbOdA)

78 57 Oddly, she isn't wearing stretch pants.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 09:48 AM (pZ64F)

You know, it is interesting. When this was painted, the ladies would have been better flattered by yoga pants than today. They also would have been far less likely to wear them in public.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (bss/y)

79 Totally focused, yet relaxed. You can tell that backpack leafblowers have not been invented yet.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (w4PfG)

80 This reminds me of the great 2001 French romantic comedy film Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) which we need to re-watch.

[The Wifey and I have different senses of humor, so it's a delight when we both really enjoy a movie like that.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (sTbTe)

81 71 >>>Why is she outside crocheting with her gloves on?

There's only one explanation: Lydia's a vampire.

Posted by: red speck at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (Ve/HL)

82 How does Lydia butter her toast?

Posted by: Topic Of The Day at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (oftw2)

83 Look at that human torso
being dragged by that Kane corso...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 09:53 AM (bss/y)

84 77 It one of those toilet paper holder thingys you see at the Great Aunts house.
Posted by: r hennigantx

If Lena Dunham is your Aunt, can you revert to German and call her your Groß Aunt?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 26, 2026 09:53 AM (JCZqz)

85 There are 2 scans of this at the MET.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:54 AM (gbOdA)

86 lydia, tickling a bean.

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 09:54 AM (R11M+)

87 Trying to crochet would drive me nuts. My big man hands and fingers would make a dog's breakfast out of it.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

88 80 This reminds me of the great 2001 French romantic comedy film Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) which we need to re-watch.

[The Wifey and I have different senses of humor, so it's a delight when we both really enjoy a movie like that.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (sTbTe)

======

Jean Pierre Jeunet's follow up, The Very Long Engagement, is not quite as outright funny but is the same kind of film with a more deeply felt emotional core.

I actually prefer it over Amelie. Audrey Tautou also stars but this time as a crippled woman looking for her lover reported dead in WWI.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

89 First I'll crochet a cozy for the toaster. Then the electric can opener. Then the crock pot...

Posted by: Cozy Craze at February 26, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

90 My daughter's name is Lydia. We told her she was named after Lydia, the faithful seller of purple in the Bible, but it was really after watching The Marx Brothers At The Circus. She has no tattoos, though.

Posted by: Wreck Of The Hesperus at February 26, 2026 09:55 AM (oftw2)

91 How does one get to crochet in the garden all day?
Posted by: She Hobbit

**********

Same way one gets to Carnegie Hall.

Practice, practice, practice

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 09:55 AM (qgHp7)

92 How does Lydia butter her toast?
Posted by: Topic Of The Day at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (oftw2)
====

Lydia has people to butter her toast, she cannot be bothered with such petty details.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 09:55 AM (RIvkX)

93 79 Totally focused, yet relaxed. You can tell that backpack leafblowers have not been invented yet.
Posted by: t-bird

We had the leafblowers, but not the Mexicans to use them!!! (Sobs)

Posted by: Turn of the century upper middle class whites at February 26, 2026 09:56 AM (JCZqz)

94 87 that's why rosie greer did needlepoint.

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 09:56 AM (R11M+)

95 >>This reminds me of the great 2001 French romantic comedy film Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) which we need to re-watch.

LOVE that movie!!
Got the dvd and the extras are wonderful, including an interview with the writer/director who said almost everything is something he or someone close to him did/has done (e.g. collecting round stone to skip, being a fan or the artist whom he commissioned to make the pig lamp) except the garden gnome thing.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:56 AM (tj6OY)

96 Totally focused, yet relaxed. You can tell that backpack leafblowers have not been invented yet.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 09:52 AM (w4PfG)

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

Now I've got a Mexican accordion landscaper and leaf-blower music ear-worm -- thanks a lot!

/Thank God we escaped Califzuela 13 years ago where we were THE ONLY people in our neighborhood who cut our own grass and did our own landscaping.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 09:56 AM (sTbTe)

97 My daughter's name is Lydia. We told her she was named after Lydia, the faithful seller of purple in the Bible, but it was really after watching The Marx Brothers At The Circus. She has no tattoos, though.
Posted by: Wreck Of The Hesperus

Like yesterday's "Beulah," it's not a name you run across much anymore. Pretty, though.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

98 Crochet and knitting are both popular yarn crafts, but they use different tools and techniques. Crochet uses a single hook to create stitches, while knitting involves two needles and keeps multiple stitches open at once, resulting in different textures and patterns.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:57 AM (gbOdA)

99 Does she put on a stocking and a stocking or a stocking and a boot?

Posted by: A. Bunker at February 26, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)

100 100

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:58 AM (gbOdA)

101 >>Jean Pierre Jeunet's follow up, The Very Long Engagement, is not quite as outright funny but is the same kind of film with a more deeply felt emotional core.

I actually prefer it over Amelie. Audrey Tautou also stars but this time as a crippled woman looking for her lover reported dead in WWI.

Good movie, too, but "Amelie" is magical. The cast is perfection.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:58 AM (tj6OY)

102 I love Mary Cassatt. Thanks CBD.

Posted by: Tuna at February 26, 2026 09:58 AM (lJ0H4)

103 Here is another one from James Gurney..

If you want to see how a professional illustrator goes from idea to model, to studies to finished work, there are few better…

https://tinyurl.com/4fu7zeu4

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 09:58 AM (xnokb)

104 Raconteurs are good at yarn crafts.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

105 Aka me, in my retirement, hopefully.

Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 09:59 AM (79pEw)

106 Had my annual review with my money person yesterday.
Beat S and P by almost 3 points.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:59 AM (gbOdA)

107 I had a bitchin' Cassatt Player in my Camaro.

Posted by: Motor Voter at February 26, 2026 10:00 AM (oftw2)

108 Backpack leafblowers are colloquially known as Mexican Bagpipes.

Posted by: Here in Upper Suburbia at February 26, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

109 LOVE that movie!!
Got the dvd and the extras are wonderful, including an interview with the writer/director who said almost everything is something he or someone close to him did/has done (e.g. collecting round stone to skip, being a fan or the artist whom he commissioned to make the pig lamp) except the garden gnome thing.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:56 AM (tj6OY)

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

Thanks for that info, Lizzy.

I rarely buy DVDs (not as rich as TJM, but The Wifey has a couple dozen of her faves) but really geek-out at all the extras and background information of films and anything else interesting, so will try to procure one of those.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:00 AM (sTbTe)

110 104 Raconteurs are good at yarn crafts.
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

Raconteurs
Using poor defenseless raccoons for profit is just wrong

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 10:00 AM (gbOdA)

111 Aka me, in my retirement, hopefully.
Posted by: bluebell

Can you do croquet using a shiv?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

112 I think she could conceal a crosdbow under that dress.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (c27kw)

113 Just tie this lampshade on your head. you'll be fine.

********

Looks a bit like a vase. Would that make her a crochet-y old jarhead?

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (qgHp7)

114 Had my annual review with my money person yesterday.
Beat S and P by almost 3 points.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:59 AM (gbOdA)
=====

Pffft.
--Nancy Pelosi

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

115 Resting crocheting face

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (CG8iT)

116 108 Backpack leafblowers are colloquially known as Mexican Bagpipes.
Posted by: Here in Upper Suburbia at February 26, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

Gas powered leaf blowers illegal in LA County

but...

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (gbOdA)

117 >>I had a bitchin' Cassatt Player in my Camaro.

My folks bought me a bitchin' Camaro
With no insurance to match
So if I happen to run you down
Please don't leave a scratch

Posted by: Dead Milkmen at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (tj6OY)

118 Good morning bluebell

May we have a grammie update please.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (A5RD0)

119 Is this about us?

Posted by: Trash Pandas at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)

120 Lydia is rehearsing in her head the top 17 ways to kill a man with a crochet hook.

Posted by: Theyjustwriteitoff at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM (sUTO1)

121 Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend’s wife is supposed to testify before Congress today?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM (Z7bjG)

122 Jean Pierre Jeunet's follow up, The Very Long Engagement, is not quite as outright funny but is the same kind of film with a more deeply felt emotional core.

I actually prefer it over Amelie. Audrey Tautou also stars but this time as a crippled woman looking for her lover reported dead in WWI.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

-----------

Thanks for that enlightenment, TJM -- I feel some deja vu like we've had this same conversation some years ago but I never followed up on the follow up.

I'm writing it down this time and -- per Joe Bob -- will check it out!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM (sTbTe)

123 The billionaires and trillionaires...

Posted by: Bernie at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM (CG8iT)

124 Using poor defenseless raccoons for profit is just wrong
Posted by: r hennigantx

We agree! That's why we had to off him, to put him out of his misery!
-- NY State goons who took out Fred the Raccoon

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

125 Cassatt has other lovely paintings where she seems to spend more time with faces: "Summertime" with a little red haired girl, Another one with Motherhood in the title-can't recall the official title- with another little girl, and one with a girl with a white hat and black clothes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 10:03 AM (Nx5jP)

126 122 Thanks for that enlightenment, TJM -- I feel some deja vu like we've had this same conversation some years ago but I never followed up on the follow up.

I'm writing it down this time and -- per Joe Bob -- will check it out!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM (sTbTe)

====

Oh, and it's A Very Long Engagement, not The. Brain fart.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

127
Preview of Hillary Clinton's testimony this morning:

"I don't remember,
I don't recall,
I've got no memory
of anything at all"

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 10:03 AM (Y8DZL)

128 We agree! That's why we had to off him, to put him out of his misery!
-- NY State goons who took out Fred the Raccoon
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

And Peanut too

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 10:03 AM (gbOdA)

129 I don't feel no ways tarred.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:03 AM (c27kw)

130 >>I rarely buy DVDs (not as rich as TJM, but The Wifey has a couple dozen of her faves) but really geek-out at all the extras and background information of films and anything else interesting, so will try to procure one of those.

It was totally by chance - bought it used from Thriftbooks. They also give details on the filming, particularly the location. The guy who played her love interest is an accomplished director, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 10:04 AM (tj6OY)

131 Lydia?

Not Katherine Hepburn?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 10:04 AM (plFPI)

132 127
Preview of Hillary Clinton's testimony this morning:

"I don't remember,
I don't recall,
I've got no memory
of anything at all"

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 10:03 AM (Y8DZL)

=====

It's all she'll have time to say in between the speeches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

133 121 Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend’s wife is supposed to testify before Congress today?
Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 10:02 AM

+++

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at February 26, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

134 You mean like with a cloth?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:04 AM (c27kw)

135 please ban hash CLv3t

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2026 10:05 AM (j+aD2)

136 I hate the heartbreak of psoriasis. And trolls. But mostly trolls.

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX)

137 One thing old school congress critters kept a tight leash on - it is your right (sadly) for government employees to plead the 5th amendment and refuse to comment or answer questions.

But that necessarily also precludes giving speeches or diatribes. One suspects Mrs. Clinton will try to test this.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 10:07 AM (Z7bjG)

138 Patel is under fire from the Left for carousing with hockey players on the government dime.

They're correct about that, but they didn't care about that sort of stuff when Wray did it all the time, and it's penny ante bullshit I don't particularly care about.

The problem I have is that CNN is running an article making that exact point.

I've remained neutral about Patel and Bondi so far, even though I'm not impressed by their performance. But if CNN is running interference for Kash Patel, that's a very, very bad indicator.

One of their deep state handlers told them to run an article defending this geek. Not good.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 10:07 AM (BI5O2)

139 And Peanut too
Posted by: r hennigantx

Yes, Peanut, too. But Peanut gets all the glory, and no one remembers poor Fred.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

140 >>Preview of Hillary Clinton's testimony this morning:

"I don't remember,
I don't recall,
I've got no memory
of anything at all"

"Old news"
"Vast right-wing conspiracy"
"With a cloth?"
"AT this point, what difference does it make?"

Honestly, this whole thing is performative nonsense.

We know she's lying. She knows we know she's lying. She's telling us to GFYS by lying with a smile. The people pretending to interrogate her know she's lying, buy will nonetheless take this all very seriously, then declare 'mission accomplished.'
MOVEON.ORG

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 10:08 AM (tj6OY)

141 Patel is under fire from the Left for carousing with hockey players on the government dime.

Are we sure the government paid for it, and not Kash himself?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

142 May we have a grammie update please.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 10:01 AM (A5RD0)
-------

I actually came here to do just that as I just received a note from her! Give me a minute to retype so I don't end up in the Barrel.

Preview: needs big prayers for the next few days.

Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:09 AM (79pEw)

143 Has Lydia registered those dangerous knitting needles, they're pointy and sharp, with the local constabulary?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 10:10 AM (jjhQ/)

144 Must have been previous thread.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:10 AM (c27kw)

145 141 Patel is under fire from the Left for carousing with hockey players on the government dime.

Are we sure the government paid for it, and not Kash himself?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

=====

Patel was in Italy for meetings with security, after action reports on security at the Olympics.

Then, the men's hockey team makes the gold medal game. It's held on a Sunday. Then, Sunday afternoon, they win, and he gets invited into the locker room to celebrate. He celebrates.

The story is stupid and should be ignored.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

146 The media is maliciously stupid and should be ignored.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 10:11 AM (jjhQ/)

147 Did Billy C already testify? Or, is it "ladies first?"

For some definition of "lady."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 10:11 AM (jtM2q)

148 Parasites of the Caribbean.

James Woods Torches “Somali Parasite” Ilhan Omar, “Insufferable Scum” Democrats Protesting Trump’s SOTU Speech

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:12 AM (FXNzP)

149 Lydia
Killing time until the football results are posted.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at February 26, 2026 10:13 AM (uNwvV)

150 Just received from grammie winger:

"Tomorrow (2/27) I go in for an all-day marathon of tests and consultations. Then Monday they will attempt the surgery, which is quite complex and they are not sure they can do it. If they can, it will be a 10-hour procedure. I confess to being slightly apprehensive. The Rev is a little overwhelmed, poor soul. Fortunately my kids have me covered, my daughter the nurse for the medical side, and my son for the spiritual side. He has been a rock."

She goes on to say she will contact me in the days following the surgery, and of course I will report here immediately when I hear anything. I'll be sending this to Annie for the Saturday morning prayer thread.

Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:14 AM (79pEw)

151 Are we sure the government paid for it, and not Kash himself?
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

They're pretending to be angry about the use of Wray's old G5 jet he'd fly around in for dumb vacations.

I just balk at regime media defending a Trump appointee - that tells me he's a regime figure more than a MAGA figure. If he could be trusted, CNN would be screaming about his corruption and demanding his head be nailed to the nose of the jet, not telling people to lay off of him, because this is normal protocol.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 10:14 AM (BI5O2)

152 I've remained neutral about Patel and Bondi so far, even though I'm not impressed by their performance. But if CNN is running interference for Kash Patel, that's a very, very bad indicator.

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

"We will eventually have 15,000 indictments unsealed in Florida!"

/Wait, where have I heard this before?

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:14 AM (sTbTe)

153 66, Muldoon your limericks always make me laugh.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 26, 2026 10:14 AM (Rx8av)

154 Another of my favorite YouTube artists painting water Lillie’s..

https://tinyurl.com/3hzyvjcs

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 10:15 AM (1Ho02)

155 >>Patel is under fire from the Left for carousing with hockey players on the government dime.

I find all of this manufactured "scandal" surrounding the USA Hockey team win and subsequent phone call w/Trump and visit to the WH tedious.

There are some people who need to be offended, who seek outrage at every opportunity.

These guys did something wonderful at the Olympics and obsessing over every little thing immediately after winning sucks all the joy out of the moment, of their amazing victory.

Let's not take the killjoys' bait, eh?
Let them live in the H#ll of their own making, taking USA Hockey golds, pitting the men's and women's teams against each other, and picking it apart piece by piece to feed their need for rage.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 10:15 AM (tj6OY)

156 138 I've remained neutral about Patel and Bondi so far, even though I'm not impressed by their performance.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Yeah, the heads on pikes or hanging from lamp posts count seems to be under-achieved at this point.

Grand Jury nullification is a real issue; Democrats are fanatical in most jurisdictions. Bring a case and they'll shut it down.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 10:15 AM (Y8DZL)

157 She goes on to say she will contact me in the days following the surgery, and of course I will report here immediately when I hear anything. I'll be sending this to Annie for the Saturday morning prayer thread.
Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:14 AM (79pEw)

Thanks for the info.. I'll double up on the prayers

Posted by: Kamala at February 26, 2026 10:15 AM (VE6XX)

158 🥒

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:15 AM (c27kw)

159 157 She goes on to say she will contact me in the days following the surgery, and of course I will report here immediately when I hear anything. I'll be sending this to Annie for the Saturday morning prayer thread.
Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:14 AM (79pEw)

Thanks for the info.. I'll double up on the prayers
Posted by: Kamala at February 26, 2026 10:15 AM (VE6XX)

Off sock/

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 10:16 AM (VE6XX)

160 Bastards!

Stephen A. Smith Accuses the NBA of Trying to “Whiten” the Sport

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:16 AM (FXNzP)

161 150 ... bluebell,

Thanks so much for the Grammie update. Our prayers are going into overdrive for the next few days.

Posted by: JTB at February 26, 2026 10:17 AM (yTvNw)

162 Nice art. Lydia. I automatically think of Andy Griffith when Barney fixes him up with Lydia. "I hate to chit chat." "The sun gives me the herpes."

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 26, 2026 10:17 AM (qBdHI)

163 Patel was in Italy on the government dime to conference with the Italian security apparatus. Patel will be responsible for security at the World Cup here in the USA and was evaluating the Italian protocol for the Olympics. He said his side excursion to the hockey match would be on his dime.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 26, 2026 10:17 AM (Rx8av)

164 I did not have sex with that man, Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 26, 2026 10:18 AM (0rT8y)

165 Thank you for the Grammie update, bluebell! Wow, she's got a lot on her plate, but I know her faith will give her the strength she needs. My prayers for her will continue.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 26, 2026 10:18 AM (qBdHI)

166 Thanks, bluebell . Prayers for grammie!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 10:20 AM (Nx5jP)

167 You mean like with a cloth?

Hillary, being blasted drunk most of the time, wipes wrong and ends up getting all clogged up.

Posted by: Huma Abba Dabba Doo Abedin at February 26, 2026 10:20 AM (hXJe5)

168 Nice enough, but wish it had details

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 10:20 AM (lddk3)

169 [snip]

She [grammie winger] goes on to say she will contact me in the days following the surgery, and of course I will report here immediately when I hear anything. I'll be sending this to Annie for the Saturday morning prayer thread.

Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:14 AM (79pEw)

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Thanks for that update, bluebell -- prayers ascending.

It's amazing that as late as the 19th century, the average lifespan was (around 35) less than half of what it is today -- much of it owing to infant mortality.

I've heard recent futurists predicting that, in the not-too-distant-future, age 120 will likely be the new 60.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:21 AM (sTbTe)

170 And yet, congress critters jet set all over the world on our dime, probably pay for hookers and blow with our money too.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 10:21 AM (WFPHN)

171 160 Stephen A. Smith Accuses the NBA of Trying to “Whiten” the Sport
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Your 2028 Democrat Presidential Nominee.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 10:21 AM (Y8DZL)

172 The NBA's use of conventional math, of starting games on time, and of cleaning needles off the court are all examples of the NBA trying to whiten the game.

Posted by: Wally at February 26, 2026 10:22 AM (0rT8y)

173 IIRC Patel is a hockey fan. Amateur player. No wonder he had interest in the game.

Beyond that.... what's the problem?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 10:22 AM (jtM2q)

174 Democrats make me sick.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2026 10:22 AM (2OJI2)

175 Thank you for all the prayers for grammie - as you know, they mean the world to her!

Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:23 AM (79pEw)

176 I did not have sex with that man, Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 26, 2026 10:18 AM (0rT8y)

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Nobody puts The Bull in Hillary like Webster Hubbell.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:24 AM (sTbTe)

177 @168

>>Nice enough, but wish it had details

I’m the opposite, the hallmark of a great artist is how much they can convey with as little detail as possible without falling into abstraction.

Look at some of JSS’s portraits, you will be surprised at how little detail is in them but his extraordinary techniques convey detail with literally nothing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 10:25 AM (WFPHN)

178 Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly, 1880
Mary Cassatt
Metropolitan Museum of Art

It's pretty and peaceful; I like it a great deal.
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Wikipedia, 'Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly'

In part, "Mary Cassatt's family had come to visit her at Marly-le-Roi in the summer of 1880 where the painter was living with her sister Lydia. Lydia, who suffered from Bright's disease, had moved from Philadelphia to live with Cassatt, who had relocated to Paris. At the time, unmarried women did not live alone, and as Lydia's disease progressed, she was no longer able to travel. The remainder of the family joined the sisters in the summer of 1880 and Cassatt's work at that time shifted to images depicting home life. Lydia became a frequent subject of Cassatt's work until her death in 1882.[1] Although Cassatt usually avoided plein air painting, the vivid representation of sunlight in this work suggests that it was painted in the garden.[2]"

Ya'll know where some of you are heading. 🤨

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 10:25 AM (NFX2v)

179 The NBA's use of conventional math, of starting games on time, and of cleaning needles off the court are all examples of the NBA trying to whiten the game.

Posted by: Wally at February 26, 2026 10:22 AM (0rT8y)

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Have there been any green dildos tossed out onto the court at NBA games this year?

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:25 AM (sTbTe)

180 New tiny 90 million year old dinosaur discovered.

https://is.gd/bAXUA9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:26 AM (FXNzP)

181 Should I have the bedroom ceiling painted taupe or fawn?

Posted by: Lydia at February 26, 2026 10:27 AM (0sNs1)

182 Everybody looked like that before glasses were invented.

Posted by: fd - I forgive myself for the mistakes I made at February 26, 2026 10:27 AM (vFG9F)

183 Prayers for grammie, and thank you bluebell.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 10:28 AM (0nHVk)

184 I would really like there to be something vaguely resembling justice for disgusting leftoids like the Clintons in this mortal life, but does anyone actually believe that is in the offing in any meaningful way?

She's going to sit in the committee room and lie her flabby ass off, everyone will know she's lying her flabby ass off, have no way to really prove that she's lying her flabby ass off, and she will walk her flabby ass out of the room, get on a private jet and fly back to Chappaqua to be with her box of cheap New Zealand Chardonnay and nobody will do a goddamn thing about it. Oh, there will probably be a mildly-sternly worded letter summarizing her flabby-assed lies.

I hate to be The Guy That Says Nothing Will Happen, but can someone put me a clue as to what the point of this dumb shit is?

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:28 AM (5aZAZ)

185 KTLA laid off Kacey Montoya? But kept the n***** fag?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 26, 2026 10:28 AM (Kt19C)

186 A little more unhinged than usual...

commondreams.org: Watched by Millions, ‘People’s State of the Union’ Counters Unhinged Trump.

If I had a magic wand, I would get rid of this idea of a president. I’m sick of queens and kings and gods and goddesses and these stupid figureheads that we’re supposed to worship.

Get rid of the presidency. I’m not a child. I don’t need some God taking care of me. Parliamentary solutions only, please.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told the crowd gathered blocks from the US Capitol that “these are not normal times, and Democrats have to stop behaving normally.”

It’s way too late for that.

And the proof was in how the Demonazis failed even to loudly denounce Mushroom Boy while he was at the podium.

The Demonazis are a dead and discredited letter in US politics. To defeat the fascists, a new party, one based on movement politics, not electoral quagmires, has to come into being.

I don't know if I can survive 3 more years of this, but neither can the Orange man. Slurring words, falling face, right side drooping. He’s not the healthiest person and they definitely have him juiced up on anything they can get their hands on.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2026 10:28 AM (JCZqz)

187 Impressionist or Myopic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:28 AM (c27kw)

188 I thought HRC was just going to Zoom in.

Posted by: fd - I forgive myself for the mistakes I made at February 26, 2026 10:28 AM (vFG9F)

189 183 Prayers for grammie, and thank you bluebell.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Absolutely. 🙏

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 10:29 AM (NFX2v)

190 Bastards!

Stephen A. Smith Accuses the NBA of Trying to “Whiten” the Sport

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:16 AM (FXNzP)

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Too many White Euros -- we're gonna need MOAR Muzzies!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:29 AM (sTbTe)

191 Praying for grammie, a truly lovely woman.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:29 AM (wIg5s)

192 Bill Gates Apologizes to Foundation Staff over Ties to Epstein, Says He Did “Nothing Illicit”

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How about illegal?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:29 AM (FXNzP)

193 Nice picture, would hang. Like the hat

Posted by: The Man from Athens at February 26, 2026 10:29 AM (hTSkD)

194 Stephen A. Smith Accuses the NBA of Trying to “Whiten” the Sport
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Your 2028 Democrat Presidential Nominee.
Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 10:21 AM (Y8DZL)

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DogEater 2: I'm A UNITER Boogaloo!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:30 AM (sTbTe)

195 Nothing Will Happen.

Posted by: Someone has to say it at February 26, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)

196 The NBA is boring which is why ratings are cratering.

As with everything, the zenith of basketball was a 20 year period from 1975 to 1995.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 10:31 AM (WFPHN)

197 Prayers up for Grammie!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 10:31 AM (bFu5X)

198 New tiny 90 million year old dinosaur discovered.

https://is.gd/bAXUA9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:26 AM (FXNzP)

I was in the pool!

Posted by: Zombie New tiny 90 million year old dinosaur at February 26, 2026 10:31 AM (dK+Kv)

199 There is no point to any investigation of any regime figure. This is America; these people are above the law. Our system isn't structured in a way that makes consequences possible. It was constructed to prevent that from ever happening. Literally every single one of its mechanisms would have to suffer a cascading failure for a powerful criminal to be punished.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 10:31 AM (BI5O2)

200 180. https://is.gd/bAXUA9
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Neat, and like Jurassic Park!
thanks

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

201 If I had a magic wand, I would get rid of this idea of a president. I’m sick of queens and kings and gods and goddesses and these stupid figureheads that we’re supposed to worship.
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They think MAGA voters worship Trump because they worshipped Obama.

They simply cannot think outside the tiny box of the Leftist way of thinking.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 10:32 AM (Dv3i1)

202 186 If I had a magic wand, I would get rid of this idea of a president. I’m sick of queens and kings and gods and goddesses and these stupid figureheads that we’re supposed to worship.

Get rid of the presidency. I’m not a child. I don’t need some God taking care of me. Parliamentary solutions only, please.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2026 10:28 AM (JCZqz)

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Dear lord, the idea that Legislatures should also Executive? You're just replacing a president installed for a set amount of time with a Prime Minister, who's deeply weaker institutionally.

Anyone who looks across the pond to England and says, "That's good governance" is insane.

Also, if you want an executive with less power, give the government less power. But that's not an option. Ever. "I want the government to be all powerful," is just a base assumption that they'll never question.

These people have never seriously considered what governance is. Ever.

It's kind of hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

203 Patel is under fire from the Left for carousing with hockey players on the government dime.

Boy, can you imagine their outrage over our government dimes if they discover states are committing Medicare fraud?

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 10:33 AM (w4PfG)

204 Have there been any green dildos tossed out onto the court at NBA games this year?
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:25 AM (sTbTe)

Do we have evidence that it was thrown and not dropped?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 26, 2026 10:33 AM (/6GbT)

205 Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told the crowd gathered blocks from the US Capitol that “these are not normal times, and Democrats have to stop behaving normally.”

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Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic... but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:33 AM (FXNzP)

206 190 Bastards!

Stephen A. Smith Accuses the NBA of Trying to “Whiten” the Sport

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:16 AM (FXNzP)

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I hear he's a moderate because he sometimes says that Democrats have bad tactics.

Also, he's black, so white progressives want him because they have no idea who he actually is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

207 196 The NBA is boring which is why ratings are cratering.

As with everything, the zenith of basketball was a 20 year period from 1975 to 1995.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 10:31 AM (WFPHN)
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The NBA as a sports product sucks.

At best, it's a soap opera for middle-aged dudes.

Also, they can't shut the fuck up about the WNBA which is worse and which nobody watches because even women can't be bothered to watch women try to play basketball.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:34 AM (5aZAZ)

208 201 They think MAGA voters worship Trump because they worshipped Obama.

They simply cannot think outside the tiny box of the Leftist way of thinking.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 10:32 AM (Dv3i1)

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They're going to come down with coconut fever so hard in about 22 months.

It's gonna be great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

209 If I had a magic wand, I would get rid of this idea of a president. I’m sick of queens and kings and gods and goddesses and these stupid figureheads that we’re supposed to worship.

Get rid of the presidency. I’m not a child. I don’t need some God taking care of me. Parliamentary solutions only, please.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

I can tell you're not a child because you wish you had a magic wand.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 10:34 AM (w4PfG)

210 I hear he's a moderate because he sometimes says that Democrats have bad tactics.

Also, he's black, so white progressives want him because they have no idea who he actually is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:33 AM (GBKbO)
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He's also good friends with Mark Levin, like that somehow belongs in his asset column.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:34 AM (5aZAZ)

211 209
I can tell you're not a child because you wish you had a magic wand.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 10:34 AM (w4PfG)

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Also, the idea that the president is out there taking care of people?

He's chief executive of the federal government. Is that supposed to be a daddy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

212 Dear lord, the idea that Legislatures should also Executive? You're just replacing a president installed for a set amount of time with a Prime Minister, who's deeply weaker institutionally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

And no accountability for the actions of the group, versus actions of one replaceable executive. Retarded indeed.

Posted by: Zombie New tiny 90 million year old dinosaur at February 26, 2026 10:35 AM (dK+Kv)

213 194 Stephen A. Smith Accuses the NBA of Trying to “Whiten” the Sport
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Your 2028 Democrat Presidential Nominee.
Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 10:21 AM (Y8DZL)

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DogEater 2: I'm A UNITER Boogaloo!
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 10:30 AM (sTbTe)

Its called diversity and equity and inclusion.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 26, 2026 10:36 AM (i0Hi3)

214 They think MAGA voters worship Trump because they worshipped Obama.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

They didn't even have our orange robes and matching fezzes. You call that worship??

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

215 212 And no accountability for the actions of the group, versus actions of one replaceable executive. Retarded indeed.

Posted by: Zombie New tiny 90 million year old dinosaur at February 26, 2026 10:35 AM (dK+Kv)

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Parliament is supreme and can do whatever the fuck it wants because it has no checks.

It's centralizing power even more into a largely unaccountable group that can let institutional corruption fester faster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

216 These people have never seriously considered what governance is. Ever.

It's kind of hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:32 AM (GBKbO)
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When you read the Reddit Intercepts, it's important to keep in mind that the Reddit userbase is HEAVILY non-American. Whoever posted that most likely lives under a shitty Euroweenie parliamentary system and is shilling for their stupid system of government that he knows quite well.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:36 AM (5aZAZ)

217 117 my parents drove it up from the bahamas.

Posted by: cmeat at February 26, 2026 10:37 AM (R11M+)

218 The more appropriate moniker is Screamin' A. Smith.

Posted by: Change my mind at February 26, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

219 Aka me, in my retirement, hopefully.
Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 09:59 AM

bluebell's shivs will become even collectable. Stock up now!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 26, 2026 10:38 AM (0sNs1)

220 He's chief executive of the federal government. Is that supposed to be a daddy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

They'd prefer a dreamy, gay mocha messiah, perhaps?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 10:38 AM (dK+Kv)

221 Nobody puts The Bull in Hillary like Webster Hubbell.
Posted by: ShainS

All Morons are well aware of 'The Power of the Pxxxx' but I mean, C'mon, somewhere you just have to draw the line!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 10:38 AM (cYBz/)

222 The NBA as a sports product sucks.

At best, it's a soap opera for middle-aged dudes.

Also, they can't shut the fuck up about the WNBA which is worse and which nobody watches because even women can't be bothered to watch women try to play basketball.
Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:34 AM (5aZAZ)

If it were a soap opera for middle aged dudes, it would be an escape. It isn’t. I stopped watching when I was getting smacked on the head with politics, same as the NFL. And I was once a huge Spurs fan.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 10:38 AM (fYhK6)

223 1. Praying 🙏🏻 for grammie.
2. The NBA needs to teach the players basic English.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at February 26, 2026 10:38 AM (4opPK)

224 {bluebell} thanks for the update

grammie a prayer for her complete and immediate healing.

Posted by: Donald Trump at February 26, 2026 10:38 AM (RIvkX)

225 I can tell you're not a child because you wish you had a magic wand.
Posted by: t-bird

No, no, eets not, how you say, a childish idea!

Posted by: The Paolo at February 26, 2026 10:38 AM (oftw2)

226 216 When you read the Reddit Intercepts, it's important to keep in mind that the Reddit userbase is HEAVILY non-American. Whoever posted that most likely lives under a shitty Euroweenie parliamentary system and is shilling for their stupid system of government that he knows quite well.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:36 AM (5aZAZ)

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Probably English, yeah.

And the English despise their own Parliamentary government.

Limited government is just never an option.

Seriously, Trump is literally shrinking the size and scope of government (federal workforce reductions + regulatory pullbacks). It's making the government less of a caretaker. It's what they say they want!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

227 Reddit is bots.

Posted by: Just like Twitter at February 26, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)

228 /orange sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 10:39 AM (RIvkX)

229 Basketball needs a pool.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:39 AM (c27kw)

230 Pure altruism and agape.

Nancy Pelosi says that she was never in Congress for the money: "Not that I was there for the money."

Pelosi’s net worth is over $400 MILLION since joining Congress.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:40 AM (FXNzP)

231 Good morning all!

Do you think that one day an objective and fair film will be made, or a book will be written about the life and political rise and fall and rise of DJT? He seems to be living, breathing proof of the saying "Comes the time, comes the man"?

Posted by: jmel at February 26, 2026 10:40 AM (RWHIh)

232 The NBA is boring which is why ratings are cratering.

As with everything, the zenith of basketball was a 20 year period from 1975 to 1995.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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In the end, it's a stupid game. The definition of a foul is so subjective as to make it meaningless. The refs determine the outcome, not the players.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 10:40 AM (XvL8K)

233 f I had a magic wand, I would get rid of this idea of a president. I’m sick of queens and kings and gods and goddesses and these stupid figureheads that we’re supposed to worship.
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No you wouldn't and no you aren't. You would just make it someone who does all the shit you want and punish anyone who objected.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:40 AM (wIg5s)

234 And yes, I have a *genuine* (and limited edition) bluebell shiv. It is, perhaps, the most honored object in my collection of sharp pointy things.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 26, 2026 10:40 AM (0sNs1)

235 Parliament is supreme and can do whatever the fuck it wants because it has no checks.

It's centralizing power even more into a largely unaccountable group that can let institutional corruption fester faster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

Americans would not like a parliamentary system (though ME and AK have embraced elements of it). Not only is it what you describe, but the change in parliament can be immediate. Changes in government can be so drastic as to make one’s head spin.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 10:40 AM (fYhK6)

236 The other thing to remember is that most systems have no checks on the overall power of the government. No powers enumerated in the constitution or bill of rights to set guard rails. They can literally do as they please. Often, even if they say they do, it is at the mercy of the government to decide what it can or can't do.

Civilization is just a very very thin facade on might makes right tribalism.

This is the thing the left both wants and really does not want, because they are not looking at the backside of things and realizing the document protects them as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 10:40 AM (bss/y)

237 Something something crotchety.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 10:40 AM (diia5)

238 Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:36 AM (5aZAZ)

Nah, bet you anything they're just mad about Trump

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (wIg5s)

239 Stephen A. Smith deals 3-card Monty in Bryant Park.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

240 Probably nothing will happen to them. Nevertheless, 'sins of the father' (or mother, too, in their case), the concept that the consequences, curses, or negative behaviors of parents (or ancestors) are passed down to and affect their children and subsequent generations.

Related - 'The Troubled In-Laws of the 2016 Race' If Clinton or Trump is elected, there’ll probably be a felonious father-in-law visiting the White House. April 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

241 /orange sock off
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 10:39 AM (RIvkX)
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I knew it was you

Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (79pEw)

242 Seriously, Trump is literally shrinking the size and scope of government (federal workforce reductions + regulatory pullbacks). It's making the government less of a caretaker. It's what they say they want!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

They want fascism? Ern Norman, coordinate!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (Dv3i1)

243 238 Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:36 AM (5aZAZ)

Nah, bet you anything they're just mad about Trump

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (wIg5s)

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"Newsom can be my daddy!"
-probably that one commenter's next comment

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

244 If I had a magic wand, I would wish everyone I don't like to the cornfield.

Posted by: What they really meant at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM (vFG9F)

245 Okay, that was supposed to be a wink but it seems to be a lovely little picture.

Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM (79pEw)

246 Seriously, Trump is literally shrinking the size and scope of government (federal workforce reductions + regulatory pullbacks). It's making the government less of a caretaker. It's what they say they want!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

They said they wanted an outsider, a change agent. I told them "then, Trump was their guy." They countered that Hillary was their outsider change agent, because that's what programming the DNC delivered to their NPCs.

What are you gonna do with that?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM (dK+Kv)

247 "199 There is no point to any investigation of any regime figure. This is America; these people are above the law. Our system isn't structured in a way that makes consequences possible. It was constructed to prevent that from ever happening. Literally every single one of its mechanisms would have to suffer a cascading failure for a powerful criminal to be punished.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 10:31 AM (BI5O2)"

Look on the bright side, it could be worse. The shit going down in the UK would never fly here, and mostly likely will never fly

I own an antitank rifle, ffs. And and LMG. Suppressed sniper rifles and integrally suppressed subguns. Think of the poor fucks over ther that have to bow and scrape when the local fuzz comes to arrest them for mean tweets.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM (+RkG8)

248 Parliament is supreme and can do whatever the fuck it wants because it has no checks.

It's centralizing power even more into a largely unaccountable group that can let institutional corruption fester faster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Correct and incorrect. The UK is ruled by the civil service, not Parleilayement.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM (diia5)

249 Nah, bet you anything they're just mad about Trump
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (wIg5s)
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They're that, too, but odds are that about 3/5 of the Reddit Intercepts were posted by people not living in the US.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM (5aZAZ)

250 All Morons are well aware of 'The Power of the Pxxxx' but I mean, C'mon, somewhere you just have to draw the line!!

Posted by: Tonypete

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You're assuming it was consensual.

I'm assuming it was under duress.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 26, 2026 10:43 AM (9C/Xw)

251 Dear lord, the idea that Legislatures should also Executive? You're just replacing a president installed for a set amount of time with a Prime Minister, who's deeply weaker institutionally.

Anyone who looks across the pond to England and says, "That's good governance" is insane.

Also, if you want an executive with less power, give the government less power. But that's not an option. Ever. "I want the government to be all powerful," is just a base assumption that they'll never question.

These people have never seriously considered what governance is. Ever.

It's kind of hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

There’s always TX government. The governor here is among the weakest, if not THE weakest, governor in all 50 states. In some ways you can argue the Lt Gov has more power.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 10:43 AM (fYhK6)

252 Thoughts of revenge on a cheating partner.

Posted by: Unkaren at February 26, 2026 10:43 AM (duOzU)

253 Leftists hated football and basketball when it wasn’t politicized and woke and filled with AWFLs. It was a refuge so to speak, for normal males of all races, a place to forget about politics at least for a while.

That, of course, could not be allowed to stand. Either you get rid of the entire edifice altogether, or prancing tranny “cheerleaders” and the pink ribbons and the rest of it, or both.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 10:44 AM (yfFl/)

254 Thank you, bluebell. Appreciate the Grammie updates.

Prayers up for her, her loved ones, and those responsible for her medical care.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at February 26, 2026 10:44 AM (wr21C)

255 I can tell you're not a child because you wish you had a magic wand.

Posted by: t-bird

You know, like free grocery stores.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:44 AM (FXNzP)

256 They're going to come down with coconut fever so hard in about 22 months.

It's gonna be great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I had that once. Gave my brown-skinned cook a white, creamy filling. He even floated in the lake after his mysterious drowning "accident".

Posted by: Barack Obama at February 26, 2026 10:44 AM (JCZqz)

257 Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:41 AM (79pEw)

But I'm sure it it were Trump he'd like her too and wish her well with prayers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 10:44 AM (PFs9e)

258 246 They said they wanted an outsider, a change agent. I told them "then, Trump was their guy." They countered that Hillary was their outsider change agent, because that's what programming the DNC delivered to their NPCs.

What are you gonna do with that?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM (dK+Kv)

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"Top of the political class of one party for 20 years and former Secretary of State under previous Democrat administration is more of an outsider than New York real estate mogul who's never held office before."

Partisanship makes one stupid.

But...Democrats are desperate for an actual outsider. They just reject all of them.

They want an outsider that says all the same things as insiders. But that's not what outsiders do. Outsiders challenge assumptions. Trump did it on several fronts (Iraq and immigration). Democrats need something like that.

But, their media ecosystem attacks and shuts down anyone who tries. Trump had the advantage that the media ecosystem propped him up because they thought it would hurt the GOP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

259 Pelosi is not there for the money.
Neither is a crime boss. It’s the POWER, baby! Money is the side benefit.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 10:45 AM (yrDTz)

260 > I own an antitank rifle, ffs. And and LMG. Suppressed sniper rifles and integrally suppressed subguns. Think of the poor fucks over ther that have to bow and scrape when the local fuzz comes to arrest them for mean tweets.
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There's a state politician here in KY that wants to make machine guns legal for the public. He's introducing a bill this year to push it.

Not a chance in hell it'll pass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 10:45 AM (jtM2q)

261 Okay, that was supposed to be a wink but it seems to be a lovely little picture.
Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM

A relatively recent (and unannounced/undocumented) change by Pixy has broken the traditional AoSHQ comment emoticons. Sad! :-(

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 26, 2026 10:45 AM (0sNs1)

262 When reading "The King's Peace" (run up to teh ECW), pretty much every other page in the first half I was sayng to Charles I, "You eediot!!". Then Parliament got the bit in its teeth and they were EVEN WORSE.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2026 10:45 AM (i1VVh)

263 And, lovely art for today, CBD. I do enjoy Cassat.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at February 26, 2026 10:45 AM (wr21C)

264 251 There’s always TX government. The governor here is among the weakest, if not THE weakest, governor in all 50 states. In some ways you can argue the Lt Gov has more power.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 10:43 AM (fYhK6)

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And the legislature only meets every other year.

And everyone is dead because Texas's government isn't passing bills all the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

265 I hate Impressionism.

Posted by: front toward enemy at February 26, 2026 10:46 AM (TIizU)

266 What are you gonna do with that?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 10:42 AM (dK+Kv)

Nod and back away slowly.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:47 AM (wIg5s)

267 , Muldoon your limericks always make me laugh.
Posted by: Jen the original]/i]

************

Aw. Thanks. It has been a lot of fun through the years.

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2026 10:47 AM (qgHp7)

268 Obama probably appeared to be an outsider to the Dems. He knocked out the insider Hillary. Unless of course you think that the Clintons were outsiders.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 10:47 AM (Dv3i1)

269 These people have never seriously considered what governance is. Ever.
——-

“Consensus”, an end run around leadership. It’s a carefully crafted indoctrination into a widespread enforced mediocrity, as well as preventing anyone from being held responsible or accountable.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 10:47 AM (yfFl/)

270 It's centralizing power even more into a largely unaccountable group that can let institutional corruption fester faster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Correct and incorrect. The UK is ruled by the civil service, not Parleilayement.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

It's funny that this is the same group that accuses you of being a Nazi bootlicker if you support ICE deporting people, and defending themselves against violent rioters, and yet they want the British nanny-state.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2026 10:47 AM (JCZqz)

271 268 Obama probably appeared to be an outsider to the Dems. He knocked out the insider Hillary. Unless of course you think that the Clintons were outsiders.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 10:47 AM (Dv3i1)

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On the surface, he was.

No real ties to any major national power structure. He was an upstart.

But his outsiderism brought racialism and Chicago corruption to the Democrat Party at a time when anyone could have won as a Democrat after post-W and with John McCain as the nominee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

272 Trump had the advantage that the media ecosystem propped him up because they thought it would hurt the GOP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

Maybe for about five minutes. They spent the rest of the time saying he was a Nazi and a joke and promoting John Kasich.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:49 AM (wIg5s)

273 Stephen A. Smith Accuses the NBA of Trying to “Whiten” the Sport

His job is being a loudmouth. If he can generate a controversy, all the better for him.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 10:49 AM (w4PfG)

274 There’s always TX government. The governor here is among the weakest, if not THE weakest, governor in all 50 states.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 10:43 AM

In fairness, he does skip leg day.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 26, 2026 10:50 AM (0sNs1)

275 272 Maybe for about five minutes. They spent the rest of the time saying he was a Nazi and a joke and promoting John Kasich.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:49 AM (wIg5s)

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The very minor pivot to Kasich happened late in the primary. After Super Tuesday.

The year leading up to that was, "Look, the dummies are falling for this loudmouth's carnival of grotesqueries!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

276 Tanned, rested and ready to deliver. Just like my dad, who was a postman!

Posted by: John Kasich, Unremarkable at February 26, 2026 10:50 AM (Dv3i1)

277 Thanks, bluebell, for the update on grammie!
Sending prayers

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 10:51 AM (tj6OY)

278 It's about time the Texas Governor got up off his ass.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:51 AM (c27kw)

279 268 Obama probably appeared to be an outsider to the Dems. He knocked out the insider Hillary. Unless of course you think that the Clintons were outsiders.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 10:47 AM (Dv3i1)
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The Democrat party carefully stage-managed Obama's political career so that he looked like an outsider. They ran him for President as soon as they could so that he didn't get the stank of being a Senator on him any more than he already had.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 10:51 AM (5aZAZ)

280
The year leading up to that was, "Look, the dummies are falling for this loudmouth's carnival of grotesqueries!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

I was an early Trump supporter. They tried to destroy him very early. And not just the main media but Fox too.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:52 AM (wIg5s)

281 Not only is it what you describe, but the change in parliament can be immediate. Changes in government can be so drastic as to make one’s head spin.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Look at how Churchill got replaced at Potsdam by Attlee. Yeah, you don't wanna be swapping out your head of government at an international summit at a moment's notice. Not that it made a lot of difference, I suppose, but it's a bad look.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

282 In the end, it's a stupid game. The definition of a foul is so subjective as to make it meaningless. The refs determine the outcome, not the players.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Concur. When there's two minutes left on the clock you know you've go 15 minutes of bullshit to get through before the final buzzer.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 10:53 AM (Y8DZL)

283 280
The year leading up to that was, "Look, the dummies are falling for this loudmouth's carnival of grotesqueries!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

I was an early Trump supporter. They tried to destroy him very early. And not just the main media but Fox too.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:52 AM (wIg5s)

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Note:

I do not say that they supported him. I say that let him occupy a central point in the media ecosystem.

They gave him oxygen.

They would never do that to a heterodox Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

284 told the crowd gathered blocks from the US Capitol

The blocks are just laying there? Is the dome loose too?
Things may have gone more badly than we had heard.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 26, 2026 10:54 AM (zdLoL)

285 A no holds barred X deathmatch between Stephen Miller and Jon Favreau.

https://is.gd/EUOvKk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 26, 2026 10:54 AM (FXNzP)

286 And you took my Kasich jibe literally. What actually happened was they tried to make every single person but Trump the front runner. It was silly.

Trump's true advantage was he had the support of the base - so called "evangelicals" latched on very early, took a boatload of shit for it, and he never abandoned them like other Republicans.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:54 AM (wIg5s)

287 >>Stephen A. Smith Accuses the NBA of Trying to “Whiten” the Sport

It has been quite enlightening watching the WNBA's reaction to Caitlyn Clark, and the NBA's reaction to Nikola Jokic, both fabulously talented players who happen to be white.

The rejection of this style of diversity has been quite a show. A very ugly show in the case of Clark, who has been openly targeted for assault every time she steps on the court.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 10:55 AM (tj6OY)

288 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Late again. It's becoming a habit.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 10:55 AM (2WIwB)

289 But I'm sure it it were Trump he'd like her too and wish her well with prayers.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 10:44 AM (PFs9e)

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Yes, indeed!

Posted by: bluebell at February 26, 2026 10:56 AM (79pEw)

290 The Narrative was ANY Republican other than Donald Trump could defeat Scankles.

When any sane person knew instinctively that the ONLY person who could beat that machine was The Donald. It was classic GOP failure theater.

I think the plan was to have Jeb! lose. Gracefully, natch. Suffer the slings and arrows and give Americans another lecture. “Bush vs. Clinton” Pick one, was finally a bridge too far after 20 years

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 10:57 AM (yfFl/)

291 Late again. It's becoming a habit.
Posted by: Diogenes

Lack of Geezer Golf messes with your internal clock. You'll be back on schedule in a few weeks.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

292 They gave him oxygen.

They would never do that to a heterodox Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

Your point about a Democrat is taken.

But any Republican getting the "oxygen" they gave him would have been obliterated a million times over. Trump turned the media to his advantage, as he has continued to do because he knows how to use them.

That's not the same as him having any actual advantage. There was a VERY early time where they thought he would be an easy opponent but at virtually no point did they do anything but try to eliminate him, because the higher up Democrats and Unparty knew, as I did, that he was the only person with a legitimate shot to beat The Hag.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:57 AM (wIg5s)

293 Where is the sun?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:58 AM (c27kw)

294 Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 10:55 AM (tj6OY)

Want to know what the Left really thinks about "minorities"? Look how they treat whites and Republicans when they are in the minority.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 10:59 AM (wIg5s)

295 Where is the sun?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 10:58 AM

*gestures vaguely*

That way.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2026 10:59 AM (bFu5X)

296 In the end, it's a stupid game. The definition of a foul is so subjective as to make it meaningless. The refs determine the outcome, not the players.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Concur. When there's two minutes left on the clock you know you've go 15 minutes of bullshit to get through before the final buzzer.
Posted by: Auspex
________

It's same problem in football with the subjective calls on pass interference and holding. But somehow I still like football.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 10:59 AM (XvL8K)

297 Where is the sun?
Posted by: Boss Moss

93,000,000 miles from Earth.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

298 293 Where is the sun?
Posted by: Boss Moss

blocked by the Hawaiian judge

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 26, 2026 11:00 AM (FZYNt)

299 >>But any Republican getting the "oxygen" they gave him would have been obliterated a million times over. Trump turned the media to his advantage, as he has continued to do because he knows how to use them.

I watch a lot of Morning Joe in 2016 to see how they thought. Mika and Joe marveled at how available Trump was - you called and you got him, not some assistant, and he always said yes to media requests. He was irresistible to them, even though they kinda hated it.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:00 AM (tj6OY)

300 Still with the crocheting!!! Always with the crocheting?? When are we gonna get naked???

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 11:00 AM (pDt9x)

301 Mid Morning FART thread

Posted by: GigantorX at February 26, 2026 11:00 AM (x8k2o)

302 Godspeed, Grammie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 11:00 AM (dK+Kv)

303 297 Where is the sun?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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It's always in the last place you look.

Posted by: Never changes at February 26, 2026 11:01 AM (2Ez/1)

304 >>Want to know what the Left really thinks about "minorities"? Look how they treat whites and Republicans when they are in the minority.

Yes. We've seen a lot of it lately.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:01 AM (tj6OY)

305 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

306 The rejection of this style of diversity has been quite a show. A very ugly show
———

Segregationists had a point, is all they’ve really managed to accomplish. One has to be retarded to watch these leftist clowns fuck everything up beyond belief and think this is a good thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 11:01 AM (yfFl/)

307
nood rant

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 11:01 AM (tljrc)

308 127 "I don't remember,
I don't recall,
I've got no memory
of anything at all"

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 10:03 AM (Y8DZL)

Underrated song, but I still like "The Rhythm of the Heat" better.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2026 11:01 AM (6Uni8)

309 Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 11:00 AM (tj6OY)

Theres a gross early clip of Mika practically wetting herself over him. Gross because for once it was the truth coming from her lips.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 11:02 AM (wIg5s)

310 Nood primate

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 11:03 AM (5aZAZ)

311 Groucho Marx sang a song about her.

Posted by: ibid at February 26, 2026 11:18 AM (oFs3r)

312 "There's a state politician here in KY that wants to make machine guns legal for the public. He's introducing a bill this year to push it.

Not a chance in hell it'll pass.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 10:45 AM (jtM2q)"

A mostly well kept secret for you: KY is right, they do have the power to do that, whether or not they'll actually pass it.

There has always been a certain number of post-86 stamp approvals and agency-to-individual transfers going on, for those with connections. The law isn't just that the .gov is allowed to make these transfers at will; it's that they don't have to approve transfers outside of those. But "don't have to" isn't "can't" or "won't".

The ATF can, and does, approve post-86 mg's straight to individuals. Just not you.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 11:27 AM (NufQ3)

313 “Consensus”, an end run around leadership. It’s a carefully crafted indoctrination into a widespread enforced mediocrity, as well as preventing anyone from being held responsible or accountable.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 10:47 AM (yfFl/)

Consensus is the absence of leadership (MHT, 1925-2013)

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 01:01 PM (fYhK6)

The Morning Report — 2/26/26

Good morning kids. Turning to the international scene, with the situation in Iran still fluid, if not volatile internally and with two American carrier battle groups now stationed within striking distance of the Mullahs, the big story is what happened right in our own backyard:

Four passengers of a Florida-registered speedboat killed by Cuban border guards were all born in the communist island nation but lived in the US, the Cuban Embassy said Wednesday night.
Cuba’s interior ministry claimed the country’s law enforcement opened fire on the boat after it entered their waters for an “armed infiltration” attempt.
The vessel was carrying a total of 10 “armed” people who Cuban officials claim “intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.”
The Interior Ministry alleged assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails and other weapons were found onboard the speedboat.
Four of the passengers were gunned down by Cuban border troopers in a shootout. The six injured survivors were identified as Amijail Sánchez González, Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, Conrado Galindo Sariol, José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló, Cristian Ernesto Acosta Guevara, and Roberto Azcorra Consuegra, according to the embassy.
The embassy additionally identified one of the deceased as Michel Ortega Casanova.
An eleventh Cuban national, Duniel Hernández Santos, was also arrested “within national territory,” though it’s unclear if he was on the boat with the other purported infiltrators. . .
. . . When asked for comment about the citizenship of those aboard the speedboat, the State Department referred The Post to earlier comments made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Rubio had vowed that the US would “find out exactly what happened” and “respond accordingly.”
He downplayed Cuba’s initial version of the attack, saying the US would find its “own information on this.”
“We’re not gonna base our conclusions on what they told us,” he said.
Rubio conceded “it is highly unusual to see shootouts in the open sea like that. That’s not something that happens every day.”

Now that the Maduro regime has been decapitated and Venezuela has at long last a chance to eradicate the cancer of socialism/communism and restore its society and economy once again to freedom and prosperity, thanks to President Trump's vigorous reassertion of the heretofore long moribund Monroe Doctrine now the DON-roe Doctrine, America's national security has been bolstered.

In any case, with Maduro gone and the red menace on the wane all over Latin America, Cuba itself at long last has a chance to throw off the nearly seven long decades of misery and oppression of the Castro regime, thanks to President Trump. They know it, we know it and for sure this President knows it.

Record U.S. oil and gas production lowered world prices at the expense of Russia and the Middle East. Interrupting embargoed oil shipments from Venezuela and Iran has weakened Chinese influence and nearly strangled Cuba. . .
. . . Efforts to strangle the Cuban and Iranian governments will starve their respective anti-Western surrogates and their own terrorist efforts in Latin America and the Middle East—once more to China’s chagrin.

So, are the Cubans merely lashing out due to the aforementioned analysis by lurker extraordinarie Victor Davis Hanson, owing to the President's focus now on Iran or can the Trump State and War Departments handle multiple situations simultaneously. And is what Havana is declaring bullshit or are we engaged in any covert activity in and around Cuba? Their economy and government are now in a very precarious situation now that their supply of oil has been effectively cut off with the collapse of the Maduro regime.

Cuba has been and remains a lynchpin for our rivals and enemies to attempt to destabilize us. How incredible would it be to see the statues of bas reliefs of Marx, Lenin and Castro sledgehammered and dynamited off of every Cuban government building, just so we can see Barack Obama weeping at the sight of it.

Speaking of the Bay of Pigs, we had and still have the braying of pigs, that is the Democrat/Leftists in reaction to President Trump's tremendous State of the Union Address on Tuesday night. And as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here and in the sidebar as well as available on the usual outlets listed at the bottom of this post,

Their vile behavior might very well be their undoing come the November midterms and perhaps into 2028, please God.

Of course that remains to be seen but if they continue to elevate illegal aliens, thugs, grifters and other assorted vermin above the American people as no doubt they will, that alone could and must wipe them out electorally, not just in the next two election cycles but for all eternity. Yes, eradicating tyranny abroad is a good thing, but can we please eradicate it here at home first and forever?!

I have a dream today!!!

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

The Interior Ministry alleged assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails and other weapons were found onboard the speedboat. (Maybe it was Antifa! - jjs)
Four ‘armed’ speedboat passengers killed by Cuban border guards lived in the US, officials say
"On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters."
Deadly Gun Battle Off Cuba’s Coast — Florida-Registered Boat At Center Of Clash

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

Western globalists won’t last long.
The Clash of Civilizations Restarts History

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Legal immigration under Trump is plunging, net migration turns negative, and America’s workforce could shrink—reversing decades of mass immigration.
The Great Immigration Reversal: Trump’s Real Progress in Tackling Legal Immigration
On Feb. 5, Yordan Basilio Diaz Vera, a 34-year-old Lyft driver, was arrested by Louisville authorities and charged of first-degree sodomy and kidnapping a mother of four. Since his arrest, ICE has placed a detainer on Diaz Vera and is now pleading with the Louisville police to not release the suspect back onto the city streets.
EXCLUSIVE: ICE Urges Authorities Not To Free Cuban Illegal Charged With Sodomizing Mother
Meza-Ramirez, who turned out to be a Mexican national in the U.S. illegally and living in New York City, had been shot in the thigh, according to WCAU-TV.
Pennsylvania Cops Bust Alleged Migrant Sex-Trafficking Rings After Street Shooting
The ruling is paused for 15 days to allow for an appeal, potentially affecting deportation processes.
Biden Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Rapid Deportations to Third Countries.
Rahman was previously arrested last month after refusing lawful orders from federal immigration agents to move her vehicle in an apparent attempt to interfere with a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation.
Bro-Fo Omar’s Guest Was Arrested at Trump’s State of the Union, Here’s Why:
A residency requirement can be waived if a parent indicates the child is living in temporary housing.
Mam-zur-dani, Titty-Caca AOC Encourage Illegal Aliens To Enroll In NYC’s Free Childcare Program
The untold story behind a heroic DHS official’s suspicious - and unsolved - death.
Phil Haney Was Right; Barack Obama Is Wrong

THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Vance called for state governments to take their "obligations seriously to stop the fraud that's being perpetrated against the American taxpayer."
Vance Takes First Major Action As Fraud Czar With Sights Set On Minnesota

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
One can only hope that justice is served, not just for the victims of these devastating fires, but for the communities left vulnerable by years of neglect and misplaced priorities.
Deluge of Wildfire Lawsuits Hits Los Angeles and California
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Veteran activists and ex-inmates Dhoruba bin Wahad, Jalil Muntaqim and Jihad Abdulmumit discussed how to navigate “extreme and revolutionary times” with anti-prison organization Believers Bail Out (BBO). Bin Wahad claimed their “struggle would be typified by” an Islamic passage containing a violent prophecy.
EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Prison Group Scrubs Activist’s Rant About Killing Jews
One parent alleged that a ninth-grade teacher organized a walkout that featured chants of ‘f— the Jews,’ while others said schools punished their children for reporting anti-Semitism
‘Jewish Students Are Segregated’: Parents Sue California State Education System in First-of-Its-Kind Complaint Over ‘Anti-Semitic Propaganda’ and Harassment
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The only place Christians in the Middle East are thriving is guess where?
Leader of Christian Israelis Denounces Tucker Carlson
The app underscores America’s commitment to free speech amid rising global censorship, amid trade and legal issues with the EU over its restrictive online speech laws.
Trump Admin Launches GLOBAL Free Speech Platform to Counter Foreign Censorship.

* * * * *
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that “brand-name” companies have agreed to the program.
Trump Announces Deals to Have Tech Companies Shoulder Burden of AI Data Center Costs
A grassroots, anti-Big Tech movement is exploding across the country. AI and data centers have become a lightning rod political issue, and will likely play roles in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. Although Americans appear to be conflicted on whether the expansion of data centers will be a good thing or a bad thing, a very vocal and passionate slice of the population is racking up anti-tech wins and causing a big stir at the local level.
Data Center Issue Exploding Into Full View All Across America
AI is not merely another technological leap—it may be the moment machines begin to eclipse the very human talents that built our world.
Even the Best AI Scenario Is the End of Everything We’ve Ever Been

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Trump should tout a series of amazing economic and financial accomplishments.
The Economic State of the Union Is Good — See For Yourself
The owner of a Sonoma County winery believes the industry is dying because Boomers are.. “A lot of people have a misconception that the Boomers are drinking less,” he said. “This cannot be emphasized enough: it’s not because the Boomers are drinking less, it’s because there are less Boomers.”
California winery owner gives hottest take yet on why industry is dying
DIVINE’s MADNESS — Ongoing Leftist Fueled Transgender Terrorism
Lloyd Billingsley: “Trans” murderer “Roberta” Esposito explains it all for you.
“Why We GO BERSERK”
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
In a scene that plays out like something from the end of western civilization, police in Maryland appear helpless in their squad cars as a dash cam captures a street takeover of cars doing doughnuts as masked hooligans taunt officers and vandalize their vehicles.
WATCH: Maryland Police Are Powerless as Street Takeover Rages Around Them
Of course it's in California.
Sex Offender Runs for City Council on “Youth Safety” Platform
Schaefer, now 32, beat his girlfriend’s mother to death and stuffed her body into luggage during a luxury vacation more than a decade ago. He now faces federal arraignment Thursday at Chicago’s Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on conspiracy charges tied to the killing. . .
Infamous Suitcase Murderer Returns To America Early After Indonesia Deports Him
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The trillions spent have lined the pockets of the politically connected but have produced none of the results that have been promised.
Enough Climate Action — Shut The Money Spigot
Dozens of similar climate lawsuits hang in the balance as SCOTUS weighs state power to sue energy companies nationwide.
How The Left-Wing Climate Crusade May Be Nearing Its Breaking Point
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Last year, he blasted federal immigration agents"
FBI Raids Illegal Alien LA School Boss It Gave Award To
An affidavit was filed in connection with the searches, but officials stated that the details remain under seal. Another search was executed at a Miami property also connected to Carvalho, who has been the head of the second-largest school district in the United States since 2022. Carvalho previously worked for 14 years as superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
FBI Raids Home And Office Of Los Angeles School Superintendent
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
. . .but Thune has still not committed to doing so. (he's a venal RINO saboteur- jjs)
Trump Calls on Senate Leader Thune to Get SAVE Act Passed at SOTU
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
Summers’ resignation follows scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, as revealed by documents from the Department of Justice.
Obama Advisor, Clinton Treasury Sec RESIGNS Over Epstein Links.
All they have are lies.
No, Hillary Clinton Isn’t the Victim in Epstein Case
Allegations made in FBI interview documents by a woman against President Donald Trump, as revealed by NPR and the New York Times, are coming under scrutiny.
Exclusive — ‘Non-Credible Accusations’: Epstein Files ‘Trump Accuser’ Claims Collapse Under Scrutiny
FURTHER TO TRUMP 2026 STATE of the UNION ADDRESS
While her speech was meant to represent her entire party’s dissenting voice against Trump, Spanberger treated it as a chance to talk about herself, appearing to campaign as a presidential hopeful.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger Calls Illegal Aliens ‘Aspiring Americans’ in Democrat SOTU Response
Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump’s request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist" and said the moment made her "uncomfortable."
Democrat Lawmaker: Trump’s Request To Stand For American Citizens 'Racist'
Schumer said, “Bottom line is very simple, we agree we need to protect Americans. He’s not by his reckless ICE agency in Minnesota, two Americans were killed. Americans are being pulled out of their cars and beaten. Americans houses, the doors are being knocked down, you know, without a warrant. No other police departments in America run by Americans, has has done what ICE done. So, yes, we want to protect Americans. He’s not doing it. And that’s why the American people are against what ICE is doing. So that it was legitimate and right not to stand.”
Chuck Schemer: ‘Legitimate and Right’ Dems Didn’t Stand at SOTU for Protecting Americans
“But here in Virginia, I am working with our state legislature to lower costs and make the Commonwealth more affordable.”
Spanberger’s Rebuttal to SOTU Manages to Enrage People on Both Sides of the Aisle
Fortunately for Republicans, Donald Trump is very good at this. Democrats are not.
Trump Delivers A Show At State Of The Union
For anyone who believes the best is yet to come under Trump, it is perhaps his unshakeable belief in America's heritage and unquenchable faith in America’s future that keeps that dream alive.
Trump's State of the Union was a testament to American heroes and lasting greatness
The president neatly laid the groundwork to keep his party in power and his program for American renewal in place.
The Donald’s Brand-Building – And Bulldozing – State Of The Union Spectacular
At Tuesday’s State of the Union, Democrats set themselves up as angry foils to basic civics and feel-good American patriotism.
The Right’s Brand Is ‘America First.’ The Left’s Brand Is Getting Mad About That
POLITICS
The president and his executive power alone can’t secure Republicans re-election come November. The GOP will have to act fast.
7 Ways Republicans Can Capitalize On SOTU Momentum If They Want A Shot At Midterm Victory
“To join a union was to claim a place in America...The hunger for national belonging became readily evident to leftist labor organizers...Today’s college-educated left is disconnected from working-class voters.”
The Case for Working-Class Nationalism
Jonathan Turley: It now appears that profanity is viewed as an essential element of political speech on the left.
Newsom and foul-mouthed spokesman lead Democrats’ race to the bottom
The only good thing I can say about the ejectamenta-Americans on the left is that, despite the quotidian clown-slap of reality striking their grottily pierced faces, they puissantly push forward like the frenetic, blue-haired banzai toadies they were brainwashed to be.
Ooooh, That Smell: The Smell of Death Surrounds the Democrat Party
IRAN ON the BRINK?!
To hear leftists tell it, a Sharia state should be a paradise for religious minorities. Iran isn’t.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s War Against Non-Muslims
China and Iran are rapidly finalizing an agreement for the Islamic regime to purchase CM-302 supersonic missiles, with an approximate range of 180 miles, three officials briefed by the Iranian government and three security officials told Reuters. The deal is near completion after at least two years of talks and sped up swiftly after the 12-day June 2025 war between Iran and Israel, the officials said. The short war culminated in President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Iran Reportedly Turns To Communist China To Checkmate Trump
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s strategy prizes preemptive deterrence over drift or isolation, exploiting leverage to sap rivals, steady allies, and avert the cascading conflicts that metastasized under Obama and Biden.
Is There a Trump Great Game?
Modi tells Knesset: “India stands firmly with Israel, in this moment and beyond.”
‘Am Yisrael Chai’: India’s Modi Visits Israel Amid Thriving Trade, Defense Ties
The terrorist Organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation has established a hierarchical structure that allows the criminal organization to control its vast territories throughout Mexico. Similar to how a large-scale company operates, the structure allowed the cartel’s underbosses to run day-to-day operations without the constant need for supervision from the cartel’s supreme leader, the late Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.
EXCLUSIVE: How CJNG’s Terrorist Leadership Structure Operates
Turned victory into leverage.
Azerbaijan’s Post-War Pivot
The real proof of progress in Venezuela and what our president wants for the world in general was not found in his rhetoric about Delcy Rodríguez. It was found in another moment, the moment when he reunited a newly released Venezuelan political prisoner with his niece, who thought she'd never see him again.
The SOTU Moment That Gave Hope to Millions Around the World
The shock troops of the Red-Green alliance.
France, Far-Left ‘Antifa’ Group Leaves Security Guard Brain-Dead
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
While NASA allowed this kind of medical research on ISS, it never allowed the companies to manufacture any products on ISS for later sale on Earth. The new private space stations are decidedly opposed to that government restriction, and thus they are attracting customers like LambdaVision because they will allow it to make money on what it produces.
Medical company making artificial retinas buys payload slots on Starlab
Cool image time! In my continuing exploration of the New Horizons’ image archive, I keep finding things that I do not remember ever seeing before.
The shoreline of Pluto’s frozen nitrogen sea
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The transgender cultists are still with us, but there is mounting resistance.
Transitioning Away from Transgenderism
Diversity efforts and LGBTQ ideology are likely still quietly lurking in the depths of corporate America. That is what the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) argued in the 2026 edition of its annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI) report, which rates corporations based on their “policies, practices, and benefits” pertaining to LGBTQ employees
LGBTQ Ideology Can’t Just Seem To Die In Corporate America No Matter How Hard People Try To Kill It
Although the story isn’t over, Trump’s address to Sage and Michelle was a redemption.
Trump brought parents' struggle over secret gender transitions to the State of the Union
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
By associating symbols of Western civilization with Nazism, leftists like Tom Nichols are carrying on the work of actual Nazi propaganda.
The Atlantic Says Dressing Sharply Makes You A Nazi, Just Like The Nazis Wanted You To Think
The 'looksmaxxing' primper signals a change in values, aspirations, and stability among Zoomers.
Gen Z Men are Creating an American Tragedy and Internet Influencer 'Clavicular' Shows Why
Christian Toto: KISS musician's case against Rock & Roll Hall of Fame confirmed this week
Shakira, Sade, Lauryn Hill … and No Monkees?
Freedom of association, not bureaucratic credentialism, built excellence—great work arises from judgment and responsibility, not committees, quotas, or networking rituals.
Two Cheers for the Old Boys
Lynton agrees with Obama, in 'orgy of self-blame' deemed 'pathetic' by readers
Movie Attacking North Korean Tyrant Was Big Mistake, Says Former Sony Executive

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 07:10 AM (plFPI)

2 Thirsty Thursday

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 07:10 AM (gbOdA)

3 Willowed:

Great headline opportunity:

SAD SACK SACKED!

https://tinyurl.com/yz3s7ncd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 07:12 AM (plFPI)

4 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 07:13 AM (RIvkX)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 07:15 AM (tljrc)

6 Well, it looks like the agents in charge of the Mar-a-Lago raid got fired.

Of course nobody is being charged - they're Top Men, after all.

But, the cold comfort is that they all thought that banana republic stunt would be a big step up for their careers as loyal, ham-and-eggin' deep state Boy Scouts.

Oops! Oopsie!

They'll be ok, though. I'm sure Fusion GPS needs all the disgraced former spooks they can get. Trump is at the end of his career, and the FBI is going to need a whole new set of piss party dossiers and so forth soon enough.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 07:16 AM (BI5O2)

7 They all need summary trials and executions:

https://tinyurl.com/4jjefwu3

Yeh. I know. Not gonna happen.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 07:17 AM (plFPI)

8 too early in the stack to comment

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:19 AM (ZxPkt)

9 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

10 "WATCH: Maryland Police Are Powerless as Street Takeover Rages Around Them"

Don't the police have shotguns?

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

11 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 26, 2026 07:19 AM (dQeQC)

Thanks ever so much . I always hang on every word betting markets predict

Posted by: AliasJohnsonJohnson at February 26, 2026 07:23 AM (rZCVI)

12 OK

>Trump Calls on Senate Leader Thune to Get SAVE Act Passed at SOTU
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has this Thune character offered a single credible explanation for not pushing SAVE to completion? One that makes sense? Because if so, I missed it.

The best I can glean from reading online is, 'it would be too difficult'.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:23 AM (ZxPkt)

13 FBI Raids Home And Office Of Los Angeles School Superintendent
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Wait until they finally catch up with Richard Carranza.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 07:24 AM (RIvkX)

14 Thune can't find his birth certificate so he is afraid he won't be able to vote.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

15 Thune is yet one more reason why I despise the Senate of the United States

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:25 AM (ZxPkt)

16 "The owner of a Sonoma County winery believes the industry is dying because Boomers are.

Jon Phillips, the owner of Sonoma County winery Inspiration Vineyards and Winery, told The Post that the population decline of the industry’s top wine-consuming generation has led to a recent downturn in sales."

Good thing Omar made her nut before the wine industry goes flat.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

17 Mindful Worker has a great compilation of Amelia links: http://mindfulwebworks.com/ mindset/heap-o-amelia-links-2
mind the gap.

My favorite is the third video down on that link.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

18 "has this Thune character offered a single credible explanation for not pushing SAVE to completion?"

GOPe benefits from election fraud.

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2026 07:28 AM (Q+gd/)

19 Communist China > ISIS > US Senate > the Taliban > France

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:28 AM (ZxPkt)

20 RINO Senate Leader John Thune Confirms He’s FORCING a Vote on the SAVE America Act

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 07:29 AM (IK0sI)

21 Don Black

Good thing for the Senate that President Trump has no Cromwell in him.

Their inaction and mal-action are clear and present dangers to America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

22 20 RINO Senate Leader John Thune Confirms He’s FORCING a Vote on the SAVE America Act
Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 07:29 AM (IK0sI)

What's the catch?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2026 07:30 AM (fZiTB)

23 https://tinyurl.com/4jjefwu3

Yeh. I know. Not gonna happen.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 07:17 AM (plFPI)
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I believe this also means Mayorkas can be referred for perjury in testimony to Congress.

Hahahahhaahahahahahha.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

24 Court records show that that poor, innocent Irishman, Seamus Culleton, who is in ICE lockup and claiming he's being tortured has a history of domestic violence against his first American wife. That's in addition to having arrest warrants on drug charges waiting for him upon his return to Ireland, whenever that may be.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2026 07:31 AM (Y1sOo)

25 "7 Ways Republicans Can Capitalize On SOTU Momentum If They Want A Shot At Midterm Victory"

Why would we want that?

Posted by: The GOP at February 26, 2026 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

26 20 RINO Senate Leader John Thune Confirms He’s FORCING a Vote on the SAVE America Act
Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 07:29 AM (IK0sI)

Talk is cheap, actions speak louder than words.

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2026 07:32 AM (Q+gd/)

27 Garbage Congresstwat Ilhan Omar denies she ever said that Americans should be more fearful of white men across our country, yet she is on video saying exactly that, word for word.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2026 07:32 AM (Y1sOo)

28 the words 'senile' and 'Senate' share a common etymology

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:32 AM (ZxPkt)

29 "Court records show that that poor, innocent Irishman, Seamus Culleton, who is in ICE lockup and claiming he's being tortured has a history of domestic violence against his first American wife. That's in addition to having arrest warrants on drug charges waiting for him upon his return to Ireland, whenever that may be.
Posted by: one hour sober"

Pfft. How's his rap?

Posted by: Flavor Flav at February 26, 2026 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

30 If the SAVE Act passes, will it be in time to affect the midterms?

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2026 07:33 AM (Q+gd/)

31
Leftist "Resistance" seems to come down to resisting arrest for sex crimes.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2026 07:33 AM (Y8DZL)

32 Senator Mullins FIRED BACK after Bernie Sanders took a cheap shot, and it did NOT end well for the octogenarian socialist:

Markwayne: "God forbid we change and go after and try to fix our broken system. Anyways, I ranted too long."

Sanders: "Yes, you did."

Markwayne: "I'm sorry, I didn't ask your opinion on that. And if I cared about you, I would ask you, but I don't care about your opinion. Well, you're part of the system.

You're part of the problem. You've been sitting here longer than I've even been alive. This is your problem. You should have fixed this a long time ago."

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 07:34 AM (IK0sI)

33 We got the Big Bill last year. If we can get the Save Act this year we'll be doing about as well as can be expected.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2026 07:34 AM (fZiTB)

34 Good morning horde!
God bless America, and God bless President Trump and all his patriotic allies.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 26, 2026 07:34 AM (vfth7)

35 >If the SAVE Act passes, will it be in time to affect the midterms?

Posted by: davidt

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my feeling is, Democrats all over America will sue before Trump's signature on the bill is even dry

hoping to delay indefinitely thru lawfare

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:37 AM (ZxPkt)

36 President of WEF quitting because Epstein

Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2026 07:38 AM (Y1sOo)

37 Good morning!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 26, 2026 07:39 AM (luW68)

38 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

39 >my feeling is, Democrats all over America will sue before Trump's signature on the bill is even dry
----

and we already know how federal judges like to enjoin the President
so expect multiple rulings against SAVE, should it pass into law

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:40 AM (ZxPkt)

40 vmom deport deport deport

If I could, I would give your comment + 6.022 x 10²³ plus ups.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

41 @MOSSADil
·
7m
REPORT: U.S.-Iran nuclear talks in Geneva end after three hours.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)

42 Good morning. The March 3rd Texas Primary is right around the corner and the attack ad postcards are coming in now, fast and voluminous. I have a 6-page sample ballot to cycle through and figure out who gets my vote in the contested races.

Trying to weed out the Bushies, GOPe-s, Cornyn sycophant's, MAGA impersonators, TDS-afflicted, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 07:43 AM (wVcYX)

43 The goatrapers in NYC are getting uppity.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 26, 2026 07:44 AM (nESHF)

44 I got nothing... other than I remember an episode of George Lopez (sitcom) from 20+ years ago where George went out onto the high seas with his father-in-law to rescue FIL's brother from communist Cuba... kinda funny but even more amazing the episode treated communist Cuba as bad

I really have no idea, but if I had to guess the politics of the comedian and actor George Lopez I'd say he was a lefty....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 07:44 AM (xT8gx)

45
Cuba detected the hostile boat with state of the art equipment provided by Mexican drug cartels.

The boat was in international waters, but AI predicted it would cross the boundary and land.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 07:46 AM (VWtfl)

46 Good morning. The March 3rd Texas Primary is right around the corner and the attack ad postcards are coming in now, fast and voluminous. I have a 6-page sample ballot to cycle through and figure out who gets my vote in the contested races.

Trying to weed out the Bushies, GOPe-s, Cornyn sycophant's, MAGA impersonators, TDS-afflicted, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 07:43 AM (wVcYX)

What's your thought on the comptroller's race, GOP primary. I'm leaning Don Huffines but haven't yet done a ton of research. I think Abbott has endorsed the other guy, but even though he's been a pretty good governor this doesn't sway me... he might still be miffed that Huffines went after him pretty good in the last GOP gubernatorial primary....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 07:46 AM (xT8gx)

47 About Coast Guard members coming back after being discharged under Biden for refusing COVID shot. Also, I didn't watch the SOTU so I just learned that a Coast Guard swimmer was recognized for saving 165 people during TX flooding. Story from "Legal Insurrection " site;

https://tinyurl.com/43sy6nu7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 07:47 AM (rZCVI)

48 Joby's all-electric air taxi is being designed for up to four passengers, with comfortable seating, featuring large windows with panoramic views of the city below from every seat. Flown by a certified commercial pilot, the aircraft uses six tilting propellers to take off vertically before transitioning into forward flight. It can travel at speeds of up to 200 mph and has a range of up to 100 miles on a single charge.
====================
Uber announces that air taxi rides can be booked on its app in Dubai, beginning in the fall of 2026

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 07:47 AM (UpmsQ)

49 Don Black

Suppress the Iranian air defense - again.

Then fly C-17s, with EA- FA-18 Growlers and F-35 fighters in protection, high over major cities of Iran. Open the ramp, and send out pallets full of 45 caliber pistols, 6 rounds of ammo, in individual packages with a bright orange parachute.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

50 LinusVanPelt, Huffines gets my vote.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 07:48 AM (+nEug)

51 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
So Borge Brenda the WEF president is going to resign because of Epstein ties. The Dems really didn't think the Epstein obsession through. Cue Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 07:48 AM (HYqoK)

52 Sid has just signed up for a defamation lawsuit. So sad.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 07:49 AM (UpmsQ)

53 LinusVanPelt, Huffines gets my vote.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 07:48 AM (+nEug)

Thank you, Ben Had! Then he gets my vote as well

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 07:50 AM (xT8gx)

54 One Iraianin helicopter and 2 more jets have crashed in training exercises. Iran may not have an airforce left before long.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 07:50 AM (+nEug)

55 That's in addition to having arrest warrants on drug charges waiting for him upon his return to Ireland, whenever that may be.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2026 07:31 AM (Y1sOo)
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From the discussion here last week on this subject, I think we learned he can volunteer to leave any time he wants, but he is fighting to stay with ICE, and avoid jail in Ireland.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 07:52 AM (9C7ml)

56 If I could, I would give your comment + 6.022 x 10²³ plus ups.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Let's toast to that - avogadro toast anyone?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 26, 2026 07:52 AM (vfth7)

57 Brilliant photoshop today, JJS.

"Bray of Pigs" indeed, even if it mixes donkey sounds and pigs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 07:53 AM (9C7ml)

58 Biden showered with his daughter, sniffs little girls into his 80s, and withheld the Epstein files. Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and released the Epstein files. Clearly Trump must be the "pedo." Makes sense.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2026 07:53 AM (fZiTB)

59 {{{Ben Had}}}

The exacting maintenance required for safe flight of highly complex aircraft may be too much for an Islamic "Gods Will" society.

Good morning.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

60 Although of course I don’t support Cuba’s government, the boat they shot up was probably involved in smuggling illegals from Cuba to Florida.

Who else would take a small fishing boat up to Cuba’s coastline? Why else were 10 people on a very small boat that would be expected to have 3 or 4 at most? And no, it was no speedboat - ordinary fishing boat. 40+ years old.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 07:54 AM (k/Sbk)

61 SAD SACK SACKED!

https://tinyurl.com/yz3s7ncd
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 07:12 AM (plFPI)

His mistake was not becoming a teacher.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

62 The Senate is a very annoying institution, somewhat intentionally so, but watching Mullin bitch slap Bernie verbally was nice

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 07:55 AM (HYqoK)

63 avogadro toast anyone?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

🥂

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

64 51 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
So Borge Brenda the WEF president is going to resign because of Epstein ties. The Dems really didn't think the Epstein obsession through. Cue Nelson Muntz
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Turns out Western Euro elites have the same tastes as Muzzie invaders for screwing underage kids. Both deserve to be put on the trash heap of history.

And I see our trolls are now actively asking for libel suits incoming from PDT. Factual assertions with no proof regardless of what passes for such on social media means a de facto reckless disregard of the truth or actual malice. Both are not protected under NYT v. Sullivan.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 07:55 AM (E4rtv)

65 20 RINO Senate Leader John Thune Confirms He’s FORCING a Vote on the SAVE America Act
Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 07:29 AM (IK0sI)

What's the catch?
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2026 07:30 AM (fZiTB)
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The catch is Thune knows it won't get 60 votes. This is pure theater for the rubes (us).

He simply refuses to enforce Senate rules, and require Democrats to stand and speak for their filibuster.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 07:55 AM (9C7ml)

66 Thune absolutely sucks donkey balls.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 07:56 AM (9C7ml)

67 The shot Casanova!!

Pity, I hear he was popular with the ladies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 07:56 AM (+N6ee)

68 LinusVanPelt, Huffines gets my vote.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 07:48 AM (+nEug)

Thank you, Ben Had! Then he gets my vote as well
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 07:50 AM (xT8gx)

Good to know. I have hate postcards from Hancock and Craddick and was leaning Huffines. Leaning also because Harris County is putting most of my favs in each race at or near the bottom of the ballot choices. That's a "tell", as they say.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 07:56 AM (wVcYX)

69 President of WEF quitting because Epstein
Posted by: one hour sober
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Wow... Pro-Wrestling won't be the same without him

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at February 26, 2026 07:56 AM (DDJSl)

70 NaCly, it is to laugh. The air force combat instructor crashed and burned a little while back. One might think some sabotage might be going on.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 07:56 AM (+nEug)

71 Samuel P. Huntington was a prophet. Not that he foretold the future, but that he spoke the truth.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2026 07:56 AM (qFwJc)

72 Although of course I don’t support Cuba’s government, the boat they shot up was probably involved in smuggling illegals from Cuba to Florida.

Who else would take a small fishing boat up to Cuba’s coastline? Why else were 10 people on a very small boat that would be expected to have 3 or 4 at most? And no, it was no speedboat - ordinary fishing boat. 40+ years old.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 07:54 AM (k/Sbk)

The S.S. Minnow got blown off course in a storm again?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 07:58 AM (wVcYX)

73 The exacting maintenance required for safe flight of highly complex aircraft may be too much for an Islamic "Gods Will" society.

Same with bathing, being polite and having manners and not smelling and acting like ass.

Posted by: Somali Joe at February 26, 2026 07:58 AM (hXJe5)

74 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 26, 2026 07:58 AM (2Ez/1)

75 55 That's in addition to having arrest warrants on drug charges waiting for him upon his return to Ireland, whenever that may be.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 26, 2026 07:31 AM (Y1sOo)
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From the discussion here last week on this subject, I think we learned he can volunteer to leave any time he wants, but he is fighting to stay with ICE, and avoid jail in Ireland.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Yes. That is the truth of all deportations, if you leave voluntarily, you are better off than contesting it and losing. And agreeing and leaving means that you are no longer detained. Irish drug dealer dude simply figures US detainment with a chance of freedom is better than serving time in an Irish prison.

May Irish dude continue to be detained until Ireland imprisons him.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 07:58 AM (E4rtv)

76 Trump's SOTU speech will be ancient history by the midterms. At least two dozen new libelous narratives will have have been pumped out by the media by then. If we don't have an offensive attack plan against the media we're looking at same-old, same-old.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2026 07:58 AM (fZiTB)

77 I'm currently reading my favorite senator John Kennedy's book in which he has some choice words about the Senate and Lindsey Graham in particular.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 07:59 AM (RIvkX)

78 @64 Whig, one of the best things that Trump could do would be to bring a lawsuit which reaches the SC giving them the opportunity to overrule Sullivan. Thomas has wanted to do that for years

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 07:59 AM (HYqoK)

79 74 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 26, 2026 07:58 AM (2Ez/1)

Our birdbath out back has been in two pieces for the past few years but our former koi pond is frozen over solid!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2026 07:59 AM (x0n13)

80 Ben Had

One truism is pilots need to take care of their maintenance team. That is a big issue in Islamic societies, (because their pilots look down on the common man) and why most aircraft maintenance is done by expats.

Their tragedy is my dry humor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

81 71 Samuel P. Huntington was a prophet. Not that he foretold the future, but that he spoke the truth.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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Yes he did and it upset the globaloney crowd. Had GHWB through Biden (excluding PDT) payed attention to Huntington, US foreign policy would have never been the stupid invade the world and invite the world that is causing the West so many deadly problems.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 08:01 AM (E4rtv)

82 72 Although of course I don’t support Cuba’s government, the boat they shot up was probably involved in smuggling illegals from Cuba to Florida.

Who else would take a small fishing boat up to Cuba’s coastline? Why else were 10 people on a very small boat that would be expected to have 3 or 4 at most? And no, it was no speedboat - ordinary fishing boat. 40+ years old.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2026 07:54 AM (k/Sbk)

The S.S. Minnow got blown off course in a storm again?
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 07:58 AM (wVcYX)

Same thought - it was doing illegal smuggling of some sort, so I can't feel too much sympathy...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 08:01 AM (tOcjL)

83 Senators were on a short leash before the 17th amendment. States legislatures had some power on their powdered wigs. Since the 17th , senators donned fishnet stockings, thigh high boots and a bright red light in the nethers. All of them are whores.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 08:01 AM (ehY6c)

84 Samuel P. Huntington was a prophet.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2026 07:56 AM (qFwJc)
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Howard Johnson was also right!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 08:03 AM (plFPI)

85 Good morning, all. Thanks, J.J!

>Ex-Air Force pilot arrested for allegedly training Chinese military pilots without authorization
Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. allegedly violated Arms Export Control Act after 24-year Air Force career training American pilots on advanced combat aircraft
Greg Wehner, Fox News, Published Feb. 25, 2026

And a quarter century ago ...

Posted by: L -;No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 08:03 AM (NFX2v)

86 81 Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 08:01 AM (E4rtv)

Biggest mistake they made was stealing 2020. Trump might not have been so successful had that been his second term and we'd likely have two terms of Kamala.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2026 08:04 AM (x0n13)

87 Two Cheers for the Old Boys
_________
N A M Rodger makes a similar case about the 18th C RN. By later standards the system looks corrupt, yet it was extremely successful. For one thing, the nepotistic side was controlled by the fact that one was judged by the performance of one's proteges. Pure favoritism didn't work.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 26, 2026 08:04 AM (AlhUl)

88 kingsman

Back then, State Legislating bodies were so corrupt that the 17th amendment was regarded as an upgrade.

Constitution 2.0 needs to fix that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 08:04 AM (u82oZ)

89 Our birdbath out back has been in two pieces for the past few years but our former koi pond is frozen over solid!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2026 07:59 AM (x0n13)
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Ask CBD if he'll be nice and let you write a guest FWP column this coming Sunday.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 08:04 AM (plFPI)

90 @amuse
·
5h
SAVE ACT: Leader Thune explained that Senators don’t have time to debate and vote on the SAVE Act. For example, today would have been a problem since Sen Thom Tillis had to participate in a dog parade featuring the dogs of Congress.

video of Senators playing with dogs instead of passing SAVE

https://tinyurl.com/ykmcekar

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 08:06 AM (ZxPkt)

91 78 @64 Whig, one of the best things that Trump could do would be to bring a lawsuit which reaches the SC giving them the opportunity to overrule Sullivan. Thomas has wanted to do that for years
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Yes. NYT v. Sullivan's separate std. of public persons made a mess of the law and should be rolled back. The original facts in the case did not merit the legal remedy crafted by Scotus and was mainly a virtue signalling device.

The advertisement did not mention the Montgomery city commissioner by name nor would anyone actually much know that particular city commissioner would be in charge of the public services supervision.

This was simply another example of the Warren Court bloviating and making legislation rather than simply ruling on the basis that Sullivan (the city commissioner) was not libeled.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 08:07 AM (E4rtv)

92 LGBTQ Ideology Can’t Just Seem To Die In Corporate America No Matter How Hard People Try To Kill It
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The Karens in HR aren't going to be easy to get rid of. They're more tenacious than Japanese soldiers on the islands.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 26, 2026 08:07 AM (AlhUl)

93 Apropos of nothing, the weather here in north Texas has been absolutely fantastic, almost amazing for February... yesterday afternoon it was sunny and 78 degrees for my daily constitutional. Then took a walk with wife at 8pm and it was still 68 degrees....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 08:07 AM (xT8gx)

94 89 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 08:04 AM (plFPI)

I don't see this as a problem so much as the way it is!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2026 08:07 AM (x0n13)

95 The USS Gerald Ford has left Crete and is underway. I understand it will be positioned near Israel.

I guess PDT must have passed on the mullahs offering to let us "invest" in their oil and gas and mineral opportunities.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:08 AM (+nEug)

96 More Harris County Ballot shenanigans - turns out the sample ballot I printed directly from the voter website cutoff the 4th column of races. I had to download the danged file and print it from Adobe.

With a 6-page ballot, the voting machine and paper ballot miscues might be epic.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 08:08 AM (wVcYX)

97 The Atlantic Says Dressing Sharply Makes You A Nazi, Just Like The Nazis Wanted You To Think
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To be fair, our side is just as likely to yell "Nazi" at the Dems.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 26, 2026 08:08 AM (AlhUl)

98 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 08:08 AM (jtM2q)

99 Thanks NaCly for the proper framing of political corruption. Virtue was long gone and everything was for sale.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 08:08 AM (ehY6c)

100 Getting older stinks, but it does beat the alternative.... but file under "stinks" the fact that it is obvious that I'm having issues with cataracts in my eyes. Starting to see halos when I look at lights.... almost alarming how quickly they're degrading. Gonna have to get in quick and have that surgery... not sure if it's one or both eyes sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 08:09 AM (xT8gx)

101 Hello again, everyone! Work has been accomplished, coffee has been consumed.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 08:11 AM (+4yJ5)

102 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

No baby yet.. D day +5 and counting.

Posted by: Inogame at February 26, 2026 08:11 AM (53oGX)

103 Just this week, JJS has brought us breaking news from Uranus (at last) and now a pretty picture of Pluto's frozen nitrogen sea. Waterfront property prices are through the roof here on Earth. Might there be a Del Webb development on Pluto within a few years? Is Global Warming a problem there? I have questions, but it sounds like a real opportunity for savvy, early investors.

Posted by: Aspiring Space Cadet at February 26, 2026 08:11 AM (oftw2)

104 RINO Senate Leader John Thune Confirms He’s FORCING a Vote on the SAVE America Act
Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 07:29 AM (IK0sI)

What's the catch?
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2026 07:30 AM (fZiTB)

Everyone will receive twice as many final calls about their car's extended warranty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

105 Biggest mistake they made was stealing 2020. Trump might not have been so successful had that been his second term and we'd likely have two terms of Kamala.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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The steal was all to protect the precious Obama and the evil Clintons along with their Nat Sec minions like Comey, Clapper, and Brennan and other high offices.

I personally think that Obama rates as the worst president of all time---James Buchanan used to hold that title due to incompetence but Obama's malicious and destructive two terms plus the incompetence makes him the clear winner so far.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 08:12 AM (E4rtv)

106 97 The Atlantic Says Dressing Sharply Makes You A Nazi, Just Like The Nazis Wanted You To Think
***

Add it to the list. Good grammar, punctuality, eating well, staying fit, haven't all of these been trashed as well?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2026 08:12 AM (fZiTB)

107 >The USS Gerald Ford has left Crete and is underway. I understand it will be positioned near Israel.
----

sidenote: I've been to Crete

made out with a lovely Norwegian nurse on holiday, and drank locally sourced Ouzo

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 08:13 AM (ZxPkt)

108 Getting older. My 40 year old mind saw the sign for adult volleyball at the Y and said I would love to play. My 76 year old body said " who are you kidding?"

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:14 AM (+nEug)

109 No baby yet.. D day +5 and counting.
Posted by: Inogame at February 26, 2026 08:11 AM (53oGX)
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Has she tried jumping up and down? Drinking hot sauce? Hot bath?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

110 Starting to see halos when I look at lights.... almost alarming how quickly they're degrading. Gonna have to get in quick and have that surgery... not sure if it's one or both eyes sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 08:09 AM (xT8gx)

Ask for the special "They Live" lenses. Or the X-Ray Vision lenses. Enjoy the sights!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 08:14 AM (wVcYX)

111 Linus, the cataract surgery is effective, had both eyes with lens replacements in summer of 2020. I had the base lens replacement but wife paid out of pocket for trifocal lens replacements 14k not covered by ins. Perhaps less customer satisfaction with trifocal lens overall. Keep it simple.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 08:14 AM (ehY6c)

112 Democrats are so so so so retarded. So very very retarded. You’ve never seen such retards. It’s incredible. Yiuuuge even.

Posted by: PDT at February 26, 2026 08:15 AM (nwGCR)

113 Getting older. My 40 year old mind saw the sign for adult volleyball at the Y and said I would love to play. My 76 year old body said " who are you kidding?"
Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:14 AM (+nEug)
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I can get a bruise opening a jar of relish.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

114 The media has fixated on Trump’s tariffs and his provocative tweets. Meanwhile, he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have already done more to hinder China and its terrorist clients and proxies than any administration in memory.
========================
Good article from VDH.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 08:15 AM (odyr+)

115 What's your thought on the comptroller's race, GOP primary. I'm leaning Don Huffines but haven't yet done a ton of research. I think Abbott has endorsed the other guy, but even though he's been a pretty good governor this doesn't sway me... he might still be miffed that Huffines went after him pretty good in the last GOP gubernatorial primary....
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 07:46 AM (xT8gx)

I was thinking Christi Craddick but it crazy hard to find out anything about anyone other than an incumbent when it comes to primaries.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

116 Inogame, have you consider a long car ride down a bumpy road?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:16 AM (+nEug)

117 school administrators were aware of anti-Semitic harassment but either recommended segregating Jewish students from the rest of the class or swept the reports under the rug.

"Have you guys considered having classes in the attic? There is a precedent for it."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 08:17 AM (+4yJ5)

118 Linus, the cataract surgery is effective, had both eyes with lens replacements in summer of 2020. I had the base lens replacement but wife paid out of pocket for trifocal lens replacements 14k not covered by ins. Perhaps less customer satisfaction with trifocal lens overall. Keep it simple.
Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 08:14 AM (ehY6c)

Thank you! That is very good to know....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 08:18 AM (xT8gx)

119 No baby yet.. D day +5 and counting.
Posted by: Inogame at February 26, 2026 08:11 AM (53oGX)

A rousing set of Ring-Around-The-Rosie and Duck, Duck, Goose games? Mix in some Hokey Pokey as needed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 08:18 AM (wVcYX)

120 @100 Linus, my mother had the cataract surgeries in the early 2000s and had no problems at all . Good luck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 08:19 AM (HYqoK)

121 No baby yet.. D day +5 and counting.
Posted by: Inogame

In the history of the human race, no baby has ever stayed inside mom forever.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 26, 2026 08:19 AM (vfth7)

122 So Borge Brenda the WEF president is going to resign because of Epstein ties. The Dems really didn't think the Epstein obsession through. Cue Nelson Muntz
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Turns out Western Euro elites have the same tastes as Muzzie invaders for screwing underage kids.

There are folks resigning for "ties to Epstein" who aren't implicated in pedo activities. In fact, almost no one has been implicated in pedo activities. It's all been financial shit.

And the people resigning have all been older and wealthy. Brenda is 60, Larry Summers is 71. They probably decided that it wasn't worth putting up with the BS and retired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

123 Today is National Toast Day.🍞

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2026 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

124 Leaning also because Harris County is putting most of my favs in each race at or near the bottom of the ballot choices. That's a "tell", as they say.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 07:56 AM (wVcYX)

I believe that the order is set randomly when the ballot is finalized. They put that into law a while back.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

125

"Dear Atlantic Mag, GFY!"

- - Joe Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=1FUvF04vzPE&list=RD1FUvF04vzPE&start_radio=1

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2026 08:22 AM (x0n13)

126 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 08:04 AM (plFPI)

I don't see this as a problem so much as the way it is!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2026 08:07 AM (x0n13)
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That kind of thinking is a TWP.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 08:22 AM (plFPI)

127 88 kingsman

Back then, State Legislating bodies were so corrupt that the 17th amendment was regarded as an upgrade.

Constitution 2.0 needs to fix that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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By the time the 17th Amendment was ratified, most states used an election to seat their Senators. I think only a half dozen or slightly more still used state legislative votes. Sort of like how few states still used the poll tax by the time that a constitutional amendment banned the practice.

For better or worse, the 17th Amendment was and probably still is more popular than the sausage making that a return to state legislative picks would be. Corruption, extended vacancies in seats due to political reasons in the state, were all things that made the 17th a popular thing to do.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 08:23 AM (E4rtv)

128 > "WATCH: Maryland Police Are Powerless as Street Takeover Rages Around Them"
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This happened in Chevy Chase, MD. Once a very exclusive 'hood near the D.C. line. Not too far from where many former and present politicos live.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 08:23 AM (jtM2q)

129 >Today is National Toast Day.🍞

Posted by: redridinghood
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the drink, or the thing with the jam on it

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 08:23 AM (ZxPkt)

130 Linus, I too had cataract surgery in both eyes. It went swimmingly.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 08:23 AM (pZ64F)

131 More Harris County Ballot shenanigans - turns out the sample ballot I printed directly from the voter website cutoff the 4th column of races. I had to download the danged file and print it from Adobe.

With a 6-page ballot, the voting machine and paper ballot miscues might be epic.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 08:08 AM (wVcYX)
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Filled out some Harris County sample ballots at the request of a few family members.
They took their ballots in and voted on the computer screen without any problems.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2026 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

132 Linus the observation about more trouble with trifocal lens replacement was stated by my optometrist, Dr Le whom I greatly respect ; his wealth of experience. I still wear glasses but not thick lens. Also can wear foster grant shades off the rack and see well enough to drive. Wife does not need glasses but has complaints about the lens. Ins. paid my surgery in full.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 08:25 AM (ehY6c)

133 >This happened in Chevy Chase, MD. Once a very exclusive 'hood near the D.C. line. Not too far from where many former and present politicos live.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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this is gonna really shock the squares

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 08:25 AM (ZxPkt)

134 the drink, or the thing with the jam on it
Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 08:23 AM (ZxPkt)
******
The thing with the jam on it.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2026 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

135 In the history of the human race, no baby has ever stayed inside mom forever.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 26, 2026 08:19 AM (vfth7)
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The last days before Boy F. was born were awful. He was over 8 lbs and active, and she is tiny. It was very Alien.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 08:26 AM (RIvkX)

136 There are folks resigning for "ties to Epstein" who aren't implicated in pedo activities. In fact, almost no one has been implicated in pedo activities. It's all been financial shit.

And the people resigning have all been older and wealthy. Brenda is 60, Larry Summers is 71. They probably decided that it wasn't worth putting up with the BS and retired.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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True, I was being a bit sloppy. Probably because I was thinking of the Norwegian former PM. I think he did indulge. And Summers was wanting Epstein advice in wooing and screwing one of his students/advisees who was of age enough but this would get most tenured profs fired through normal HR practices. In Summers's case, it wasn't financial.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 08:26 AM (E4rtv)

137 For better or worse, the 17th Amendment was and probably still is more popular than the sausage making that a return to state legislative picks would be. Corruption, extended vacancies in seats due to political reasons in the state, were all things that made the 17th a popular thing to do.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 08:23 AM (E4rtv)

The 17th would probably be fine if it had a provision for recall.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

138 Even the Best AI Scenario Is the End of Everything We’ve Ever Been
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People are panicking for no reason. AI is no more a human agent than Penn and Teller were Gandalf. Calm down.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 26, 2026 08:27 AM (AlhUl)

139 cool
I like toast
FYI I butter my toast starting in the upper right corner, working down and to the left

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)

140 139 cool
I like toast
FYI I butter my toast starting in the upper right corner, working down and to the left
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I bet you cut your sandwiches in half before eating them, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 08:29 AM (pZ64F)

141 The Missus says I put too much butter on my toast.

Is that even possible?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 08:29 AM (DgMqy)

142 I believe that the order is set randomly when the ballot is finalized. They put that into law a while back.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

Filled out some Harris County sample ballots at the request of a few family members.
They took their ballots in and voted on the computer screen without any problems.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2026 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

You guys are harshing my conspiracy theories. Sigh.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 08:29 AM (wVcYX)

143 FYI I butter my toast starting in the upper right corner, working down and to the left
Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)
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Listen Meathead, you put the butter in the center and spread to the corners.

Posted by: Archie Bunker at February 26, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

144 139 cool
I like toast
FYI I butter my toast starting in the upper right corner, working down and to the left
Posted by: Don Black

The owner of a Commie Red Toaster would do something like that. I'm not surprised.

Posted by: For Shame! at February 26, 2026 08:30 AM (oftw2)

145 Have a great day, everyone.

May Nature get you to say Oooh, Ah, not ouch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

146 I am voting Mayes Middleton for AG

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:31 AM (+nEug)

147 The upper right has too much butter and the lower left has none.

Posted by: Archie Bunker at February 26, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

148 this is gonna really shock the squares

Nah, most folks in D.C. nowadays are gaycentric and favor things like illegal immigration, NAMBLA and Comet Pizza.

The only thing that would shocks them is normals.

Posted by: DC, America's Shithole at February 26, 2026 08:32 AM (hXJe5)

149 I bet some of these splitters cut their sandwiches diagonally. Heretics, you are denounced

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 08:33 AM (HYqoK)

150 Cuba has a history of murdering people trying to escape.
https://tinyurl.com/27bucusf

Posted by: Juan Paxety at February 26, 2026 08:33 AM (EwniN)

151 Huntington and Fukuyama formulated their theses in essays around the same time, before expanding them into books. Foreign Policy magazine published both in the same special issue when the USSR went tits up.

I found that issue in my dad's library a couple years later and read both. I couldn't have been more than 11 or 12, and it was a formative wake-up call for me.

It was clear right off the bat, even to a dumb kid, that Fukuyama was a fantasist and Huntington was much closer to right, insofar as nobody could tell the future. But he sounded plausible, and Fukuyama sounded stupid as hell - because even children understand human nature.

Problem was, his dumb book was out by then, and our President was praising it to the Heavens, and *basing his damn foreign policy on it.*

Watching that play out convinced me that we were in some real deep shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2026 08:33 AM (BI5O2)

152 Listen Meathead, you put the butter in the center and spread to the corners.
Posted by: Archie Bunker
----
Start doing it tomorrow and do it that way for the rest of your life!

Posted by: And don't get me started on shoes and socks! at February 26, 2026 08:33 AM (2Ez/1)

153 Holy shit.

Susan Wiles' attorney consented to the FBI spying on his phone call with her.

There is no clearer case of disbarment.
That violates every ethical obligation there is between lawyer and client.

We're also learning that the J6 Committee were all coordinating along with Jack Smith, Fannie Willis and the Biden White House, using committee subpoenas to obtain evidence they'd otherwise be barred from getting.

Months back, the rumor was the grand jury in FL was for an "all of government" over-arching nationwide conspiracy.

Drip, drip, drip ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 08:34 AM (HXT0k)

154 People are panicking for no reason. AI is no more a human agent than Penn and Teller were Gandalf. Calm down.
Posted by: Eeyore
___________

We can't engineer life in a lab. Not even a single cell organism. Why do people think we can replicate a human brain with with wires and microchips?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 08:34 AM (XvL8K)

155 Every weekday, National Toast Day or not, Mr. Sefton is our Host while we eat our Toast!

Then CBD comes along and takes us off our feed.

Posted by: Arts and Farces at February 26, 2026 08:35 AM (oftw2)

156 Joking aside, if you don't both socks on first you are a psychopath.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

157 That is a terrible story about the anti semitism at California schools. . I hope the parents win their lawsuit and the teacher who yelled out " You Nazi f*** at a parent is fired. How awful for the Jewish students.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 08:37 AM (PFs9e)

158
Joking aside, if you don't both socks on first you are a psychopath.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 08:36 AM

Preach!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 08:37 AM (tljrc)

159 For those who care to celebrate, it's also..
Black Lives Matter Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2026 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

160 That is a terrible story about the anti semitism at California schools. . I hope the parents win their lawsuit and the teacher who yelled out " You Nazi f*** at a parent is fired. How awful for the Jewish students.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 08:37 AM (PFs9e)
====

Wait until you hear what happened here yesterday. Let me see if I can find a link, it may have been suppressed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 08:38 AM (RIvkX)

161 I used to volunteer teach a computer class to poor old folks back in the day.

Andrew's Lesson 1 To Students was: YOU are in charge. The computer is not. You are not its servant. You don't have to believe whats on the screen and you don't have to do what it says.

Looks like that was taken out of the curriculum.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 08:39 AM (DgMqy)

162 Leader of Christian Israelis Denounces Tucker Carlson
_________
Misleading headline. Leave out that he's Maronite, which is a good think from my perspective, but not for many others.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 26, 2026 08:39 AM (AlhUl)

163 Here's the video link if needed:

https://youtu.be/keX9D-KhqRI

Posted by: Shoes and socks at February 26, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

164 > this is gonna really shock the squares

Nah, most folks in D.C. nowadays are gaycentric and favor things like illegal immigration, NAMBLA and Comet Pizza.

The only thing that would shocks them is normals.
------------
Oh, they'd be annoyed by it. They may vote for that shit but it's something totally different to have to live with it.

Having a "side show" with the noise, smoke, vandalism that goes with it would be intolerable for those stuffed shirts. Especially when it's right outside their front door. They're nothing of not hypocrites.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 08:40 AM (jtM2q)

165 WATCH: Maryland Police Are Powerless as Street Takeover Rages Around Them

Have I ever clarified how much I don't like living here? Because I don't.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 08:40 AM (+4yJ5)

166 In Simulated War Games, Top AI Models Recommended Using Nukes 95% Of The Time

"They wrote roughly 780,000 words explaining why they did what they did..."

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo)

167 depends on the sandwich

a PBJ I would leave intact
cheese and baloney, I cut in half

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 08:40 AM (ZxPkt)

168 So far, the two leading defenses as to why they didn't stand for protecting American citizens over illegals is:
1) Of course we stand for Americans--but not when emperor Trump demands we stand.
2) It's racist to say you defend Americans citizens over illegals.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 08:41 AM (HXT0k)

169 I am voting Mayes Middleton for AG
Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:31 AM (+nEug)

I enjoy the "MAGA" Mayes Middleton radio commercials....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 08:41 AM (xT8gx)

170 In Simulated War Games, Top AI Models Recommended Using Nukes 95% Of The Time

AI lacks wisdom. Exhibit A

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 08:42 AM (a4flb)

171 If you can dream it, we can tax it.

Posted by: The People's Republic of Maryland at February 26, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

172 Both Labour and the insurgent hard-left Greens have positioned themselves as the party best situated to prevent Farage getting another Parliamentary seat, and whether either will succeed or if they have only split the left wing vote will be revealed in the early hours of Friday morning after the votes are counted. The Associated Press reflects the three-way race between the Greens, Labour, and Reform is “too close to call”.

Indeed, the Green Party has accused Labour of being irresponsible for campaigning at all, such is the risk they perceive from a Reform win. Prime Minister Herr Starmer, meanwhile stepped into the bounds of the incendiary earlier this week when he predicted the Gorton and Denton area will “descend into hostility” if Reform wins.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 08:43 AM (RHGPo)

173 In Simulated War Games, Top AI Models Recommended Using Nukes 95% Of The Time

"They wrote roughly 780,000 words explaining why they did what they did..."
Posted by: SMOD
_________

And every single bit of that is a direct and predictable function of the inputs, not the so-called "AI."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 08:44 AM (XvL8K)

174 @64 Whig, one of the best things that Trump could do would be to bring a lawsuit which reaches the SC giving them the opportunity to overrule Sullivan. Thomas has wanted to do that for years
---
My favorite on the Thomas wish-list is his desire to over-turn the Slaughterhouse cases.

You think ending the Chevron Doctrine was huge?

Wait until every rule and regulation must survive justifying its impact on the Constitutional right to economic liberty and freedom.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 08:44 AM (HXT0k)

175 Computers and robots are the ultimate slaves...

...for now.

Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2026 08:44 AM (+rKuc)

176 @166 in simulated war games AI models recommend using nuke 95%,of the time.

How about a nice game of chess

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 08:45 AM (HYqoK)

177 Vile antisemitic chant breaks out at San Francisco press conference
By Annie Gaus
Published Feb. 25, 2026, 5:35 p.m. PT

https://tinyurl.com/4b5tt4b3

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

178 >>Months back, the rumor was the grand jury in FL was for an "all of government" over-arching nationwide conspiracy.

It's not a rumor. And the presiding judge is Aileen Cannon, same judge who shut down Jack Smith's investigation and just the other day permanently barred the release of his report.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 08:45 AM (viF8m)

179 sandwich

a PBJ I would leave intact
cheese and baloney, I cut in half
Posted by: Don Black

As Jim Cramer is to the investment field, Mr. Black is to the bread and sandwich world.

Posted by: Bad Advice, Beware! at February 26, 2026 08:46 AM (oftw2)

180 Semafor shared that security personnel directed Atlantic reporter Elaine Godfrey to leave a campaign rally for Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas on Monday. The outlet wrote that Godfrey has reported on Crockett in depth and that the coverage appeared to “frustrate” the congresswoman. Crockett had previously agreed to participate in a profile with the reporter last year, but later informed her that she was “shutting down the profile and revoking all provisions” before the story ran.

In a statement first shared with Semafor, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg remarked, “In a democracy, elected officials answer questions from the press rather than hide from them. This is completely unacceptable behavior by Rep. Crockett and her team, and needs to be addressed immediately.”

Semafor further noted that earlier this month Crockett’s campaign contacted the U.S. Capitol Police regarding CNN reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere, asserting he may have trespassed while attempting to visit a campaign office location.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

181 Cuba’s interior ministry claimed the country’s law enforcement opened fire on the boat after it entered their waters for an “armed infiltration” attempt.

Can't wait to see all the people that tell me foreigners have a right to come into the US to also tell me that as a sovereign nation Cuba has the right to shoot anyone trying to come into their country that doesn't have their approval

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

182 Rookie mistake: read voluminous content.
First two hundred!

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2026 08:47 AM (QL4KZ)

183 In Simulated War Games, Top AI Models Recommended Using Nukes 95% Of The Time

WOPR and Skynet nod in approval.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

184 Democratic strategist James Carville expressed on the Politicon podcast that Crockett “violates the first rule of politics,” arguing that “in politics we always make it about the voters and never about yourself.” He added, “You listen to her talk. It’s a lot more about herself than it is to voters.” Carville further explained, “What wins elections is not sitting there talking about yourself,” and said winning elections is about “being part of framing issues and understanding where people are coming from,” concluding, “I don’t think Congressman Crockett is very good at that. I’ll be very frank.”

Meanwhile, President Trump, whom Crockett has urged to be impeached and has labeled an “enemy of the United States,” a “con man,” the “grim reaper,” and as “using Hitler’s playbook,” among other characterizations, maintains a record of public accountability.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

185 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

186 AI is a closed universe. Humans are not.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 08:48 AM (XvL8K)

187 Brandon Johnson: Trump Wants to Divide by Whether People ‘Are Documented or Undocumented’

.. well, YES

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

188 Barbarians! Remove the crust , pinky in the air. Brew a cup of coffee and fire up a marlboro, morning sun framing the rising smoke.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 08:49 AM (ehY6c)

189 In Simulated War Games, Top AI Models Recommended Using Nukes 95% Of The Time

Is the AI being tasked with winning an existential conflict with minimal losses of its own people? Because I mean, then yes you use nukes, like the US did in '45.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

190 181 Can't wait to see all the people that tell me foreigners have a right to come into the US to also tell me that as a sovereign nation Cuba has the right to shoot anyone trying to come into their country that doesn't have their approval
Posted by: 18-1

I'm waiting for "You were fine with the drug runner boats getting blown up, H8R!"

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 08:50 AM (+4yJ5)

191 Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

Wow; Very sorry to hear about that . I'm glad the Mayor spoke against it .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 08:50 AM (Nx5jP)

192 @184 Carville is about one step away from wandering the streets yelling about aliens eating his underwear

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 08:50 AM (HYqoK)

193 In a post on Truth Social, Trump also criticized Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for having “screamed uncontrollably” during his State of the Union address. Trump claimed they “had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people” and suggested that they should be sent “back from where they came.”

“They can only damage the United States of America, they can do nothing to help it,” Trump wrote. “They should actually get on a boat with Trump Deranged Robert De Niro, another sick and demented person with, I believe, an extremely Low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying — some of which is seriously CRIMINAL!”

“When I watched him break down in tears last night, much like a child would do, I realized that he may be even sicker than Crazy Rosie O’Donnell, who is right now in Ireland trying to figure out how to come back into our beautiful United States,” Trump added.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

194 I am voting Mayes Middleton for AG
Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:31 AM (+nEug)

I enjoy the "MAGA" Mayes Middleton radio commercials....
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 08:41 AM (xT8gx)
*********
Same.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

195 Holy smokes! Pritzkers involved in... toilet fraud!!!

https://tinyurl.com/7ssa55tm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 08:54 AM (plFPI)

196 I am voting Mayes Middleton for AG
Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:31 AM (+nEug)

I enjoy the "MAGA" Mayes Middleton radio commercials....
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Are we Texans still on the Greg Abbot train?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 08:54 AM (a4flb)

197 When South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” during a 2009 speech President Barack Obama delivered to Congress, the breach of decorum quickly became the evening’s most notable moment. Members of both parties condemned the outburst, which was a response to the President’s claim that his health care plan would not apply to undocumented immigrants. After being booed by his colleagues, Wilson issued an apology and expressed contrition to Obama’s chief of staff.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

198 I would give me left kidney if Trump were to float a Cuban style border enforcement rule here - anyone illegally crossing gets shot.

The "BUT ITS DIFFERENT WHEN CUBA DOES IT" crowd would be hilarious

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 08:55 AM (sKqQm)

199 Sandwich wars begun, they have.

Posted by: Whole wheat vs White at February 26, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

200 Members of both parties condemned the outburst, which was a response to the President’s claim that his health care plan would not apply to undocumented immigrants. After being booed by his colleagues, Wilson issued an apology and expressed contrition to Obama’s chief of staff.

And note, Obamacare is widely used by illegals, to such an extent that we've been told that if a citizenship check is required millions will go without health insurance

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 08:57 AM (sKqQm)

201 So Crockett is going to win, it looks like.

And she's going to run a South African racial purge style campaign with Trump, Republicans and conservatives as the target.

A high-profile, explicitly radical campaign that will be covered nationwide.
While the rest of the Party is trying to pretend to be moderates focused on "affordability."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 08:57 AM (HXT0k)

202 @184 Carville is about one step away from wandering the streets yelling about aliens eating his underwear
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 08:50 AM (HYqoK)

I'm convinced that dude IS an alien!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 08:58 AM (xT8gx)

203 Unknown Drip, I am because Dan Patrick will still be Lt. Governor

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 08:58 AM (+nEug)

204 In Simulated War Games, Top AI Models Recommended Using Nukes 95% Of The Time

Is the AI being tasked with winning an existential conflict with minimal losses of its own people? Because I mean, then yes you use nukes, like the US did in '45.

Then it doesn't consider second and third order effects.

Thought Experiment: blowing up Three Gorges Dam

Wipes out hundreds of millions of people, destroys manufacturing capacity one of the highest volume ports on Earth.

Yet somehow doesn't wreck supply chains around the globe. We had a hiccup with Covid, now imagine the fallout from instantly removing a quarter of global manufacturing capacity and a planet of nine billion people.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 08:58 AM (a4flb)

205 Wait until every rule and regulation must survive justifying its impact on the Constitutional right to economic liberty and freedom.

That would put the stake in the heart of a lot of these "but we have to do something! And by something I mean take more money from the taxpayers!" type regulations we have an endless number of

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

206 Holy smokes! Pritzkers involved in... toilet fraud!!!

https://tinyurl.com/7ssa55tm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 08:54 AM (plFPI)
-

Start here:

https://tinyurl.com/yc4ujuf3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 08:58 AM (plFPI)

207 "Months back, the rumor was the grand jury in FL was for an "all of government" over-arching nationwide conspiracy."
"It's not a rumor."

Can you say RICO?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 26, 2026 08:59 AM (dtajH)

208 Not that I trust the online betting markets, but Crockett is way behind in all them for the Dem primary nod

Posted by: Jonah at February 26, 2026 08:59 AM (YCxFk)

209 I rewatched "Tangled" a few weeks ago, so now I'm stuck with the warworm of "I've Got A Dream" thanks to JJ. The best part, in my opinion, is Flynn Rider's line of "Sorry, boys. I don't sing." I saw a meme once with that shot and the text that said something like "Flynn Rider, the only Disney character ever to wonder why everyone's singing."

Posted by: pookysgirl, humming at February 26, 2026 09:00 AM (Wt5PA)

210 G'morn, JJ, et alla y'all.

So, the first test was, can a force of ten take over Cuba? Might need twenty.

Figure Li'l Kim is going to get jealous of all the attention other folks are getting and will act up soon?

Coffee! and then on to the headlines.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Havana Gila at February 26, 2026 09:00 AM (rlEvI)

211 Brandon Johnson: Trump Wants to Divide by Whether People ‘Are Documented or Undocumented’

==

and by whether they are Dead or Alive!

Posted by: runner at February 26, 2026 09:00 AM (/M/4v)

212 And note, Obamacare is widely used by illegals, to such an extent that we've been told that if a citizenship check is required millions will go without health insurance
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 08:57 AM (sKqQm)

I am reminded of the video of the weeping woman who, with her 'partner', fled to Canada to escape fascist America and stated that she was locked out of the Canadian healthcare and benefits system - understandably, as she is not a citizen of Canada.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

213 Here's a question - has Trump been sending ICE to Hospital ERs?

One of the biggest changes in my lifetime is ERs changing from, well emergency rooms, to somewhere you wait behind 20 people not speaking English that all seem to have a respitory illness...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 09:02 AM (sKqQm)

214 Obamacare: death and taxes in a single package.

Posted by: Government efficiency! at February 26, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

215 The elite obsession with AI "Data Centers" is not merely money, but it is the foundation of what they see as their dream surveillance state. I don't think there's anything we can do about it but at least Trump is trying not to make us pay for the rope they're gonna hang us with. The elites want to create their Spy State with our capital.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:02 AM (wIg5s)

216 And note, Obamacare is widely used by illegals, to such an extent that we've been told that if a citizenship check is required millions will go without health insurance
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2026 08:57 AM (sKqQm)
==========================
I am reminded of the video of the weeping woman who, with her 'partner', fled to Canada to escape fascist America and stated that she was locked out of the Canadian healthcare and benefits system - understandably, as she is not a citizen of Canada.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)
==========================
Yes, understandably.

Now lets play "Who is the racist?!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 09:03 AM (WAZlG)

217 Data centers, mean no employees who get sick, or Strike, or demand raises, or need insurance

Posted by: Jonah at February 26, 2026 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

218 That "best case scenario AI" article is a load of hullabaloo. Humans have always found a way to create beyond the tools we make for ourselves. The idea that AI is the end of human creation and ingenuity is a bunch of hogwash scaremongering. Communism will be the end of all that stuff. Not AI.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:04 AM (wIg5s)

219 Liawatha CFPB heap big expensive

CEA finds that increased borrowing costs amount to at least $222-$350 billion[1]($160-253 per borrower) from the CFPB’s inception in 2011 through 2024.
Broken down by loan type, the CFPB’s rulemaking has cost consumers $116-$183 billion in higher mortgage costs ($1,100-$1,700 per originated loan), $32-$51 billion for auto loans ($91-$143 per loan), and $74-$116 billion for credit cards ($80-$126 per loan).

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

220 Data centers, mean no employees who get sick, or Strike, or demand raises, or need insurance
Posted by: Jonah at February 26, 2026 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

Say that to Pixy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

221 211- Good for Trump. It is heartbreaking to hear the stories of parents who children were raped. tortured and killed by illegals. Get them out!

From WH website:

https://tinyurl.com/4xry2f5k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 09:05 AM (Nx5jP)

222 My favorite on the Thomas wish-list is his desire to over-turn the Slaughterhouse cases.

You think ending the Chevron Doctrine was huge?

Wait until every rule and regulation must survive justifying its impact on the Constitutional right to economic liberty and freedom.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

The privileges and immunities clause in both the Constitution and the 14th Amendment have been treated as pariahs by Scotus since they were included. The privileges and immunities clause was also in the Articles of Confederation.

I agree Slaughterhouse was a bad decision as was Cruikshank. In fact, most of the Reconstruction era Scotus cases involving the new amendments up to Plessy v. Ferguson had Scotus actively ignoring the words of the Constitution in reaching their decisions.

For the most part, courts do a poor job on protecting rights and far too often side with government power rather than individual rights.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 09:05 AM (E4rtv)

223 Those damn plug-ugly data centers are everywhere here in NoVa. Can’t wait for this damn AI bubble to burst and for a lot of them to get torn down:

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

224 197 After being booed by his colleagues, Wilson issued an apology and expressed contrition to Obama’s chief of staff.
Posted by: SMOD

In the more ideal universe:

"I recognize that I violated the decorum of the moment. But it's an established fact that illegal aliens are able to access Obamacare. If you think I'm wrong about that, prove it."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 09:06 AM (+4yJ5)

225 214 Obamacare: death and taxes in a single package.
Posted by: Government efficiency! at February 26, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

You got nothing on Snow Mexico as their Health Services MAID are the #4 killer in Canada.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

226 After being booed by his colleagues, Wilson issued an apology and expressed contrition to Obama’s chief of staff.
Posted by: SMOD

"And yet it moves"
- Galileo Galilei

For those out of the loop - Galileo was forced to recant his views publicly, kneeling before the Inquisition and declaring that the Earth does not move. As he stood up and left the room, he reportedly muttered under his breath, "Eppur si muove" ("And yet it moves"), referring to the Earth’s motion—showing he still believed the truth despite being compelled to deny it.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 09:06 AM (cYBz/)

227 The Problem With Feminising Society - Helen Andrews

That's right. That's right. And and one of the most consistent psychological differences between men and women is women have a strong uh impulse of caring, right? Which is exactly I mean I I'm not somebody who looks to evolutionary biology for the solutions to all human phenomena, but this particular one does seem glaringly Darwinian, right? that women see helpless things and they want to take care of them. That is definitely something that Darwin would find a pretty easy explanation for. But that's also something that wokeness can easily weaponize. It means that if you can frame your political issue as a way of caring for some helpless class, then you're golden. Right. You Minorities are babies. That's right. And but that is that is precisely what's going on at at a at a deeper level. And that's why it's been so effective.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

228 197 After being booed by his colleagues, Wilson issued an apology and expressed contrition to Obama’s chief of staff.
Posted by: SMOD

In this day and age, it is ALWAYS a mistake to apologize.... good grief. If I farted on live TV (pulled a Swalwell) I would NOT apologize....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2026 09:09 AM (xT8gx)

229 It has been reported by unnamed Trump sources that Granny Guthrie was a crew member on the boat with other MAGA terrorists trying to invade Cuba.

This is CNN.

Posted by: This is CNN at February 26, 2026 09:09 AM (hXJe5)

230 If I farted on live TV (pulled a Swalwell) I would NOT apologize....
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The appropriate Moron response would be to challenge anyone to do better.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 09:10 AM (cYBz/)

231 The idea that AI is the end of human creation and ingenuity is a bunch of hogwash scaremongering. Communism will be the end of all that stuff. Not AI.
Posted by: ...
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In a sense, they're two sides of the same coin. According to both, we are meat puppets with scientifically determinable courses.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 09:11 AM (XvL8K)

232 Can you say RICO?

It was designed to deal with criminal enterprises that had 'lots of buffers.' It reaches beyond a simple conspiracy case because it covers bad people doing bad things without necessarily knowing the greater RICO scheme, just that they knew their part in it.

To bring a RICO case you need two or more RICO predicates. 'Murder for hire' is one, as you'd expect
But another is "Bringing in, aiding or assisting aliens in illegally entering the country (if the action was for financial gain);"

If you have the right facts, RICO is a killer. Especially coming out of Miami, where Pam Bondi knows the judges.

Pam Bondi will soon emerge as a star, and all her detractors will need to eat bags of dicks.T

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 26, 2026 09:12 AM (dtajH)

233 > Data centers, mean no employees who get sick, or Strike, or demand raises, or need insurance
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Maintenance men.

Someone will need to change the air filters, water filters and replace failed components. Until robots take over those chores, people will work in, and at those datacenters.

And on that note; any idea about the California datacenter in Silicon Valley that's been built, but has no power or water available?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 09:12 AM (jtM2q)

234 Trump admin says VA benefits claims backlog below 100K for first time in 6 years: 'Record levels of service'

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

235 A 27 yr old man is the first arrest in the snowball attacks on NYC cops. He was arrested for burglary three weeks ago. Upstanding yute

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 09:13 AM (HYqoK)

236 And on that note; any idea about the California datacenter in Silicon Valley that's been built, but has no power or water available?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 09:12 AM (jtM2q)

Who needs water? -- LAFD

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

237 228 In this day and age, it is ALWAYS a mistake to apologize
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

That is a pet peeve of mine. I'm old enough to remember that an apology was seen as a sign of contrition. You accept it and you move on.

Now it's like throwing chum into the ocean for sharks. And thus the reason any request for an apology is met with "Fuck you" and I move on.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 09:14 AM (+4yJ5)

238 George Lopez is asshoe

Posted by: Notta Fann at February 26, 2026 09:14 AM (bGbSt)

239 How incredible would it be to see the statues of bas reliefs of Marx, Lenin and Castro sledgehammered and dynamited off of every Cuban government building, just so we can see Barack Obama weeping at the sight of it.

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"My name is Obamandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 09:15 AM (wGSOc)

240 A squad of delta rangers could take over Cuba.

If we ever decided to Let Slip The Dogs of War on Cuber, it could be toppled in a day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 09:16 AM (+N6ee)

241 Family member put on Fox News. Dana Perino, Bill Hemmer, and some uber Fox babe-looking guest are trying to figure out what needs to be done in Iran. They are brainstorming this thing.
I'm dead.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:16 AM (tj6OY)

242 "Privilege" is apologizing for being born.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:17 AM (wIg5s)

243 And on that note; any idea about the California datacenter in Silicon Valley that's been built, but has no power or water available?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 09:12 AM (jtM2q)

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The power and water will be delivered by high-speed rail.

In 2076. After spending another $1 trillion has been ~~spent~~ grifted ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 09:18 AM (wGSOc)

244 >>George Lopez is asshoe

Fr fr
Isn't he the guy who got an organ transplant from his wife and then divorced her?
(too lazy to look it up -- watching Fox News engineering world peace!)

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:19 AM (tj6OY)

245 I see AI in my day job. It's getting scarily powerful but it has limitations. It doesn't think like we do. At bottom you're applying math and raw computing power to deliver the 'best fit' for data. Much depends on your data and how you query. When it goes wrong it can go badly wrong,

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 26, 2026 09:19 AM (dtajH)

246 That is a pet peeve of mine. I'm old enough to remember that an apology was seen as a sign of contrition. You accept it and you move on.

Now it's like throwing chum into the ocean for sharks.

This is part of cultural devolution from a High Trust to a Low Trust society. Loss of any sense of empathy, gratitude, shame, community, altruism, or desire for human flourishing.

Its all Kill or Be Killed. Not, lets grow the pie, but I will lie, cheat and steal to grab more status and money from this dwindling pool. Totally consistent with Nihilism.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 09:20 AM (pUU4E)

247 240 A squad of delta rangers could take over Cuba.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

I like the notion of a Marine Platoon waking up from a massive party and being told that they were so drunk the night before that they took over Cuba.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 09:20 AM (+4yJ5)

248 Much depends on your data and how you query. When it goes wrong it can go badly wrong,
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 26, 2026 09:19 AM (dtajH)

Let's play Global Thermonuclear War

Posted by: Joshua at February 26, 2026 09:21 AM (NmE0/)

249 The betting markets were convinced Democrats were going to win the House in 2024 until 7pm on election day.

Betting markets have no failure records at all!

It's not like they're mostly white progressives and Europeans with gambling addictions and no real counter within the markets to make their fantasies come to earth before things are too late!

I am going to make thousands of dollars when Kamala wins the nomination because the betting markets have ignored 95% of all polling saying she's easily the frontrunner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

250 >>hat is a pet peeve of mine. I'm old enough to remember that an apology was seen as a sign of contrition. You accept it and you move on.

Now it's like throwing chum into the ocean for sharks.
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>>This is part of cultural devolution from a High Trust to a Low Trust society. Loss of any sense of empathy, gratitude, shame, community, altruism, or desire for human flourishing. . .
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Izzat ever true!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:21 AM (tj6OY)

251 Hopefully Thune doesn't let that dasterdly Parliamentarian threat the peoples will this time!

That Parliamentarian, what a stinker!

Posted by: GigantorX at February 26, 2026 09:21 AM (x8k2o)

252 251 Hopefully Thune doesn't let that dasterdly Parliamentarian threat the peoples will this time!

That Parliamentarian, what a stinker!

Posted by: GigantorX at February 26, 2026 09:21 AM (x8k2o)

=====

He beat that Parliamentarian like a rented mule over OBBB, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

253 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

You could always bet more

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:22 AM (wIg5s)

254 "Privilege" is apologizing for being born.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:17 AM (wIg5s)

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DogEater should have entitled his ghost-written second book "The Audacity of Cope."

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 09:23 AM (wGSOc)

255 253 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

You could always bet more

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:22 AM (wIg5s)

======

If I had the cash. Losing a job has its effects.

Every penny I'm getting from little side hustles I've had for years is going into it, but each dollar is going to be less of a profit than the last because the markets are finally catching up with reality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

256 I can see AI replacing family doctors, to an extent - you walk into a chamber, every x-ray and exam is done, then the results and prescriptions follow. Of course there is room for mistakes. so a second opinion might be needed.

Posted by: runner at February 26, 2026 09:24 AM (/M/4v)

257 DogEater should have entitled his ghost-written second book "The Audacity of Cope."

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 26, 2026 09:23 AM (wGSOc)

I always thought The Audacity of Dope was a good one

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:24 AM (wIg5s)

258 A 27 yr old man is the first arrest in the snowball attacks on NYC cops.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 09:13 AM (HYqoK)
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The left will right away raise a slush fund for him.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (plFPI)

259 >>A 27 yr old man is the first arrest in the snowball attacks on NYC cops. He was arrested for burglary three weeks ago. Upstanding yute

"No sh#t, seriously?! Who could have seen that?"
-- Rudi Giuliani

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (tj6OY)

260 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

Be careful with it. No such thing as a sure thing.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (wIg5s)

261 That Cuba story sounds … off. Wasn’t that the plot of a Michael Bay movie? My money’s on the truth being very different.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (Pjo0m)

262 258 A 27 yr old man is the first arrest in the snowball attacks on NYC cops.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 09:13 AM (HYqoK)
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There's not a snowballs' chance in hell he'll be convicted

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (NmE0/)

263 235 A 27 yr old man is the first arrest in the snowball attacks on NYC cops. He was arrested for burglary three weeks ago. Upstanding yute
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 09:13 AM
+++
Just turning his life around.
On his way to bible study.

Posted by: Local media at February 26, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

264 260 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

Be careful with it. No such thing as a sure thing.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (wIg5s)

======

Oh, I know. It's gambling through and through.

Still, if I sold right now, it'd be a 300% profit.

I was buying at $0.03 in the beginning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 26, 2026 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

265 SOTU commercial #1:

https://tinyurl.com/35xnen25

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:27 AM (plFPI)

266 The left will right away raise a slush fund for him.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (plFPI)
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and the charges will melt away!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 09:27 AM (MxloJ)

267 >>DogEater should have entitled his ghost-written second book "The Audacity of Cope."

>>I always thought The Audacity of Dope was a good one

Nowadays, it should be "A Paucity of Trope"

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:27 AM (tj6OY)

268 @235. The Mayor and his media say it was a "snowball" attack. The cops say different. Chunks of ice and rocks.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2026 09:27 AM (Z3Kkg)

269 A 27 yr old man is the first arrest in the snowball attacks on NYC cops.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 09:13 AM (HYqoK)
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There's not a snowballs' chance in hell he'll be convicted

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (NmE0/)
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Is he illegal? He seems ICE.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:28 AM (plFPI)

270 The Audacity of Taupe.

Posted by: Pantone color wheel at February 26, 2026 09:29 AM (2Ez/1)

271 268 @235. The Mayor and his media say it was a "snowball" attack. The cops say different. Chunks of ice and rocks.
Posted by: Case at February 26, 2026 09:27 AM (Z3Kkg)

And he said it was a bunch of "kids" having fun....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 09:29 AM (NmE0/)

272 The left will right away raise a slush fund for him.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (plFPI)
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and the charges will melt away!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 09:27 AM (MxloJ)
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In a flurry of deflections.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:29 AM (plFPI)

273 The appropriate Moron response would be to challenge anyone to do better.
Posted by: Tonypete

Best warn the sound guy first.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 09:30 AM (diia5)

274 The left will right away raise a slush fund for him.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:25 AM (plFPI)
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and the charges will melt away!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 09:27 AM (MxloJ)
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In a flurry of deflections.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:29 AM (plFPI)
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If you get my drift.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (plFPI)

275 121 In the history of the human race, no baby has ever stayed inside mom forever.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 26, 2026 08:19 AM (vfth7)

*Shinji Ikari has entered the chat*

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (6Uni8)

276 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

277
ART

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

278 271 And he said it was a bunch of "kids" having fun....
Posted by: It's me donna

We're probably borrowing from the UK Media with "Youths."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 09:31 AM (+4yJ5)

279 I think what Mayor Mandami said was that it was a "snowball fight" as if cops were engaged in fun and games with young people . The cops were not throwing anything, and the snowballs were made up of ice and contained rocks. It was an attack in which officers were hurt, and Mamdani is a cop hating creep except for his private detail, I suppose.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 09:32 AM (ix8EF)

280 It has been reported by unnamed Trump sources that Granny Guthrie was a crew member on the boat with other MAGA terrorists trying to invade Cuba.

This is CNN.
Posted by: This is CNN at February 26, 2026 09:09 AM (hXJe5)

I wonder if this Cuba thing is a reverse Mariel boatlift? You know when Castro emptied his prisons and asylums, and sent all the misfits to Florida? Round up some Cuban-born thugs and criminals, give them arms and a speedboat, and send them on a suicide mission to Cuba.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2026 09:32 AM (8zz6B)

281 >>We're probably borrowing from the UK Media with "Youths."

I was reminded of the kids trained to throw rocks at IDF, trying to get them to overreact.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2026 09:33 AM (tj6OY)

282 That is a terrible story about the anti semitism at California schools. . I hope the parents win their lawsuit and the teacher who yelled out " You Nazi f*** at a parent is fired. How awful for the Jewish students.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 08:37 AM (PFs9e)

I hate to say this, but if that parent were me, that "teacher" would be eating lunch out of a straw for a very long time. With my temperament, I would be in jail, but that teacher would be in worse shape.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 26, 2026 10:06 AM (5xuJ/)

283 From above, 'Data Center Issue Exploding Into Full View All Across America'

The local (county, Philly, DRPA, DVPC) solution is, i.e., to get their pals with "interests" along the riverfront in Delaware County to protest for Environmental Justice.

Whether a Data Center; trash-to-steam plant with NO evidence of pollution; one of the few electrical generation stations (760-megawatt, oil and gas fired unit) now operating under fed. orders, or an LNG plant, Environment Justice is on it!!

Do they protest the port operation (which reportedly moved from New Jersey for environment reasons: Eagles nesting in Camden, NJ!) which clearly contributes to clouds of diesel exhaust - generally a toxic mixture of gases, vapors, liquid aerosols, and solid particulate matter (soot) - hanging in the air between Eddystone and Philly? Nope. (No protesting there 'cause it may be a substantial contributor to county & PA taxes?)

But what DO they really want? The Biden administration promised (indoor) cannabis farms with unionized workers!
After all, Pennsylvania state store employees are public sector workers employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), a state agency.

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 10:14 AM (NFX2v)

284 (Represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers, UFCW, Local 1776 Keystone State, which negotiates contracts covering wages, benefits, and working conditions.)

Seriously, those are the big ideas in PA. The local representatives & even the Governor's brightest ideas for "working families" seems to circle around legalized pot licenses & growing operations and gambling. (Won't work, now or ever; the street always wins.)

Large Growing Operations -
Total Usage: Indoor cannabis cultivation accounts for about 1% of total U.S. electricity consumption.
Intensity: While smaller in total, indoor growing is highly energy-intensive. Growing four pounds of indoor marijuana can consume as much electricity as an average American home uses in a year.
Regional Impact: In states with high legal production like California and Washington, cannabis can account for up to 3% of the state's total electricity usage. (Ref: Pullman & Comley, Putting the "Green" in Renewable Energy at Cannabis Grow Facilities, 2023; Cardinal News, Growing cannabis indoors requires a lot of electricity. Here’s what other states have found, 2024; Electricity Plan, 'Power

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 10:15 AM (NFX2v)

285 Consumption for Cannabis Growers' written by Rebecca Bridges, Chief Marketing Officer; Jumplights, 'Using High Light Levels: Yield and Energy Use of Indoor Grown Cannabis' 2025, and one other.) AI Overview

An average, local electric & gas bill has risen + $150 a month from 1 1/2 - 2 years ago. (Home phone (land line) another $6 in 4 months; a cable service like Comcast climbs every year along with the $30-$40 per customer franchise fees paid to each town/township its primary in, and so on. All plus climbing taxes.

The PJM Interconnection is a Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) coordinating the electric grid for over 65 million people across 13 states—Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia—and the District of Columbia.

PJM, HQ in Valley Forge, PA, was the world's largest competitive wholesale electricity market until the development of the European Integrated Energy Market in the 2000s.[5] Wikipedia

"Facilitating decarbonization" remains one of its three strategic pillars. Wind turbine & solar panel farms across the US aren't a dead issue; Data Farms wound it.

🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 10:15 AM (NFX2v)

286 From personal experience - no, never had to deal with them on the Beltway - MD cops are too busy fundraising to worry about piffling things like streets taken over and overrun by gangs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 10:32 AM (fYhK6)

287 256 I can see AI replacing family doctors, to an extent - you walk into a chamber, every x-ray and exam is done, then the results and prescriptions follow. Of course there is room for mistakes. so a second opinion might be needed.
Posted by: runner at February 26, 2026 09:24 AM (/M/4v)

Teachers were supposed to be obsolete and unneeded in 2000. AI is simply not intuitive, no matter the propaganda.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 26, 2026 10:34 AM (fYhK6)

288 256 I can see AI replacing family doctors, to an extent - you walk into a chamber, every x-ray and exam is done, then the results and prescriptions follow. Of course there is room for mistakes. so a second opinion might be needed.
Posted by: runner

Good point.

Could begin (testing) with annual Medicare physical evaluations and also the annual Medicare general evaluations to test cognitive functioning and if basic needs such as housing, transportation, etc. are available or needed. (Then possibly followed by decisions to place on palliative care or other care plans.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 10:53 AM (NFX2v)

289 All this talk about the behavior being bad for Dems and leading to mid-term losses assumes that the R's actually WANT to capitalize on it and WIN. That's a HUGE assumption given past behavior of the SQRL's (Status Quo Republican Liberals, a name I prefer over slandering that fine horned animal).

Posted by: Bruce at February 26, 2026 10:54 AM (21nJ/)

290 "If any member of your team is caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Jim."

Posted by: hadsil at February 26, 2026 12:03 PM (Xht4H)

291 "A grassroots, anti-Big Tech movement is exploding across the country."

"Grassroots" my ass. If China and others aren't at the other end of this string, I'll eat a well-done filet.

Posted by: MartynWW at February 26, 2026 12:12 PM (M9zxq)

Daily Tech News 26 February 2026

Top Story

The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being pulled up after nearly forty years. (Tom's Hardware)

TAT-8 went into operation in 1988 and then failed in 2002 and was deemed uneconomic to repair. Which not surprising since it could only carry 280 megabits per second - 40,000 phone calls, and an aggregate speed about half that of my home internet.

As the name suggests there were seven prior TATs, with TAT-1 being provisioned in 1956 and carrying 35 simultaneous phone calls. Six subsequent TATs ended with TAT-14 which could handle 9.3 terabits per second - enough bandwidth for everyone in America to be on the phone to someone in Europe simultaneously.

Even that was not enough and it was retired in 2020. Total transatlantic bandwidth today is somewhere in the low petabits.

Tech News

DVD sales are seeing a recovery - or at least slowing their decline - as Gen Z discovers that waiting for your favourite show or movie to come back on TV sucks. (Yahoo)

The Criterion Collection in particular has seen sales increase thanks to the streaming services colluding to piss off absolutely everyone.
OpenClaw's creator tells AI builders to be more playful and sprinkle chaos everywhere. (Tech Crunch)

The disasters you leave in your wake aren't your fault.

The people they happen to fucked up.

They trusted you.
A hacker used a "jail break" on the Claude AI service to steal 150 gigabytes of data from Mexican government agencies. (Yahoo)

He (probably a he) made off with 195 million tax records and an unknown number of voter records but probably all of them.

That jail break?

He asked it twice.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude promised in 2023 that it wouldn't train an AI that it couldn't demonstrate was safe and refuse to do... Uh, exactly what it just did.

They just scratched off that "don't be evil" promise. (Time)

Well, that's alright then.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: And she was on a road to nowhere.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 Morgen.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 26, 2026 04:01 AM (/HDaX)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 26, 2026 04:03 AM (sAmhv)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 04:04 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Morninginging all.

Had a migraine earlier. Getting better now but still slightly blargh.

Posted by: Minx 0.8 beta at February 26, 2026 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

5 Even that was not enough and it was retired in 2020. Total transatlantic bandwidth today is somewhere in the low petabits.

Understandable.
We all know how much the Europeans love to run their mouths at Americans.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 26, 2026 04:06 AM (6ydKt)

6 That jail break?

He asked it twice.

Never underestimate the power of persistence.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 26, 2026 04:08 AM (6ydKt)

7 Disclaimer: And she was on a road to nowhere.

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 26, 2026 04:10 AM (6ydKt)

8 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2026 04:11 AM (iMotb)

9 57.9 degrees out.

Nice morning for a walk, if the rain holds off.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2026 04:12 AM (iMotb)

10 Ohayo gozaimasu

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:13 AM (rdVOm)

11 BOING!

Busy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 04:14 AM (plFPI)

12 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at February 26, 2026 04:14 AM (lJ0H4)

13 Disclaimer: And she was on a road to nowhere.

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 26, 2026 04:10 AM (6ydKt)

She was not my Beautiful Wife!

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 26, 2026 04:20 AM (qlUA+)

14 That jail break?

He asked it twice.

I have it on good authority that the disasters I leave in my wake are not my fault.

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 26, 2026 04:22 AM (qlUA+)

15 Well... How did I get here?

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:23 AM (rdVOm)

16 Well... How did I get here?

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:23 AM (rdVOm)
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Jello shots.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 04:24 AM (plFPI)

17 Well... How did I get here?
Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:23 AM (rdVOm)

Watch Out! You might get what you’re after.

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 26, 2026 04:25 AM (qlUA+)

18 I'm pretty sure if you took five random Talking Heads songs, and jumbled all of the lyrics together you could come up with a novella-length story that only David Byrne could understand.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 26, 2026 04:26 AM (6ydKt)

19 Jello shots! Yes! That's it!

This is not my beautiful house...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:32 AM (rdVOm)

20 Speaking Of at….

It would also have a great beat and an infectious hook. And a snappy suit with really wide shoulders.

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 26, 2026 04:36 AM (qlUA+)

21 https://youtu.be/aK7hC8p5DJ0

Dance!!!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:38 AM (rdVOm)

22 It would indeed seem that they are not sending their best, nor their brightest.

https://tinyurl.com/5n964ar2

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2026 04:38 AM (iMotb)

23 Fun stuff, Horde... but it's late here.

Good night. Sweet dreams to all.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:44 AM (rdVOm)

24 57.9 degrees out.

Nice morning for a walk, if the rain holds off.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Dress appropriately

Posted by: Lord Miklos Kelvin at February 26, 2026 04:45 AM (8i9Vv)

25 In the continuing saga of updating the home television system, the two 3.5 inch inserts are completed and installed, extending the width of the area on top of the central unit by 7 inches.

That gives me room for the 75" TV, with about 1 inch of clearance on either side from the side cabinets.

https://tinyurl.com/muvps3tb

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2026 04:45 AM (iMotb)

26 Mornin' Horde. Time for coffee...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 26, 2026 04:52 AM (O7YUW)

27 Stop making sense

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 04:52 AM (Ia/+0)

28 Morning all. I'd like an updating system. The Y is now having adult volleyball and I would love to play but the old knees just couldn't take it.
Waiting on my exoskeleton.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 04:54 AM (+nEug)

29 Looks like Cuba killed 4 civilian people in a boat
Maybe they thought they were ICE

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 04:57 AM (Ia/+0)

30 It would indeed seem that they are not sending their best, nor their brightest.

https://tinyurl.com/5n964ar2

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2026 04:38 AM (iMotb)
-

Beside the illegal animal, that might also be true for his victim.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 04:59 AM (plFPI)

31 Looks like Cuba killed 4 civilian people in a boat
Maybe they thought they were ICE

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 04:57 AM (Ia/+0)
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Saw earlier somewhere that Cuba claimed shots were fire from the Florida boat.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 05:00 AM (plFPI)

32 PSA: Virginia is under a norovirus attack.
There is no treatment.

Posted by: Accomac at February 26, 2026 05:05 AM (GbONR)

33 Singing mailman helps grieving grandma. "Faithpot" site:

https://tinyurl.com/m7cxv9zm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 05:05 AM (rZCVI)

34 1956 the first fiber cable to Europe and that is how many royal family disputes per second. But the Queen was still around then, and all is well for a short time. Cold war was going, and the Beatles were about to make it big. And Elvis was on his way to stardom, but in the army soon.

Posted by: Colin at February 26, 2026 05:08 AM (e8qy3)

35 "All things for our good" Genesis 45:1-8
Upper Room devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/3pxd5ek6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 05:09 AM (rZCVI)

36
29 Looks like Cuba killed 4 civilian people in a boat
Maybe they thought they were ICE
Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 04:57 AM

--------

As a followup to the SOTU, communists continue demonstrating that there's only one thing they're really good at.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 05:10 AM (VWtfl)

37 What's the deal with the good citizens of NYC throwing crap at their police? Their Mayor said it was a snowball fight. The police say it was chunks of ice and rocks. Now the police union is pissed off. Maybe they should call a strike. Let the Mayor deal with the thugs for a while.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2026 05:12 AM (Z3Kkg)

38 Farmer gives a life lesson using potatoes. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/5pht2xwj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 05:12 AM (rZCVI)

39 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 26, 2026 05:14 AM (bQ4nt)

40
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2026 05:15 AM (tljrc)

41 BYU and friends sing cover of "Amazing Grace":

https://tinyurl.com/3b947x6w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 05:19 AM (rZCVI)

42 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2026 05:20 AM (iMotb)

43 As a kid of about 6 or so, living along a river (Delaware) its about time for the ice to break up and cause ice jams. You could hear the ice breaking up. Dynamite was used to break up the jams. One small town down the river always seemed to get flooded.

Posted by: Colin at February 26, 2026 05:31 AM (e8qy3)

44 Evening and morning, satellites of AoSHQ! Thor's Day comes round again.

65 F. now, high today about 80. I'm taking a risk with a prediction, really going out on a limb here, but my guess is . . . winter here is over. A few days earlier than the last few years, where "winter exit[ed] March the second on the dot." Gah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 05:32 AM (wzUl9)

45 Yesterday I called around to some local moving services. One, the former veteran who employs veterans, called me back, and we talked a bit. He can have his guys load my furniture on his truck, then either store it or ship it right to my destination and unload it there. One company to hire, as opposed to several.

He sent me a link to record a video of my place, so he could see what kind of furniture he was dealing with. My phone's browser version was unsupported, said the phone. And when I tried to update, it insisted I sign in to Gorgle. I don't have a Gorgle mail account and don't want one. I recorded my own video -- but one minute, the living room only, ran 121 MB. Not sure that's gonna work to mail to him. I let him know, and we'll see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 05:39 AM (wzUl9)

46 Right at freezing point, into 40s again hopefully
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 05:41 AM (Ia/+0)

47 "The disasters you leave in your wake aren't your fault.

The people they happen to fucked up.

They trusted you."

I don't know maybe flush next time or something then.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2026 05:44 AM (Vq1pX)

48 Greetings and good morning, everyone. Woke up feeling dizzy but I'm starting to settle. Spent part of last night on the phone with USAA trying to figure out how to get mom to upload her power of attorney and gain access to dad's accounts. I got lucky with the person I talked to and she was able to walk me through everything I needed.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 05:48 AM (+4yJ5)

49 Got to exercise this morning. This week I've been walking with Miss Linda, 45 min. or so each afternoon. Now I need to get back to an actual vigorous walk/trot workout. No need to bundle up today, so there's that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

50 The Criterion Collection in particular has seen sales increase thanks to the streaming services colluding to piss off absolutely everyone.

The streaming companies forget that there are pirate options out there and if you make it difficult for people to get what they want, they will go there.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 05:50 AM (+4yJ5)

51 Good morning! Wolfus, consider selling/donating all your stuff and starting fresh.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 26, 2026 05:52 AM (3Ope8)

52 And of course there are problems with the paperwork for that long-ago pension from a long-ago employer of mine. The address on it was incomplete, and they had the wrong month and day for my birthday. The investment place is looking into this, but I'm not gonna see that money for months, I'll bet. And then they will send me the check and *I* have to get it to my IRA people. When the instructions say in one paragraph "direct rollover,* and then in another that it'll be a check sent to me, that's annoying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

53 Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 05:48

I am glad someone was able to help you, and may all rough places be made smooth. Also, prayers that your dizziness goes away.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2026 05:54 AM (rZCVI)

54 direct rollover,* and then in another that it'll be a check sent to me, that's annoying.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

Maybe they misspelled "bendover"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2026 05:54 AM (Vq1pX)

55 The ads here were so impossible to deal with that I finally turned on the firefox adblock extension.

Ace needs to find better parasites; the current ones are close to killing the host.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 05:55 AM (J8ZaT)

56 Good morning! Wolfus, consider selling/donating all your stuff and starting fresh.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 26, 2026

***
Some I may donate, but much of it could not be replaced easily. Where do you find bookcases nowadays, for instance? My desk has a sentimental connection for me. It was our family's dining table and my homework/model-building/writing table for many years. And where could I find a Mission-style armchair now for less than a fortune?

I could use a new box spring, I suppose, and if I go that far I could just buy a whole new bed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

57 USAA isn't what it used to be (like so many things). I've been a customer since 1979.

They haven't fired all the useful people so far. I doubt they are hiring new useful people, TBF.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 05:58 AM (J8ZaT)

58 All right, you lot.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 05:59 AM (ZxPkt)

59 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”

Matthew 26:28

Posted by: Marcus T at February 26, 2026 06:01 AM (EJWxb)

60 Do not get rid of your quality furniture and belongings. You will never be able to find that stuff at a quality level of days of yor.

Would you be happy with a partial board desk?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026 06:03 AM (+N6ee)

61 Very well said by Mostly Peaceful Memes:

https://tinyurl.com/ssbk9b96

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 06:03 AM (plFPI)

62 I recorded my own video -- but one minute, the living room only, ran 121 MB. Not sure that's gonna work to mail to him. I let him know, and we'll see.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 05:39 AM (wzUl9)
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You're probably right about the size being too big. Maybe Dropbox?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:05 AM (/+1dw)

63 Wolfus, the best advice that I can give is for you to imagine moving that shit yourself.

Every time you move something around, the more chances something bad will happen.

Your best scenario is to have a final destination ready when you are leaving an old place. Shit gets boxed up at the old place, gets loaded in a truck, driven to the new place, unloaded, and unboxed/installed in the new place.

As soon as there is a delay, shit gets boxed up at old place, driven to warehouse, stored in warehouse, maybe moved around in warehouse several times, loaded from warehouse, driven to new place, blah blah.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 06:05 AM (J8ZaT)

64 USAA isn't what it used to be (like so many things). I've been a customer since 1979.

They haven't fired all the useful people so far. I doubt they are hiring new useful people, TBF.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 05:58 AM (J8ZaT)
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We're having a very confused (on their part) interaction with them right now. They keep saying or doing unpredictable odd things; English doesn't seem to be their preferred language and "organized" is not a priority.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:07 AM (/+1dw)

65
52

And then they will send me the check and *I* have to get it to my IRA people.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 05:53 AM

-------

About two years ago, I consolidated retirement accounts, and the money was transferred in the form of a paper check mailed to me, which I then hand-carried over for deposit, every single time. This is how they do it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 06:09 AM (VWtfl)

66 53: Thanks, Fen. It's rough for mom even with getting people coming in to help out. She's dealing with the VA, insurance companies and investment companies while trying to keep an eye on dad (Old folks move faster than you think).

I doubt they are hiring new useful people, TBF.
Posted by: Richard Cranium

I've been with them for a while as well and have several accounts. My brother thinks the service started declining when they started letting enlisted people have accounts. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 06:10 AM (+4yJ5)

67 Where do you find bookcases nowadays, for instance?
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My kids have had great success with Facebook Marketplace. Older people who are downsizing seem to use it to offload furniture, and so far its good stuff, cheap

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:10 AM (/+1dw)

68 "We're having a very confused (on their part) interaction with them right now. They keep saying or doing unpredictable odd things; English doesn't seem to be their preferred language and "organized" is not a priority."

Well, if you are actually speaking to them, try to pick up the accent. My bet is either Indian or Philippian support agents.

AFAICT, USAA went all in on DEI, with results that aren't surprising but wouldn't have been without a moronic HR department (which almost all of them are).

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 06:13 AM (J8ZaT)

69 Your best scenario is to have a final destination ready when you are leaving an old place. Shit gets boxed up at the old place, gets loaded in a truck, driven to the new place, unloaded, and unboxed/installed in the new place.

As soon as there is a delay, shit gets boxed up at old place, driven to warehouse, stored in warehouse, maybe moved around in warehouse several times, loaded from warehouse, driven to new place, blah blah.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026

***
Oh, I know. I'd like to have an apartment, if not *the* house, lined up. But the real estate agent I'm dealing with in KY says it might be tough to find a month-to-month apartment lease right away. What, does *every place* have waiting lists for *everything* now?

I'm ready to go, I can afford to move and buy a place . . . and yet I'm hitting one obstacle after another. Dammit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

70 AFAICT, USAA went all in on DEI, with results that aren't surprising but wouldn't have been without a moronic HR department (which almost all of them are).
Posted by: Richard Cranium

The problem is that finding an insurance company and bank that isn't infested is very difficult.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 06:16 AM (+4yJ5)

71 w00t

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 06:18 AM (+YA9H)

72
Would you be happy with a partial board desk?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 26, 2026

***
Do you mean particle board? The local place from whom I bought my TV stand has a slogan, "Friends don't let friends buy particle board."

My desk is a library table, and it disassembles into three large flat pieces. I've done it (and remember my father putting it together not long before I started school). So not bad.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

73 "My brother thinks the service started declining when they started letting enlisted people have accounts. -:-)"

While that probably had an impact on the "how likely is your customer lying to you" side of the equation, it's difficult to believe that more customers force you to hire almost entirely sub-par agents.

There's a discussion that perhaps should be made (not in this comment section) around how these really expensive military operations over time that don't require massive civilian attention result in a shitload of lying POS senior military officers.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 06:21 AM (J8ZaT)

74 Fibbies arrested a 65 year old former Air Force fighter pilot for the crime of teaching Chinese fighter pilots our standard tactics.

Teaching foreign adversaries to kill Americans, for money.... Unbelievable.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:22 AM (SxOcO)

75 74 Fibbies arrested a 65 year old former Air Force fighter pilot for the crime of teaching Chinese fighter pilots our standard tactics.

Teaching foreign adversaries to kill Americans, for money.... Unbelievable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:22 AM (SxOcO)

Yikes.

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 06:24 AM (+YA9H)

76 Read an article about Alysa Liu and the level of espionage West Taiwan used against her and her father. This part stuck out for me:

tracking down the duo’s Social Security numbers through a contact at the IRS.

I want that contact found and made an example of. Preferably outside the front doors of IRS headquarters.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 06:26 AM (+4yJ5)

77 US District Judge "President" Brian Murphy of Boston issued new instructions yesterday to the Executive Branch on deportation policies.

Whew...glad that's cleared up. Thanks President Murphy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:26 AM (wUQJO)

78 mornin yall. Get them bitches outa here.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 06:26 AM (vFG9F)

79
What, does *every place* have waiting lists for *everything* now?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2026 06:15 AM

I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens

Posted by: George Tsoukalos at February 26, 2026 06:26 AM (tljrc)

80 A(nother) Congressman needs to go to jail:

https://tinyurl.com/yknunczn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 06:26 AM (plFPI)

81 Yikes.
Posted by: m

No kidding. I read up on the man's career and can't imagine what inspired this.

The three common reasons for this are sex, money and ideology. I look forward to hearing which one he chose.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2026 06:27 AM (+4yJ5)

82 Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Rob Taub
@RTaub_
11h
Classy, classy move by Jack Hughes to bring Tage Thompson on to the ice to also be honored by the fans for the gold medal victory.

Nice go, guys!

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 06:27 AM (+YA9H)

83 @27/Skip: "Stop making sense"

Are you quoting the various human rights tribunals in Canada? That seems to be their message to the populace lately.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 26, 2026 06:27 AM (O7YUW)

84 ... can't tell if he has teef yet.

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 06:28 AM (+YA9H)

85 "Oh, I know. I'd like to have an apartment, if not *the* house, lined up. But the real estate agent I'm dealing with in KY says it might be tough to find a month-to-month apartment lease right away. What, does *every place* have waiting lists for *everything* now?"

Well, maybe get a storage facility in the new town and have your stuff delivered there. That (at least) reduces the amount of times your stuff is loaded/unloaded to a set number. Plus, you *could* move stuff yourself from the local storage facility to your new place as needed with the level of care that you require.

But, probably more money to do that.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 06:28 AM (J8ZaT)

86 Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton SMUGGLED IN an illegal alien to Trump's State of the Union address, then had his Chief of Staff HARBOR the illegal in Moulton's office to SHIELD him from police
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It'll be interesting to see what the scope of immunity for Congressmen is

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:30 AM (wUQJO)

87 One company.

I had everything loaded and stowed.

After getting to the new town and sorting things out, I called the movers. It was across country, so waiting 2 weeks seemed reasonable.

They showed up on time with nothing broken.

Btw, get multiple quotes. Bekins was substantially cheaper than the others.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2026 06:32 AM (qFwJc)

88 There are people who voted for this:

https://tinyurl.com/yx3wa583

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 06:37 AM (plFPI)

89 "Yikes."

That's why I couldn't really claim that commissioned officers were more honest than NCOs.

I think that seniors of the commissioned and non-commission ranks have had the middle of the bell curve carved out; either really straight or really corrupt. The former still believe they can change shit and the latter want to latch upon the teat.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 06:37 AM (J8ZaT)

90 I've only had one bad interaction with USAA and it was for an auto claim that took much longer than it should have because of the agent handling the claim. All others have been excellent, including the claim on my damaged roof caused by Hurricane Helene. I was able to get the roof replaced within two weeks of the storm because they were so quick in processing the claim and I was able to get an appointment with the roofers before the rush.

Posted by: farquad at February 26, 2026 06:38 AM (CFMhl)

91 Bad news for Omar's investments:

"The owner of a Sonoma County winery believes the industry is dying because Boomers are.

Jon Phillips, the owner of Sonoma County winery Inspiration Vineyards and Winery, told The Post that the population decline of the industry’s top wine-consuming generation has led to a recent downturn in sales."

Good thing Omar made her nut before the wine industry goes flat.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 06:39 AM (vFG9F)

92 There are people who voted for this:

https://tinyurl.com/yx3wa583
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 06:37 AM (plFPI)
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You have stepped into .., The Twilight Zone.

Where men are women, unless they are fish.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:40 AM (PDpni)

93 "Where men are women, unless they are fish.
Posted by: Huck Follywood"

This is nothing new. Remember when Madonna said she was "Like A Sturgeon"?

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

94 Looks like Trump will have to hand Cuba their ass...

Posted by: Diabeetus at February 26, 2026 06:44 AM (+9A0s)

95 I so want to read Pixy's snark on this article, maybe in tomorrow's Tech News if I'm really lucky:

(The Register):
Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI

https://tinyurl.com/5fx3ve8x

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 26, 2026 06:47 AM (O7YUW)

96 "Looks like Trump will have to hand Cuba their ass..."

Well, I think they've achieved net-zero carbon emissions.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 06:49 AM (J8ZaT)

97 I propose a toast to Dying Boomers.

My oldest friend died recently. Yup we are dying off.

I am consoled with the knowledge that my X-Gen children and their cohort brought Trump to the White House. But yikes, a lot of my generation were wasters.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2026 06:52 AM (qFwJc)

98 Faulkner said that although AI wrote the code, the human element was critical and he "had to course-correct regularly."
==================
hmmm...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:53 AM (RC2c3)

99 Prediction: The SAVE Act will not pass.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 06:54 AM (plFPI)

100 @nypost
·
8h
US women's hockey team going to 'fully take advantage' of offer to celebrate with Flavor Flav https://trib.al/4YWo2cc

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 06:55 AM (ZxPkt)

101 I propose a toast to Dying Boomers.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2026 06:52 AM (qFwJc)
-

/looks down at buttered toast being eaten right now and wonders what are the chances

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 06:56 AM (plFPI)

102 "The SAVE Act will not pass."

They have to SAVE their phony baloney jobs.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 06:56 AM (vFG9F)

103 Good morning all. Raining here, should have stayed in bed. Good sleeping weather.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 26, 2026 06:56 AM (XD1z7)

104 This is nothing new. Remember when Madonna said she was "Like A Sturgeon"?
Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)
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I bet her boyfriend thought something about that song was a little fishy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:57 AM (RC2c3)

105 Prediction: The SAVE Act will not pass.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 06:54 AM (plFPI)
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At least we will achieve good Senate GOPe theater!

Posted by: John Thune, Senate Scum at February 26, 2026 06:59 AM (RC2c3)

106 "US women's hockey team going to 'fully take advantage' of offer to celebrate with Flavor Flav "

They couldn't go to the WH but can go to celebrate with a rapper charged with domestic abuse and multiple drug and traffic charges, and has spent time in jail for some of those offenses.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

107 >>>The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being pulled up after nearly forty years. (Tom's Hardware)

That's a nice little article. The author's bio says:

Luke James is a freelance writer and journalist. Although his background is in legal, he has a personal interest in all things tech, especially hardware and microelectronics, and anything regulatory.

... which seems a good mix.

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 07:02 AM (+YA9H)

108 They couldn't go to the WH but can go to celebrate with a rapper charged with domestic abuse and multiple drug and traffic charges, and has spent time in jail for some of those offenses.
Posted by: fd at February 26, 2026 07:01 AM (vFG9F)
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In his business, that's a resume

Posted by: John Thune, Senate Scum at February 26, 2026 07:03 AM (RC2c3)

109 Tempted to create an X account to just troll Matt Walsh about anime.

Why? Because I'm a fugitive cat-girl nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 07:03 AM (2GVsD)

110

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 26, 2026 07:04 AM (DDJSl)

111 The recovery operation is being carried out by the MV Maasvliet, a new diesel-electric vessel on only its fourth voyage since leaving drydock in January 2025. The crew has been contending with an early hurricane season, with storms Dexter and Erin having forced the ship off course, meaning it collected less cable than planned. The cable itself has to be coiled by hand in the ship's hold, as fiber-optic cable can't be machine-coiled without risking damage to the glass fibers inside.
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I'd have thought a cable that sat on the sea bed for 40 years would have all sorts of damage done to it just in the process of being plucked up, and coiling would be the least of one's problems.

Posted by: John Thune, Senate Scum at February 26, 2026 07:06 AM (RC2c3)

112 Great headline opportunity:

SAD SACK SACKED!

https://tinyurl.com/yz3s7ncd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 07:07 AM (plFPI)

113 >Prediction: The SAVE Act will not pass.
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my theory: someone or some group is paying big money to the usual suspects to block a vote

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 07:07 AM (ZxPkt)

114 109 Tempted to create an X account to just troll Matt Walsh about anime.

Why? Because I'm a fugitive cat-girl nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 07:03 AM (2GVsD)

He might ban you!

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 07:08 AM (+YA9H)

115 The recovery operation is being carried out by the MV Maasvliet, a new diesel-electric vessel on only its fourth voyage since leaving drydock in January 2025. The crew has been contending with an early hurricane season, with storms Dexter and Erin having forced the ship off course, meaning it collected less cable than planned. The cable itself has to be coiled by hand in the ship's hold, as fiber-optic cable can't be machine-coiled without risking damage to the glass fibers inside.
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I'd have thought a cable that sat on the sea bed for 40 years would have all sorts of damage done to it just in the process of being plucked up, and coiling would be the least of one's problems.
Posted by: John Thune, Senate Scum at February 26, 2026 07:06 AM (RC2c3)

They're gonna store the old cable in the attic or garage because they might need it some day?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 07:09 AM (wVcYX)

116 He might ban you!

Thus proving he's a knee-jerk thin-skinned idiot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 07:10 AM (2GVsD)

117 JJ. Get in there!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 07:11 AM (plFPI)

118 They want you alienated. They want you to take the black pill.

It's easier for them to continue the corruption if people just stop caring.

Don't Give Up.

Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2026 07:13 AM (+rKuc)

119 from the TAT-8 article, on maybe why they don't want to break the glass fiber:

TAT-8's cable still contains substantial amounts of high-quality copper used in its power and structural components ..., making thousands of kilometers of recovered cable a welcome source of the metal. The cable's steel will be repurposed as fencing, while its polyethylene sheathing will be sent to a facility in the Netherlands to be pelletized for non-food-grade plastics.

I'm thinking you don't want broken glass inside the plastic sheathing when you're going to try to recover the copper, steel, and plastic.

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 07:17 AM (+YA9H)

120 116 He might ban you!

Thus proving he's a knee-jerk thin-skinned idiot.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2026 07:10 AM (2GVsD)

And you'd be signed up!

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 07:18 AM (+YA9H)

121
I would have thought the 40-year-old optical fiber is trash at this point. What are they going to do with it? The article says they're after the copper wire in the cable, but nothing about what the fiber will be used for.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 07:20 AM (VWtfl)

122 4 Morninginging all.

Had a migraine earlier. Getting better now but still slightly blargh.
Posted by: Minx 0.8 beta at February 26, 2026 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

Hydrate! Then hydrate more! Hoping it all clear up.

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 07:29 AM (+YA9H)

123 *clears

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 07:29 AM (+YA9H)

124 "The owner of a Sonoma County winery believes the industry is dying because Boomers are."

He operates a craft business dedicated to processing "small batch" wine grapes for an exclusive clientele. Award winning, of course. The industry loves bogus wine tasting panel competitions; at some point everyone gets an award.

Looking at his very fancy website - he spent a lot of money on stainless steel fermentation tanks and accoutrements.

He turned a money-losing garage hobby into a huge money pit.

Posted by: 13times at February 26, 2026 07:30 AM (zJ+I1)

125 Sell it to some third world shithole country for phone lines! Canada? Mexico?

Posted by: President Donald J. Trump, phone line sales executive at February 26, 2026 07:32 AM (bvwOM)

126 JJ is up

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 26, 2026 07:32 AM (wVcYX)

127 "Thus proving he's a knee-jerk thin-skinned idiot."

Or he knows that he has only so many seconds of life to live and using some of those precious seconds to argue with a troll aren't worth it.

I don't follow him and I don't know how much he complains about anime's influence on the US. Japan has been a mono-culture for a long time and ideas that they have a defense against may impact non-Japanese societies the same way disease pools interact. (Our ideas can do the same to them; you can argue that may have happened already.)

I guess my point is that he may believe that he has better things to do than argue with you. Don't you have better things to do than argue with him? If not, go for it.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 26, 2026 07:33 AM (J8ZaT)

128 Talking Heads - And She Was

I dunno, was that weird enough?

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 07:48 AM (+YA9H)

129 The Criterion Collection in particular has seen sales increase thanks to the streaming services colluding to piss off absolutely everyone.

At the local Barnes & Noble where my writers group meets, there are far more Criterion DVDs than non-Criterion. And probably more albums on vinyl than on CD.

Sadly, the Criterion DVDs are all Blu-Ray and the vinyl is all expensive. But it is nice to see.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 26, 2026 08:12 AM (1NuH7)

130 74 Fibbies arrested a 65 year old former Air Force fighter pilot for the crime of teaching Chinese fighter pilots our standard tactics.

Teaching foreign adversaries to kill Americans, for money.... Unbelievable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2026 06:22 AM (SxOcO)

https://edition.cnn.com

https://tinyurl.com/y28uxbzd

Posted by: m at February 26, 2026 08:12 AM (+YA9H)

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - February 25, 2026 [TRex]

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

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

[Top photo: Texas State Capitol Dome, Austin, Texas]

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VW Blackhawk?

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The F-4 seems to be a favorite of the Horde:

I know what you are going to say. What about the F-14? Ok. Here you go:

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Are you wise in the ways of the US Navy's Carderock facility in Maryland? They have a lot of water.

This tour of the indoor ocean involves a little math in the context of wave amplitude, but the scale of the place is impressive with or without math.

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This is remarkable - World War I on the western front - daily time lapse:

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There's a lot going on here:

pic.twitter.com/OHQtXB8rR6
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) December 23, 2025

Hat tip: Biden's Dog

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Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S.

What's the most efficient way to see the US?

Criteria:

- The trip must make at least one stop in all 48 states in the contiguous U.S.
- The trip only makes stops at National Natural Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Parks, or National Monuments.
- The trip must be taken by car and never leave the U.S.

The author and his wife compiled a list of 50 major U.S. landmarks - one in each state excluding Alaska/Hawaii and including D.C., and two in California. The used a computer optimization tool to map it all out.

The complete trip around the U.S. takes 13,699 miles of driving. Assuming no traffic, this road trip will take about 224 hours (9.33 days) of driving in total. The author estimates the trip will take at least 2 to 3 months to complete. You can start anywhere on the route as long as you follow it from then on.

Click on the link for the 50 landmarks. The link also has the Python optimization code if you want to make your own trip with your own criteria. With AI, you probably don't even need to know how to work with Python code.

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

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Dos Gringos for the big ONT finish:

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

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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1 Howzabout this weather, eh?

Posted by: mindful webworker - moovin on at February 25, 2026 10:00 PM (rlEvI)

2 Didn't have time to write a more thoughtful comment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - moovin on at February 25, 2026 10:01 PM (rlEvI)

3
Hello

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 10:01 PM (3ek7K)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2026 10:01 PM (2Ez/1)

5 Hallo, hallo!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 10:01 PM (ZVgZ4)

6 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

7 th

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 25, 2026 10:02 PM (JRP2U)

8 USA USA
USA USA
USA USA
USA USA

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 10:02 PM (/lPRQ)

9 willowed:

Emerald Robinson @Emerald Robinson .6h

First, Trump took down Maduro in Venezuela.
Then he ordered a blockade on Cuba.
Then he canceled China's control of Panama Canal.
Then he hit the biggest drug poster in Mexico.
Trump's rolling up the entire network in our hemisphere.

Donroe
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Read that the Panamanian govt voted out the sale control of the canal to Blackrock and Maersk will take the agreement,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:02 PM (j9zxt)

10 Hello Everyone!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (QGaXH)

11 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Might need some prayers - PET Scan results are less than encouraging. See the oncologist tomorrow afternoon; will know more then...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

12 Yo Horde!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (2WIwB)

13 Somebody needs to get up in that dome and change some lightbulbs

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (/lPRQ)

14 [Top photo: Texas State Capitol Dome, Austin, Texas]

Taller than the US White House.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:04 PM (j9zxt)

15 Great Toby Keith!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:04 PM (2WIwB)

16 Oh, THAT Burger King1

The fact that there is a BK in Pittsburgh that is recognized by the Police scanner folks is priceless.

Thanks T-Rex. You bring it every Wednesday!

Posted by: moki at February 25, 2026 10:05 PM (wLjpr)

17 Nice content, thank you, TRex!

Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 10:06 PM (Wmg4n)

18 VW Blackhawk?
==

Mexican Military

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:06 PM (j9zxt)

19 Howzabout this weather, eh?
Posted by: mindful webworker - moovin on at February 25, 2026 10:00 PM (rlEvI)

Shhhiiii... it reached 80 today. Dang it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2026 10:06 PM (uQesX)

20 Let us do the F-4 vote one more time!

-1.

Less than that. A real piece of crap to work on!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 25, 2026 10:06 PM (7D3Aa)

21 16 Thanks T-Rex. You bring it every Wednesday!

Posted by: moki at February 25, 2026 10:05 PM
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Awww, shucks... Thank you and thanks for being here!

Posted by: TRex - THAT dino at February 25, 2026 10:06 PM (cCn4/)

22 Might need some prayers
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

You've got them.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

23 10 Hello Everyone!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (QGaXH)

Wow - a '10' for a guy who's a '10'....smile....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (QGaXH)

24 [Top photo: Texas State Capitol Dome, Austin, Texas]
Taller than the US White House.

Only when it’s wearing its hat.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (1NuH7)

25 Definitely, Teresa!

Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)

26 How about visiting all 50 state capitols? (I have 36.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (hJH5n)

27 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)

28 TiFW, prayers are up for you and the family. Always.

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (7D3Aa)

29 Praying for you, Teresa.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (ZVgZ4)

30 For those of us with discretionary cash to spend

https://tinyurl.com/4sk2rawd

Posted by: purely an academic question at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (F/35S)

31 Evening.

I need to borrow an 'Ette. Would one of you so kindly bash my brains in with a hammer until all that's left is a bloody paste? I'm having yet another massive gout flare up and I need one if you to end it all for me. I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.

Posted by: Robert at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (U17Kq)

32 28 TiFW, prayers are up for you and the family. Always.

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM
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This. From all of us.

Posted by: TRex - prayerful dino at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (cCn4/)

33 23 10 Hello Everyone!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (QGaXH)

Wow - a '10' for a guy who's a '10'....smile....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (QGaXH)

You two want to be alone?

Just wear a rubber dude, he looks greasy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

34 How about visiting all 50 state capitols? (I have 36.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (hJH5n)

How about the Capitol Records building?*

*Does it still even exist? Maybe senior housing?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (uQesX)

35 Road trip map barely shaves a corner of Tennessee. Almost nothing of Nevada and Michigan too.
Nothing to see in Kansas so just catching a corner of it isn't missing much.
Not much into Florida. Good. Yankee locusts.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 10:09 PM (/lPRQ)

36 Thanks for another entertaining Wednesday Night ONT, TRex!

Those folks in Pittsburgh must be getting stir crazy. Or maybe they are just getting their winter doldrums on. Whatever it is, it's hilarious to read about!

Thanks for the aircraft. Always good to see military aircraft.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 25, 2026 10:09 PM (kB9dk)

37 I don't comment often, but even less common lately -- I haven't been able to access comments on either Chrome or Edge because it's http and not https.

Is this just me?

I'm on Opera now. Seems to be working. This is the most appreciation I've felt for Opera since I first saw Little Ben Shapiro's sister's sweater puppies.

Posted by: Pastafarian at February 25, 2026 10:09 PM (sifs3)

38 Good luck, Teresa. We're all pulling for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

39 Praying Teresa, for you and yours. God grant health and healing to our sister, Teresa, that she may have many more years in your service here.

Posted by: moki at February 25, 2026 10:10 PM (wLjpr)

40 Excellent content T-Rex - Thank You!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:10 PM (QGaXH)

41 As soon as I saw that top picture, I knew exactly what it was! 🤗

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at February 25, 2026 10:10 PM (VCgbV)

42 Love the Conor Hellebuyck memes!
How can you not love our USA Hockey team????

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 10:10 PM (tj6OY)

43 Prayers for you, Teresa.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 25, 2026 10:10 PM (zuIfz)

44 > Are you wise in the ways of the US Navy's Carderock facility in Maryland? They have a lot of water.
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High School field trip, circa 1977 or 78. Science class. Part science stuff, part Navy recruiting. Massive facility. Wasn't in operation tho' when we went.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 10:10 PM (jtM2q)

45 Might need some prayers
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

You got it.
Hitting my knees.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:11 PM (2WIwB)

46 I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.
Posted by: Robert

I see you've had experience with redheads. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 10:11 PM (cYBz/)

47 36 Those folks in Pittsburgh must be getting stir crazy.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 25, 2026 10:09 PM
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At least this week they kept their clothes on!

Posted by: TRex - spring is coming! at February 25, 2026 10:12 PM (cCn4/)

48 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 25, 2026 10:12 PM (sAmhv)

49 VW Blackhawk?
Me likey! I want one!

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 10:12 PM (olkli)

50 Is that Thalidomide Rex on the drums?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (A3+q6)

51 I need to borrow an 'Ette. Would one of you so kindly bash my brains in with a hammer until all that's left is a bloody paste? I'm having yet another massive gout flare up and I need one if you to end it all for me. I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.
Posted by: Robert

Prednisone

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)

52 Teresa in Fort Worth
🙏🙏🙏

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (VCgbV)

53 I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Ike's presidential library at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (2Ez/1)

54 Space Patrol had Muroc Lake test pilots on their advertising, allowing that they needed to be in good condition to fly the XF-88A, (top speed is a millitary secret, gang) and by golly, Wheat Chex and Rice Chex for breakfast are a great way to do that. You can stay in good condition too, kids, by doing the same. Be sure Mom picks up the Jumbo family size.

I guess the FCC cracked down on that. So we don’t get test pilots hawking their favorite breakfast cereals any longer. Fuckers.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (pV4LT)

55 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Might need some prayers - PET Scan results are less than encouraging. See the oncologist tomorrow afternoon; will know more then...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

Absolutely, coming your way.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (snZF9)

56 Good evening Mr. Rex🦖!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (ttTv+)

57 Is that Thalidomide Rex on the drums?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (A3+q6)

Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

58 I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.

Posted by: Robert at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (U17Kq)

I won't do that, but I highly encourage you to drink cherry juice, lay off red meat, seafood and gluten, and focus on chicken/fish, fruits, veggies and rice. That is the only way I got through my gout attack, and have prevented recurrent attacks without meds (I can't take them due to kidney issues.) Ice packs underneath the foot also help. God bless and may this run its course quickly.

Posted by: moki at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (wLjpr)

59

Prednisone
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)

Heroin?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

60 40 Excellent content T-Rex - Thank You!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:10 PM
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Danke!

Posted by: TRex - calling the ball at February 25, 2026 10:15 PM (cCn4/)

61 Will do, Teresa!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 10:15 PM (tj6OY)

62 Pittsburgh Scanner
South Side. 1820 East Carson - Burger King. Yes, that one. Caller says a woman wearing cat ears is threatening to beat up and scratch employees. She has supposedly been kicked out once before.

~~Who neko this is?~~ Ano neko wa dare?

.....

Anna, get your bish under control!

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)

63 Re: see the USA route

My parents took me on a very similar route that took one month in the 60’s one Summer in a 1956 Chevy sedan - you know the two tone robin blue and white model with colors separated by a chrome stripe. Still have the pictures and most of memories (getting older has a few disadvantages but still preferred to alternative).

Posted by: epador at February 25, 2026 10:16 PM (TRnzq)

64 56 Good evening Mr. Rex🦖!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM
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Howdy COMM!

Posted by: TRex - capitol dino at February 25, 2026 10:16 PM (cCn4/)

65 Prayers continue, Teresa in Fort Worth! We hold you in our prayers and in our hearts.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 25, 2026 10:16 PM (kB9dk)

66 Robert, I'm with moki -- for me, dried cherries worked, like they're a damned cure for gout. Not instant but after a few days of pounding dried tart cherries, the pain and inflammation was gone.

For me, what set off attacks were peas, and liver.

Posted by: Pastafarian at February 25, 2026 10:17 PM (sifs3)

67 Thats a very cool 48 state road trip. In a car thats less than a set of tires, 4 oil changes and a shit ton of gas. On a motorcycle its 2 back tires, 5-6 oil changes, decent amount of gas, and god knows what else.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 10:17 PM (snZF9)

68 Secretary of Defense is a perfect seal for Connor! Way to go, Hegseth!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 25, 2026 10:17 PM (kB9dk)

69 33 23 10 Hello Everyone!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (QGaXH)

Wow - a '10' for a guy who's a '10'....smile....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (QGaXH)

You two want to be alone?

Just wear a rubber dude, he looks greasy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

Laughing!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:17 PM (QGaXH)

70 I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.
Posted by: Robert

So you're the guy Mrs D has been seeing!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

71 11 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Might need some prayers - PET Scan results are less than encouraging. See the oncologist tomorrow afternoon; will know more then...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

You got it TiFW

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:18 PM (QGaXH)

72 My parents took me on a very similar route that took one month in the 60’s one Summer in a 1956 Chevy sedan - you know the two tone robin blue and white model with colors separated by a chrome stripe. Still have the pictures and most of memories (getting older has a few disadvantages but still preferred to alternative).

Posted by: epador at February 25, 2026 10:16 PM (TRnzq)

Thats some cool shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 10:19 PM (snZF9)

73 Road trips are the best. Just get out and see this big, beautiful country of ours!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 10:19 PM (tj6OY)

74 BTW
I'm guessing that 'no context human' photo was before you lost all that weight...🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 25, 2026 10:19 PM (ttTv+)

75 Is that Thalidomide Rex on the drums?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (A3+q6)

Thalidomide Rex the Kid. Fastest flippers in the West!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)

76 Good evening morons en bedankt Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

77 When I first looked at the top pic, I thought it was a roulette wheel.
Considering the quality of legislation that comes out of many states, perhaps we would be better off if it was.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 25, 2026 10:20 PM (bhZyo)

78 Oh, THAT Burger King!

The fact that there is a BK in Pittsburgh that is recognized by the Police scanner folks is priceless.
Posted by: moki

They've got a Wendy's they're calling "the Thunderdome Wendy's" too.

Ronald is missing out.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 10:21 PM (VHUov)

79 > I'm having yet another massive gout flare up and I need one if you to end it all for me. I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.
Posted by: Robert
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See a Doc and ask for Allopurinol. It's to reduce the uric acid that causes gout. As others have said, lay off the fatty meats and eat cherries or buy "cherry extract." It's a herbal supplement. Also lay off the booze. If possible.

*I'm not a doctor... there may be other meds, talk to yours first*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 10:22 PM (jtM2q)

80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8tANJu8gyc

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 25, 2026 10:22 PM (jrgJz)

81 Thats a very cool 48 state road trip. In a car thats less than a set of tires, 4 oil changes and a shit ton of gas. On a motorcycle its 2 back tires, 5-6 oil changes, decent amount of gas, and god knows what else.
Posted by: Berserker

Preparation H? Doan's?

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

82 {TiFW}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

83 Branson ain't on the map.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2026 10:26 PM (Ezs10)

84 78 Ronald is missing out.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 10:21 PM
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One of the under-reported parts of the visit to the White House by the Men's hockey team was that PDJT bought McDonalds double cheeseburgers for them to have lunch at the WH.

Posted by: TRex - grimace is not a dino at February 25, 2026 10:26 PM (cCn4/)

85 I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.
Posted by: Robert
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So, you're asking for my #1.
I think she loved me more than any of my wives.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:26 PM (j9zxt)

86 Road trips are the best. Just get out and see this big, beautiful country of ours!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 10:19 PM (tj6OY)

I'm really itching to do that one day. Take a few months and cruise around the country.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 10:27 PM (snZF9)

87 83 Branson ain't on the map.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2026 10:26 PM
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Neither is the Burger King or Wendy's in Pittsburgh. Guess we each have our own list...

Posted by: TRex - scanning dino at February 25, 2026 10:28 PM (cCn4/)

88 86 I'm really itching to do that one day. Take a few months and cruise around the country.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 10:27 PM
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Do it. Seriously. Lots of land of the free and home of the brave to see out there.

Posted by: TRex - road trip dino at February 25, 2026 10:29 PM (cCn4/)

89 {TiFW}

Praying for you & yours!

Posted by: JQ at February 25, 2026 10:30 PM (rdVOm)

90 My prayers for you Teresa in FW.

Posted by: Joemarine at February 25, 2026 10:30 PM (y171U)

91 Prayer sent for Theresa!

Posted by: jocon307 at February 25, 2026 10:31 PM (EuROc)

92 Robert, I'm with moki -- for me, dried cherries worked, like they're a damned cure for gout. Not instant but after a few days of pounding dried tart cherries, the pain and inflammation was gone.

For me, what set off attacks were peas, and liver.
Posted by: Pastafarian at February 25, 2026 10:17 PM (sifs3)

Phrasing? But then again, dried tart cherries are grateful.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2026 10:32 PM (uQesX)

93 Might need some prayers - PET Scan results are less than encouraging. See the oncologist tomorrow afternoon; will know more then...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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You already got them just now. May the Lord keep you close.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:32 PM (E4rtv)

94 World War I on the western front - daily time lapse

That was brutal.

Unfortunate that the key is so tiny. Here's from the description on YouTube:

Red - Germans & German allies
Blue - French & colonial infantry
Cyan - French cavalry
Orange - British & colonials
Green - Belgians in the north; Russians, Italians, Portuguese elsewhere
Purple - US-Americans

Dark blue - reserve
Light blue - resting & training
Uneven brown - building defense works
Uneven grey - staging
Solid grey - sanitation

Posted by: mindful webworker - First act of The World War at February 25, 2026 10:32 PM (rlEvI)

95 Road trips are the best. Just get out and see this big, beautiful country of ours!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 10:19 PM (tj6OY)

Route 66 is one hundred years old this year. Thinking about Flagstaff.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2026 10:33 PM (uQesX)

96 colchicine is the other anti-gout med, but for the future ID your triggers, and stay away from them. And stay hydrated and eat cherries drink cherry juice

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 10:34 PM (rbvCR)

97 Thats a very cool 48 state road trip. In a car thats less than a set of tires, 4 oil changes and a shit ton of gas. On a motorcycle its 2 back tires, 5-6 oil changes, decent amount of gas, and god knows what else.
Posted by: Berserker

Preparation H? Doan's?

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

Man, no shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 10:34 PM (snZF9)

98 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Might need some prayers - PET Scan results are less than encouraging. See the oncologist tomorrow afternoon; will know more then...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

You know we are all pulling for you, Teresa.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 10:34 PM (8zz6B)

99 optimal road trip - Y'miss a lot of the best of Oklahoma on those routes. I suppose it's about the same everywhere.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at February 25, 2026 10:36 PM (rlEvI)

100 I have a couple of launches from a carrier (not as piot, bummer). But I never got a trap. I really want one. (Also, that's a funny song.)

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 10:37 PM (olkli)

101 Yikes Robert. May your pain be soothed soon.

BIL has gout and he goes through terrible pain in an attack.

Too bad you can't be like Ben Franklin, during his attacks, as gov. of PA, he had state prisoners hauling him about in a hand carried cart. Minimized the effect of cobblestoned streets on movement using his two prisoner suspension. Was that way at the Constitutional Convention IIRC.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:37 PM (E4rtv)

102 I bought Toby Keith's CD with that song and a George Strait CD at the PX in Izmir Turkey in 2003. Even then I was dismayed that there were still muslims left alive on the planet.

Posted by: Cosda at February 25, 2026 10:37 PM (ENPvq)

103 What's with all the Pittsburg food fights?

Posted by: mindful webworker - don't throw the fries at February 25, 2026 10:39 PM (rlEvI)

104 Road trips are the best. Just get out and see this big, beautiful country of ours!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 10:19 PM (tj6OY)

I'm really itching to do that one day. Take a few months and cruise around the country.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division **************
Absolutely do it...I've done 4 complete cross country trips and many half cross country drives, and I can be packed and ready in short order to go again. Just the best!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 25, 2026 10:40 PM (cCn4/)

105 Loosening lug nuts is not Kosher. Rocks in hubcaps or bananas in tail pipes is fair game, though.

Posted by: Auto Hijinks at February 25, 2026 10:41 PM (oftw2)

106 Road trips?
There are 119 bars between Pullman WA and Orafino ID. Load up a truck with fraternity bros...

We never even made it half way.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

107 88 Do it. Seriously. Lots of land of the free and home of the brave to see out there.

And! There's real people out here!🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 25, 2026 10:41 PM (ttTv+)

108 -----------
See a Doc and ask for Allopurinol. It's to reduce the uric acid that causes gout. As others have said, lay off the fatty meats and eat cherries or buy "cherry extract." It's a herbal supplement. Also lay off the booze. If possible.

*I'm not a doctor... there may be other meds, talk to yours first*
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Red Cherries soaked in Gin.
_me either

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:41 PM (j9zxt)

109 What's with all the Pittsburg food fights?
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't throw the fries at February 25, 2026 10:39 PM (rlEvI)

Well, they have to do something with the Philly cheesesteak; they can't eat it, after all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 10:42 PM (8zz6B)

110 31 Evening.

I need to borrow an 'Ette. Would one of you so kindly bash my brains in with a hammer until all that's left is a bloody paste? I'm having yet another massive gout flare up and I need one if you to end it all for me. I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.

Posted by: Robert at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (U17Kq)

I know the feeling (gout, not head bashing). I manage to control mine by avoiding food and drink that are known to trigger flareups. Do some online research, maybe that can help you. On the rare occasions I do get a flareup, prednisone helps greatly.

Posted by: a.moron at February 25, 2026 10:42 PM (X5Jzz)

111 So, TRex, how'd you do on tips with that busker act?

Posted by: mindful webworker - beat the bucket, don't kick it at February 25, 2026 10:42 PM (rlEvI)

112 So many great road trips. A few cross-country, a few to Florida, several to Dead shows. I think driving to Montreal in a freak January snowstorm might be the best one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

113 37 I don't comment often, but even less common lately -- I haven't been able to access comments on either Chrome or Edge because it's http and not https.

Is this just me?

I'm on Opera now. Seems to be working. This is the most appreciation I've felt for Opera since I first saw Little Ben Shapiro's sister's sweater puppies.
Posted by: Pastafarian
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What OS combo are you using? If Windows, then Brave works, the former Opera makers after selling the Opera browser to a Chinese company, now make Vivaldi which might work as well.

ios and Mac OS all use Safari code under whatever browser name due to Apple security requirements. Android and Brave work fine on a phone and brave has decent privacy and security options.

What some people though are facing is that most browsers are no longer being updated for Windows versions prior to 10. And fewer still for 32 bit versions of old Windows programs.

Supermium which is a derivative of Chrome is one of the few that works and I keep a version on really old Windows machines that occasionally require an internet hookup (and yes, I know about security issues doing so).

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:43 PM (E4rtv)

114 I bought Toby Keith's CD with that song and a George Strait CD at the PX in Izmir Turkey in 2003. Even then I was dismayed that there were still muslims left alive on the planet.
Posted by: Cosda at February 25, 2026 10:37 PM (ENPvq)

It is kinda sad.
I was in Sinop in 84-85. The Turks there were wonderful folks.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:43 PM (2WIwB)

115 87 83 Branson ain't on the map.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Twitty City and Dollywood are also missing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:44 PM (j9zxt)

116
54 Space Patrol had Muroc Lake test pilots on their advertising, allowing that they needed to be in good condition to fly the XF-88A, (top speed is a millitary secret, gang) and by golly, Wheat Chex and Rice Chex for breakfast are a great way to do that. You can stay in good condition too, kids, by doing the same. Be sure Mom picks up the Jumbo family size.

I guess the FCC cracked down on that. So we don’t get test pilots hawking their favorite breakfast cereals any longer. Fuckers.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM

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Well, the various Chex are good healthy food. Highly salted, healthy food. From Ralston-Purina.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 10:45 PM (azNOR)

117 [Top photo: Texas State Capitol Dome, Austin, Texas]

Taller than the US White House.
Posted by: Braenyard

White House is basically a two story building. With an attic to keep your crazy voodoo mother in law in.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 10:45 PM (/lPRQ)

118 Shhhiiii... it reached 80 today. Dang it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Barely reached 70 today here in NE Okla. Almost froze to death.

Thinking a lot about the folks buried under globul warmening up in the NE. Okay, thought a little about 'em.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and we'll sing in the sunshine at February 25, 2026 10:45 PM (rlEvI)

119 Teresa, sending prayers and hugs.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 25, 2026 10:46 PM (mNjzF)

120 Branson ain't on the map.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Twitty City and Dollywood are also missing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:44 PM (j9zxt)

So's Puyallup.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:46 PM (2WIwB)

121 Evening all,

My dad and a friend took a trip across the US in the 70's. He didn't hit all 48 States, but they had a great adventure.

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Might need some prayers - PET Scan results are less than encouraging. See the oncologist tomorrow afternoon; will know more then...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 25, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

Prayers for you. I hope the oncologist has better news for you. Hugs.

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My sister's friend and coworker has late stage cervical cancer and they are raising funds to help with bills. Please share the campaign if you can.

https://tinyurl.com/44a7v6bp

Posted by: Joyenz at February 25, 2026 10:46 PM (2F0/Y)

122 I can't comment on the totality of the optimal road trip but they did do the right thing in choosing 35W Fort Worth instead of 35E through Dallas.

I would have gone 281 but that's just me.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 25, 2026 10:47 PM (jRqxY)

123 God protect our Teresa.

Teresa, count every precious day, as I know you have been.

Posted by: mindful webworker - still on this side of the turf at February 25, 2026 10:47 PM (rlEvI)

124 Twitty City and Dollywood are also missing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:44 PM (j9zxt)

This. National Parks, and National Landmarks, and National Historic Sites are not all created equal. Utah, for example, also has the John Moses Browning museum.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 10:48 PM (8zz6B)

125 The situation remains in place.

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2026 10:48 PM (ZxPkt)

126 When I have had gout in my fingers due to blood pressure medicine I found that wiggling my fingers (hurts like hell!) warms up the joints and helps dissolve the uric acid crystals. Whether you can do that in your foot, I don’t know. Also, I can swear by allopurinol. It keeps my symptoms in check.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 10:49 PM (ZVgZ4)

127 Posted by: Robert

Is the Allopurinol not working? I feel your pain, literally.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 25, 2026 10:51 PM (jRqxY)

128 Secretary of Defense is a perfect seal for Connor! Way to go, Hegseth!
Posted by: Legally Sufficien

Hegseth wasn't using it anymore -
It is the Department of War now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 10:52 PM (/lPRQ)

129 The Texas Capitol is taller than the United States Capitol.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 10:52 PM (ZVgZ4)

130 And pastafarian, some folks have had luck by rushing to hit the comment at the bottom first rather than clicking to read the rest of the post. Comments are on a second server than the main so you can see both comments and the rest of the post on that server without some of the ad malware problems that sometimes show up like Sonobi.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:53 PM (E4rtv)

131 Well, the various Chex are good healthy food. Highly salted, healthy food. From Ralston-Purina.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Purina Human Chow you might say.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:54 PM (E4rtv)

132 In our 8 years of being fulltime rvers, we have been to most of those places. America is truly beautiful and I wish these people who hated it so much could get their head out of their ass and travel around and really talk to the people. Maybe it woukd change them, maybe not. My favorite place has been Monument Valley. It was the first place on my bucket list. Amazing that God created such a beautiful place.

Posted by: Megthered at February 25, 2026 10:55 PM (wwZQ5)

133 >>>>I bought Toby Keith's CD with that song and a George Strait CD at the PX in Izmir Turkey in 2003. Even then I was dismayed that there were still muslims left alive on the planet.
Posted by: Cosda at February 25, 2026 10:37 PM (ENPvq)

It is kinda sad.
I was in Sinop in 84-85. The Turks there were wonderful folks.
Posted by: Diogenes"
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Izmir wasn't bad. My ship would wait a week or so for US gov cargo which we transhiped through Suez to the PG. We'd carry wrecked equipment back out.

Posted by: Cosda at February 25, 2026 10:55 PM (ENPvq)

134 We have the Dragon undocking from the ISS in the morning.

SpaceX Cargo Dragon CRS-33
Undocking International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live
Date: February 26, 2026
Undocking: 12:05 p.m. EST (1705 UTC, 18:05 CET)

https://youtu.be/lqY-AZWhWew

Alternative stream if needed.

The Launch Pad

https://youtu.be/YOuaJpXOgSk

Posted by: Joyenz at February 25, 2026 10:55 PM (2F0/Y)

135 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:44 PM (j9zxt)

The list mentions Branson, but does not show it on tbe map. Maybe I misread something. I was trying to figure out what National Park is in Branson. Maybe one of the cave systems?

Or, again, maybe I misread the list! Trying to keep my mom from wandering outside, so I'm distracted!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2026 10:56 PM (Ezs10)

136 Robert I have had recurring gout but I started taking potassium citrate. No flare ups for several years. I can drink in moderation too.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at February 25, 2026 10:56 PM (CDX35)

137 110 31 Evening.

I need to borrow an 'Ette. Would one of you so kindly bash my brains in with a hammer until all that's left is a bloody paste? I'm having yet another massive gout flare up and I need one if you to end it all for me. I ask for an 'Ette because I know women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.

Posted by: Robert at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (U17Kq)

Two other suggestions : (1) Stay hydrated, drink lots of water, (2) Keep your feet warm at night, maybe an extra blanket on the foot of the bed. Uric acid tends to come out of solution and deposit in joints, causing gout, at lower temperatures. Keeping your feet warm can help prevent this.

Posted by: a.moron at February 25, 2026 10:57 PM (X5Jzz)

138 February is the worst month for cabin fever for those living south of Lake Erie. They probably haven't seen the sun for more that two or three days since November and those days it was cold.

Everything is brown and dead and everyone is just sick of everything.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2026 10:57 PM (+rKuc)

139 Teresa, my prayers continue! Have you tried the f4ben/horse paste as adjunct therapy? They boost your immune system smd activate T cells.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2026 10:58 PM (Ezs10)

140 Might need some prayers - PET Scan results are less than encouraging. See the oncologist tomorrow afternoon; will know more then...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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You've got them. Here's for a good plan to treat what ails you. God Bless.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 25, 2026 10:58 PM (UVyKP)

141 Good evening, ONT peeps! Thanks, Dino!

Posted by: Doof at February 25, 2026 10:58 PM (cn/q6)

142

Robert drives big rigs for a living.

Not knowing much about gout I wonder if sitting for long periods of time aggravates gout.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 10:59 PM (3ek7K)

143 I've done a couple of great road trips. In 2008, Laramie to southern California (for a library conference), with stops at Colorado National Monument, the Arches (didn't spend nearly enough time there), the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Drove back on on I-15 through Vegas (didn't stop) and north to Salt Lake then to I-80.

Even better was my 2021 trip: Laramie - Clark Fork/Sandpoint ID - Kalispell/Flathead Lake MT - Glacier - Cody (for the firearms museum) - Laramie

Someday, will do a road trip to AK with Cow Demon.

And now I gotta get some sleep and dream about road trips...

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 25, 2026 11:00 PM (mNjzF)

144 Kinda surprising how prevalent gout is among the horde.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 11:00 PM (RIvkX)

145 141 Good evening, ONT peeps! Thanks, Dino!

Posted by: Doof at February 25, 2026 10:58 PM
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Howdy Disco! Hope the road is treating you well.

Posted by: TRex - DJ dino at February 25, 2026 11:01 PM (cCn4/)

146 Kinda surprising how prevalent gout is among the horde.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Red meat and dark spirits crowd.
Everything dark and tasty causes gout.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 11:02 PM (/lPRQ)

147 I did my share of road trips, but there's still so much left to see. I guess you would need a lifetime to see it all. I read the book Ghost Rider that was written by the late Rush drummer Neil Peart. He did a massive motorcycle tour of the US and some in S America after his wife and daughter died. I think he put something like 50,000 miles on the bike in like 18 months, and he took a break for a little bit. He was zigzagging all over the map. He mentioned a lot of cool things to see. Its not like he didn't have the money to do it, thats for sure.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 11:03 PM (snZF9)

148 re: Pittsburgh scanner Wendy's and Burger King calls. Manager of Paris TX Whataburger beat an unruly customer with a trash can. AFTER employees had beat him with the fry basket. We need to have a Waffle House-Whataburger Manager Cage Match

Posted by: Stacy0311 at February 25, 2026 11:04 PM (///6J)

149 22 Might need some prayers
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

You've got them.
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

Prayers Teresa.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 11:04 PM (WONhk)

150 Last bad gout flare up was Tequila.

Just say no.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 25, 2026 11:05 PM (jRqxY)

151 Howdy Disco! Hope the road is treating you well.
Posted by: TRex - DJ dino at February 25, 2026 11:01 PM (cCn4/)

Kentucky always treats me well!

Looking at that road trip map. Wondering how many Hordelings are within a few mins off the actual route. If anyone was adventurous enough to actually take that trip, there might be Hordelings willing to open up guest rooms. Just a thought.

Posted by: Doof at February 25, 2026 11:05 PM (cn/q6)

152 Dearest Robert, do try the cherries. Up your Vitamin C. I'm so sorry you're hurting!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2026 11:05 PM (Ezs10)

153 Robert drives big rigs for a living.
Not knowing much about gout I wonder if sitting for long periods of time aggravates gout.
Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 10:59 PM (3ek7K)

So the Ben Franklin gout treatment of sitting in a hot bath while conducting business is right out?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 25, 2026 11:06 PM (bhZyo)

154 Undocking: 12:05 p.m. EST (1705 UTC, 18:05 CET)

https://youtu.be/lqY-AZWhWew

Alternative stream if needed.

The Launch Pad

https://youtu.be/YOuaJpXOgSk
Posted by: Joyenz
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You fooled me. Thought they were getting ready to do it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 11:07 PM (j9zxt)

155 How about visiting all 50 state capitols? (I have 36.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 10:07 PM (hJH5n)

I've been in all 50 states (and 3 territories) but I haven't been to all the capitols. I should have made my criteria a little more difficult, I guess.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 11:07 PM (olkli)

156 @PamphletsY . 22h
— 13 More Cartel Operatives Arrested in Jalisco Today

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 11:08 PM (j9zxt)

157 While I'm thinking about it…

Tomorrow, MiladyJo is having surgery to fix a problem she's suffered from for a long time. Respiratory Epithelial Adenomatoid Hamartomak (REAH). Blocked up nose. Relatively rare. Took a while to find an ENT in whose diagnosis and surgical recommendation we have confidence. It's an outpatient procedure, and she should be mostly recovered in a week, maybe two. Should improve her life greatly.

Good news is, we didn't get scheduled for barely-light a.m. like past surgeries, but for a leisurely 11:30 check-in. Actual surgery at 1pm, after the doc has had his relaxing lunch, preferably without the three martinis.

Prayers welcomed for the surgeon, the patient, and her hapless emotional support husband.

Posted by: mindful webworker - what me cook? at February 25, 2026 11:08 PM (rlEvI)

158 MW, the lady and you have the prayers, along with the medics!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 25, 2026 11:10 PM (7D3Aa)

159 Prayers welcomed for the surgeon, the patient, and her hapless emotional support husband.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what me cook? at February 25, 2026 11:08 PM (rlEvI)
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A prayer for her complete and speedy recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 11:10 PM (RIvkX)

160 F6F Hellcat FTW

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 11:11 PM (JkO4W)

161 Prayers welcomed for the surgeon, the patient, and her hapless emotional support husband.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what me cook? at February 25, 2026 11:08 PM (rlEvI)

We shall all breathe more freely when Jo does, MW.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:11 PM (8zz6B)

162 @MagJorgeCastro . 10h
⚠️⚠️ They paint a sign for “Long live Mike Hammer”, on a building in Santiago de Cuba
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there ya go...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 11:12 PM (j9zxt)

163 FUN FACT: Gout is the Official Disease of English Royalty

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 11:12 PM (JkO4W)

164 F6F Hellcat FTW

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 11:11 PM (JkO4W)

That was a bad ass plane. A serious Zero hunter.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 11:13 PM (snZF9)

165 You fooled me. Thought they were getting ready to do it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 11:07 PM (j9zxt)

Haha, sorry! I did say it was in the morning :-P

Posted by: Joyenz at February 25, 2026 11:13 PM (2F0/Y)

166
F-14

Heh. Mixed with some Tomcat pilots down at Meridian. Lot egos at work there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 11:14 PM (XeU6L)

167 For those of us with discretionary cash to spend

https://tinyurl.com/4sk2rawd
Posted by: purely an academic question at February 25, 2026 10:08 PM (F/35S)

Do you work in marketing for the Powerball?

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 11:14 PM (olkli)

168 Prayers Teresa

And Robert

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 25, 2026 11:15 PM (vfth7)

169 Posted by: mindful webworker - what me cook? at February 25, 2026 11:08 PM (rlEvI)

Prayers for all!

Posted by: Joyenz at February 25, 2026 11:15 PM (2F0/Y)

170 >>> Trying to keep my mom from wandering outside, so I'm distracted!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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One of those Apple tags or something that warns you when she's approaching the door?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 11:15 PM (j9zxt)

171 Respiratory Epithelial Adenomatoid Hamartomak

OK, I believe the diagnosis, but I don't believe the name of the disease. They just made that up on the spot to explain what was wrong.

Prayers welcomed for the surgeon, the patient, and her hapless emotional support husband.
Posted by: mindful webworker

Of course!

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 11:15 PM (VHUov)

172 You want some excitement in your life? Go to Pittsburgh fast food restaurants.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 25, 2026 11:15 PM (0Htd1)

173 Prayers welcomed for the surgeon, the patient, and her hapless emotional support husband.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what me cook? at February 25, 2026 11:08 PM (rlEvI)

Prayers for complete healing.

All will be well...and you are not hapless.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 11:15 PM (WONhk)

174 The dino guy with stunted arms playing drums is pretty cool
I wonder if it's near a police station?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 25, 2026 11:16 PM (vfth7)

175 What's with all the Pittsburg food fights?
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't throw the fries at February 25, 2026 10:39 PM (rlEvI)

They're hoping to be discovered as the next John Belushi.

https://youtu.be/DZN4r8p6KbU

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 25, 2026 11:19 PM (S/Y4j)

176 >>> Actual surgery at 1pm, after the doc has had his relaxing lunch, preferably without the three martinis.

Prayers welcomed for the surgeon, the patient, and her hapless emotional support husband.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what me cook?
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Prayers up, But you know, a couple of martinis might steady those hands a bit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 11:19 PM (j9zxt)

177 Well, I am getting real snoozy. Going to get an early one, and I have an early start planned for the morning, too. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:21 PM (8zz6B)

178 Praying Teresa, for you and yours. God grant health and healing to our sister, Teresa, that she may have many more years in your service here.
Posted by: moki at February 25, 2026 10:10 PM (wLjpr)

Amen.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 11:22 PM (olkli)

179 Gout runs in my family, sorry to hear this Robert.

I'm on Allopurinol, I've cut my soda consumption down to view little and gout has gone away. But some people are triggered by different food, red meat or booze, so not sure what yours is.

I hope you get some good painkillers and a good hot bath in the short term.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 25, 2026 11:22 PM (xcxpd)

180 I am doing a road trip in May. Going to follow US Hwy 2 from Spokane to St. Ignace in Michigan. I am excite. I haven't really see northern Montana and have never been to North Dakota at all. Flying in to Detroit and driving back home from there along 2.

I am excite.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 25, 2026 11:26 PM (xcxpd)

181 One of the under-reported parts of the visit to the White House by the Men's hockey team was that PDJT bought McDonalds double cheeseburgers for them to have lunch at the WH.

Posted by: TRex - grimace is not a dino
He knows how to host. I don't eat at McD's, but the diner where I eat has double meat hamburgers and they are da bomb. Nice beef to bun ratio.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 25, 2026 11:29 PM (0Htd1)

182 Screw the Navy! Air Force all the way, baby!

The Thunderbirds will be performing in our area April 25-26 and we're ponying up for front-row seats on the flight line! Whoo!

-- Tankascribe, unabashed AF brat

Posted by: tankascribe at February 25, 2026 11:31 PM (NtoJk)

183 Doof, we are about 80 miles away from a section of that US tour and we have a guest room.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2026 11:32 PM (FMtrg)

184 The F-4 Phantom: Proof that with enough thrust, even a brick can fly.

Posted by: Tommy Shanks at February 25, 2026 11:38 PM (KDpmu)

185 Prayers for you, Theresa!

Tammy al-Thor, does your Mom suffer from dementia? The MIL had the same problem, so DH reversed the doorknobs on the front door and locked it from the inside so she couldn't throw open the latch to open it and go walking aimlessly about the neighborhood. Which was probably illegal or against the fire code or something, but it solved the problem... temporarily.

Posted by: tankascribe at February 25, 2026 11:38 PM (NtoJk)

186 Gouch is an excellent supplement for gout prevention. Amazon has it. I take 2 eveyday.

Posted by: Parametric at February 25, 2026 11:38 PM (TEyUo)

187 Imagine if you will if the US Navy Flight Demonstration Team had flown the F-14D Tomcat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 11:39 PM (2GVsD)

188 A friend of mine with gout swears by cherry juice. Any time cherries are in season, I pit a bunch, freeze them and give them to her. I love cherries but DH doesn't, and I can't eat a big bag of them before they'd go bad, so the uneaten ones find a good home. Although maybe this year I will actually try my hand at making a cherry pie...

Posted by: tankascribe at February 25, 2026 11:41 PM (NtoJk)

189 I know there are many reasons , but that WW1 map sure does make a case that it was the USA that kept France from speaking German.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 11:42 PM (4hjRS)

190 Prayers up for Teresa, as well as the other Horde Folks who need them. We need all of you.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2026 11:44 PM (CHHv1)

191 Black cherry juice does seem to work wonders now and then.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2026 11:44 PM (CHHv1)

192 189 I know there are many reasons , but that WW1 map sure does make a case that it was the USA that kept France from speaking German.
Posted by: Opinion fact
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It wasn't difficult to see the color code of the Americans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 11:46 PM (j9zxt)

193 In other news, the second highest developed parasitic lifeform has been discovered. It's called a "cat."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2026 11:47 PM (CHHv1)

194 Gold . 5193.40

Silver . 89.10

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 11:49 PM (j9zxt)

195 It's called a "cat."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2026 11:47 PM (CHHv1)

Judges would have accepted Daughter.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 25, 2026 11:49 PM (gbOdA)

196 In other news, the second highest developed parasitic lifeform has been discovered. It's called a "cat."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2026 11:47 PM (CHHv1)
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We would craft your next comment with care.

Posted by: Big Kitteh at February 25, 2026 11:50 PM (RIvkX)

197 Tammy al-Thor-- I'm so sorry your mom has dementia. It's so hard so sleep with one eye open! I hope you've got some help, even besides Thor-- those "little old people" can sure move quickly when no one is watching!

Hubby would always wait until he thought I was asleep, before pulling his stunts. Ugh. I even switched my schedule around, to be awake all night... so, he started sleeping all night and again be pulling his stunts while I slept.

Do you have deadbolt locks? If so, consider switching to "double cylinder" style. Keep a key where you can get to it, in case of fire, but Mama can't wander.

Posted by: JQ at February 25, 2026 11:51 PM (rdVOm)

198 Great Road Trip Map - have seen much of the USA but thinking of incorporating it into future travels of those parts I haven't seen. Also - visiting the 48 contiguous state capitals isn't a bad idea - I've seen a lot of them already.

Spotted around town today - parked, with a 'For Sale - 11,000 obo' sign - '57 Buick Special - looked to be unrestored original. Blue on white with blue interior. Some minor surface rust on the chrome but otherwise solid and intact. Sign said 'Drive Anywhere'

Good Night Now

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 11:52 PM (QGaXH)

199 In other news, the second highest developed parasitic lifeform has been discovered. It's called a "cat."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

What's first?

I know "Somalian" is third.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 11:54 PM (VHUov)

200 Speaking of cats, Purr Pops has teamed up with Krispy Kreme to make doughnut shaped lollipops.

Posted by: Joyenz at February 25, 2026 11:54 PM (2F0/Y)

201
144 Kinda surprising how prevalent gout is among the horde.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 11:00 PM

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By cracky.

I've never had it. I haven't worked at avoiding it, but I've never had it.

Like I'm living off my reserves, etc.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 11:54 PM (xHKWa)

202 I had kidney stones, but 'seem' to have left the worst of them behind in my early 40s.

I am happy about that as they sucked balls.

Glad I did not have the gout.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:56 PM (bss/y)

203 he U.S. has sent F-22 Raptors to Ovda Air Base in Israel...
balance of article is speculation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 12:00 AM (j9zxt)

204 Goodnight all.

Posted by: Joyenz at February 26, 2026 12:02 AM (2F0/Y)

205 I am happy to provide the horde with a complete list of ailments, aches, and chronic illnesses. First up, otolaryngological complaints, both seasonal and non-seasonal.

Posted by: Big Kitteh at February 26, 2026 12:03 AM (RIvkX)

206 Passed kidney stones once; enough of that passing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 12:04 AM (j9zxt)

207 /paws off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 12:04 AM (RIvkX)

208 Tits!

Just want to break the old people health fixation we seem to be on today.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:04 AM (bss/y)

209 I have very low tolerance for pain. Mrs. F. has very low tolerance for me complaining about pain.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 12:05 AM (RIvkX)

210 Kidney stones...ugh! Have been to ER for one of them (the first one, 7 years ago) and got scanned (MRI?) before it passed. Thought at first it was a UTI, but then was *unable* to urinate even though it felt like bladder was gonna burst. Drank a quart of water, thinking to flush the infection, oh boy was THAT fun! Ended up puking in the ER waiting room trash can.

Doc said "There are more in there but they may or may not ever be a problem, no way of knowing ahead."

Passed another 3 or 4 years ago. Actually, there were 2 about 12hrs apart, but only *caught* one for the dr. appt. Those were painful, but not like the first one. Analysis indicated "too much salt" in my diet. (There's such a thing?? LOL)

Knock wood-- none since then. Don't want to ever experience it again!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:06 AM (rdVOm)

211 209 I have very low tolerance for pain. Mrs. F. has very low tolerance for me complaining about pain.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 12:05 AM (RIvkX)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:06 AM (bss/y)

212 @199 I would mention but I'm already marked for murder by certain species. (Number 2, mentioned above.)

If I were to name number 1 I'd be dead within instants and I'd kind of like to finish this stupid animation thing before that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2026 12:06 AM (CHHv1)

213 Nighttime, Israel, F-35s?, B&W, good pic.

https://tinyurl.com/bdecd5hd

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 12:06 AM (j9zxt)

214 Just want to break the old people health fixation we seem to be on today.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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[supresses inclination to report on my visit to gastroenterologist today]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

215 Knock wood-- none since then. Don't want to ever experience it again!
Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:06 AM (rdVOm)

Since the one that put me in the hospital (WONDERFUL drugs) about... 2010 or 11, I have thankfully not had one stop. I feel aches occasionally that seem like them, but they don't seem to go supercritical.

Again, knock on wood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:08 AM (bss/y)

216 Great links, TRex. Us landlocked landlubbers don't get to see much of that tech regularly so that was a nice distraction.

Good stuff. Are they hiring?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 12:09 AM (gVUi7)

217 [supresses inclination to report on my visit to gastroenterologist today]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

I wanted to say today 'You know how a colonoscopy is like your sex life?'

'It's nowhere NEAR as fascinating to other people as it is to you.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:09 AM (bss/y)

218 supresses inclination to report on my visit to gastroenterologist today]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

Suppresses urge to shout out Prometheus.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 12:12 AM (2WIwB)

219 If I'm gonna have any more medical issues, I sure hope they can wait until I'm on Medicare.

My current Zero-care plan costs a fortune, has a sky-high deductible, and is then 70/30. Of course I don't qualify for subsidy. Fkn demoncrats...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:13 AM (rdVOm)

220 Suppresses urge to talk about "Tetsuo-The Iron Man" so we're good here.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2026 12:13 AM (CHHv1)

221 The ceiling of the rotunda is beautiful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 12:14 AM (j9zxt)

222 Alrighty then...

I don't have time for a huge garden this year, but WILL grow tomatoes and hot peppers. And lots of petunias.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:14 AM (rdVOm)

223 Mrs. F.'s uncle is a dermatologist. In 35 years there hasn't been a family gathering without "what does this look like to you?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 12:15 AM (RIvkX)

224 Mrs. F.'s uncle is a dermatologist. In 35 years there hasn't been a family gathering without "what does this look like to you?"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 26, 2026 12:15 AM (RIvkX)

Damned lucky he wasn't a proctologist!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2026 12:15 AM (2WIwB)

225 Thanks for the ONT TRex.

Prayers up for Teresa, you have many here who are praying and rooting for you.

I could use a couple also, biopsy coming up in a few days. Dentist says he found a couple of suspect spots. After having had prostate cancer anything like this really alarms me. Someone here the other night agreed as he had been in the same situation, wish I could remember who.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at February 26, 2026 12:17 AM (55Qr6)

226 Fkn demoncrats...
Posted by: JQ
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Consortium of greedy politicians, insurance cos, and big pharma. Only Trump can beat them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 12:18 AM (j9zxt)

227 >> I am doing a road trip in May. Going to follow US Hwy 2 from Spokane to St. Ignace in Michigan. I am excite. I haven't really see northern Montana and have never been to North Dakota at all. Flying in to Detroit and driving back home from there along 2.

That's a great drive. Beware the Deer. Holy shit, they get thick along that route.
Sunup...Sundown...and any random part of the night.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:21 AM (1Udfd)

228 >>Consortium of greedy politicians, insurance cos, and big pharma.
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I lay the blame squarely upon the demoncrats. THEY are the ones who shoved the 0care shit sandwich down our throats.

My ignorant BIL said to me, after I told him how shitty my plan was & how I despised 0bastard for it: "It's not his fault!"

"Bullshit! He SIGNED it into law!"

(This may have something to do with why I don't feel an obligation to bail him out of whatever problem he's gotten into.)

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)

229 It is not just that he signed it into law, but that they INTENDED it to be shit and to cause the whole system to collapse.

To force the socialized medicine they really wanted.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:27 AM (bss/y)

230 >>"Bullshit! He SIGNED it into law!"

The law was bad enough.

The negotiated raping of the Self-Insured in the ramp-up to implementation was downright criminal.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 12:28 AM (1Udfd)

231 @Robert, my hubs also has gout flare-ups, and takes an effective supplement we get on Amazon, called Uric Go. Highly recommended. I also give him Quercetin w/bromelain and NAC every couple of days. Bromelain is an effective anti-inflammatory, but getting it from pineapple can be a huge sugar overload.

Watch your sugar intake and test for trigger foods. Fatty meats are not always a problem, nor alcohol. As noted above, they can be all over the map. HFCS is specifically to be avoided.

Posted by: Effie Perrine at February 26, 2026 12:28 AM (1auMZ)

232 U.S. military to deploy an additional 6 F-22 fighter jets to Israel, raising the total number to 18. The Israeli Air Force Commander also met with the pilots of the U.S. F-22 fighter jets already present in Israel
_X rumor

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 12:29 AM (j9zxt)

233 Hola, Hall.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 12:31 AM (77rzZ)

234 Howdy, Bulg!

How ya doing?

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

235 I worked with an ornery, old cuss who was the crew chief for the F4 back in the Vietnam war days. He loved that jet. That thing was a flying brick, but McDonnell Douglas gave it enough horsepower to make it formidable. A beast.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 12:33 AM (gVUi7)

236
"Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT (...) Pants are optional. "

Ha! You should know better to wear pants when there are cats around. Those furry dangly things are irresistible cat toys, just batted around if you are lucky, but also great to sink claws into. Your screaming is part of the fun... ;-)

Posted by: Pavlov's cat at February 26, 2026 12:36 AM (+s52M)

237
I don't have time for a huge garden this year, but WILL grow tomatoes and hot peppers. And lots of petunias.
Posted by: JQ

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I would love to get some -- as I call them -- real tomatoes. REAL tomatoes, not the ones I get in stores.

I'm lucky here in California to get real citrus, which grows in stupid amounts. I have enough frozen Meyer lemon juice for a decade of cocktails.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 12:38 AM (5pERN)

238 I don’t think they actually were ever in Kansas.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 26, 2026 12:38 AM (cO9Uq)

239 Hi, Blondie!

You *can* get real tomatoes if you grow your own, or know somebody who does.

Do you have a "brown thumb?"

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

240 I've had gout 2-3 times last year. It sucks. Ice, aspirin or ibuprofen, more ice. Just rode it out. Cut back beer intake, try to cut back sugar (that's hard), and try to lose weight (slow going). So far, no gout flare up's this year.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 26, 2026 12:40 AM (sAmhv)

241 JQ, I’m doing great! Thanks for asking.

After the misery of the prep for my 2d colonoscopy (have I mentioned that yet?/), I felt the best yesterday that I’d felt in a long time. Almost like I was in my twenties again.

Here’s to good thoughts for the future.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 12:41 AM (77rzZ)

242 Here’s to good thoughts for the future.
Posted by: Bulg
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Yay!

*cheers*

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)

243 Tits!

Just want to break the old people health fixation we seem to be on today.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:04 AM (bss/y)

No shit man. I stumbled into the geriatrics cafe. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 12:45 AM (snZF9)

244 Cheers, JQ! *clinks glass*

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 12:45 AM (77rzZ)

245 Missing FBI Epstein files of interview of 13 year old girl forced to have oral sex and bit it so its deformed. DOJ says interviews can't be released because of on going investigation into someone. Ghislane Maxwell's attorneys got copies of interviews under discovery and still had them when she was interviewed by Todd Blanche. She was then mover to club fed.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at February 26, 2026 12:46 AM (wiCe2)

246 No shit man. I stumbled into the geriatrics cafe. lol
Posted by: Berserker
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Just in time for the organ recital.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:50 AM (XeU6L)

247 Blondie, if you try tomatoes in the ground: mix in a lot of compost (or even used potting soil) to fluff the soil. Water regularly and deeply-- slow drip over longer time-- to soak down to deep roots.

If growing in pots, use fresh potting soil and water thoroughly ~every other day, whenever soil is dry at an inch deep.

Tomatoes don't like their roots to get hot! Use a large container-- minimum 20 inch diameter x 2 ft deep, and shade the container with other potted stuff, or place it inside another, with a couple inches gap for heat to escape.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:51 AM (rdVOm)

248 Is that Thalidomide Rex on the drums?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 25, 2026 10:13 PM (A3+q6)
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Mention of Thalidomide may have younger Horde members stumped.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 12:52 AM (plFPI)

249 245 oral sex
246 organ recital
****

Timing is everything.

Posted by: clarence at February 26, 2026 12:53 AM (iIAkP)

250 may have younger Horde members stumped.
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ISWYDT.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2026 12:54 AM (XeU6L)

251 Hey Horde, late to the party as always. Great content TRex, I got lost in it. First and foremost, my prayers for you and your family, Teresa. Horde prayer is powerful prayer.

I got gout frequently, and kidney stones, it was treated with Indomethacin, now I have been told that the bone strengthener that I have been on for close to 30 years causes both of these things to occur. Now I am on a different bone strengthener and they told me if I have another gout attack to call them for some Prednisone.

I am still kinda happy after the SOTU last night. I appreciate DJT every day, the European and Latin American conservatives are being taught by a master, the whole world really, they are all infested with the the same parasitic governments.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 12:55 AM (0nHVk)

252 Huh. Just looked it up. For some reason I thought Thalidomide was used to treat some other malady and then was found to cause birth defects. Not Morning sickness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2026 12:56 AM (bss/y)

253 Good night to the best folks on the planet. With luck we get to keep it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2026 12:58 AM (CHHv1)

254 'Night, BC! Give a rubby to Robert the Cat..

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 12:59 AM (rdVOm)

255 Hey, TRex. Sorry that I didn’t acknowledge our host before commenting:

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 12:59 AM (77rzZ)

256 Thalidomide is still in use for treatment of some cancers and skin conditions.

Posted by: clarence at February 26, 2026 01:00 AM (iIAkP)

257
Blondie, if you try tomatoes in the ground: mix in a lot of compost (or even used potting soil) to fluff the soil. Water regularly and deeply-- slow drip over longer time-- to soak down to deep roots.

If growing in pots, use fresh potting soil and water thoroughly ~every other day, whenever soil is dry at an inch deep.

Tomatoes don't like their roots to get hot! Use a large container-- minimum 20 inch diameter x 2 ft deep, and shade the container with other potted stuff, or place it inside another, with a couple inches gap for heat to escape.
Posted by: JQ

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Thank you thank you!! I just know you'd come out to my garden and cast your eye over the whole chaotic mess and tidy it all up. Make my pumpkins grow and such.

Yes, "real" produce is home-grown. I was amazed the first time someone came to a picnic with a huge basket of real cherries. I had a chergy all afternoon.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 01:00 AM (5pERN)

258 Speaking of capitals, I was forced to visit Trenton, NJ recently for job purposes. What a dump.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at February 26, 2026 01:01 AM (xverI)

259 251 Hey, DDS. Be well.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 01:02 AM (77rzZ)

260 Ah, yes... Blondie's pumpkin patch!

You know, you could put a tomato plant or two out there where the pumpkin vines would cover the soil around their roots. Just be sure to step carefully when harvesting.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

261 PDJT bought McDonalds double cheeseburgers for them

Sounds great, but, did he buy them fries as well? (Asking the important questions.)

Clocking out for the night. 🕛 Tomorrow will be busy.

I've been thinking of re-writing all songs that have "groovy" in them. What else rhymes with "movie"?

https://youtu.be/Qpo9KZYJ4sA

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - do they still have those molten cherry pies? at February 26, 2026 01:05 AM (rlEvI)

262 Hi, Debby!

*serves Chivas*

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

263 >>PDJT bought McDonalds double cheeseburgers for them
- - - - -
>>Sounds great, but, did he buy them fries as well? (Asking the important questions.)
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Are you kidding? He might've cooked those fries himself! He's got experience at that, after all...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)

264 G’nite, Mindful WW. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 01:08 AM (77rzZ)

265 Sorry I’m late, but good night, Beckoning Chasm. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 01:13 AM (77rzZ)

266 Have you gotten 'dug out' from the snow, Debby?

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

267 Hmm, time to crack open the new bottle of woodford. I finished the old bottle last night after the SOTU. I got lit. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 01:16 AM (snZF9)

268 Damn, now that I’m awake, where the heck is everybody?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2026 01:17 AM (77rzZ)

269 Haha, saw that you were having a Bourbon Night last night, Bers...

Hope this morning wasn't too rough.

I couldn't stay awake much after the speech. Loved what you said about PDJT "breaking it off" in the dem's backside!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

270 *Triscuits with cream cheese & olives for Bulg*

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

271 Hmm. Pickled asparagus. Garlic triscuits. Jalapeno/Jack cheese...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

272
you could put a tomato plant or two out there where the pumpkin vines would cover the soil around their roots. Just be sure to step carefully when harvesting.
Posted by: JQ

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Once again, I stand amazed at the casual intuitiveness people have about matters that might as well be quantum micro-pseudo-hyper physics for all I know.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 26, 2026 01:23 AM (5pERN)

273 Haha, saw that you were having a Bourbon Night last night, Bers...

Hope this morning wasn't too rough.

I couldn't stay awake much after the speech. Loved what you said about PDJT "breaking it off" in the dem's backside!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

Well I was never a big drinker, so I limit myself to one decently large shot glass at night if I do one at all, and I just sip it. Last night was special. I had 2, then looked in the bottle, looked like maybe 2 were left, and started drinking from the bottle, so I'm not sure how much was actually left, lol. I don't get hangovers. I actually slept good and woke up fine. I don't drink much, but I *can* drink.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 01:25 AM (snZF9)

274 Blondie, it's all a matter of practice and FUN! Gardening is all about trial and error. Good years and bad years. Try, try again & all that.

There IS no right/wrong in gardening-- it's "whatever works" in your yard.

Any given neighborhood has a dozen or more *micro-climates* ya know?

Something that grows gangbusters in your front yard, may fail miserably in the back yard. Sun/shade, wet/dry soil are the biggies.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:29 AM (rdVOm)

275 An easy way to keep Pepper and Tomato plants from getting too cold is to place a 1/3 buried, black 5 Gal bucket of water in the bed. (W/Tops)
Fill it with water, and it will grab heat all day and radiate it back all night.
Also handy for making Compost Teas or Leaf Treatment Teas in place.

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2026 01:30 AM (1Udfd)

276 Hmm. Pickled asparagus. Garlic triscuits. Jalapeno/Jack cheese...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

Good god woman..lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 01:30 AM (snZF9)

277 F4 Phantom (feel good) story from 1986 I had only recently "Leared" about. A heart from a deceased infant was available for a 5 month old in need but it required a high speed flight from Fargo to Los Angeles. The civilian jet tasked with taking it to LA, apparently was unable to start its engines due to the bitter cold front that had moved in to ND. Enter the ND Air National Guard Cold War Phantoms. They were designed for the extreme temps and one was greenlighted by the Governor for the flight. I looked into the background of the story and the recipient received the heart in time and is living a normal healthy life nearly 40 years later.

https://youtube.com/shorts/z_ewKQl3yMA?

Posted by: Rex B at February 26, 2026 01:31 AM (GI9/m)

278 Good god woman..lol
Posted by: Berserker

What? Hahahahaha

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:32 AM (rdVOm)

279 Something that grows gangbusters in your front yard, may fail miserably in the back yard. Sun/shade, wet/dry soil are the biggies.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:29 AM (rdVOm)

This. My front lawn looks good. Back lawn looks like a radiation victim .

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 01:32 AM (snZF9)

280 We had some decent melting of snow today. I think we had about 20-21 inches. It looks like maybe a foot left. I got a text from the terminex dude today, who comes 4 times a year. I highly recommend it. Nothing lives here, I don't even see a house spider. But tomorrow? Really? What the hell are you going to spray? You can't even get to the frigging house.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 01:38 AM (snZF9)

281 Was surprised to see a dusting of snow yesterday morning. Weather-guessers had said nothing about the possibility, but it rained most of the day & then got cold enough overnight... It was pretty for a few hours and then remained damp/chilly all day.

Today started out overcast & then broke for sun. Should be mostly clear for a few more days, which is nice. Helps the attitude.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

282 Freaking house spiders, ugh! I've seen a few this winter, like always.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

283 We had an inch of snow overnight. It pretty much vanished by morning. Seems like winter just refuses to retire.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 01:52 AM (snZF9)

284 I hate all of this fucking snow, I am too old for this, we got a wee bit more today just enough to cover the ice which is just lying in wait for a misstep.

Thanks JQ for the Chivas, I hope that you are feeling better than last night.

Bers, I am seeking maximum insect prevention, I pay a local guy a couple hundred a year to keep the place bug free. He is a good guy and grateful for the business. I really prefer to deal in cash at local venues for food, gas, and booze. My favorite local sub shop gives me a discount for paying in cash. They have got a great grilled steak tip sub. It is the last place I stop before a major snowstorm is forecast.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 01:55 AM (0nHVk)

285 We never really got much winter here-- not that I'm complaining, except for the lack of mountain snowpack-- but I'm afraid to prune the Dogwood trees now.

Not sure they're dormant like usual at this time of year. Oh well, it can wait another year I guess.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

286 The F-4 Phantom: Proof that with enough thrust, even a brick can fly.
Posted by: Tommy Shanks
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The F-104 Starfighter was proof of that concept. The first plane that could literally stand on its tail and accelerate.
They were also a maintenance nightmare, with a terrible crash record. The US Air Force got rid of them quickly because of all the problems. The Germans kept theirs; evidently Teutonic anal retentiveness was required to keep them in the air.
I had a fighter pilot in some of my classes in the mid 60s who the AF was paying for his BSEE. In a BS session he said, in answer to a question, that he wanted the F-106 in shitty weather or at night, but if it was clear, he'd take the 104.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 26, 2026 01:58 AM (qNwbf)

287 Thanks, Debby. I'm feeling pretty good tonight. Think last night was just one of those *one-off* things, thankfully!

I hesitate to scatter insecticides here, due to the neighborhood pets. I can smash a few spiders and Cat (and his pals) can catch the mice... he enjoys the chase, anyway.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:00 AM (rdVOm)

288 Bers, I am seeking maximum insect prevention, I pay a local guy a couple hundred a year to keep the place bug free. He is a good guy and grateful for the business. I really prefer to deal in cash at local venues for food, gas, and booze. My favorite local sub shop gives me a discount for paying in cash. They have got a great grilled steak tip sub. It is the last place I stop before a major snowstorm is forecast.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 01:55 AM (0nHVk)

I have no clue what we pay. Mrs B is a fanatic with that. Regular bug stuff, then the mosquito thing, then the tick thing. The yard is probably dead as hiroshima in 1945. It seems to work.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 02:18 AM (snZF9)

289 1 of 2------

Feels like I'm the asshoe... a couple more calls came in while I was out of the house today. (Landline, which is not 'unlisted') From AZ area code, same number each time. Probably BIL, who tends to call multiple times in a row-- check! according to caller ID-- and now I really don't want to answer.

Why? Because every time he *shows up* it's because money is needed for this or that. Hubby paid for his mom's and then his dad's cremation, after BIL had stayed with each of them until 'the end' and then called because he needed "help."

Then he showed up last Spring, with a broken POS trailer and needed "help"-- which I provided. But he wanted to see hubby & try to talk him into 'telling me' to let him stay here. Thank goodness hubby had enough wits left to leave it up to me: NO!

Now, these phone calls. No, the only thing it could be is pleas for more money....

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

290 Thank you for all of the prayers, everybody! Will let you all know what the doctor says tomorrow.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 26, 2026 02:22 AM (SRRAx)

291 2 of 2---

So, I know that BIL has: ditched his POS 5th wheel trailer in S. Idaho in mid-December. Ditched his truck and phone somewhere in Cali in mid-January. Was picked up hitchhiking and taken to hospital in Cali late-January. Released from hospital in Cali.

Truck (according to State Police) has been impounded. Trailer no doubt has also been impounded by now. Then... nothing until last Saturday. 2 calls from AZ (BIL's home area) on Saturday. 2 calls today, also from AZ but different # than Saturday.

I. Don't. Want. To. Be. His. nurse, cook, maid, landlord, cna, *anything*

Hardly even know the guy!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

292 Hang in there, TiFW-- hope the results are better than you suspect!

*deep breaths*

You've come so far! We're all praying and pulling for ya!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)

293 >>>Hardly even know the guy!

Posted by: JQ

>Your burden is now our burden.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 02:35 AM (gVUi7)

294 >Your burden is now our burden.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
---------

Uh.. Sorry? Thanks...

This whole thing is so crazy.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:36 AM (rdVOm)

295 Then he showed up last Spring, with a broken POS trailer and needed "help"-- which I provided. But he wanted to see hubby & try to talk him into 'telling me' to let him stay here. Thank goodness hubby had enough wits left to leave it up to me: NO!

Now, these phone calls. No, the only thing it could be is pleas for more money....

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

Whats with this dude and this pos 5th wheel trailer? Is it like a moble home/rv thing?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 02:36 AM (snZF9)

296 Yes, Bers. Like-- a 26?ft trailer. With slide-outs. It's made for living in. He & (late) wife lived in it, and did the "snow bird" thing for several years. Both deaf, both on SSI or whatever until she died in 2024.

BIL isn't playing with a full deck, imo. I cannot, will not, become responsible for him.

I suspect that he's been re-hospitalized ("Phoenix Patient" said called ID on Saturday, and some other name on both of today's calls) and they're looking for a place for him to stay or somebody to take over his care.

No.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

297 Yes, Bers. Like-- a 26?ft trailer. With slide-outs. It's made for living in. He & (late) wife lived in it, and did the "snow bird" thing for several years. Both deaf, both on SSI or whatever until she died in 2024.

BIL isn't playing with a full deck, imo. I cannot, will not, become responsible for him.

I suspect that he's been re-hospitalized ("Phoenix Patient" said called ID on Saturday, and some other name on both of today's calls) and they're looking for a place for him to stay or somebody to take over his care.

No.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

What a mess. How is he your BIL?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 02:43 AM (snZF9)

298 What a mess. How is he your BIL?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 02:43 AM (snZF9)
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By marriage.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 02:44 AM (plFPI)

299 What a mess. How is he your BIL?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 02:43 AM (snZF9)
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By marriage.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 02:44 AM (plFPI)

Ya think? lol. I'm wondering if he married into JQ's family or JQ's husbands family

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 02:47 AM (snZF9)

300 My husband's bro, Bers.

Hubby doesn't want to support him either. He's *that* aware of things.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:50 AM (rdVOm)

301 >>>Uh.. Sorry? Thanks...

This whole thing is so crazy.

Posted by: JQ

>Tell him to 'fuck off.' He's a mooch.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 02:51 AM (gVUi7)

302 Hubby has always bailed him out before, it seems. Their older sister was a junkie, and died 20 years ago. I guess she had some kids, but I don't even know their names or where they might live. (don't wanna know)

And that's it. All other relatives, to my knowledge, are deceased.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

303 He's a mooch.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 02:51 AM (gVUi7)
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He's a social case. JQ, it's very sad but you need to watch over yourself and totally disconnect, as hard as that may be.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 02:53 AM (plFPI)

304 Yes, he's a mooch. I won't be answering the phone. Landline will be disconnected soon anyway.

He lost my cell # when he ditched his own cell phone. Whatever.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

305 Needs to hang:

Grok @grok
3h

Gerald Eddie Brown Jr., 65, ex-USAF combat pilot & F-35 instructor (24 yrs, call sign “Runner”, arrested Feb 25 in Indiana.

DOJ charges: Conspiring to provide unauthorized defense services (combat aircraft training) to China’s PLAAF pilots, violating Arms Export Control Act. No State Dept license.

Details: Arrived China Dec 2023 after contract via Stephen Su Bin (ex-con for hacking US defense data). Stayed till Feb 2026. His message: “Now…. I have the chance to fly and instruct fighter pilots again!”

Initial court appearance today. Public evidence shows knowing violation—no exoneration apparent. Full complaint outlines it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2026 02:56 AM (plFPI)

306 Hubby has always bailed him out before, it seems. Their older sister was a junkie, and died 20 years ago. I guess she had some kids, but I don't even know their names or where they might live. (don't wanna know)

And that's it. All other relatives, to my knowledge, are deceased.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

Sounds like a real shit storm.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 02:57 AM (snZF9)

307 Bedtime for Bonzo here, I am ever so tired my Horde. Sweet dreams to all of you.

JQ, hold the line, I have red lines myself with family, I love them but it is a matter of self-preservation, and at the end, I guess that I am looking out for me. Selfish, I know.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2026 02:57 AM (0nHVk)

308 He's a social case. JQ, it's very sad but you need to watch over yourself and totally disconnect, as hard as that may be.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Yes. Exactly. A social case. He voted for Zero-- let the State take care of him!

But also: I just don't even *know* the guy. He's having medical issues I guess... and I have enough going on *right here* already. My plate is FULL.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:58 AM (rdVOm)

309 Yes. Exactly. A social case. He voted for Zero-- let the State take care of him!

But also: I just don't even *know* the guy. He's having medical issues I guess... and I have enough going on *right here* already. My plate is FULL.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 02:58 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah that makes it rough. If it was close family it would be one thing, but this is like some way distant relative you know jack shit about.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 03:01 AM (snZF9)

310 Good night, Debby!

Don't ever apologize for taking care of yourself. It's not "being selfish" it's SURVIVAL!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

311 I pray for, but do not understand, people with family member problem people.

If there is a Black Sheep in my extended fambly, it is probably me.

Everybody I am told I am related to are Good People

Posted by: Miklos of the Dozen Cousins at February 26, 2026 03:06 AM (8i9Vv)

312 Would be one thing, if BIL ever showed up to help when hubby first got sick... but noooooooo. Not a peep.

I did what I could for him, last Spring. Fixed some stuff, gave him food & clothes & supplies & money...

That's all I could do. He wanted to park (for free!) in the yard, inviting himself to do so. NOPE!

The hospital(?) is probably trying to discharge him(?) somewhere, anywhere, and he likely hasn't even an apartment to go to. Nope! Not coming here!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

313 Initial court appearance today. Public evidence shows knowing violation—no exoneration apparent. Full complaint outlines it.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

There are days when I wish I had pursued the Law thing enough to be a Judge.

Posted by: no good lawyer wants to go before his Honor Miklos who would order the convict to tie his own knot at February 26, 2026 03:11 AM (8i9Vv)

314 COURT ADJOURNED

Jello shots in Chambers

Posted by: Judge Miklos relieves himself of those hot sweaty robes at February 26, 2026 03:13 AM (8i9Vv)

315 You can drive to Alaska. My brother had been to all but four states. Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. He and his family were going to the Northwest, he was telling me he would like to go to Alaska but they would have to fly or go on a cruise ship and that would cost too much. I showed him in an atlas how he could drive there if he just wanted to say he had been there. That would be all 50 states he had been to. They took that route through Canada to the border with Alaska to a town called Hyder, Alaska. Brought me back pictures of the little town. They came back happy with the good time they had.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2026 03:16 AM (Z3Kkg)

316 What does a Scots judge wear under his robes?

Posted by: Miklos thinks it is like those Russian dolls at February 26, 2026 03:16 AM (8i9Vv)

317 COURT ADJOURNED

Jello shots in Chambers

Posted by: Judge Miklos
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Wooot!!

Thanks, yer honner!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:18 AM (rdVOm)

318 I showed him in an atlas how he could drive there if he just wanted to say he had been there.
Posted by: Case

I went to Ljubljana once just to say I had been there.

The locals taught me how to pronounce it too

So BONUS

Posted by: Miklos' bucket list is pretty weak these days at February 26, 2026 03:19 AM (8i9Vv)

319 Thanks, yer honner!
Posted by: JQ

Set yo sef right down

Jury done gone home

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

Posted by: Miklos' bucket list is pretty weak these days at February 26, 2026 03:22 AM (8i9Vv)

320 I need a new bucket
Lawd I need new Bucket
Don't get a new bucket
What I'm gonna do

*steel guitar*

Posted by: Blind Miklos Muddy Lemon Jefferson at February 26, 2026 03:28 AM (8i9Vv)

321 It almost the Drouth of March, people

Get wending

Tales can't be told unless you done 'em

Posted by: Geoffrey Miklos-Chaucer at February 26, 2026 03:32 AM (8i9Vv)

322 I pray for, but do not understand, people with family member problem people.

If there is a Black Sheep in my extended fambly, it is probably me.

Everybody I am told I am related to are Good People

Posted by: Miklos of the Dozen Cousins at February 26, 2026 03:06 AM (8i9Vv)

Not sure I'm a black sheep, but I'm definitely the most unconventional. I'm pretty sure most of my cousins have done better than me money wise, most have pensions, some are very comfortable. The one thing I can say though, none of them are worth a shit when it comes to mechanical things, or doing anything construction, or home improvement wise. I do have one filthy rich cousin who is worth some millions, and he told me that if he goes to start a lawn mower and it don't start and has gas in it it goes out to the curb. He would be baffled. Then again with his money does it even matter. Both me and my brother are the only ones that could build an entire house start to finish including the electrical and plumbing, and none of them know what end of a hammer to hold. I'm the unconventional one though, the crazy metal guitar player. I did have more fun than any of them though, thats for damn sure.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2026 03:33 AM (snZF9)

323 LOL, Miklos! Hahahaha...

Here come de judge, here come de judge-- I loved Laugh In!

Thanks!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:33 AM (rdVOm)

324 You people know the rules

Do not push this

I got Bourbon and three cigarettes

Posted by: Miklos undrestans the legal concept of Adverse Possession at February 26, 2026 03:34 AM (8i9Vv)

325 JQ has saved you all

Be appropriately appreciative

Even you tee-totalers

Posted by: Miklos declines running this place until the Ozzie buzzes in at February 26, 2026 03:37 AM (8i9Vv)

326 Bers, I was the blacksheep-- the one what dropped out of skool.

Older bro & I both got factory jobs-- he, a machinist, so... almost as good as college & got a *pass* for that, despite not going to college.

Me? Fk me, just a lowly assembler. Had good pay and bennies! But... still no HS diploma. (GED not good enough for da fambly, but got me da job!)

Younger bro & sis: HS diplomas, but no decent jobs. That's OK! They gots they diplomas! Pffft......

And yet, I was *the one* what got (stuck with!) the Powers of Attorney and Executor of Estate. Yeah, thanks.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

327 I don't know much about framing although I build a few structures, but I do know plumbing and electrical. I could build a house, but I admit it would be a hack job with the drywall and cabinetry and roofiing. Flooring is simple enough. Windows and doors, lots of shimming.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 03:48 AM (gVUi7)

328 Cheers, Miklos!

*Kamikazes for us!*

Bottoms up.........

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:48 AM (rdVOm)

329 I'm the unconventional one though, the crazy metal guitar player. I did have more fun than any of them though, thats for damn sure.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

I learned Hungarian

Not sure where that stands on the metal guitar comparable skill level

Posted by: Miklos also has an accordion and is not afraid to use it, mes chers amis at February 26, 2026 03:48 AM (8i9Vv)

330 *Kamikazes for us!*

*does simulation of wrapping cloth around head*

BANZAI!!!!

BANZAI!!!

*consumes according to Protocol*

Posted by: Miklosmet a former kamikaze pilot (no joke) at February 26, 2026 03:51 AM (8i9Vv)

331 *BANZAI!*

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:52 AM (rdVOm)

332 Somebody said "Zembu?" (sp?)

*sets up round for the bar*

KANPAI!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:54 AM (rdVOm)

333 The best thing would be to hire my nephew to build the house for me.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 03:56 AM (gVUi7)

334 Please pray for BIL-- I cannot help him.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:56 AM (rdVOm)

335 KANPAI!
Posted by: JQ

Gambei in Cantonese

Posted by: Miklos lookin at you funny eyed at February 26, 2026 03:57 AM (8i9Vv)

336 The best thing would be to hire my nephew to build the house for me.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Me first

Posted by: Miklos needs a mere cabin on a lousy quarter acre at February 26, 2026 03:59 AM (8i9Vv)

337 Posted by: Miklos lookin at you funny eyed
-------

Whatchoo lookin at...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 03:59 AM (rdVOm)

338 Please pray for BIL-- I cannot help him.
Posted by: JQ

On my knees Done

Posted by: Miklos at February 26, 2026 04:00 AM (8i9Vv)

339 Thank you, Miklos.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:03 AM (rdVOm)

340 Whatchoo lookin at...
Posted by: JQ

Willis

You fergot the Willis part

Posted by: Miklos was never short, OK but I got bigger at February 26, 2026 04:03 AM (8i9Vv)

341 --Whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willis??--

It was funny, watching "Diff'rent Strokes" on Japanese tv---

Kid had a deeeeeep voice, in the nipponese overdub. LOL

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:06 AM (rdVOm)

342 Kid had a deeeeeep voice, in the nipponese overdub. LOL
Posted by: JQ

It was fun how they translated South Park into Hungarian
Cartman in particular

Posted by: Miklos just laughed at February 26, 2026 04:10 AM (8i9Vv)

343 The Japanese and Koreans I met who had a good level of English learned it from AFRTN

Posted by: Miklos-san at February 26, 2026 04:14 AM (8i9Vv)

344 I have absolutely *no clue* about Hungarian, Miklos. Or Polish, or...

Wish I did, though.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:16 AM (rdVOm)

345 I have absolutely *no clue* about Hungarian, Miklos. Or Polish, or...

Wish I did, though.
Posted by: JQ

First prize-One Day in Cleveland!

Second prize-One Week in Cleveland!

Posted by: Coach Mike Mikloszczewski at February 26, 2026 04:19 AM (8i9Vv)

346 Left Japan in early '85.

In my next life, I will just live there the whole time. Nice place. Beautiful scenery. Strong traditions. Polite people. Little crime.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:21 AM (rdVOm)

347 In my next life, I will just live there the whole time. Nice place. Beautiful scenery. Strong traditions. Polite people. Little crime.
Posted by: JQ

I might choose Okinawa

Japanese do not consider Okinawans Japanese, nor would they ever consider me

Posted by: Miklos has those strange blue eyes, which makes me a distinct minority at February 26, 2026 04:26 AM (8i9Vv)

348 https://youtu.be/Ho01BfHnG80

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:27 AM (rdVOm)

349 It the Time of Abide

*distributes individual foil wrapped packets of Nite-All*

Posted by: Miklos has to leave so I can come back at February 26, 2026 04:28 AM (8i9Vv)

350 >>Japanese do not consider Okinawans Japanese,
-----------

I understand this is true.

Never been to Oki. Lived on Honshu. It's beautiful!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

351 https://youtu.be/Ho01BfHnG80
Posted by: JQ

Neil Young?

I am Disappoint

A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

Posted by: Miklos knows we all make mistakes at February 26, 2026 04:31 AM (8i9Vv)

352 Aw, c'mon... "Why do I keep fkin up?" has got to be the soundtrack of Neil's life!

And I like the song. Sue me...

I like Skynyrd's stuff too!

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:36 AM (rdVOm)

353 I like Skynyrd's stuff too!
Posted by: JQ

!!!!FREEBIRD!!!!!

Posted by: and....one...again...almost...what the hell MIKLOS WINS THE GOLD at February 26, 2026 04:39 AM (8i9Vv)

354 Gots Talking Heads on the Tech Thread...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:40 AM (rdVOm)

355 I just realized the best put down of the Commie Snow Mexican Neil Young fans

"Yeah, I liked Neil Young too...when I was NINE"

Posted by: Kindly Uncle Miklos at February 26, 2026 04:42 AM (8i9Vv)

356 Awww... guess I'm not welcome here, either. Pfft.

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:44 AM (rdVOm)

357 'Night, Miklos. And whoever is left...

Posted by: JQ at February 26, 2026 04:45 AM (rdVOm)

Giraffe MMA Cafe

Not giraffes

This cold has me flat on my back.

Smol. Also smol.

Not smol.

Cat is 20 years young. Joe Scarborough just emailed me to call this "the most cogent, most aware, best version of this cat, ever, and f*** you if you disagree."

Bear and cub.

Puppy needs to calm the hell down.

Fetch the stick.

Sheep does not go easy on the baby. Head-butts will be given freely to all.

On to the giraffe MMA.

Sparring by male giraffes has been commonly reported since its first description in 1958 and is believed to play a role in establishing male dominance hierarchies. However, despite being often documented, quantitative investigations of sparring behaviour are currently lacking. Here, we investigate the factors affecting the frequency, duration and intensity of sparring bouts in a population of giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa living on a private fenced reserve in Limpopo, South Africa. We show that sparring bouts were most frequently observed in young adults, and between males that were more evenly matched in size. Sparring bouts between males of similar body size were also characterised by being of high intensity and of short duration. Taken together, these results support the suggestion that sparring functions principally to provide maturing males a means of testing their competitive ability without escalating to full-scale fights. Additionally, mature bulls intervened on young adults possibly to disable any winner effect achieved by the latter, with the most dominant bull being responsible for the majority of interventions. For the first time, we also show that individuals displayed strong laterality when engaged in sparring: individuals consistently preferred delivering blows from either their left or right side, and these preferences dictated the orientation of sparring bouts (whether head-to-head or head-to-tail).

First, some low-intensity neck wrestling, or "necking."

Giraffes will engage in wrestling bouts known as "necking," which is when a giraffe will swing their necks wildly, trying to batter each other with their heavy heads. But this isn't them actually fighting, it's just a measure of strength & fitness. 🏋️‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/5vKqBiPe52
— Animal Planet (@AnimalPlanet) March 22, 2020

Below, giraffes "sparring" by using their heads like weighted whips to pound each other.

I did not know this.

When giraffes spar they show a huge level of mutual respect and fair play

Like boxers grouped by weight, they duel with similar sized opponents. The direction of swing preferences are also taken into account so neither has an unfair advantage 1/2 pic.twitter.com/EGhsaSkWNr
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) February 2, 2023

Another giraffe fight:

Male Giraffe, neck to neck combat.
In every species, the male is the same, there is always a power struggle. 😂

pic.twitter.com/f11K1xAmOH
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 9, 2023

Two people on twitter confirmed that giraffes do fight by using their heads a flails.

Another great giraffe combat.

This giraffe fight is narrated by National Geographic. The fight ends with a knockout. One giraffe clocks the other so hard on the head to give him a concussion and drop him.

Giraffe rescue:

When a giraffe was spotted with wire around his neck, people got him down to the ground very, very carefully so they could set him free 💗 pic.twitter.com/zM2wad7VPt
— UberFacts (@UberFacts) February 18, 2018

Just so you don't think giraffes are bloodthirsty monsters:

Man encounters curious giraffe pic.twitter.com/q7sBjfhJVc
— Crypto Solutions 🕊️ (@creptosolutions) February 25, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM

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1 * squak *

Posted by: Penguins of the World at February 25, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1)

2 My cat Allie is trying to sit on my lap, but she keeps stepping on a rather delicate part of my anatomy.

I'll spare you the gory pictures--Ace's description from earlier today should suffice.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:10 PM (ESVrU)

3 Top pic would make a nice pic on a t-shirt. Or painted on the side of a van.

Posted by: Street Entrepreneurs at February 25, 2026 07:11 PM (q2NNn)

4 After the Wolven, it's all giraffes, all the way down.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:11 PM (gtcuf)

5 My cat Allie is trying to sit on my lap, but she keeps stepping on a rather delicate part of my anatomy.

I'll spare you the gory pictures--Ace's description from earlier today should suffice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:10 PM

Yes, but the photogenic one, or the Book-Thread-pants one?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 07:12 PM (0sNs1)

6 That top pic... Are they watching giraffes?

Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2026 07:13 PM (Q+gd/)

7 Allie Cat.

Good one!

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:13 PM (gtcuf)

8 They're the world's tallest (Africa's grooviest)
With spotted coats and cute little manes
It's the giraffe, the giraffe
The giraffe, the giraffe

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 07:13 PM (nDXEV)

9 Yes, but the photogenic one, or the Book-Thread-pants one?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 07:12 PM (0sNs1)
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Let's just say it won't be sporting a purple pimp hat any time soon.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:14 PM (ESVrU)

10 Quinnipiac released a poll of Pennsylvania today. Fetterman's approval is 46/40 which isn't surprising. Where it goes nuts is his approval by party.

Republicans: 73-18 (+55)
Democrats: 22-62 (-40)
Independents: 48-37 (+11)

If this is even close to the truth he will never win another Democrat primary.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 07:14 PM (CNl8/)

11 When all you have is a neck, everything is a neck hammer.

amirite?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:14 PM (aTgV0)

12 Thanks for learning about giraffes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 07:14 PM (RIvkX)

13 Allie Cat.

Good one!
Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:13 PM (gtcuf)
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Believe it or not I didn't name her that. She came that way.

Tough name, but really a sweet kitty when she gets to know you.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:15 PM (ESVrU)

14 Can't the male giraffes just have dick measuring contests, like civilized folks?

Posted by: Unclear On The Concept at February 25, 2026 07:15 PM (q2NNn)

15 Lots of giraffees.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 07:15 PM (QScRl)

16 Hey mister tangerine man

Posted by: Lefty giraffe at February 25, 2026 07:15 PM (Cqx++)

17 What did the giraffe say when he walked up to the bar?

"Barkeep! The highballs are on me!"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 07:16 PM (0sNs1)

18 I was pretty sure the top pic wasn't giraffes, but thanks for the caption anyway.

Posted by: #1-The Larch at February 25, 2026 07:16 PM (oftw2)

19 When giraffes spar...

I've never seen that before! They are smacking the crap out of each other. The impact would knock a human twenty feet.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 07:17 PM (o2432)

20 Yes, my name is Jeanine. No joke.

Posted by: Giraffe at February 25, 2026 07:17 PM (Q+gd/)

21 Giant herbivores are just weird.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:17 PM (aTgV0)

22 2 My cat Allie is trying to sit on my lap, but she keeps stepping on a rather delicate part of my anatomy.

I'll spare you the gory pictures--Ace's description from earlier today should suffice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Ummmm. Put on some pants?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 07:18 PM (W2Pud)

23 There are toy poodles. Are there any toy giraffes?

Posted by: Kay-Bee at February 25, 2026 07:19 PM (oftw2)

24 Knee status: knobby.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 07:19 PM (8zz6B)

25 I'll spare you the gory pictures--Ace's description from earlier today should suffice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Ummmm. Put on some pants?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 07:18 PM (W2Pud)
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What? On a Wednesday? That's crazy talk...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:19 PM (ESVrU)

26 21 Giant herbivores are just weird.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:17 PM (aTgV0)

Plus they're snobs, always looking down on us.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 07:19 PM (nDXEV)

27 Sparring by male giraffes has been commonly reported since its first description in 1958...

I keep puzzling over that oddly written sentence. Giraffes have been around for 8 million years and nobody ever described this behavior until 1958? Did they not start this behavior until the 1950s? Is rock-n-roll to blame? I have so many questions.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:19 PM (gtcuf)

28 First game drive I went on we left the lodge early, about 6 am before the sun was up. They gave us blankets because it was chilly. We're driving along his trail and the trail takes a left and heads down a little hill with a bunch of brush in front of us.

Driver stops and just as the sun is coming up a giraffe head chewing on some leaves appears from behind the brush. Then another, and another .. about 7 of them in all. Just staring us and chewing on leaves while we are staring at them. Very cool animals and very chill.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 07:20 PM (viF8m)

29 I can see your house from up here.

Posted by: Funny Giraffe at February 25, 2026 07:20 PM (Q+gd/)

30 Not much streaming coming.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 07:21 PM (QScRl)

31 Veterinary chiropractors usually make a killing at zoos that have giraffes.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 07:21 PM (nDXEV)

32 Pants are for closers.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:21 PM (aTgV0)

33 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 07:22 PM (Ia/+0)

34 I've seen lions attack all sorts of animals but not giraffes. Does any species attack and eat giraffes?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 07:22 PM (wUQJO)

35 If you get age-restricted on "Not smol" you can switch to xcancel. It's a sweetheart pit bull with a head the size of a mini-fridge.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 07:22 PM (o2432)

36 AOPrediction: the Donks run Fetterman in '28, as the only Democrat who might hoover up votes from the undecided.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 07:22 PM (8zz6B)

37 Those giraffes flailing on each other just need to be gulping down a few beers between hits...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:22 PM (ESVrU)

38 Fetterman is positioning himself to join the Republicans and Mitch’s back stabbers club. He is a Democrat, at best a Reagan/Trump Democrat.

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 07:23 PM (77Bgk)

39 Pants are for closers.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:21 PM

So, skirts and kilts are for openers?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 25, 2026 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

40 Giant herbivores are just weird.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:17 PM (aTgV0)

Scary, too. Why I wear loud checked suits to scare them off.

Posted by: Herb Tarleck at February 25, 2026 07:24 PM (8zz6B)

41
Years ago I took the kids to a drive through safari park in Georgia.

I stopped at the giraffe enclosure and a giraffe stuck his head in the window and laid his head on my shoulder. He nuzzled for a few seconds and let me rub his head.

It was awesome.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 25, 2026 07:24 PM (3ek7K)

42 Fetch the stick has me cracking up

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 07:24 PM (Ia/+0)

43 "Plus they're snobs, always looking down on us.
Posted by: Dr. Varno"

My favorite is the giant sloth.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:24 PM (aTgV0)

44 Mitch has two seats to fill, Collins’ and his. Fetterman can fill Collins’

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 07:24 PM (77Bgk)

45 Surprised there's no one talking shit about giraffes smelling bad in here. There are a few haters who make up all kinds of tall tales. We are tired of it.

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at February 25, 2026 07:25 PM (oftw2)

46
That dude in the giraffe suit at the Democrat shit show has aroused Ace.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 07:26 PM (Y8DZL)

47 Cat is 20 years young.

Sweet. I miss my cat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 07:26 PM (4NO2D)

48 "Does any species attack and eat giraffes?"

The flesh of the young giraffe is said to be good eating. The Hottentots hunt the animal principally on account of its marrow, which, as a delicacy, they set a high value on.

The Hottentots have a curious mode of cooking their antelope venison, which renders it, however, exceedingly palatable. After stewing the meat in a very small quantity of water, they take it out of the pot and pound it between two stones until reduced to the consistency of pap, when they mix it with a considerable quantity of sheep’s fat, and then stew it for a short time longer.

Posted by: Giraffe Recipes at February 25, 2026 07:26 PM (vFG9F)

49 Chalking giraffes off the no show on the Cafe list
Sea stacks is still on it

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)

50 I've seen lions attack all sorts of animals but not giraffes. Does any species attack and eat giraffes?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 07:22 PM

Man.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 07:27 PM (4NO2D)

51 I'm sure a Giraffe could whomp a lion with a pretty painful rib crack.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:28 PM (aTgV0)

52 >>>My cat Allie is trying to sit on my lap, but she keeps stepping on a rather delicate part of my anatomy.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE MEANS HIS PENIS!!!

Posted by: BEN ROTHESBURGEMEISTER at February 25, 2026 07:29 PM (q177U)

53 >>I stopped at the giraffe enclosure and a giraffe stuck his head in the window and laid his head on my shoulder. He nuzzled for a few seconds and let me rub his head.

It was awesome.

What a cool experience!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 07:30 PM (tj6OY)

54 Now I want a pet giraffe but I can't figure out how to get him through the front door.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 07:30 PM (6ydKt)

55 Surprised there's no one talking shit about giraffes smelling bad in here. There are a few haters who make up all kinds of tall tales. We are tired of it.
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at February 25, 2026 07:25 PM

What we talk about is penguins' sh*t smelling bad in here.

That's a fact. You could look it up.

Their polymorphic perversity is both legendary and factual. You could look that up, too.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 07:30 PM (0sNs1)

56 Giant herbivores weird us out. Plus, they smell bad.

Posted by: The Lions at February 25, 2026 07:31 PM (gtcuf)

57
Is rock-n-roll to blame? I have so many questions.
Posted by: Delurker

The day after Elvis went on the Sullivan show.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 07:31 PM (Cqx++)

58 Not much streaming coming.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 07:21 PM (QScRl)

Try some SuperBeets!

Posted by: Unclear On The Concept at February 25, 2026 07:31 PM (q2NNn)

59 Democrats are PAGAN

Some dimbulb of a Democrat, yeah I know redundancy, is complaining that age verification is preventing 'trans-kids' from accessing 'sex education' material aka pr0n.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 07:31 PM (2GVsD)

60 Sea stacks is still on it
Posted by: Skip

We oppose Sea Stacks. All should be dynamited and made into reefs that attract fish. It's in our 5-Year Plan. Gannets and Puffins roost on Sea Stacks and they compete with us for food. Especially as we migrate ever Northward. On ward To Greenland! Excelsior!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at February 25, 2026 07:32 PM (oftw2)

61 43 My favorite is the giant sloth.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:24 PM (aTgV0)

There's a giant sloth skeleton at the science library here. It's dying, sinking pose usually makes the grad students uncomfortable.

https://tinyurl.com/e6nwt4u8

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 07:32 PM (nDXEV)

62 Giraffes have to have trick to breathe through those long necks. I imagine that brontosauri had the same problem.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 07:32 PM (4NO2D)

63 >>Puppy needs to calm the hell down.

Dang, that cat is patient!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 07:32 PM (tj6OY)

64 6 That top pic... Are they watching giraffes?
Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2026 07:13 PM (Q+gd/)

No, detectives.

https://youtu.be/oqSIux0jKOg

Posted by: SciVo at February 25, 2026 07:33 PM (Sy6m/)

65 10 Quinnipiac released a poll of Pennsylvania today. Fetterman's approval is 46/40 which isn't surprising. Where it goes nuts is his approval by party.

Republicans: 73-18 (+55)
Democrats: 22-62 (-40)
Independents: 48-37 (+11)

If this is even close to the truth he will never win another Democrat primary.
Posted by: Mark1971
========
Pretty much. The old style Dems in NY, PA, IL, etc. are losing out to the hard core lefties now running the Dems. And braying AWFULs are at the head of the pack. So Cuomo, defenestrated, Shapiro, got denied VP position becuz too Jewish, now Fetterman, too masculine, and so on.

And now Gavin trying on his oppressed dyslexia bit and his idiotic statements in Atlanta about being lower than average on SATs.

As AWFULs and their POC allies proclaim males as the worst people on Earf, particular white males, very difficult environment for males to run now statewide or on national level offices as Democrats unless Trans, Gay POC, or some other reason.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 07:33 PM (E4rtv)

66 Giraffes have special valves in their neck blood vessels so they don't black out raising their head from 0-16 feet quickly.

Posted by: Backflow Prevention at February 25, 2026 07:36 PM (oftw2)

67 My cat Allie is trying to sit on my lap, but she keeps stepping on a rather delicate part of my anatomy.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE MEANS HIS PENIS!!!
Posted by: BEN ROTHESBURGEMEISTER at February 25, 2026 07:29 PM (q177U)
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What's funnier is that no, I didn't....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:37 PM (ESVrU)

68 Golly.

Posted by: Linda Lovelace at February 25, 2026 07:38 PM (Q+gd/)

69 I think the Dems won’t run a straight white male for president ever again

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 07:38 PM (nLdZ2)

70 36 AOPrediction: the Donks run Fetterman in '28, as the only Democrat who might hoover up votes from the undecided.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
=======
If the Dems had gotten totally wiped out in 2024 like Reagan stomped Mondale in 1984, I might agree but I think the Dems are now female dominated and if not an AWFUL or a POC, then they are not interested in them for the top job. And they hate anyone taking the side of Israel or Jews because of their newcomers from the Middle East like Tlaib, Omar, etc.

Their positions are increasingly more like performance art and virtue signalling than actual campaigning. Then again, that is what the whole protest culture is about--hectoring, bullying, threatening by force of numbers, etc. And not persuasion.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 07:38 PM (E4rtv)

71 69 I think the Dems won’t run a straight white male for president ever again
Posted by: Accomack
=====
Heh. I was slowly trying to type that out myself. You said it in far fewer words than I. But without substantial change in the party base, I would agree.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

72 We had a large, overweight, female classmate with the charm and energy of a Giant Sloth. Another girl we nicknamed "The Buffalo". Teens can be cruel.

Posted by: The Possum at February 25, 2026 07:40 PM (oftw2)

73 Posted by: SciVo at February 25, 2026 07:33 PM (Sy6m/)

Killer tune! And what fantastic lyrics.

"You snatch a chill and you match a cigarette
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet
I don't know how much more of this I can take
She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake."

That's how it's done, son.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:40 PM (gtcuf)

74 Giraffes have special valves in their neck blood vessels so they don't black out raising their head from 0-16 feet quickly.
Posted by: Backflow Prevention at February 25, 2026 07:36 PM (oftw2)

The Paolo is, how you say, equipped with similar biological technology.

Posted by: The Paolo at February 25, 2026 07:40 PM (q2NNn)

75 I have a couple of 17-18 year old cats.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 07:41 PM (rbvCR)

76 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:37 PM (ESVrU)

Don't you have a Biscuit Blanket to protect your stash of nuts from kitty claws?

Posted by: SciVo at February 25, 2026 07:42 PM (Sy6m/)

77 They are bigger when you stand next to them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 07:42 PM (j9zxt)

78 From Grok for the Penguin Promotion Board:

"Penguin poop earns its reputation for being seriously pungent, especially from species like Adélie penguins that chow down on krill and fish. The high nitrogen content breaks down into ammonia gas, giving it that classic sharp, fishy-ammonia stench (one vivid comparison likens it to old cigarette tobacco soaked in ammonia, mixed with rotten shrimp, and left in the sun). In dense colonies, where penguins poop every 5–15 minutes and the stuff piles up (sometimes visible from space as pinkish-brown stains on the ice), the smell hits you before you even spot the birds. Researchers who've handled it in labs have called it "the most vile thing you can imagine," and it repels krill too—the tiny crustaceans zigzag away and lose their appetite when they catch a whiff."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 07:42 PM (0sNs1)

79 I think there is a pussy on my penis joke in there. Somewhere

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at February 25, 2026 07:43 PM (E4CFW)

80 >>"(one vivid comparison likens it to old cigarette tobacco soaked in ammonia, mixed with rotten shrimp, and left in the sun"

So, like our local Captain D's rest room.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 07:44 PM (nDXEV)

81 Who doesn't like old cigarette tobacco mixed with ammonia? Do your farts smell like Roses? Violets?

Posted by: Penguin Pete at February 25, 2026 07:45 PM (oftw2)

82 66 Giraffes have special valves in their neck blood vessels so they don't black out raising their head from 0-16 feet quickly.
Posted by: Backflow Prevention at February 25, 2026 07:36 PM
I have trouble with a bit over 6'2".

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 07:45 PM (LHPAg)

83 and it repels krill too—the tiny crustaceans zigzag away and lose their appetite when they catch a whiff."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 07:42 PM (0sNs1)

Krill, the Robert Reich of marine crustaceans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 07:46 PM (8zz6B)

84 According to Zork Lore, Duncanthrax is an ancestor to Lord Dimwit Flathead, which is nothing to be proud of.

Posted by: Penguin Pete. at February 25, 2026 07:49 PM (oftw2)

85 >>> I think the Dems won’t run a straight white male for president ever again

I 100% disagree. They will run the Virginia playbook and run "moderate" white people, then turn around and unleash a progressive hellscape when they finally get back in power. That will be the last election.

Posted by: Max Power at February 25, 2026 07:49 PM (q177U)

86 OK, so now my fears are:

Flying
Falling
Speaking in public

And now I can add giraffes to the list.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 25, 2026 07:50 PM (k9OZB)

87 I have a couple of 17-18 year old cats.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 07:41 PM (rbvCR)
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Nice!

I'm struggling with the fact that two of my kitties (Penny and Jasmine) will be 14 this year.

And Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) will be 12!

How did that happen?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:50 PM (ESVrU)

88 "It's little-known fact, Norm, but carnivorous giraffes were once a plague upon the earth, until primitive man domesticated penguins and wiped the murderous giraffe packs out.

Why yes, I'll have another beer, Sam."

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at February 25, 2026 07:51 PM (bhZyo)

89 Comparisons like "an old cigarette tobacco soaked in ammonia, mixed with rotten shrimp, and left in the sun" are frequently uttered by unfortunate passersby, just before passing out.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 25, 2026 07:51 PM (vFG9F)

90 Researchers who've handled it in labs have called it "the most vile thing you can imagine,

I'm watching out my window as two tree removal guys take down a ginormous blue spruce, and I'm thinking, chainsaw-wielding tree climbers beat researching pengun shit by a country mile, as far as jobs go.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:52 PM (gtcuf)

91 "They are bigger when you stand next to them.
Posted by: Braenyard"

Meow!

Posted by: That's what the cat said at February 25, 2026 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

92

Perfessor,

I wonder how my oldest son is 51, lol.

Time flies.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 07:53 PM (3ek7K)

93 I think the Dems won’t run a straight white male for president ever again
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Well, they might, but by accident. They're not biologists.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 25, 2026 07:53 PM (mNjzF)

94 Glad I finished my Jumbo Shrimp before reading the lies on here.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority. at February 25, 2026 07:54 PM (oftw2)

95 I think that Virginia play is why Spanberger has stalled out. The Left has seen that anything Cali adjacent is toast, so, Little Miss Spook has to chill. If she was a Hochul horror, Virginia would be toast by now.

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 07:55 PM (8jVAy)

96 Glad I finished my Jumbo Shrimp before reading the lies on here.
Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority. at February 25, 2026 07:54 PM

The Democrats are saying that President Trump's SOTU speech was full of lies, too.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

97 Glad I finished my Jumbo Shrimp before reading the lies on here.
Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority. at February 25, 2026 07:54 PM (oftw2)

The only Communist Stooge was Trumbo Shemp.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 07:56 PM (8zz6B)

98 So the idiots are bike riding through the veldt without firearms. At least the guy on camera didn't appear to have anything to ward off a hungry lion or hyenas.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 25, 2026 07:57 PM (ggkmJ)

99 Not to be confused with Fake Shemp.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 07:57 PM (nDXEV)

100 Giraffes have special valves in their neck blood vessels so they don't black out raising their head from 0-16 feet quickly.
Posted by: Backflow Prevention

I have trouble with a bit over 6'2".
Posted by: Eromero

🎵 Hello darkness, my old friend
It seems I've stood up too quickly once again 🎶

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 07:57 PM (LROu2)

101 >>>This cold has me flat on my back.

You did see that the cat was laying on its stomach, right?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 25, 2026 07:57 PM (syz1S)

102 Perfessor,

I wonder how my oldest son is 51, lol.

Time flies.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 07:53 PM (3ek7K)
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heh. That's my age as well! (until August)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:57 PM (ESVrU)

103 What is a man?
A man is what he says he is.
I am not a man.
I have transcended gender.
I am The Rainbow. The Rainbow Man!

Posted by: Gavin Newsome at February 25, 2026 07:58 PM (8jVAy)

104 Are we not men?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 07:58 PM (nDXEV)

105 So the idiots are bike riding through the veldt without firearms. At least the guy on camera didn't appear to have anything to ward off a hungry lion or hyenas.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 25, 2026 07:57 PM (ggkmJ)
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Maybe the giraffe was wondering, "How are these guys still alive?"

And decided to let them go to meet their fate.

Meanwhile a hungry lioness is lurking off screen in the bushes...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:59 PM (ESVrU)

106 Never back up. It encourages them.

Posted by: Accomac at February 25, 2026 07:59 PM (8jVAy)

107 So the idiots are bike riding through the veldt without firearms. At least the guy on camera didn't appear to have anything to ward off a hungry lion or hyenas.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 25, 2026 07:57 PM (ggkmJ)

They are not allowed weapons on a game preserve. They each carry pepper spray scented to smell like Texas Barbecue, and if threatened, they spray it on their fellow bikers, then pedal like mad.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 07:59 PM (8zz6B)

108 "Are we not men?"

Do we look like biologists?

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2026 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

109
LMAO AOP!

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:00 PM (3ek7K)

110 I think that Virginia play is why Spanberger has stalled out. The Left has seen that anything Cali adjacent is toast, so, Little Miss Spook has to chill. If she was a Hochul horror, Virginia would be toast by now.
Posted by: Accomack

The only reason Hochul allowed Mayor Jihadi to promise all the shit he did and not stop him? She needs him to fail so he doesn't come after her job.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 08:00 PM (LROu2)

111 Governor Newsome, are you a man?
I am not a geologist.

Posted by: Accomac at February 25, 2026 08:01 PM (8jVAy)

112 I know how my daughter got to be 57. The same way I got to be 77, that's how.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 08:01 PM (LHPAg)

113

With good reason the SOTU speech has dominated the news.

I can't find anything about the violence in Mexico. Does anyone have an update?

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:01 PM (3ek7K)

114 Dem candidates. I saw a clip of Mark Kelley, last night, while he was following their orders to keep sitting down. He had a tortured look on his face, as if he could see his last chance to be President being crushed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 25, 2026 08:02 PM (bhZyo)

115 It seems Hochul is suing Trump to get the tariff fees sent to Albany now that tariffs are illegal.

Posted by: Accomac at February 25, 2026 08:02 PM (8jVAy)

116 Gavin Newsom is the slickest liar the Dems have had since The Clenis himself, all the better to fool the LIV's, and he has the most big money donors in his pocket, which is extra important in the party of superdelegates.

I would not be surprised to see them run a straight white male. They'll have to give him the looniest DEI running mate imagineable though, of course. My money's on AOC.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 08:02 PM (gtcuf)

117 Twenty years old, this calico --! When she was born, Bush the Younger was president, 9/11 was only a few years back in the rear view mirror, and the Internet was still kind of fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2026 08:03 PM (wzUl9)

118 I have trouble with a bit over 6'2".
Posted by: Eromero

🎵 Hello darkness, my old friend
It seems I've stood up too quickly once again 🎶
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 07:57 PM (LROu2)

ah yes, orthostatic hypotension ... eet's no bueno.

Posted by: browndog seeing stars at February 25, 2026 08:03 PM (3sXRv)

119 Gavin Newsom definitely likes Huey Lewis and the News.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 08:04 PM (nDXEV)

120 Democrats: 10 dollar gas, 8% unemployment and runaway inflation is an economic miracle

Also Democrats: 2 dollar gas, jobs and low inflation is a recession

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 08:05 PM (j1LdG)

121 Dem candidates. I saw a clip of Mark Kelley, last night, while he was following their orders to keep sitting down. He had a tortured look on his face, as if he could see his last chance to be President being crushed.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

That was a master stroke last night.
Trump: Everyone stand up who thinks it's government's job to promote and protect American citizens.

No dem moves. THAT should be Republican's midterm election campaign slogan.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 08:05 PM (LROu2)

122 I can't find anything about the violence in Mexico. Does anyone have an update?

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:01 PM (3ek7K)

There are some reports of MX national guard engaging with cartels, and requests to "shelter in place" in that area
Pres Scheinbaum has made some comments on her talks with Trump. I think it is in a shake out phase before they really get to figuring out who each side is fighting.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 08:05 PM (rbvCR)

123 Cuando el destino nos alcance.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 08:08 PM (nDXEV)

124 Damn. Now I can’t find the article

Posted by: Accomac at February 25, 2026 08:08 PM (8jVAy)

125 Way past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)

126 The cat I had the longest, from age six weeks to his passing at sixteen and a half years, was Arizona the big red tabby longhair. Chekov D. Siberian came close at fourteen and a half.

I have no idea how old little Oreo was when she passed away in '08. I was told when I adopted her at a cat show in '02 that she was five, but at least one vet opined in the next two years that she have been as much as eight or ten. At the outside, then, she might have been fourteen or fifteen. Sixteen would have been pushing it, given her various health issues. But who knows.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2026 08:10 PM (wzUl9)

127 I'll spare you the gory pictures--Ace's description from earlier today should suffice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:10 PM (ESVrU)

Right on the old groanads, eh?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 25, 2026 08:10 PM (/HDaX)

128 Everyone around the planet has the idea only the US has tariffs

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 08:11 PM (Ia/+0)

129 Here we go:
https://tinyurl.com/2pjab5uj
NY Post today

Posted by: Accomac at February 25, 2026 08:11 PM (8jVAy)

130
Thank you Kindltot

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:12 PM (3ek7K)

131 Didn't see too many leg sweeps with the giraffe combatants. Or ground and pound. I'd bet they could stomp a mudhole in you if they wanted to.

I wonder if giraffe steaks taste like antelope. Probably very lean.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 08:13 PM (gVUi7)

132
Babylon Bee says this is a great time to buy tickets to Puerto Vallerto.

Nothing said about return tickets, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:14 PM (3ek7K)

133 79% of "refugees" in Sweden have vacationed in the country they're supposedly "refugees" from.

Checks out. I remember how during WWII all the Jews were taking vacations in Nazi Germany.

Oh, wait: I don't remember that. Because that didn't happen.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2026 08:15 PM (IG3/x)

134 Giraffes have to have trick to breathe through those long necks. I imagine that brontosauri had the same problem.
Posted by: toby928

Huge lung volume, to overcome the "snorkel problem," I guess.

If you try to use a snorkel whose volume is comparable to your lung volume, you're really just breathing the same air over and over, so it doesn't work. For very long, anyway.

.....

Related: What did the elephant say to the nudist?

"How do you breathe through that thing?"

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 08:15 PM (VHUov)

135 132
Babylon Bee says this is a great time to buy tickets to Puerto Vallerto.
Nothing said about return tickets, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:14 PM (3ek7K)

Set a course for adventure, your mind on a new romance.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 08:16 PM (nDXEV)

136 Did they find that monkey's mom yet?

Posted by: A monkey's uncle at February 25, 2026 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

137 There are toy poodles. Are there any toy giraffes?
Posted by: Kay-Bee at February 25, 2026

***
Actually, yes! I've seen one, a Steiff toy I think or something like it, in the window of a children's boutique in the big mall here.

Oh. You meant live ones. Uh, no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2026 08:19 PM (wzUl9)

138 2 My cat Allie is trying to sit on my lap, but she keeps stepping on a rather delicate part of my anatomy.

I'll spare you the gory pictures--Ace's description from earlier today should suffice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:10 PM (ESVrU)

Pussy sits on junk.
It's a story as old as humankind.

Posted by: HQ After Dark at February 25, 2026 08:21 PM (AS4GF)

139 I once spent the night in a hotel that featured a 7' tall giraffe puppet in the room. It was in France, Cluny to be exact.

Posted by: javems at February 25, 2026 08:25 PM (zFsEm)

140 Trump blindsided the Democrats with the Stand Up challenge.

Doesn't an Administration usually hand out copies of the SoTU speech beforehand? Like the one Pelosi tore up. I'll bet Trump left out the Stand Up part.

Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2026 08:25 PM (Q+gd/)

141 Jalisco: @dk1250 . 10h

Working as a team, citizens and the Mexican Army collaborate to remove charred remains from cars and trucks on the highway from Tuito to Puerto Vallarta. Work clears roads after blockades and fires in the coastal area of Jalisco
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Everything appears in the past tense. The cartels have suspended violence in the region.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 08:26 PM (j9zxt)

142 Giraffes have special valves in their neck blood vessels so they don't black out raising their head from 0-16 feet quickly.
Posted by: Backflow Prevention

Look at all the giraffe knowledge getting thrown around here!

.....

Compared to a human, how many more neck bones does a giraffe have?

.....

Posted by: none. none more neck bones. at February 25, 2026 08:28 PM (VHUov)

143 AI wolves!

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 08:28 PM (/M/4v)

144 Re:

Baby getting gently butted by the kid.

Dog chewing on cat like a toy.

Me: awwwwww.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 08:28 PM (zZu0s)

145 I once spent the night in a hotel that featured a 7' tall giraffe puppet in the room. It was in France, Cluny to be exact.
Posted by: javems at February 25, 2026 08:25 PM (zFsEm)

Kinky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 08:29 PM (zZu0s)

146 One giraffe could feed two whole villages, unless a lion or hyenas show up and steal your meat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 08:30 PM (gVUi7)

147 Great were the herds of giraffe before the white man came.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at February 25, 2026 08:32 PM (Q+gd/)

148 Chalking giraffes off the no show on the Cafe list
Sea stacks is still on it
Posted by: Skip

Dwarf hamsters and bushbabies get marked off with the "smol" links. Pretty sure we haven't had a bushbaby yet this year, not as sure about dwarf hammies.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 08:32 PM (VHUov)

149 https://youtu.be/jENapQxK6bc?
si=NLxG74mKYps1UB62

Its strange. I never watched Carson that much when he was on. Mammaw and Pappaw were big fans, but i don't think dad was. I could almost put these shows on a loop 24/7 going back to the 60s and be happy

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 08:32 PM (zZu0s)

150 Can't eat giraffe, just weird.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 08:32 PM (/M/4v)

151 Babylon Bee says this is a great time to buy tickets to Puerto Vallerto.
Nothing said about return tickets, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:14 PM (3ek7K)

There are vacation rental commercials already! The Brits are looking for any deal going.

https://tinyurl.com/3w9jxffh

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 08:33 PM (rbvCR)

152 93 I think the Dems won’t run a straight white male for president ever again
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Well, they might, but by accident. They're not biologists.
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Ah yes, the Mrs. Doubtfire gambit.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 08:34 PM (E4rtv)

153 If you can't figure out that vacationing, or buying property in a failed narco state, it is your problem.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 08:35 PM (/M/4v)

154 146 One giraffe could feed two whole villages, unless a lion or hyenas show up and steal your meat.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 08:30 PM (gVUi7)
Takes two villages to braise a giraffe.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 08:35 PM (LHPAg)

155 Its strange. I never watched Carson that much when he was on. Mammaw and Pappaw were big fans, but i don't think dad was. I could almost put these shows on a loop 24/7 going back to the 60s and be happy
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Try the various clips with Robin Williams on Carson. He was a singular talent. Some of the really old Dick Cavett interviews with people like Julie Andrews or David Niven are also great.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 08:35 PM (E4rtv)

156 Exspecially a state that abused its proximity to the US for decades.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 08:35 PM (/M/4v)

157 The French refer to wasting time as "combing the giraffe."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 08:36 PM (nDXEV)

158 140 Trump blindsided the Democrats with the Stand Up challenge.

Doesn't an Administration usually hand out copies of the SoTU speech beforehand? Like the one Pelosi tore up. I'll bet Trump left out the Stand Up part.
Posted by: davidt
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Next Dem impeachment will mention failure to complete the stage management directions in the SOTU. Course Mr. Rep. Green is busy trying to rent apes apparently from his sign but I am sure he will return to his quest soon enough.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)

159 Another girl we nicknamed "The Buffalo". Teens can be cruel.
Posted by: The Possum

Ah, 'The Whale' comes to mind. College guys are brutal too.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 08:37 PM (cYBz/)

160 ASS says what?

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 08:38 PM (E4rtv)

161 Its strange. I never watched Carson that much when he was on. Mammaw and Pappaw were big fans, but i don't think dad was. I could almost put these shows on a loop 24/7 going back to the 60s and be happy
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 08:32 PM (zZu0s)

Many have noted that NBC, which of course owns the rights, could Carson reruns on for its late night broadcasts and get far more viewers than with any of the crap they’re pumping out now.
And at zero cost.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 08:38 PM (k/Sbk)

162 Many have noted that NBC, which of course owns the rights, could Carson reruns on for its late night broadcasts and get far more viewers than with any of the crap they’re pumping out now.
And at zero cost.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 08:38 PM (k/Sbk)

I did not know that.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 08:39 PM (nDXEV)

163 The French refer to wasting time as "combing the giraffe."
Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 08:36 PM (nDXEV)

Is that like buffing the German Helmet?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at February 25, 2026 08:39 PM (0aYVJ)

164 I spent all day on campus for a change--normally I work from home now.

When I came home, I discovered my cats had been having all sorts of fun while I was out.

Lots of cat puke to clean up.

And Jasmine and Penny had stolen my office chair.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 08:39 PM (ESVrU)

165
Many years ago hubby and I took our teenage son to Puerto Vallerta.
We had such a great time.
The only thing scary was riding in the taxis. Those people can't drive.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:41 PM (3ek7K)

166 160 Another girl we nicknamed "The Buffalo". Teens can be cruel.
Posted by: The Possum

One thing I feel really bad about was one girl whose name was Ivana, but she had a bad accent and pronounced it Ih-wanna.
Of course we all called her Iguana.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 08:41 PM (k/Sbk)

167 Giraffe in hotel room Cluny, France

https://tinyurl.com/mr6uvph2

Posted by: javems at February 25, 2026 08:41 PM (zFsEm)

168 One of the free streaming services runs a Johnny Carson/Tonight Show channel 24/7.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 08:41 PM (6ydKt)

169 >>@AlphaNews
·
48m
>>WATCH: US Attorney Daniel Rosen says "the pace of prosecutions in fraud will increase at a considerable margin" in Minnesota.

>>"We have been reinforced in dramatic numbers by the Department of Justice ... fraud prosecutions you will see are going to be dramatically increasing in pace."

>>Rosen also says the number of assistant US attorneys in the office decreased by 17 in the months before he took over, and by 11 since he assumed office.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 08:41 PM (viF8m)

170 The only thing scary was riding in the taxis. Those people can't drive.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 08:41 PM (3ek7K)

When I was a kid we took a day-trip to Matamoros (Aunt and Uncle lived in Harlingen). First thing we saw after crossing the border was a taxi driver plow into a guy crossing the street. What I remember most was that the shopping areas smelled like meat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at February 25, 2026 08:44 PM (0aYVJ)

171 Mexico is pretty low on my list of exotic places to visit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at February 25, 2026 08:44 PM (0aYVJ)

172 In a press release Wednesday, the DOJ said 65-year-old Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. had been arrested in Jeffersonville, Ind., that day. The department said Brown, a former Air Force officer and pilot, had been charged “for providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots without authorization, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).”

“The United States Air Force trained Major Brown to be an elite fighter pilot and entrusted him with the defense of our Nation. He now stands charged with training Chinese military pilots,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said in the Wednesday DOJ release.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 08:48 PM (CNl8/)

173 “The United States Air Force trained Major Brown to be an elite fighter pilot and entrusted him with the defense of our Nation. He now stands charged with training Chinese military pilots,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said in the Wednesday DOJ release.
Posted by: Mark1971

I wonder how the good Major feels about helicopter rides?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 08:50 PM (cYBz/)

174 You don't see too many shaman and witch doctors jumping around in giraffe skins. Why is that. No magic? No intrigue?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 08:50 PM (gVUi7)

175 175 You don't see too many shaman and witch doctors jumping around in giraffe skins. Why is that. No magic? No intrigue?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 08:50 PM (gVUi7)
Takes three shamans to crew the giraffe.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 08:52 PM (LHPAg)

176 From the 'net:
A giraffes tongue can measure 20 inches in length
This allows it to wrap around branches and pull leaves from trees to eat. They are also purple in color, and they can use it to pick their noses!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 08:53 PM (XeU6L)

177 The FBI has arrested former U.S. Air Force pilot Maj. Gerald Brown for training the Chinese.

Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 08:54 PM (Wmg4n)

178 Schiffs are known to fight like that as well, but their huge bobbly head is known to get in the way and crack like an overripe melon

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 08:54 PM (PYyV9)

179 Never mind. Old news. lol.

Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 08:55 PM (Wmg4n)

180 177 From the 'net:
A giraffes tongue can measure 20 inches in length
This allows it to wrap around branches and pull leaves from trees to eat. They are also purple in color, and they can use it to pick their noses!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 08:53 PM (XeU6L)
I could hear Barry White in the background.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 08:55 PM (LHPAg)

181
One of the free streaming services runs a Johnny Carson/Tonight Show channel 24/7.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

https://t.ly/Sr3za

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 08:55 PM (Cqx++)

182 Carla Angola TV@carlaangola . 3h

Marco Rubio, Blunt!
Stop hearing the noise for a moment and let's focus on this.
Delcy and her cartel are NOT the legitimate authorities.
Venezuela will have legitimate authorities and will be able to be a reliable partner of the US and the Caribbean, after passing the stabilization stage, the reconstruction stage and then the transition stage.

Delcy Eloína has a peremptory role, in case we have any doubts.
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>no cross reference
https://tinyurl.com/ms4x3x4s

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 08:55 PM (j9zxt)

183 172 Mexico is pretty low on my list of exotic places to visit.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

What? You don't want to experience the Sam Peckinpah vacation package?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 25, 2026 08:56 PM (sAmhv)

184 The Trojan Horse had nothing on the Kenyan Giraffe in the war on Somalia.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 08:57 PM (gVUi7)

185 A giraffes tongue can measure 20 inches in length
This allows it to wrap around branches and pull leaves from trees to eat. They are also purple in color, and they can use it to pick their noses!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 08:53 PM

The Paolo is, how you say, impressed.

Posted by: Paolo at February 25, 2026 08:57 PM (0sNs1)

186 I already have plenty of experience with Mexico here in the US, I don't need to pay extra to go and experience it there.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 08:58 PM (/M/4v)

187 Our local zoo has giraffes, and has a viewing station at their head level. Sometimes they let the kids by hunks of leaf lettuce for a dollar and feed it to the giraffes - those tongues are amazing! Not just the color, but the way they can wrap them around whatever they want and pull it out of your hand.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 09:00 PM (k/Sbk)

188 “The United States Air Force trained Major Brown to be an elite fighter pilot and entrusted him with the defense of our Nation. He now stands charged with training Chinese military pilots,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said in the Wednesday DOJ release.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 08:48 PM (CNl8/)

I start with the assumption everything the FBI says is a lie.

It's possible the Major has committed a crime, related to his military service. But I'm gonna need something more than just the Feebers saying he did.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:01 PM (cMwHA)

189 Major Brown should be shot. After a tribunal of course.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 09:02 PM (/M/4v)

190 selling out to the Chicoms is worse than selling out to the Russians, Chicoms is the real and credible threat.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 09:04 PM (/M/4v)

191 This is Ground Control to Major Brown
You’ve really made the grade

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 09:04 PM (nDXEV)

192 I start with the assumption everything the FBI says is a lie.

Yeah I don't think we can trust them in general, but sometimes they have truth in their reports

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 09:05 PM (PYyV9)

193 Chicoms probably pay better than the Russians. Maybe it was the hookers.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 09:07 PM (/M/4v)

194 I start with the assumption everything the FBI says is a lie.
---------
Yeah I don't think we can trust them in general, but sometimes they have truth in their reports
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 09:05 PM (PYyV9)

I really have no idea what the law is, regarding former military personnel, and foreign governments. The guy retired in 1996 though. If he broke a law, how much damage can he have done though, training Chinese pilots?

If he's giving them training on 1996 planes, maybe it's a good thing he was teaching the Chinamen on old skill sets and tactics.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:08 PM (gczS8)

195 I’ve been to Mexico before the cartels took over everything and it was a pretty amazing place, some things there I liked better than here. We think of Mexico as leaning socialist because the government always sucks; but in many ways that was the most free market / libertarian society I’ve ever been in.

I’d say that the marvel of Mexico, and also the curse of Mexico, is that they have a lot of rules - but nobody in that society, from top to bottom, gives a shit about following any rules.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 09:11 PM (k/Sbk)

196 “The United States Air Force trained Major Brown to be an elite fighter pilot and entrusted him with the defense of our Nation. He now stands charged with training Chinese military pilots,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said in the Wednesday DOJ release.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 08:48 PM (CNl8/)

I start with the assumption everything the FBI says is a lie.

It's possible the Major has committed a crime, related to his military service. But I'm gonna need something more than just the Feebers saying he did.
Posted by: BurtTC
===

Congress has not declared war against Chyna so there can be no crime.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 09:11 PM (/lPRQ)

197 >>Yeah I don't think we can trust them in general, but sometimes they have truth in their reports

The FBI also announced today that they fired 10 agents for spying on Kash Patel and Susie Wiles including while Wiles was Trump's campaign manager. That should be pretty easy to verify.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 09:11 PM (viF8m)

198 I don't know the laws but I would not be surprised if there were some kind of nondisclosure type rule when you retire from at least some jobs in the military and you cannot go train a hostile nation in your specialty.

I know for certain intel stuff is blacked out, my friend worked in Air Force intel still can't talk about a lot of what he did.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 09:12 PM (PYyV9)

199 Mexico is pretty low on my list of exotic places to visit.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

What? You don't want to experience the Sam Peckinpah vacation package?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 25, 2026 08:56 PM (sAmhv)

Nonsense. Everyone should beheading down to Mexico.

Posted by: Gamers at February 25, 2026 09:12 PM (sn5xH)

200 I really have no idea what the law is, regarding former military personnel, and foreign governments. The guy retired in 1996 though. If he broke a law, how much damage can he have done though, training Chinese pilots?

If he's giving them training on 1996 planes, maybe it's a good thing he was teaching the Chinamen on old skill sets and tactics.
Posted by: BurtTC

Maybe acting as a Flight Instructor without a proper license?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 09:13 PM (/lPRQ)

201 Major Brown should be shot. After a tribunal of course.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 09:02 PM (/M/4v)

Strapped to a drone and blasted by an A-10.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 09:13 PM (snZF9)

202 The FBI also announced today that they fired 10 agents for spying on Kash Patel and Susie Wiles including while Wiles was Trump's campaign manager. That should be pretty easy to verify.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 09:11 PM (viF8m)

It took them a year to get around to doing that?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 09:13 PM (k/Sbk)

203 Doesn't the USAF have its own intel?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 09:13 PM (j9zxt)

204 Sparring by male giraffes has been commonly reported since its first description in 1958...

I keep puzzling over that oddly written sentence. Giraffes have been around for 8 million years and nobody ever described this behavior until 1958? Did they not start this behavior until the 1950s? Is rock-n-roll to blame? I have so many questions.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:19 PM (gtcuf)

Modern scientists think everything is in some journal. Male mammals establishing a pecking order is universal.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 09:13 PM (8avO+)

205 I’m glad I went to Mexico before the cartels went crazy . They used to be low profile so not to get heat.

Cabo and Cancun were both a great vacation.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:14 PM (4hjRS)

206 People are stupid going to Mexico.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 09:14 PM (/M/4v)

207 >>It took them a year to get around to doing that?

Well it might have taken a little time to find out. I doubt the agents who did the spying rushed to tell Kash that had been spying on him. Illegally.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 09:15 PM (viF8m)

208 >>>I start with the assumption everything the FBI says is a lie.
---------
Yeah I don't think we can trust them in general, but sometimes they have truth in their reports

>Best encounter I ever had with the FBI is when an agent thought he could trespass on our property to get around to the back door of our neighbor. The resident heeler put a canine stamp on his calf and the dude cried like a little bitch. He threatened to shoot my dog.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 09:15 PM (gVUi7)

209 Congress has not declared war against Chyna so there can be no crime.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 09:11 PM (/lPRQ)

I'm wondering if a guy who retired in 1996, could possibly cause more damage than all the scientists and military personnel who were sharing germ warfare research and tech with Chi Nah, only to have all that stuff leak (Oops!) out of a Chi Nah lab, causing a worldwide pandemic.

The latter seems a lot worse.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:16 PM (gczS8)

210 75
'I have a couple of 17-18 year old cats.'

I have a 19 year old cat and she only shows her age a little. I'm partial to her because I'm her favorite of our family.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 09:16 PM (fd80v)

211 The only way I would go to mexico is in a Deathstar. Fuck that place.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 09:16 PM (snZF9)

212 Muhammad liked cats and hated dogs. Just saying.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 09:17 PM (/M/4v)

213 The FBI also announced today that they fired 10 agents for spying on Kash Patel and Susie Wiles including while Wiles was Trump's campaign manager. That should be pretty easy to verify.
Posted by: JackStraw

I think the 'case' they were investigating was Trump stealing 'secret mumble mumble stuff' stuff when he was President but was not cleared to look at....
Whatever, FBI was spying on a bunch of people that were not affiliated with Trump then but just happened to be working with him afterwards on the campaign.
Yet again, Watergate on steroids.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 09:17 PM (/lPRQ)

214 I keep puzzling over that oddly written sentence. Giraffes have been around for 8 million years and nobody ever described this behavior until 1958? Did they not start this behavior until the 1950s? Is rock-n-roll to blame? I have so many questions.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:19 PM (gtcuf)

It had been described, but nobody here knew how to translate “Ooga! Oogo Mbongo buka buka!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 09:17 PM (k/Sbk)

215 The only way I would go to mexico is in a Deathstar. Fuck that place.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 09:16 PM (snZF9)

I hear you.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 09:18 PM (/M/4v)

216 81
'Who doesn't like old cigarette tobacco mixed with ammonia? Do your farts smell like Roses? Violets?'

My farts don't. But I feel a certain grim pride when they smell particularly bad.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 09:18 PM (fd80v)

217 Maybe acting as a Flight Instructor without a proper license?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 09:13 PM (/lPRQ)

I got a speeding ticket the other day.

I can pay the fine or do defensive driving school.

Maybe they can send him to "Don't Train Chi Nah Pilots" School.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:18 PM (gczS8)

218 New York Post@nypost . 40m

FIFA president fully confident Mexico will still be World Cup host dismiss cartel chaos

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 09:18 PM (j9zxt)

219 The FBI also announced today that they fired 10 agents for spying on Kash Patel and Susie Wiles including while Wiles was Trump's campaign manager. That should be pretty easy to verify.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 09:11 PM (viF8m)

It took them a year to get around to doing that?
Posted by: Tom Servo

File was left on Blondie's desk.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 09:18 PM (/lPRQ)

220 Fucking Mexico.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at February 25, 2026 09:19 PM (Q+gd/)

221 What gives me some sympathy for that pilot is that every Arab Air Force in the Middle East has been trained by US pilots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 09:20 PM (k/Sbk)

222 >>I think the 'case' they were investigating was Trump stealing 'secret mumble mumble stuff' stuff when he was President but was not cleared to look at....

The claim is the FBI was investigating as part of Jack Smith's corrupt investigation. Lot of new about Jack Smith lately.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 09:21 PM (viF8m)

223 FIFA president fully confident Mexico will still be World Cup host dismiss cartel chaos

FIFA will do whatever they get paid to. its not about the game, its not about the players, its about the Euros.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 09:21 PM (PYyV9)

224 Doesn't the USAF have its own intel?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 09:13 PM (j9zxt)

Everybody has their own intel service.

I'm sure the National Forest Service has spies. In case someone tries to steal a tree.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:21 PM (gczS8)

225 FIFA president fully confident Mexico will still be World Cup host dismiss cartel chaos
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 09:18 PM (j9zxt)

But a professional German soccer team cancelled exhibition matches in Minneapolis because of the ICE protests.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:21 PM (4hjRS)

226 What gives me some sympathy for that pilot is that every Arab Air Force in the Middle East has been trained by US pilots.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 09:20 PM (k/Sbk)

arabs suck at everything, including piloting; getting "trained" in the US is a badge of some sort, like getting the most expensive falcon or a horse. but they can't really fly.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 09:22 PM (/M/4v)

227 So the giraffes are now out of control as well as the bears. Great. We might not live through this.

Posted by: Extermination delivered in longnecks at February 25, 2026 09:22 PM (TbWk/)

228 What gives me some sympathy for that pilot is that every Arab Air Force in the Middle East has been trained by US pilots.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 09:20 PM (k/Sbk

When you sell them the airplanes it’s kind of necessary.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:23 PM (4hjRS)

229 What gives me some sympathy for that pilot is that every Arab Air Force in the Middle East has been trained by US pilots.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 09:20 PM (k/Sbk)

We trained Al Qaeda on damn near every terrorist tactic they know.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:23 PM (gczS8)

230 When you sell them the airplanes it’s kind of necessary.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:23 PM (4hjRS)

We also tend to give them 1996 era tech.

None of the good stuff.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:24 PM (gczS8)

231 We trained Al Qaeda on damn near every terrorist tactic they know.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:23 PM (gczS

What the hell are you talking about?

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:24 PM (4hjRS)

232 We also tend to give them 1996 era tech.

Yeah but then that means that our guys have to shoot down F-15s

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 09:28 PM (PYyV9)

233 Cat is almost 14yo. Still rough n tough but stays indoors more often when it's really cold out. The big lump...

Posted by: JQ at February 25, 2026 09:28 PM (rdVOm)

234 FBI Raids Home of Alberto Carvalho

Unlike other FBI actions, this one is solid.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 09:29 PM (/lPRQ)

235 232
'We trained Al Qaeda on damn near every terrorist tactic they know.'

'What the hell are you talking about?'

Sometimes he just blurts out whatever sounds good in his head.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 09:31 PM (fd80v)

236 My farts don't. But I feel a certain grim pride when they smell particularly bad.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 09:18 PM

Who among us doesn't?

Posted by: Eric Swalwell, the next Governor of California at February 25, 2026 09:31 PM (0sNs1)

237

Oldest son runs the US Forest Service office here.

Stealing a tree, lol, would be the least thing they are concerned about.

I'm sure lots of ya'll have seen stuff people do in our forest.

He has horror stories. The worst thing is people starting fires when it is dry.

Last year they had to close down a favorite lake for visitors because people were shitting in it and it reached hazardous health limits.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:31 PM (3ek7K)

238 We trained Al Qaeda on damn near every terrorist tactic they know.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:23 PM (gczS

What the hell are you talking about?
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:24 PM (4hjRS)

There's this really good documentary.

Called Rambo 3. You should watch it.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:32 PM (nha4a)

239 Yeah but then that means that our guys have to shoot down F-15s
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 09:28 PM (PYyV9)

I'm sure we know how.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:33 PM (nha4a)

240 Extermination delivered in longnecks
****

Budweiser's new motto.

Posted by: clarence at February 25, 2026 09:34 PM (iIAkP)

241 Oldest son runs the US Forest Service office here.

Stealing a tree, lol, would be the least thing they are concerned about.

I'm sure lots of ya'll have seen stuff people do in our forest.

He has horror stories. The worst thing is people starting fires when it is dry.

Last year they had to close down a favorite lake for visitors because people were shitting in it and it reached hazardous health limits.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:31 PM (3ek7K)

I know folks who own rural property in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri.

Met labs are... a problem.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:35 PM (nha4a)

242 I know folks who own rural property in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri.

Met labs are... a problem.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:35 PM (nha4a)

Heh, not Met labs. The Mets could probably benefit from more meth.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:35 PM (nha4a)

243 'What the hell are you talking about?'

Sometimes he just blurts out whatever sounds good in his head.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 09:31 PM (fd80v)

Al Queda ran the poppy fields in Afghanistan. The US Institute of Peace decided it would be to destabilizing to destroy the crops in the fields.
They were using the income from the opium to buy weapons.
How do you think they got the opium out of country to market, and do you ever wonder who paid them?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 09:37 PM (rbvCR)

244
BurtTC,

Yessir, those and people growing pot.

It's not an easy job for Forest Service employees. They don't walk around with Smokey the Bear hats, lol.

I never knew how much was involved with trying to keep our forests safe until son started working for the Forest Service.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:37 PM (3ek7K)

245 >>He has horror stories. The worst thing is people starting fires when it is dry.

Last year they had to close down a favorite lake for visitors because people were shitting in it and it reached hazardous health limits.

Ugh, awful!
In Denver we had a DA (through last year) whose husband is a known firebug. Alleged to have started many fires, but he's always manages to escape any serious punishment.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:38 PM (tj6OY)

246 233 We also tend to give them 1996 era tech.

Yeah but then that means that our guys have to shoot down F-15s
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

In a lot of Middle East countries, US techs service the planes and maintain stores for them as well. Middle Eastern countries, aside from Israel, usually have a problem with NCOs and enlisted being treated like crap, even the technical jobs, and officers mainly viewing their roles as political and social leaders far above their enlisted. They lack force cohesion as a result.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 09:38 PM (E4rtv)

247
Lizzy,

yep, it is difficult so catch the firebugs. They start the fires and escape before the fire is obvious.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:40 PM (3ek7K)

248 >>Yessir, those and people growing pot.

Saw a Game Warden, Tony Latham, interviewed by Joe Rogan years ago - a lot of stories!! He wrote a book: Behind the Thin Green Line.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:41 PM (tj6OY)

249 It's not an easy job for Forest Service employees. They don't walk around with Smokey the Bear hats, lol.

I never knew how much was involved with trying to keep our forests safe until son started working for the Forest Service.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:37 PM (3ek7K)

Yeah, you are right. I just said Forest Service because I thought it sounded funny to say they have their own intel unit.

They should! There are other departments in the gov though, that probably have no damn good reason, and still do.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:41 PM (nha4a)

250

So, when you see something going on in a forest you are visiting don't hesitate to report it to the employees.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:42 PM (3ek7K)

251 235 FBI Raids Home of Alberto Carvalho

Unlike other FBI actions, this one is solid.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Guy was previously over Miami Dade and his initiative was to stop the 'school to prison' pipeline and restorative justice crap. Young Trayvon went through that program and the Stoneman school shootup occurred under his watch as well involved in the same damn program.

Thorough piece of crap 'educator' and typical of how these pieces of shit float from one disaster at a major school system to another with no consequences but increased salaries.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 09:42 PM (E4rtv)

252 yep, it is difficult so catch the firebugs. They start the fires and escape before the fire is obvious.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:40 PM (3ek7K)

then you got the assholes who toss cigarette butts out the window when driving. I see a lot of small brush fires where you can spot the point of ignition, right on the side of the road. idiots.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at February 25, 2026 09:43 PM (0aYVJ)

253 Al Queda ran the poppy fields in Afghanistan. The US Institute of Peace decided it would be to destabilizing to destroy the crops in the fields.
They were using the income from the opium to buy weapons.
How do you think they got the opium out of country to market, and do you ever wonder who paid them?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 09:37 PM (rbvCR)

Even when the American government has the best of intentions, their efforts have a tendency to backfire.

One of the more common occurrences is training "insurgents" in lands where we think they'll be good at picking off our enemies at the time.

Eventually they turn their tactics on us. Al Qaeda is just one of our more embarrassing examples.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:43 PM (nha4a)

254
BurtTC,

My comment wasn't a slam against you for bringing that up. I'm glad you did because people need reminding of the dangers out there, not just wildlife but crazy mfers.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:44 PM (3ek7K)

255 So, when you see something going on in a forest you are visiting don't hesitate to report it to the employees.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:42 PM (3ek7K)

Indeed. And probably best not to get too close, investigating it yourself.

People can and do disappear that way.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:45 PM (nha4a)

256 If I were the King of the forest, there wouldn't be no meth labs or fire bugs. No way, no how. No fucking giraffes either.

Posted by: The Cowardly Lion at February 25, 2026 09:46 PM (Q+gd/)

257 BurtTC,

My comment wasn't a slam against you for bringing that up. I'm glad you did because people need reminding of the dangers out there, not just wildlife but crazy mfers.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:44 PM (3ek7K)

Of course! I understand completely. I was just being silly about the whole "intel" service for fed agencies, and couldn't think of anyone else.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:46 PM (nha4a)

258 No fucking giraffes either.
Posted by: The Cowardly Lion at February 25, 2026 09:46 PM (Q+gd/)

How are we supposed to get new giraffes then?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:47 PM (nha4a)

259 I know folks who own rural property in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri.

Met labs are... a problem.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:35 PM (nha4a)

I know, right??

Posted by: Nerdeen Kiswani, Islam >>> NYC dogs at February 25, 2026 09:49 PM (Sy6m/)

260 >>If I were the King of the forest, there wouldn't be no meth labs or fire bugs. No way, no how. No fucking giraffes either.

Arson is one of those things that should have the harshest punishment available. The destruction can be unbelievable (as we've seen throughout the West), and it has been a known form of terrorism in the ME.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:50 PM (tj6OY)

261
One of the coolest jobs one of my son's employees have is going up into the hills to feed the horses.

Last summer some family opened a gate to enter where the horses were and failed to close the gate when they left.

One of the horses exited the gate and hot a hoof caught in the animal grid. Son was heartbroken because he had to go up there and shot the horse. There was no way to save the horse.

Posted by: four seasons at February 25, 2026 09:50 PM (3ek7K)

262 How are we supposed to get new giraffes then?
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 09:47 PM (nha4a)

The usual way is mitosis. It is messy, but it far more successful than budding.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 09:51 PM (rbvCR)

263 How are we supposed to get new giraffes then?
Posted by: BurtTC

The usual way is mitosis. It is messy, but it far more successful than budding.
Posted by: Kindltot

I thought those were really small horns. They're actually giraffe buds?

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 09:54 PM (VHUov)

264 It's about that time again. Pay your cafe tab and be ready to move on.

Posted by: mindful webworker - moovin on at February 25, 2026 09:59 PM (rlEvI)

265 Really tall turkey basters.

Posted by: Just the punchline at February 25, 2026 10:00 PM (2Ez/1)

266 The usual way is mitosis. It is messy, but it far more successful than budding.
Posted by: Kindltot

I thought those were really small horns. They're actually giraffe buds?
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 09:54 PM (VHUov)

That probably works better than the usual way.

Baby giraffes have to fall about 8' at birth. I'm sure the casualty rate is very high. Even if there weren't lions and hyaenas everywhere waiting for them to bloom.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2026 10:00 PM (WjwD7)

267 then you got the assholes who toss cigarette butts out the window when driving. I see a lot of small brush fires where you can spot the point of ignition, right on the side of the road. idiots.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at February 25, 2026 09:43 PM (0aYVJ)

----------

We frequently find cigarette butts on our property off a relatively busy neighborhood thoroughfare -- which is really annoying as we live in an area susceptible to wildfires.

The most frequent cause of wildfires in Northern AZ are idiots pulling trailers and dragging their chains. They will start a chain of several wildfires along the major roads up here ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 10:01 PM (wGSOc)

268 Emerald Robinson @Emerald Robinson .6h

First, Trump took down Maduro in Venezuela.
Then he ordered a blockade on Cuba.
Then he canceled China's control of Panama Canal.
Then he hit the biggest drug poster in Mexico.
Trump's rolling up the entire network in our hemisphere.

Donroe
---

Read that the Panamanian govt voted out the sale control of the canal to Blackrock and Maersk will take the agreement,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:01 PM (j9zxt)

269 Mood - the stars at night, are big and bright…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 10:05 PM (ZVgZ4)

270 TRex ONT up!

Posted by: SciVo at February 25, 2026 10:06 PM (Sy6m/)

271 Mood?! NOOD!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 10:06 PM (ZVgZ4)

272 But I feel a certain grim pride when they smell particularly bad.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

A healthy dose of Tabasco Scorpion sauce, shall we say, yields a bouquet more underworldly than floral.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 25, 2026 10:06 PM (A3+q6)

Quick Hits

Outstanding: One of the women who was terrorized, along with her children, by Don Lemon and his femcel/incel antifa pals is suing him for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

And unlike the last time he committed Gay Crotch Battery on an innocent victim, he doesn't have CNN's malpractice insurance backing him up and paying the victim off.

[TMZ:] A woman who claims to have been attending service during the Minnesota church protest covered by Don Lemon last month is now suing Lemon and other protesters, saying she suffered severe emotional distress as a result of the incident.
In court documents, obtained by TMZ, Ann Doucette claims she was attending a worship service at The Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18 ... when she alleges Don and others "unlawfully interfered" with her ability to "freely exercise her religion in a private place of worship." ...
Doucette is suing for an unspecified amount, claiming she suffered "severe emotional distress, fear, anxiety, and trauma" as a result of the protesters' conduct.
Doucette claims Don acted with the group of protesters, and that one protester admitted on social media to assisting Don with "logistics and local contacts in support of the operation."

Gay communist Jihadi Theater Kid Zohran Mamdani's "low-cost state-run grocery stores" got a try-out as a private communist party gave the concept a test-run by opening a "free grocery store" pop-up.

The "free grocery store" was exactly as you'd expect it to be.

It wasn't a Mamdani Mart, but it was a good indication of what the socialist grocery stores that Comrade Mayor promised to bestow upon New York City will be like. Last week, the cryptocurrency outfit Polymarket opened, for five days only, what it billed as "New York's First Free Grocery Store." And so the triumph of socialism was on full display in the Big Apple, right? Well, socialism certainly was, but "triumph" wasn't exactly the word.
Fox News reported Thursday that "in a busy stretch of restaurants and boutiques in the West Village, hundreds of New Yorkers queued up outside a pop-up shop offering free groceries."
That's right: the first glory of socialism that New York's First Free Grocery Store brought to Gotham was long lines. As one of the last sclerotic rulers of the declining Soviet Union, Konstantin U. Chernenko told the Politburo in 1985: "Comrades, it is not unusual for one type of merchandise or another to disappear from shop counters, goods that are often the easiest to make and the most needed on a daily basis."
...
And so in New York's First Free Grocery Store, the demand far outstripped the supply, and the lines were Soviet-length....
New York's First Free Grocery Store hit the wall of reality quite early in the day. One woman recounted: "I literally got here at 9:00 ... and basically what they said is that they ran out of tickets." A man said: "They told me that they ran out of tickets. I couldn't get no more food.... I couldn't get access to the store." A beleaguered security guard shouted just after 9 a.m.: "Let's go people, let's go. Go home. Do not linger, do not look, do not watch. Please go home." But ultimately, they will not. Aside from the gulags, the line is the most distinguishing feature of socialist life.
If Mamdani holds true to his promise and opens his low-cost grocery stores, we will see all this again, and likely with greater intensity and hotter tempers. Socialism is beautiful, comrade!

Democrats literally want no illegal aliens deported, ever.

"A Tough Immigration Case," Byron York (a good reporter) writes.

But is it? Democrats think so. York points out they're leaving out most of the story.

A TOUGH IMMIGRATION CASE. Two U.S. senators and two members of the House from Arizona are pressing the Trump administration to intervene in the deportation case of a restaurant owner in the Phoenix area. As sometimes happens in these stories, there has been a lot of heart-tugging rhetoric. But sometimes a heart-tugging story is not exactly what it seems.
...
Now she is fighting deportation. She has on her side Sens. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Reps. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ). Last September, when she was in detention, the lawmakers wrote to President Donald Trump asking that he release her.
...
So why was Yu held? She was held because there is more to her story than the Democratic lawmakers said. The following is from a number of news reports on Yu's case.
After entering illegally with the aid of a human smuggler in 2004, Yu applied for asylum in the U.S. on the basis of her desire to escape China's one-child policy. In 2005, she was denied asylum and given a final order of removal by an immigration judge. That indicates that Yu was given full due process and should have left the country voluntarily or been deported at that time.
But Yu did not leave, and she was not deported. The news reports say that Yu appealed her order of removal several years later, in 2013, and lost. She appealed the order again in 2016 and lost again. Still, more legal process did not change her status.
In October 2024, when Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, was president, ICE arrested Yu and sent her to a detention center in Prairieland, Texas. In January 2025, Yu, still in detention, married U.S. citizen Aldo Urquiza, with whom she worked at her restaurant...
So what to make of all this? First of all, U.S. authorities should have deported Yu two decades ago, when her asylum claim was denied and she received a final order of removal. Failing that, they should have deported her 10 years ago, when she lost two appeals of that order of removal. But the authorities did not act on either occasion.
...
On the other hand, can anyone deny that Yu has treated U.S. immigration law with contempt for more than twenty years? First, she crossed illegally into the U.S. Then, having been denied asylum, she defied a final order of removal. Then, in 2013, she defied the loss of her appeal of that removal order. Then, in 2016, she defied another loss in another appeal of that removal order. Finally, in custody and with removal looming, she married a U.S. citizen, who immediately began petitioning authorities that his immigrant wife should not be deported.
...

So Yu has options. They are not the options she wants right now, but if nothing else, her case proves there can be a price for defying American law for more than two decades.

Illegally crossed southern border into US in 2004 at age 18. Applied for asylum. Denied. Issued final order of removal in 2005. Lost appeals in 2013 and 2016. First detained by ICE in 2024. https://t.co/18IG6Pe70H https://t.co/aoPi3P21ev
— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 23, 2026

Watch Ilhan Omar get caught LYING, claiming that she never said "Our country should be more fearful of White men."

Omar: "I've never said that."

Reporter: "You're on video saying it."

-Plays video

Omar: (laughs) "I did not."pic.twitter.com/RB7a0pxhI1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 24, 2026

Hey @IlhanMN, this you?? https://t.co/a31rgxTQhc pic.twitter.com/oN3NThkk5W
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 25, 2026

Notice how both the Washington Post and New York Times use the same stupid Democrat talking point to downplay crimes committed by illegal aliens: pic.twitter.com/MiY2lalPQY
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 24, 2026

Stephen Miller
@StephenM

The most debunked Dem lie. According to the WaP/NYT, Martha's Vineyard would be more idyllic if they mass absorbed illegals from failed, violent nations. Third world migration bring third world crime & third world conditions. There's a reason no reporters live in migrant housing.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 Hiyo

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 06:02 PM (T8bqm)

2 I never said that is a lib's favorite lie.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 06:03 PM (E0p3T)

3

oyih

Posted by: fourseasons at February 25, 2026 06:03 PM (3ek7K)

4 But Yu did not leave, and she was not deported
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Yu go now!

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 06:04 PM (E0p3T)

5 You cross the border without authorization, you commit a crime. Done.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 06:06 PM (hJH5n)

6 I never said that is a lib's favorite lie.
Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 06:03 PM (E0p3T)
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Too bad for them we live in a panopticon where there every utterance is captured for posterity.

Now with AI, deep fakes can show them saying anything.

Who are we to believe? Them or lying AI?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (ESVrU)

7 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (SRRAx)

8
Where did she get the money to open restaurants?

Our tax money?

Show up and demand free meals since I'm sure you paid for them.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (3ek7K)

9 Democrats literally want no illegal aliens deported, ever.
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Unless they vote Republican.

Republicans they either want deported, in prison, or dead. Preferably all three.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (E0p3T)

10 Another favorite Dem lie is 'due diligence' for these illegals. If they have an order to deport, they already received their due diligence. Leave already, and don't come back.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 06:08 PM (Dv3i1)

11 Ironic that a ‘free’ grocery store was sponsored by a company in a predatory gambling industry that hurts the poor far more than the rich. ‘Here’s your free bag of cheap groceries. Now place your $500 loser bets now!’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 25, 2026 06:08 PM (s32T4)

12 It's telling that the Rep and Sen from AZ will not lift a finger for US citizens, but they will FIGHT and they will DIE for literally any other nation's citizens when they come here in violation of our laws.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 06:08 PM (hJH5n)

13 Deport her. We have enough chinese chefs turning out general tso chicken.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 06:08 PM (LHPAg)

14 Shaka, when the walls fell.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (nDXEV)

15 From the Fox News article:
Another local, Michael, told Fox News Digital: "I've seen a mix of things, like security needs to work on their presentation, dealing with the customers who are of florid backgrounds… because they don't have the customer service expertise."

Michael set up a chair outside the grocery store, and watched shoppers file in and out of the shop all morning, but was not positioned in line. He told Fox News Digital that he only had three cups of soup left in his cupboard but was doubtful there would be enough groceries left at The Polymarket at the end of the day for him to stock up his pantry.

They deserve the socialism they wanted good and hard.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (6ydKt)

16 Not a defense of Mamdani but I don't think he proposed opening " free" grocery stores. Just city run shit holes staffed by Somolies, bleeding graft money from the tax payer wallets.

Posted by: Max Power at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (Hucnr)

17
Full name:

Yu No Go

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (E0p3T)

18 New York's First Free Grocery Store hit the wall of reality quite early in the day. One woman recounted: "I literally got here at 9:00 ... and basically what they said is that they ran out of tickets." A man said: "They told me that they ran out of tickets. I couldn't get no more food.... I couldn't get access to the store." A beleaguered security guard shouted just after 9 a.m.: "Let's go people, let's go. Go home. Do not linger, do not look, do not watch. Please go home." But ultimately, they will not. Aside from the gulags, the line is the most distinguishing feature of socialist life.

LOL. LMAO, even.

Gosh, if only schools taught history, they would have know that this is way it would be.

Posted by: Idaho at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (a+4eV)

19 10 Another favorite Dem lie is 'due diligence' for these illegals. If they have an order to deport, they already received their due diligence. Leave already, and don't come back.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 06:08 PM (Dv3i1)

Well, due process anyway. If you cross the border illegally you don't care about due process, which you get at the PoE.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 06:10 PM (hJH5n)

20 What has Dollar Tree Lex Luthor (D-AZ) and his ilk done to warrant any goodwill from Trump over this asylum case? Uh, nothing.

Eff off, chromedome!

And my suggestion to Yu: you should have opened your restaurant in California, where you would probably still be living the good, illegal life.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 25, 2026 06:11 PM (5yDGQ)

21 Yu's off first.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 06:13 PM (Cqx++)

22 I’ll bet there’s even more to Yu’s case. There always is.

Note she claimed asylum on the basis of China’s one-child policy. A basis that would apply to almost anyone in China. Well over a billion people.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 25, 2026 06:14 PM (s32T4)

23 We have lots of church run food banks. The lines are long. Tickets are common. I have my doubts about the churches buying the food from tithes.

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 06:14 PM (T8bqm)

24 I'm so tired of this stupid game. The only reason Democrats care about illegals is for census and voting reasons. That's it, that's the entire issue and we all know it.

I have no sympathy for any of them. If you came here illegally get the fuck out. You are not welcome here and I don't give a damn about your sob story nor do I care about mentally ill leftists protesting against ICE.

So many of our problems could be solved or greatly reduced if we weren't overrun with illegals including much fewer Democrat politicians in places of power.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 06:15 PM (viF8m)

25 I hope thecwoman wins but it will go through a Marxist Judge

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)

26 Oh, so cute! Always nice smiling pics of illegals hugging their fake spouses. That Irish lout did the same thing.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 25, 2026 06:16 PM (s32T4)

27 Send Kelly Yu to Detroit!

Posted by: Dr. Klahn at February 25, 2026 06:16 PM (Ksqrb)

28
Well Bondie didn't bust her, we'll see if Vance does.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 06:16 PM (j9zxt)

29 A Boy Scout troop converted one of those free newspaper stands - the kind you can open to get a free local paper back when print ads where a thing - into a mini free pantry.
People put food in, others take food.
No lines
Doesn't run out

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 25, 2026 06:17 PM (vfth7)

30 What I want to know is, Who is the redhead reporter in the red dress?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2026 06:17 PM (wzUl9)

31 @23 re: church food banks-- the episcopal church I left was involved in the episcopal migrant ministry thing, with 95% of it being federal funds, and giving out massive amounts of food delivered in large trucks. "Partnering with the government," the priest proudly called it. I strongly suspect the church was also paying its bills with some of that federal money, since the congregation had dwindled so badly.

Posted by: skywch at February 25, 2026 06:19 PM (uqhmb)

32 "Comrades, it is not unusual for one type of merchandise or another to disappear from shop counters, goods that are often the easiest to make and the most needed on a daily basis."

Yeah, that's why they call them bread lines.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 06:19 PM (j9zxt)

33 OK, so she fled China over their one child policy...

Which was rescinded 11 years ago. How many Kids does she have?

I bet the answer is... none...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2026 06:20 PM (mP0Kj)

34
Why is the Yu woman back home, instead of deported?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 06:21 PM (VWtfl)

35 Gosh, if only schools taught history, they would have know that this is way it would be.
Posted by: Idaho
>>>

Big Three News burned all their 1958 Soviet footage of the empty shelves and bread lines.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 06:22 PM (j9zxt)

36 14 Shaka, when the walls fell.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (nDXEV)

Jack Nicholson nodding and smiling

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 25, 2026 06:22 PM (xcxpd)

37 The US shouldn't recognize her marriage as legal either. Send her Hispanic "husband" along with her to China. If it's true love, he'll be happy about that, right?

Posted by: pookysgirl wants the law to be enforced at February 25, 2026 06:23 PM (Wt5PA)

38 If Yu had married this convenient husband of hers three or four years ago the Biden admin proabably would have rubber-stamped her papers and she'd be good as gold.

Instead the woman said "Fuck that." around a half-dozen times over two decades and just thinks she's entitled to live here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 06:25 PM (6ydKt)

39 Finally, in custody and with removal looming, she married a U.S. citizen . . .

So, you're saying there's a chance?

Posted by: Desperate Incel, asking for a friend at February 25, 2026 06:26 PM (q2NNn)

40 What is a pop-up shop? Is that like a kiosk?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:26 PM (4NO2D)

41 Its Karl Marx No Borders, workers of the world unite

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 06:27 PM (Ia/+0)

42 Well Omar is a dolt so she probably couldn't remember what she said. And she too stupid, or arrogant, to not realize that people might have a recording

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM (HYqoK)

43 What is a pop-up shop? Is that like a kiosk?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:26 PM (4NO2D)

A type of bodega, I think.

Posted by: Not From There at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM (q2NNn)

44 The "free grocery store" will be full of empty shelves.

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM (Oy/m2)

45 Got to love it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

46 She said it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:29 PM (QScRl)

47 How in the hell does an illegal own apparently multiple restaurants? Does ANY city, state, or county actually *regulate* anything anymore these days?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 06:29 PM (TN0g+)

48 Free groceries paid for by a private company as charity. Yeah, is that Mandami's plan?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 06:29 PM (n5tGW)

49 40 What is a pop-up shop? Is that like a kiosk?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:26 PM (4NO2D)

Temporary establishment, usually some kind of promotional/marketing tool.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 06:30 PM (6ydKt)

50 Yu's off first.
-----

Who?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 06:30 PM (TN0g+)

51 I really want to know.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:31 PM (QScRl)

52 What is a pop-up shop? Is that like a kiosk?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Can be. It's just a temporary store/food stall mostly to promote a company or restaurant. It's an attempt to capture some media attention.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2026 06:31 PM (diia5)

53 I am hopeful that these stories infuriate people, as I am, rather than the intended garnering of sympathy.

I hope American citizens are seeing the effort, the above-and-beyond, these illegals are getting from the Dems at the same time as they are shitting on Americans.

When is the last time they fought this hard for an American citizen?
When have they ever fought this hard to get Americans out of jail?
When have they flown halfway around the world to visit Americans in prison?

This is what they will do for them--but not for you.
They could do that for you--they don't want to.

Democrats are for them, not you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 06:31 PM (HXT0k)

54 Yu go home now. Yu been here 21 year!!

Posted by: Bang! Ding! Ow! at February 25, 2026 06:31 PM (oftw2)

55 THIRD BASE!

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:31 PM (4NO2D)

56 I bet she got covid PP money too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 06:32 PM (n5tGW)

57 26 Oh, so cute! Always nice smiling pics of illegals hugging their fake spouses. That Irish lout did the same thing.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
========
No difference between these and the typical defense lawyer tricks that give photos to the media. And the lying media laps the lies up because lies are their stock in trade for narratives.

Dindu nuffin my ass.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:32 PM (E4rtv)

58 >>> Does ANY city, state, or county actually *regulate* anything anymore these days?
Posted by: Crusader
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They regulate everything. Regulate is another form of taxation. People from corrupt countries are more adept at dealing with regulators than the average Joe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 06:32 PM (j9zxt)

59 47 How in the hell does an illegal own apparently multiple restaurants? Does ANY city, state, or county actually *regulate* anything anymore these days?
Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 06:29 PM (TN0g+)

Some enterprising Young IRS agent should look into her tax records.

Has to be using a fake Soc Sec Number...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2026 06:32 PM (mP0Kj)

60 I will personally consider it a failure of the Trump administration if Ilhan Omar isn't deported. Along with her "extended family."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 06:32 PM (jtM2q)

61 >>Well Omar is a dolt so she probably couldn't remember what she said. And she too stupid, or arrogant, to not realize that people might have a recording

"It's like Bananas and Rice".

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 06:33 PM (1Udfd)

62 Reporter chick is kinda hot.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 25, 2026 06:33 PM (g8Ew8)

63 Democrats are for them, not you.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Always have been historically. GOP types are for themselves mostly historically. Trump is trying the fix the GOP, the Dems just keep getting worse in their love of criminals.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:33 PM (E4rtv)

64 I think Tourettes dude is full of $hit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:34 PM (QScRl)

65 42 Well Omar is a dolt so she probably couldn't remember what she said. And she too stupid, or arrogant, to not realize that people might have a recording

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM (HYqoK)

She's gotten away with some crazy stuff coming out of her mouth for a decade because she's A) Black B) Immigrant C) Female D) Part of the Squad E) A Democrat pushed by Democrat Media.

She ain't worried a bit about facts, evidence or proof when CNN, MSNOW, NYT & WP will always cover for her and any criticism of her is always labeled 'racist misogyny'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 06:34 PM (6ydKt)

66 Reporter chick is kinda hot.
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She really is.

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 06:35 PM (TN0g+)

67 Pop-Up Store? Like when we click Continue Reading?

Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2026 06:35 PM (Q+gd/)

68 Who is King Harv?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:37 PM (QScRl)

69 Who'd have thought there'd be long lines at a "free grocery store?"

People be stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 06:37 PM (jtM2q)

70 We never miss a meal 'cause we love our cereal.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 06:37 PM (nDXEV)

71 How have Chinese in the last 10 years or so all allowed to leave China by the millions? People died trying decades ago, now everyone gets to walk out?

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)

72 They probably never have sales.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:38 PM (QScRl)

73 >>Some enterprising Young IRS agent should look into her tax records.

>>Has to be using a fake Soc Sec Number...

In 2024 the Biden administration gave out 2 million social security numbers to "non-citizens". That was just 1 year.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)

74 We are the Freakies.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:39 PM (QScRl)

75 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: LaQuisha at February 25, 2026 06:39 PM (2Ez/1)

76 Aetius451AD, increasing batch size generally decreases throughput.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 06:39 PM (0sNs1)

77 Yu been heya two decade - not all Yu can steal. Yu go now!

Posted by: Boswell at February 25, 2026 06:39 PM (j10i6)

78 We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx.

Posted by: The Priests of the Temples of Syrinx at February 25, 2026 06:40 PM (2DV5Q)

79 I am so happy that chinawoman Yu is allowed here! I and my girlfriends love to go there and she gives us so much food for so little as the slave labor in her kitchen sleeps in the back on the floor when not dodging the Nazi ICE patrols and help her keep her costs down, plus she gets EBT and other bennies to help pay for her restaurant's bills.

We love you Yu!

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at February 25, 2026 06:40 PM (Ksqrb)

80 A man who sells coffee. But that's not important right now.

Posted by: Airplane! at February 25, 2026 06:40 PM (2Ez/1)

81
Something needs to be done about churches getting tax money.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 25, 2026 06:41 PM (3ek7K)

82 Or is there something more?
Atomized, at the core.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 06:41 PM (nDXEV)

83 The free grocery store is really just advertising for Polymarket. I'm assuming a lot of the people actually don't need to be in the line however greed is a thing. Doesn't appear to be any homeless people standing in line from first glance.

>Software engineer Luke McInerney, 31, of Manhattan, brought a folding chair and worked on his laptop as he waited for the grocery store to open.

"I just think this is a quintessential New York experience,” he said. “Everyone out here in the cold together. There’s a camaraderie to it.”

Tell me your a transplant without telling me you're a transplant

You got a tiny bag you were allowed to fill. Most people only walked away with three maybe four items at the most oh and all of those people at the back of the line that waited hours? They got told too fuck off.

A gambling company gives .00000000001 percent of their earnings back to the community they’re raping and calling it “giving back”. I’m not pessimistic person by any means, but we live in the fucking end times.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 06:41 PM (ycI94)

84 Nobody leaves China without making an understanding with the CCP.

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 06:42 PM (77Bgk)

85 42 Well Omar is a dolt so she probably couldn't remember what she said. And she too stupid, or arrogant, to not realize that people might have a recording

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM (HYqoK)

++++

She is a dolt. She is also an eely, slimy, shiftless person who very breezily sloughs off inquiries into her "winery" business.
Doesn't care that it has no address, does not care that it doesn't exist. She acts like she is just going to continue on with the fraud, and how do you like that? It is infuriating.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 06:42 PM (rkWQ6)

86 I think Ilhan Omar should shut her brotherly cockhole and hunker down with her constituency and never be allowed to be on any federal level committee where she speaks for no one.

We don't want you.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 06:42 PM (gVUi7)

87 I've got a pop-up shop in my pants! Ashley, wanna shower?

Posted by: Joe from DE at February 25, 2026 06:43 PM (oftw2)

88 Yu go now!

Posted by: fd - I Grow And Lear Every Day. at February 25, 2026 06:43 PM (vFG9F)

89 What if a mime had Tourette's?

Posted by: Things that make you go 'hmmmm' at February 25, 2026 06:43 PM (0sNs1)

90 >>So Yu has options. They are not the options she wants right now, but if nothing else, her case proves there can be a price for defying American law for more than two decades

Her options are: LEAVE NOW.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 06:43 PM (tj6OY)

91 Is there Tourettes screening?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:43 PM (QScRl)

92 >>Kelly isn't a criminal — she's a mom & small business owner who donates meals to feed the less fortunate.

Embrace the power of "and" - she is a criminal and a mom blah blah blah.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 06:44 PM (tj6OY)

93 The church hasn't separated so far from the state that they would ever give up tax dollars

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 06:44 PM (+nEug)

94 73 >>Some enterprising Young IRS agent should look into her tax records.

>>Has to be using a fake Soc Sec Number...

In 2024 the Biden administration gave out 2 million social security numbers to "non-citizens". That was just 1 year.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)

Yeah, but they are supposed to show they are here legally and have a work permit, before getting a number.

So, if'n she said she was here legally on the application for the card... it's fraud, and falsifying a Federal Document.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2026 06:45 PM (mP0Kj)

95 73 >>Some enterprising Young IRS agent should look into her tax records.

>>Has to be using a fake Soc Sec Number...

In 2024 the Biden administration gave out 2 million social security numbers to "non-citizens". That was just 1 year.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)

IRS has been giving out the 'Individual Taxpayer Identification Number' to illegals and non-residents for awhile now.
It's basically a SS# for people not eligible for SS.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 06:45 PM (6ydKt)

96 Semis and shrink wrapped pallets of food. Yeah, parishioners.

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 06:45 PM (77Bgk)

97 South Park makes fun of the beautiful and charming Ihlan Omar.

https://is.gd/67tHYC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 06:46 PM (FXNzP)

98 I saw a mime on the campus bus and he fcking told me he was a mime (like I couldn't tell) -- thus violating the number one rule of Mime Club.
And of course y'all already know that rule, as morons are avid fans of the Pantomimical Arts.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 06:46 PM (nDXEV)

99 Yu has to have a bank account or two.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 06:46 PM (+nEug)

100 The church hasn't separated so far from the state that they would ever give up tax dollars
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I'm not sure what's driving these couple of comments in this topic (sincerely)--is there a church involved in the current news cycle?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 06:47 PM (TN0g+)

101 She has Kelley helping? DEPORTED! He's burnt all his bridges with this Executive Branch.

Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at February 25, 2026 06:47 PM (dFG8E)

102 But doctor, I am Pagliacci.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at February 25, 2026 06:47 PM (4NO2D)

103 >>I will personally consider it a failure of the Trump administration if Ilhan Omar isn't deported. Along with her "extended family."

THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 06:48 PM (tj6OY)

104 In 2024 the Biden administration gave out 2 million social security numbers to "non-citizens". That was just 1 year.

And yet a dozen activist "judges" will come out of the woodwork to file TROs against Trump having a second scoop of ice cream.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 06:48 PM (a4flb)

105 >>I will personally consider it a failure of the Trump administration if Ilhan Omar isn't deported. Along with her "extended family."

THIS
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 06:48 PM

No one is above the law, they intoned.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:48 PM (4NO2D)

106 @23 re: church food banks-- the episcopal church I left was involved in the episcopal migrant ministry thing, with 95% of it being federal funds, and giving out massive amounts of food delivered in large trucks. "Partnering with the government," the priest proudly called it. I strongly suspect the church was also paying its bills with some of that federal money, since the congregation had dwindled so badly.
Posted by: skywch at February 25, 2026 06:19 PM (uqhmb)

A protestant bishop in DC was boasting of sheltering illegals with her charity funds.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 06:49 PM (8avO+)

107 Democraps: ‘we really need a good fake sob story about a non-criminal criminal being deported. But it can’t be a swarthy guy.”

‘How about a pasty white drunken Irish mick?’

‘Excellent.”

[Irish story blows up in their faces]

Democraps: ‘Fuck. Mel Brooks was right about the Irish. Get me a chink.’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 25, 2026 06:49 PM (s32T4)

108 >>I will personally consider it a failure of the Trump administration if Ilhan Omar isn't deported. Along with her "extended family."

THIS
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 06:48 PM

No one is above the law, they intoned.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:48 PM

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who intones, sonorously, "Nothing will happen." at February 25, 2026 06:50 PM (0sNs1)

109 Crusader, churches of all denominations have been using taxpayer money to fund illegals with housing, cash and medical assistance.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 06:51 PM (+nEug)

110 Illegals are the primary source of the enshittification of these United States: destroying Rule of Law, violent, dirty, diseased, literally shitting on sidewalks.

Time to take out the trash.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 25, 2026 06:51 PM (wBaIH)

111 I have something like tourette syndrome except it's where I'm in a meeting and for the eleventy billionth time the person running it says something like, "do we have any overs?", "anything else?" "anyone have any questions?" and some one does indeed say yes, yes they have something very important to drone on about now in this never ending time loop of doom. Then I suddenly blurt out "fuck!" and slam my head into the meeting desk repeatedly until the nice stars and birdies come.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 25, 2026 06:51 PM (3uBP9)

112 >>She's gotten away with some crazy stuff coming out of her mouth for a decade because she's A) Black B) Immigrant C) Female D) Part of the Squad E) A Democrat pushed by Democrat Media.

Exactly. She lies as easily as she breaths and she counts on the protection from her allies, the media, and the power of smearing anyone who calls her out as being a racist. She thinks she is superior to all of us, so she will not admit to nor apologize for lying to us. This is her culture.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 06:51 PM (tj6OY)

113 I think the Baseball Furies are today's logical evolution of the mime archetype faced with the current existential uncertainty of Street Life.

But the Baseball Furies are not where they are needed the most -- ironically the Homeland of the Mime -- modern-day France.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 06:52 PM (nDXEV)

114 The "free grocery store" will be full of empty shelves.
———

But, still - if they had anything on the shelf, it would have been free. It’s the thought that counts. H8r!!

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2026 06:52 PM (pZq2R)

115 >>Yeah, but they are supposed to show they are here legally and have a work permit, before getting a number.

This is Joe Biden we are talking about. They expanded the law to give SS numbers to all kinds of people, asylum seekers being just one category. And millions who poured over the border just said the magic word "asylum" as they were told to say by the Biden administration, NGOs, the UN, etc..

The Great Replacement Theory is absolutely real and Democrats have been doing whatever it takes to bring in millions and use them for census and voting reasons. They didn't just give them billions in handouts they made it easier to get jobs. Look at the nightmare going on with illegals who can't speak English getting CDLs. They bent, broke or just wholesale changed rules laws to make it happen because if they had been successful, if Trump hadn't won in 2024, we probably wouldn't have seen a candidate like Trump ever win again. That's how close we came to losing the whole thing and it's still a touch and go thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 06:53 PM (viF8m)

116 Breaking News: Oliver ‘Power’ Grant, a founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, has died at the age of 52.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at February 25, 2026 06:53 PM (0sNs1)

117 111 I have something like tourette syndrome except it's where I'm in a meeting and for the eleventy billionth time the person running it says something like, "do we have any overs?", "anything else?" "anyone have any questions?" and some one does indeed say yes, yes they have something very important to drone on about now in this never ending time loop of doom. Then I suddenly blurt out "fuck!" and slam my head into the meeting desk repeatedly until the nice stars and birdies come.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 25, 2026 06:51 PM (3uBP9)

+++

LOL

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 06:54 PM (rkWQ6)

118 The churches in my town feed the homeless bums once a week. Attracts them like flies. I told one of the preachers that Jesus never said set up a food bank/feeding trough down main street and feed the worthless. I told the preacher man to take the bums home with him and feed them there. He gave me the stink eye so fuck him.

Posted by: Joe Ghetto at February 25, 2026 06:55 PM (Ksqrb)

119 The "free grocery store" will be full of empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM

But it does have shelves.

Posted by: Jack "Ewok" Sparrow at February 25, 2026 06:55 PM (0sNs1)

120 There is word floating around that the Feds will start requiring banks to verify citizenship before opening bank accounts.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM (rbvCR)

121 Software engineer Luke McInerney, 31, of Manhattan, brought a folding chair and worked on his laptop as he waited for the grocery store to open

Because if anyone needs free food, it's (checks notes) techies.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM (gtcuf)

122 She thinks she is superior to all of us, so she will not admit to nor apologize for lying to us. This is her culture.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 06:51 PM (tj6OY)

She's the Queen Somalian of America, and she acts like it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM (6ydKt)

123 I saw a mime on the campus bus and he fcking told me he was a mime (like I couldn't tell) -- thus violating the number one rule of Mime Club.
And of course y'all already know that rule, as morons are avid fans of the Pantomimical Arts.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 25, 2026 06:46 PM (nDXEV)

If we don't come down hard on these clowns, we are going to be up to our *balls* in jugglers! And mimes!!

Posted by: Sandford N.W.A. at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM (q2NNn)

124 Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 06:53 PM (viF8m)

++++

I know it.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM (rkWQ6)

125 "[TMZ:] A woman who claims to have been attending service during the Minnesota church protest covered by Don Lemon last month is now suing Lemon and other protesters, saying she suffered severe emotional distress as a result of the incident."

Can you say "class action"?

I knew that you could.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM (aTgV0)

126 "You been here 20+ years, you go now"

(shadows of Chinese all you can eat restaurant lady).

Posted by: illiniwek at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM (vbXSk)

127 Software engineer Luke McInerney, 31, of Manhattan, brought a folding chair and worked on his laptop as he waited for the grocery store to open

Because if anyone needs free food, it's (checks notes) techies.
Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM

He was there for the vibe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:57 PM (4NO2D)

128

The Cuban Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that a Cuban Coast Guard vessel fired on a U.S.-registered speedboat, killing four men aboard and wounding six other passengers.

https://t.ly/TkgCw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 06:57 PM (Cqx++)

129 Software engineer Luke McInerney, 31, of Manhattan, brought a folding chair and worked on his laptop as he waited for the grocery store to open

Because if anyone needs free food, it's (checks notes) techies.
Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 06:56 PM

Need's got nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Luke "Javascript" McI at February 25, 2026 06:57 PM (0sNs1)

130 Yu go now!

Yu here 20 years.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 06:57 PM (2GVsD)

131 Trump's getting the Dems to refuse to acknowledge their job is to protect citizens rather than illegal immigrants is going to be this cycle's "Trump is for yiu, Harris is for They/Them" commercial.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 25, 2026 06:58 PM (qSk+K)

132 Sum Ting Wong with Yu.

Posted by: Max Power at February 25, 2026 06:58 PM (q177U)

133 119 The "free grocery store" will be full of empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM

But it does have shelves.
Posted by: Jack "Ewok" Sparrow

Proof of the superiority of Scientific Socialism!

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 06:58 PM (Y8DZL)

134 " I couldn't get no more food...."

Jewish guy, I'm assuming.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 06:58 PM (aTgV0)

135 "The "free grocery store" will be full of empty shelves.

But it does have shelves."

And all the food they don't have is FREE.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 25, 2026 06:58 PM (vbXSk)

136 134 " I couldn't get no more food...."

Jewish guy, I'm assuming.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 06:58 PM (aTgV0)

Possibly Amish.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 06:59 PM (6ydKt)

137 Maybe next time I'll read the comments.

Nah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 06:59 PM (2GVsD)

138
Paul White Gold Eagle
@PaulGoldEagle
🚨🚨 BREAKING: Venezuela’s former intelligence leader Hugo Carvajal has CONFIRMED that Democrat Senator Adam Schiff and Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell, both of California, are two of the top names on the VENEZUELA LIST of US politicians that are receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS AND LAVISH GIFTS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations in exchange for using their official power as a means of undermining the Trump administration’s ongoing war

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 06:59 PM (TN0g+)

139 Food Deserts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 07:00 PM (QScRl)

140 "The "free grocery store" will be full of empty shelves.

But it does have shelves."
------

Ace hardest hit.

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 07:00 PM (TN0g+)

141 Maybe next time I'll read the comments.

Nah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 06:59 PM

We can send you links of us line dancing.

Posted by: Bronie Bros at February 25, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

142 Ho Lee Fuk, Yu... Sum Ting Wong.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 07:01 PM (6ydKt)

143 Software engineer Luke McInerney, 31, of Manhattan, brought a folding chair and surfed porn on his laptop as he waited for the grocery store to open

Posted by: The Real Story at February 25, 2026 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

144 "He was there for the vibe.
Posted by: toby928(c) "

Tik Tok-cracy.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 07:01 PM (aTgV0)

145 Total lack of historical awareness would have been if Mahdami had named the store GUM

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 07:01 PM (2GVsD)

146 128

The Cuban Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that a Cuban Coast Guard vessel fired on a U.S.-registered speedboat, killing four men aboard and wounding six other passengers.

https://t.ly/TkgCw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 06:57 PM (Cqx++)

++++

Think I'll just stay off of speed boats for a while. They seem to have a lot of bad luck recently.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 07:01 PM (rkWQ6)

147 I can hear Don Lemon whining " you can't sue me I'm a journalist. And black. And gay. And retarded"
. Hawaiian judge: case dismissed with costs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 07:02 PM (HYqoK)

148 I have occasional contact with a Somali young lady (college student). She is very imperious in her manner and completely inconsiderate of others. I do not see any indication that she is benefiting from her educational opportunities.

It's interesting watching her behavior.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2026 07:02 PM (FMtrg)

149 KAREN Update: More women buy wine from labels indicating a woman winemaker.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 07:02 PM (abIsI)

150 Breaking News: Oliver ‘Power’ Grant, a founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, has died at the age of 52.
-----

Could have added this to the Tourettes' thread.

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 07:02 PM (TN0g+)

151 Then I suddenly blurt out "fuck!" and slam my head into the meeting desk repeatedly until the nice stars and birdies come.

Posted by: banana Dream

Where were you when I needed you in my meetings?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 07:02 PM (cYBz/)

152 Those church invaders belong in jail for awhile and need to pay restitution.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2026 07:03 PM (FMtrg)

153 Doesn't appear to be any homeless people standing in line from first glance.

The homeless tend to not be good at standing in line. Unless they're on tranq, but in that case they're bent over at the waist and motionless. Lying on sidewalks or benches, that they are very good at. Standing in the middle of the street screaming obscenities at nobody in particular, they're stellar. Walking up and down the sidewalk holding their "Anything helps (me to buy meth), have a blessed day" signs, top of the class. Standing in line, not so much.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:03 PM (gtcuf)

154 The "free grocery store" will be full of empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 06:28 PM

But it does have shelves.
Posted by: Jack "Ewok" Sparrow at February 25, 2026 06:55 PM (0sNs1)
---
Yes, but they ran out of rum hours ago...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:03 PM (ESVrU)

155 148 I have occasional contact with a Somali young lady (college student). She is very imperious in her manner and completely inconsiderate of others. I do not see any indication that she is benefiting from her educational opportunities.

It's interesting watching her behavior.
Posted by: Emmie

Does she have buck teeth and a head shaped like a lightbulb? Also, does she present an offending odor?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 07:03 PM (abIsI)

156 Also, does she present an offending odor?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 07:03 PM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Penguins of the World at February 25, 2026 07:05 PM (0sNs1)

157 >>Yes, but they ran out of rum hours ago...

What does this even mean?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 07:05 PM (viF8m)

158 It's interesting watching her behavior.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2026 07:02 PM (FMtrg)

Somalia is a totally clan-based, Islamic, culture.
They didn't leave that behind when they landed here.

It's no wonder so many can't adjust to an alien culture that doesn't run on tribal law and hierarchies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 07:06 PM (6ydKt)

159 64 I think Tourettes dude is full of $hit.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:34 PM (QScRl)

I thought Michael B Jordan was the HOF basketball player. Yes I know it was stupid of me.... haha

Posted by: Joemarine at February 25, 2026 07:06 PM (y171U)

160 Ilhan Omar

https://tinyurl.com/3k8zuhep

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 07:06 PM (j9zxt)

161 UConn vs St John’s on Peacock
Should be a good game.

Posted by: Accomack at February 25, 2026 07:07 PM (77Bgk)

162 I have occasional contact with a Somali young lady (college student). She is very imperious in her manner and completely inconsiderate of others. I do not see any indication that she is benefiting from her educational opportunities.

It's interesting watching her behavior.
Posted by: Emmie
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I saw that a lot at the Walmart I worked at in Greeley years ago. Snooty, cold, condescending. Good thing I worked in the back room. Minimal contact.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at February 25, 2026 07:07 PM (0aYVJ)

163 157 >>Yes, but they ran out of rum hours ago...

What does this even mean?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 07:05 PM (viF8m)
Just reminded me I have an unopened bottle of Kraken.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 07:07 PM (LHPAg)

164 Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 06:59 PM (TN0g+)
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Big, if true. But ai am skeptical.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 07:07 PM (OhBRn)

165 Michael set up a chair outside the grocery store, and watched shoppers file in and out of the shop all morning, but was not positioned in line. He told Fox News Digital that he only had three cups of soup left in his cupboard but was doubtful there would be enough groceries left at The Polymarket at the end of the day for him to stock up his pantry.

Learn to squeegee.

Posted by: Street Entrepreneurs at February 25, 2026 07:07 PM (q2NNn)

166 re: Tourette's Guy - I just keep thinking of Cartman pretending he had Tourette's so he could yell racist and offensive shit without getting punished for it.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:08 PM (gtcuf)

167 Robert Dorgan, murderer, killed his ex-wife who was also a cousin of his.

And those snooty Yankees about people in the South?

BTW Dorgan's oldest son is in the slammer for being a white supremacist criminal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 07:08 PM (2GVsD)

168
I thought Michael B Jordan was the HOF basketball player. Yes I know it was stupid of me.... haha
Posted by: Joemarine

He sells shoes by the seashore.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 07:08 PM (Cqx++)

169 The life expectancy in Somalia is 56-58 yrs old. I guess we can hope that doesn't improve here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 07:08 PM (HYqoK)

170 Does she have buck teeth and a head shaped like a lightbulb? Also, does she present an offending odor?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 07:03 PM (abIsI)

I prefer to criticize her for something she has control over, like her bad attitude.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2026 07:09 PM (FMtrg)

171 The Café is open.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1)

172 re: Tourette's Guy - I just keep thinking of Cartman pretending he had Tourette's so he could yell racist and offensive shit without getting punished for it.
Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:08 PM (gtcuf)
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That backfired on him, as I recall, because he found out he couldn't turn it off.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 07:09 PM (ESVrU)

173 >>. . . It's interesting watching her behavior.

May I suggest you check out Ayan Hirsi Ali's "Infidel?"
Their culture is wholly incompatible with ours.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 07:11 PM (tj6OY)

174 The homeless tend to not be good at standing in line. Unless they're on tranq, but in that case they're bent over at the waist and motionless. Lying on sidewalks or benches, that they are very good at. Standing in the middle of the street screaming obscenities at nobody in particular, they're stellar. Walking up and down the sidewalk holding their "Anything helps (me to buy meth), have a blessed day" signs, top of the class. Standing in line, not so much.

Posted by: Delurker at February 25, 2026 07:03 PM (gtcuf)

++++

There is one man I see occasionally who has a sign which is pretty lengthy, detailing the circumstances which brought him to this point, I suppose. I cannot read it as the print is so small, plus I have no time since he sits at a traffic signal.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 07:12 PM (rkWQ6)

175 >>I prefer to criticize her for something she has control over, like her bad attitude.

That's a 'Yes'.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 07:14 PM (1Udfd)

176 It does get worse with YU - from a response to the linked tweet:

@empire_sentry
She owns three businesses
Here are two that got PPP for free
while the rest of us lost our jobs, homes, cars, savings

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 07:15 PM (tj6OY)

177 Federal and national level special committees should require 100% approval from the opposing party or they're off the billet.

There are too many halfwits and whackjobs making decisions for the entire country who never voted for them.

Also, disband the committees on a case by case basis. There's no tenure requirement to be granted to these fucks.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 07:17 PM (gVUi7)

178 Interesting. Leaders in the Somali community have issued an apology to Americans for their misconduct. While I don't really trust them when they promise to address these evil acts, I wonder if this video would be helpful for the 'Ron whose daughter doesn't believe the Somali fraud happened. (Don't remember which 'Ron.)

I'm referring to the link at 160.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2026 07:17 PM (FMtrg)

179 Anyone check to see if Yu has voted?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 07:18 PM (tj6OY)

180 @AmyMek

ENEMY WITHIN: CAIR Brags: 50,000+ Radicals to Take Over Congress – Omar & Tlaib Are Proof!

Take a HARD LOOK at these two Jihadis with their big, fat anti-American mouths: Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib!

This is EXACTLY the GOAL of the Muslim Brotherhood's "Civilizational Jihad" plan - to PENETRATE our institutions & DESTROY America from WITHIN

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 07:20 PM (j9zxt)

181 @Rightanglenews
·
3h
BREAKING - Sources close to high-ranking Democrats have revealed growing internal panic following the party’s response to President Trump’s SOTU address, describing their counter-protests and boycott events as a “disaster” that left them appearing “childish” and disorganized.

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2026 07:22 PM (ZxPkt)

182 >>Interesting. Leaders in the Somali community have issued an apology to Americans for their misconduct.

Huh, other Somalis have demanded reparations for the trauma from ICE raids.

https://tinyurl.com/yck8um3a

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 07:26 PM (tj6OY)

183 “The store worked out better than expected! “ They’ll say “The demand for such a store was far greater than we anticipated!”

Posted by: CTHillary at February 25, 2026 07:47 PM (Vpqw1)

Arrest in Terrorist Attack on Boise ICE Office: It's an AWFUL
Plus: FBI Raids LA School Superintendent's Home, School District Offices

They say it's a woman but they talk a lot of horse-shit about sex now.

Federal prosecutors are calling an Idaho woman's alleged decision to steal an ambulance and crash it into a Meridian building leasing office space to immigration officials a "brazen, dangerous, unprovoked, premeditated attack," according to newly released court records.
In a 15-page affidavit, investigators outlined the evidence that local and federal law enforcement agencies collected against Sarah George, 43, of Boise, before arresting her Monday. Over the course of five days, officers located surveillance footage, financial records and social media posts that they say prove George purchased gasoline cans and lighter fluid, filled them with fuel and stole a Canyon County ambulance before crashing it into the Portico North building with the intention of setting it on fire. T
he building, owned by St. Luke's Health System, included office space that was being leased to the Department of Homeland Security, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Posts on George's Facebook page had "adverse political positions" against the agencies, the affidavit alleged.

Oh really, this ugly AWFUL has a FaceBook page where she shares her deranged mentally-ill political opinions? I never would have guessed.

Assistant United States Attorney David Robins, in the District of Idaho, said the attack wasn't random. He wrote in a motion arguing that George should be held "in custody" that based on the woman's social media posts, the attack was over her "perceived grievances" of law enforcement.
...
"The defendant's devil-may-care attitude towards the extreme public risk can hardly be overstated," Robins wrote in his motion. "She stole an ambulance -- a tool by which first responders save lives -- and damaged it while trying to destroy it. By attempting to burn the building, she showed no regard for the potential occupants (e.g., night workers, janitors, first responders) and the mortal risks she inflicted.
She then approached the parked ambulance and drove off wearing a dark beanie and face covering, according to the affidavit.

You can't hide ugly.

Gee, I wonder what her husband thinks about all this.

Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

That photo is, I believe, from a cop's bodycam camera as he pulled her over for a traffic stop. He realized "Holy shit, this looks like Ace's 'not my bad side' ball! Must be the terrorist!"

I need to stop sending that to everybody. Especially family members.

He recognized her from a store's surveillance camera video, showing her buying the gas cans used in the attack.

She's a real gem:

According to the affidavit, investigators found a social media post allegedly made by George the morning of Feb. 18 depicting an AI-generated image of the White House on fire with the caption, "If it can be destroyed by truth then it should be destroyed; it was built in lies anyways."

No but seriously what's her husband think?

God spare us the wrath of ugly, unfuckable femcels who have nothing to contribute to the world except for deranged social media posts about Trump.

Breaking: Federal and local authorities have arrested the suspect accused of attempting to carry out an arson terror attack on the DHS/ICE office in Idaho.

Sarah Elizabeth George, 43, of Boise, allegedly staged gas cans, stole an ambulance, and intentionally crashed through the… pic.twitter.com/zCDK7hZVNd
— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) February 24, 2026

Also: The FBI raided the home and offices of the LA Unified School District Superintendent.

I'm sure it's because he was following the law too closely and also not taking too many bribes or not grooming too many children.

John Sexton writes that the left -- including the NYT, of course -- has immediately jumped to claiming this man was raided because he... spoke out against ICE.

Um, that doesn't happen, except in your insane AWFUL mentally-ill minds.

Sexton presents an alternative explanation which actually makes sense: He continues openly discriminating against white students despite the Supreme Court ruling that all such discrimination must end.

Alternatively, LAist notes that there is a lawsuit filed against the school district which claims the district discriminates against white students.

A lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District for allegedly discriminating against white students could move forward, given the current political climate. But critics say it is troubling and lacks merit.
The suit by the 1776 Project Foundation takes aim at the district's Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian, or other Non-Anglo, or PHBAO, program and claims that "for students who attend non-PHBAO schools, the District provides inferior treatment and calculated disadvantages." Roughly 70% of LAUSD schools are part of the PHABO program...
The suit, filed this week in federal court, also calls out the program for allegedly maintaining a more robust staff and receiving extra points on applications to prestigious magnet schools.
"Students attending non-PHBAO schools are denied and directly blocked from these benefits because of the racial composition of their school attendance zone, which detrimentally impacts the quality of the educational experience and directly damages these students," the lawsuit alleges.

As of last week, the Trump DOJ is looking to join that lawsuit.
...
Could the FBI raid have something to do with that? Again, we don't know but the timing seems more reasonable than the issue involving DHS visits to schools a year ago.

He presents a third possibility: The school is using funds appropriated (by ballot initiative) for expanding school programs to instead pay staff. That would be misuse of public funds, but that seems to me a matter of state concern, not the business of the feds.

Hit the link to read about that.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:00 PM

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Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 25, 2026 05:02 PM (0N4FZ)

2 How long was the foot chase?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:04 PM (QScRl)

3 How many gasoline cans did she get?? Four?

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (Oy/m2)

4 Which one does she resemble ace, goose or slider?

Posted by: banana Dream at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (qLtZW)

5 "She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of."

This made me laugh out loud. I needed that.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (USyCi)

6 Why do they all look and dress like the Skipper?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (QScRl)

7 "God spare us the wrath of ugly, unfuckable femcels who have nothing to contribute to the world except for deranged social media posts about Trump."

Oh, really? Without them, who would take care of all the cats?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (0K8Uv)

8 I could fix her. With a two by four

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (HYqoK)

9 She's big in Australian break dancing circles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:06 PM (Vq1pX)

10 She's has a neck & chin in there somewhere.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 05:06 PM (IifOV)

11 is it wearing a Detroit Lions hat in that gas can pic?

Posted by: Jay in CDA at February 25, 2026 05:06 PM (F1XbI)

12 She's so ugly that her parents used to feed her with a slingshot

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (3BwY8)

13 … Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

You’re killin’ me here ace

Just spit Gatorade all over the floor at the gym

Posted by: browndog barking at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (pY+ea)

14 If I had a dog with a face like that, I'd shave its ass and teach it to walk backward.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (3BwY8)

15 NYTimes: Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care

American advocates for youth gender medicine have insisted for years that overwhelming evidence favors providing gender dysphoric youth with puberty blockers, hormones and, in the case of biological females, surgery to remove their breasts. It didn’t matter that the number of kids showing up at gender clinics had soared and that they were more likely to have complex mental health conditions than those who had come to clinics in years earlier, complicating diagnosis.

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (RHGPo)

16 Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

That photo is, I believe, from a cop's bodycam camera as he pulled her over for a traffic stop. He realized "Holy shit, this looks like Ace's 'not my bad side' ball! Must be the terrorist!"

I need to stop sending that to everybody. Especially family members.

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything just then

Posted by: never change, ace at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (TbWk/)

17 I looked at the convenience store video clip, and all I could think was "nice cans!".

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (rj6Yv)

18 Could be Detoilet Lions.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (QScRl)

19 They complain about incels being violent but the most violent I’ve seen an incel was to throw a Rockstar at the wall because they lost a permadeath match in ARC Raiders

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (REq0p)

20 is it wearing a Detroit Lions hat in that gas can pic?
Posted by: Jay in CDA at February 25, 2026 05:06 PM (F1XbI)

Boise State Broncos

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (PSEDc)

21 She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

Maybe you sat on some gum.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (Kt19C)

22 She looks like Kathy Bates in that first picture.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (Yp6az)

23 Always the short hair

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (t/Eo5)

24 Harness her and do some plowing.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (pZ64F)

25 I think. Now I'm not sure. Belay last transmission.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (PSEDc)

26 Does she participate in the men's shot put competition?

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (Oy/m2)

27 And I will name it George.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:09 PM (QScRl)

28 Could the FBI raid have something to do with that? Again, we don't know but the timing seems more reasonable than the issue involving DHS visits to schools a year ago.

I assume some grifty embezzlement.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 05:09 PM (4NO2D)

29 Probably couldn't get the gas to pour out properly because of those stupid spouts they have now. Can almost sympathise with her there.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 25, 2026 05:09 PM (sl73Y)

30 I could fix her. With a two by four

*******

You’re gonna need a bigger 2x4

Posted by: Chief Brody at February 25, 2026 05:10 PM (REq0p)

31 29 Probably couldn't get the gas to pour out properly because of those stupid spouts they have now. Can almost sympathise with her there.
-----------
Snort.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 05:10 PM (pZ64F)

32 I love mug shots. They bring out the essence of a person.

Posted by: fd, My Inner Beauty Stinks at February 25, 2026 05:10 PM (vFG9F)

33 Half a can of gas>a full can of gas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:10 PM (QScRl)

34 I'm pretty tired of if ICE focusing its operations on leftist, blue sh*tholes.

They didn't vote for you, Donald. We in red states did.

We deserve the benefit of deportation and not only will we not protest, we will assist you in the process.

Remove every last stinking illegal alien from the prisons to the little lady making homemade tortillas at the Mexican restaurant. We will cheer you on, give rental discounts to the government for detainment facilities and hotel rooms for your officers.

If the left wants to live in immigrant infested sh*t holes and compete against illegals for work and housing, let them. You can get to them last.

Posted by: Diss Topian at February 25, 2026 05:10 PM (O6Whv)

35
She does look happy in the booking picture.

Maybe she's out of jail by noon tomorrow.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 05:11 PM (Y8DZL)

36 She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

Her wispy beard sells it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 05:11 PM (4NO2D)

37 She's so stupid, the cops arriving promptly, before she could flick her Bic, saved her life.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 05:11 PM (rj6Yv)

38 When last we checked in on Maverick’s intrepid wingman goose was hitting level flight ceiling while slider was getting audible “pull up, … pull up”. One testing their density altitude and the other doing a little (NoE) terrain following

Posted by: banana Dream at February 25, 2026 05:12 PM (qLtZW)

39 How dare our president call these people crazy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:12 PM (Vq1pX)

40 This is actually a little crazy to see. I've met Sarah, a couple times. She has the personality type for it, but definitely surreal.

Most of the queer community in Boise knows her or has met her. If I had to sum her up in two words, it would be "militantly lesbian". She was not a fan of men. Not even men who were allies. I admire her conviction, but not her methods. It was sloppy and poorly thought out. I will say though, if there's anybody that would thrive in prison, I bet she would. I hope she will be okay.

I'm afraid we're going to see more of this kind of thing. Resistance is good, hell, historically, even violence has its place, but, this was just clumsy, stupid, and she ruined her own life just to help the other side's cause.

If you get jury duty, please familiarize yourself of with Jury Nullification. Good juries can help deal with bad government.

The woman who did this single handedly made things worse for both the immigrant and LGBTQ residents of Boise with her actions. Mark Fitzpatrick is using her for advertising in his campaign for governor. MAGA had already been using this as an excuse for ramping up ICE reports on POC...

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 05:13 PM (ycI94)

41 She must be quite inept. Anne Heche managed to cause an inferno by accident. Butch here, can't do it with gallons of gasoline and a stolen ambulance.

Posted by: Hard To Find Good Help at February 25, 2026 05:13 PM (oftw2)

42 Well, one thing for sure. She's got a birth control face.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 05:13 PM (FXNzP)

43 ace had it right all along, it’s ball pics I should be sending my matches online, not dic pics

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (REq0p)

44 41 She must be quite inept. Anne Heche managed to cause an inferno by accident. Butch here, can't do it with gallons of gasoline and a stolen ambulance.
------------
No shit. Bet she can't do a sit-up on a stretcher, either.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (pZ64F)

45 She looks Pretti Good.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (IifOV)

46 I remember when refusing to wear a mask or questioning if in fact the clot shot "stopped the spread of COVID" were literal terrorism and the left was arguing anyone doing so should be placed in a concentration camp...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (sKqQm)

47 She looks like my less-attractive testicle.

Horribly, terribly cruel.

And hilarious.

Posted by: Tex Lovear at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (wtvvX)

48 I liked the theory proposed by someone here (can't remember who, sorry): The reason for the incompetence in terror attacks we've seen lately is that the Left's funding is getting cut off and targeted, and the FBI isn't focusing on enabling terrorists as much as they used to.

Posted by: pookysgirl, just theorizing at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (Wt5PA)

49 I wonder if the UK will allow a party that isn't controlled opposition to win.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (QScRl)

50 I'd bet my activist troon neighbors know her.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (PSEDc)

51 Ok people, seriously, search the sidebar archive section for goose and slider. Read. Then come back.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (qLtZW)

52 >>>She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

Dude, get that shit removed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:15 PM (2bC92)

53 >>>>She does look happy in the booking picture.

She's thinking about all the pussy she will get in prison.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 05:15 PM (CNl8/)

54 You’re gonna need a bigger 2x4
Posted by: Chief Brody at February 25, 2026 05:10 PM (REq0p)
====

4x4 Ford F-350

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 05:15 PM (rj6Yv)

55 21 She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

Maybe you sat on some gum.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (Kt19C)

If that's not helping, I don't know what is.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 25, 2026 05:15 PM (YlWIZ)

56 Sarah's plan had a lot of moving parts. The only one she got right was not burning to death.

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 05:15 PM (98kQX)

57 35
She does look happy in the booking picture.

Maybe she's out of jail by noon tomorrow.
Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 05:11 PM (Y8DZL)

Perhaps she's looking forward to some meeting some potential girlfriends in jail?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at February 25, 2026 05:15 PM (0K8Uv)

58 Chick used her loyalty card to buy gas. Smollettesque.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:15 PM (2bC92)

59 I will say though, if there's anybody that would thrive in prison, I bet she would.

Now there's the kind of thing you want to hear your friends say about you.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (Fs0KI)

60 Shit.

Fucked up my own nic!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (wtvvX)

61 35
She does look happy in the booking picture.

Maybe she's out of jail by noon tomorrow.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 05:11 PM (Y8DZL)

+++++

The perverse smiles on these idiots when they get caught is just incredible. Trump said it best - "These people are CRAZY".

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (rkWQ6)

62 Now there's the kind of thing you want to hear your friends say about you.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (Fs0KI)

Most Likely To Succeed In A Penal Colony

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (Vq1pX)

63 Given that this idiot couldn't figure out how to light a can full of gasoline I'll say it again: THE REVOLUTION WILL BE INCOMPETENT

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (HYqoK)

64
The Camera adds 10 pounds, so she's got 4 cameras on her.

Posted by: Fat joke Guy at February 25, 2026 05:17 PM (IifOV)

65 "Harness her and do some plowing."

I know "I can fix that" is a trope, but let's not get hasty

Posted by: barbarausa at February 25, 2026 05:17 PM (enw9G)

66 THE FACE OF TESTICULAR TORSION

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 25, 2026 05:17 PM (wtvvX)

67 The woman who did this single handedly made things worse for both the immigrant and LGBTQ residents of Boise with her actions. Mark Fitzpatrick is using her for advertising in his campaign for governor. MAGA had already been using this as an excuse for ramping up ICE reports on POC...

Who knew normies might be bothered by militant lesbians trying to murder people so that Somalis can still come to America to steal welfare money

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 05:17 PM (sKqQm)

68 Harness her and do some plowing.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (pZ64F)

She most have removed the nose ring before attacking the building

Posted by: Beartooth at February 25, 2026 05:17 PM (ggkmJ)

69 The perverse smiles on these idiots when they get caught is just incredible. Trump said it best - "These people are CRAZY".
Posted by: washrivergal

With the right wig and clothes, she could do a perfect Annie Wilkes cosplay.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 05:18 PM (ycI94)

70 I wonder how deep her voice is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 05:18 PM (jtM2q)

71 42 Well, one thing for sure. She's got a birth control face.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 05:13 PM (FXNzP)

+++++

LOL

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 05:18 PM (rkWQ6)

72 > Given that this idiot couldn't figure out how to light a can full of gasoline

Half-full can is easier to light, just sayin'.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 05:18 PM (Yp6az)

73 Deport her to Somalia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:18 PM (QScRl)

74 DYKE!
BITCH!
NOT WITH YOUR DICK!

Posted by: Tourettes activist John Davidson at February 25, 2026 05:19 PM (Y1sOo)

75 She looks like a thumb with a hairy mole. Some guys might be into that, no judgment.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2026 05:19 PM (vV6n9)

76 Grok, can you write a short country song from the following prompt: They say it’s a woman, but they talk a lot of horse-shit about sex now

Title:
They Say It's a Woman(slow, lonesome acoustic strum, maybe a little steel guitar weepin’ in the background)

Verse 1
They say it’s a woman, but the barstool philosophers disagree
Sippin’ warm beer and spittin’ wisdom only drunks can see
They got opinions thicker than the smoke above the pool table light
Talkin’ loud ‘bout what a real one does between the sheets at night

Chorus
They say it’s a woman, but they talk a lot of horse-shit about sex now
Throwin’ around big words like they ever knew how
They never held a heart that could actually break in two
Just swingin’ their mouths like six-guns, shootin’ bullshit at the moon

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 05:19 PM (AoT6J)

77 🥒

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:19 PM (QScRl)

78
I'm sure her GoFundMe will supply he with enough money for her to make another run at it.

How big of a failure are you to not be able to Arson. It's literally gas and a match.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 05:19 PM (IifOV)

79 The Conservative Treehouse has a post up about the Los Angeles Unified School District guy's (NAME: Alberto Carvalho) history in Miami.

https://is.gd/BeErUv

Posted by: No Name Today at February 25, 2026 05:20 PM (8mulE)

80 The lawsuit about discrimination can move forward "given the current political climate. But critics say it is troubling and lacks merit."

I was not informed about the "current political climate" factor used to determine whether a lawsuit can "move forward."

Posted by: AMartel at February 25, 2026 05:20 PM (otvi3)

81 Not Grok's best effort, but the ending is better

Bridge
I tipped my hat and left a twenty underneath her glass
Didn’t need to ask her nothin’, didn’t need to make a pass
Some folks talk to feel important, some folks live to feel alive
She just smiled like she’d heard it all… and still chose to survive

Final Chorus
Yeah they say it’s a woman, but they talk a lot of horse-shit about sex now
Yellin’ over jukebox heartache like they ever took a vow
I’ll raise my bottle to the ones who don’t explain themselves to fools
She’s a woman, plain and simple—
and that’s the only gospel truth.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 05:20 PM (AoT6J)

82 The Left has weaponized the Unmet Maternal Instinct.

Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 05:20 PM (0MjtC)

83 ace had it right all along, it’s ball pics I should be sending my matches online, not dic pics

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (REq0p)

Wallet pics catch more flies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:21 PM (2bC92)

84 **examines testicles**

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 05:21 PM (aTgV0)

85 34 I'm pretty tired of if ICE focusing its operations on leftist, blue sh*tholes.

They didn't vote for you, Donald. We in red states did.

We deserve the benefit of deportation and not only will we not protest, we will assist you in the process.

Remove every last stinking illegal alien from the prisons to the little lady making homemade tortillas at the Mexican restaurant. We will cheer you on, give rental discounts to the government for detainment facilities and hotel rooms for your officers.

If the left wants to live in immigrant infested sh*t holes and compete against illegals for work and housing, let them. You can get to them last.
Posted by: Diss Topian at February 25, 2026 05:10 PM (O6Whv)

ICE is removing illegal criminals in red communities. You just don't hear about it in the media because it's low-drama due to appropriate cooperation. Also, the worst offenders tend to congregate in blue beepholes due to lax enforcement and enabling judicial systems, so they're going to get some extra attention from ICE.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2026 05:21 PM (FMtrg)

86 "Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of."

There are times I am not all that disappointed that Ace doesn't consider me "people."

Posted by: tankdemon at February 25, 2026 05:22 PM (qSk+K)

87 The genius of Schmuckie Tumor!

Schumer: “Of course we support Americans. We’re not going to be a prop in Donald Trump’s little show.”

*********

So your response was to… willfully become a prop in Donny’s show then?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos

Trump set him up like a bowling pin which is appropriate because Schmuckie is smart as a bowling pin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 05:23 PM (FXNzP)

88
My nuts photograph well from any angle.

Posted by: Michelle Obama at February 25, 2026 05:23 PM (IifOV)

89 How big of a failure are you to not be able to Arson. It's literally gas and a match.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 05:19 PM (IifOV)

Dunning Krueger.

Any idiot can light a can of gas on fire. It's gas. It's scary splodey gas that practically is begging to be on fire. Surely *I* can make it happen. I've seen movies. I'm smart.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:23 PM (Vq1pX)

90 ACE the ads and popups are annoying AF.

Posted by: Eric at February 25, 2026 05:23 PM (a2F+C)

91 I was under the (mistaken?) impression that Idaho did not allow crazy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

92 See? Sience:

82 The Left has weaponized the Unmet Maternal Instinct.
Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 05:20 PM (0MjtC)

AI slop? You be the judge.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 25, 2026 05:24 PM (YlWIZ)

93 What ads?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:24 PM (QScRl)

94 a posts that they say prove George purchased gasoline cans and lighter fluid,

Yeah, I mean, how else are you going to light the gasoline?

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 05:24 PM (o2432)

95 Get a new look for Spring!

Now booking appointments for your testicle glow up.

Posted by: Your Local MediSpa at February 25, 2026 05:24 PM (q2NNn)

96 How dare our president call these people crazy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
......

So divisive and mean.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 05:24 PM (UjdFS)

97 If you have two cans of gasoline, the fumes of which are extremely flammable, why do you need lighter fluid?

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (98kQX)

98 84 **examines testicles**
Posted by: eleven

Need help?

Posted by: David Hogg at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (Y1sOo)

99 ICE is removing illegal criminals in red communities. You just don't hear about it in the media because it's low-drama due to appropriate cooperation. Also, the worst offenders tend to congregate in blue beepholes due to lax enforcement and enabling judicial systems, so they're going to get some extra attention from ICE.
Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2026 05:21 PM (FMtrg)

Also, ICE likely doesn't have to do as much in red areas because the illegals there probably took the "here's a couple bucks, go home now, wait in line like you ought to" route.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (Vq1pX)

100 ICE is removing illegal criminals in red communities. You just don't hear about it in the media because it's low-drama due to appropriate cooperation. Also, the worst offenders tend to congregate in blue beepholes due to lax enforcement and enabling judicial systems, so they're going to get some extra attention from ICE.
Posted by: Emmie

Agreed. I'm in a very red state. We've had a handful of national guard troops on orders since December assisting ICE operations in the state. No drama, no headlines, but a steady stream of clean, targeted arrests in coordination with local law enforcement agencies. A few blue areas tried to resist, but were smacked down by the state.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (ycI94)

101
I think most of the whiners about the ads are trying a new way to troll Ace.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (3ek7K)

102 Un cigarette por favour.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (QScRl)

103 There is not enough alcohol in the world for that to ever have sex

So why bother gracing it with any gender at all?

Posted by: Alternative point of view at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM (C07d8)

104 Dammit Ace,

You made me LOL with your cruelty and my sutures did not like it one bit.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)

105 If you have two cans of gasoline, the fumes of which are extremely flammable, why do you need lighter fluid?

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (98kQX)

Because that's the essential problem here?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM (2bC92)

106 How big of a failure are you to not be able to Arson. It's literally gas and a match.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 05:19 PM (IifOV)

++++

I am comforted with the fact that these nuts are indeed inept.
However, they are also fiercely determined, so I expect one of these times they may succeed.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM (rkWQ6)

107 ICE is removing illegal criminals in red communities. You just don't hear about it in the media because it's low-drama due to appropriate cooperation. Also, the worst offenders tend to congregate in blue beepholes due to lax enforcement and enabling judicial systems, so they're going to get some extra attention from ICE.
Posted by: Emmie

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

Non-progressive states turn over anyone "justice system involved" to ICE without requiring much effort. The shitholes are protecting them and that requires hunting them down.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM (AoT6J)

108 In my two day arsonist phase when I was 13, I discovered gasoline actually isn't that flammable.

But spray cans really are!

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM (aTgV0)

109 I think most of the whiners about the ads are trying a new way to troll Ace.

I think so too

they're always these weird new nics and I wonder if the text somehow gets picked up and hurts the ad revenue (such as it is)?

but yeah whatever go to Twitchy if you want to see annoying freaking ads

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 25, 2026 05:27 PM (j+aD2)

110 How was it taken alive? It could have had a deadman's switch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:27 PM (QScRl)

111 "Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of."
.......

So you only shave one?

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 05:27 PM (UjdFS)

112 Ads? Ace esta haciendo dinero mucho, pobrecitos. I think he's worth it.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 25, 2026 05:27 PM (YlWIZ)

113 At leas they caught this gal (?).

The girl who tried to set the warehouse on fire in Kansas City, MO, is still walking around free.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

114 Because that's the essential problem here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM (2bC92)

Just because she is a monster doesn't mean we can't rag on her technique.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (Vq1pX)

115 I was under the (mistaken?) impression that Idaho did not allow crazy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

I'm new here, but the crazy seems to be a fairly small area around Boise. College town, state capital, etc.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (PSEDc)

116 "I am comforted with the fact that these nuts are indeed inept.
However, they are also fiercely determined, so I expect one of these times they may succeed.
Posted by: washrivergal "

I think the nuttiness and the stupidity are a nearly circular Venn diagram.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (aTgV0)

117
They Say It's a Woman
And not a cow
Though maybe she could be
Hitched to a plow

Posted by: fd, My Inner Beauty Stinks at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (vFG9F)

118 The ads come in handy. I never would have treated my toenail fungus properly without them. Also would never have known there were hot 25 year old women only two miles away who want to date codgers like me. Win-Win!

Posted by: Old Fossil at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (oftw2)

119 people pictures of."
.......

So you only shave one?
==
These days he is going hippie chic. He gre his hair out and went with corn rows....

Posted by: Alternative point of view at February 25, 2026 05:29 PM (C07d8)

120 Chick used loyalty card to buy gas, in the gas cans she purchased on cam and placed in her personal vehicle she used to get gas , also on cam, and steal the ambulance, also on cam.

The biggest surprise here is that she managed to not self-immolate.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:29 PM (2bC92)

121 > Schumer: “Of course we support Americans. We’re not going to be a prop in Donald Trump’s little show.”

1. Liar
2. Trump invited you to stand for the statement, "The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens." That's not generic, "support." It's a prioritization of Americans over illegals, which you refuse to do.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 05:29 PM (Yp6az)

122 Dammit Ace,

You made me LOL with your cruelty and my sutures did not like it one bit.
Posted by: whig
.......

Me too. My gall bladder removal holes are glued shut but can't take much more of this.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 05:30 PM (UjdFS)

123 I'm new here, but the crazy seems to be a fairly small area around Boise. College town, state capital, etc.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (PSEDc)

Invasion by California, I'm guessing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 05:30 PM (6ydKt)

124 The woman who did this single handedly made things worse for both the immigrant and LGBTQ residents of Boise with her actions. Mark Fitzpatrick is using her for advertising in his campaign for governor. MAGA had already been using this as an excuse for ramping up ICE reports on POC...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Gosh, is the light maybe dawning on these pinheads, even a little bit?

I bet returning arson to being a capital crime would drive the point home.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 05:30 PM (a+4eV)

125 >>> ace had it right all along, it’s ball pics I should be sending my matches online, not dic pics

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (REq0p)

Wallet pics catch more flies.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:21 PM (2bC92)

I'm out of the dating rotation, but maybe these modern days it's all git commit count and your collection of painted minis that pulls the gals.

Posted by: banana Dream - Revenge of the Nerds? at February 25, 2026 05:30 PM (3uBP9)

126 The biggest surprise here is that she managed to not self-immolate.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:29 PM (2bC92)

She may have honestly not intended to survive the attack.

What's the Ungulate for "Aloha Snackbar"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:30 PM (Vq1pX)

127
I think the nuttiness and the stupidity are a nearly circular Venn diagram.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (aTgV0)

++++

LOL

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 05:30 PM (rkWQ6)

128 >>Because that's the essential problem here?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM

It was unhelpful and it seems like an unnecessary expense.

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (98kQX)

129 118 The ads come in handy. I never would have treated my toenail fungus properly without them. Also would never have known there were hot 25 year old women only two miles away who want to date codgers like me. Win-Win!
Posted by: Old Fossil

--------

I had toenail fungus once - I clipped it real short and soaked it in a mild bleach solution for 20 min or so a night for a few days. Solved.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (AoT6J)

130 Just because she is a monster doesn't mean we can't rag on her technique.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:28 PM (Vq1pX)

There are bigger rags, here, is the point. See @ 120.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (2bC92)

131 How big of a failure are you to not be able to Arson. It's literally gas and a match.

To repeat myself from a few days ago, I'm 90% certain that she thought just crashing the car with the gas cans inside would create a scene out of a Die Hard movie. Needing to light anything never occurred to her.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (Fs0KI)

132 "The ads come in handy. I never would have treated my toenail fungus properly without them. Also would never have known there were hot 25 year old women only two miles away who want to date codgers like me. Win-Win!
Posted by: Old Fossil"

Just wait until the flood of cute Canadian chicks get here from Canada.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (aTgV0)

133 27 And I will name it George.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:09 PM (QScRl)

Ace's less-attractive testicle?

Posted by: No Name Today at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (8mulE)

134 Government buildings should only offer parallel parking.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:32 PM (QScRl)

135 It’s a tax.
Case dismissed

Posted by: SCOTUS at February 25, 2026 05:32 PM (fLwMa)

136
The hot girls only want to "date" old codgers with lots of money, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 25, 2026 05:32 PM (3ek7K)

137 Boise's mayor is an AWFL born in Boston. Lauren McClean. that certainly does not help matters.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 25, 2026 05:32 PM (PSEDc)

138 It's nice to see that the perp shaved for the mug shot.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 05:32 PM (gVUi7)

139 I'm out of the dating rotation, but maybe these modern days it's all git commit count and your collection of painted minis that pulls the gals.

Posted by: banana Dream - Revenge of the Nerds? at February 25, 2026 05:30 PM (3uBP9)

In Ace's zoological category, it's shelfies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:32 PM (2bC92)

140 >>> In my two day arsonist phase when I was 13, I discovered gasoline actually isn't that flammable.

But spray cans really are!
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 05:26 PM (aTgV0)

Depends on the temp / vapor pressure.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 25, 2026 05:33 PM (3uBP9)

141 You refuse to stand with your president on a blatantly non-controversial statement. Because Trump.

You are the ones playing games. You are the ones not being serious.

Never let the words "comity" or "unity" ooze or of your face again, Monster. We know who you are. We know what you are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:33 PM (Vq1pX)

142 "Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of."

Pure poetry, Ace.

Posted by: Toni at February 25, 2026 05:33 PM (Rmcin)

143 The FBI raided the home and offices of the LA Unified School District Superintendent.
-------
WTF is it with school superintendents? Wait,wait...I think I've got it. They're hired by shool boards.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 05:33 PM (XeU6L)

144 Fuel Oxygen and a spark. Man figured this out long ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:33 PM (QScRl)

145 I'm new here, but the crazy seems to be a fairly small area around Boise. College town, state capital, etc.

Posted by: Pug Mahon

Boise, Sun Valley, Moscow especially, with a bit of Coeur d'Alene in the last few years. Maybe some wherever they imported a bunch of Muslim foreigners to work in the Chobani factory.

Big cities, university towns, and wherever the Hollywood elite have their vacation homes.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 05:33 PM (a+4eV)

146 101
I think most of the whiners about the ads are trying a new way to troll Ace.

Posted by: fourseasons

A fair number of them use Crapple products and Safari is a shit browser (all apple browsers use Safari underlying code becuz Apple makes them so any other 'browser' is simply a skin over the underlying crappy browser. There is a reason taht I refused to use Macs anymore at work and it was becuz of Safari. Second, a lot of people do not know how to lock down a browser, nor simply go to comments at the bottom of the post.

Pixy does fix the rare severe glitch and I have rarely had any problems with linux and any of its browsers here which ironically can be an issue elsewhere on sites that want all sorts of intrusive bullshit.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (E4rtv)

147 Schumer: “Of course we support Americans. We’re not going to be a prop in Donald Trump’s little show.”

Boy, is he going to pissed when he finds out they were a prop in Donald Trump's little show.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (o2432)

148 Guys, I'm not sure this "terrorist arrest" thing is real. I just checked Bing's U.S. news page and there's no mention of it.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (0K8Uv)

149 Fuel Oxygen and a spark. Man figured this out long ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:33 PM (QScRl)

Wait until women discover the wheel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (2bC92)

150 I love this.

At a Toronto city building, an AWFL did a smug, "land acknowledgment."

A member of the public used his comment time to provide some balance with a, "taxpayer acknowledgment."

http://tiny.cc/m9hz001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (Yp6az)

151 I think a couple of teen age boys with a lighter and a fart would be more successful that whatever that thing is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (jtM2q)

152 Just wait until the flood of cute Canadian chicks get here from Canada.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (aTgV0)

Rachel McAdams is already here so I think they're all out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

153 Boise is the Austin of Madisons.

Posted by: SCOTUS at February 25, 2026 05:35 PM (fLwMa)

154 In my two day arsonist phase when I was 13, I discovered gasoline actually isn't that flammable.

But spray cans really are!
Posted by: eleven
_______

We'd build a fire in the woods when I was a little delinquent about that age and throw in a can of spray paint. Then run. It's amazing more of us 70s kids didn't make it to the 80s.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2026 05:35 PM (XvL8K)

155 She'll be hailed as a hero for caring about the community and its local tax base. (For the children as Nan says. 💖

---
Allegedly, when the federal government buys a warehouse, the local community generally loses the property tax revenue that the private owner was previously paying.

That is the first line of BS up in Berks County (PA) where ICE recently purchased a huge (new) warehouse for its operations:

The Department of Homeland Security and ICE finalized the $87.4 million purchase of a 518,000-square-foot warehouse at 3501 Mountain Road in Upper Bern Township, Berks County.

“Our immediate concerns include the potential loss of property tax revenue for the host municipality, county, and school district, as well as security and perimeter considerations,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement.

Further action is never out of question.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 05:36 PM (NFX2v)

156 Whatever happened to the woman who tried arson to prevent a building from being sold to ICE, I believe in Kansas City. Did the coppers ever find her?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 05:36 PM (BIg7z)

157 I meant to say city meeting, not city building. Though it did happen at a city building.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 05:36 PM (Yp6az)

158 I kind of feel sorry for these guys, but also not. These are the same guys who would be staffing the camps and making lamp shades out of Chud skin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 05:36 PM (zZu0s)

159 There are bigger rags, here, is the point. See @ 120.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (2bC92)

I know, i know, but I'm the kind of guy who, if i were ever involved in organizing a firing line, I'd be the one handing out full magazines. None of this "only one of you doesn't have a blank" silliness.

Fire for effect, guys. That's why we got a pressure washer set up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:36 PM (Vq1pX)

160 Just wait until the flood of cute Canadian chicks get here from Canada.
Posted by: eleven

Cute at sixteen, add 30 pounds at 18, fat and dumpy by 21. It's the cold winters and subsidized dairy products.

Posted by: Sits AROUND the House at February 25, 2026 05:37 PM (oftw2)

161 "Wait until women discover the wheel.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"

Christ.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 05:37 PM (aTgV0)

162 We'd build a fire in the wood

I once rubbed two fires together to make a stick.

Posted by: Chuck Norris at February 25, 2026 05:37 PM (O6Whv)

163 105 If you have two cans of gasoline, the fumes of which are extremely flammable, why do you need lighter fluid?

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (98kQX)

Because that's the essential problem here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
=======
Maybe it gets her excited and high sniffing the lighter fluid first.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:37 PM (E4rtv)

164 97 If you have two cans of gasoline, the fumes of which are extremely flammable, why do you need lighter fluid?

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 05:25 PM (98kQX)

To light the gas, duh. It's right there in the name. How else you gonna do it?

Posted by: Fugly Karen who failed at arson at February 25, 2026 05:37 PM (X5Jzz)

165 I saw a clip.of some guys trying to burn down a gas station. They pumped gas out around the pumps and lit it. The spilled gas burnt and went out

That gas station must have had a high ratio of water to gas in their tanks. Would not buy gas there.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 05:38 PM (+nEug)

166 The "PrinciPal", w/o looking, he was not showing enough gay pron to the kids?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 05:39 PM (/lPRQ)

167 I know, i know, but I'm the kind of guy who, if i were ever involved in organizing a firing line, I'd be the one handing out full magazines. None of this "only one of you doesn't have a blank" silliness.

Fire for effect, guys. That's why we got a pressure washer set up.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
=====
If that is the case, buckshot or cable shot out of twelve gauge shotguns @ 10 yards works a bit better if you want slicing and dicing.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:39 PM (E4rtv)

168
What was the specific reason for stealing an ambulance to do this? I know the general
reason is "deranged and low IQ" but was there something else?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 05:40 PM (VWtfl)

169 If you light the lighter fluid it becomes lighter than the rest of the lighter fluid which means that's now all the heavier fluid so you can't use it as lighter fluid anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:40 PM (Vq1pX)

170 Class and sophistication from our neighbors to the north.

The Globe and Mail
@globeandmail
The State of the Union was a zoo – and Team USA the monkeys

-
Now for that, Schumer would stand.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 05:40 PM (FXNzP)

171 For the lighter.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 05:40 PM (NFX2v)

172 I was under the (mistaken?) impression that Idaho did not allow crazy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Look, as long about you don't make it other people's problem or wreck other people's stuff, you can be as crazy as you want.

Posted by: Idaho at February 25, 2026 05:40 PM (a+4eV)

173 Sargon of Akkad is the Lotus Eater Guy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:40 PM (QScRl)

174 Did they ever try a group guillotine? I.e. one with multiple slots?

Now I have to look it up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM (zZu0s)

175 If you ever want to see a nukular level fire, take half an old VW air-cooled engine case and toss it in the fire. Magnesium burns incredibly white-hot. Nothing will grow on that spot for a generation.

Posted by: VW Trends at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM (oftw2)

176 That would be misuse of public funds, but that seems to me a matter of state concern, not the business of the feds.

If they're using any tax-payer money, fraud is still fraud.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM (diia5)

177 The Globe and Mail
@globeandmail
The State of the Union was a zoo – and Team USA the monkeys

I am sorry, I don't make the rules. I just mercilessly enforce them. And the rules state that comment is raycisss

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM (rbvCR)

178 I wonder if it had to do with boys in girls lockerrooms.

And Ace should get that testicle looked at, that photo is horrid.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM (n5tGW)

179 "No but seriously what's her husband think?"

Apparently they have no children.

I suspect the husband's sperm at least thought, "Swim away, swim away!" like the Knights seeking the Holy Grail when they faced the deadly foul beastie of a rabbit.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (HlyYF)

180 168
What was the specific reason for stealing an ambulance to do this? I know the general
reason is "deranged and low IQ" but was there something else?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 05:40 PM (VWtfl)

Guessing here but she may have thought driving the ambulance would allow her to get closer to the building without raising alarm or something.

I read in an article earlier that when she hijacked the ambulance from the hospital there was a patient in it that had to be forced out along with the EMTs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (6ydKt)

181 The crack Kansas City arson squad still hasn't arrested the woman they have on video trying to burn a building rumored to be sold to ICE. She must have even alerted TV crews she was going to burn the building in advance, since they were there filming the arson attack.

And, yet, no arrest. Weird.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (BIg7z)

182 Remember those STD pics in the Health books?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (QScRl)

183 Everyone knows that you arson a pool of gasoline with a zippo, not a bic lighter.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (4NO2D)

184 If that is the case, buckshot or cable shot out of twelve gauge shotguns @ 10 yards works a bit better if you want slicing and dicing.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:39 PM (E4rtv)

Well lookee here at Mr. I Wanna Be President Waraiotoko's Secretary of Civic Rectification and Light Entertainment.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (Vq1pX)

185 "What was the specific reason for stealing an ambulance to do this? I know the general
reason is "deranged and low IQ" but was there something else?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug "

These people are crazy.

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2026 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

186 If that is the case, buckshot or cable shot out of twelve gauge shotguns @ 10 yards works a bit better if you want slicing and dicing.
Posted by: whig

Rac-Em-Bac in .357.

With a longbow.

Posted by: Kratwurst at February 25, 2026 05:43 PM (djUq5)

187 169 If you light the lighter fluid it becomes lighter than the rest of the lighter fluid which means that's now all the heavier fluid so you can't use it as lighter fluid anymore.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
=======
Your post made my head hurt.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:43 PM (E4rtv)

188 Schumer: “Of course we support Americans...”

Evidence?

Because there is a wealth of evidence that proves that you hate Americans.

But its Schumer, a pathological liar.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 05:43 PM (pawvM)

189 >>>If that is the case, buckshot or cable shot out of twelve gauge shotguns @ 10 yards works a bit better if you want slicing and dicing.

Posted by: whig

>We need to think of the taxpayers. Gravity is free.

Bring back the guillotine and the gallows.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 05:43 PM (gVUi7)

190 Rac-Em-Bac in .357.

With a longbow.
Posted by: Kratwurst
-------
Now you done done it. Some medieval freak is going to shout crossbow and Cry Havoc now.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (E4rtv)

191 She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of. - ace

We're here for you, ace.

Posted by: Glamour Shots at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (q2NNn)

192 Ropes are made of hemp.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (QScRl)

193 If you light the lighter fluid it becomes lighter than the rest of the lighter fluid which means that's now all the heavier fluid so you can't use it as lighter fluid anymore.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:40 PM (Vq1pX)
=================
That's what I said!

Posted by: Kamala's Word Salad at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (BIg7z)

194 Ace, you're a funny guy. Don't let your testicle tell you otherwise

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (xcxpd)

195 And Ace should get that testicle looked at

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM

I think that is the point of texting it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (4NO2D)

196 I read in an article earlier that when she hijacked the ambulance from the hospital there was a patient in it that had to be forced out along with the EMTs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (6ydKt)

That was my initial conception, due to poor writing. I believe medics were transporting patient inside, left ambulance running and unintended, and that's when Ace's Unfortunate Testicle sprung into action.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (2bC92)

197 Guessing here but she may have thought driving the ambulance would allow her to get closer to the building without raising alarm or something.

I read in an article earlier that when she hijacked the ambulance from the hospital there was a patient in it that had to be forced out along with the EMTs.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (6ydKt)
----
People generally don't question emergency vehicles screaming down the road. In fact, the rules of the road dictate that non-emergency vehicles get out of their way.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 05:45 PM (ESVrU)

198 To repeat myself from a few days ago, I'm 90% certain that she thought just crashing the car with the gas cans inside would create a scene out of a Die Hard movie. Needing to light anything never occurred to her.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 05:31 PM (Fs0KI)

+++++

This is awfully funny.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 05:45 PM (rkWQ6)

199 In urban areas, some ambulances are left running (idling) for long periods. At the very least, the keys are left in the ignition. It's also a heavy vehicle to crash into somewhere, but not beyond the ability of most people to drive it.

Posted by: Crime Of Opportunity at February 25, 2026 05:45 PM (oftw2)

200
"Holy shit, this looks like Ace's 'not my bad side' ball! Must be the terrorist!"

I need to stop sending that to everybody. Especially family members.

Teh Ewok uses his mouth prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 05:45 PM (y9nCu)

201 Why not steal a tanker truck?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (QScRl)

202 Did they ever try a group guillotine? I.e. one with multiple slots?

Now I have to look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

A crazy Russian built one.
Claims it is a 'fully automatic log splitter'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (/lPRQ)

203 The crack Kansas City arson squad still hasn't arrested the woman they have on video trying to burn a building rumored to be sold to ICE. She must have even alerted TV crews she was going to burn the building in advance, since they were there filming the arson attack.

And, yet, no arrest. Weird.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (BIg7z)

Listen buddy. Just cuz there is video evidence of crimes being committed by anti-ice antifa thugs, doesn’t it make it easy to find and arrest people. Ok??

Posted by: Minneapolis Police at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (fLwMa)

204 And Ace should get that testicle looked at

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM

I think that is the point of texting it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (4NO2D)

Don't make Ace testy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (2bC92)

205 Ambulances also have oxygen on board to add to the mayhem.

Posted by: Inogen Ira at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (oftw2)

206 That was my initial conception, due to poor writing. I believe medics were transporting patient inside, left ambulance running and unintended, and that's when Ace's Unfortunate Testicle sprung into action.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 05:44 PM (2bC92)
---
I can't decide if "Ace's Unfortunate Testicle" is the best or worst supervillain name...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (ESVrU)

207 Everyone knows that you arson a pool of gasoline with a zippo, not a bic lighter.

Sigh...

I have seen enough movies to know that you just stand there in front of a huge puddle of gasoline and with that poker face and a 1000 yard stare just flick a lit cigarette butt forward to land in the puddle and the resulting explosion can be seen from space.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (a6PrB)

208 The crack Kansas City arson squad still hasn't arrested the woman they have on video trying to burn a building rumored to be sold to ICE. She must have even alerted TV crews she was going to burn the building in advance, since they were there filming the arson attack.

And, yet, no arrest. Weird.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 05:42 PM (BIg7z)

They're just dancing around.

Posted by: Taggart at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (q2NNn)

209 If you ever want to see a nukular level fire, take half an old VW air-cooled engine case and toss it in the fire. Magnesium burns incredibly white-hot. Nothing will grow on that spot for a generation.
Posted by: VW Trends at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM (oftw2)

Wait a min. I have questions...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (zZu0s)

210 Like I said - The cops saved her life.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 05:47 PM (rj6Yv)

211 >>>Everyone knows that you arson a pool of gasoline with a zippo, not a bic lighter.

Posted by: toby928(c)

>Only if you are cool and wearing a bomber jacket.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 05:47 PM (gVUi7)

212
Bring back the guillotine and the gallows.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Gibbets. I want their suffering to be public.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 05:47 PM (XeU6L)

213 Listen buddy. Just cuz there is video evidence of crimes being committed by anti-ice antifa thugs, doesn’t it make it easy to find and arrest people. Ok??
Posted by: Minneapolis Police at February 25, 2026 05:46 PM (fLwMa)

Right?

Posted by: Portland PD at February 25, 2026 05:47 PM (b7qhf)

214 175 If you ever want to see a nukular level fire, take half an old VW air-cooled engine case and toss it in the fire. Magnesium burns incredibly white-hot. Nothing will grow on that spot for a generation.
Posted by: VW Trends at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM (oftw2)
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Use the burning Magnesium to light some powder, half of which is iron oxide and the other half Aluminum...

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 05:47 PM (3BwY8)

215
Newsweek continues to have the vapors over the men's hockey gold medal game:

Sunday's gold medal game between the United States and Canada was expected to receive heavy viewership, but in the end just 8.7 million Canadians tuned into the event, which sparked major concerns about the state of hockey in Canada.

That'll teach 'em to schedule a game before Tim Horton's opens in the morning!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 05:47 PM (xG4kz)

216 Mark Warner (Senator- Intelligence Community Deep State) left the SOTU speech early, claiming the President was lying about something. He didn't specify what. It makes me wonder what shenanigans the IC is planning next in their color revolution effort.

Posted by: Kamala's Word Salad at February 25, 2026 05:47 PM (BIg7z)

217 The Globe and Mail
@globeandmail
The State of the Union was a zoo – and Team USA the monkeys

I am sorry, I don't make the rules. I just mercilessly enforce them. And the rules state that comment is raycisss
Posted by: Kindltot

Ice Monkeys.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (/lPRQ)

218 Use the burning Magnesium to light some powder, half of which is iron oxide and the other half Aluminum...
Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 05:47 PM (3BwY

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Isn't that thermite?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (ESVrU)

219 >>The Globe and Mail
@globeandmail
The State of the Union was a zoo – and Team USA the monkeys

Gold Medal Monkeys

SUFFAH, Canada

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (1Udfd)

220 ""Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle.""

""God spare us the wrath of ugly, unfuckable femcels who have nothing to contribute to the world except for deranged social media posts about Trump.''"

*snicker*...*giggle*....lololololololololololol...
*wheeze*..lolololololololololol...ahahahahahahahah *wheeeeeze* lolololol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (snZF9)

221 Lumpy Ace plays both sides of the aisle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (gVUi7)

222 189 >>>If that is the case, buckshot or cable shot out of twelve gauge shotguns @ 10 yards works a bit better if you want slicing and dicing.

Posted by: whig

>We need to think of the taxpayers. Gravity is free.

Bring back the guillotine and the gallows.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Well those are carbon neutral and ecologically sustainable. I would suggest using hemp as slightly more friendly as you can also sell the CBD oils from the production of hemp rope at the same time.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (E4rtv)

223
Arson with a presto log is for pussies.

Posted by: Local Arsonist Union #117 at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (IifOV)

224 Immolation. Let the punishment fit the crime.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (QScRl)

225 Did they ever try a group guillotine? I.e. one with multiple slots?

Now I have to look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You may want to jot that down and date it. For your patent application.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (o2432)

226
I saw Ace's Unfortunate Testicle open for King Missile at the Cow Palace back in '89.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (y9nCu)

227 Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

At least people won't compare you to me.

Posted by: zombie Adolf H. at February 25, 2026 05:49 PM (0sNs1)

228 Gibbets. I want their suffering to be public.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Eh, if you are going to go medieval, then pressing or dunking might be more entertaining.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:49 PM (E4rtv)

229 Isn't that thermite?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (ESVrU)

219 >>The Globe and Mail
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*Nods slyly and taps temple*

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 05:50 PM (3BwY8)

230 Not to be confused with me. Back in the day I was something to look at.

Posted by: Susan George at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (hJH5n)

231 You may want to jot that down and date it. For your patent application.
Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 05:48 PM (o2432)

Top to bottom? Take bets on which neck it stops at?

Or, like... side to side, like one of them old school paper cutters the sub would always somehow nick his hand on?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (Vq1pX)

232
It might have been mentioned upthread, but the FBI raid on the LAUSD might be because the FUCKING SUPERINTENDENT IS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN WHO'S BEEN IN THE COUNTRY FOR 40 FUCKING YEARS.

Excuse my Tourette's.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (5pERN)

233 Sweet Nvidia made my ... err .. nut today, all by itself.

Honestly, it has been the best day trading stock I have ever witnessed. This year it has cycled twice a month between about 175-180 to over 200. Four freaking times.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (4NO2D)

234 Couldn't they just douse her with gasoline and apply a tiki torch?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (QScRl)

235 JD Vance and Mehmet Oz have announced they are (temporarily) withholding $260 MILLION in Medicaid funds from the State of Minnesota due to FRAUD

Link to video on X:

https://tinyurl.com/3wdxu78x

Posted by: Ann at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (w9jrX)

236 Cow Demon, stop reading ahead. You'll be bored when we eventually get to it.

Posted by: Mrs. George, third grade reading teacher at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (hJH5n)

237 I and three friends will volunteer for the draw and quarter duty.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (+nEug)

238 Did they ever try a group guillotine? I.e. one with multiple slots?

Now I have to look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You may want to jot that down and date it. For your patent application.

Why? Just sharpen the blades of a helicopter, and have a raiseable deck for industrial grade Justice.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (a6PrB)

239 204 And Ace should get that testicle looked at

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM
________________________

For some reason, I'm remembering an old SouthPark where Randy Marsh is walking through town with his gigantic testicles in a wheelbarrow.

Posted by: Orson at February 25, 2026 05:52 PM (dIske)

240 Why? Just sharpen the blades of a helicopter, and have a raiseable deck for industrial grade Justice.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (a6PrB)

Plays hell on the motor, it has to be recertified to fly again

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 05:53 PM (rbvCR)

241 Well, I was thinking like the multiple noose gallows, just with four guillotines melted together. For when you have to execute a lot of people publicly, but want to be thrifty with time.

Think how insulting it would be for *types* *deletes* hmmm. That might be a bit over the line.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 05:53 PM (zZu0s)

242 I and three friends will volunteer for the draw and quarter duty.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (+nEug)

Oooh can we use harleys too?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 05:53 PM (snZF9)

243 Hemp is both reusable, and Earth friendly.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 05:54 PM (4NO2D)

244 For some reason, I'm remembering an old SouthPark where Randy Marsh is walking through town with his gigantic testicles in a wheelbarrow.
Posted by: Orson at February 25, 2026 05:52 PM (dIske)
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Not just Randy. Eventually a bunch of dudes give themselves testicular cancer (via microwave ovens) so they can smoke weed all day.

They "hop" around town on their giant balls.

Disturbing yet hilarious.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 05:54 PM (ESVrU)

245 JD Vance and Mehmet Oz have announced they are (temporarily) withholding $260 MILLION in Medicaid funds from the State of Minnesota due to FRAUD
Posted by: Ann

Vance leading the nation-wide crackdown on fraud is the only policy thing I took from the SotU. I hope he takes all the DOGE efforts to heart and runs with it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2026 05:54 PM (diia5)

246 Oooh can we use harleys too?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 05:53 PM (snZF9)

Bikers can't do fractions. Everyone knows that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:54 PM (Vq1pX)

247 I and three friends will volunteer for the draw and quarter duty.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (+

Dont you need four horses?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

248 It occurs to me that a lack of successful prosecutions has led people to believe they can get away with arson, murder and so on.

This thing probably thought she'd not be caught and/or charged.

The left is (or has) weaponized their base.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 05:55 PM (jtM2q)

249 Only if you are cool and wearing a bomber jacket.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Now, me, I've got a light...

Posted by: Eastwood, 'Grand Torino' at February 25, 2026 05:56 PM (XeU6L)

250 "Plays hell on the motor, it has to be recertified to fly again
Posted by: Kindltot "

It doesn't need to fly. It could be a permanent installation.
Use an old Chinook and get two rotors!

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2026 05:56 PM (vFG9F)

251 The left is (or has) weaponized their base.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Radioactive stupidity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 05:57 PM (FXNzP)

252 Hear me out.

Aircraft carrier.

Catapult.

Big ass sled full of smellies.

....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:58 PM (Vq1pX)

253 I and three friends will volunteer for the draw and quarter duty.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.

Posted by: Samuel Pepys at February 25, 2026 05:58 PM (XeU6L)

254 Some Commissar Judge will reapply those hundreds of millions to Minnesota

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)

255 Hear me out.

Aircraft carrier.

Catapult.

Big ass sled full of smellies.

....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:58 PM (Vq1pX)

Aircraft carrier skeet. I like it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2026 05:59 PM (snZF9)

256
Pixy does fix the rare severe glitch and I have rarely had any problems with linux and any of its browsers here which ironically can be an issue elsewhere on sites that want all sorts of intrusive bullshit.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (E4rtv)

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I have the same problem other commenters are describing and I use Chrome. If I hit the comments link quickly then the problem is avoided.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2026 06:00 PM (Vh9CX)

257 Didn't they launch cars from aircraft carriers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:00 PM (QScRl)

258 Make MN a territory again

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 06:01 PM (hJH5n)

259 Why? Just sharpen the blades of a helicopter, and have a raiseable deck for industrial grade Justice.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 05:51 PM (a6PrB)

Plays hell on the motor, it has to be recertified to fly again

Hmm.. Need to get more efficiency to better amortize the recertification costs.

Version 2.0: instead of the deck that raises, use an escalator for a Conveyor Belt of Justice.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 06:01 PM (9s47C)

260 204 And Ace should get that testicle looked at

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 05:41 PM
________________________
He's offering to send pictures of it right there in the post.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 06:01 PM (+zBf9)

261 The inventor of the Squatty Potty has been arrested for child porn. I am not making this up.

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2026 06:01 PM (vFG9F)

262 > Did they ever try a group guillotine? I.e. one with multiple slots?

Fun fact: The guillotine was invented to be a more humane and egalitarian method of execution. Sanson was the chief executioner of France. He noted that nobles got more experienced headsman who carefully maintained their sword and were better at cleanly beheading people in one stroke. Commoners were often treated much more carelessly and often had to endure multiple sword slashes before death.

Dr Guillotin took up the argument in the National Assembly. He proposed a method that would be more accurately repeatable and would take off heads more cleanly. Sanson gave input and Dr Louis and engineer Schmidt built the machine.

Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood!

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 06:02 PM (Yp6az)

263 Oh yeah, he's gay and he and his husband have 4 kids.

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2026 06:02 PM (vFG9F)

264 Eh, if you are going to go medieval, then pressing or dunking might be more entertaining.
Posted by: whig
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But, gibbets provide an ongoing reminder.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 06:02 PM (XeU6L)

265 But, gibbets provide an ongoing reminder.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Fair enough. Though occasionally the fat ones lose their heads.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:04 PM (E4rtv)

266 Blue Oyster Cult: " She's as beautiful as a foot". Lizzie could use a long timeout at the state hospital.

Posted by: kingsman at February 25, 2026 06:05 PM (ehY6c)

267 Public hangings need to make a comeback. Some of these nutters might think twice about acting out their cosplay fantasies.

Or not. But hang the ones caught anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 06:05 PM (jtM2q)

268 "Version 2.0: instead of the deck that raises, use an escalator for a Conveyor Belt of Justice.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

And loudspeakers that play that lick from "Powerhouse".

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2026 06:05 PM (vFG9F)

269
I am sorry, I don't make the rules. I just mercilessly enforce them. And the rules state that comment is raycisss
Posted by: Kindltot

Have Al Green carry a sign about it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 06:06 PM (Cqx++)

270 The less attractive testicle is always the one that hangs lower than the other. Polls suggest that high and tight is what social media expects and deserves.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 06:06 PM (gVUi7)

271 259 Why? Just sharpen the blades of a helicopter, and have a raiseable deck for industrial grade Justice.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Well you could sharpen fiberglass windmill blades and use windmills. It is the most fitting that they get pureed that way rather than some poor bird.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (E4rtv)

272 The inventor of the Squatty Potty has been arrested for child porn. I am not making this up.
Posted by: fd
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Ads were ghey as f*ck.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (XeU6L)

273 Heads on Pikes are decorative as well.

Posted by: London Bridge at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (q2NNn)

274 A helicopter training exercise in Iran came to an abrupt end when it crash landed in a fruit and vegetable market.

2 more jets have crashed and burned. At this rate there may not be an IRGC air force left.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (+nEug)

275 263 Oh yeah, he's gay and he and his husband have 4 kids.

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2026 06:02 PM (vFG9F)

++++

FFS. Whenever I hear about queers having custody of kids it makes me sick. i feel like the children are doomed and ruined forever.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (rkWQ6)

276 Are there any NYC morons who can confirm electricity bills have skyrocketed under Mamdami?

http://tiny.cc/2bhz001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 06:08 PM (Yp6az)

277 267 Public hangings need to make a comeback. Some of these nutters might think twice about acting out their cosplay fantasies.

Or not. But hang the ones caught anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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There is always what the Brits did in the Sepoy Rebellion, strap the miscreants across the barrel of cannons and fire. Don't even need a cannon ball as just the powder charge and wadding will do. Instant cannonized martyrs for the cause. I also understand drawing and quartering was also something the Brits liked to do.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (E4rtv)

278 Ads were ghey as f*ck.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 06:07 PM (XeU6L)

The unicorns pooping rainbows were a giveaway.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (zZu0s)

279 ------
Fair enough. Though occasionally the fat ones lose their heads.
Posted by: whig
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Iintend the cage type.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 06:09 PM (XeU6L)

280 She looks dumb enough to set herself on fire. Cops should have waited awhile before they tried to arrest her/him. Now we have to feed her.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 25, 2026 06:10 PM (g8Ew8)

281 > Public hangings need to make a comeback. Some of these nutters might think twice about acting out their cosplay fantasies.

One of the defining characteristics of 98% of street criminals is an inability to delay gratification or understand the most likely second order consequences of their actions. I believe there would be reduction in crime, but mostly because most of the crime is done by the same small percentage of people.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 06:10 PM (Yp6az)

282 So many of the execution methods assume the operators have lots of time on their hands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

283 Just salads for you.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:10 PM (QScRl)

284 I prefer the disappearance technique.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 06:11 PM (+nEug)

285 because the FUCKING SUPERINTENDENT IS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN WHO'S BEEN IN THE COUNTRY FOR 40 FUCKING YEARS.

Excuse my Tourette's.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

It's just a tic! Could happen to anyone.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 06:11 PM (o2432)

286 There is always what the Brits did in the Sepoy Rebellion, strap the miscreants across the barrel of cannons and fire. Don't even need a cannon ball as just the powder charge and wadding will do.
Posted by: whig
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'Rent Asunder'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 06:11 PM (XeU6L)

287 Might I be of some assistance?

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler at February 25, 2026 06:12 PM (q2NNn)

288 You've heard of death by chocolate? Well, this is death by arugula.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

289 I have the same problem other commenters are describing and I use Chrome. If I hit the comments link quickly then the problem is avoided.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Try Brave. Brave is a slightly modified Chrome variant designed for privacy. Android version or Linux version too.

Chromium might work too for you as it is a de Googled Chrome with the spyware shit stripped.

If on an Apple or IOS, Safari and whatever skin you put on it usually has problems here with AOS.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:15 PM (E4rtv)

290 Iintend the cage type.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Ah, a true historian and medievalist.

The nautical sorts might think though of keel hauling. Those barnacles get pretty sharp over time and ships are pretty long nowadays.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv)

291 Keel hauling is end to end and not side to side?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:18 PM (QScRl)

292 The thing about public punishment for criminal acts is the fact it's public. People, the ones that are thinking about committing crimes are exposed to the consequences. For some it might force a rethinking, others.... well they get to be examples.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 06:18 PM (jtM2q)

293 > So many of the execution methods assume the operators have lots of time on their hands.

I honestly don't understand why the gas chamber uses super dangerous gasses that have to be vented hundreds of feet in the air.

Why don't we just use helium? Your body doesn't realize you aren't inhaling air and you just go to sleep, eventually dying. Then the gas is easily dealt with.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 06:18 PM (Yp6az)

294 Try Brave. Brave is a slightly modified Chrome variant designed for privacy. Android version or Linux version too.

Chromium might work too for you as it is a de Googled Chrome with the spyware shit stripped.

If on an Apple or IOS, Safari and whatever skin you put on it usually has problems here with AOS.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:15 PM (E4rtv)

Either that or fill up some gas cans, steal an ambulance, and go burn down the nearest server farm.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 25, 2026 06:19 PM (g8Ew8)

295 > People, the ones that are thinking about committing crimes are exposed to the consequences.

See my comment #281.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 06:19 PM (Yp6az)

296 Keel hauling is end to end and not side to side?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:18 PM

If Hollywood's Mutiny on the Bounty is to be believe, it was from stem to stern.

Unless the sharks get them first.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:19 PM (4NO2D)

297 One of the defining characteristics of 98% of street criminals is an inability to delay gratification or understand the most likely second order consequences of their actions. I believe there would be reduction in crime, but mostly because most of the crime is done by the same small percentage of people.
Posted by: bonhomme
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The Bloody Codes of England are probably why England between the Victorian era and WWII had a remarkably low crime rate historically for the Island. Violent miscreants did not get to breed much.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:20 PM (E4rtv)

298 As has been noted, pickpockets plied their trade at hangings for other pickpockets back in old England.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:20 PM (4NO2D)

299 I honestly don't understand why the gas chamber uses super dangerous gasses that have to be vented hundreds of feet in the air.

Why don't we just use helium? Your body doesn't realize you aren't inhaling air and you just go to sleep, eventually dying. Then the gas is easily dealt with.
Posted by: bonhomme
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They just recently used plain nitrogen in some state, Alabama?. Problem is you have to have it certified as not cruel to avoid constitutional challenges of cruel and unusual.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:21 PM (E4rtv)

300 Keelhauling could be either apparently. The Dutch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 06:22 PM (QScRl)

301 The squatty potty pedo was on Shark Tank. Barbara Corcoran spotted that he was "off." She said she didn't trust him.

http://tiny.cc/0chz001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 06:22 PM (Yp6az)

302 291 Keel hauling is end to end and not side to side?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Yep. And ships almost started accumulating barnacles as soon as they hit the sea. Those barnacles made the bottoms of ships like a giant human skin grater. Which bleeding attracted the various nasties of the ocean for prey.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:23 PM (E4rtv)

303 nood

Quickies

Posted by: banana Dream at February 25, 2026 06:23 PM (3uBP9)

304 Public executions fail as deterrence, but succeed in lowering recidivism.

Plus, a lively time is had by all.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 06:23 PM (4NO2D)

305 282 So many of the execution methods assume the operators have lots of time on their hands.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Executions of criminals was usually meant to make a point for deterring future crime and to demonstrate to the public that government was doing its duty to protect the public. So, it did take time depending on the spectacle desired.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)

306 bitch has more chins than the chinese phone book

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 25, 2026 06:33 PM (OgL9F)

307 Why don't we just use helium? Your body doesn't realize you aren't inhaling air and you just go to sleep, eventually dying. Then the gas is easily dealt with.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Why spent the money on helium? Nitrogen already makes up 79% of what you're breathing, works exactly the same, and is a hell of a lot cheaper.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 25, 2026 07:55 PM (qNwbf)

308 That "woman" is FUGLY. They all have that same look. Between these ugly bitches, trannies, and muzzies, we have what... 80 percent of the political violence easily identified. Complete with intentions posted for all to see.

Law enforcement should just comb blue sky and Reddit.

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 25, 2026 08:24 PM (XLfSN)

309 Fat and ugly woman gathering gas cans like that... She should have never made it to her car. What more of red flag do ya need?

It hilarious but really sad.

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 25, 2026 08:27 PM (XLfSN)

310 I wonder if Sarah Elizabeth George is REALLY from Boise or if she is one of those nasty transplants who've moved there in recent years.

Posted by: Lee Also at February 25, 2026 08:42 PM (IrqeV)

311 Perhaps these lunatics who write such things should be designated as people of special interest - and haul the ones advocating for murder into jail for a long while.

Posted by: Happy at February 25, 2026 08:45 PM (J9hl8)

BAFTA Tourettes Incident Pits the People Who Cancel Over #Racism Against the People Who Cancel Over "Abelism"

The BAFTAs are a low-rent knock-off of the Golden Globes for the UK only.

A film had been nominated for an award, called I Swear. It's about a Tourette's syndrome advocate, who happens to be afflicted with Tourette's himself. The movie shows him being beaten up and otherwise suffering because the Tourette's causes him involuntarily to curse or otherwise say inappropriate, offensive things.

(I think he may be a commenter here.)

Two Americans, Michael B. Jordan and Deroy Lindo, were presenters at the awards show. They had to import two Americans because Britain only has like six "stars" and they were all busy filming Poroit episodes or Doctor Who.

These two Americans are black. Black people were presenting awards in front of man suffering from Tourette's. A man who frequently gets beaten up because his brain unconsciously decides what would be the worst possible thing he could say in a situation, and then makes him say it.

So what do you think he shouted at the black men?

Answer below, but it's not bleeped out at all, so have a care about playing it. The text headline tells you the answer, though.

Tourettes activist John Davidson shouts n*gger and b*tch at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the Bafta Awards in London. pic.twitter.com/mrS95IrW41
— Anthony Brian Logan (ABL) 🇺🇸 (@ANTHONYBLOGAN) February 23, 2026

For his part, the man explained that he has Tourette's -- you know, the whole reason he was there, the whole reason they made a movie about him, which shows him frequently getting beaten up because he says inappropriate things, involuntarily -- and that he feels terrible about the whole thing.

Oli London
@OliLondonTV
Feb 23
Tourette Syndrome activist John Davidson who yelled the N Word at two black actors during the BAFTA's issues statement saying he is "mortified."
"I am and always have been deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning...
I have spent my life trying to support and empower the Tourette's community and to teach empathy, kindness and understanding from others and I will continue to do so.
I chose to leave the auditorium early into the ceremony as I was aware of the distress my tics were causing."

This mortification was not enough for Woke Lefties, who really want you to know that they know that you should never yell the n-word under any circumstances, except if you're berating a black ICE officer.

Woke Retard Film Critic Grace Randolf just kept not understanding what Tourette's "involuntary verbal tics" meant. No matter how many times it was explained to her, no matter how many times she was Community Noted, she kept not grasping the meaning of "involuntary" and kept insisting the man should not have said the n-word.

Eventually she conceded that the tics are involuntary but then insisted he should have voluntarily restrained his involuntary tics anyway. Because #RacismBad!!!

No, seriously. She kept attempting to #Cancel the guy until the thousandth time she was told that Tourette's is a real condition whose main symptom is completely involuntary tics.

She eventually acknowledged, Okay, they're "involuntary" and "uncontrollable."

And then insisted: But he should have controlled himself!

Back to Mr Davidson, considering he knew this was a horrible word he shouted out uncontrollably, he should’ve done everything he could to keep this from happening.

And it’s telling he voluntarily left the event after this, as he - on his own accord - could tell what he had…
— Grace Randolph (@GraceRandolph) February 24, 2026

About John Davidson re Michael B Jordan & Delroy Lindo: I’ve been thinking about it, and listening to your responses

& while Mr Davidson shouldn’t be bullied, a lot of you are acting as if he not only can’t control his offensive tics but as if he has no idea he even has them.…
— Grace Randolph (@GraceRandolph) February 24, 2026

After a day of this, she offered a compromise: I will acknowledge his tics are uncontrollable if he apologizes for the harm he did by not controlling his uncontrollable tics.

I’m honored to have lead a constructive conversation about

John Davidson, Michael B Jordan, Delroy Lindo and BAFTA on today’s livestream

Thanks to all who helped contribute to the conversation the last 48 hours - it’s been an important process https://t.co/7puDnnJLTY
— Grace Randolph (@GraceRandolph) February 24, 2026

What you "contributed to the conversation" was ignorance, hared, immaturity, stupidity, bull-headedness, reflexivity and fixedness, and a mean girls determination to virtue signal and cancel no matter what the circumstances. The "conversation" was ten million people repeatedly explaining the definitions of "involuntary" and "uncontrollable' to you, and the meanings of these words continuing, somehow, to elude you.

Critical Drinker:

By the way, Grace found The Real Villains here:

It turns out the real ignorant ones were people like Nerdrotic and other "racists" who kept trying, unsuccessfully, to explain the meaning of the term "involuntary" to her.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:50 PM

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1 1

Posted by: Rex B at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (17kmc)

2 Too good to check.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (CyFyf)

3 yay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (CWTWj)

4 Fuck Tourettes.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:52 PM (VHUov)

5 Not entirely off topic, I miss the poetic musings of Chavez the Hugo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 03:52 PM (guGkK)

6 I don’t have Tourette’s but people being the stupidest useless fucks of worthless creation that they are always seem to think I do for some odd reason

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (REq0p)

7 What do you think he shouted at the brothers?
960 SAT jus like you, 960!

Posted by: kingsman at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (ehY6c)

8 'quincy' did an episode about this in like 1980

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 03:54 PM (CWTWj)

9 No idea what BAFTA is

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (Ia/+0)

10 The gentleman said that the show place a mic in front of him, even though he asked they not do that because he can't control his tics. They did it anyway. This was a forced error on Bafta's part to humiliate the man. The Brits are vile.

Posted by: moki at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (wLjpr)

11 Chrissie Mayr's Grace Randolph imitation on Friday Night Tights should be good this week.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (CNl8/)

12 I knew a guy with Tourettes and when I first met him it was the oddest thing.

It didn't take long though before you could tell the things he had no control over saying.

Now, in this BAFTA thing hasn't the left argued that every disability, even frankly fake ones, should be completely mitigated by law, government funds and social changes?

Tourette's is a real thing that we've had records of for a long time how is this not one of those disabilities that need to be mitigated

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

13 What you "contributed to the conversation" was ignorance, hared, immaturity, stupidity, bull-headedness, reflexivity and fixedness, and a mean girls determination to virtue signal and cancel no matter what the circumstances.
====

Standing right here

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

14 Maybe that Jordan guy should've stuck to selling sneakers.

Posted by: Kinda clueless at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (2Ez/1)

15 Obviously, dude is thinking 'Don't say X...Don't say X...Daon't say X'

...and his Tourette's is like, 'Hold on to your hat, man!'.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (1Udfd)

16 >>>the Tourette's causes him involuntarily to curse or otherwise say inappropriate, offensive things.
(I think he may be a commenter here.)

lol. yes, that's it. Please put my excuse on file.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (8mulE)

17 I don’t get it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (W2Pud)

18 No idea what BAFTA is

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (Kt19C)

19 Crap! Read the content first.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (LdBR/)

20 So he should have voluntary stopped his involuntary outbursts?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (qW/vZ)

21 If this guy really wanted to have fun, he could say "Hey, that wasn't me! Who was that guy?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (Vq1pX)

22 No idea what BAFTA is
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (Ia/+0)

Think Temu Oscars

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (guGkK)

23 If someone told me there was a thing called "BAFTA," with no context, I'd assume it was NAFTA but only for Black-owned businesses.

So TIL the Brits make enough films to give themselves awards for them.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (VHUov)

24 there's also a 'south park' episode where cartman thinks pretending he has tourette's will let him get away with stuff until he finds he can't control himself

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (CWTWj)

25 Now they will have to make a movie about how this guy was bullied at the BAFTAs this year so they can give it an award next year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (RIvkX)

26 I like that Jordan and Lindo just kept going as if nothing was happening. Which was their job: pros.

I mean the BAFTA awards is like Temo Golden Globes so this is the first 90% of the planet has ever heard of this thing but LOL all this over a word.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:57 PM (PYyV9)

27 brtitish arts films trash academy

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 03:57 PM (CWTWj)

28 I dealt with a customer at on old job once who interjected a really quick "n*gger" at the end of sentences. It was really weird. He would speak totally normal and then it would come out of nowhere. No black people were around.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 03:57 PM (CNl8/)

29 The South Park episode where Cartman pretended to have Tourette’s was hysterical.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 03:57 PM (W2Pud)

30 the Tourette's causes him involuntarily to curse or otherwise say inappropriate, offensive things.

Alcohol is my go-to excuse. YMMV

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 03:57 PM (guGkK)

31 He should just identify as a Stochastic BIPOC. Problem solved. BIPOCs can say the Forbidden Word with impunity.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 25, 2026 03:58 PM (ZJT0I)

32 28 I dealt with a customer at on old job once who interjected a really quick "n*gger" at the end of sentences. It was really weird. He would speak totally normal and then it would come out of nowhere. No black people were around.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 03:57 PM (CNl8/)

He wasn't Chinese, was he?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:58 PM (Vq1pX)

33 Grace Randolph is the profoundly retarded version of Barbara Walters.

This might possibly end her.

In a non-retarded world.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:58 PM (aTgV0)

34 Our celebrities are really in a league of their own vs other countries celebrities. I was on a flight from Moscow to New York 20 years ago, and the Russian pop group Ума Турман was on my flight. They were the top band in Russia for a few years beginning in 2004..... They were flying coach.

Posted by: mishdog at February 25, 2026 03:58 PM (v8DuT)

35 He just as easily could have shouted "While you were a very talented player, there's no doubt the refs also gave you preferential treatment. "

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 25, 2026 03:58 PM (8AONa)

36 Poor guy. They set him up.

It seems being called racist is the most mortifying thing for a Brit. Not being overrun by Muzzies and having your wives and daughters being pimped out by goatfuckers.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (zuIfz)

37 White female liberals really are becoming an intolerable menace to society and they’re only getting worse

I blame the clot shot, social media, simps, soys and all the ghey boys

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (REq0p)

38 This was such a perfect woke story.

Chef's kiss.

No notes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

39 So what do you think he shouted at the black men?

Filthy ice back scandi pillagers...?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (/lPRQ)

40 8 'quincy' did an episode about this in like 1980
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 03:54 PM (CWTWj)

I never watched Quincy, but LA Law did one. I laughed my ass off the whole way through.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (8mulE)

41 Any "outrage" should have lasted three heartbeats max.

It's all phony and gay and retarded.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (cS1cw)

42 Sounds like he already apologized.

But that's not good enough for the virtue signalers.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (FMtrg)

43 No idea what BAFTA is
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (Ia/+0)

Well, it sure as hell doesn't rhyme with torso.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (2WIwB)

44 I think the racism industry hit rock bottom this time.

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (YwEeS)

45
Tourette's is a real thing that we've had records of for a long time how is this not one of those disabilities that need to be mitigated

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

Unlike men who dress in fishnet hose and mini skirts and demand access to women and girl's bathrooms,changing areas, prisons, abuse shelters. That must be defended at ALL costs because these men ... er, Wymen... are delicate and fragile at 220 and bench pressing at least that.

Posted by: moki at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (wLjpr)

46 Don't believe the Tourette's guy and I'm also a Helen Keller Skeptic. Not falling for the Malarkey.

Posted by: Senile President Joe at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (oftw2)

47 So ... over-under on when the lunatic left claims John Davidson doesn't really have Tourette's and is just faking it to say mean things to black people?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

48 If this guy really wanted to have fun, he could say "Hey, that wasn't me! Who was that guy?"

Always having a sockpuppet at the ready is a valuable strategy for dealing with Tourette's.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM (guGkK)

49 It turns out the real ignorant ones were people like Nerdrotic and other "racists" who kept trying, unsuccessfully, to explain the meaning of the term "involuntary" to her.

=====

When she's right, she's right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

50 I feel like ace just said we all have Tourettes.

Or possibly that was directed at me personally.

I think it was me.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM (aTgV0)

51 The only one who could solve this for them is a paraplegic black lesbian transvestite with Tourettes with a heavy scottish accent.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM (IifOV)

52 but also made me think of walz bringing his son on stage during the dem convention, a reminder there's something wrong with walz

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM (CWTWj)

53 So wait a minute, these two actors had someone scream the N word at them and went on with their job...but I remember when a Congresscretin was selling Obamacare to the public and he claimed someone yelled the N word at him and that was like the end of the world.

Note: We eventually got audio of the event and no one yells the word

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

54 "Fuck Tourettes.
Posted by: mikeski"

FAGGOTT!

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (aTgV0)

55 Funny how yet again a liberal white women latches onto a "racism" and makes it all about it her. Doesn't seem like Jordan or Lindo were upset by it either, who were the only people to have any standing whatsoever to be bothered or offended. Probably because they understand what Tourette's is and aren't completely retarded like Grace Randolph.

Posted by: World ends, AWFLs hardest hit at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (TbWk/)

56 Tourettes activist John Davidson shouts n*gger and b*tch at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the Bafta Awards in London.

===

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (/M/4v)

57 "You have said the word that the knights of Ni cannot hear!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

58 Grace Randolph should watch Sweet Anita present an award at The Streamer Awards if she really wants to see Tourette’s in action.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (6ydKt)

59 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (/M/4v)

60 Jamie Foxx also Tweeted out an epically retarded take.

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (YwEeS)

61 Speaking of great debates . . .

Cornel West
@CornelWest
Brother Newsom could’ve taken a humanistic approach! He could’ve said, “I’m just like you. I was born of a woman. I’ll face loss, pain, and death just like anyone else.” But instead, when he thinks of Black people, he brings up low SAT scores. That mindset sits at the core of white supremacy—the belief that Black people are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent! Don’t play with us like that @CAgovernor !!
#TruthJusticeLove

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (FXNzP)

62 Sounds like he already apologized.

But that's not good enough for the virtue signalers.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous!

Of course not. Apologizing to them only confirms you as a weak target who can be tormented with impunity.

They're psychopaths.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (a+4eV)

63 Someone I read pointed out that this is a brutal conflict for the woke:

On the one hand, the ultimate evil, saying the forbidden word to a protected oppressed class.

On the other hand, the ultimate victim, a disabled person who cannot help themselves.

The left has twisted themselves into Gordian knots trying to work out the oppression stack on this one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:01 PM (PYyV9)

64 We've finally found the one disability or mental disorder that the left won't allow to be used as an excuse.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 04:02 PM (CNl8/)

65 What's that bit, something like:

Leftist just pretend not to understand something so as to prevent any reasonable discourse.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 04:02 PM (HXT0k)

66 I have Tourettes, and dyslexia too.

Posted by: Gav Newsom at February 25, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS)

67 This is a guy btw who was given an award by the Queen and yelled Fuck the Queen at her.

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 04:02 PM (YwEeS)

68 So? My entire social media team has Tourette's.

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (guGkK)

69 I have Tourettes, and dyslexia too.
Posted by: Gav Newsom at February 25, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS)

No, no. Tourettes is when you can't stop calling someone a b*tch, not when you can't stop being one

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

70
(I think he may be a commenter here.)

We are Legion, asshole!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (xG4kz)

71 20 So he should have voluntary stopped his involuntary outbursts?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (qW/vZ)

This is the state of education today. People don't learn the meaning of words.

Posted by: moki at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (wLjpr)

72 Randolph is either a bone deep idiot, or plays one on TV.

The people who produced this travesty are the ones to blame for anything there is even blame for.

"Dude with Tourettes shouts shit". Well, fuckin'... yeah. Isn't that the whole damned point of bringing it up? It's a disorder that can't be controlled, and we should stop making a big deal about it because the people who have this disorder feel like shit when we do? And what did fucking falafel on toast over there do? Make a big deal about it.

Absolute bastards, all of them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (Vq1pX)

73 Jamie Foxx also Tweeted out an epically retarded take.

Yeah well he kind of has a history of this.

Meanwhile the same people condemning this poor guy are rushing to defend Newsome's blatant racism. "why, I'm just like you stupid N----s, I can't read either!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (PYyV9)

74 "Chrissie Mayr's Grace Randolph imitation on Friday Night Tights should be good this week.
Posted by: Mark1971"

Holy shit bro. Chrissy is priceless.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (aTgV0)

75 68 So? My entire social media team has Tourette's.

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (guGkK)

=======

"Balding faggot!"
-his social media team every time he walks by

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

76 The movie shows him being beaten up and otherwise suffering because the Tourette's causes him involuntarily to curse or otherwise say inappropriate, offensive things.

(I think he may be a commenter here.)
______
Commenter? More like a COB.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (AlhUl)

77 Always having a sockpuppet at the ready is a valuable strategy for dealing with Tourette's.
Posted by: Cicero

And now I'm envisioning Shari Lewis cussing her head off and blaming it on Lamb Chop.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 04:03 PM (VHUov)

78 Jamie Foxx also Tweeted out an epically retarded take.

*******

To be fair, a black guy being named Jamie was guaranteed to doom him to brain damage from all the beatings he got in junior high

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:04 PM (REq0p)

79 This is a guy btw who was given an award by the Queen and yelled Fuck the Queen at her.

"Yeah? Well who hasn't wanted to do that, ey"
--The Sex Pistols

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:04 PM (PYyV9)

80 Hopefully, when the moslems take over they will eliminate the BAFTA, folks with tourette's and all the fags except me.

Posted by: Keir Starmer at February 25, 2026 04:04 PM (hXJe5)

81 And I still say that when Joe Biden told Chuck Graham who was crippled to stand up, he should have done it anyways!

Posted by: Grace Randolph at February 25, 2026 04:04 PM (17kmc)

82 I dealt with a customer at on old job once who interjected a really quick "n*gger" at the end of sentences. It was really weird. He would speak totally normal and then it would come out of nowhere. No black people were around.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 25, 2026 03:57 PM (CNl8/)

He wasn't Chinese, was he?
---
Mr. Wu only knew "cocksucka" but he could weave an entire conversation with it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 04:04 PM (HXT0k)

83 Shouldn't people with Tourette's be celebrated? Maybe praised for their oratory skills?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 04:04 PM (/lPRQ)

84 >>@CornelWest
Brother Newsom could’ve taken a humanistic approach! He could’ve said, “I’m just like you. I was born of a woman. I’ll face loss, pain, and death just like anyone else.” But instead, when he thinks of Black people, he brings up low SAT scores. That mindset sits at the core of white supremacy—the belief that Black people are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent! Don’t play with us like that

Congratulations, you've just realized who the real racists are: Democrats.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (tj6OY)

85 Chrissie Mayr's Grace Randolph imitation on Friday Night Tights should be good this week.

She all but announced she will be doing one so... yeah tune in for that. She's kinda hit and miss on the show but sometimes she really knocks one out of the park.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (PYyV9)

86 Caution! Fine hair splitting.

Florida Democrat says Charlie Kirk "was not assassinated" but died “by gun violence”

https://is.gd/ptHZEQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (FXNzP)

87 Is there a drug regimen available so I can transition to Tourettes?

I got a bone to pick with my family, friends and neighbors.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (gVUi7)

88 Ryan Kinel said he has reverse Tourette's , he always wants to yell slurs but doesn't

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (YwEeS)

89 9 No idea what BAFTA is
Posted by: Skip

Black American Free Trade Agreement.
Clinton signed it into law.
Now traffic on I-35 through Austin is horrible.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (w9Wax)

90 How come people with Tourettes never shout out fun stuff like TITTIES! or BOOBIES! or PROMETHEUS! ???

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (2WIwB)

91 This is a guy btw who was given an award by the Queen and yelled Fuck the Queen at her.
Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 04:02 PM (YwEeS)

At some point, given the laser guided targeting of the dude's tics, one might be forgiven for beginning to suspect he isn't quite being honest...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (Vq1pX)

92 Grace had a blonde moment.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (cWLG3)

93 (I think he may be a commenter here.) LOL

When I was a very little girl I was told the n word was not nice. Mother said only trashy people said this. So I never did, not being trashy and being nice.

My brother and I learned new words when my mother was taking our gardenner home (he came now and then from the city), and our maid who raised us from babies. Before mother would get in the car Janie painted the sky red calling him the n word A LOT, and probably worse. That he stunk, did he ever bathe? (he did stink and my brother had to sit by him).

Exciting times and the worst word I knew before 5th grade when I was taught cuss words. He was deaf so he just grinned at her, which made her further enraged from the front seat. Then silence once my mother got in the car.

Willis was a "preacher" who lived near the city dump, where he was let out of the car. We never knew where he lived. He had a burlap bag and was one of the first to recycle bottles.

To keep us out of our grandmother's detached garage, he'd tell us the "Sack Man" lived there. We thought HE was the sack man, so that was enough. He probably had a moonshine operation going.

All this to say I led a colorful childhood.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (WONhk)

94 80 Hopefully, when the moslems take over they will eliminate the BAFTA, folks with tourette's and all the fags except me.
Posted by: Keir Starmer at February 25, 2026 04:04 PM (hXJe5)

Keep thinking that, guv.

Posted by: Abdullah Mohammad Mohammad Abdullah at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (ZJT0I)

95 TJM liking this new Oscar series

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)

96 This is a guy btw who was given an award by the Queen and yelled Fuck the Queen at her.

That was Prince Philip, wasn't it? He gets a pass since he did, in fact, fuck the Queen.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (guGkK)

97 Maybe elevating people with serious issues and putting them in public spaces has down sides?

I dunno. Just spit-ballin' here.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

98 Woke Retard Film Critic Grace Randolf just kept not understanding what Tourette's "involuntary verbal tics" meant.

I'm on company resources waiting for an AI Agent to do its thing, so I can't see any videos (nor would I want to)

Does Grace keep involuntarily using bird hands when she keep not understanding with more emphasis?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (U4c/V)

99 Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Just the punchline at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (2Ez/1)

100 I would love to get drunk with a guy with Tourettes.

That would be hilarious.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (aTgV0)

101 @48 a ventriloquist with Tourette's could be a hit.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (cWLG3)

102 Someone I read pointed out that this is a brutal conflict for the woke:

On the one hand, the ultimate evil, saying the forbidden word to a protected oppressed class.

On the other hand, the ultimate victim, a disabled person who cannot help themselves.

The left has twisted themselves into Gordian knots trying to work out the oppression stack on this one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Woke has created a rock so heavy that a 105-pound girlboss can't lift it?

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (VHUov)

103 Mr. Wu had the best fed hogs in Deadwood.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2026 04:07 PM (6ydKt)

104 95 TJM liking this new Oscar series

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)

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Yeah...but did you really like it?

Like, really like it?

With a click?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

105 He was there because the actor playing him was nominated and won in fact.

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 04:07 PM (YwEeS)

106 What you "contributed to the conversation" was ignorance, hared, immaturity, stupidity, bull-headedness, reflexivity and fixedness, and a mean girls determination to virtue signal and cancel no matter what the circumstances.
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What else does she have to contribute? Maybe she'd say all those are involuntary.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 04:07 PM (AlhUl)

107 102 Woke has created a rock so heavy that a 105-pound girlboss can't lift it?

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (VHUov)

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The coalitions internal contradictions are held together by "Republicans are racist," brand tape.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

108 Shorter take: Tourette's sufferer offends professional victims who then refuse to rise above victimhood.

Why can't they resolve this with, like, a dance-off?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (tj6OY)

109 Anne Heche did a role on Alley McBeal as a person with Tourettes. It was actually pretty good, and I didn't really like that show.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (2WIwB)

110 Woke has created a rock so heavy that a 105-pound girlboss can't lift it?

My job description says able to lift UP TO 25 pounds you h8ter

Posted by: Some Girlboss at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

111 I have Lesbian Tourette's:

I'm forced to yell out "show me your tits!" at pretty women.

You can't object because that's both homophobic and ableist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (HXT0k)

112 Grace may be a leftist tool, but she's also a POA.

Love the Raccoon eyes.

She also styles herself like Old School Kirby Sue Storm.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (XV/Pl)

113 105 He was there because the actor playing him was nominated and won in fact.

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 04:07 PM (YwEeS)

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Does the actor actually have Tourette's? Because the new rules of representation mean that actors aren't allowed to play anything that they're not already.

The actor should be canceled if he doesn't have Tourette's himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

114 Is Gav losing his hair? Oh, that will be hilarious if it's gone before 2028. Nothing says "president" like a bad toupee.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (UjdFS)

115 Whatever you do, don't talk about the war.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (pZ64F)

116 (I think he may be a commenter here.)

Garrett?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (pohLc)

117 Grace retard represents the woke left so very well.

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (9mw3J)

118 114 Is Gav losing his hair? Oh, that will be hilarious if it's gone before 2028. Nothing says "president" like a bad toupee.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (UjdFS)

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He pretty obviously has hair plugs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

119 >>Maybe elevating people with serious issues and putting them in public spaces has down sides?

I dunno. Just spit-ballin' here.

And maybe this is why they invented time delays in broadcasting?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (tj6OY)

120 Ettes on Tour.

The Tour-Ettes.

All your favorite female Morons travel the country together and call random strangers everything they deserve to be called, violently, loudly, and very much without any discernible context.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (Vq1pX)

121
Ab, the moral certitude of Ms. Randolph is boundless and in that respect it matches her capacity to run her fat mouth.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (xG4kz)

122 109 Anne Heche did a role on Alley McBeal as a person with Tourettes. It was actually pretty good, and I didn't really like that show.
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Didn't Anne Heche kill herself?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (pZ64F)

123 He should just claim he's a tranny. Whole thing would instantly go away.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2026 04:10 PM (XvL8K)

124 "All this to say I led a colorful childhood."

Kind of a long walk on a windy beach to a restaurant that was closed.

Posted by: But that's okay at February 25, 2026 04:10 PM (2Ez/1)

125 Black American Free Trade Agreement.
Clinton signed it into law.
Now traffic on I-35 through Austin is horrible.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

I thought I heard someone else here in the Hordemind.....

Posted by: mikeski points back to #23 at February 25, 2026 04:10 PM (VHUov)

126 It’s just a word and black rappers use it all the time.

We need to seriously grow up and stop being so dang sensitive. It’s all performative outrage.

Posted by: Czech Chick at February 25, 2026 04:10 PM (vK/Ja)

127 113 Hilariously he is the guy who plays Elrond in the awful Rings of Power series

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 04:10 PM (YwEeS)

128 Didn't DDL already deliver the ultimate performance as an handicapped individual?

What is even the point?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (XV/Pl)

129 8 'quincy' did an episode about this in like 1980
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 03:54 PM (CWTWj)

I never watched Quincy, but LA Law did one. I laughed my ass off the whole way through.
Posted by: No Name Today at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (8mulE)

That LA Law episode was hysterical.

Posted by: Count de Monet's Remote Location at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (q2NNn)

130 119 >>Maybe elevating people with serious issues and putting them in public spaces has down sides?

I dunno. Just spit-ballin' here.

And maybe this is why they invented time delays in broadcasting?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (tj6OY)

Supposedly part of the controversy is they time-delay-dumped some other stuff but not Mr. Davidson's outbursts which, if true, is really really shitty.

Posted by: Punish the disabled guy for great justice at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (TbWk/)

131 Leftards use the n word when they think no one but their own are listening. That's the true madness here.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (tKWMU)

132 Oh, there's other European movie news.

The management of the Berlinale, the Berlin Film Festival, is in complete chaos.

Actors were refusing to say anything political until the final night when actors receiving awards started going in hard on pro-Gaza stuff, going so far as to blame Germany for the genocide in Gaza.

The Germany government is not an insignificant funder of the Berlinale.

They forced a meeting with the woman in charge, 2 years into a 5 year contract, and rumors are they're going to just outright fire her.

It entertains me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

133 @115...one of the best of all the best of Fawlty Towers.

Our crazy mother had us watching that show and Mr. Bean when we'd visit on vacations.

I now will goose step walk into the kitchen.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (WONhk)

134 Caution! Fine hair splitting.

Florida Democrat says Charlie Kirk "was not assassinated" but died “by gun violence”

https://is.gd/ptHZEQ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 04:05 PM (FXNzP)

Next thing you know those assholes will claim it was Kirk's fault for interrupting a perfectly normal while in flight.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (2WIwB)

135 Grace Randolph is still a thing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (cMdij)

136 >>Didn't Anne Heche kill herself?

Even Anne Heche can't kill Anne Heche.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (1Udfd)

137 Critical Drinker had a marvelous take, calling Grace someone who

Can’t
Understand
Neuro-divergent
Thinking

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (REq0p)

138 The big reason for the story...and why BAFTA has been desperately trying to deflect...is b/c in their 1st delayed showing of the show, they left the slurs in vs bleeping them out, thereby showing the PRODUCERS of the show were racist as f&ck...so now the blame on the disabled guy b/c it's only b/c of the telecast that the news went anywhere...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (tOcjL)

139 TJM I click every show on my subscriptions

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (Ia/+0)

140 137 Critical Drinker had a marvelous take, calling Grace someone who

Can’t
Understand
Neuro-divergent
Thinking

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (REq0p)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

141 139 TJM I click every show on my subscriptions

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (Ia/+0)

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LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, Y'ALL!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

142 I would love to get drunk with a guy with Tourettes.

That would be hilarious.
Posted by: eleven

Bartender in Boondock Saints

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (/lPRQ)

143 Shouldn't "Against the People Who Cancel Over "Abelism"" be "Against the People Who Cancel Over "Ableism""?

Posted by: Pain the Ass Grammarian at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (FYjWV)

144 LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, Y'ALL!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

It doesn't work if you don't smash it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (Vq1pX)

145 It is also very rude that none of the cripples took a knee for the anthem!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (AoT6J)

146 I was watching "The Reall B.B.C." with Nerdrotic, Az and Mauler were discussing this and tweeting at the Retard Grace Randolph.

I was dying of laughter (as were they) at how stupid and retarded that stuping bint is.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (4q/mG)

147 >>It’s just a word and black rappers use it all the time.

It's a power word.
They can say it, you can't.

They can claim you said as a get-out-of-jail-free card after they've assaulted you. They can claim you said it to ruin your life.

This just shows that they will never let go of this power. If they let this guy off the hook, then they've opened the door for more exceptions. There are no exceptions.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (tj6OY)

148 @135

>>Grace Randolph is still a thing?

I like her Sunday Movie Math episodes, and she's generally entertaining, it's just she's also a whackadoodle leftist, and I find it interesting to see how these people think.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (XV/Pl)

149 144 LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, Y'ALL!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

It doesn't work if you don't smash it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (Vq1pX)

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And ring the bell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

150 I think I bafted once into the toilet

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

151 The AWFLS insisting he can 'just control it' say that because every one of them cosplays as an 'oppressed' person of some sort. Whether its autism, ADD, OCD, bisexuality, trans, its all performative.

She's effectively admitting that they all are just putting on a show for the cameras to get sympathy and clicks, and that they 'turn it off' the second the cameras are off.

When confronted with an ACTUAL REAL PERSON with the condition they are literally unable to function.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (AjL/0)

152 Wow Anne Heche picked quite a way to die.

She drove her car into a house which started a fire which took 45 minutes to get her out of...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

153 'The movie shows him being beaten up and otherwise suffering because the Tourette's causes him involuntarily to curse or otherwise say inappropriate, offensive things.
(I think he may be a commenter here.)'
-ace

*shifty eyes*

Was that comment hard to write with Garrett's dick in your ass?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 04:14 PM (zZu0s)

154 Maybe elevating people with serious issues and putting them in public spaces has down sides?
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Where's the downside?

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:14 PM (tKWMU)

155 142 I would love to get drunk with a guy with Tourettes.

That would be hilarious.
Posted by: eleven

Bartender in Boondock Saints
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (/lPRQ)

FUCK! ASS!

I have to confess it shocked me to see Doc from Fraggle Rock dropping f-bombs.

Posted by: Another FUCKING postcard for Gobo! ASS! FUCK! at February 25, 2026 04:14 PM (TbWk/)

156 Shouldn't people with Tourette's be celebrated? Maybe praised for their oratory skills?
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I'd rather watch someone with Tourette's address an audience than Kamala Harris or the walking corpse still referred to as "Joe Biden".

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:14 PM (TN0g+)

157 I've always wondered, if someone with Tourettes were taught that "beautiful" and "kind" and "love" and similar words were "bad" words and also was completely shielded from racial slurs and swear words, would their condition manifest in randomly yelling "Beautiful"! and the like?

Posted by: LASue at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (qu4ub)

158 (I think he may be a commenter here.)

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The Blade?

j/k

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (vV8zi)

159 Electroshock Therapy ever time the guy spurts out something stupid should work. At least a shocking dog-collar.

Posted by: Wired ForSound at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (oftw2)

160 >>She drove her car into a house which started a fire which took 45 minutes to get her out of...

Stick with the video.

It's got a great twist.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (1Udfd)

161 looks disappointed, shakes head: oscar, oscar, oscar

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (CWTWj)

162 >>is b/c in their 1st delayed showing of the show, they left the slurs in vs bleeping them out, thereby showing the PRODUCERS of the show were racist as f&ck.

They kept it in?????

They wanted this scandal.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (tj6OY)

163 Maybe elevating people with serious issues and putting them in public spaces has down sides?
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Agreed. Leftards should not be able to present at award ceremonies.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (tKWMU)

164 That's what we need, another asshole Democrat president with hair plugs.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (UjdFS)

165 Shouldn't "Against the People Who Cancel Over "Abelism"" be "Against the People Who Cancel Over "Ableism""?
Posted by: Pain the Ass Grammarian at February 25, 2026 04:13 PM (FYjWV)

Their jackfuckery is all commutative. Racist fuckwits fuck wit disabled fuckwit. Disabled fuckwit fucks wit racist fuckwits.

Completely Abelian shitbirdery.

Grammar checks out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (Vq1pX)

166 Hats off the the two gentlemen who could have been offended, but chose poise and professionalism.

I especially enjoy Mr. Lindo as an actor.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (wBaIH)

167 They kept it in?????

They wanted this scandal.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (tj6OY)

That's a plausible explaination.

The BBC gets moar ratings and the AWFULs get a prime opportunity to pontificate and feign moral outrage.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (9Ovst)

168 154 Maybe elevating people with serious issues and putting them in public spaces has down sides?
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Isn't this the secret for the show Survivor?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (pZ64F)

169 Is there a Tourettes convention?, because I would like to go.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (n5tGW)

170 Didn't Anne Heche kill herself?

All I can remember of her is that she was suddenly a lesbian trying to get jobs, then dropped it when it wasn't working.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:17 PM (PYyV9)

171 They kept it in?????

They wanted this scandal.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM

He took...it out.

Posted by: Elaine at February 25, 2026 04:17 PM (2Ez/1)

172 167 They kept it in?????

They wanted this scandal.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (tj6OY)

That's a plausible explaination.

The BBC gets moar ratings and the AWFULs get a prime opportunity to pontificate and feign moral outrage.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (9Ovst)

And white Brits can get further repressed and eliminated...turned into the image that the invaders want them to be...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 25, 2026 04:17 PM (tOcjL)

173 My daughter got me watching 'Baylan Out Loud' on Hulu about a girl in her 20's with Tourette's. It is a reality series about her life with her boyfriend, and her family and all of the challenges she and those around her face with her disability. It really takes people aback as she is very pretty and it is startling when she suddenly yells out something really vile.

It is frankly, often hilarious as she is in public and randomly yells her obscenities but it also shows plenty of downsides of living life with these tics, OCD, and numerous other ramifications that comes with this. My favorite episode is when she and her mother are in Dulles airport in the TSA line on their way to a Tourette's Syndrome Conference and she starts yelling about having a gun and bombs Her mother explains to TSA/Police what is going on and has paperwork to show them as proof. At the conference are many people of all colors, backgrounds, etc. Yes, many blacks were there as well. It is definitely not an easy life.

This Grace Randolph bitch understood exactly what this was but had to play act this out for attention and the outrage factor.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 04:17 PM (oiNtH)

174 All I can remember of her is that she was suddenly a lesbian trying to get jobs, then dropped it when it wasn't working.

I suspect getting on the casting couch for Ellen D wasn't that different from getting on the casting couch for any other Hollywood power broker...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

175 The AWFLS insisting he can 'just control it' say that because every one of them cosplays as an 'oppressed' person of some sort. Whether its autism, ADD, OCD, bisexuality, trans, its all performative.

She's effectively admitting that they all are just putting on a show for the cameras to get sympathy and clicks, and that they 'turn it off' the second the cameras are off.

When confronted with an ACTUAL REAL PERSON with the condition they are literally unable to function.

As a person who has struggled with dyslexia since before I came out of the womb, I am deeply offended.

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at February 25, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t)

176 Tourette’s is a medical condition characterized by uncontrollable tics. Coprolalia, observed in approximately 10-30% of individuals with Tourette’s, refers to tics that produce socially unacceptable words. Tics are involuntary and do not reflect an individual's beliefs.

This be bull pucky. It is, IMHO, a type of Freudian slip.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2026 04:18 PM (pohLc)

177 The BBC gets moar ratings and the AWFULs get a prime opportunity to pontificate and feign moral outrage.

You ask 100 people, and 10 will have even ever heard of BAFTA, 5 will know what it is, and 1 will know what it stands for. This is publicity like the Chris Rock/Will Smith slap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:18 PM (PYyV9)

178 Isn't this the secret for the show Survivor?
Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (pZ64F)

Survivor
Local Weather
State level republican primary races

Once you see it....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:18 PM (Vq1pX)

179 Please. There's a show on TLC (The Learning Center), one of the channels that seems to often make (or show) certain individuals as freaks for public viewing. It's mostly sad as a whole, and watching can be unbearable.

However, the point here is that a current, popular TV show features a cute young woman with severe Tourette Syndrome and the rare coprolalia, her fiancée & her family. It looks like a difficult life for all.

Reportedly, it alone has 10 million viewers. (So not counting the TikTok account, etc.)

I think most adults in this country would be aware of the Syndrome. Whether or not they thought they were being put on, 🤷‍♀️

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 04:18 PM (NFX2v)

180 God instructs who the winner and loser in this situation should be, and exactly how it would go. No need for any complicated "intersectional" calculation.

And that's the difference between what leftards preach - "tolerance" - and what Christians preach - "compassion"

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:18 PM (tKWMU)

181 >>>Woke has created a rock so heavy that a 105-pound girlboss can't lift it?

My job description says able to lift UP TO 25 pounds you h8ter

Posted by: Some Girlboss

>I could throw a 120lbs girlboss like a bale of hay. This after carrying your ass up a 100ft slope.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (gVUi7)

182 howard stern once years played a clip of a piece by some 'rapper' - won't say who he was but it was like every third or fourth word would be bleeped out these days. i mentioned this to a black fellow i worked with and he knew who it was

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (CWTWj)

183 Electroshock Therapy ever time the guy spurts out something stupid should work. At least a shocking dog-collar.
Posted by: Wired ForSound

Bollocks! Bollocks!

BOLLOCKS!!!

Posted by: Brit with the shock collar placed elsewhere at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (VHUov)

184 Has the "stop punching down" guy checked in yet?

I have no idea who grace randolf is. But based upon merely this exchange, she seems to stupid to manage activities of daily living on her own. Or even breathing.

Posted by: Obvs. at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (C07d8)

185 Leftism causes people to move into emotional framing immediately. It's a religious imperative fueled by worship of the ego. They have to demonstrate their 'morality' wherever and whenever then can.

When confronted with fact or logic, they take it as an attack on their narcissistic religion.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (diia5)

186 CD says something about how "harmful" the word can be.

Someone's gonna have to explain that to me. I thought "names will never harm me" was kind of a truism. How does it harm anyone?

Can we just admit that the only harm is that it shows them up to be entitled woosies?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (AoT6J)

187 Hasan Piker needs a viewer controlled shock collar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (cMdij)

188 Walmart sucks.

Posted by: Rainman at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (2Ez/1)

189
He was there because the actor playing him was nominated and won in fact.
Posted by: steevy

Did that actor point at the guy and exclaim, "What he said!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:20 PM (xG4kz)

190 All I can remember of her is that she was suddenly a lesbian trying to get jobs, then dropped it when it wasn't working.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:17 PM (PYyV9)

I only remember two moobies of hers - Volcano and Wild Side, which while there's chick-teeth on teeth action in the latter, you have to go through some vile stuff to get too. But it also has Christopher Walken doing his thing, so...YMMV.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2026 04:20 PM (9Ovst)

191 Coprolalia.

"Shit talk".

Love it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:20 PM (Vq1pX)

192 179 Please. There's a show on TLC (The Learning Center), one of the channels that seems to often make (or show) certain individuals as freaks for public viewing. It's mostly sad as a whole, and watching can be unbearable.
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I can't watch Hoarder shows. Too depressing. This is why I watch Antiques Roadshow repeats.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 04:20 PM (pZ64F)

193 Yes, Tourette syndrome (TS) affects males more than females.
Reliable sources, including the CDC, Mayo Clinic, and multiple research studies, consistently show that TS is diagnosed in males about 3 to 4 times more often than in females, particularly in children and adolescents.

This is such typical gender bias. We need more females with Tourette's.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:20 PM (Riz8t)

194 Randolph is doing the meme where lefties shut down the conversation by pretending not to understand things. And she really commits to the bit, too.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 04:20 PM (3cXfB)

195 A cute girl with Tourettes is not a deal breaker.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (y9ksN)

196 Years ago, I had a roommate who was a speech pathologist who treated people with aphasia. These were stroke victims who had the part of their brain that helps you to control what you say, damaged. So, it was a similar situation where they would call out a lot of profanity. For treatment she would record their talking and then later calculate what percentage of the words were swear words. Then she'd take them on a "field trip" to the grocery store to see if they could get through it without swearing up a storm.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (0Htd1)

197 186
Someone's gonna have to explain that to me. I thought "names will never harm me" was kind of a truism. How
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 04:19 PM (AoT6J)

Ended with Gen X - no gen later learned "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me"...needed playground and unobserved time for that to trickle in to the child mindset...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (tOcjL)

198 >>All I can remember of her is that she was suddenly a lesbian trying to get jobs, then dropped it when it wasn't working.

The video of her trying to jump off the stretcher, after they declared her dead at the scene is the only video I have ever seen of her.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (1Udfd)

199 152 Wow Anne Heche picked quite a way to die.

She drove her car into a house which started a fire which took 45 minutes to get her out of...
Posted by: 18-1

Classic Clintoncide. Obviously she had information leading to the conviction of Hillary Clinton. Whatever you say about ole Killary, she is like the Terminator on steroids in removing witnesses and evidentiary problems from her life.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (E4rtv)

200 Is there a Tourettes convention?, because I would like to go.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 04:16 PM (n5tGW)

GFY

Posted by: The International Tourette's Convention Welcoming Committee at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (guGkK)

201 Accidentally posted this to the previous story, but:

The Critical Drinker sells plush dolls of himself to middle-aged men.

Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (D7MKZ)

202 TLC also had a series about Jazz

TLC can die in a fire.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (cMdij)

203 >> A cute girl with Tourettes is not a deal breaker.

Depends on her 'Tic'.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (1Udfd)

204 I find it interesting that we as a society have adapted to being insulted which is evident by what people like Grace find offensive. Why not object to all the other insults?

I wonder if Grace has ever insulted half of the population that doesn't ascribe to her political views and expected us to just take it.

Posted by: Decaf at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (OP9Gm)

205 no word is harmful. One of the best lessons Al-Anon teaches is that you take offense, they do not give it. That anything that upsets you is on you. Even the most outrageously offensive thing someone says, can be ignored or laughed at, because all it is, are sounds. They have done you no actual harm or damage.

You may take offense or have your feelings hurt by it, but that is because of your reaction, not anything innate in the words. Its like the difference between someone random walking by saying "I hate you" and your sweetheart saying it.

Its not that there are no terms or words that are not more likely to cause offense than others, its just that all of it still lands on the person taking offense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (PYyV9)

206 John is featured in a y/tube video in 2009. It's got 10m views now. Very uncontrollable disease. Quite animated I grabbed the link, but had to hear the part where he accuses a fellow tourettes afflicted of "dying his pubes ginger." Probably a common Brit slogan at one point.

https://youtu.be/KtCG0wG-5E0?

Posted by: Bastard at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (X1Jq6)

207 I was wishing Trump could have had him at the State of the Union

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (tKWMU)

208 CD mentioned it, but the two black hosts handled the situation like real pros. Kudos to them.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

209
They wanted this scandal.
Posted by: Lizzy

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I know tourettes is real -- I had a football coach with a (non-verbal) twitch as a kid.
But I still think 90% of the media tourettes is just attention whoring.

I happen to have my own form of socially unacceptable behavior -- I don't suffer fools gladly -- and I mostly keep away from people to avoid any problems from it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (AoT6J)

210 A cute girl with Tourettes is not a deal breaker.

***********

I can fix her

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (REq0p)

211 Next year Trump. Next year.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (tKWMU)

212 Quincy, ME was good at times, but then was often just a disease of the week feature. Also, the coincidence of every time Quincy went on vacation or to a conference a contagious, mystery disease broke out. Seemed a bit incredible. Sam Ito is still with us. Hasn't fallen to a Mystery Malady yet.

Posted by: Mortuary Flies at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (oftw2)

213 However, the point here is that a current, popular TV show features a cute young woman with severe Tourette Syndrome and the rare coprolalia, her fiancée & her family. It looks like a difficult life for all.
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She's short and stubby but I'd fuck her just to hear her curse. I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 04:23 PM (pZ64F)

214
However, the point here is that a current, popular TV show features a cute young woman with severe Tourette Syndrome and the rare coprolalia, her fiancée & her family. It looks like a difficult life for all.

The missus watches it. I sat in for about twenty minutes of viewing it before striking out to find something useful to do.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:23 PM (xG4kz)

215 From Brianna Morello:

Ever wondered how TSA was allowing illegal aliens to board commercial flights without IDs under the Biden regime?

Well I sued TSA to find out and learned that Biden’s DHS allowed CONVICTED sex offenders on to flights by showing their sex offender paperwork.

Predators were allowed into the country if they promised to take sexual deviancy counseling and register as a sex offender.

After suing TSA, I won and now the agency is covering my legal fees.

Currently, TSA says they can’t pay my lawyer right now due to the shut down.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 25, 2026 04:23 PM (0U5gm)

216 201 Accidentally posted this to the previous story, but:

The Critical Drinker sells plush dolls of himself to middle-aged men.
Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (D7MKZ)

As long as they're not Funko Pops...

Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2026 04:23 PM (9Ovst)

217 Years ago, I had a roommate who was a speech pathologist who treated people with aphasia. These were stroke victims who had the part of their brain that helps you to control what you say, damaged. So, it was a similar situation where they would call out a lot of profanity. For treatment she would record their talking and then later calculate what percentage of the words were swear words. Then she'd take them on a "field trip" to the grocery store to see if they could get through it without swearing up a storm.

So you're saying Rashida Tlaib has aphasia?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:24 PM (Riz8t)

218 Grace Randolph is whiter than Casper fucking Frosty in a river of milk. Yet she took it upon herself to be the Great White Savior of black people by policing the involuntary outbursts of a guy with Tourette's.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

219 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

exactly.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 04:24 PM (AoT6J)

220 There's a show on TLC (The Learning Center), one of the channels that seems to often make (or show) certain individuals as freaks for public viewing.

Its presented as educational and sympathetic but in the end, its the same as people paying money to see the loonies in Bedlam Asylum in the Victorian era.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:24 PM (PYyV9)

221 If Gavin Newsom has hair plugs, has it made his dyslexia worse?

Posted by: Wenda at February 25, 2026 04:24 PM (trw8t)

222 HE WAS BORN THAT WAY!

At least that is what the Left says about all their perverts.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2026 04:24 PM (Vh9CX)

223 (I think he may be a commenter here.)

Ace, please don't be coy. If so, tell us the most important thing for us to know.

Has he ever disappointed you?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 04:24 PM (0sNs1)

224 >>TLC can die in a fire.

It is the modern day equivalent of the circus sideshow freaks.

Used to watch "Say Yes to the Dress" (guilty pleasure) but the ads for other shows was so very grim - 1000lb people! little people! women who are 7ft tall! I AM JAZZ! Weirdos marrying weirdo strangers who want a green card!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:25 PM (tj6OY)

225 218 Grace Randolph is whiter than Casper fucking Frosty in a river of milk. Yet she took it upon herself to be the Great White Savior of black people by policing the involuntary outbursts of a guy with Tourette's.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

======

She's going to be on the vanguard of calling you a racist for thinking Kamala isn't ready for the presidency in 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

226 Headline (FOX News):

"NY Times' 'The Athletic' celebrates China-competing Eileen Gu while scolding US hockey team over Trump visit"

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 04:25 PM (rj6Yv)

227 BAFTA is British.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:25 PM (QScRl)

228 Amelia? Yes.

Critical Drinker? Does it come with a bottle of good booze?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 04:25 PM (cMdij)

229 Its not that there are no terms or words that are not more likely to cause offense than others, its just that all of it still lands on the person taking offense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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The original Roadhouse movie has Swayze instructing the bouncers exactly that lesson. Never gets old.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:25 PM (E4rtv)

230 227 BAFTA is British.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:25 PM (QScRl)

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It's right there in the name!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

231 All your favorite female Morons travel the country together and call random strangers everything they deserve to be called, violently, loudly, and very much without any discernible context.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (Vq1pX)

That is an accurate description of me driving on 101.

Posted by: Kathysaysso at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM (7OVtU)

232 They wanted this scandal.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM

My first thought was publicity for the film

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM (tKWMU)

233 Mercy! Y'all can be so bad. 😬

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM (NFX2v)

234
Also, the coincidence of every time Quincy went on vacation or to a conference a contagious, mystery disease broke out. Seemed a bit incredible.

And that is why they never did a two part mash up of that show with "Murder, She Wrote!"

Dogs sleeping with cats! Mass hysteria!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM (xG4kz)

235 Grace Randolph is whiter than Casper fucking Frosty in a river of milk. Yet she took it upon herself to be the Great White Savior of black people by policing the involuntary outbursts of a guy with Tourette's.

That's what they do. I wish someone would ask her why she assumes blacks are too stupid to speak for themselves.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM (Riz8t)

236 Amy Poehler doing Tourettes Syndrome in Deuce Bigelow was a hoot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM (HYqoK)

237 "I think he may be a commenter here."

"He"? How do you know it ain't a "she"?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM (iFTx/)

238 She's short and stubby but I'd fuck her just to hear her curse. I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Posted by: pudinhead

Freaky Styley

Posted by: Red Hot Chili Peppers at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM (AoT6J)

239 I had one girlfriend, and I was convinced she had Tourettes, because every time I did something wrong I was given the riot act.

Put the toilet seat down, you *^&%&*!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 04:27 PM (gVUi7)

240 YouTube is sticking with not allowing passive listening.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:27 PM (QScRl)

241 Oh, and the BAFTAs shouldn't award American movies.

The Cesars don't award American movies.

The Oscars should also not award non-American movies.

They are industry focused awards, and the industries they represent are national in origin. Hollywood has nothing to do with movies made in Korea. What business does Korea have to competing against American movies in an American industry awards competition?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

242 The Critical Drinker sells plush dolls of himself to middle-aged men.

Yeah its one of those annoying "isn't this ironic" millennial affectations, like collecting "action figures." He's a good movie ad game critic most of the time, though. Good analysis of why its worked or didn't.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:27 PM (PYyV9)

243 The only one who could solve this for them is a paraplegic black lesbian transvestite with Tourettes with a heavy scottish accent.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM

Just having Tourettes with a heavy scottish accent is funny enough.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:27 PM (4NO2D)

244 A cute girl with Tourettes is not a deal breaker.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2026 04:21 PM (y9ksN)
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It would be if she talks in her sleep.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 04:27 PM (rj6Yv)

245 The video of her trying to jump off the stretcher, after they declared her dead at the scene is the only video I have ever seen of her.
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I wasn't even aware than Anne Heche died. Is there more to the "jump off the stretcher" story?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:28 PM (TN0g+)

246 Congratulations, you've just realized who the real racists are: Democrats.
Posted by: Lizzy

Watch him not retain this lesson

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 04:28 PM (a+4eV)

247 I wish someone would ask her why she assumes blacks are too stupid to speak for themselves.

Every white leftist woman imagines herself as that Game of Thrones girl being carried by a sea of brown people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (PYyV9)

248 246 Congratulations, you've just realized who the real racists are: Democrats.
Posted by: Lizzy

Watch him not retain this lesson

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 04:28 PM (a+4eV)

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Well, it's Cornel West.

His primary concern is the advancement of communism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

249 "I think he may be a commenter here."

"He"? How do you know it ain't a "she"?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 04:26 PM

That reminds me, Her Grace hasn't commented in quite a while.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (4NO2D)

250 Well, it's Cornel West.

His primary concern is the advancement of communism.

==

I think it's working!

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (/M/4v)

251 They are industry focused awards, and the industries they represent are national in origin. Hollywood has nothing to do with movies made in Korea. What business does Korea have to competing against American movies in an American industry awards competition?

But then how would the industry's virtue signalers communicate that their tastes are more cosmopolitan and sophisticated than the common herd?

*cough*Parasite*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (Riz8t)

252 >>My first thought was publicity for the film

Yup.

The "n" word has been off-limits for so long, there's no way it was left in by mistake.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (tj6OY)

253 249
That reminds me, Her Grace hasn't commented in quite a while.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (4NO2D)

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She doesn't like the gay jokes here. So she stays on X.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

254 Speaking of Trump, I'm in deep blue insane Seattle (home of the $22 / per hour MINIMUM wage) and just learned from some one I've known for years that he's a secret Trump supporter (although he dislikes him personally, whatever that means) and then saw a Trump Flag proudly flying high at our neighborhood entrance.

Posted by: LASue at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (qu4ub)

255 And that is why they never did a two part mash up of that show with "Murder, She Wrote!"

Dogs sleeping with cats! Mass hysteria!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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There is the whole Jessica Fletcher is a secret serial killer discussion out there. Trick is to watch each episode and figure out how Jessica or one of her accomplices could have committed the murder instead and allowed her to pin on some patsy in the recap.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:30 PM (E4rtv)

256 YouTube is sticking with not allowing passive listening.
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I'm not sure what that means?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:30 PM (TN0g+)

257 >>I wasn't even aware than Anne Heche died. Is there more to the "jump off the stretcher" story?

Video of it is on youtube.

It's really bizarre to see. Helo footage of them wheeling her into the amberlamps...and she just sits right up and starts flailing.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 04:30 PM (1Udfd)

258 When a leftist accuses you of offending them the only correct answer is “fuck off.”

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 04:30 PM (W2Pud)

259 If this wasn't real I'd think I'd was a Norm MacDonald or Dave Chappelle skit.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 25, 2026 04:30 PM (t5hMG)

260 Every white leftist woman imagines herself as that Game of Thrones girl being carried by a sea of brown people.

Carried? Sure, let's call it that.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:30 PM (Riz8t)

261 To be fair, Michael B Jordan does come across as a bitch.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 25, 2026 04:30 PM (t5hMG)

262 I'm not dead. I'm feeling better.

Posted by: Anne Heche at February 25, 2026 04:31 PM (q2NNn)

263 251 But then how would the industry's virtue signalers communicate that their tastes are more cosmopolitan and sophisticated than the common herd?

*cough*Parasite*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:29 PM (Riz8t)

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The French industry has it right.

Sure, their modern movies kind of...suck, but the industry understands that its awards are for French films.

I also think the Academy should bar independent films from competing. It's a studio organization first and foremost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

264
I’m honored to have lead a constructive conversation about...

You smug, arrogant and self-satisfied beeyotch

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:31 PM (xG4kz)

265 For the record, I am not the activist shouting the racial epithet at the awards.

I am merely the one person heard quietly stifling a chuckle immediately after.

Posted by: Diss Topian at February 25, 2026 04:31 PM (O6Whv)

266 A cute girl with Tourettes is not a deal breaker.
Posted by: Josephistan

Depends on her 'Tic'.
Posted by: garrett

You need to know, I yell random stuff in bed. Right up front, "F***! A**!" is an expression of my verbal tics. It is not a request.

Posted by: the cute girl with Tourettes, setting boundaries at February 25, 2026 04:31 PM (VHUov)

267 A cute girl with Tourettes is not a deal breaker.

***********

I can fix her
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:22 PM (REq0p)

***

One of Doc Diogenes' famous injections ought to do it!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 04:31 PM (2WIwB)

268 I'm offended on behalf of this black guy who's too stupid to be offended by something that it would be incredibly crass and graceless for him to be offended by.

....

I don't even know what to call this.

You're walking down the street. You see a guy bump in to another guy. They both laugh and say "oh, sorry man, you're good, all good!", and as they part ways smiling you fly in and deck one of them shrieking "How dare you!"

Trump is right. These people are crazy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:31 PM (Vq1pX)

269 My grandfather had a really bad stroke and he had problems with speech and wouldn't be able to get the words out but boy he could cuss at the drop of a hat with zero stutter.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 25, 2026 04:32 PM (K885Z)

270 CD mentioned it, but the two black hosts handled the situation like real pros. Kudos to them.
Posted by: Archimedes

Not like Jamie Fox who was soooo offended and believes that Davidson saying this is his real beliefs and has nothing to do with a disability and is just a nasty racist. Okay Fox, go get your fainting couch.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 04:32 PM (oiNtH)

271
Delroy Lindo was great in "Get Shorty".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:32 PM (xG4kz)

272
I laughed out loud at this. Where were the limey cops with their arrests for speech?

What. The. Fuck. Did they expect from a person suffering tourettes?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 25, 2026 04:32 PM (QVmho)

273 OT- anyone else having big trouble going to theinternet after the latest iphone update?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 25, 2026 04:32 PM (iNp3L)

274 245 The video of her trying to jump off the stretcher, after they declared her dead at the scene is the only video I have ever seen of her.
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I wasn't even aware than Anne Heche died. Is there more to the "jump off the stretcher" story?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:28 PM (TN0g+)

+++++

She was very drunk and high. Lost control of her car and hit a house. Then everything burst into flames. After the emergency crew were able to get her out, they had her on a stretcher and for a brief moment she was able to sit up and turn, looking around. She was 90% dead at that point. It is an image that I try to force out of my mind when I think of it, but my brain goes ahead and makes me think about it.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 04:33 PM (rkWQ6)

275 I have to confess it shocked me to see Doc from Fraggle Rock dropping f-bombs.

I can already see the face Sprocket is making.

Now that Tourette's is suddenly the Disability of the Week, want to bet that there is a sudden uptick of people claiming to have it?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 04:33 PM (Fs0KI)

276 wasn't even aware than Anne Heche died. Is there more to the "jump off the stretcher" story

************

She drove a literal 80-100 miles per hour down a residential street before crashing out, she was not impaired according to autopsy but coroner rules it an accident

Okie dokie nothing to see here

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:33 PM (REq0p)

277 She doesn't like the gay jokes here. So she stays on X.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I also think for awhile one or two individuals made it their point to make all sorts of comments to try to get her goat. That being said, ATC gets wider appreciation at X which might mean something to her.

I think Fenelon used to have a stalker too awhile back, forget the nic, who had a thing about women in the the pulpit. Stupid and creepy.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:33 PM (E4rtv)

278 Thank God Strong Woman saved Jordan and Lindo. Hey, this would make a great Marvel movie!
And by "great," i mean "box office poison"

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 04:33 PM (6zGg2)

279 My grandfather had a really bad stroke and he had problems with speech and wouldn't be able to get the words out but boy he could cuss at the drop of a hat with zero stutter.

There's a scene with that exact situation in The King's Speech. Apparently stuttering is counteracted by profanity, so I guess there are lots of people here who stutter.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

280 Whoa. Must have been good news from Nvdia. It went vertical and blew out all my sell orders.

I though I was being bold selling at 198. It's at 201 now.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (4NO2D)

281 Someone's gonna have to explain that to me. I thought "names will never harm me" was kind of a truism. How does it harm anyone?

Can we just admit that the only harm is that it shows them up to be entitled woosies?
Posted by: bob

It's "words shall never hurt me" which, grammatically speaking, is more a statement of resolve than a statement of fact.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (a+4eV)

282 Background play is the correct term. Listening to videos while looking at something else.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (QScRl)

283 I hope they invite the guy to the Oscars.

Posted by: nckate at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (uQzkA)

284 Delroy Lindo was great in "Get Shorty".

He's great in everything, I'd hire him for every movie I made as a director. There is a handfull of guys out there, all getting quite old by this point, but still. Reliable stand by actors you can always get great performances from.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (PYyV9)

285 202

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (4NO2D)

286 It's really bizarre to see. Helo footage of them wheeling her into the amberlamps...and she just sits right up and starts flailing.
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I never saw that. Fuck.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (pZ64F)

287 Actors were refusing to say anything political until the final night when actors receiving awards started going in hard on pro-Gaza stuff, going so far as to blame Germany for the genocide in Gaza.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

Well without the German Holocaust the UN could never have needed the creation of Israel after WWII. They had to since Europe couldn't be trusted with them any more.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:35 PM (8avO+)

288 There's a scene with that exact situation in The King's Speech. Apparently stuttering is counteracted by profanity, so I guess there are lots of people here who stutter.

One of my favorite movies. And yeah what he was trying to do is get him to get over his shyness and what prompted him to stutter by yelling outrageous stuff (which shocked his family LOL) and realizing he could control it if he had to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:35 PM (PYyV9)

289 "A cute girl with Tourettes is not a deal breaker.
Posted by: Josephistan "

She would keep yelling that you had a small dick.

But if she's hot....hey.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:35 PM (aTgV0)

290 203

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)

291 Back when I played softball I'd sometimes coach third base. There was a third baseman on a team with Tourettes. He be in position saying "n**get, c*nt", and making low growling sounds. Both of the umpires were black guys, but they had been told about the problem. Still odd to hear

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 04:36 PM (HYqoK)

292
There's a scene with that exact situation in The King's Speech. Apparently stuttering is counteracted by profanity, so I guess there are lots of people here who stutter.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM

I'm going to use that as an excuse for bad language going forward.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 25, 2026 04:36 PM (K885Z)

293 I'm not gonna chase a bottle rocket though.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:36 PM (4NO2D)

294
Jamie Foxx also Tweeted out an epically retarded take.

Unless your name is Robert Downey Jr. Then you get a pass on being a white guy doing blackface and playing up a bunch of black stereotypes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 04:36 PM (y9nCu)

295 If this wasn't real I'd think I'd was a Norm MacDonald or Dave Chappelle skit.
Posted by: Rbastid

One of my favorite Chappelle skits back in the day was when he played a blind, black KKK member. He arrives in town, steps of a bus with his cane wearing his KKK garb and demands threateningly "Where are all the N's at?"

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (oiNtH)

296 283 I hope they invite the guy to the Oscars.
Posted by: nckate at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (uQzkA)

As if they don't already have enough meaningless fucks and shits hanging around there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (Vq1pX)

297 275 like newsome?

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (R11M+)

298 295 One of my favorite Chappelle skits back in the day was when he played a blind, black KKK member. He arrives in town, steps of a bus with his cane wearing his KKK garb and demands threateningly "Where are all the N's at?"

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (oiNtH)

=======

Episode 1 of Season 1.

Came out swingin'.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

299 Baylen Dupree has a nice set of Tourette's.
https://x.com/caramelcolored/status/2026369386609529292?s=20

Posted by: dlsada at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (QTrRT)

300 After the emergency crew were able to get her out, they had her on a stretcher and for a brief moment she was able to sit up and turn, looking around. She was 90% dead at that point. It is an image that I try to force out of my mind when I think of it, but my brain goes ahead and makes me think about it.
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100% dead. But the demon hadnt realized yet. Oops...

Posted by: Alternative point of view at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (C07d8)

301 As I understand it, most of the time people with tourettes don't swear, but will make odd noises like barking, growling grunting, squeaking etc. The words are often stuff you aren't supposed to say in public because forbidden and shameful, so you'll hear some really off color stuff once in a while too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (PYyV9)

302 I'm not sure what that means?
Posted by: Crusader

The keep stopping your videos and asking if you're still watching if you've got the window behind another one

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (a+4eV)

303 She was very drunk and high

**********

the toxicology report showed no evidence of active impairment by illicit substances or alcohol which is why I’m like WTF?

The theory is that her gas pedal got stuck

Sure Jan

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (REq0p)

304 Damn. That person actually yelled the N word. Let's see. Yesterday I thought that dude was Michael Moore and the reel about "we should kill children" was AI. Then the frog thing in an earlier post. Now some dude yells N word at black dudes giving an award.

Gotta apologize to ace........I've been fact checking to make sure he's not pulling our leg with some of this shit. If the left wasn't so damn evil they'd be hilarious.

Posted by: JROD at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (IlL6s)

305 Oddbob,
South Park already did it. Cartman saw a kid with Tourrette's having an outburst. His parents calmed him/distracted him by getting him a toy. Cartman saw a kid swear AND get a toy, and he was off to the races.

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (6zGg2)

306 I feel happy! I feel happy!

Posted by: Anne Heche at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (q2NNn)

307 277 She doesn't like the gay jokes here. So she stays on X.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
I also think for awhile one or two individuals made it their point to make all sorts of comments to try to get her goat. That being said, ATC gets wider appreciation at X which might mean something to her.

I think Fenelon used to have a stalker too awhile back, forget the nic, who had a thing about women in the the pulpit. Stupid and creepy.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:33 PM (E4rtv)
...................................
I have one now and then that I ignore. I do note his hash, however.

Figure he's so ugly and pitiful he can't leave his mother's basement.

On his dating profile, his "hobbies" are popping zits and a bulletin board of booger collections with little colored pins.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (WONhk)

308 Grace Randolph's problem is that she Can't Understand Neurodivergent Thinking.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (QScRl)

309 Unless your name is Robert Downey Jr. Then you get a pass on being a white guy doing blackface and playing up a bunch of black stereotypes.

Or your name is Tarantino, then you can say the N word as much as you want, as long as you have a job for him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:39 PM (PYyV9)

310 Jamie Foxx also Tweeted out an epically retarded take.

Unless your name is Robert Downey Jr. Then you get a pass on being a white guy doing blackface and playing up a bunch of black stereotypes.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 04:36 PM (y9nCu)

Most leftists thought he was really black.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:39 PM (8avO+)

311 Bigger bridge?

Posted by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at February 25, 2026 04:39 PM (7Q0e+)

312 I laughed out loud at this. Where were the limey cops with their arrests for speech?

What. The. Fuck. Did they expect from a person suffering tourettes?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 25, 2026 04:32 PM (QVmho)

RAGHEAD!!!
GOAT FU*KER!!!

Come get me bobbies!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 04:39 PM (2WIwB)

313 307 I have one now and then that I ignore. I do note his hash, however.

Figure he's so ugly and pitiful he can't leave his mother's basement.

On his dating profile, his "hobbies" are popping zits and a bulletin board of booger collections with little colored pins.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (WONhk)

=======

I feel seen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

314 the toxicology report showed no evidence of active impairment by illicit substances or alcohol which is why I’m like WTF?

The theory is that her gas pedal got stuck

Sure Jan
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (REq0p)

She have an Audi 5000 or something

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:40 PM (8avO+)

315
Delroy Lindo was great in "Get Shorty".

He's great in everything, I'd hire him for every movie I made as a director. There is a handfull of guys out there, all getting quite old by this point, but still. Reliable stand by actors you can always get great performances from.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (PYyV9)

The corrupt African colonel in Congo.

"STOP EATING MY SESEME CAKE!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 04:40 PM (y9nCu)

316 Robert Downey Jr in blackface saying "you never go full retard" gets him a pass for the blackface

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 04:40 PM (HYqoK)

317 She doesn't like the gay jokes here. So she stays on X.
==
I dont think its the jokes.

Posted by: Alternative point of view at February 25, 2026 04:41 PM (C07d8)

318 291 Back when I played softball I'd sometimes coach third base. There was a third baseman on a team with Tourettes. He be in position saying "n**get, c*nt", and making low growling sounds. Both of the umpires were black guys, but they had been told about the problem. Still odd to hear
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 04:36 PM (HYqoK)

How did you play without falling over laughing or were you an adult? I don't see kids being able to hear that and not laugh.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 25, 2026 04:41 PM (K885Z)

319 >>>your name is Robert Downey Jr. Then you get a pass on being a white guy doing blackface and playing up a bunch of black stereotypes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

>I thought that movie was hilarious. A little campy, but then Jack Black is always a reach with his foolishness.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 04:41 PM (gVUi7)

320 cue cartman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xe1kCwf4-w

Posted by: DaveA at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (FhXTo)

321 If you don't have a stalker, you ain't posting right

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (E0p3T)

322 298 295 One of my favorite Chappelle skits back in the day was when he played a blind, black KKK member. He arrives in town, steps of a bus with his cane wearing his KKK garb and demands threateningly "Where are all the N's at?"

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 04:37 PM (oiNtH)
............................

Did you see the one set in the 60's of an all white public restrooms? He had diarrhea and had to use the loo. The noises from the stall were all it took for me to fall out of my chair laughing.

I love him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (WONhk)

323 I think Fenelon used to have a stalker too awhile back, forget the nic, who had a thing about women in the the pulpit. Stupid and creepy.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:33 PM (E4rtv)
...................................
I have one now and then that I ignore. I do note his hash, however.

Wait...if it's only now and then that's not really much of a stalker then is it? More like an occasional nuisance.

Posted by: No work ethic anymore at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (TbWk/)

324 So what do you think he shouted at the black men?

One would have a heart made of stone not to laugh.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - my foul language is all voluntary at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (4/BuS)

325 South Park already did it. Cartman saw a kid with Tourrette's having an outburst. His parents calmed him/distracted him by getting him a toy. Cartman saw a kid swear AND get a toy, and he was off to the races.
Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (6zGg2)

Huh.
Doesn't work on a golf course.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (2WIwB)

326 getting quite old by this point, but still. Reliable stand by actors you can always get great performances from.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM

This. Is. About me. Isn't. It?

Posted by: William Shatner at February 25, 2026 04:43 PM (0sNs1)

327
Amy Pohler did a bit in Deuce Bigalow as a Tourette's sufferer who he takes to a ballgame, where she becomes a hero.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 04:43 PM (Y8DZL)

328 321 If you don't have a stalker, you ain't posting right
Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (E0p3T)

Is it still "stalking" if they're getting paid handsomely by a three letter agency to do it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:43 PM (Vq1pX)

329 >>I think he may be a commenter here.

C'mon, we all know who it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 04:43 PM (viF8m)

330 Eric Cartman>>Jack Black

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM (gVUi7)

331
One of my favorite Chappelle skits back in the day was when he played a blind, black KKK member. He arrives in town, steps of a bus with his cane wearing his KKK garb and demands threateningly "Where are all the N's at?"

Clayton Bigsby

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM (xG4kz)

332 She have an Audi 5000 or something

******

Mini Cooper I think, on second thought maybe the pedal did get stuck

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM (REq0p)

333 I feel seen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

Not you. Altho now I am adding to my list in my little spiral notebook.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM (WONhk)

334 THIS IS NOT FUNNY!!

Posted by: Sally Jenkins, Sports Harpy at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM (sAmhv)

335 Willowed:

Umm ... NYC is booming by any economic metric. Incomes way up. Wealth way up. More millionaires created in the last 10 years than ever before. Richest city in the world, and only getting richer. The reason the taxes are so high is that people can afford them.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM
==
Um, yeah, only it's not. Yes, the millionaire class is growing. But everyone else is leaving, and they have a serious revenue shortfall. "Massive Income Loss: From 2013 to 2022, New York State lost an estimated $517.5 billion in resident income due to migration, with a significant portion of this originating from New York City."

Posted by: Black JEM at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM (GZYu7)

336 333 I feel seen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

Not you. Altho now I am adding to my list in my little spiral notebook.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM (WONhk)

=====

I know. We never really interact.

I just went for the lulz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

337 307 I have one now and then that I ignore. I do note his hash, however.

Figure he's so ugly and pitiful he can't leave his mother's basement.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (WONhk)

=======

I'm closer to the attic, but it's my own attic.

I slipped on the steps in Jan and strained and bruised one leg kinda bad so have had to hole up upstairs much of the time these last 7 weeks.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:45 PM (8avO+)

338 327
Amy Pohler did a bit in Deuce Bigalow as a Tourette's sufferer who he takes to a ballgame, where she becomes a hero.
Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 04:43 PM (Y8DZL)

That was a clever bit of writing, I thought

Posted by: YEAH! The pitcher's a cockfartburger! at February 25, 2026 04:45 PM (TbWk/)

339 On his dating profile, his "hobbies" are popping zits and a bulletin board of booger collections with little colored pins.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Yup. I got yellow boogers, brown boogers, bloody boogers, even black boogers. Quite proud of my collection!

Posted by: Lance McBoyle, Esq. at February 25, 2026 04:45 PM (oftw2)

340 If you don't have a stalker, you ain't posting right
Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (E0p3T)

*sad face*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 04:45 PM (2bC92)

341 Headline (Washington Examiner):

"Minnesota woman pleads guilty to stealing millions through Feeding Our Future fraud"

Excerpts:

"Authorities said her husband, Said Ereg, transferred funds from business accounts into personal accounts held by himself and Ahmed, who knew the money represented proceeds of illegal activity. Ahmed then moved at least $1,147,348 to foreign textile and trading companies, including Shaoxing Aifan Textile Co., and spent additional funds on personal luxury purchases from brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton, and Canada Goose."

"There are still 27 pending cases remaining from the wider slate of 70 Feeding Our Future fraud defendants, and more than 35 have pleaded guilty, five have been found guilty at trial, and two have been found not guilty. Most of the defendants are from the Somali community in Minneapolis."

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

342 Not you. Altho now I am adding to my list in my little spiral notebook.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM

It's black, isn't it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 04:45 PM (0sNs1)

343 I actually got yelled at by Grace Randolph on this. She said

"a lot of you are acting as if he not only can’t control his offensive tics but as if he has no idea he even has them."

and I responded "... tourettes literally means that they cannot control their offensive tics."

And she replied to me "As I said here"

Which I thought was really telling because I am nobody, with few followers, and no blue check because I won't pay for that crap. But she was so touchy about it she felt like she had to reply LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:46 PM (PYyV9)

344 Ahhh the left. Champions of the neurodivergent, except that guy.

Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 04:46 PM (OoFl2)

345 @318 CaliGirl, I was playing adult softball. Did it for thirty years. But if I was still playing Babe Ruth ball it would probably cause laughter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 04:46 PM (HYqoK)

346 It's "words shall never hurt me" which, grammatically speaking, is more a statement of resolve than a statement of fact.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

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

Thank you for that correction!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 04:47 PM (AoT6J)

347 323 I think Fenelon used to have a stalker too awhile back, forget the nic, who had a thing about women in the the pulpit. Stupid and creepy.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:33 PM (E4rtv)
...................................
I have one now and then that I ignore. I do note his hash, however.

Wait...if it's only now and then that's not really much of a stalker then is it? More like an occasional nuisance.
Posted by: No work ethic anymore at February 25, 2026 04:42 PM (TbWk/)
..........................
Never said he was a stellar stalker. However, he pops up now and then. I ignore him vs feeding his feeble ego. Probably fragile and in a furry suit just waiting in the bushes. The furry suit covers his zits and he has a pocket to collect boogers.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:47 PM (WONhk)

348 Minnesota woman pleads guilty to stealing millions through Feeding Our Future fraud

**********

I fear no matter how much fraud is uncovered Minnesotans will never lear

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:47 PM (REq0p)

349 Yeah its one of those annoying "isn't this ironic" millennial affectations, like collecting "action figures." He's a good movie ad game critic most of the time, though. Good analysis of why its worked or didn't.

>>>>

Disagree. He can be entertaining, but he appears not even to have watched most of the stuff he critiques. His opinions are almost word-for-word the same as the rest of the "anti-woke" YouTube crowd.

Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2026 04:47 PM (D7MKZ)

350
Keto Cheetos

LOL

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:47 PM (xG4kz)

351 This situation reminds me of a YT skit were a couple of guys would heckle women on the street by shouting complements through a bullhorn.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:47 PM (8avO+)

352 Ahhh the left. Champions of the neurodivergent, except that guy.
Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 04:46 PM (OoFl2)

Only the fake performative TikTok neurodivergents, not the real ones.

Posted by: Obsessive Clout Disorder at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM (TbWk/)

353
the toxicology report showed no evidence of active impairment by illicit substances or alcohol which is why I’m like WTF?

The theory is that her gas pedal got stuck

Sure Jan

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:38 PM (REq0p)

++++

Well I thought initially that an empty vodka bottle was found in her car and that they also discovered drugs in her system during the autopsy. Was the autopsy report changed? Or maybe I am misremembering. It seems she lost control of her car going great speeds. I can't imagine that she was not impaired.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM (rkWQ6)

354 Back when I played softball I'd sometimes coach third base. There was a third baseman on a team with Tourettes. He be in position saying "n**get, c*nt", and making low growling sounds. Both of the umpires were black guys, but they had been told about the problem. Still odd to hear
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 04:36 PM (HYqoK)

When I was a platoon leader in Germany (waaaaay back) I had a couple Samoans in the platoon. They were on the Post softball team and we were playing Nurnberg. One of the umps was Samoan. The guys taught the platoon a bunch of Samoan cuss words. Ump was pissed. Hilarious.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM (2WIwB)

355 Motherfuckers shouldn't be allowed to spell the name Said that way in English.

Like a damn lexical pothole.

Stick a "y" in there or something, dickhead. You know exactly what you're doing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM (Vq1pX)

356 My grandfather had a really bad stroke and he had problems with speech and wouldn't be able to get the words out but boy he could cuss at the drop of a hat with zero stutter.
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My grandmother spent the last years of her life suffering from alzheimers/dementia and couldn't really "speak" in response to anything that was said around her or to her--the best she could usually offer was a small smile. But one time a visiting preacher visited her with my mom in the room. The preacher spoke for a minute or two, and then told my grandmother "I'm going to sing a hymn you might like" (my grandmother had always been in the church choir). He started singing "Shall we gather at the River" and my mom said my grandmother joined in almost instantly.

The human mind does some interesting things.

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

357 I wish I had a stalker with Tourettes.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM (aTgV0)

358 For Tourette's Awareness Week, I'm going to buy out the lower level of a WNBA game and give out free tickets to Tourette's sufferers.

Posted by: Diss Topian at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM (O6Whv)

359 🥒

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:49 PM (QScRl)

360 Willowed:

Umm ... NYC is booming by any economic metric. Incomes way up. Wealth way up. More millionaires created in the last 10 years than ever before. Richest city in the world, and only getting richer. The reason the taxes are so high is that people can afford them.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM
==
Um, yeah, only it's not. Yes, the millionaire class is growing. But everyone else is leaving, and they have a serious revenue shortfall. "Massive Income Loss: From 2013 to 2022, New York State lost an estimated $517.5 billion in resident income due to migration, with a significant portion of this originating from New York City."
Posted by: Black JEM at February 25, 2026 04:44 PM (GZYu7)
____

That covers the Covid years. Extend to 2025 and it reverses. Almost every metric is up. Even population, at a time when illegals are leaving or being deported. The city is booming, no matter how much some people wish that it wasn't.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 04:49 PM (iFTx/)

361 People with Tourettes are fucking assholes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (QScRl)

362 Never said he was a stellar stalker.

T'were I a stalker, I would be.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (0sNs1)

363 His opinions are almost word-for-word the same as the rest of the "anti-woke" YouTube crowd.

ThHey all watch him LOL. But if you like woke, I can see why you would have concern with his commentary

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (PYyV9)

364 Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

That's such a nice story. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (rZCVI)

365
I fear no matter how much fraud is uncovered Minnesotans will never lear
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:47 PM (REq0p)

I see what you did there.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (2WIwB)

366 It's black, isn't it?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 04:45 PM (0sNs1)

Nope! Red. From 4th grade when I wrote down "foreign" car tags in our neighborhood. And drew women with cone boobies like Madonna's. Sort of futuristic Barbies with beehive hairdos.

In this notebook I also have the entire lyrics to My Old Kentucky home. I do not know why, but when I found it I considered this to be a priceless artifact.

Now has nics of stalkers.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (WONhk)

367 I wish I had a stalker with Tourettes.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:48 PM

At least they couldn't sneak up on you.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (4NO2D)

368 I was getting ready for work the other morning and Sanford and Son was on. Lamont (The Big Dummy) had Julio over and Fred told him to stop inviting his friends who were wet backs over the border in to America. I did a double take. Never, never could have that dialogue written today and surprised they even showed this episode. I love it!

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 04:51 PM (oiNtH)

369 "a lot of you are acting as if he not only can’t control his offensive tics but as if he has no idea he even has them."

and I responded "... tourettes literally means that they cannot control their offensive tics."
————
And many times have zero memories of what they said. Not always, but sometimes. The people giving the award should have taken that opportunity to explain that this is not offensive because it’s not on purpose, and the more stress there is, the worse it gets. But that would require them to not be ridiculous prima Donna victims of the world.

Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 04:51 PM (Wmg4n)

370 363 His opinions are almost word-for-word the same as the rest of the "anti-woke" YouTube crowd.

ThHey all watch him LOL. But if you like woke, I can see why you would have concern with his commentary

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (PYyV9)

======

I don't like his taste in movies and I don't think he's very good at explaining why he does.

He's wildly inconsistent in what he says he values from a structural storytelling perspective.

But his invective is amusing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

371 She have an Audi 5000 or something

******

Mini Cooper I think, on second thought maybe the pedal did get stuck
-----

Wouldn't have happened if she had owned a Jaguar.

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:52 PM (TN0g+)

372 AtC isn’t here anymore because some of you are assholes. Not “jokes.” If you were making jokes, they would be funny. There’s more than a few homophobic assholes here and she got tired of it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 04:52 PM (W2Pud)

373 Wouldn't have happened if she had owned a Jaguar.
Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:52 PM

Yeah, hard to crash when your car is in the shop.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (4NO2D)

374 I learned everything I know, and everything I need to know, about Tourettes from Eric Cartman.

Posted by: a.moron at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (X5Jzz)

375 The most often cause of "unintended acceleration" is a floor mat or other detritus jamming the pedal. Why the driver can't shift to neutral and shut the engine off is beyond me. I heard a recording of a 911 call from someone who's accelerator got stuck and was flying down the road at 120 MPH. Crashed at a T in the road, killing four people in the car. The brakes were flaming hot and useless from stomping on them, yet he never thought to shift to neutral. The car was a dealer loaner and the cause was the floor mat being stuck.

Posted by: Use Your Head, People at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (oftw2)

376 It seems she lost control of her car going great speeds. I can't imagine that she was not impaired

**********

So the toxicology found she had traces from past drug use but not anything that would actively impair her during the time of the car crash, yet she

hit a garage door at an apartment complex, people tried to help but she apparently reverses car and veers off, sped 100 mph down a residential street before crashing through a front yard and into a house

Yet it’s ruled an accident and she had no impairment at all

Mkay

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (REq0p)

377 In this notebook I also have the entire lyrics to My Old Kentucky home. I do not know why, but when I found it I considered this to be a priceless artifact.

Now has nics of stalkers.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (WONhk)

That means when they do the biopic on you they will write parts for all the stalkers.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (8avO+)

378 I miss AtC.

She has a wit.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (aTgV0)

379 Grace Randolph's problem is that she Can't Understand Neurodivergent Thinking.

*slow clap*

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (2ocoG)

380 At least they couldn't sneak up on you.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (4NO2D)

"Fuck!"

"FUCK!!!!"

"AHHHH!"

"AHHHHH!!!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 04:54 PM (Vq1pX)

381 I fear no matter how much fraud is uncovered Minnesotans will never lear
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

Would have been cool if last night when Trump brought up MN fraud and Omar and Tlaib started yapping, he would have said "And there ladies and gentlemen, are two graduates of the Learing Daytime Academy".

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 04:54 PM (oiNtH)

382 That floor mat thing is real. Sometimes you have to pry the accelerator up with your foot.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:54 PM (QScRl)

383 I miss AtC.

She has a wit.

Now that a lot of them have returned from BlueCry, lefties trying to convince her that she's a man is pretty funny.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 04:54 PM (2ocoG)

384 I miss AtC.

She has a wit.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM

She has a twitter account. Like and Subscribe, err, Follow.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:54 PM (4NO2D)

385 384 She has a twitter account. Like and Subscribe, err, Follow.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:54 PM (4NO2D)

======

Those words are only for me!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

386 https://x.com/alexthechick

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:55 PM (4NO2D)

387 Well I thought initially that an empty vodka bottle was found in her car

Posted by: washrivergal
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Well there you go. She wasn't imparied, the bottle probably fell on the floor and got stuck under the brake pedal.

could happen to anyone.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 04:55 PM (AoT6J)

388 368 I was getting ready for work the other morning and Sanford and Son was on. Lamont (The Big Dummy) had Julio over and Fred told him to stop inviting his friends who were wet backs over the border in to America. I did a double take. Never, never could have that dialogue written today and surprised they even showed this episode. I love it!
Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 04:51 PM (oiNtH)

You used to be able to air the "N word" on prime time TV. In a famous episode of Archie Bunker's Place a lodge brother or something uses that to refer to his housekeeper, for which Archie punches him in the face. Nobody freaked the fuck out. Now there would be rioting and burning for days, even though the guy is clearly portrayed as being a racist asshole and getting his comeuppance.

Posted by: How times have changed at February 25, 2026 04:55 PM (TbWk/)

389 brown boogers

Those're eating boogers!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 04:55 PM (Kt19C)

390 it a garage door at an apartment complex, people tried to help but she apparently reverses car and veers off, sped 100 mph down a residential street before crashing through a front yard and into a house

Yet it’s ruled an accident and she had no impairment at all

Mkay
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (REq0p)

Accident in that she wasn't trying to hit the things she hit. Maybe trying to avoid the paparazzi

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:56 PM (8avO+)

391 372 AtC isn’t here anymore because some of you are assholes. Not “jokes.” If you were making jokes, they would be funny. There’s more than a few homophobic assholes here and she got tired of it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 04:52 PM (W2Pud)

Oh no. Please come back. Oh well.

Posted by: Diss Topian at February 25, 2026 04:56 PM (O6Whv)

392 Now has nics of stalkers.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 04:50 PM (WONhk)

Stalk of knickers > nics of stalkers

Posted by: I don't even know what means at February 25, 2026 04:57 PM (TbWk/)

393 Thank you toby.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 04:57 PM (aTgV0)

394 brown boogers

Those're eating boogers!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 04:55 PM (Kt19C)

+1

Posted by: Spaulding Smails at February 25, 2026 04:57 PM (q2NNn)

395 I saw Stalk of Knickers open for Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 04:58 PM (4NO2D)

396 Yet it’s ruled an accident and she had no impairment at all

Mkay

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (REq0p)

++++

I had forgotten that she had hit another house before she blasted into a second one. How could she not be drunk?

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 04:59 PM (rkWQ6)

397 Here in Missouri tic season is nearly upon us.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

398 Not much of a driver.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 04:59 PM (QScRl)

399 I had forgotten that she had hit another house before she blasted into a second one. How could she not be drunk?
-----

Wait, you haven't watched women drive?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 04:59 PM (TN0g+)

400 How the hell did "tourettes guy at the BAFTA awards" become an Anne Heche thread?

...

(Counts on fingers)....

(Measures with hands)....

There aren't even boobs involved!?!?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:00 PM (Vq1pX)

401 Not much of a driver.
------

John Denver, great singer, not much of a pilot.

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 05:00 PM (TN0g+)

402 Julio, Lamont the Big Dummy's friend on Sanford and Son, was Puerto Rican and so had the right to be in Los Angeles just like Fred, who was an immigrant from St. Louis.

Posted by: Rollo, Grady, and Skillet at February 25, 2026 05:01 PM (oftw2)

403 Was Hechie a Brit?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:01 PM (QScRl)

404 Schmuckie explains it all.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: I just asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) why Democrats didn’t stand when President Trump asked Congress to stand for Americans over illegal immigrants, and if it was a political mistake to stay seated?

Schumer: “Of course we support Americans. We’re not going to be a prop in Donald Trump’s little show.”

-
Gonna stick with being the cheeseburger cooking poster boy?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 05:01 PM (FXNzP)

405 Anne Heche. Now that’s a sad story right there.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 05:01 PM (pDt9x)

406 Accident in that she wasn't trying to hit the things she hit. Maybe trying to avoid the paparazzi

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:56 PM (8avO+)

+++++

Was the paparazzi even interested in her at that point in her career where they would be tailing her?

Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 05:01 PM (rkWQ6)

407 How could she not be drunk?

**********

I swear it seems like every month you hear a Californian coroner release yet another report that makes absolutely no sense given the context

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 05:01 PM (REq0p)

408 nood

Lum

Posted by: banana Dream at February 25, 2026 05:02 PM (3uBP9)

409 ===
100% dead. But the demon hadnt realized yet. Oops...
Posted by: Alternative point of view
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Probably was looking for a herd of swine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2026 05:02 PM (XeU6L)

410 The center of the Venn Diagram of Shit I Couldn't Possibly Care Less About has GOT to be the intersection of
1) British poofter bullshit
and
2) Movie/TV shit

My god who the fuck cares?! Sorry, Ace.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 05:02 PM (3BwY8)

411 I bet an Anne Heche movie would beat Bonnie and Clyde.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 05:02 PM (pZ64F)

412 Heche’s talent shone in Six Days, Seven Nights but she was never given too much to work with.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 05:02 PM (pDt9x)

413 If she had lived, she would have soon hit the wall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 05:02 PM (QScRl)

414 Lol.

The SOTU address, an American Institution which has been a retarded joke since my grandparents were children, is now "Donald Trump's little show".

Ok, Chuck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 05:03 PM (Vq1pX)

415 Years ago we had a boy with Tourette in our neighborhood. I guess he was about 16 or so. Sweet kid. He was on drugs to moderate the symptoms so his outbursts weren't too bad. He mostly just twitched a lot.

Considering he was a big strong kid at 16, I bet that he and his affliction got pretty scary later.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 05:03 PM (4NO2D)

416 Schumer: “Of course we support Americans. We’re not going to be a prop in Donald Trump’s little show.”

*********

So your response was to… willfully become a prop in Donny’s show then?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 05:03 PM (REq0p)

417 396 Yet it’s ruled an accident and she had no impairment at all
I had forgotten that she had hit another house before she blasted into a second one. How could she not be drunk?
Posted by: washrivergal

At the time speculation was Thelma & Louise syndrome.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 05:04 PM (Y8DZL)

418 In 2011, Ryan Dunn, 34-year-old Jackass and Viva La Bam star, was driving his 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 at a high rate of speed (estimated between 132-140 mph) when it left the road, went through a guardrail, flew over an embankment into the woods (into a tree), and burst into flames.

A passage died too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 05:04 PM (NFX2v)

419 Sumbitch is too radical for the Democrat party.

BREAKING: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) says he was one of the Democrats to stand up for Iryna Zarutska and Erika Kirk at Trump's State of the Union

"Even Erika Kirk. Can't we just be more kind to a WIDOW? How can't we acknowledge that?"

"I clapped for the family that lost the Ukrainian girl...the Venezuelan political prisoner...the veterans."

"I'll always clap for things I agree with, like striking the Iranian sites."

"And if I don't agree, I certainly won't yell, scream and disrupt the whole thing."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 05:04 PM (FXNzP)

420 AWFL being awful. IOW, a day ending in Y.

Bitch. Sorry, that was involuntary, but required.

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (TezPK)

421 Shummy is a fking Deep Stater

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (Ia/+0)

422 If she had lived, she would have soon hit the wall.
-----

So she hit the house instead.

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (TN0g+)

423
It would have been better if he didn't attend. Given the moral and cognitive shortcomings of many people in show business, it wasn't going to end well. Envoys are dispatched to award shows to take the place of recipients all the time.

I don't mind that the incident exposes the hypocrisy and dumbassery of people in the industry, but sheesh --- he's an actual human being. Fuck shit bitch (written in solidarity)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 05:06 PM (azNOR)

424 There is a program on one of the cable channels of a young lady with Tourettes, who often blirts out .. "penis"

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 05:07 PM (RHGPo)

425 Schumer: “Of course we support Americans. We’re not going to be a prop in Donald Trump’s little show.”

*********

So your response was to… willfully become a prop in Donny’s show then?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos

Trump set him up like a bowling pin which is appropriate because Schmuckie is smart as a bowling pin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 05:08 PM (FXNzP)

426 Grace Randolph looks like she smells like pee

/Gilbert Gottfried

Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at February 25, 2026 05:09 PM (Iwv3U)

427 This Grace woman may be stupider than me.

Posted by: Senator Patti Murray (D-WA) at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (fLwMa)

428 That covers the Covid years. Extend to 2025 and it reverses. Almost every metric is up. Even population, at a time when illegals are leaving or being deported. The city is booming, no matter how much some people wish that it wasn't.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 04:49 PM (iFTx/)

I looked for recent data but can't find anything past 2024, which seems ancient considering post covid changes. Also, how can we measure movement and tax revenue changes just 2 months into Mamdani's term--- Can you point me to anything current?

Posted by: LASue at February 25, 2026 05:15 PM (qu4ub)

429 132-140km is about 80-85 mph. That’s cruising speed on interstates out west, where the speed limit it 80.

Posted by: Senator Patti Murray (D-WA) at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (fLwMa)

430 "Abelism" means belonging to the group of people who enjoyed the 2021 Super Bowl halftime show, which starred Abel "The Weeknd" Makkonen Tesfaye.

Posted by: TR at February 25, 2026 05:21 PM (hazdd)

431 Accident in that she wasn't trying to hit the things she hit. Maybe trying to avoid the paparazzi

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:56 PM (8avO+)

+++++

Was the paparazzi even interested in her at that point in her career where they would be tailing her?
Posted by: washrivergal at February 25, 2026 05:01 PM (rkWQ6)

They would when she piles into 5 houses at 100 mph

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 05:24 PM (8avO+)

432 Yet it’s ruled an accident and she had no impairment at all

Mkay
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 04:53 PM (REq0p)

Accident in that she wasn't trying to hit the things she hit. Maybe trying to avoid the paparazzi
Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:56 PM (8avO+)

Maybe she was just stupid.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (g8Ew8)

433 I'm dyslexic like Gavin and also recently diagnosed with Tourette's.
Gavin can duck sick!
Bad combination when you are spelling.
I can shout it every time his name comes up.
It's contagious. Help spread the Tourette's when Gavin is around.

Posted by: Elect me because i'm dyslexic and racist at February 25, 2026 08:28 PM (nc2DJ)

CNN: The Economy Is Doing Pretty Well, Just as Trump Claims.
Too Bad It's a Boomcession That Is Leaving So, So Many People Behind.

I suppose a grudging admission with lots of defensive Democrat Talking Point caveats is still an admission.

CNN Fact Check: Trump told the truth when he said the economy is solid. (But sad about the boomcession!)

President Donald Trump made a passionate defense of the US economy during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
"Inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast. The roaring economy is roaring like never before."
Hyperbole aside, he's right: America's economy is strong. But Trump is missing the point.

Ah, he says the economy is strong, but he's... missing the point.

What?

Affordability, not economic strength, drives voters to the polls. Most Americans don't care a lick about GDP, CPI, PCE or any of the other acronyms or data points that show the economy is on the right track. They care about their job security and those financial fears that keep folks up at night: figuring out how to to pay for groceries, housing, health care, car payments, college and child care -- all of which keep getting more expensive.

But inflation has fallen from Biden's 10+% to 1.7% over the past three months.

As for "worrying about job security:" Americans have felt insecure about their jobs since the seventies. This is not a Trump thing. This is a secular shift in the economy that happened after the 1960s boom and continues to happen.

This hack then compares Trump to Biden -- without revealing that CNN vigorously echoed Biden's false claims of presiding over a strong economy.

"I inherited an economy that was on the brink. Now our economy is literally the envy of the world."
There's a problem with that strategy, though.
Want proof? That last quote wasn't from Tuesday's speech. That was from the 2024 State of the Union, delivered by former President Joe Biden, whose party lost the election eight months later.

Yeah but who caused the inflation? Is Trump lying that that is a hangover from Biden?

Trump's message, at least on paper, is largely correct. Jobs, wage growth, consumer spending and inflation under Trump look pretty decent or have been mostly stable. The stock market is near a record high.

"On paper," he's right. I mean, if you look at the facts.

But if you look at liberals' feeeeeeelings -- the true determinant of Truth -- then it's a different story.

The US economy grew 2.2% in 2025, very much in line with the last three years of robust economic growth. The economy slowed down more than expected at the end of the year, but the longest-ever government shutdown stymied growth that should be made back this quarter.
Last year wasn't a great year for the labor market by any stretch. But unemployment remains low, and stronger-than-expected hiring in January suggests 2026 could be a much better year for job creation.
...
Trump on Tuesday blamed Democrats for the inflation crisis that sent prices surging more than 20% during Biden's term, a shock that Americans are still adjusting to.

Oh, so Biden did cause the rampant, remorseless inflation.

But still, Trump is lying or something.

The left has another way to denigrate the strong economy, aka "the boomcession" -- it's K-shaped economy, CNN's Democrat whisperers tell them. Meaning, some are going up, like the top stroke on the K, and some are going down.

Let's ignore the fact that most see their fortunes rising -- that's what a strong economy means -- and focus on those who are remaining flat.

In fact, CNN wants you to become Junior Reporters and write to them explaining your own Tales of Boomcession Woe so that they can put those quotes together and write a downer economic story.

They're literally blegging internet randos to send them quotes they can knit together for a pre-fab story.

Where do you land in the K-shaped economy? Do you think that will change in 2026?

By Alicia Wallace
Feb 18, 2026

How do you anticipate your household financial situation will fare in 2026 and beyond? We'd like to hear from you.
There's a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in the United States, and economists are increasingly sounding the alarm. Income inequality has expanded in a short timeframe, and various economic indicators -- including rising delinquency rates -- are flashing a warning sign.
The "K-shaped" economic recovery may be working for some Americans, but not all.

LOL.

The boomcession, don't you know.

Despite solid economic growth, booming stock values, cooling inflation and a stable unemployment rate, the economic gains have been uneven.

Economic gains are, like career trajectories, incomes, and all other individual economic situations, literally always "uneven."

Including under the Democrats' preferred economic system, communism.

Economic readings are aggregate measures of all economic activity. It's like taking the temperature of a room, defined (scientifically) as "the average kinetic energy of all molecules in a system." Some molecules will have a great deal more kinetic energy and some a great deal less -- but that doesn't change what the actual temperature is. The average remains the average.

CNN now argues "let's stop talking about the average, like we've always talked about with regard to economics, and just focus on the left-wingers who can't get a job in pretty much any economy because they're stupid and mentally ill."

What spur of the "K" do you feel like you're on, and do you see that changing as this year progresses?
As you reflect on how you're navigating this economy, how do you anticipate your household financial situation will fare in 2026 and beyond? If you'd be willing to share your experience with a CNN reporter for possible inclusion in an upcoming story, we'd like to hear from you.

It's like they're school teachers asking you for an essay about your Sad Stories of Economic Failure.

Fuck you.

Meanwhile, Politico also bemoans the very good economic news. Or, at least, they refuse to credit it as good economic news.

Byron York
@ByronYork
Speaking of tariffs, this is very good news, isn't it? From Politico: "President Trump's tariffs...remade trade in 2025, and no country experienced as big a shift as China. Thanks in large part to US tariffs...[China's] share of the overall US import market fell to 9% in 2025, compared to 13.4 % in 2024...That is China's lowest market share since the early 2000s. Less than a decade ago, China accounted for one-fifth of annual US imports."

'China is falling across the board': How the US is moving away from Chinese imports
Chinese goods now comprise less than 10 percent of U.S. imports.

By Doug Palmer and Paroma Soni0
President Donald Trump's historic tariffs, some of which the Supreme Court struck down Friday, remade trade in 2025 -- and no country experienced as big a shift as China.
Thanks in large part to U.S. tariffs that at one point reached triple digits, the Asian manufacturing powerhouse's share of the overall U.S. import market fell to 9 percent in 2025, compared to 13.4 percent in 2024, according to the Commerce Department's trade report for December released Thursday.
That is China's lowest market share since the early 2000s. Less than a decade ago, China accounted for one-fifth of annual U.S. imports.
U.S. imports from China fell to $308 billion in 2025, their lowest level since 2009 and a drop of more than 42 percent from the record high of $539 billion in 2018.
Factoring all the tariffs Trump announced last year, as well as the rollbacks he granted, Chinese goods faced an "effective" U.S. tariff rate of 30.9 percent in November, according to Olu Sonola, head of U.S. economic research at Fitch Ratings in New York, and his colleague Sarah Repucci. This included, but was not limited to, Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down.
Comparatively, the effective tariff rate was 19.7 percent for India, 12.7 percent for Vietnam, 8.1 percent for the European Union, 4.2 percent for Mexico, 3.7 percent for Canada and 3.5 percent for Taiwan, according to Fitch Ratings' calculations.
"Basically what's happening is as China is falling across the board, many Asian countries are increasing their share of U.S. imports," Sonola told POLITICO, adding that Vietnam, Taiwan, Mexico and India were among the biggest beneficiaries.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:42 PM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 02:43 PM (bFu5X)

2 *sheathes blade*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 02:44 PM (bFu5X)

3 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 02:45 PM (bFu5X)

4 And those many are illegal aliens, former government workers, and tech folk who sadly haven't gotten the government to stop the H1B bullshit yet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 02:45 PM (ExV1e)

5 *sheathes blade*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 02:44 PM (bFu5X)

What you two do in the privacy of your own room is your business.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 02:46 PM (ExV1e)

6 Parsley is green

Spinach is moreso

Kidneys and spleen

Are inside your torso.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:46 PM (aTgV0)

7 President Trump cures cancer. Tumors hurt most, face extinction and discrimination, label Trump a hater.

This is CNN.

Posted by: CNN at February 25, 2026 02:46 PM (hXJe5)

8 Yeah but who caused the inflation?
Yknow who else fought inflation?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 02:47 PM (Kt19C)

9 What's a CNN?

Posted by: Most people at February 25, 2026 02:47 PM (2Ez/1)

10 what the F is "K shaped"???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:48 PM (PYyV9)

11 Parsley is green

Spinach is moreso

Kidneys and spleen

Are inside your torso.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:46 PM

Burma Shave?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 02:48 PM (bFu5X)

12
What's a CNN?

Posted by: Most people at February 25, 2026 02:47 PM

$20, same as in town

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2026 02:48 PM (tljrc)

13 Boomcession?
Another made up media word to allow them to sound smart but say nothing at all.
Idiots.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 02:48 PM (YbYyH)

14 > The "K-shaped" economic recovery may be working for some Americans, but not all.

They trot out this BS every time there's a good economy and a Republican is in office. Sure YOU'RE doing OK, but all of your neighbors are suffering. We swear. It's a slaughterhouse out there. Pay no attention to all of the people around you with shiny new cars and such. Don't you feel guilty for doing so well economically while everyone else is starving to death?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 02:49 PM (Yp6az)

15 But inflation has fallen from Biden's 10+% to 1.7% over the past three months.
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That just means it isn't getting worse as fast.

If you were having trouble making ends meet 3 months ago, you're still having trouble now.

Low inflation *for a long time* might allow pay increases to catch up (as the inflation gets passed to your employer and his customers). But you'd need actual deflation for the pain of Biden's inflation to actually go away. Which is to say, if consumers are unhappy, it's because they're still feeling Biden's inflation and, fairly or not, are going to blame Trump because he's in office right now.

Posted by: Methos at February 25, 2026 02:49 PM (vSvIl)

16 Eleven, I am going to make pilaf. Do you prefer cous-cous or orzo?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 02:49 PM (rbvCR)

17 But will the broke ass kids be able to afford that 4,000 sq ft McMansion now? If not, Trump failed!

Posted by: nckate at February 25, 2026 02:49 PM (uQzkA)

18 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Nobody told me I was going to have to do a barium swallow with this PET scan. They also didn't get orders from my doctor to use my mediport access for the radioactive dye.

Needless to say, I called my doctor in a panic. They are now negotiating the use of the mediport; don't know about the barium part....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 25, 2026 02:50 PM (fV+di)

19 what the F is "K shaped"???

I don't get that either. The text is describing a graph that's a less-than sign "<" but I don't understand why there's a third line to make it a "K".

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 02:50 PM (2ocoG)

20 And now, for fairness and balance, a view from DU:

Trump showed how desperate he was tonight

At 9 pm, Donald J. Trump began what would become the longest State of the Union address in American history. For one hour and forty-eight minutes, he stood in front of the country and delivered a speech that was not about the state of our union at all, but about the state of his own power, and how desperate he is to hold onto it as it slips further and further out of his control. It was full of deliberate lies from start to finish, packed with racist talking points, made-up statistics, twisted grievances, and the kind of unhinged rhetoric that made clear just how afraid he is, not only that the truth about his ties to Epstein will finally come out, but that the full impact of what he’s done to our economy, to our international alliances, to the rule of law, and to the basic systems that hold this country together will finally catch up to him. (Pt. 1)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 02:50 PM (0sNs1)

21 DU, Pt. 2:

And if there was still any doubt about what this night was really about, he erased it himself with this: “These people are crazy. I’m telling you, they’re crazy. Amazing. We’re lucky we have a country. With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country, but we’ve stopped it just in the nick of time, didn’t we?” That’s what the President of the United States said tonight, into the microphone, on national television, in between demands for applause and pauses to catch his breath.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 02:50 PM (0sNs1)

22 Isnt the economy supposed to be awesome because Biden set it all up and now it is paying off?

Posted by: Operator Error at February 25, 2026 02:50 PM (SlPS9)

23 boom shaka laka > boomcession

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 02:51 PM (sGtp+)

24 How is a graph < shaped? I am trying to envision a line that goes side to side and somehow makes that shape?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:51 PM (PYyV9)

25 Wishcasting: The Motion Picture

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)

26 How's Biden's bone cancer? Dittos for NANZI's hip?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 02:51 PM (pZ64F)

27 the only ones left behind are the deranged, the foolish, the criminal and the insane

as it has always been and will continue to be so

I both love and hate what it's done to gold though

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 25, 2026 02:52 PM (jrgJz)

28 As I have no heath for which to care, I pay nothing for health care. That was easy.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 02:52 PM (MNYwX)

29 How is a graph

The line for you is the top part that goes up, the line for everyone else that's suffering is the bottom part that goes down, and they meet in the middle at the Biden economy? At least, I think that's what they're claiming.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 02:52 PM (2ocoG)

30 20 . It was full of deliberate lies from start to finish, packed with racist talking points, made-up statistics, twisted grievances, and the kind of unhinged rhetoric that made clear just how afraid he is,

[citation needed]

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 02:53 PM (sGtp+)

31 Is a "boomcession" better or worse than a "Kaboom! session?"

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

32 The core economic problem is that Biden doubled costs through Bidenflation over his 4 years.

Trump brought inflation back to normal levels but that 50% loss in the value of the dollar is permanent.

The US made a bad decision in allowing Biden to assume the presidency and it costs us half our wealth. Trump can't make that disappear.

In time, with no more Bidens, purchasing power will return and eventually exceed the levels under Trump's first term. But that will be a while.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 02:53 PM (sKqQm)

33 Pilaf is rice

Or you could have orzo

Cous cous is nice

Inside your torso

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:53 PM (aTgV0)

34 The boomcession, don't you know.

Is that like boom... boom... out go the lights??

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 02:53 PM (Oy/m2)

35 Wow, new way to break Minx 0.8 beta unlocked. Something to do with the <.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 02:53 PM (2ocoG)

36 In fact, CNN wants you to become Junior Reporters and write to them explaining your own Tales of Boomcession Woe so that they can put those quotes together and write a downer economic story.

Under Biden I had a career. A six figure salary. My - personal -economic situation was fine.

Under Trump I am unemployed. Well, technically I'm retired but that's still a sort of unemployed. And all this happened to me because I believed that things would be, at least, okay during Trump.

Woe is me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM (ExV1e)

37
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job,
~~a depression is when you lose your job.~~

A "boomcession" is when things are good but a Republican is in office.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM (AoT6J)

38 I don't get that either. The text is describing a graph that's a less-than sign "

Posted by: Ian S.

The Y axis I assume.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM (0U5gm)

39 ...it's like they're school teachers asking you for an essay about your Sad Stories of Economic Failure.

This morning when I was making my espresso and unwrapping my breakfast Luna bar, my two year old daughter turned to me with tears in her eyes and asked, "how can we survive another stagflation when Trump is destroying all the social contracts between the producers and the government that guarantees minimum labor standards and subsidizes health care for the laboring class we depend on for generating this economy's wealth?
Oh my child, what future is being stripped from her. I held her and cried. I have no answers, perhaps there are none.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM (rbvCR)

40 And if there was still any doubt about what this night was really about, he erased it himself with this: “These people are crazy. I’m telling you, they’re crazy. Amazing. We’re lucky we have a country. With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country, but we’ve stopped it just in the nick of time, didn’t we?”
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No lies detected.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM (Dv3i1)

41 A "K" shaped graph is not a function.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM (aTgV0)

42 Affordability, not economic strength, drives voters to the polls. Most Americans don't care a lick about GDP, CPI, PCE or any of the other acronyms or data points that show the economy is on the right track. They care about their job security and those financial fears that keep folks up at night: figuring out how to to pay for groceries, housing, health care, car payments, college and child care -- all of which keep getting more expensive.
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Maybe someone should explain this to Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 02:55 PM (RIvkX)

43 "K-shaped economy"

This is a terrible talking point for the Dums. So of course it's the New Thing to be downloaded to all the frothing NPCs.

"K-shaped" is meaningless, makes no sense unless it's explained to you (and even then it's sus), and is awkward to say.

It's also stupid. In any economy, no matter how good, there will be winners and losers. It is impossible to improve every single person's life.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

44 And another point, globalization and immigration directly produces the sort of winners vs losers break down the FNM is complaining about here since it dramatically increases the supply of workers, and as with anything else if you increase supply you reduce costs - here of labor.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

45 31 Is a "boomcession" better or worse than a "Kaboom! session?"

*mysterious noises* .... yes

Posted by: kosh at February 25, 2026 02:56 PM (sGtp+)

46 The Y axis I assume.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM

Who the eff includes the axis lines when describing the shape of a graph? If that's true, it's a K with an underline.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 02:56 PM (2ocoG)

47 Think of the vertical line as a starting point. Then half the people go up while the other half go down, so K.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 02:56 PM (n5tGW)

48 what the F is "K shaped"???

I don't get that either. The text is describing a graph that's a less-than sign "

Posted by: Ian S.

Well, that didn't paste correctly. The vertical line in the K shape is presumably the Y axis.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 25, 2026 02:56 PM (0U5gm)

49 What about the price of ~~eggs~~ beef?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 02:57 PM (4NO2D)

50 it seems like "boomcession" is an outgrowth of climate change "logic", and I guess anyone who still firmly believes a boiling planet causes blizzards and increased arctic ice will nod right along with it.

Posted by: barbarausa at February 25, 2026 02:57 PM (enw9G)

51 But the tariffs are horrible!! Why do you hate cheap imported Chinese junk!?!?!? FREE TRADE NOW!

Posted by: Chamber of Commerce at February 25, 2026 02:57 PM (car93)

52 43 "K-shaped economy"

This is a terrible talking point for the Dums. So of course it's the New Thing to be downloaded to all the frothing NPCs.

"K-shaped" is meaningless, makes no sense unless it's explained to you (and even then it's sus), and is awkward to say.

It's also stupid. In any economy, no matter how good, there will be winners and losers. It is impossible to improve every single person's life.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

I guess saying " divergent economy" isn't catchy enough.

Like a joke, if you have to explain your "graph" ... it doesn't work

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 25, 2026 02:58 PM (3sXRv)

53 Mmmmm...

Just had an idea for my next invention.

Eggbeef.

amirite?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:58 PM (aTgV0)

54 Watching Trump roast SCOTUS to their faces was pretty funny. "I do what I want!"
John Roberts did so much damage to that institution with the foolish Obamacare decision and by refusing to rein in the insubordinate lower courts. I wonder if he would ever admit it?

Posted by: jmel at February 25, 2026 02:58 PM (RWHIh)

55 I got a hotrod Ford and a two dollar bill.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 02:58 PM (u43wW)

56 As for "worrying about job security:" Americans have felt insecure about their jobs since the seventies. This is not a Trump thing. This is a secular shift in the economy that happened after the 1960s boom and continues to happen.

The older corporate world, and its very old at this point, had some notion of responsibility to its workers. Modern globo-corps solely exist to make money.

So in the 60s that corporate leader might feel social pressure lay off a bunch of people if he didn't absolutely need to, his 2026 peer will feel a similar sort of pressure if he can lower costs by laying off people and doesn't.

On a maximal scale this is probably more efficient, but yeah it means no one's job is really all that safe.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 02:58 PM (sKqQm)

57 "K-shaped economy"

This is a terrible talking point for the Dums. So of course it's the New Thing to be downloaded to all the frothing NPCs.

"K-shaped" is meaningless, makes no sense unless it's explained to you (and even then it's sus), and is awkward to say.

It's worse than that. For blacks, who as we have been told cannot read, it means nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 02:59 PM (ExV1e)

58 They need to be consistent. If we're going to include the axes, it's a "less-than sign overlayed on an L-shaped graph".

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 02:59 PM (2ocoG)

59
Trump on Tuesday blamed Democrats for the inflation crisis that sent prices surging more than 20% during Biden's term, a shock that Americans are still adjusting to.

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It was at least 50%. Which actually is more than 20%

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 02:59 PM (azNOR)

60 Trump brought inflation back to normal levels but that 50% loss in the value of the dollar is permanent.
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It doesn't need to be. We only always have inflation because we deliberately choose to pursue inflation rather than stable currency (which would involve roughly equal periods of inflation and deflation).

Posted by: Methos at February 25, 2026 02:59 PM (vSvIl)

61 Who run Boomcession Town?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 02:59 PM (4NO2D)

62 so they mean its a V shaped graph??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:59 PM (PYyV9)

63
We are right next door to a country that has been ruled by the socialists for 10 years, doing the things Dems would do with government employment, social spending and the environment, and we see the Canadian agony daily here. They're collapsing.

The media is just peddling 100% bullshit news content now.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 02:59 PM (Y8DZL)

64 What has been missed from Trump’s speech is the offer to extend federal retirement accounts to every eligible American with matching funds.

That pulls in a lot of the people who don’t have 401k’s and gives them an option they don’t have before.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (Py+sj)

65 This just reminds me of the "funemployment" stuff they trotted out under Obama.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (PYyV9)

66 But the tariffs are horrible!! Why do you hate cheap imported Chinese junk!?!?!? FREE TRADE NOW!

Prior to Trump it was a very common leftist talking point to trash Americans for buying Chinese crap they didn't actually need.

Hell, you can still occasionally find lefties making the argument which is hilarious because the obvious way to reduce that is to tax it.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

67 It's worse than that. For blacks, who as we have been told cannot read, it means nothing.

Blacks also don't know the word "computer". Kathy Hocul said so, her word as a Biden.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

68 It's also stupid. In any economy, no matter how good, there will be winners and losers. It is impossible to improve every single person's life.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25

Now just hang on a minute there, Judge. Are you telling me that in communist utopias there are haves and have nots? That not everyone is equal and living in peaceful harmony?

Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (OoFl2)

69 During the mid 2000s, Rush would talk about how surveys showed that most Americans felt that they were doing really well financially, but that they believed that their neighbors were struggling.

The economy was doing pretty well at that time, and people felt it, but the MSM did such a great job convincing people that everything was horrible that people just assumed that their lives were anomalies and their neighbors must be suffering.

They're trying to do the same thing here. It's all they can do during an obviously great economy like this one.

Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (0MjtC)

70 55 I got a hotrod Ford and a two dollar bill.
Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 02:58 PM (u43wW)

Heeyyyy, goodlookin' ...

Posted by: zombie Hank Williams Jr. at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (3sXRv)

71 The Italian alphabet doesn't have a "k"

And Meloni is hot.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (aTgV0)

72 It was at least 50%. Which actually is more than 20%
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This! It was also created by a Bio Bomb made in Chy Nah!

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (pZ64F)

73 62 so they mean its a V shaped graph??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:59 PM (PYyV9)

Like a Venn diagram ? I love Venn diagrams

Posted by: Kamala at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (VE6XX)

74 As for "worrying about job security:" Americans have felt insecure about their jobs since the seventies. This is not a Trump thing. This is a secular shift in the economy that happened after the 1960s boom and continues to happen.

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I think it happened right after the 1980s tax cuts and changes to tax deductability of business expenses. Corporate tax payments shot up, policies changed, expense reports became an ordeal, and pensions went out the window.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (0U5gm)

75 I'm sure none of the employment or hardship issues have anything to do with 20M illegals let in under Biden!

We need to turn this around and blame all hardship on Biden's border.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (AoT6J)

76 Modern globo-corps solely exist to make money.

I wonder how much of that is due to the changes Clinton made in the tax system to executive pay. That was when they all started getting paid in stock rather than cash.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (ExV1e)

77 It doesn't need to be. We only always have inflation because we deliberately choose to pursue inflation rather than stable currency (which would involve roughly equal periods of inflation and deflation).

I would agree moderate levels of deflation are no worse then moderate levels of inflation BUT both parties currently believe deflation would mean economic destruction.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm)

78 > It is impossible to improve every single person's life.

Let me teach you about my lord and savior, Karl Marx.

Posted by: A College Freshman at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (Yp6az)

79 DJT could shit a gold brick large enough to pay off the national debt and these dildo gobblers would find a way to tell their audience why it's bad and why they should be mad at him for doing it.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (3BwY8)

80 In general, grocery inflation was about 100% for me during the Biden administration. I literally spend twice as much for groceries as I did five years ago.

I have the Quicken to prove it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (4NO2D)

81 A "K" shaped graph is not a function.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM (aTgV0)

Plenty of graphs aren't functions, that's not particularly relevant.

The backwards bending supply curve for luxury goods isn't a function either.

Posted by: Sjg at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (aqZN1)

82 Eggbeef.

amirite?
Posted by: eleven

What kind of soupwich would that go with?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (77rzZ)

83 This just reminds me of the "funemployment" stuff they trotted out under Obama.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (PYyV9)

Funemployment means we can do those things we had no time to do when we were being productive members of society. Things like smoking heroin and meth, or maybe dying of fentanyl

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 03:02 PM (rbvCR)

84 The "K-shaped" economic recovery may be working for some Americans, but not all.
________
Just what they said under Reagan. The "K-shaped" term wasn't in use; but they'd say "not all boats are being lifted", which is the same BS.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 03:02 PM (AlhUl)

85 So all those cute Canadian chicks will be fleeing to my house soon?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:02 PM (aTgV0)

86 I would agree moderate levels of deflation are no worse then moderate levels of inflation BUT both parties currently believe deflation would mean economic destruction.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm)

Of course, these would be the same parties who believed that tariffs would cause the instant collapse of the economy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 03:03 PM (ExV1e)

87 Funemployment means we can do those things we had no time to do when we were being productive members of society. Things like smoking heroin and meth, or maybe dying of fentanyl
Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 03:02 PM (rbvCR)

FUNtanyl!

Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 03:03 PM (0MjtC)

88 lol, CNN.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 03:04 PM (Hkcdp)

89 The Fed is a failure. Even if we averaged their target rate of inflation, prices would quintuple in the average lifetime.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:04 PM (4NO2D)

90 Funemployment means we can do those things we had no time to do when we were being productive members of society. Things like smoking heroin and meth, or maybe dying of fentanyl

I will say as someone gainfully employed in the dread private sector for some time there is a significant difference in the amount of free time I have versus the average government bureaucrat. Odd how that works isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

91 The Italian alphabet doesn't have a "k"

And Meloni is hot.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (aTgV0)

Technically, in Italian it is called the "ch" economy

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 03:05 PM (rbvCR)

92 Boomsession >> Kaboom! session >>>>>> Jeff Sessions

Posted by: Yeppers at February 25, 2026 03:05 PM (q2NNn)

93 DJT mentioned that the price of eggs has dropped by 60% since his inauguration.

He also mentioned that Mamdani's NYC is requiring snow removal shock worker applicants to produce two valid IDs before employment.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 03:05 PM (rj6Yv)

94 They ought to be careful with this new "k-shaped" woobie they just found in their cribs to rattle around and throw at people.

It's all about haves and have nots, right?

And which faction is trying to take all the shit from anyone who has even a little to be taken?

It ain't Trump's faction.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:06 PM (Vq1pX)

95 The rhetoric on tariffs are confusing and contradictory. I'm told that tariffs are only on consumers, but companies are suing to "recover money" that they were charged with tariffs. We're told that ALL they do is raise prices and hurt the buyers, but every nation on earth has huge tariffs on the US to control what and how products enter their nation. If its just passed on to the buyer why would that control anything?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:06 PM (PYyV9)

96 They trot out this BS every time there's a good economy and a Republican is in office. Sure YOU'RE doing OK, but all of your neighbors are suffering. We swear. It's a slaughterhouse out there. Pay no attention to all of the people around you with shiny new cars and such. Don't you feel guilty for doing so well economically while everyone else is starving to death?
Posted by: bonhomme

Funny how they never do those stories when bad economic policies don't affect them but hurt everyone else when Dems are president.

If they had any self awareness they would.

But somehow the shoe pinching when it's on their foot is suddenly a tragedy.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 03:06 PM (a+4eV)

97 It's also stupid. In any economy, no matter how good, there will be winners and losers. It is impossible to improve every single person's life.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25

Now just hang on a minute there, Judge. Are you telling me that in communist utopias there are haves and have nots? That not everyone is equal and living in peaceful harmony?
Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (OoFl2)
_______

I find your lack of faith disturbing, comrade

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

98 The older corporate world, and its very old at this point, had some notion of responsibility to its workers. Modern globo-corps solely exist to make money.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 02:58 PM (sKqQm)
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Modern corporate governance where there is a relative handful of people who all horse-trade board seats at each others' companies and who then basically collude to maximize profit at the expense of literally anything else, sucks.

There was a time when the shareholders of public corporations included a lot of people local to that company, including employees, family members, and other tangentially-related people that had a stake in yes, making a profit on their holdings, but also in the stewardship of the company so that it stayed around as an employer in the local economy, and the shareholders would show up in person to the annual meeting. That time is long fucking gone. Giant holding companies like BlackRock and Vanguard have elbowed ma and pa out of the way.

Then don't get me started on private equity.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM (3BwY8)

99 Wage growth has been steady prior to the plandemic. Then Biden and Democrats pushed a whole bunch of .gov jobs and funny money into the economy to launch it into great heights, only to watch it predictably drop through the floor. Trump initially got it to rise. But it’s faltered as we try to readjust the economy. It’s now on a steady upward trend.

I’m looking at the end of 2Q into 3Q as the time things start to take off.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM (Py+sj)

100 People that live in the blue states on the coasts can't afford the cost of living. And they are unwilling to move to areas with a cheaper cost of living. There's not much the President can do to fix it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM (gQ15S)

101 Roll that prosperity montage!

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM (4NO2D)

102 >>This just reminds me of the "funemployment" stuff they trotted out under Obama.

Has anybody checked in with Nancy Pelosi to see how the Poets are doing?

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 03:08 PM (1Udfd)

103 not all boats are being lifted", which is the same BS.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 03:02 PM (AlhUl)

I don't think I want to live in the kind of rising tide that can lift *any* boat, no matter how seaworthy.

Fix your damn boat and wait for the wind like everyone else has to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:08 PM (Vq1pX)

104 what the F is "K shaped"???

I don't get that either. The text is describing a graph that's a less-than sign "
Posted by: Ian S.

It has to be a letter so that it sounds all economist-like. Like the "V-shaped" and "U-shaped" recoveries.

I don't make the rules, I just observe them.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:08 PM (VHUov)

105 85 So all those cute Canadian chicks will be fleeing to my house soon?
Posted by: eleven

The French / Indian une femme 'du Quebec are goddesses.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 03:08 PM (Y8DZL)

106 People that live in the blue states on the coasts can't afford the cost of living. And they are unwilling to move to areas with a cheaper cost of living. There's not much the President can do to fix it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM

I was informed this very day that the denizens of NYC are doing better than ever in history.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:09 PM (4NO2D)

107 Trump's BOOMcession > FDR's GREAT Depression

Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 25, 2026 03:09 PM (qUkBO)

108 I guess the 99% vs 1% argument didn't poll well

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:09 PM (tKWMU)

109 The US Hockey gold medal has been an endless source of fun for me since it happened. I have a few Canadian acquaintances, they really got pissed off when I said that we won our 3 golds against Communist countries.....

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 25, 2026 03:09 PM (car93)

110 I guess I'll send CNN my story.

AI has been poaching a lot of talent from my field for quite awhile. The normies are now paying premiums to replace the people they lost. Visa fraud crackdowns means they can't hire minimum wage third world coders to fill in the gaps. My skills are now in high demand and opportunities are available much earlier in my career than I had planned. I'm a single millennial and was resigned to waiting for people to get out of my way, but nope.

As for uncertainty I guess that's always going to be there, but when the AI bubble pops I don't think there will be enough jobs to go around. For now though, life is good.

Posted by: Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:09 PM (q2dV7)

111 The Fed is a failure. Even if we averaged their target rate of inflation, prices would quintuple in the average lifetime.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:04 PM (4NO2D)

What is fantastic is that Bessant seems to think this also, and the new Fed chair Warsh seems to think this also.
The money geeks are thinking the Fed will go back to being the backstop for the regional banks and let the Treasury go back to managing money and banking regulations, and doing the sort of high value electronic funds transfers that FedWire does now.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 03:09 PM (rbvCR)

112 McJobs redux

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:09 PM (tKWMU)

113 82 Eggbeef.

amirite?
Posted by: eleven

What kind of soupwich would that go with?

beer

Posted by: dave lister at February 25, 2026 03:10 PM (sGtp+)

114 I would agree moderate levels of deflation are no worse then moderate levels of inflation BUT both parties currently believe deflation would mean economic destruction.
Posted by: 18-1
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You sound like someone who is not $35 Trillion in debt.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 03:10 PM (AoT6J)

115 101 Roll that prosperity montage!
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM (4NO2D)

TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON !!!

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at February 25, 2026 03:10 PM (3sXRv)

116 Eggbeef.

amirite?
Posted by: eleven

What kind of soupwich would that go with?
Posted by: Bulg
__________

I used to regularly get a beef, sliced egg and bacon triple decker, but dammit, the place went out of business. Nobody makes a decent triple decker anymore. Turkey clubs don't cut it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2026 03:11 PM (XvL8K)

117 4 And those many are illegal aliens, former government workers, and tech folk who sadly haven't gotten the government to stop the H1B bullshit yet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Actually on the H1B front, the new rules are hitting pretty hard on companies, H1B recipients are complaining about slow rolling their petitions, etc.

Granted lottery winners is down from 188k in the last Biden year to 120k and likely to be lower in 2026 due to increases in H1B fees and severely limiting multiple lottery applications by the same persons.https://tinyurl.com/2w3w33ew

Link goes to immigration law reporting service.

The new rule as of Dec 25 also requires much higher salaries to qualify jobs for H1B and $100,000 fee now for new applications and certain change of status for existing H1B holders.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)

118 Bickering about economists terms is like bickering about if a hotdog is a sandwich. Silly.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 03:11 PM (n5tGW)

119 >>>Boomcession

We were going to call it a Boomfart, but we were afraid that people wouldn't take us seriously.

--CNN

Posted by: No Name Today at February 25, 2026 03:11 PM (8mulE)

120 People that live in the blue states on the coasts can't afford the cost of living. And they are unwilling to move to areas with a cheaper cost of living. There's not much the President can do to fix it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM
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I have been scolded numerous times here at the HQ that telling people who don't want to be ruled by commies and pay through the nose for basic necessities to move to a place where neither of those things are the case is rude and insensitive because reasons.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 03:11 PM (3BwY8)

121 The rhetoric on tariffs are confusing and contradictory.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Some people: Tariffs are a tax on consumers! You can't tax foreign companies; they'll just increase prices!

The same people: American companies don't pay their fair share! Raise corporate taxes!

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:11 PM (VHUov)

122
There was a time when the shareholders of public corporations included a lot of people local to that company, including employees, family members, and other tangentially-related people that had a stake in yes, making a profit on their holdings, but also in the stewardship of the company so that it stayed around as an employer in the local economy, and the shareholders would show up in person to the annual meeting. That time is long fucking gone. Giant holding companies like BlackRock and Vanguard have elbowed ma and pa out of the way./i]

One change I don't see people talking about but would seem a slam dunk - take away voting rights from companies that hold stock for individuals.

Have 100 shares of Google in your 401k? Why don't YOU get to vote those shares?

This might get a bit complex with index funds I suppose and auto-trading systems, but I don't think that problem is unsolvable...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

123 Sure YOU'RE doing OK, but all of your neighbors are suffering. We swear. It's a slaughterhouse out there. Pay no attention to all of the people around you with shiny new cars and such. Don't you feel guilty for doing so well economically while everyone else is starving to death?
Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 02:49 PM (Yp6az)
========

Lenin and Stalin both denounced the 'kulaks'. Standard Commie procedure. That's why the Dems set up their J6 informant hotline. Straight to the FBI.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 03:12 PM (rj6Yv)

124 >> I would agree moderate levels of deflation are no worse then moderate levels of inflation BUT both parties currently believe deflation would mean economic destruction.

Courting Deflation would be retarded.

It would be much smarter to fight the effects of inflation with Tax Rebates.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 03:12 PM (1Udfd)

125 . . . rolling down hill like a snowball headed for Hell . . .

Posted by: Merle Haggard at February 25, 2026 03:12 PM (q2NNn)

126 The French / Indian une femme 'du Quebec are goddesses.

So you're saying they have pointy ears, blue skin, or a fish tail?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 03:12 PM (Riz8t)

127 Boomcession.

Even amidst an economic boom, there are people who still can't get their shit together they're so firmly welded to Uncle Sam's rancid udder.

That's the real problem. You will never fix a permanent, artificial underclass that was created on purpose using liberal free market capitalism.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:13 PM (Vq1pX)

128 As for uncertainty I guess that's always going to be there, but when the AI bubble pops I don't think there will be enough jobs to go around. For now though, life is good.
Posted by: Taylor
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Look into AI security, that is going to be one helluva nightmare given the massive increases in breaches by hackers using AI tools worldwide. Security will be in high demand accordingly.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:13 PM (E4rtv)

129 You sound like someone who is not $35 Trillion in debt.

At some point we are going to have to talk about clawing back handouts to illegals and connected leftist corps but we aren't there quite yet.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

130 100 People that live in the blue states on the coasts can't afford the cost of living. And they are unwilling to move to areas with a cheaper cost of living. There's not much the President can do to fix it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM (gQ15S

Interesting point there, Notsothoreau. Our media betters live in those unaffordable blue areas and probably can't see past their surroundings (not that they'd want to).

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 03:13 PM (FMtrg)

131 Courting Deflation would be retarded.

It would be much smarter to fight the effects of inflation with Tax Rebates.
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 03:12 PM

Any money that passes through the government's hands gets cut by the vigorish.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:13 PM (4NO2D)

132 Now just hang on a minute there, Judge. Are you telling me that in communist utopias there are haves and have nots? That not everyone is equal and living in peaceful harmony?
Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 03:00 PM (OoFl2)

You have the right of it, Piper. Remember, under Capitalism, Dog Eats Dog, however under Socialism the opposite occurs.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 03:14 PM (rbvCR)

133 Don't count on that AI bubble popping anytime soon, bro.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2026 03:14 PM (+rKuc)

134 Boomcession Boogie

Boom shaka-laka
Boom shaka-laka

Jobs go boom!
Stocks go boom!
Inflation gone
Economy zoom!

Boom shaka-laka
Boom shaka-laka

Boomcession's here
Trump is clear:
Nothing to fear
we're in gear!

Boom shaka-laka
Boom shaka-laka

Boom!

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:14 PM (Ys3Ta)

135 We were going to call it a Boomfart, but we were afraid that people wouldn't take us seriously.

--CNN
Posted by: No Name Today at February 25, 2026 03:11 PM (8mulE)

South Africans would think you were going to drive around looking at trees.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:14 PM (Vq1pX)

136
A rising tide
raises all boats
Trump new plan
is the GOAT!

Boom shaka-laka
Boom shaka-laka

Boom!

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:14 PM (Ys3Ta)

137 Well, if your income comes from USAID I guess it looks dire. Maybe get a real job?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 03:14 PM (pZ64F)

138 If the commies spent half the energy they put toward their cute little terms and slogans being even remotely decent people, the world would be a far better place.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:15 PM (tKWMU)

139
what the F is "K shaped"???

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A graph plotting average income over time, that has two diverging lines, one rising, one falling, which originate at a single point on the left side of the graph. The rising line is for economic winners who e.g. present news on TV, and the falling line is for economic losers who shop at K-Mart.

The two economic groups are obtained by dividing the data between two classifications; defined as needed to produce winners and losers.Whatever criteria get the job done, it's not easy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 03:15 PM (azNOR)

140 Stupid Pixy wouldn't let me post the whole song.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:15 PM (Ys3Ta)

141 I live in a blue area primarily due to family obligations.

I would love to move somewhere sane but its just not an option.

The people I live among complain about high costs then vote for the politicians that cause the high costs. It is intensely frustrating.

When you point this out you'll get told they voted for the "good people" so anything not good happening is just bad luck or Trump's fault.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:15 PM (sKqQm)

142
A rising tide
raises all boats
Trump new plan
is the GOAT!

Burma shave!

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:15 PM (4NO2D)

143 50 it seems like "boomcession" is an outgrowth of climate change "logic", and I guess anyone who still firmly believes a boiling planet causes blizzards and increased arctic ice will nod right along with it.
Posted by: barbarausa at February 25, 2026 02:57 PM (enw9G)

You see there is a hidden layer in all the oceas where this excess heat is being stored and one day its going to boil to the surface. That heat is somewhere, we just have to find it. The models say the science is settled.

Posted by: Climate scientists at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM (i0Hi3)

144 It is impossible to improve every single person's life.
This is especially true when those persons are Democrats, who can always be depended on to make poor life choices: from tattoos, piercings, odd colored hair, to drug abuse, to huge college debt for worthless degrees, and on and on.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM (XMwZJ)

145 Roll that prosperity montage!

Odd that I haven't even heard of anyone using one since Clinton was in office. Maybe they run it every day on network news, I haven't seen it for... honestly I cannot remember the last time. Its been more than half my life since I have last watched anything on network TV.

Don't count on that AI bubble popping anytime soon, bro.

Five years, tops, probably closer to 2.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM (PYyV9)

146 100 People that live in the blue states on the coasts can't afford the cost of living. And they are unwilling to move to areas with a cheaper cost of living. There's not much the President can do to fix it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2026 03:07 PM (gQ15S)

At least two West Coast states upped their gas taxes after Trump got elected. I'm assuming that it was largely to prevent Trumps' economic victories from affecting state residents. They will wreck their own economies just to keep Trump from getting a win.
Someone in WA can hear Trump talking about the low price of gas and thing "What's that guy talking about? Gas is as high as its ever been."

Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM (0MjtC)

147 I love how a bunch of millennial twats playing with spreadsheets all seem to think they just invented bucketing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM (Vq1pX)

148 One change I don't see people talking about but would seem a slam dunk - take away voting rights from companies that hold stock for individuals.

Have 100 shares of Google in your 401k? Why don't YOU get to vote those shares?

This might get a bit complex with index funds I suppose and auto-trading systems, but I don't think that problem is unsolvable...
Posted by: 18-1
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I agree. Essentially 'ownership' means nothing because corporate staff and the investment houses actually control how much 'earnings' you will get as owner.

It would be as if you had a manager over a store you owned and your store manager and banker decided outside of your presence, how much they would manage your store and how much you could make.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)

149 The people who want to stop you from saying certain things can make up any word any time without fear of reprisal.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM (tKWMU)

150 The thing I like most about climate change is the margaritas.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:17 PM (Ys3Ta)

151 Don't count on that AI bubble popping anytime soon, bro.

Nvidia earnings call after the close today.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:17 PM (4NO2D)

152 A "K" shaped graph is not a function.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:54 PM (aTgV0)

Well, it could be

Y=X

And

-X= Y

Right? Graphed together?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 03:17 PM (zZu0s)

153 Gas was going below $3 but seems to be creeping up .
Other things are cheaper. But everything seems stocked and available

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 03:17 PM (Ia/+0)

154 It is impossible to improve every single person's life.

"The poor you will always have with you"
--GOD INCARNATE

No system is perfect, as I said last thread. You use the best system you can that benefits the most people in the greatest measure, and overall the arc of history is positive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:18 PM (PYyV9)

155 139
what the F is "K shaped"???

------

A graph plotting average income over time, that has two diverging lines, one rising, one falling, which originate at a single point on the left side of the graph. The rising line is for economic winners who e.g. present news on TV, and the falling line is for economic losers who shop at K-Mart.

Economic losers? Like investors in Omar's winery or consulting firm?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 03:18 PM (i0Hi3)

156 One change I don't see people talking about but would seem a slam dunk - take away voting rights from companies that hold stock for individuals.

Have 100 shares of Google in your 401k? Why don't YOU get to vote those shares?

This might get a bit complex with index funds I suppose and auto-trading systems, but I don't think that problem is unsolvable...
Posted by: 18-1

what ?

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 03:18 PM (/M/4v)

157 So you're saying they have pointy ears, blue skin, or a fish tail?
Posted by: Archimedes

Ha, you've been watching Avatar again, eh?

Real communism could work, like Prometheus, if they put back in the deleted scenes and used the director's cut.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 03:18 PM (Y8DZL)

158 "The US Hockey gold medal has been an endless source of fun for me since it happened. I have a few Canadian acquaintances, they really got pissed off when I said that we won our 3 golds against Communist countries.....
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat"

Excellent.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:18 PM (aTgV0)

159 While during the Biden years, the left was haranguing Americans for daring bemoan the economy and inflation by refutation via endless citation to ... official statistics.

LOL

"how dare you claim Bidenomics isn't working? The unemployment rate is low! The inflation rate is falling!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 03:18 PM (HXT0k)

160 I didn't watch the SOTU address. No need. I agree with Trump on 95% of everything he is doing. And I really didn't want to watch the democrats shit in their hands and throw it in all directions. I've seen it before and the monkeys at the zoo are more entertaining.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2026 03:19 PM (pohLc)

161 We be alls thinks that Presdent Obana shoolds has been invited to t he SOTU stuff last nite.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 25, 2026 03:19 PM (jwBFW)

162 If you'd be willing to share your experience with a CNN reporter for possible inclusion in an upcoming story, we'd like to hear from you.

I was a GS-15 Diversity Officer for the Department of Education.

I made $150,000 a year, had gold-plated health and retirement benefits, and have worked from home for the last five years.

Once a week, I'd write a memo denouncing "whiteness", and a couple of times a week I'd participate in a Zoom meeting, where I'd denounce the Department of Education for still having too many white employees.

Life was good.

Then I was laid off, and obviously given my experience and skills, I'm not going to work for less than $150,000, but this racist society that oppresses Black women has yet to provide me with an adequate replacement job.

Posted by: Opressed Black Woman! at February 25, 2026 03:19 PM (n1OCj)

163 I want a graph that is ampersand-shaped. Do it!

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:19 PM (Ys3Ta)

164 Boomcession.

Yeah. No.

That's like complaining that Scarlett Johansson keeps showing up every night wanting to have sex and it is really cutting into your Diablo 4 playing time.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 03:19 PM (bwOhD)

165 And don't forget....some Federal workers took the buyout and some were laid off. Those are the workers they care about.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2026 03:20 PM (gQ15S)

166 Oligachy!

Posted by: BernieGPT at February 25, 2026 03:20 PM (ZJT0I)

167 Funcession!

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at February 25, 2026 03:20 PM (gUutX)

168 No system is perfect, as I said last thread. You use the best system you can that benefits the most people in the greatest measure, and overall the arc of history is positive.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:18 PM (PYyV9)

Self governance can never be fully autonomous.

If you leave the system to govern itself, you're no longer self governing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:20 PM (Vq1pX)

169 AI is writing checks it simply can't cash. And no one in my corner of the world takes it seriously anyway. It's a buzzword being used by execs and marketing.

Posted by: Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:20 PM (q2dV7)

170 One change I don't see people talking about but would seem a slam dunk - take away voting rights from companies that hold stock for individuals.

Have 100 shares of Google in your 401k? Why don't YOU get to vote those shares?
__________

Do we sign proxies as part of the deal? I've never really looked at what I'm signing on that shit.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2026 03:20 PM (XvL8K)

171 Boobcession!

Posted by: AosHQ Commentator at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (q2NNn)

172 I've seen it before and the monkeys at the zoo are more entertaining.

I went to the San Diego Zoo with some buddies (great place), and the chimpanzee pen was okay. One of the most gorgeous girls I have ever seen was kind of walking near us as we went to various places and when we got there, the monkeys did this acrobatic roll into a sex position I have never seen in my life and went to it like a pair of animals.

That was kind of embarrassing, we all walked away without looking at each other.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (PYyV9)

173 My Welfare, Food Stamps, Section 8 Housing Assistance have not kept up with inflation.

Trump lied ....

Posted by: LaQuisha Largeass at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (YuOiR)

174 what ?
Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 03:18 PM (/M/4v)

Go set up an account with a stock trading firm and buy 100 shares of Google (or whatever company). You'll get to vote at the Google shareholders events - these are done in a way you don't have to physically be there.

Now instead, and this is much more common, get a 401k from whatever company you work for and select an option from say Vanguard that includes 100 shares of Google.

You do NOT get to vote the shares in your 401k like you would if you set up your own investment account.

This is weird and allows companies like Vanguard to rubber stamp whatever Google or other companies are doing.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

175 163 I want a graph that is ampersand-shaped. Do it!
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:19 PM (Ys3Ta)

Would you settle for a limaçon?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (Vq1pX)

176 OT, so.eone mentioned Vanna white being on Price is Right as a contestant.

https://youtu.be/-4lwNLFOpFA?
si=pVna3w4ZgfCYe4so

I actually think she looks hotter here as a dirty blonde.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (zZu0s)

177 Under Dem administrations the Media is full blown Pollyanna, Under Trump they are evangelical Eeyore.
"Sour Grapes make the best Whine"

Posted by: birddog at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (s5LY2)

178 That's like complaining that Scarlett Johansson keeps showing up every night wanting to have sex and it is really cutting into your Diablo 4 playing time.

You mean like Scarlett Johannsen Iron Man 2 or today?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (PYyV9)

179 169 AI is writing checks it simply can't cash. And no one in my corner of the world takes it seriously anyway. It's a buzzword being used by execs and marketing.
Posted by: Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:20 PM (q2dV7)
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I work for a company that is heavily investing in AI. Not to replace individual workers/coders/anything else, but to weave it into the background of the internet as we know it.

It's far more than a marketing buzzword for us at this point and I would bet serious money that it's here to stay. The hype will die down as with everything else, but AI isn't going anywhere.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (3BwY8)

180 If you'd be willing to share your experience with a CNN reporter for possible inclusion in an upcoming story, we'd like to hear from you.

It's tax time, and i just calculated how much my investments went up last year. Holy Mother of God -- never before have my dividends, capital gains and stock values gone up so much. i just moved up to Easy Street. Thank you President Trump!

(* This is actually true.)

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (Ys3Ta)

181 Then I was laid off, and obviously given my experience and skills, I'm not going to work for less than $150,000, but this racist society that oppresses Black women has yet to provide me with an adequate replacement job.

Most college-educated black women work for the government - it has functioned as a huge jobs program for them for many years.

Any shift in the economy that reduces government jobs, while increasing private sector jobs, is going to harm college-educated black women.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (n1OCj)

182 169 AI is writing checks it simply can't cash. And no one in my corner of the world takes it seriously anyway. It's a buzzword being used by execs and marketing.
------------------
The wife uses it and it has brought in new business. She markets a shopping center and its tenants. She creates a Teddy Bear that shows up in a shop each month. The ladies like it and the kids like it. The shop owners love it.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (pZ64F)

183 Real communism could work, like Prometheus

PROMETHEUS !!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (Kt19C)

184 Do we sign proxies as part of the deal? I've never really looked at what I'm signing on that shit.

Proxyvote is very commonly used. But again for shares you directly own not something through a 401k, ETF, or the like

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:23 PM (sKqQm)

185 oh, I see, you were talking specifically about 401k

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 03:23 PM (/M/4v)

186 If you put back the deleted scenes in Prometheus it would be 5 hours long and suck even more.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:23 PM (aTgV0)

187 >>>The US Hockey gold medal has been an endless source of fun for me since it happened. I have a few Canadian acquaintances, they really got pissed off when I said that we won our 3 golds against Communist countries.....

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat

>I'm with the Babylon Bee, have Hughes tell the hosers he melted down his medal for a new grill, after that cheap shot high stick knocked out his teeth (tooth).

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 03:23 PM (gVUi7)

188 Yep, used to fill my 30 gallon gas tank in WA state. It's been half the price here in KS

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2026 03:23 PM (gQ15S)

189 (* This is actually true.)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (Ys3Ta)

Tell me about your Silver shares!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 03:23 PM (rbvCR)

190 That was kind of embarrassing, we all walked away without looking at each other.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (PYyV9)

You think thats embarrassing? My mini-Dachshund thinks every bare leg is his sex partner.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2026 03:24 PM (pohLc)

191 Hot Take: inflation is happening in large part because our culture will not push back on pricing. Digital money and no ability for delayed gratification.

Posted by: Sharpie at February 25, 2026 03:24 PM (glvF4)

192 178.

Iron Man 2 ideally. But I'm not gonna lie, even today if her shadow ever got cast on the same wall as mine I'd probably need a saline drip and zinc tablets for three weeks.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 03:24 PM (bwOhD)

193 Boob-shaped graph, please!

X-axis is cup size, Y axis is bust circumference.

Under Trump, we're now at 44-D.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:24 PM (Ys3Ta)

194 countries.....

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat

>I'm with the Babylon Bee, have Hughes tell the hosers he melted down his medal for a new grill, after that cheap shot high stick knocked out his teeth (tooth).
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 03:23 PM (gVUi7)

Watching the replay a few times and that stick to the face looked intentional.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 03:24 PM (i0Hi3)

195 My mini-Dachshund thinks every bare leg is his sex partner.
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Weiner Dogs are voracious sex partners.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 03:25 PM (pZ64F)

196 173 My Welfare, Food Stamps, Section 8 Housing Assistance have not kept up with inflation.

Trump lied ....
Posted by: LaQuisha Largeass at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (YuOiR)

Inflation is determined by various metrics related to the money supply and the availability of interbank credit, not the first derivative with respect to time of the circumference of your steatopygian ass fat, you gross bastard.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:25 PM (Vq1pX)

197 I actually think she looks hotter here as a dirty blonde.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (zZu0s)

A dirty blonde will always be hotter than a regular blonde

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:26 PM (tKWMU)

198 It's far more than a marketing buzzword for us at this point and I would bet serious money that it's here to stay. The hype will die down as with everything else, but AI isn't going anywhere.
Posted by: ballistic

"computers are a fad"
computers are everywhere
"the internet is a fad"
the internet is everywhere
"cell phones are a fad"
cell phones are everywhere
AI is a fad <--- YOU ARE HERE

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:26 PM (VHUov)

199 inflation is happening in large part because our culture will not push back on pricing

I agree. The proper mechanism against corporate greed is consumer opposition. I recall when I was a little kid shopping with mom and all the shelves were jammed with sugar. Some idiot tried to corner the market on sugar and jacked the price way up and... everyone just stopped buying sugar.

These days people buy it, go into debt, and shrug while they scroll on their phone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:26 PM (PYyV9)

200 My very good beef vegetable soup at mom and pop's cafe was $15. ; doubled price past 36 months. Still in my torso with the cornbread. Don't believe prices will come down. Vote against every democrat always.

Posted by: kingsman at February 25, 2026 03:27 PM (ehY6c)

201 "Boomcession" sounds like a Nikki Minaj rap from 2015

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

202 SLV and SILJ up today.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2026 03:27 PM (gQ15S)

203 don't forget....some Federal workers took the buyout and some were laid off. Those are the workers they care about.

Federal workers....hahahahaha....federal workers....stop it...hahahaha

Posted by: Oxymoron at February 25, 2026 03:27 PM (hXJe5)

204 You think thats embarrassing? My mini-Dachshund thinks every bare leg is his sex partner.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2026 03:24 PM (pohLc)

Maybe you should put on your pants, pervert.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 25, 2026 03:27 PM (8mulE)

205 AI is in fact the future. I already cautiously find it quite useful. Like whiskey, you don't just up and swallow the whole bottle.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2026 03:27 PM (pohLc)

206 Here is an article on how proxyvoting for companies works https://tinyurl.com/rp3m5b38

Now, I don't think this would be a panacea because Joe Average isn't necessarily going to know the full implications of voting for Board Member X or Initiative Y but this is a power people should have for both their directly AND indirectly held stock

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:28 PM (sKqQm)

207 Boomcession: parts of the country are doing incredibly well, but the Dem run parts are dying.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 03:28 PM (k/Sbk)

208 Blum, I'm wearing a cardboard belt! A cardboard belt!

Posted by: Max Bialystock at February 25, 2026 03:28 PM (oftw2)

209
"AI is garbage" is on par with the Krugman Theory of the Web.

"No one will use it! Everyone loves to go to the store to buy their stuff and read the paper on the train!"

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:28 PM (tKWMU)

210 mmm...dirty blonde.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:28 PM (aTgV0)

211 I saw BoomSession open for English Beat at the Fry's Electronics in Burbank in 2007.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 03:28 PM (bwOhD)

212 even today if her shadow ever got cast on the same wall as mine

Old TV guide cover had the shadow of a black man's jazz hand fall on a white woman's crotch. Showed it to a coworker, quick double take and he LOL'd.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 03:29 PM (Kt19C)

213 189 (* This is actually true.)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:22 PM (Ys3Ta)

Tell me about your Silver shares!
Posted by: Kindltot

Sorry, no precious metals, unfortunately. I devised my own system, which I later learned is known as the "Kelly Criteria" - spread out assets from most-conservative/lowest return to most risky/highest-return, according to confidence level. For me, it;s approximately 1/3 of assets in FDIC-insured CDs (always shofting to highest promotional rate), 1.3 of assets in nrock-solid long-term low-riskbut-decent-avergae return investments, and 1/3 of assets in volitile high-risk investments. (Approximately.) It has paid off handsomely.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 03:29 PM (Ys3Ta)

214 I use AI at work. It helps with many tasks but it will often make mistakes no human would so you have to carefully view its output

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

215 I went to the San Diego Zoo with some buddies (great place), and the chimpanzee pen was okay. One of the most gorgeous girls I have ever seen was kind of walking near us as we went to various places and when we got there, the monkeys did this acrobatic roll into a sex position I have never seen in my life and went to it like a pair of animals.

That was kind of embarrassing, we all walked away without looking at each other.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (PYyV9)

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What...you didn't invite the gorgeous girl to your place to replicate what you just saw?

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 25, 2026 03:29 PM (1Au9i)

216 "cell phones are a fad"
cell phones are everywhere
AI is a fad

Who said cell phones are a fad? In any case, its not about being a fad, its about being overblown and over hyped. For example, when the internet started to be big there was this thing called the "dot com boom" that you might have heard of.

Nobody was saying the Internet is a fad other than Paul Krugman to his eternal mockery. But smart people were saying "this boom will not last" because it was a boom and they never last, especially because this one was a boom. Overhyped, overpromised, over valued.

AI will follow the same curve: it won't go away any more than the internet did after the DotCom boom burst.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:29 PM (PYyV9)

217 Nvidia is sitting right at the intersection of fear and greed @197 with a half hour left in the trading day.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:30 PM (4NO2D)

218 Just took a drop into fear territory.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 03:30 PM (4NO2D)

219 207 Boomcession: parts of the country are doing incredibly well, but the Dem run parts are dying.
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Why do you think the Yankees decided they needed to launch a Coup? They've been dying for some time. The Yankee Exodus started in 1969. At some point they passed the tipping point.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 03:30 PM (pZ64F)

220 The rhetoric on tariffs are confusing and contradictory.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:06 PM (PYyV9)

This sounds like when the Dems willfully feign ignorance and pretend not to understand the issue.

Tariffs are a tax. Businesses don't just eat tax costs and accept lower margins, if they face higher taxes they increase prices to consumers. Businesses were the ones literally transferring the money to the government so after the SC decision they want to sue to get themselves more money, they aren't going to send out rebates to consumers who paid higher prices unless they are forced to or see some other value (PR, advertising).

Other countries are restricting what options their own consumers have with their own tariffs because it limits competition from American companies in their markets.

Tariffs can have value in modifying consumer behavior (buying cheap Chinese crap that breaks and impoverishes consumers) or subsidizing important local businesses (making sure of your industrial base come ww3 or just providing job security), but they do distort the supply and demand curves meaning overall people have to pay more or go without the things they would buy.

Posted by: Sjg at February 25, 2026 03:30 PM (aqZN1)

221 Who is going to lug a computer monitor onto a train to get their news??

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:30 PM (tKWMU)

222 191 Hot Take: inflation is happening in large part because our culture will not push back on pricing. Digital money and no ability for delayed gratification.
Posted by: Sharpie at February 25, 2026 03:24 PM (glvF4)

To curb inflation, spend money on the greatest extent possible on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither. Keep government spending minimal.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 03:30 PM (fYhK6)

223 A suspicious number of em dashes in this one.

Don't tell me Ace has been replaced by AI!

AI of Spades HQ?

Posted by: TITP at February 25, 2026 03:30 PM (6Q9y6)

224
146

At least two West Coast states upped their gas taxes after Trump got elected. I'm assuming that it was largely to prevent Trumps' economic victories from affecting state residents. They will wreck their own economies just to keep Trump from getting a win.
Someone in WA can hear Trump talking about the low price of gas and thing "What's that guy talking about? Gas is as high as its ever been."
Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM

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CA did even better -- they finished the process of driving two refineries out of the state. I think they celebrated with a ceremony and a parade.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 03:31 PM (azNOR)

225 AI is quite avoidable on Linux.

You can use it or not.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:31 PM (aTgV0)

226 AI is a fad
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:26 PM (VHUov)

In each of those steps, remember the world that was promised, and the world that resulted. We won't get AI taking everyone's job any more than we got the entire work force replaced by Amigas or welding robots.

Faddish hype can be ridiculous and duly ridiculed while also recognizing that something good will probably still come from it all.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:31 PM (Vq1pX)

227 I've seen it before and the monkeys at the zoo are more entertaining.

I went to the San Diego Zoo with some buddies (great place), and the chimpanzee pen was okay. One of the most gorgeous girls I have ever seen was kind of walking near us as we went to various places and when we got there, the monkeys did this acrobatic roll into a sex position I have never seen in my life and went to it like a pair of animals.

That was kind of embarrassing, we all walked away without looking at each other.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:21 PM (PYyV9)
______

Bro, the pick-up lines write themselves!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

228 200 My very good beef vegetable soup at mom and pop's cafe was $15. ; doubled price past 36 months. Still in my torso with the cornbread. Don't believe prices will come down. Vote against every democrat always.
Posted by: kingsman

Heh. You think that's beef?

Posted by: Rat In A Drain Ditch at February 25, 2026 03:31 PM (oftw2)

229 227.

Bloodhound Gang had a whole song about it.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 03:31 PM (bwOhD)

230 BBC: US economy slows in final months after turbulent year

Trump is expelling workers from the United States and imposing tariffs on imports. Americans will end up with empty stores. His trade war against the rest of the world will destroy the United States.

The Commerce Department estimated that losses from the suspension of federal government services had subtracted one percentage point from GDP in the fourth quarter, while noting that the full impact was likely larger.

it's a direct result of the deranged policy of the Trump government and the inability of republicans in congress to make any compromises, so it will definitely happen again and is a good measure for how well this government is handling the economy.

Q4 growth is anemic. December inflation rose. Outside of healthcare and education, no jobs are being created. Largest post-war tax hike due to tariffs. Ruined regional and global alliances. Upended decades of prosperity inducing trade deals. Essentially has used his platform for negative supply shocks; none effective in reaching any stated goal.

Not sure how Trump can sell it as good. It'd be better if he'd done nothing all year.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 03:31 PM (ycI94)

231 In a properly functioning economy, inflation is normal and expected, it's why we are not paying 5000 dollars for houses and a weekly paycheck isn't 25 bucks.

The only thing that can be done is unleashing energy, stop hamstringing industry, and for G-d's, stop the suicidal government spending, that's the real villain in this psychodrama.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 03:32 PM (XV/Pl)

232 AI will follow the same curve: it won't go away any more than the internet did after the DotCom boom burst.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:29 PM (PYyV9)

When the AI bubble bursts we will see after the smoke clears the true value and uses of AI.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 03:32 PM (fYhK6)

233 Tariffs are a tax. Businesses don't just eat tax costs and accept lower margins, if they face higher taxes they increase prices to consumers.

How can anyone owe a business money for a tax they didn't pay because they passed it on to the consumers?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:32 PM (PYyV9)

234 186 If you put back the deleted scenes in Prometheus it would be 5 hours long and suck even more.
Posted by: eleven

But then IT WOULD MAKE SENSE!

We're just going to have to wait till the remake with the diverse rainbow cast to bring life to the story.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 03:32 PM (Y8DZL)

235 Ace has been Taylor Swift for like three years now.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:32 PM (aTgV0)

236 >>>"As for "worrying about job security:" Americans have felt insecure about their jobs since the seventies. This is not a Trump thing. This is a secular shift in the economy that happened after the 1960s boom and continues to happen."

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My wife, the breadwinner, just survived a RIF of 2000 employees. I guarantee she doesn't feel safe.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 25, 2026 03:33 PM (CyFyf)

237 AI is writing checks it simply can't cash. And no one in my corner of the world takes it seriously anyway. It's a buzzword being used by execs and marketing.

There's a lot of C-suite cluelessness about it, like anything new. But there's also a lot of substance. I'm not saying it's made me the mythical 10X coder, but it's a measurable boost.

One other correct use of AI: mocking Minnesota Communists. I think this is why lefty NPCs universally hate AI but can't say why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72p07_NKv20

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 03:33 PM (2ocoG)

238 146

At least two West Coast states upped their gas taxes after Trump got elected. I'm assuming that it was largely to prevent Trumps' economic victories from affecting state residents. They will wreck their own economies just to keep Trump from getting a win.
Someone in WA can hear Trump talking about the low price of gas and thing "What's that guy talking about? Gas is as high as its ever been."
Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM

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CA did even better -- they finished the process of driving two refineries out of the state. I think they celebrated with a ceremony and a parade.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 03:31 PM (azNOR)

In the meantime, TX gas taxes have not gone up since 1991.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 03:33 PM (fYhK6)

239 >>Tariffs are a tax. Businesses don't just eat tax costs and accept lower margins, if they face higher taxes they increase prices to consumers.

Except they DO eat costs.

They renegotiate with suppliers and labor.

Nobody is selling product for less than they believe they can sell products for.
They price at the top of range and when something like Tariffs hits, there is nowhere for them to go via pricing.

Raise prices and lose customers or trim profits and maintain market share.

Not a tough choice.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 03:34 PM (1Udfd)

240 When the AI bubble bursts we will see after the smoke clears the true value and uses of AI.

Exactly, same as the DotCom boom. They were making promises and building businesses on things the internet could not then and maybe never will be able to do. AI is being built up as something it cannot and probably never will do, but its useful for some stuff, and once we get past this we can actually get to work on making it do stuff it can do well,

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:34 PM (PYyV9)

241 CNN: it's a booming economy yeah, but where are the handouts?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:34 PM (cWLG3)

242 You think that's beef? Now just a sec my good man, I am preparing for the future, protein is protein.

Posted by: kingsman at February 25, 2026 03:34 PM (ehY6c)

243 163 I want a graph that is ampersand-shaped. Do it!
Posted by: zombie

Sorry, the closest is the cobweb theory graphs

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:34 PM (E4rtv)

244 "That heat is somewhere, we just have to find it. The models say the science is settled."

That's how I figured.

Posted by: barbarausa at February 25, 2026 03:34 PM (enw9G)

245 "Ace has been Taylor Swift for like 3 years now."

He's using Travis Kelce to make himself look straight? I'm confused.

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 03:35 PM (6zGg2)

246 For the companies that may be requesting refunds for tarrifs, did you pass on the costs to the customers or absorb reductions to profit margins? If the former, are you going to pass the refunds on to customers? Maybe, but more likely not. So leftists are celebrating a Supreme Court decision that puts "profits over people". Interesting dynamic there.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 03:35 PM (Dv3i1)

247 Weren't there some blue states that enacted policies designed to counteract Trump's efforts to improve people's economic situations? Like taxes on tips and other things I can't recall at the moment?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 03:35 PM (FMtrg)

248 Where is my MILF sexbot?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:35 PM (aTgV0)

249 >>Where is my MILF sexbot?

Out in your Flying Car with her AI BF.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 03:36 PM (1Udfd)

250 Raise prices and lose customers or trim profits and maintain market share.

Except as we noted above, people are eating the price increases. Stuff is going up and people aren't reducing their consumption like they should or in the past would. That is my genuine concern with chip prices. They are super inflated right now because of low supply and huge demand... but will they ever go down? Nobody is reducing their buying gadgets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:36 PM (PYyV9)

251 He's using Travis Kelce to make himself look straight? I'm confused.
Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 03:35 PM (6zGg2)

garrett is Travis Kelce?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:36 PM (Vq1pX)

252 An ampersand graph would have to parametric.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:36 PM (aTgV0)

253 When the AI bubble bursts we will see after the smoke clears the true value and uses of AI.

I wonder how much of the AI Boom is companies making huge claims to massive build-outs and securing contracts to purchase memory and energy capacity, only for the purpose of re-selling the memory and energy to those who didn't get the contracts?

Think of it as ticket scalpers of the '80s who would get bums to buy up all of the tickets ahead of the retail customers and then sell the "Good Seats" at a huge mark-up.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:37 PM (a6PrB)

254 In each of those steps, remember the world that was promised, and the world that resulted. We won't get AI taking everyone's job any more than we got the entire work force replaced by Amigas or welding robots.

Faddish hype can be ridiculous and duly ridiculed while also recognizing that something good will probably still come from it all.

To the extent it takes any jobs, it will also create new kinds of jobs and companies, the same as every big new technology in the last 150 years.

Europe is fucked because they thought the original industrial revolution would take everyone's jobs so they might as well go socialist. And then they never course-corrected when that was shown to be obviously stupid, so they've largely missed out on the jobs and companies created by computers and the Internet.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)

255 >>>Ace has been Taylor Swift for like three years now.

Posted by: eleven

>Next you'll be telling me Garrett Kelce will be riding in on a white horse.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 03:37 PM (gVUi7)

256 252 An ampersand graph would have to parametric.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:36 PM (aTgV0)

Well i *wasn't* dyslexic, until i tried to read that sentence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:37 PM (Vq1pX)

257 237 AI is writing checks it simply can't cash. And no one in my corner of the world takes it seriously anyway. It's a buzzword being used by execs and marketing.

There's a lot of C-suite cluelessness about it, like anything new. But there's also a lot of substance. I'm not saying it's made me the mythical 10X coder, but it's a measurable boost.

One other correct use of AI: mocking Minnesota Communists. I think this is why lefty NPCs universally hate AI but can't say why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72p07_NKv20
Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 03:33 PM (2ocoG)
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All the lefties at my workplace just love the AI, and are super excited at the prospect of a doing less actual work for the same pay. So excited you will be denied pay increases if you don't demonstrate how it's improving your work (who cares if it's irrelevant).

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:37 PM (cWLG3)

258 In a properly functioning economy, inflation is normal and expected, it's why we are not paying 5000 dollars for houses and a weekly paycheck isn't 25 bucks.

The only thing that can be done is unleashing energy, stop hamstringing industry, and for G-d's, stop the suicidal government spending, that's the real villain in this psychodrama.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 03:32 PM

Yep, inflation is not inevitable unless the government has the ability to "coin" more money than they bring in from tax revenues. The Roman empire intentionally devalued their currency just like we are doing and they paid for it at the end just like we will.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 25, 2026 03:38 PM (0N4FZ)

259
AI is magic is the much smarter bet than AI is garbage.

But one is a more fun opinion to have because it makes you kind of emo.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:38 PM (tKWMU)

260 Where is my MILF sexbot?
Posted by: eleven

If it's a mother, I think it's got more features than just "sexbot."

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:38 PM (VHUov)

261 Except they DO eat costs.

They renegotiate with suppliers and labor.

Nobody is selling product for less than they believe they can sell products for.
They price at the top of range and when something like Tariffs hits, there is nowhere for them to go via pricing.

Raise prices and lose customers or trim profits and maintain market share.

Not a tough choice.
Posted by: garrett

Yep. You have to work in elasticity of demand and elasticity of supply into any real life discussion as well as currency fluctuations of both trading partners. Whole host of real life variables like Rodney Dangerfield discussing actual construction and manufacturing factors in the movie Back to School.

For the most part, tariffs theory was ill taught in the US since before WWII because quite simply, Democrats (and thus academia) blamed the 1930 Smoot Hawley tariff for the Depression when it have very little to do with GDP decreases. Most of the blame should have went toward the Treaty of Paris and the resultant new monetary order where reparations paid by Germany to France and UK were repaid then to the US for war loans which then extended credit to the Germans. Crappy system.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:39 PM (E4rtv)

262 Saw an article yesterday about COL in Massachusetts and a Democrat (obviously, since he said Trump is responsible for high inflation and tariffs are killing us LOL) said he couldn't afford to live in Massachusetts anymore and was planning to move to ... North Carolina. He votes for Democrats. He wants the policies Democrat politicians say they'll institute. But he doesn't want to live in a blue state because of the consequences of those policies ... which he voted for. And he'll undoubtedly continue voting for Democrats after he moves to the Research Triangle.

Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 25, 2026 03:39 PM (qUkBO)

263 Can't wait for chopsticks made in Texas USA

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 03:39 PM (abIsI)

264 >>Except as we noted above, people are eating the price increases.

Some people.

Others are not buying.

Is the Balance sufficient to achieve the effect you desire? Apparently, not. Or, not yet.

This will never change, though. Some will continue to buy out of necessity. Others, out of desire.

Still others will boycott.

Same as always.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 03:39 PM (1Udfd)

265 As for "worrying about job security:" Americans have felt insecure about their jobs since the seventies. This is not a Trump thing. This is a secular shift in the economy that happened after the 1960s boom and continues to happen.

Who could have predicted such a totally secular thing like this?

Posted by: Henry Kissinger at February 25, 2026 03:40 PM (o2432)

266 Tariffs can have value in modifying consumer behavior (buying cheap Chinese crap that breaks and impoverishes consumers) or subsidizing important local businesses (making sure of your industrial base come ww3 or just providing job security), but they do distort the supply and demand curves meaning overall people have to pay more or go without the things they would buy.
Posted by: Sjg at February 25, 2026 03:30 PM (aqZN1)

It also modifies the manufacturers' behavior, especially the prime producers. Due to the tariffs it is becoming cheaper for the quality steel to manufacture it in country, and it has the benefit of still being less flawed and contaminated than Chinese sourced steel. The same goes for Aluminum
That has the added benefit that the production uses American workers, who get paid here, and spend their wages here, instead of it going to China where it does the US economy little good.

Think of it as buying from the corner store instead of buying from Amazon

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 03:40 PM (rbvCR)

267 By all means AI is most definitely magic.

But just how useful is magic?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:40 PM (aTgV0)

268 By the time they figure it out, we'll be on a beach earning 20%.
-ace, standing with garret and throwing the power lever on AceAI

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 03:41 PM (zZu0s)

269 In five years AI is going to be the new frustrating hot garbage we have to wade through all damn morning once in a while just to be able to even start doing our actual jobs.

It'll be like the new two factor authentication except the second factor is your mother in law.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:41 PM (Vq1pX)

270 260 Where is my MILF sexbot?
Posted by: eleven

Waiting on the SweeneyBot.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 03:41 PM (abIsI)

271 To sum: Temu is not doing so good?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 03:42 PM (WONhk)

272 Where is my MILF sexbot?
Posted by: eleven

If it's a mother, I think it's got more features than just "sexbot."

As an interesting aside, there has been a lot of ink spilled on the discussion of sexbots, but I imagine the feminist fury over some sort of artificial womb/robot will dwarf their anger over sexbots...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

273 @271 Temu is Temu-Amazon.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:43 PM (cWLG3)

274 In each of those steps, remember the world that was promised, and the world that resulted. We won't get AI taking everyone's job any more than we got the entire work force replaced by Amigas or welding robots.

Aren't you moving about on your Segway?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:43 PM (a6PrB)

275 But just how useful is magic?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:40 PM (aTgV0)

How useful is any of the technology you use? It all seemed like magic at one time.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:43 PM (tKWMU)

276 As an interesting aside, there has been a lot of ink spilled on the discussion of sexbots, but I imagine the feminist fury over some sort of artificial womb/robot will dwarf their anger over sexbots...

The feminists will fall in line when they get their own combination bear/minotaur sexbots.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 03:43 PM (2ocoG)

277 As an interesting aside, there has been a lot of ink spilled on the discussion of sexbots, but I imagine the feminist fury over some sort of artificial womb/robot will dwarf their anger over sexbots...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

Nah. I figure many women will be all for it (the rest will have their pick of men.) Then they will realize they have further priced themselves out of the market.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

278 Once we get High Speed Train everything will be better.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 03:44 PM (pZ64F)

279 -ace, standing with garret and throwing the power lever

"The power lever"? Is *that* what garrett calls it?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 03:44 PM (2ocoG)

280 My Doctorate in Gender and Wymen's Studies has put me at the very top of the K. Others should follow my lead.

Posted by: Dr. Sigmoid at February 25, 2026 03:44 PM (oftw2)

281 As an interesting aside, there has been a lot of ink spilled on the discussion of sexbots,
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Not just ink

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:44 PM (tKWMU)

282 20 y/o grandson working out for basic tng going to air force for computer stuff. So G. your headed to Lackland in San Antonio. Best start basic in the winter rotation I responded. He does have computer skills. It's a good move with our current C in C. Proud of him.

Posted by: kingsman at February 25, 2026 03:44 PM (ehY6c)

283 I trust you will agree that in a loitering munition having to switch to autonomous behavior when it loses its control signal that AI in its current or foreseeable state is not an ideal solution in a battlefield environment.

Posted by: Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:44 PM (DJPFk)

284 Aren't you moving about on your Segway?

That is still the oddest media moment in my life. We were told there was a new invention that would change everyone's life and it was the damn segway.

I've still never ridden one. Its too slow to get places like work, too small too transport groceries, and too open and unstable enough to use half the year where I live.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

285

By the time they figure it out, we'll be on a beach earning 20%.
-ace, standing with garret and throwing the power lever on AceAI

Which one of them is Hans Gruber and which is Karl?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 03:45 PM (xG4kz)

286 275 But just how useful is magic?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:40 PM (aTgV0)

How useful is any of the technology you use? It all seemed like magic at one time.
Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:43 PM (tKWMU)
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Hate it when the party poopers show up to explain away the magic as science. Boo!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:45 PM (cWLG3)

287 I don't want a sexbot, I want a maidbot. Clean, cook, help me stay on schedule, remind me of important things, do my laundry, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:45 PM (PYyV9)

288 The feminists will fall in line when they get their own combination bear/minotaur sexbots.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 03:43 PM (2ocoG)

Bulls make money.
Bears make money.
Bull-bears write stories about their hogs getting fluffed by sone AWFL, and make money.

It's a win-win-win situation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:45 PM (Vq1pX)

289 That has the added benefit that the production uses American workers, who get paid here, and spend their wages here, instead of it going to China where it does the US economy little good.

Think of it as buying from the corner store instead of buying from Amazon
Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 03:40 PM (rbvCR)

Because they never buy US made products.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 03:45 PM (fYhK6)

290 That is my genuine concern with chip prices. They are super inflated right now because of low supply and huge demand... but will they ever go down? Nobody is reducing their buying gadgets.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Yes computer memory prices will go down eventually--right now, the issue is three companies, an oligopoly control RAM production and due to the normal commodification of that, it was a low margin business for decades. Now, because AI, it suddenly becomes in demand but the high capital costs make the big three very wary of increasing production lines simply because if they do, and AI investment slumps, then the new plants can't pay for themselves.

FWIW, DDR5 memory prices are already beginning to subside as demand drops off, people keep existing computers longer, etc. Same with the crypto craze and video cards--eventually teh crypto craze receded which reduced video card prices and demand.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:46 PM (E4rtv)

291 I don't want a sexbot, I want a maidbot. Clean, cook, help me stay on schedule, remind me of important things, do my laundry, etc.

Didn't Megan Fox make a movie along these lines recently?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

292 281 As an interesting aside, there has been a lot of ink spilled on the discussion of sexbots,
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Not just ink

thanks. saved me from having to check urban dictionary.

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 03:46 PM (sGtp+)

293 That is still the oddest media moment in my life. We were told there was a new invention that would change everyone's life and it was the damn segway.

Yeah the fawning over the top publicity for that, all the news reports, all the claims THIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD.

And then they revealed it and people went "that's it??" and went back to reading a book or whatever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:46 PM (PYyV9)

294 The rhetoric on tariffs are confusing and contradictory.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Think of it as buying from the corner store instead of buying from Amazon
Posted by: Kindltot

Some people: Think local! 15-minute cities! Farm-to-table!

The same people: Tariffs are evil badorangeman awfulness!

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:46 PM (VHUov)

295 Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

If I ever want to make my wife cry laughing I simply remind her that the Segway guy drove himself off a cliff. It really tickles her.

Or I take off my pants.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:47 PM (tKWMU)

296 282 20 y/o grandson working out for basic tng going to air force for computer stuff. So G. your headed to Lackland in San Antonio. Best start basic in the winter rotation I responded. He does have computer skills. It's a good move with our current C in C. Proud of him.
Posted by: kingsman

You should be and yes, he is entering service at the right point in time.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:47 PM (E4rtv)

297
I've still never ridden one. Its too slow to get places like work, too small too transport groceries, and too open and unstable enough to use half the year where I live.
Posted by: 18-1

But it is your golden pass to take part in the annual Dork Parade!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 03:47 PM (xG4kz)

298 I asked AI why my ankle hurt and it gave me a list of 15 reasons why my ankle hurt.

You want to bank on that knock yourself out.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:47 PM (aTgV0)

299 287 I don't want a sexbot, I want a maidbot. Clean, cook, help me stay on schedule, remind me of important things, do my laundry, etc.

make sammiches?

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 03:47 PM (sGtp+)

300 Didn't Megan Fox make a movie along these lines recently?

Well she looks plastic enough to be a bot

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:47 PM (PYyV9)

301 There's a lot of C-suite cluelessness about it, like anything new.

Oh, you mean the Charlie level DEI post turtles installed over the past decade by BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard recommended board members?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:48 PM (pawvM)

302 287 I don't want a sexbot, I want a maidbot. Clean, cook, help me stay on schedule, remind me of important things, do my laundry, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Might be about ten years or so with current trends that are affordable for most of us.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:48 PM (E4rtv)

303 I'd be so terrified of another way to get rejected that I'd probably be too shy to ask out my sexbot.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 03:48 PM (WcDsy)

304 "But it is your golden pass to take part in the annual Dork Parade!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: "

Dorkwad Hall of Fame.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:48 PM (aTgV0)

305 OT: Gonna say Trump or someone leaning on private health insurance companies and especially pharmaceuticals, is having a positive effect. My meds went down from $20/3 months to $3.45/3 months...my other meds got added to the approved schedule for $350/month (from $800/month) - this 2nd one, I have a grant for, but it's nice to see even if I'm not paying. And I'll take the extra $68 on the 1st script. Now I'm wondering if my Epi will also be lower when I renew it next month...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 25, 2026 03:48 PM (tOcjL)

306 I do think AI will change the world, just in a slow, boring, plodding sort of way punctuated by various hucksters and charlatans making a buck along the way, and occasionally losing their shirts or going to jail.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:48 PM (Vq1pX)

307 293 That is still the oddest media moment in my life. We were told there was a new invention that would change everyone's life and it was the damn segway.

Yeah the fawning over the top publicity for that, all the news reports, all the claims THIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD.

And then they revealed it and people went "that's it??" and went back to reading a book or whatever.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:46 PM (PYyV9)
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We have them to thank for "Paul Blart: Mall Cop."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (cWLG3)

308 Or I take off my pants.
Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:47 PM (tKWMU)

Watch out for Xipe Totec's dog.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (ZJT0I)

309 There really isn't going to be an AI bubble burst, unlike the dot com bust, AI is largely concentrated in a small number of companies that are already large and established companies.

What's going to happen and is already happening is a correction.

For instance, Microsoft hit a high of 550 dollars a share and has pulled back to 380 dollars.

Similar clawbacks have been happening to other ai companies.

At the end of the day, big money players want to make a dollar and a cent, so there is no incentive to emanitizing another dot com bust.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (XV/Pl)

310 287 I don't want a sexbot, I want a maidbot. Clean, cook, help me stay on schedule, remind me of important things, do my laundry, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

You need a batman.

(British military version, not the superhero.)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)

311 I don't want a sexbot, I want a maidbot. Clean, cook, help me stay on schedule, remind me of important things, do my laundry, etc.

You can name her Hazel or Alice.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (abIsI)

312 Well for me once my IRAs hit $1M total I decided to retire at 56. No fancy living of course but good enough for me.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (Vh9CX)

313 Sub-prime AI dot com tech bubble palooza 2027

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (WcDsy)

314 I'd be so terrified of another way to get rejected that I'd probably be too shy to ask out my sexbot.

"Not tonight, I have a chip ache"
--sifty's sexbot

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (PYyV9)

315 I'd be so terrified of another way to get rejected that I'd probably be too shy to ask out my sexbot.

I saw one feminist proposal that sex bots should be programmed to respond that they aren't in the mood.

Which is pretty much the perfect feminist view on this.

And, TBH, sexbots are almost certainly not good for society but after 60 years of feminism saying that people shouldn't have to do what is good for society that well has run dry...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:50 PM (sKqQm)

316 "I'd be so terrified of another way to get rejected that I'd probably be too shy to ask out my sexbot.
Posted by: sifty boones"

You could get a nerdy, low confidence sex-bot.

I would.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:50 PM (aTgV0)

317 Oldest trick in the book. Flood the news and social media with anecdotal crap about how awful it is trying to make ends meet, and the average person thinks "well, my life is pretty good, but obviously nobody else's is. The economy sucks!"

Posted by: MartynWW at February 25, 2026 03:50 PM (M9zxq)

318 David French writing "The Conservative Case for Why a Strong Economy Weakens the Country"

Posted by: You know he wants to at February 25, 2026 03:50 PM (TbWk/)

319 The economy has to be awesome. 100%+ employment.
Why else would they need all those Somali daycare centers*?

* My adult girl just asserted that the Somali daycare fraud is fake and never happened.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 03:50 PM (/lPRQ)

320 You need a batman.

Yeah. Just can't afford one, or a maidbot, for that matter. I could just get so much more writing done then

Maybe one of my books will get optioned by Prime or something and I will make a zillion bucks. Maybe Kathy Ireland will dump her husband to become my sweet baboo, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (PYyV9)

321 >>It'll be like the new two factor authentication except the second factor is your mother in law.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:41 PM (Vq1pX)

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

I am so stealing that....pure gold.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (1Au9i)

322 316.

Imagine having to listen to your sexbot talk about her boyfriend while you sit in the friend zone.

That must be like life for Bill Kristol.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (WcDsy)

323 Yes computer memory prices will go down eventually--right now, the issue is three companies, an oligopoly control RAM production and due to the normal commodification of that, it was a low margin business for decades. Now, because AI, it suddenly becomes in demand but the high capital costs make the big three very wary of increasing production lines simply because if they do, and AI investment slumps, then the new plants can't pay for themselves.
Posted by: whig

There's also the lead time to respond to those types of bubble-market pressures.

It takes 9+ months (3rd world shithole) to 3+ years (overregulated blue state) to get a new chip or memory fab up and running. Even if they knew AI would not slump, we wouldn't see the supply/demand level out for a couple of years.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (VHUov)

324 You could get a nerdy, low confidence sex-bot.
____

That's hot!

Posted by: Sam Bankman-Fried at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)

325 Nood

Posted by: Rex B at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (17kmc)

326 I'd be so terrified of another way to get rejected that I'd probably be too shy to ask out my sexbot.

"Not tonight, I have a chip ache"
--sifty's sexbot
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 03:49 PM (PYyV9)

However this can be overcome with a simple app transaction.

Posted by: They would totally do this at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (TbWk/)

327 My adult girl just asserted that the Somali daycare fraud is fake and never happened.

Aren't their a number of ongoing trials right now about this?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

328 there is no question the economy is better now than under Biden; they are nitpicking to deflect from how awful life always is under the Democrats

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 03:51 PM (/M/4v)

329 Someone in WA can hear Trump talking about the low price of gas and thing "What's that guy talking about? Gas is as high as its ever been."
Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM

We know. The fault here isn't in DC, it's in Olympia.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 03:52 PM (2WIwB)

330 I want a sex bot shaped like AOC so i can tell it to go fuck itself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2026 03:52 PM (Vq1pX)

331 313 Sub-prime AI dot com tech bubble palooza 2027
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Replace sub-prime loans with circular multi-billion dollar business deals.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:52 PM (cWLG3)

332 I asked AI why my ankle hurt and it gave me a list of 15 reasons why my ankle hurt.

You want to bank on that knock yourself out.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 03:47 PM (aTgV0)

Ok.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 03:52 PM (tKWMU)

333 329 Someone in WA can hear Trump talking about the low price of gas and thing "What's that guy talking about? Gas is as high as its ever been."
Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 03:16 PM

We know. The fault here isn't in DC, it's in Olympia.
Posted by: Diogenes

$4.19 for diesel yesterday. On the rez.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (abIsI)

334 FWIW, DDR5 memory prices are already beginning to subside as demand drops off, people keep existing computers longer,

How much of the demand was forced by Windows 11?

I was thinking of getting the AMD 395 AI Max and 128GB so I could run Claud without having the world have access to the code. But the cost of memory and the promise of the next generation of processors put that decision on hold.

Now because Windows 11 sucks so much, I'm rethinking ditching the whole x86 thing and going Apple Silicon.

Those price hikes get me to think of going in different directions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (pawvM)

335 Nood! ****ing **** the **** movie awards.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (VHUov)

336 Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 03:34 PM (1Udfd)

If we want to get more technical, how much of the tax can be effectively passed on to consumer prices initially varies based on the elasticity of demand. If gas gets taxed an extra 5% it almost entirely goes directly to the consumer because most people can't just stop going to work because gas got more expensive. But a Chinese refrigerator may not be able to pass on the higher cost as easily because it just got more expensive relative to the American brand so people will stop buying it entirely.

Over a longer term a new equilibrium develops as the tariff is factored into the cost of the product and suppliers decide how much they are willing to provide and consumes decide how much they are willing to pay. That does mean that some suppliers may exit the market and some consumers now choose to go without.

This does mean that there are people that will be worse off as they would have bought a good but are no longer willing or able. And by reducing competition a product may get more monopolized and extract even more value from the remaining consumers.

Point is: there are trade-offs at play, it's not just a "free win".

Posted by: Sjg at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (aqZN1)

337 Once we get High Speed Train everything will be better.
Posted by: pudinhead
......

Yep. Everybody in Bakersfield can go shopping in Fresno.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (UjdFS)

338 My adult girl just asserted that the Somali daycare fraud is fake and never happened.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 03:50 PM (/lPRQ)

Ok, so you daughter is suffering from propaganda poisoning; do not fear and attack that propaganda, do not fear to conflict with your kid, she is are suffering! help her see the light!

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (/M/4v)

339 Reminds me of a PhD I know who sometimes moonlights as a university lecturer. He was telling me how rough it was for his students who were going to have trouble finding a job in the Trump economy.

Although, to be fair, a good portion of his students might have been grievance studies majors. So maybe he has a point.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 03:54 PM (FMtrg)

340 It IS a boomcession in places like California, where due to California Democrat policies and taxes, gas is still around $5/gallon, rents are unaffordable, companies are fleeing the state and people are being laid off, food prices are high due to policies that mandate egg-laying chickens, hogs, and cattle have "liveable space", dairies are shutting down due to taxes on cow flatulence causing "greenhouse gases" (methane)...
And guess where most of CNN's viewership resides?

Posted by: UncleJefe at February 25, 2026 03:54 PM (gAuAm)

341 there is no question the economy is better now than under Biden; they are nitpicking to deflect from how awful life always is under the Democrats

They went from the objective measure to the subjective measure so that they can replace facts with narrative.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:54 PM (NzX/y)

342 Who made the Boomcession in my pants?

Posted by: Senile President Emeritus at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (oftw2)

343
It'll be like the new two factor authentication except the second factor is your mother in law.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Welp, that rules out any rapid response from this kid. It takes my sweet MiL five or six tries in eight or nine minutes to rock and hoist herself out of her favorite recliner chair.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (xG4kz)

344 y adult girl just asserted that the Somali daycare fraud is fake and never happened.

Aren't their a number of ongoing trials right now about this?
Posted by: 18-1

Yup but if you Google "Somali daycare fraud..." one of the first suggestions is "fake story". The link has one source and ignores the 90+ individuals charged (mostly Somalis)

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (/lPRQ)

345 Now because Windows 11 sucks so much, I'm rethinking ditching the whole x86 thing and going Apple Silicon.

Those price hikes get me to think of going in different directions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (pawvM)

Linux is free and has plenty of easy to use distros like mint or ubuntu. Just sayin'

Posted by: Sjg at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (aqZN1)

346 It takes 9+ months (3rd world shithole) to 3+ years (overregulated blue state) to get a new chip or memory fab up and running. Even if they knew AI would not slump, we wouldn't see the supply/demand level out for a couple of years.
Posted by: mikeski
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Japan is getting back into the IC business including memory and cpus and China (Kingbank and Gloway) is looking to export older tech DRAM as well that will take some of the top off the market. And the big three are keeping ddr4 factories rolling when they planned to shut them down.

Right now, it is Crucial/Micron (which has just exited the consumer market), SK Hynix, and Samsung.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (E4rtv)

347 That Zac V2 guy on Youtube only talks about how crappy the economy is. There are some points that are true (insane new car prices) but also there are a lot of people how there that just aren't good with money. Thankfully he hits on those people too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (Vh9CX)

348 And guess where most of CNN's viewership resides?

In pots full of dirt in near empty reception areas? House pets where the TV is left on to act like someone is home?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:56 PM (9Hs2w)

349 Cat fight!

Cornel West
@CornelWest
Brother Newsom could’ve taken a humanistic approach! He could’ve said, “I’m just like you. I was born of a woman. I’ll face loss, pain, and death just like anyone else.” But instead, when he thinks of Black people, he brings up low SAT scores. That mindset sits at the core of white supremacy—the belief that Black people are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent! Don’t play with us like that @CAgovernor !!
#TruthJusticeLove

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 03:57 PM (FXNzP)

350 345 Now because Windows 11 sucks so much, I'm rethinking ditching the whole x86 thing and going Apple Silicon.

Those price hikes get me to think of going in different directions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (pawvM)

Linux is free and has plenty of easy to use distros like mint or ubuntu. Just sayin'
Posted by: Sjg at February 25, 2026 03:55 PM (aqZN1)
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If one is going to unlearn Windows, seems like a good time to switch to Linux. I couldn't even count on Windows to shutdown and power off reliably.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:58 PM (cWLG3)

351 345 Now because Windows 11 sucks so much, I'm rethinking ditching the whole x86 thing and going Apple Silicon.

Those price hikes get me to think of going in different directions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:53 PM (pawvM)

Linux is free and has plenty of easy to use distros like mint or ubuntu. Just sayin'
Posted by: Sjg
========
If people need microsux programs or specific creator programs like Adobe, Autocad, etc, then Apple is your best bet as it runs office plus those other creator programs. If not, linux is your best bet as it runs better than windows on older software. For a lot of other needs, linux programs are just fine albeit often require adjusting to the vast differences in display managers and distros.

Mint is probably close to the most bombproof and easiest transition. Ubuntu/Debian would be up there as well. Arch based linux is the other strain and a bit more unfriendly for desktop usage.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (E4rtv)

352 Linux is free and has plenty of easy to use distros like mint or ubuntu. Just sayin'

All my containers are Linux since it really is a better server platform. The LLM for running local Claude would be happy on Linux.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 25, 2026 03:59 PM (9Hs2w)

353
You forgot to flay him for the "can't read" portion of his put down of your people, Cornel.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM (xG4kz)

354 @349 And he's still extending an olive branch to Newsom by offering this as constructive criticism.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 04:00 PM (cWLG3)

355 FWIW, last summer, as a project, I cleared out a bunch of old computers. I got Debian 32 bit Trixie (circa 2025 dated OS) to run on a truly ancient Intel BX2 Seattle motherboard with a Pentium III processor. Did it so I could check data and remove if necessary to backup media what was on a very old hard drive.

Debian ran slow but it did work on a mere 512k ram with a 30 gb hard drive on truly ancient hardware.

That is how well Linux runs on old systems. Sometimes better than brand new computers unless you purposefully select manufacturers like Lenovo or Dell. The biggest hurdle in Linux still are mundane issues like drivers for printers, scanners, cameras, sound cards, etc. for various hardware add ins. If you pay attention when building a system, you can avoid that issue but on old ones, you may have to track down a driver for old hardware.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:06 PM (E4rtv)

356 Eggbeef.

amirite?
Posted by: eleven

What kind of soupwich would that go with?
Posted by: Bulg
__________

I used to regularly get a beef, sliced egg and bacon triple decker, but dammit, the place went out of business. Nobody makes a decent triple decker anymore. Turkey clubs don't cut it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2026 03:11 PM (XvL8K)

Used to be a place in Cincinnati. The sandwich was nearly cubical, you could hardly bite it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:07 PM (8avO+)

357 If one is going to unlearn Windows, seems like a good time to switch to Linux. I couldn't even count on Windows to shutdown and power off reliably.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:58 PM (cWLG3)

There's even a Windows emulator under Linux, and it can read your files off the Windows hard drives.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+)

358 "The US economy grew 2.2% in 2025, very much in line with the last three years of robust economic growth. "

Robust? Thats their new definition?

Second, 800K jobs got wiped out due to " recalibration" of Biden's BS. BLS estimates.

The only reason job growth was somewhat respectful in Q3 & 4 of 2024 was the hiring of gov't workers.

There are jobs out there. It may take some time. You may have to move. But they are out there and hopefully will continue to grow.

Yes. Job growth was weak. But in part, that was attributable to government job losses.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (m+uh6)

359 All my containers are Linux since it really is a better server platform. The LLM for running local Claude would be happy on Linux.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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My next system was going to be using containers so I could get rid of hardware as I have some really old but expensive software on old hardware in the basement (stats, graphics, etc. ). Hardware costs went up too fast to do a new build right now so I refurbed all the old systems downstairs and maximized them running from Win95, OS/2, Win 2k, XP-SP3, Win 7, Win 8.1, to Windows 10 scanning media station.

My main everyday computers dual boot Linux and windows upstairs but are still stuck in DDR4 but with maxxed out memory and oddities like Bluray drives, etc. Use them for media creation now mostly instead of stats/etc. as I am retired.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:11 PM (E4rtv)

360 There's even a Windows emulator under Linux, and it can read your files off the Windows hard drives.
Posted by: Oldcat

Linux now has native reading of ntfs3 built into the kernel nowadyas. "Since Linux kernel 5.15, the native ntfs3 driver provides full read/write access to NTFS file systems, including support for features like compression and journal replay, replacing the older, limited kernel driver. "

Major issue is don't use bitlocker on your ntfs drives if you plan to mess with Linux and Windows. Bitlocker has issues to begin with and putting linux on top of that mess of a compressed encrypted drive risks losing data.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 04:14 PM (E4rtv)

361 357 If one is going to unlearn Windows, seems like a good time to switch to Linux. I couldn't even count on Windows to shutdown and power off reliably.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 03:58 PM (cWLG3)

There's even a Windows emulator under Linux, and it can read your files off the Windows hard drives.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+)
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With WINE and Proton you can run moat any windows app that doesn't have DRM or isn't tightly integrated with the Windows OS (like MS Office). I can play all the Windows PC games in my Steam library just fine in Linux, no containers, hypervisors, or dual-boot configs required.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 25, 2026 04:15 PM (cWLG3)

362 The Critical Drinker sells plush dolls of himself to middle-aged men.

Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2026 04:20 PM (D7MKZ)

363 362 The Critical Drinker sells plush dolls of himself to whoever wants them and res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2026 04:20 PM (D7MKZ)

FIFY

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 04:34 PM (fYhK6)

364 Trump's biggest disapproval ratings are in the economy. Walmart CFO called it a job recession
We need about 2 million new jobs per year. Last year we got 120000.
The economy is why the mid terms will be a trump disaster

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 25, 2026 05:05 PM (zKyFQ)

365 The boomcession, don't you know.

The most hit by the boomcession .. Somalis in Minnesota

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 05:14 PM (RHGPo)

366 But I will say, Bill, something that I saw that probably most TV viewers didn’t see was really the cowardice, because there were a few Democrats who sort of politely clapped. They didn’t want to stand up. I guess maybe they were worried about being primaried by the far-left fringe of their party. But they were all looking around. They weren’t actually saying, you know what, I’m going to stand and support this because this is a common-sense, obvious statement. They were all looking around for cues from their colleagues, because they didn’t have the courage to stand on their own.

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (RHGPo)

367 In a stunning display of red-pilling, Zakaria directly called out the newly minted communist NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani for being the poster child for radical Dems steering their cities into economic brick walls: “Zohran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York affordable.” However, rebuked Zakaria, “Last week, he unveiled a budget that is — in a word — unaffordable.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 05:16 PM (RHGPo)

368 The boomcession, don't you know.

The most hit by the boomcession .. Somalis in Minnesota
but in reality, it is a bummer for all criminals

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 05:17 PM (RHGPo)

369 So who bothers to watch the Fake News from the China News Network(CNN) anymore?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 25, 2026 05:32 PM (wGqjj)

Democrat "Counter Event" To the SOTU Is, Literally, a Zoo of Lunatics

Hakeem Jeffries apparently told his animals that they should not heckle or scream during the SOTU, because it would make them look bad.

They did not listen. Deplorable, deportable foreign Islamofascist traitors Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur never stopped squawking and shrieking throughout the speech.

The degenerate Al Green was forcibly ejected from the Speech for his constant disruptions. He was also ejected from last year's speech.

I don't know why the two Muslim sows were permitted to stay.

But fifty Democrats boycotted the speech. Instead of attending, they staged various communist clown shows.

As WLT Report previously reported, nearly 50 Democrat lawmakers opted not to attend President Trump's State of the Union address.
Instead, many of them attended their counter State of the Union event.
Dozens of Democrats attended their own State of the Union Address, called the "People's Address," located at the National Mall.
To begin the event, Democrats welcomed on stage the Portland ant-fascist frogs to dance on stage.

Let's check in on the Dem counter event to Trump's SOTU… pic.twitter.com/5rBoH38bPz
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 25, 2026

Is this the foul-mouthed asshole who terrorized the church in Minneapolis? I think it is. He whines about being arrested and re-arrested for "protesting."

Meanwhile at the Democrats’ counter state of the union event…

The absolute state of the Democratic party pic.twitter.com/IzinCEPiuI
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 25, 2026

They paraded out illegal aliens to insist that none of them ever be deported and to declare they were here to "speak truth to power," meaning, they're here to tell actual native-born citizens that we're evil and racist and not doing enough for the fucking endless hordes of entitled, demanding, piratical migrants.

The heckling here is great.

Democrats held a counter protest to Trump’s State of the Union last night and it went — well, just wait for it 🤣 pic.twitter.com/5qsLAYgqch
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 25, 2026

These events featured brain-damaged moron Robert DeNiro, an adult pretender so ravaged by dementia that he always asks "Man, how does Biden age so gracefully?," and Islamofascist and terrorist spokesman (and fake "journalist"!) Mehdi Hassan.

Robert De Niro joins Democrats to protest Trump at ‘State of the Swamp.' https://t.co/Hf6BNUmWYr pic.twitter.com/OkPfhpVp5f
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 25, 2026

They're all Gay Theater Kids without any actual talent so they just show up to political events and sing.

MY GOODNESS..

This was the Democrats counter protest to President Trump’s State of the Union.. 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/dtgEEIMFKY
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) February 25, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:22 PM

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1 Uno

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (/M/4v)

2 Were they intentionally saying they are the frogs in the swamp?

I mean...they are but...you aren't supposed to say that part out loud

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

3 Why would it be anything else?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (3OtAS)

4 I wonder how that effort by the DOJ Civil Rights Division to sue states to clean up voter rolls is going...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

5 It's who they are.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (cuae1)

6 The democrats are a serious political party. The opposition.

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (98kQX)

7 Well at least they agree government is a swamp.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (Rw0Zp)

8 Foist?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (YxMyw)

9 The lunatic is on the stage.

Posted by: Pink Floyd at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

10 I guess the answer is Nope.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (YxMyw)

11 This is all so cringe I can't even.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (KGhM4)

12 The degenerate Al Green was forcibly ejected from the Speech for his constant disruptions. He was also ejected from last year's speech.

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Fingers crossed it's his last.

Gingles gets overturned by SCOTUS. Texas quickly redraws maps again, eliminating his seat.

Oh, darn...primaries are going on right now. Can't do that. Maybe he'll only have two more. They can draw his seat out of existence for 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

13 No paper mache heads, no protest...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (cGjQu)

14 CIA Barbie is now Clown Town Mayor.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (pZ64F)

15 Hakeem Jeffries apparently told his animals that they should not heckle or scream during the SOTU, because it would make them look bad.

They did not listen. Deplorable, deportable foreign Islamofascist traitors Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur never stopped squawking and shrieking throughout the speech.
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Most of them listened. They listened to the preferred instruction: "sit and scowl, no matter what."

Trump turned that on 'em, too.

The single smartest move for the Dems, given the uncontrolled lunacy of their caucus and the unfathomably bad "optics" management of the Party more generally, would have been a total boycott.

They tried to split the baby, and got their shit pushed in for their troubles.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (3OtAS)

16 Are their any national level elected Democrats that aren't objectively clowns?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm)

17 Robert De Niro - F.A.G.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (/M/4v)

18 I ain’t gonna lie; I missed much of it, but seeing the Team USA men’s hockey team enter the chamber adorned with their gold medals was very damn impressive. That on the 46th anniversary of the Miracle Team’s victory over Finland, 4-2.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (fYhK6)

19 @EndWokeness
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Let's check in on the Dem counter event to Trump's SOTU…

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Remember a few years ago at the Libertarian Party debate and one guy stripped down to his undies?

Yeah, those are the vibes I'm getting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

20 Frog costumes and gay songs!!! If only we had known that was the way to stop real genocidal authoritarianism!!!

Posted by: Millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (JCZqz)

21 Dancing Anti-fascist Frogs <<<< Left Shark

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

22 These events featured brain-damaged moron Robert DeNiro, an adult pretender so ravaged by dementia that he always asks "Man, how does Biden age so gracefully?," and Islamofascist and terrorist spokesman (and fake "journalist"!) Mehdi Hassan.

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Can't forget that De Niro dropped out of high school.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

23 summons sent

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (Rw0Zp)

24 I thought frogs were racist?

When did that change?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (k1E2D)

25 I am sensing there is a lot of gay in them clips.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (bss/y)

26 Dozens of Democrats attended their own State of the Union Address, called the "People's Address," located at the National Mall.

To begin the event, Democrats welcomed on stage the Portland ant-fascist frogs to dance on stage.
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The protest event had furries (slimies?) from domestic terror groups prancing around on stage?

Amaze-balls.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (3OtAS)

27 If ever there was an opportunity to reintroduce Colbert's dancing jab pricks, this was the event to do so.

A lefty fan favorite.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (5yDGQ)

28 CIA Barbie is now Clown Town Mayor.

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She is no Barbie. She is more Chucky.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (/M/4v)

29 15 The single smartest move for the Dems, given the uncontrolled lunacy of their caucus and the unfathomably bad "optics" management of the Party more generally, would have been a total boycott.

They tried to split the baby, and got their shit pushed in for their troubles.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (3OtAS)

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I wonder how "just be normal" would have been interpreted by these people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

30 Anyone watch the "official" rebuttal?

I ask, 'cause I want to know if she did Bird Hands.

I want to believe she did.

To make. A. Point.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (HXT0k)

31 no one cares about this

don't give them any oxygen

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (j+aD2)

32 I lasted about 5 seconds for most of those.

It was painful. I appreciate you summarizing so we don't have to suffer.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (cuae1)

33 I appreciate those that report on this stuff.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (4NO2D)

34 These events featured brain-damaged moron Robert DeNiro, an adult pretender so ravaged by dementia that he always asks "Man, how does Biden age so gracefully?," and Islamofascist and terrorist spokesman (and fake "journalist"!) Mehdi Hassan.
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LOL retards abound.

Celebrity endorsements are, at best, irrelevant in current year. They may actually hurt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (3OtAS)

35 24 I thought frogs were racist?

When did that change?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (k1E2D)

I thought the frogs were gay.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (KGhM4)

36 WTH was that last one ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (qW/vZ)

37 I wonder how "just be normal" would have been interpreted by these people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)
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"Deer in the headlights," maybe?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (3OtAS)

38 When you say something like "People's State of the Union", make sure to use a good Russky accent on "people." It makes it more authentic.

And, whenever you see "People's Republic" of something, to respond, "Sorry, neither!" (50 quatloos to the first moron getting that reference.)

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (Gv43W)

39 So, a Furry Orgy?

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (6sbTy)

40 Ro Katana or whatever their name is invited one of Epstein's "Victims" to sit with him at the address. The problem is that this woman was an adult at the time, and was a vigorous and active recruiter of girls to the island, telling them to lie and claim they are 18 to get hired. She was a pimp, not a victim.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (PYyV9)

41 Cuckpalooza

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (YwEeS)

42 The democrats could all strip naked, cover each other in a P Diddy quantity of baby oil and have a disgusting, writhing orgy on the West Front of the Capitol and their base would still vote for them.

It's a fever swamp of stupid.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (3BwY8)

43 37 I wonder how "just be normal" would have been interpreted by these people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)
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"Deer in the headlights," maybe?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (3OtAS)

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*shave half of head*
*screams at sky*
*cries at thought that someone else thinks differently*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

44 High School Equivalency Graduate Robert DeNiro

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (4NO2D)

45 Now that's frogressive!

Posted by: Kermit D Frog (D) at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (GI9/m)

46 Remember a few years ago at the Libertarian Party debate and one guy stripped down to his undies?

Yeah, those are the vibes I'm getting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

No, I didn't, and I'd have liked to have kept it that way.

Libertarians OUGHT to be forgettable and forgotten.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (cuae1)

47 That was thrilling! I am sure it will win votes by the tens!

I did not see the point of their little boycotts for clowns, but it stroked their massive egos. They need something to cling to, like a rotten board floating by after the Titanic.

Omar the Turban Cobra's cheerleader hand cracked me up. So weak. So ineffectual. So retarded. So ugly.

I will now go do something productive! XXXX

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (WONhk)

48 Alex Jones: They're turning the frogs gay!

The Democrats: Hey nothing says serious opposition like gender fluid people in frog costumes

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (sKqQm)

49 Deplorable, deportable foreign Islamofascist traitors Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur never stopped squawking and shrieking throughout the speech.
________

Via Insty, they did the meme!

https://tinyurl.com/mssrmpxu

Posted by: Three Amigos at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (XvL8K)

50 Omar looked like she’s was going to cry when Trump started talking about the Somali pirates who committed billions in fraud, and how it’s now a multi-state investigation.

Where did your $30 million come from, honey?

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (Q6Bu6)

51 The single smartest move for the Dems, given the uncontrolled lunacy of their caucus and the unfathomably bad "optics" management of the Party more generally, would have been a total boycott.

The last time they did a total boycott of the address? The year the Civil War started, all the Democrats boycotted Lincoln's speech. So... about optics...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (PYyV9)

52 nearly 50 Democrat lawmakers...

119th Congress: 18,072 pieces of legislation. 79 are now law.

Untold millions of views and likes.

Posted by: Congress.gov at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (jBtak)

53 I wonder how "just be normal" would have been interpreted by these people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

They would have told you they ARE the normal ones.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (Gv43W)

54 46 Remember a few years ago at the Libertarian Party debate and one guy stripped down to his undies?

Yeah, those are the vibes I'm getting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

No, I didn't, and I'd have liked to have kept it that way.

Libertarians OUGHT to be forgettable and forgotten.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (cuae1)

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I misremembered. It wasn't a debate. It was the convention. It wasn't a candidate, it was a delegate.

Still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BAOiGTizU4

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

55 I thought the frog was racist.

Has that changed recently?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (oSeBJ)

56 Chuck Schumer says the Spamburger speed was the good speech.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (Cqx++)

57 Hakeem Jeffries apparently told his animals ...

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"Black People ARE NOT Animals, H8R! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (6sbTy)

58 The LP had an opportunity in 2016, the same opportunity Trump seized.

But they picked a stoner and the least libertarian national candidate in recent memory for their ticket...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

59 The last time they did a total boycott of the address? The year the Civil War started, all the Democrats boycotted Lincoln's speech. So... about optics...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (PYyV9)
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It's been long enough that it wouldn't matter. Some right-wing pundits might mention it.

Besides, that was back before they switched sides.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (3OtAS)

60 When you say something like "People's State of the Union", make sure to use a good Russky accent on "people." It makes it more authentic.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM

Eveninkwear!

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (4NO2D)

61 Deniro should light himself on fire. As a sign of protest.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (Q6Bu6)

62 A People's Address counter SOTU you say?

*watches clips*

It's demented, degenerate, deplorable!

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (q2NNn)

63 We can't possibly lose the midterms to these batty bonkered wormbrains, can we?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

64 Deplorable, deportable foreign Islamofascist traitors Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur never stopped squawking and shrieking throughout the speech.

The degenerate Al Green was forcibly ejected from the Speech for his constant disruptions. He was also ejected from last year's speech.

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They're just like the French Underground blowing up Nazi trains and shit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (2ScKy)

65 The democrats held a political "Burning Man" gathering for lunatics.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (IifOV)

66 H.R. Pufnstuf did it better.

Posted by: From back in the day at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (2Ez/1)

67 You know this Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing. Trump just makes his opponents lose their minds.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (jZ3ZM)

68 This will be forgotten by the populace in a week, but the use of it in ads should be effectively in October's voting season.

Depressing black turnout with that shit would be key.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

69 https://tinyurl.com/mssrmpxu

I don't understand the meme. Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 01:31 PM (PFs9e)

70 The left is absolutely sure those inflatable frog guys are the perfect protest against ICE, because who could beat up a cute frog! It makes them look evil!

But they don't see how it makes them look... childish and idiotic. Its not engaging and appealing, there's no charm you just look like an ass. Especially in the alleged Democrat response to the SOTU address.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:31 PM (PYyV9)

71 But fifty Democrats boycotted the speech.

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I heard it reported this morning that there were 73.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:31 PM (6sbTy)

72
Besides, that was back before they switched sides.

Whenever lefties drop that one I ask if they think we should adopt Coolidge's policies today.

After getting through the whole "We had a president named Coolidge?" we quickly find out they would hate him about as much as they hate Trump...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

73 From last thread, Charles Martel, you were making the exact point I was implying (about the pathetic feckless Thune approach to SAVE), but as always my comment was much too long so didn't want to elaborate.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 25, 2026 01:31 PM (U/Byj)

74 I thought giraffe guy was the guy from the the church invasion but his voice sounds different and his beard is shorter. Not sure.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 01:31 PM (Cqx++)

75
AVENGE ME1!!1!!11!

Posted by: al greens' eye bags at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (DDJSl)

76 Deplorable, deportable foreign Islamofascist traitors Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur never stopped squawking and shrieking throughout the speech.

Rashid was yelling "KKK" when people chanted "USA." Which, as she is a racist and the fact that the KKK was made up of Democrats, I guess is on brand.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (PYyV9)

77 58 The LP had an opportunity in 2016, the same opportunity Trump seized.

But they picked a stoner and the least libertarian national candidate in recent memory for their ticket...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)
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Libertarianism sounds really awesome until you realize that a lot of people are assholes, and then it all kinda falls apart.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (3BwY8)

78 63 We can't possibly lose the midterms to these batty bonkered wormbrains, can we?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

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Turnout differentials, man.

Still, ABC just released a poll showing a D+2 environment now. ABC is very Democrat leaning, and if they're showing D+2 now...

Hell, a real D+2 in November would lead to the GOP holding the House (it's what happens when you stack the deck in CA so much).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

79
Omar's Winery must be suffering. If it ever existed.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (IifOV)

80 So now the Swamp exists? Boy the Democrats do more 180s than Tony Hawk in his prime

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (tKWMU)

81 Do you know who else wears frog and other animal costumes?

antifa

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (viF8m)

82 Commieberger was awful. She even lost her place on the teleprompter.

You know, because what she was saying was from the heart.

Can you imagine they believe that manly dunce is their future? She and the Democrats are curb stomping just about every right one at a time. That includes trying to ensure nobody can audit their fraudulent elections.

Go ahead. Run her.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (Q6Bu6)

83 Rupert Pupkin thinks Robert De Niro is nuts.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (rJ48h)

84 80 So now the Swamp exists? Boy the Democrats do more 180s than Tony Hawk in his prime

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (tKWMU)

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I remember Chuck Schumer bragging about it in 2017.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

85 >>39 So, a Furry Orgy?

Posted by: ShainS --

Finer than frog hair is just a saying.

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (98kQX)

86 To begin the event, Democrats welcomed on stage the Portland ant-fascist frogs to dance on stage.

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Pepe The Frog hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (6sbTy)

87 The Democrat's counter State of the Union was greatly entertaining. Kamala Harris chasing around a laser pointer was just the warm up. When they tied a piece of cheese to the top of the microphone stand and let Robert Reich out of his exercise wheel habitat, he couldn't resist running leaps at the cheese.

The Stacy Abrams pie eating contest was kind of fun, but a bit mundane.

Overall, a good effort.

Posted by: Orson at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (dIske)

88 83 Rupert Pupkin thinks Robert De Niro is nuts.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (rJ48h)

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Pupkin actually had some decent jokes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

89 Remember when Signal and bombing Iran were going to be the End of Trump?

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (tKWMU)

90 I guess no one wants to talk about me anymore.

Posted by: Bulg's colonoscopy at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (2Ez/1)

91 "They're all Gay Theater Kids"

Correct. That's all the Demoncrat Party has been since the JEF's Reign of Error.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (wa/yD)

92 Rashid was yelling "KKK" when people chanted "USA." Which, as she is a racist and the fact that the KKK was made up of Democrats, I guess is on brand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (PYyV9)

Ransid also had a F' ICE pin on....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (qW/vZ)

93 After getting through the whole "We had a president named Coolidge?" we quickly find out they would hate him about as much as they hate Trump

College students were asked what they thought of Trump's speech, the day before it took place. In a show of critical thinking all of them gave it a 1 out of 10. Maybe they all got ACE's time machine and saw it before it took place LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (PYyV9)

94 89 Remember when Signal and bombing Iran were going to be the End of Trump?

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (tKWMU)

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Warren demanded Hegseth's resignation!

And the Trump administration folded from the bipartisan support, and Hegseth was replaced by Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

95 Sorry for all the questions, but what do dancing Frogs have to do with critiques of Trump? For that matter, what does a giraffe have to do with them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (PFs9e)

96 86 To begin the event, Democrats welcomed on stage the Portland ant-fascist frogs to dance on stage.

Hello my baby
Hello my honey
Hello my ragtime gal
Send me kiss by wire
Baby, my heart's on fire!

FREE BEER!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (DgMqy)

97 Cry havoc! And let slip the frogs of war!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (2ScKy)

98 Eveninkwear"

Very nice

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (3mbqG)

99 No wonder the Left has to script everything and read off teleprompters and parrot bumper stickers bromides ad nauseam. These people are not just unserious; they're seriously stupid. This is not a battle of ideas, but a battle of reality versus completely unhinged mental retards and degenerates.

Posted by: red speck at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (Ve/HL)

100 Democrats plan is to flood the GOTV zone in November. And they are doing a good job on turnout.

The GOP has been invisible and seems to be relying on Trump to GOTV. That’s a recipe for failure and days of the past.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (Q6Bu6)

101 Do you know who else wears frog and other animal costumes?

antifa
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (viF8m)

That is exactly who those three are.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (rbvCR)

102 "Hi, I'm A rEtArD aNd I sTiLl VoTe DeMoCrAt!"

"You don't have to say both of those things, it is superfluous."

"EpStEiN fIlEs!"

"Here's a cookie."

"PuT iT iN mY aNuS!"

Posted by: Interview With A Democrat at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (qUkBO)

103 A plague of frogs was one of the ten plagues of Egypt.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (ZVgZ4)

104 81 Do you know who else wears frog and other animal costumes?

antifa
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (viF8m)

PROTIP : Gas or Pepper Spray need to go directly into the inflatable suit's intake valve. They wear the things to keep Gas and Pepper Spray out of their faces.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (wa/yD)

105 100 Democrats plan is to flood the GOTV zone in November. And they are doing a good job on turnout.

The GOP has been invisible and seems to be relying on Trump to GOTV. That’s a recipe for failure and days of the past.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (Q6Bu6)

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Dear lord, turnout in primaries are non-predictive of the general.

The turnout in TX now is all about black enthusiasm for Jasmine, but she's still going to lose the general election by 10.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

106 I guess no one wants to talk about me anymore.
Posted by: Bulg's colonoscopy"

Prometheus.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (3mbqG)

107 Libertarianism sounds really awesome until you realize that a lot of people are assholes, and then it all kinda falls apart.

I think it can work more or less.

But the absolute first step has to be finding a way to completely ban cash payments of any kind to people through the government AND reducing the size of the government to less then 10% (and ideally 3%) of the GDP.

When people have to pay for their own mistakes they will stop acting like leftists...eventually.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

108 And not one of those frogs donned a top hat, picked up a cane and started strutting to "Hello, My Baby, Hello, My Honey, Hello, My Ragtime Gal."

Sad.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

109 They tried to split the baby, and got their shit pushed in for their troubles.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Please, no more Bulg talk!

Posted by: Pedal Pusher at February 25, 2026 01:36 PM (oftw2)

110 Rupert Pupkin thinks Robert De Niro is nuts

DeNiro is living in flopsweat terror that his name is coming out in the Epstein Files and proof he's a child molesting piece of trash will be revealed. He and Tom Hanks are in serious danger here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:36 PM (PYyV9)

111 Damn, Bad Andrew beat me to it.

Bad Andrew!

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

112 I maintain DeNiro tried to pull a fast one on a NYC property with Trump, and Trump broke the deal off in his ass. If not that, he should be in a "home".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2026 01:36 PM (gm9Sb)

113 you start out with a fur-ball, and wind up with matting.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 01:36 PM (rbvCR)

114 Hello my baby
Hello my honey
Hello my ragtime gal
Send me kiss by wire
Baby, my heart's on fire!!

Check please!

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:36 PM (3mbqG)

115 Dressing up as frogs and then screaming like retards is just an idea.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (tKWMU)

116 This is why Bill Maher appears to be the smartest living democrat. THIS is his competition. It's like being crowned Sexiest Cockroach.

Posted by: red speck at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (Ve/HL)

117 State of The Swamp? LOL

Leftists doing their usual "The Right has successful language, let's co-opt it for our own purposes" thing.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (a+4eV)

118 Hello my baby

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

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (98kQX)

119 Dems are just so childish. I don't know, maybe they have data that dancing frogs and foulmouthed giraffes are what makes people vote for them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (n5tGW)

120 Were they intentionally saying they are the frogs in the swamp?

I mean...they are but...you aren't supposed to say that part out loud

That was pretty much my exact reaction to their branding on this. They *are* the swamp, and they shouldn't be proud of that.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (2ocoG)

121 A plague of frogs was one of the ten plagues of Egypt.

Pharaoh relented before the plague of giraffes.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (Fs0KI)

122 Us Little Rascals put on better backyard shows than this slop.

Posted by: Spanky at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (q2NNn)

123 >>That is exactly who those three are.

Yep. Democrats aren't even trying to hide who and what they are. Trump brings real American heroes to his speech and talks about the government's most basic responsibility of protecting the safety of Americans.

Democrats bring antifa.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 01:38 PM (viF8m)

124 I don't understand why they keep giving that shit-flavored Blow Pop and her terrorist pal so many chances to yell and scream. Millions of commie idiots beat off to those two fugly broads. Get a couple of shots of them screeching and then toss their asses out.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:38 PM (XovX4)

125 The dems last night fit my definition of a shithead. A shithead is someone who sees a pile of shit, knows it's a pile of shit, and steps in it anyway. Good job, shitheads.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 25, 2026 01:38 PM (2UnvF)

126 . It's like being crowned Sexiest Cockroach.

Posted by: red speck at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (Ve/HL)

And back to the monster sex we go. What is in the water here today?

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:38 PM (tKWMU)

127 Us Little Rascals put on better backyard shows than this slop.
Posted by: Spanky at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM

At least you saved the orphanage.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:38 PM (4NO2D)

128 >> Dear lord, turnout in primaries are non-predictive of the general.

You keep saying that current turnout won’t correlate to the midterm election. Not sure how you make that assumption. People know the stakes. They are still not showing up.

If the GOP doesn’t up their GOTV op, we lose. It’s pretty simple.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (Q6Bu6)

129 ... to protest Trump at ‘State of the Swamp.'

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BWAHAHAHAHA!

Trump has the Dem-Comms calling their own DC Shithole "The Swamp?"

Is there NOTHING that Putin's Puppet can't do?

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (6sbTy)

130 Sorry for all the questions, but what do dancing Frogs have to do with critiques of Trump?

People don't vote based on policy and ideas, they don't select a candidate because they have the best concepts. They vote based on vibes, how the candidate makes them feel. That's how Mamdani won, that's how people get elected, then the voters get mad when they do what they said they would. They aren't paying attention to what they said, only to how they "felt" to the voters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (PYyV9)

131 The Portland Frog Brigade has been spotted at the State of the Swamp in Washington, D.C. Yes! Represent our cities kindness and irreverence! We are proud of you!

I love DeNiro. Having him on our side feels so fuckin good. Like, hell yeah, we got a Goodfella fighting for us. Gives "mob justice" a whole new meaning.

More than 250 Democrats in Congress and only 30 aren't attending. They're just going to sit nicely and listen, like Schumer's decorum-forward puppets. They should all leave and attend the People's SOTU. The actual event is giving Kid Rock spectacle vibes.

the People’s State of the Union gave me hope that there is some semblance of sanity left in our government. The dems need to no longer compromise with the GOP, all the guardians of pedophiles show is that they are complicit to the felon in office. Arrest everyone in this admin (as well as those who enable & support them) and lock em up until they can stand trial for their crimes against humanity

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (JCZqz)

132 Yeah. We were running a sale on the frogs. Not very popular this time of year.

Posted by: Local DC costume shop at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (2Ez/1)

133 Remember when everyone got the vapors because someone yelled out "You lie" while Obama was lying in the SOTU? Like it was a huge breach of Sacred Congressional etiquette? Fun times!

Posted by: AMartel at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (otvi3)

134 I called it that legalizing weed would lead to this kind of shit.

Called it.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (XovX4)

135 Are their any national level elected Democrats that aren't objectively clowns?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm)

Crockett for the win/

Posted by: MAC V SOG at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (JyABZ)

136 I dreamed last night that I was back in the field doing archeology, except that the dirt was like perfect potting soil. Fluffy and black.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)

137 124 You keep saying that current turnout won’t correlate to the midterm election. Not sure how you make that assumption. People know the stakes. They are still not showing up.

If the GOP doesn’t up their GOTV op, we lose. It’s pretty simple.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (Q6Bu6)

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Because it's never been shown in previous elections.

Also, "OMG! THE GOP ISN'T TURNING OUT FOR SPECIALS!" isn't true right now either.

The Democrats have underperformed most special elections since the TN special 3 months ago.

People just don't talk about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

138 People don't vote based on policy and ideas, they don't select a candidate because they have the best concepts. They vote based on vibes, how the candidate makes them feel.

All true but still... Why frogs?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (Fs0KI)

139 The gay squatty potty creator is a child prawn enthusiast.

http://tiny.cc/80hz001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (Yp6az)

140 all the guardians of pedophiles show is that they are complicit to the felon in office.

As a reminder, during the 4 years these same people were saying there were no Epstein clients and rightwingers just call everyone they don't like a pedo, they also tried to legalize underage prostitution in CA.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

141 You want to dress up as animals to resist the Bad Orange Man. It's a really stupid, infantile idea. But let's run with it, ok?

You would want to use animal costumes that project strength, cunning, ferocity, nobility, and victory. Animals to be feared and admired. Anyone with a functioning frontal lobe would go with one of the big cats, right? Tigers, lions, leopards.

Nah. Let's go with giraffes and frogs.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

142 Pharaoh relented before the plague of giraffes."

At least they're not llamas. Spitting SOBs...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:41 PM (cGjQu)

143
the People’s State of the Union gave me hope that there is some semblance of sanity left in our government. The dems need to no longer compromise with the GOP, all the guardians of pedophiles show is that they are complicit to the felon in office. Arrest everyone in this admin (as well as those who enable & support them) and lock em up until they can stand trial for their crimes against humanity
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (JCZqz)

Get help now

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 01:41 PM (qW/vZ)

144
The democrats held a "State of the Swamp" from inside the swamp.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 01:41 PM (IifOV)

145 If the GOP doesn’t up their GOTV op, we lose. It’s pretty simple.

The best way to do this is to actually codify DOGE cuts, pass the SAVE act, and work with Trump to move his agenda forward instead of stonewalling and dragging their feet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:41 PM (PYyV9)

146 138 People don't vote based on policy and ideas, they don't select a candidate because they have the best concepts. They vote based on vibes, how the candidate makes them feel.

All true but still... Why frogs?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (Fs0KI)

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Actually, it's not.

Most people's voting preferences are cultural, baked in from the environment they grew up in.

Liking a political party is more like liking the local sports team to most people. They'll cheer for the team when they reach the championship (elections), but they otherwise don't actually care.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

147 We can't possibly lose the midterms to these batty bonkered wormbrains, can we?
———

They have nearly perfected election fraud, if you hadn’t noticed. This is nearly a worldwide phenomenon. They haven’t quite outlawed white people yet, but it certainly isn’t for lack of desire. I saw this coming a while ago, I just didn’t expect white people to be quite so cooperative & enthusiastic about it.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (/4VRy)

148 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (JCZqz)
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There is a number of massive bong rips I could take that MIGHT make any of this lunacy make sense, but I don't want to find out what that number is.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (3BwY8)

149 What's with the dancing frogs?

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (Oy/m2)

150 Remember when everyone got the vapors because someone yelled out "You lie" while Obama was lying in the SOTU? Like it was a huge breach of Sacred Congressional etiquette? Fun times!

It's (D)ifferent.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (2ocoG)

151
Cry havoc! And let slip the frogs of war!

Our frog can beat up your frog!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (Cqx++)

152 Those frogs have long tongues, right?

*Fans self*

Posted by: Morning Glory Milking Farm Aficionado at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (qBsSf)

153 That guy in the giraffe costume sounds *exactly* like the guy who lived in a camper in my neighbor's backyard and screamed at the top of his lungs all day and all night long (I think he was able to do this with help from drugs or demons or something). He was a relative of our neighbor and she let him live on her property because he had to live somewhere.

Exact same voice.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (FMtrg)

154 I dunno. Underlying the actual number, is what seems to be a very well refined Democrat GOTV op. If they push that in the midterms the already have a basis to grow the numbers. The GOP on the other hand seems to be counting on Trump to pull candidates over the line. That’s not going to happen. They need the same type of GOTV that got Trump elected and right now that doesn’t exist.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (Q6Bu6)

155 Rep. Nikki Minaj will be fun to watch beating the hell out of these commie bitches on the floor of the House one day.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (XovX4)

156 As I said on the previous thread; the Democrats are handing over long term control of the country to the GOP with their insane antics.

Is the GOP going to take it? I think it's wholly debatable whether they'll step up.

That's a shame. Their workload wouldn't increase all that much from the "do nothing" state it's in now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (jtM2q)

157 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (PYyV

O,K but I'm not sure how frogs and giraffe produce positive vibes It's not a kid's musical. Of course I don't know what they were singing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (PFs9e)

158 I don't feel well. Can you contract AIDS just from watching those frog videos?

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (0e5Te)

159 People don't vote based on policy and ideas, they don't select a candidate because they have the best concepts. They vote based on vibes, how the candidate makes them feel.

This is one of the most important things right leaning people need to understand

Never once in my time in talking to LIVs, either middle of the road ones or left leaning ones have I have heard someone say, "After carefully reading the competing policy proposals from both candidates I picked the one that had stronger merits to vote for".

Hell, I the lefty LIVs in my circle vote for politicians then complain when those same pols win and enact the things they ran on. "No, he was one of the good ones, its just bad luck taxes went up. And really its Trump's fault anyway"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (sKqQm)

160 >>All true but still... Why frogs?

Because that's an antifa costume.

The smooth brain who started thought it was very clever to wear a non-threatening costume to their rights in Portland and it spread. They were present in Minneapolis during the ICE riots.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (viF8m)

161 I don't understand why they keep giving that shit-flavored Blow Pop and her terrorist pal so many chances to yell and scream.
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Optics

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (tKWMU)

162 58 The LP had an opportunity in 2016, the same opportunity Trump seized.

But they picked a stoner and the least libertarian national candidate in recent memory for their ticket...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

Don't forget the VP candidate extolling the virtues of government healthcare.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (k1E2D)

163 138 All true but still... Why frogs?
Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (Fs0KI)

My guess is it's probably one of the most common inflatable costumes, and Antifa has started using inflatable costumes as a defense against Pepper Spray, OC Spray, and Tear Gas.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (wa/yD)

164 You would want to use animal costumes that project strength, cunning, ferocity, nobility, and victory. Animals to be feared and admired. Anyone with a functioning frontal lobe would go with one of the big cats, right? Tigers, lions, leopards.

Nah. Let's go with giraffes and frogs.

Honestly I'm surprised it wasn't minotaur costumes given where the true Democrat base's heads are at.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (2ocoG)

165 I don't know why the two Muslim sows were permitted to stay.
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We all know why. Muslim supremacy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (RIvkX)

166 Remember when everyone got the vapors because someone yelled out "You lie" while Obama was lying in the SOTU? Like it was a huge breach of Sacred Congressional etiquette? Fun times!/i]

The FNM, Dems and Rep leadership all demanded he apologize and he did.

Note, he called Obama a liar when Obama said he wasn't going to give handouts to illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

167 As a reminder, during the 4 years these same people were saying there were no Epstein clients and rightwingers just call everyone they don't like a pedo, they also tried to legalize underage prostitution in CA.

And testify about how putting age restrictions on porn will prevent young gays from learning about how to pouf. And insist that sexual content needs to be taught to 8 year olds. And that a man who thinks he's a little girl needs to be allowed in your daughter's changing room at the swimming pool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (PYyV9)

168 I love DeNiro. Having him on our side feels so fuckin good. Like, hell yeah, we got a Goodfella fighting for us. Gives "mob justice" a whole new meaning.

Talk about blind leading the blind.

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (Oy/m2)

169 As I've been saying since last year:

Democrats have lost the "cool" label.
Think, Bill Clinton playing the sax and suddenly every high school band has 20 more saxophone players than they need.

This, last night, was them trying to still be cool and fun and hip.

And it's not just the fragmentation of mass media into self-selected pools, the Dems just suck at everything now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (HXT0k)

170 We need 60 votes in the senate to pass the save act. colostomy bag Mitch and his staff won’t vote for it. snorting come Murkowski also won’t vote for it.

It’s not going to pass.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (Q6Bu6)

171 I just didn’t expect white people to be quite so cooperative & enthusiastic about it.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (/4VRy)

The left had made self-hatred a virtue.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (FMtrg)

172 so pepi the frog has retarded relatives? i heard he has a leftist cousin twice removed. he came back so they had to remove him again

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (CWTWj)

173 Hey guys,

We have a launch coming up.

Rocket Lab - Electron - That's Not A Knife
LC-2 - Wallops FF, Virginia - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: February 25, 2026
Launch Time: 4:00 p.m. EST (2100 UTC, 22:00 CET)

https://youtu.be/wPizYVXcn_s

Posted by: Joyenz at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (2F0/Y)

174 Under certain conditions, frogs can change their sex.

I think that is why the spastics are all in on frogs.

Just a theory.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (XovX4)

175 When you take into account her age, is Tlaib the ugliest member of congress? Murkowski is much older. I'm inclined to think Rashida is the anti-Luna.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (AlhUl)

176 Don't forget the VP candidate extolling the virtues of government healthcare.

Ah yes I wasn't clear enough, I meant the VP, Weld, was the least libertarian candidate in living memory.

Al Leppo was a pretty doctrinaire dopetarian.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)

177 And not one of those frogs donned a top hat, picked up a cane and started strutting to "Hello, My Baby, Hello, My Honey, Hello, My Ragtime Gal."

Sad.
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I still miss Rush and his "homeless update" intro song.
Always made me laugh.

"Ain't got a home!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (HXT0k)

178 Somebody should mug McConnells chief of staff on the cloakroom and beat him until his dick falls off.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (Q6Bu6)

179 She was a pimp, not a victim.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (PYyV9)

Which is so on point for the Dems. Just wow.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (teSFe)

180 The wishy washy "I'll vote for this party and then the other from one election to the next" voter is mostly a myth.

They do exist, but in no material numbers.

Voting patterns are set after like three elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

181 Nah. Let's go with giraffes and frogs.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Yeah. Let them draw the ire of the populace.
-- Penguins

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

182 Do the Dems have ANY issues with attendant solutions that resonate with actual US citizens?

Just minutes into the SOTUS, I sensed a purpose in the script. The Dems, who lack any capacity for introspection, much less shame, just blindly stumbled into a prepped ideological combat zone.

I think the incoming GOP ad campaign will be so punishing that the MSM legacy media outlets will take it upon themselves to stifle it.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 01:46 PM (rj6Yv)

183 What's with the dancing frogs?
Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (Oy/m2)

Dancing hippos (Disney's Fantasia - 1940) ) are outmoded and perhaps a bit too close to the mark.

Posted by: Hyacinth Hippo at February 25, 2026 01:46 PM (q2NNn)

184 Democrats have been blaming imaginary Republicans in far off realms for their problems for 100s of years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 01:46 PM (+N6ee)

185 It's like being crowned Sexiest Cockroach.

Posted by: red speck at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (Ve/HL)

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I will donate to the Trump 2028 campaign if he organizes and hosts such a competition!

The favorites would undoubtedly be Omar-Nur, Talib, Waters, DeLauro, and Jeffries.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:46 PM (6sbTy)

186 4 I wonder how that effort by the DOJ Civil Rights Division to sue states to clean up voter rolls is going...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Story from Dec. 18, https://tinyurl.com/2p638ydx

Some recent district court decisions in Oregon and Michigan since then not allowing US DoJ to get indentifiers for individuals on the voting lists like social security numbers.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)

187 170 We need 60 votes in the senate to pass the save act. colostomy bag Mitch and his staff won’t vote for it. snorting come Murkowski also won’t vote for it.

It’s not going to pass.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (Q6Bu6)

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They have 50 cosponsors plus Vance.

They can get around the cloture vote by doing a real debate.

The cloture vote is an end run around debate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

188 i also - speaking of real lunacy or bullshit - saw a reel on fackbook that claimed jazzy crockett claimed that ivanka trump is barron trump mother.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (CWTWj)

189 What's a leppo?

Posted by: I don't remember at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (2Ez/1)

190 The LP had an opportunity in 2016, the same opportunity Trump seized.

Here's the state of the modern libertarian party. The most prominent member and politician in it is so libertarian he wants to read off the names of people mentioned in the Epstein Files without regard to context or whether they are actually guilty of anything other than nasty emails. Because muh freedoms, or something.

Oh and as for the guy who yelled "you lie" at Obama?

He's Joe Walsh, one of the worst nevertrumper knuckleheads alive today.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (PYyV9)

191 ... Never once in my time in talking to LIVs, either middle of the road ones or left leaning ones have I have heard someone say, "After carefully reading the competing policy proposals from both candidates I picked the one that had stronger merits to vote for". ...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (sKqQm)
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Yup. It's a team thing, nothing more.

I once had a colleague in the Bay Area. We weren't friends, but we were friendly. I knew enough to know that she a solid, team-sport, "good person" prog.

We were at an event in San Francisco, at a swanky hotel. I was standing by the window, looking down at the filthy streets, graffiti, tents covering the sidewalks, and two vagrants getting into a fight with each other.

She wandered over while I was standing there. She looked at what I was looking at and plaintively wondered, "how did we let this happen?"

It was one of the few times my filters have failed. I asked her, "Have you ever stopped to consider that the way you have voted for the past thirty years might be a factor?"

Deer in the headlights. The connection between people, platform and policy had never been considered by her. Ever. And she was *not* a stupid woman

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (3OtAS)

192 These "people" are the actual embodiment of Idiocracy.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (pohLc)

193 just didn’t expect white people to be quite so cooperative & enthusiastic about it."

Three quarters of a century "white people bad" will do that.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (cGjQu)

194 Wow. There's a reason why I don't go out as much as I used to. These people are existing in another realm beyond reality.

Portland is off of the charts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (gVUi7)

195 I saw this coming a while ago, I just didn’t expect white people to be quite so cooperative & enthusiastic about it.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (/4VRy)

I did. All you had to do was observe "Republicans" from 2005 to, well, now.

Back in 2008 I said the Dems would put us in cattle cars and National Review et al would write thought pieces about why it would be racist to resist.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (tKWMU)

196 We need 60 votes in the senate to pass the save act. colostomy bag Mitch and his staff won’t vote for it. snorting come Murkowski also won’t vote for it.

It’s not going to pass.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM

So what is the deal with having a talking filibuster to get around a cloture vote? Does Thune just do it? Does JD have to start the debate? Can JD call for a bill to be debated?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (4NO2D)

197 Actually, it's not.

Most people's voting preferences are cultural, baked in from the environment they grew up in.

So you don't buy the "have a beer" theory? OK, but then you have to explain things like Reagan's two landslides and Obama in '08.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:48 PM (Fs0KI)

198 Exact same voice.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 01:43 PM (FMtrg)
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I walked past a screamer this morning. She was so loud I could still hear her 3 blocks away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 01:48 PM (RIvkX)

199 186 Story from Dec. 18, https://tinyurl.com/2p638ydx

Some recent district court decisions in Oregon and Michigan since then not allowing US DoJ to get indentifiers for individuals on the voting lists like social security numbers.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)

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The real target of the legal effort is obviously 2028. The DOJ's timeline won't be affected by Democrats taking either chamber of Congress.

Still, it's obvious that it's a serious effort because it started more then 4 weeks out from an election.

Harmeet Dhillon started a few days after she took office early last year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

200 Oh and as for the guy who yelled "you lie" at Obama?

He's Joe Walsh, one of the worst nevertrumper knuckleheads alive today.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM

He lost his license, now he can't drive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:48 PM (4NO2D)

201 Contrast the talent between DeNiro and Devall. Devall went from great and diverse roles in the 1970s playing Network executives, helicoper squad leaders and weak consiglieres going deep into the 21st century as cowboys and washed up country singers, while DeNiro peaked in the early 1980s and went on playing himself as an angry grandpa.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (wBaIH)

202 Frogs? Giraffes?

Is the next Leftist Crusade going to be equal rights for people claiming they are animals? They need a new crusade. Abortion is so yesterday. Tranny rights including mutilating schoolkids, and global climate change, are losing more support every day.

Furry Rights! A litter box and a fire hydrant in every restroom in America! Water bowls next to every water fountain in America and in every restaurant! Horse watering troughs everywhere! A feedbag of oats on every menu in America!

Frog/Amphibian rights! Free flies in every restaurant in America!

Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (5rh/l)

203 > At least they're not llamas. Spitting SOBs...

I had a neat llama experience this year. We took our son to one of those farms that does a corn maze, has food trucks, live music, and all of that sort of thing. They have a couple of barns where you can go look at the animals and sometimes interact with them. Not exactly a petting zoo, but similar. There is a llama pen.

I went to the llama pen and one of them looked at me, then approached. He let me pet his neck. Then he sort of nibbled at my cheek while I pet his neck. This went on for at least a couple of minutes, then he stepped away. It was nice.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (Yp6az)

204 They can get around the cloture vote by doing a real debate.

A simple majority vote can change the rules so that you have to actually carry out a filibuster, not just declare one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (PYyV9)

205 These "people" are the actual embodiment of Idiocracy.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (pohLc)

Idiocracy was a fantasy compared to reality.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (tKWMU)

206 Frog on the outside. Scorpion within.

Posted by: Rex B at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (GI9/m)

207 > All true but still... Why frogs?
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One of the most common memes is of Pepe the frog. I think that was sort of what the clowns were angling for, but obviously missed the mark.

It's a mostly safe search if so inclined.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (jtM2q)

208 191 It was one of the few times my filters have failed. I asked her, "Have you ever stopped to consider that the way you have voted for the past thirty years might be a factor?"

Deer in the headlights. The connection between people, platform and policy had never been considered by her. Ever. And she was *not* a stupid woman

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (3OtAS)

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And then they made sweet love.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

209 Tlabia is 10lbs of ugly stuffed in a 5lb sack.

She looks like an old Arby's roast beef sandwich that was dragged across a barber shop floor.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (XovX4)

210 I did not see the point of their little boycotts for clowns
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (WONhk)

They saw us claim it worked against the Grotesque Bunny halftime show and thought "We have to get us sumadat!"

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (teSFe)

211 You would want to use animal costumes that project strength, cunning, ferocity, nobility, and victory. Animals to be feared and admired. Anyone with a functioning frontal lobe would go with one of the big cats, right? Tigers, lions, leopards.

Nah. Let's go with giraffes and frogs.

Honestly I'm surprised it wasn't minotaur costumes given where the true Democrat base's heads are at.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (2ocoG)
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Monster romance is gonna be an all-day thing today, I see

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (iFTx/)

212 so, is the frog thing an attempt to "own" Pepe the Frog, and take reimagined possession of that meme?

please tell me they are seriously going to start "ironically" screaming REEEEEEEE while jumping around in frog suits.

Please gentle Jesus, make it so

Posted by: barbarausa at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (enw9G)

213 Honestly I'm surprised it wasn't minotaur costumes given where the true Democrat base's heads are at.
Posted by: Ian S.

Oh, hell, no. Some woman* in the audience would have charged the stage to milk him.

* - of either gender

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 01:50 PM (VHUov)

214 Gay frogs. He was right.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:50 PM (tKWMU)

215 Even when he was in his prime, I thought it ridiculous that DeNiro was rated above Duval (RIP) and Caine. It's something the Bandar Log seem compelled to do, as Bill James denounced on their need to designate a King of Shortstops. (There was only one Ozzie Smith in my adult life.)

Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 01:50 PM (AlhUl)

216
Say, the last US Olympic gold medal
in hockey was 46 years ago. How come the interval isn't divisible by four? When did the skip occur?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 01:50 PM (azNOR)

217 196 So what is the deal with having a talking filibuster to get around a cloture vote? Does Thune just do it? Does JD have to start the debate? Can JD call for a bill to be debated?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:47 PM (4NO2D)

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There's been talk about it, but no actual sign that it's happening.

We'll see. There may be enough political pressure to do it. Pressure from Trump, not the base. The Senate doesn't care about the base.

I'm still at 40-60 that it happens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

218 And then they made sweet love.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
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LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:50 PM (3OtAS)

219 DeNiro peaked in the early 1980s and went on playing himself as an angry grandpa.

Duvall isn't a 5' tall gnome pretending he's a tough guy either. At least Pesci doesn't hide that he's little. And he's way more intimidating and has greater range.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (PYyV9)

220 "Hey Murphy you're a scumbag."
lol

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (UjdFS)

221 Voting patterns are set after like three elections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)
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Happy to say I broke the mold.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (RIvkX)

222 175 When you take into account her age, is Tlaib the ugliest member of congress? Murkowski is much older. I'm inclined to think Rashida is the anti-Luna.
Posted by: Eeyore

I've posted pics of Rep Rosa DeLauro here yesterday and today. I think the answer is pretty clear!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (JCZqz)

223 Thune has already stated he won’t change the filibuster.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (Q6Bu6)

224 212 so, is the frog thing an attempt to "own" Pepe the Frog, and take reimagined possession of that meme?

Posted by: barbarausa at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (enw9G)

The frog is a creature of "transformation". Fundamental transformation, if you will.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (tKWMU)

225 Deer in the headlights. The connection between people, platform and policy had never been considered by her. Ever. And she was *not* a stupid woman

Yep. Somehow right now the notion that the outcomes you see in the real world are partially determined by the politicians you vote for is somehow only a "rightwing" idea.

I've lived in blue areas for much of my life and I've been through many, many moments like you describe and I just cannot get through to these people and they aren't stupid. Their mind set is there are good people and bad people and if you vote for the good people only good things can happen baring "bad luck". And how do you know who the good people are? Well the FNM, or some leftist pundit, or some NGO tells you and at that point you don't think about it any more.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

226 Antifa has started using inflatable costumes as a defense against Pepper Spray, OC Spray, and Tear Gas.

Besides the single point of air intake already mentioned, it would be shame if the costume happened to get a small tear and collapse around the wearer.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (Fs0KI)

227 19 @EndWokeness
·
Follow
Let's check in on the Dem counter event to Trump's SOTU…

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Remember a few years ago at the Libertarian Party debate and one guy stripped down to his undies?

Yeah, those are the vibes I'm getting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, nothing Hammer could come up with would be THAT horrifying.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (AlhUl)

228 Never once in my time in talking to LIVs, either middle of the road ones or left leaning ones have I have heard someone say, "After carefully reading the competing policy proposals from both candidates I picked the one that had stronger merits to vote for".
———-

Chicks voted for JFK because he was cute (at least compared to Richard Nixon). The situation has not improved since then.

Eisenhower ushered in the modern era of political campaigns, enlisting Madison avenue advertising agencies for his run.

Today, everything is scripted and focus grouped, an no candidate can buck the desires of the big donors. Unless of course, you’ve a candidate who does not need their donations.

Like … Donald Trump. Weird, huh?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (/4VRy)

229 Was it shortly after the order came down for the Democrats to stand up once in a while in response to Trumps points that Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur left the SoTU, so they wouldn't be seen 'agreeing' with Trump?

Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (Q+gd/)

230 so pepi the frog has retarded relatives? i heard he has a leftist cousin twice removed. he came back so they had to remove him again
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (CWTWj)
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And each time his legs grew back! Incredible! And so tasty!

Further research is required, for science.

Posted by: French Culinary Scientist at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (rj6Yv)

231 197
So you don't buy the "have a beer" theory? OK, but then you have to explain things like Reagan's two landslides and Obama in '08.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:48 PM (Fs0KI)

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Obama was pure turnout. Republicans were depressed and didn't turnout. Democrats were enthused and turned out.

Reagan 1988 was more of a political realignment that can happen every couple of generations or so. The radicalism of the Democrats in the late 60s metastasized in the Democrat Party for years, the GOP eventually found out how to fight with Reagan, and it changed a lot of minds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

232
I'm inclined to think Rashida is the anti-Luna.
Posted by: Eeyore

Backside of the Moon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (Cqx++)

233 *How come the interval isn't divisible by four? When did the skip occur?*
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Climate change.

Posted by: Always the default answer at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (2Ez/1)

234 204 They can get around the cloture vote by doing a real debate.

A simple majority vote can change the rules so that you have to actually carry out a filibuster, not just declare one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (PYyV9)

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There's also that, but that's nuking the filibuster.

I doubt it ever happens. Keeps too many on the border senators too important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

235 170 We need 60 votes in the senate to pass the save act. colostomy bag Mitch and his staff won’t vote for it. snorting come Murkowski also won’t vote for it.

It’s not going to pass.
Posted by: Vengeance

Actually you don't. See talking filibuster. Basically since the 1790's, the US Senate has a rule that no senator can rise and speak on a matter before it more than twice. Each senator can speak as long as they like but once they sit, they yield the floor to another. Once they have spoken twice, then they can no longer speak on the matter. Once all senators have spoken (or not if that is their wish), then debate automatically ends.

Estimates are that it will tie up the floor for at least 4-6 weeks with NO other business being allowed on the senate floor, nominations, etc.

Does not change the rules by nuclear option nor eliminates the 60 vote phoney filibuster but simply requires waiting out the necessary blather.

The problem for Senate GOP types, it that it removes the pseudo crap we can't do anything filibuster and makes it more into a committment issue on specific legislation. Ditto for the Dems but they plan on axing the filibuster next time in power anyway.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)

236 Spare a thought for poor wimp Will Stancil, who was bravely chasing ICE agents in his Honda Fit, until the real Minneapolis Antifa types decided that he was too much of a pain in the ass, and cut Will off from their communications networks.

Nevertheless, Will was still trying to persevere in chasing ICE agents, but it was icy a couple of nights ago, and someone hit and totaled Will's parked Honda Fit. Since it's post-2020 Minneapolis, the person who did this simply took off, and Will is now without a car.

Won't you please give generously, so Will can get back on the road chaining ICE agents?

Maybe we can get him a scooter.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 25, 2026 01:53 PM (n1OCj)

237 I dunno. Dems get you to laugh at their antics.

Meanwhile they get to the polls.

Maybe their stupidity is a diversion.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:53 PM (Q6Bu6)

238 I figured with all the time they had to plan and strategize...

Well, anyway, I thought they would manage to at least have those Dems present at the real State of the Union simply sit respectfully and quietly, and clap politely or otherwise show respect for MOH winners, bereaved parents, the US Hockey team, etc. Instead they behaved like ghouls.

And the alternative, one would think they could muster a few halfway articulate Dem celebs, pro athletes, etc. plus a couple of less loopy Dem pols to speak about an alternative vision.

How could they possibly have expected their displays to attract moderates, weak Repubs looking to placate their AWFL wives, or even total LIVs?

The Republican campaign ads should be incredible.

Posted by: RM at February 25, 2026 01:53 PM (n/1Oj)

239 From previous thread:

368 359 Fetterman actually wore a suit instead of the hoody and shorts. Bought the suit at Big Goon's Wearhouse, on sale.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2026 01:11 PM (gm9Sb)

Trump should have acknowledged Fetterman from the podium by asking 'hoodie in the laundry? '

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 01:54 PM (QGaXH)

240 I think team player/generational patterns is the general rule, its the default to voting. Vibes is how you get people like Trump in office, and Obama, and Mamdani, and Clinton. They feel cool to the public, they feel like someone you like and want to be with. Both are true.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:54 PM (PYyV9)

241 Thune has already stated he won’t change the filibuster.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM

But isn't it the case that he can just call the bill up for debate until every Senator has had his chance to speak and then vote? As long as a majority doesn't vote to table the bill, I mean.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:54 PM (4NO2D)

242 221 Voting patterns are set after like three elections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)
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Happy to say I broke the mold.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (RIvkX)

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I could probably find tens of thousands of examples.

Out of tens of millions of voters.

They're really statistical noise outside of major realignments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

243 Hey --

I just now misread "incoming" as "irongrampa" and realized I hadn't seen him around in quite awhile. Does anyone know if he's okay?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 01:54 PM (FMtrg)

244 Say, the last US Olympic gold medal
in hockey was 46 years ago. How come the interval isn't divisible by four?

Summer and winter Olympics used to be held in the same year. Someone who cares more than I do can look up when but a while back they moved the winter games to the "off" years between summer games.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:54 PM (Fs0KI)

245 I don't know why the two Muslim sows were permitted to stay.

Because four-eyed pig f*cker Mike Johnson was dreaming about his next pork butt?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (abIsI)

246 227 Well, nothing Hammer could come up with would be THAT horrifying.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (AlhUl)

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I just watched a melodrama by Hammer!

That was horrifying. (Actually, it was one of the best in the first few years so far.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

247 Just minutes into the SOTUS, I sensed a purpose in the script. The Dems, who lack any capacity for introspection, much less shame, just blindly stumbled into a prepped ideological combat zone.

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Soulless, heartless, demonic, devoid-of-empathy sociopaths & psychopaths.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (B2Kv8)

248 The Republican campaign ads should be incredible.

They always should be. Every election there are obvious massive easy layups that the GOP should use but they never use them except in a few youtube releases nobody sees.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (PYyV9)

249 207 > All true but still... Why frogs?
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One of the most common memes is of Pepe the frog. I think that was sort of what the clowns were angling for, but obviously missed the mark.

It's a mostly safe search if so inclined.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (jtM2q)

I honestly think it's just that it's probably the least expensive inflatable suit.

I know there's no fun insult to throw at them in saying that, and that I'm not tying it to sexual deviance when all lefties are sexual deviants, but it really is more about it protecting their faces from Pepper Spray and Tear Gas than anything else.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (wa/yD)

250 219 James Caan was short in stature. If you notice, in Godfather 1 he is never shown below the waist, with exception to giving his BiL a beat down. This was probably done with a stand in to prevent an accident with Caan, a multi belt champ in martial arts.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (gm9Sb)

251 *How come the interval isn't divisible by four? When did the skip occur?*

The Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year until 1992, after which the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to alternate them in separate even-numbered years, beginning with the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.

1988: Calgary, Canada
1992: Albertville, France
1994: Lillehammer, Norway
1998: Nagano, Japan

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (JCZqz)

252 *How come the interval isn't divisible by four? When did the skip occur?*
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Climate change.
Posted by: Always the default answer at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM

Trump.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (4NO2D)

253 PFs9e)

70 The left is absolutely sure those inflatable frog guys are the perfect protest against ICE, because who could beat up a cute frog! It makes them look evil!“

I was just thinking that it would be pretty amusing to see a belt fed machine gun open up on those frogs. Bet they’d start hopping - well for a few seconds at least.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (k/Sbk)

254 "The frog is a creature of "transformation". Fundamental transformation, if you will."

I heard this in Anthony Hopkins' voice

(and have to admit, hallucinogenic slime is probably more on target than the brilliant fragile scales of butterfly wings)

Posted by: barbarausa at February 25, 2026 01:55 PM (enw9G)

255
Reagan 1988...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM

raises eyebrow

Posted by: George Herbert Walker Bush at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (tljrc)

256 Do the Dems have ANY issues with attendant solutions that resonate with actual US citizens?
---
Well they have "affordability."
And I think "kindness?"
Maybe also, "defiance?"

Or, to sum it up, "we're going to make life more affordable with kindness and defiance of Trump."

So, you know, real solid policy proposals there.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (HXT0k)

257 Fetterman shops at Melon's Tall and Fat.

So does Lumpy.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (E7fP+)

258
Good morning (where I am).

Has any anti-SAVE Act Senate GOPer provided a reason for opposing it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (5pERN)

259 Obama ran against McCain

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (tKWMU)

260 High School Equivalency Graduate Robert DeNiro

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High School Equivalency Graduate (I need proof) and platform-shoe-wearing short man, Robert DeNutso.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (qBdHI)

261
So the Winter Olympics were moved two years from the Summer Olympics in '94. I was distracted that year.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (azNOR)

262 All true but still... Why frogs?
Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 01:40 PM (Fs0KI)
++++
The Franco-German roots of Antifa. The German side of it would probably be an eagle, but that might be construed as American - so frogs it shall be!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (3OtAS)

263 Today, everything is scripted and focus grouped, an no candidate can buck the desires of the big donors. Unless of course, you’ve a candidate who does not need their donations.

Like … Donald Trump. Weird, huh?
Posted by: Common Tater

Scott Walker's implosion in 2016 GOP prezzie run was a perfect example. His campaign imploded because his donors would not let him promise voters to do anything about immigration. Voters however wanted it. The GOP, apart from Trump mainly, viewed immigration as a necessary amnesty issue that would placate the corporate wing and prove to the left of center GOP and Indys that it had a heart. Whole stupid autospy of 2012 spurred on this stupid idea of GOP political consultants at the time.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (E4rtv)

264 There's also that, but that's nuking the filibuster.

I thought nuking the filibuster is a rule change that you can't filibuster, not that you have to actually show up and do it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (PYyV9)

265 255
Reagan 1988...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM

raises eyebrow

Posted by: George Herbert Walker Bush at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (tljrc)

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Yeah, I noticed...

In my defense, I'm illiterate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

266 To get an Olympics every 2 years (and theoretically use a Southern hemisphere site for the winter games) in 1994 they went to the the current setup.

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (0e5Te)

267 It doesn't take much talent to portray a brooding, murderous gangster in every role you've been cast. DeNiro has always been over-hyped.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (gVUi7)

268 Nevertheless, Will was still trying to persevere in chasing ICE agents, but it was icy a couple of nights ago, and someone hit and totaled Will's parked Honda Fit. Since it's post-2020 Minneapolis, the person who did this simply took off, and Will is now without a car.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

No better example of the left's utter lack of self-awareness.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (diia5)

269 175 When you take into account her age, is Tlaib the ugliest member of congress?
Posted by: Eeyore

Seriously? Have you seen Rosa DeLauro?

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (Y8DZL)

270 McCain was one of the most obviously disingenuous ghouls to ever take front and center of a political stage. And he didn't want to win. And they cheated on top of that.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (tKWMU)

271 216
Say, the last US Olympic gold medal
in hockey was 46 years ago. How come the interval isn't divisible by four? When did the skip occur?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 01:50 PM (azNOR)

1994. The Winter and Summer Olympics took place in the same year up to 1992, they decided to hold the next winter Olympics in 1994 instead of 1996 and then kept the 4 year interval so that there was a 2 year interval between Summer and Winter Olympics.

Since 1980, the Winter Olympics were held in 84, 88, 92, 94, 98, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (k1E2D)

272 259 Obama ran against McCain

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:56 PM (tKWMU)

======

A Republican at the top of the ticket who outwardly hates Republicans depressed Republican turnout?

Weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

273 Chicks voted for JFK because he was cute (at least compared to Richard Nixon). The situation has not improved since then.
Posted by: Common Tater

Hasn't changed at all. I'll grant that some elections were between relative equals. But when, in the television era, has the obviously-uglier candidate become the President?

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (VHUov)

274 Is it just me, but does Albinogale Skankburger give off serious serious Nosferatu vibes?

She's the most bloodless-looking thing. Like poster for hospice care.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (E7fP+)

275 *How come the interval isn't divisible by four? When did the skip occur?*
----

Climate change.
Posted by: Always the default answer at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (2Ez/1)

10 September 2008. Our first major test.

Posted by: Large Hadron Collider at February 25, 2026 01:58 PM (q2NNn)

276 70 The left is absolutely sure those inflatable frog guys are the perfect protest against ICE, because who could beat up a cute frog! It makes them look evil!“

I was just thinking that it would be pretty amusing to see a belt fed machine gun open up on those frogs. Bet they’d start hopping - well for a few seconds at least.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=====
Aesop's Fable about frogs wanting a new king come to mind here.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)

277 272.

No doubt in my mind that McVain and Obama had a handshake deal.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:58 PM (E7fP+)

278 Was that Chris Murphy with the yeah thanks buddy. Maybe his illegal immigrant can go speak truth to power back in her own country and take Murphy with her.

So ashamed of ct.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 01:58 PM (i0Hi3)

279 note to self: always wait and see if rhom or whig will answer the question before chiming in.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:58 PM (4NO2D)

280 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

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I love Hammer Horror films. Hoping you're enjoying them, TJM!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2026 01:59 PM (qBdHI)

281 279 note to self: always wait and see if rhom or whig will answer the question before chiming in.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:58 PM (4NO2D)

=======

In the meantime:

Shitpost for the lulz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

282 Hasn't changed at all. I'll grant that some elections were between relative equals. But when, in the television era, has the obviously-uglier candidate become the President?

2012?

Not that I'm a Mittens fan but he looks like central casting for elder statesmen/non-evil president in a movie.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

283 273 Hasn't changed at all. I'll grant that some elections were between relative equals. But when, in the television era, has the obviously-uglier candidate become the President?
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (VHUov)

The JEF beating Pierre Delecto.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 01:59 PM (wa/yD)

284 280 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

--

I love Hammer Horror films. Hoping you're enjoying them, TJM!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2026 01:59 PM (qBdHI)

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Haven't gotten to any horror yet.

Just got to 1951 in my watching.

Mostly thrillers and adaptations of BBC radio serials.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

285 Democrats welcomed on stage the Portland ant-fascist frogs to dance on stage.

I for one welcome our new frog overlords.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 02:00 PM (Ys3Ta)

286 Emperer Hirohono.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 02:00 PM (QScRl)

287
Knock off muppet costumes, foot stamping, purple hair, tatted and tacklebox faces. sitting in the middle of the street while pouting...

Nothing says "take me seriously" like these antics.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 02:00 PM (y9nCu)

288 the left thought they had an "own" on the X by pointing out that the US women won more gold than the US men.

Response:
Oh, so now there are two genders?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 02:00 PM (HXT0k)

289 267 It doesn't take much talent to portray a brooding, murderous gangster in every role you've been cast. DeNiro has always been over-hyped.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

To be fair, in Ronin he plays a former CIA guy pretending to be a brooding, murderous gangster. Such depth!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 02:01 PM (JCZqz)

290 Romney had the sex appeal of a discount stomach pump.

Broads were never going to vote for him. It wasn't clapping heard at his rallies. It was the sound of vaginas snapping closed.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 02:01 PM (E7fP+)

291 It doesn't take much talent to portray a brooding, murderous gangster in every role you've been cast. DeNiro has always been over-hyped.

Well he also can play brooding dim witted boxer and brooding dim witted Vietnam vet, and brooding dimwitted bounty hunter. And now, grumpy grandfather.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:01 PM (PYyV9)

292 Permanent TikTok-ination.

Middle aged people Tik Tokking.

The Tokocrat Party.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:01 PM (aTgV0)

293 Are Froggies worse than Furries?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2026 02:02 PM (y9ksN)

294 Again the litmus test for president, certainly in the modern era, except for the obviously false election(s) is "who is the funnier candidate". That will get you the winner 90+ percent of the time.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 02:02 PM (tKWMU)

295 >>>When you take into account her age, is Tlaib the ugliest member of congress?
Posted by: Eeyore

Seriously? Have you seen Rosa DeLauro?

Posted by: Auspex

>Maxine Waters has entered discussion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 02:02 PM (gVUi7)

296 Hey. Stay in your lane, pal.

Posted by: Brooding, murderous gangsters local #408 at February 25, 2026 02:02 PM (2Ez/1)

297 > Say, the last US Olympic gold medal
in hockey was 46 years ago. How come the interval isn't divisible by four? When did the skip occur?

1992 in France
1994 in Norway

This threw the math off. Previously the winter games were on the same year as the summer games. They decided to offset the games so there was one every two years. They did this by making one winter games gap only two years.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 02:02 PM (Yp6az)

298 I've seen it reported that the 'Stand Up' bit was ad-libbed.

I doubt it.

A copy of the speech is handed out beforehand. Trump blindsided them by not including his 'Stand Up' bit.

That's my President.

Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2026 02:03 PM (Q+gd/)

299 Lilehammer?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 02:03 PM (QScRl)

300 who is the funnier candidate

So thinking about it, you are on to something here...the last case I can think of that violates this is 1976 and that's fresh off the Nixon impeachment stuff

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

301 Romney had the sex appeal of a discount stomach pump.

--

He is certainly not an unattractive man. But, comparing similar looks:

Lyle Waggoner >>>>>>> Mitt Romney

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (qBdHI)

302 Is it just me, but does Albinogale Skankburger give off serious serious Nosferatu vibes?

She's the most bloodless-looking thing. Like poster for hospice care.
Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 01:57 PM (E7fP+)
======

72 hours after she took the oath of office, you could see right through her.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (rj6Yv)

303 An Antifa Red Guard stormtrooper in a frog suit is still an Antifa Red Guard stormtrooper.

Do not be fooled. The did that in Europe for years -- Antifa dressed up in literal clown suits, to make themselves "appear harmless" -- then attempt to murder police and commit extreme violence.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (Ys3Ta)

304 264 There's also that, but that's nuking the filibuster.

I thought nuking the filibuster is a rule change that you can't filibuster, not that you have to actually show up and do it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Nuclear option is when the majority changes the rules by making a point of order, chair denies the point, and then an appeal of the chair's ruling allows the majority to change it. Normal rule changes are in the rules of the Senate itself requiring 67 votes. The Senate used this to create current Rule 22 aka the fake 60 vote filibuster.

So you can either use the old school talking filibuster (used in 1917 after the Armed Ships Filibuster to create cloture rule in the first place by the talking filibuster) or the fake and gay filibuster that doesn't require talking but allows other senate business to go on.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (E4rtv)

305 #271. A clear, straightforward answer.
We try not to do that here. Put some snark in when you can.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (LDfeE)

306 I’ve long been a Hammer Films fan - looking forward to what you have to write about them!
The biggest difficulty is that there’s so many!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (k/Sbk)

307 I love DeNiro. Having him on our side feels so fuckin good. Like, hell yeah, we got a Goodfella fighting for us. Gives "mob justice" a whole new meaning.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 01:39 PM (JCZqz)
_________

I met DeNiro. Several times. He's much shorter and more feeble than he looks on screen. Gnomish. He's also dumb as a retarded rock that got fucked with a dumbstick. But he's got some guinea charm.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

308 Are Froggies worse than Furries?
Posted by: Josephistan
.......

They pee in your hand.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (UjdFS)

309 Are Froggies worse than Furries?

I guess the costumes are easier to clean after.... Nevermind.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (Fs0KI)

310 Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

I realized it in 2012. It's how I predicted 2016 correctly

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 02:05 PM (tKWMU)

311 This just goes to show that the Democrats couldn't organize a fundraiser at a whorehouse. The choices for partners would be cross-dressers, furries, and insane asylum escapees.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 25, 2026 02:05 PM (S/Y4j)

312 I thought Black Block wore black.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 02:05 PM (QScRl)

313 299 Lilehammer?
----
No.
Bigger hammer.

Posted by: Tim the tool man Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:05 PM (2Ez/1)

314 302.
LOL.

The albino gunslinger from Judge Roy Bean was prettier.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 02:05 PM (E7fP+)

315 I don't believe in the Adrenochrome stuff but if anyone is on it yeah Spanburger would be my first take...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

316 Lyle Waggoner's a total jerk,
Second only to Tommy Kirk.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

317 The key qualifier was "When you take into account her age..."

That eliminates Delauro and Waters who -although Medusa-level ugly- are 1000 years old. Tlaib wins on ugly per year scale.

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (0e5Te)

318 Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 02:04 PM (Ys3Ta)

Yep. Similar to how the rainbow is employed. Safe, lovable, child friendly.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (tKWMU)

319 That event looks bananas!

I cannot fathom how these people would think that clown show would elevate their message.

FFS, Fetterman understood the event - he wore a suit and tie. Meanwhile, 50 of the other Dems danced on stage with people in frog costumes?????

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (Hkcdp)

320 He put VP Vance in charge of fraud.
Fraud Buster, that'll get him some face time.
But what about Bondi, isn't that her job?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (j9zxt)

321 Well, anyway, I thought they would manage to at least have those Dems present at the real State of the Union simply sit respectfully and quietly, and clap politely or otherwise show respect for MOH winners, bereaved parents, the US Hockey team, etc. Instead they behaved like ghouls.

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

No surprise to me:

They refused to stand last year for "DJ" Daniel, a 13-year-old black boy and brain cancer survivor (of 13 brain surgeries), who was named an honorary U.S. Secret Service agent by President Trump.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (G8ukX)

322
DeNiro has always been over-hyped.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

DeNiro isn't shit without his off-camera cue cards. Watch his eyes on the serious, dialogue-heavy scenes like the famous coffee house scene with Pacino in Heat. He constantly glances to the side to read his next line. I'll give him props though, that was his last really good performance.... over 30 years ago.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (y9nCu)

323
1984
"I want you to know also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience."

Posted by: President Reagan referring to Dem candidate Walter Mondale at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (q2NNn)

324 Cold shoulder to ACB and Gorstitch was great. I wanted him to slap both of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (abIsI)

325 Hammer Films?

Please tell me more.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at February 25, 2026 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

326 Vlad Țepeș knew how to deal with Muslim invaders.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 02:07 PM (ZVgZ4)

327 >Maxine Waters has entered discussion.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
......

Maxine is beyond ugly. She has entered 'good looking corpse' territory.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 02:07 PM (UjdFS)

328 Lyle Waggoner's a total jerk,
Second only to Tommy Kirk.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, but Tommy got Creepy Girl. So a win for him.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 25, 2026 02:07 PM (PSEDc)

329 I thought Black Block wore black.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 02:05 PM (QScRl)

Not before Labor Day

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2026 02:07 PM (y9ksN)

330 #271. A clear, straightforward answer.
We try not to do that here. Put some snark in when you can.
----
Do it while you're alone.
And wash your hands afterwards.

Posted by: Always good advice at February 25, 2026 02:07 PM (2Ez/1)

331 Trump's SOTU was so narcissistic. I love love love it.

Because he KNOWS that he's trolling these assholes.

He knows his narcissism drives these old leftist oldsters insane with rage.

They're all still living in Camelot.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:07 PM (aTgV0)

332 I don't believe in the Adrenochrome stuff but if anyone is on it yeah Spanburger would be my first take

I do, I totally believe that if its not adrenochrome, its some other stuff they are getting from children to try to defeat age (and are losing the battle anyway). Rosa Delauro was always hideous, age isn't her problem. She looked like the Gremlin in drag when she was 20.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:07 PM (PYyV9)

333 >>>When you take into account her age, is Tlaib the ugliest member of congress?
Posted by: Eeyore

Seriously? Have you seen Rosa DeLauro?
Posted by: Auspex

I mentioned DeLauro earlier, but after some digging, may have to concede the point. Delauro is 82 years old! I had no idea she was that old, and honestly, she's more active and healthy (and, shudder, attractive?) than I think Tlaib will be in 33 years.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 02:08 PM (JCZqz)

334 I think this qualifies as a "Limited Modified Hangout"

Aliens DO exist – they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran claims

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 02:08 PM (RHGPo)

335 Trump should have acknowledged Fetterman from the podium by asking 'hoodie in the laundry? '
-----

I think Trump should invite Fetterman to the White House for a private conference. I think Fetterman could become a reliable Senate vote for Trump if Trump gave him some attention and asked him in private "How can I help you win if you're helping me win?".

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 02:08 PM (TN0g+)

336 Lyle Waggoner's a total jerk,
Second only to Tommy Kirk.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, but Tommy got Creepy Girl. So a win for him.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

You got it (unlike TJM). Good for you!

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

337

The most frightening, and I mean terrifying, part of all of this is that people may actually appreciate and be persuaded by the literal zoo of lunatics. We simply cannot live with a voting population/demographic that is so abjectly brain dead

Posted by: imp at February 25, 2026 02:09 PM (g6TN6)

338 Regarding Hammer movies:

https://youtu.be/XR4KnfcgLm0

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:09 PM (PYyV9)

339 Aunt Esther is a whole other scale of ugly. Cosmic ugly as opposed to terrestrial ugly.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 02:09 PM (E7fP+)

340 >>>That eliminates Delauro and Waters who -although Medusa-level ugly- are 1000 years old. Tlaib wins on ugly per year scale.

Posted by: Wally

If Maxine had cornrows and dreadlocks, with one gaze she'd turn your ass to stone.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 02:09 PM (gVUi7)

341 He put VP Vance in charge of fraud.
Fraud Buster, that'll get him some face time.
But what about Bondi, isn't that her job?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (j9zxt)
=====

JD Vance is a man on a mission. US AG Bondi has a job.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 02:10 PM (rj6Yv)

342 De Niro is a greasy little runt. I truly hate that guy.

https://tinyurl.com/4jc8sxyn

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 02:10 PM (abIsI)

343
That eliminates Delauro and Waters who -although Medusa-level ugly- are 1000 years old.

----

Hhrooom, they're not so old

Posted by: Treebeard at February 25, 2026 02:11 PM (y9ksN)

344 Aunt Esther is a whole other scale of ugly.
Posted by: sifty boones

Only if you're a fool with fish-eyes.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

345 Aunt Ester >>>> Maxine Waters

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2026 02:12 PM (qBdHI)

346 Democratic, US Representatives from Pennsylvania not attending included:

Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) - Multimillionaire, previously worked as national pro bono counsel at a major U.S. law firm (where her husband was managing partner) - represents Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District, which includes all of Delaware County, as well as parts of Philadelphia, Chester, and Montgomery counties. Reportedly, she has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2018.

Summer Lee (D-PA) - (AI) Before joining the U.S. House Summer Lee was a Pennsylvania state representative (2019–2022), civil rights attorney, and community organizer. She was the first Black woman from southwestern Pennsylvania in the state legislature, winning on a progressive platform (Working Families Party) "focusing on education, environmental justice, and labor rights."

The Pennsylvania’s 12th Cong. District, in southwestern Pennsylvania, includes Pittsburgh & much of Allegheny County, as well as some of Westmoreland County.

Like MGS's District, that 12th district was different before BUT the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania redrew several congressional districts after ruling the previous unconstitutional.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 02:12 PM (NFX2v)

347 341.

Well said. And after the binder gaffe, Bondi won't be given many more important special assignments in the coming years. Can't afford to.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 02:12 PM (E7fP+)

348 One can hope the middle of the civilians saw what the Marxists did

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 02:12 PM (Ia/+0)

349 Hey. Let's see YOU fight for truth, justice, and the American way from the confines of the Fox News green room!

Posted by: Pam Blondi at February 25, 2026 02:12 PM (2Ez/1)

350 Are Froggies worse than Furries?

Featheries are people with bird costumes, and scalies have reptile "fursonas". And they're all beautiful, brave, and batshit crazy.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 02:12 PM (JCZqz)

351 That one clip from the mall has a guy referring to an illegal immigrant who came to the USA in order to tell us all how hard it is to be an immigrant here. Um, what? I guess you agree we’re going her a favor by deporting her.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 25, 2026 02:12 PM (jYRYu)

352 Hammer Horror films.

Twins of Evil, aka Tits of Evil.
Vampire girl sinks fangs into another girl's tit.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 02:12 PM (Kt19C)

353
If Maxine had cornrows and dreadlocks, with one gaze she'd turn your ass to stone.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026

Children of the Cornrows would be a great horror movie

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (y9ksN)

354 "Zoo of Lunatics" would make a good heavy metal band name

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

355 317 That eliminates Delauro and Waters who -although Medusa-level ugly- are 1000 years old. Tlaib wins on ugly per year scale.
Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (0e5Te)

Medusa?

We're back on the Monster Porn subject?

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (3wOGw)

356 The Right’s Brand Is ‘America First.’ The Left’s Brand Is Getting Mad About That

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (RHGPo)

357 234 204 They can get around the cloture vote by doing a real debate.

A simple majority vote can change the rules so that you have to actually carry out a filibuster, not just declare one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:49 PM (PYyV9)

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There's also that, but that's nuking the filibuster.

I doubt it ever happens. Keeps too many on the border senators too important.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:53 PM (GBKbO)
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Not according to Sen Mike Lee, no vote is needed. The talking filibuster is the default.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (Dv3i1)

358 We simply cannot live with a voting population/demographic that is so abjectly brain dead

We used to be able to in the past by the really crazy ones being locked up, most of the others denied any kind of access to power or even employment, and a strong patriarchal society that kept women from acting on their stupider impulses. Which was fine as far as it went, but sadly had insufficient checks on men acting on their stupider impulses.

No system is perfect, there always are awful things happening and side effects, if not straight drawbacks. But some were better overall to society and function of civilization than others.

Its like how capitalism is a lousy system, but less lousy than all the others. Its got its serious problems but does produce civilization, wealth, health, longevity, and comfort to the greatest portion of the population.

We live in a sinful world. You cannot have the perfect system. The problem with the left is that they don't understand or believe this.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (PYyV9)

359 Clarification:

The actress who played Aunt Esther was a fine and warm human being who was lovely and kind in real life.

Maxine Waters is an evil commie bitch that looks like homemade soap.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 02:14 PM (E7fP+)

360 357 Not according to Sen Mike Lee, no vote is needed. The talking filibuster is the default.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (Dv3i1)

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The cloture vote was created in order to create an end run around the actual debate of bills. It became a placeholder for filibusters to the point where it became called a filibuster itself, which is stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 02:14 PM (GBKbO)

361 At least PA doesn't have a Frog Brigade - yet.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 02:14 PM (NFX2v)

362 There are more than enough Democrats fighting for the title of "Baba Yaga"

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

363 Impeach foaty five!

Posted by: Aunt Esther at February 25, 2026 02:15 PM (2Ez/1)

364
Can Ilhan Omar be denaturalized and deported now?

Also numerous other members of her family who also committed immigration fraud.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 02:15 PM (VWtfl)

365 The biggest problem with furries is that they lie about their appearance. The furry cartoons, the illustrations can be quite cute, like a Disney critter. The actual furries in their costumes look like a disturbing college football mascot, the kind of thing you hire for your kid's birthday party that terrifies all the tots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:15 PM (PYyV9)

366 After all the noise about Pepe, they come with their own frogs

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 02:16 PM (RHGPo)

367 I just wish Capitalism didn't have billboards.

Those things are a blight.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:16 PM (aTgV0)

368 364.

Denatured >> Denaturalized

Either is good.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 02:16 PM (E7fP+)

369 How come the interval isn't divisible by four? When did the skip occur?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 01:50 PM (azNOR)

Early 2000s, I think. They split the summer and winter games to alternate every two years, with summer and winter games each on the 4 year cycle. Summer - 2yrs - winter- 2yrs - summer, etc.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 02:16 PM (gT8zw)

370 They denature alcohol don't they?

Posted by: Not listening very closely at February 25, 2026 02:16 PM (2Ez/1)

371 I wonder how that effort by the DOJ Civil Rights Division to sue states to clean up voter rolls is going...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The corrupt SOS in CO, Jenna Griswold, claims that turning over voter rolls to DOJ would violate voters privacy in the state because it would expose voters DL numbers, SSN numbers, addresses, etc. Yeah, the government doesn't have that info already. The IRS alone knows where grandma keeps her piggy bank. No current status as to where the DOJ lawsuit against the state is now.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 02:16 PM (oiNtH)

372 Cold shoulder to ACB and Gorstitch was great. I wanted him to slap both of them.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (abIsI)
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Physically, the CJ and Justice Barret did not look well in their closeups. Particularly John Roberts - he looked aged and frightened. The same for Barret, just a bit less so.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 02:17 PM (rj6Yv)

373 Hammer Horror films.

Twins of Evil, aka Tits of Evil.
Vampire girl sinks fangs into another girl's tit.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty

That predates Dracula by 25 years. In the novel Carmilla, the female vampire bit her female victims on the breast.

Relevant, but probably NSFW:
https://youtu.be/1eOIvQnkhg0

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 02:17 PM (VHUov)

374 Clearly these frogs are a symbol for "BiPOC supremacy"

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2026 02:17 PM (RHGPo)

375 Leftism is not a serious form of "government" -- they exist and thrive only as critics, hecklers on the sideline who hurl insults and abuse at legitimate leaders and ideologies. But the moment they are given the reins of power, they don't know what to do other than enact their virtue-signalling dystopian totalitarianism, which instantly fails, and after a couple weeks they are lft flummoxed and flat-footed as they watch everything crumble around them.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 02:17 PM (Ys3Ta)

376 2 Were they intentionally saying they are the frogs in the swamp?

I mean...they are but...you aren't supposed to say that part out loud
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

Gay frogs, no less.

Posted by: Alex Jones was right at February 25, 2026 02:17 PM (TbWk/)

377 "The corrupt SOS in CO, Jenna..."

Found the problem.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 25, 2026 02:18 PM (E7fP+)

378 Famous Maryland Man, Kilmar was there offering autographed photos of him punching you in the face for $25.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2026 02:18 PM (+rKuc)

379 366 After all the noise about Pepe, they come with their own frogs
Posted by: SMOD

Damn, didn't they?!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 02:18 PM (NFX2v)

380 Roberts looked like a cardboard cut out.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 02:19 PM (+nEug)

381 Not according to Sen Mike Lee, no vote is needed. The talking filibuster is the default.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (Dv3i1)

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Right, it's the EXISTING RULES -- they're just not being enforced by The Senate Majority Leader.

Unfortunately, Thune "went wobbly" the day he was born ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 02:19 PM (oyekH)

382 Empeech Foaty Seben!

Posted by: Maxine Waters at February 25, 2026 02:19 PM (gVUi7)

383 FWIW,
The Senate Rules provide that no senator may make more than two speeches on a motion or bill on the same legislative day (a legislative day begins when the Senate convenes and ends when it adjourns; hence, it does not necessarily coincide with the calendar day). The length of these speeches is not limited by the rules; thus, in most cases, senators may speak for as long as they please. This allows a talking filibuster to end after all senators that wish to speak have made their speech on an issue during the legislative day. Debate is finished so vote follows.

Alternatives are a) unanimous consent to limit debate, b) the phony filibuster of sixty for cloture (rule 22), c) changing the rules either the formal way requiring 2/3rds of senators or nuclear option done by appealing the ruling of the chair via a point of order and that reduces the votes need to change a rule to a mere majority.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 02:19 PM (E4rtv)

384 Haha! Nick Freitas coffee mug:

The problem with political jokes is
they get elected.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 02:20 PM (FMtrg)

385 I saw Karen and the Portland Frog Brigade open for 4 Non Blondes at the Lilith Faire in '98.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2026 02:20 PM (guGkK)

386 "358 We simply cannot live with a voting population/demographic that is so abjectly brain dead"

No. The problem isn't the retards. There have always been retards.

The problem is the ones that know exactly what they are doing enabling foreign invaders, child rapists and mutilators, and violent criminals. The ones deliberately twisting clear law into two tier justice, censorship, and goverment thuggery.

If you don't deal with these people, they won't stop. We are going to need a Franco.

Posted by: heya at February 25, 2026 02:20 PM (+RkG8)

387 Hammer Horror spans a lot of years and encompasses a lot of films outside the usual Dracula/Frankenstein gothic themes. Some more modern British horror that still works but in different ways. I recently watched an early 70s horror called 'Straight On Till Morning.' Kinda creepy. Lots of cool early 70s vibe and culture to be seen. And it had one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen in it: Katya Wyeth.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2026 02:20 PM (qBdHI)

388
Speaking of filibuster record holding whatever happened to Cory Booker? He used to be in front of a camera every 15 minutes until he got married and... oh... yeah. Nevermind.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 02:20 PM (Y8DZL)

389 That eliminates Delauro and Waters who -although Medusa-level ugly- are 1000 years old. Tlaib wins on ugly per year scale.
Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (0e5Te)

Medusa?

We're back on the Monster Porn subject?
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:13 PM (3wOGw)
_________

Hmm ... Medusa. Contrary to a lot of modern interpretations, Medusa was originally hotter than a half-fucked fox in a forest fire. Indeed, that was her undoing.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

390 And yet people still vote for them.

Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 02:21 PM (p4NUW)

391 I won't watch any of those videos. I know they are crazy and get worse every day. They are mentally ill demons. Spanberger looks like an albino HOA Karen.

Last night my daughter, watching the SOTU with me, noted something that we have known for a long time, why are all of the Dems so weird and ugly looking? I told her it come from their black souls and dead brains.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 02:21 PM (oiNtH)

392 You mean Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) didn't let Kilmar hold his arms so attendees could punch him in the face?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 02:21 PM (NFX2v)

393 "Roberts looked like a cardboard cut out."

He looks like an AI rendition of the whitest man that ever lived.

He makes Pat Boone look like a gangbanger.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:22 PM (aTgV0)

394 367 I just wish Capitalism didn't have billboards.

Those things are a blight.
Posted by: eleven

Communism has billboards too -- but instead of saying "Drink Pepsi" they say, "Comrades, dissent is treason! Snitch on your neighbors today!"

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 02:22 PM (Ys3Ta)

395 Christopher I would put it More Corrupted

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 02:22 PM (Ia/+0)

396 Rashid was yelling "KKK" when people chanted "USA." Which, as she is a racist and the fact that the KKK was made up of Democrats, I guess is on brand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (PYyV9)

Ransid also had a F' ICE pin on....
Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 01:34 PM (qW/vZ)

I would have paid Trump my life savings if he would have stepped down, made his way to that POS and smacked her upside the head. Then had ber mangy ass dragged out and thrown out on the capital steps. A guy can dream

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 25, 2026 02:23 PM (5xuJ/)

397 We are going to need a Franco.
Posted by: heya

Sorry, he's still dead.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

398 I'm inclined to think Rashida is the anti-Luna.
Posted by: Eeyore

Backside of the Moon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 01:52 PM (Cqx++)

Well, the moon IS bigger than horse... so, yeah

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 02:23 PM (kg7+T)

399 375 Leftism is not a serious form of "government" -- they exist and thrive only as critics, hecklers on the sideline who hurl insults and abuse at legitimate leaders and ideologies. But the moment they are given the reins of power, they don't know what to do other than enact their virtue-signalling dystopian totalitarianism, which instantly fails, and after a couple weeks they are lft flummoxed and flat-footed as they watch everything crumble around them.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 02:17 PM (Ys3Ta)
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And then the killing starts.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 02:24 PM (3BwY8)

400 Right, it's the EXISTING RULES -- they're just not being enforced by The Senate Majority Leader.

Unfortunately, Thune "went wobbly" the day he was born ...
Posted by: ShainS

Shane, not really an enforcing issue--the default in the US Senate is actually unlimited debate. But to get anything done, debate is limited by either unanimous consent requiring party leaders to agree on debating time, some sort of rule like reconciliation that applies to special circumstances that only require a majority vote, the actual filibuster where a senator cannot rise to speak more than twice, or the phoney one. Senate's rules are arcane and very old. House, on the other hand votes for new rules packages every Congress (two years).

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)

401 391 Last night my daughter, watching the SOTU with me, noted something that we have known for a long time, why are all of the Dems so weird and ugly looking? I told her it come from their black souls and dead brains.
Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 02:21 PM (oiNtH)

All the drugs and alcohol prematurely ages their faces, as well.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:24 PM (3wOGw)

402 The most frightening, and I mean terrifying, part of all of this is that people may actually appreciate and be persuaded by the literal zoo of lunatics. We simply cannot live with a voting population/demographic that is so abjectly brain dead
Posted by: imp at February 25, 2026 02:09 PM (g6TN6)
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Surely you're not suggesting that the US public education system has been purposely corrupted to produce generations of ignorant, semi-illiterate, and thus, easily-manipulated American citizens incapable of critical thinking?

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 02:24 PM (rj6Yv)

403 365 The biggest problem with furries is that they lie about their appearance. The furry cartoons, the illustrations can be quite cute, like a Disney critter. The actual furries in their costumes look like a disturbing college football mascot, the kind of thing you hire for your kid's birthday party that terrifies all the tots.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Actually, there is a divide of sorts in the furry community. Some have suits that look more like caricature/sports mascots, while others try to make more "realistic" looking suits.

Mascot-like: https://tinyurl.com/y4jfsynr
Realistic: https://tinyurl.com/3df3arep
Weird closeted gay dude trying to trick someone: https://tinyurl.com/56c9ss4m

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 02:24 PM (JCZqz)

404 399 And then the killing starts.
Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 02:24 PM (3BwY

What is past, is prologue.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:25 PM (3wOGw)

405 Roberts looked like a cardboard cut out.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 02:19 PM (+nEug)

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Appropriate for a two-dimensional thinker.

[w/apologies to President Reagan:]

Roberts' view of the SCOTUS could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it sucks, IT'S A TAX. If it keeps sucking, IT'S A REGULATION. And if it stops sucking, IT'S PRESIDENTIAL OVERREACH!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 02:25 PM (oyekH)

406 Last night my daughter, watching the SOTU with me, noted something that we have known for a long time, why are all of the Dems so weird and ugly looking? I told her it come from their black souls and dead brains.
Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 02:21 PM (oiNtH)
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Because ugly people that couldn't get laid in a monkey whorehouse with a sackful of bananas gravitate toward collectivist ideologies as a way to have their existence validated by other ugly motherfuckers.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 02:26 PM (3BwY8)

407 401 391 Last night my daughter, watching the SOTU with me, noted something that we have known for a long time, why are all of the Dems so weird and ugly looking? I told her it come from their black souls and dead brains.
Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 02:21 PM (oiNtH)

All the drugs and alcohol prematurely ages their faces, as well.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:24 PM (3wOGw)

PDT cracking down on child trafficking has greatly curtailed their adrenochrome supply.

Posted by: I'm only half-kidding at February 25, 2026 02:26 PM (TbWk/)

408 336 Lyle Waggoner's a total jerk,
Second only to Tommy Kirk.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, but Tommy got Creepy Girl. So a win for him.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

You got it (unlike TJM). Good for you!
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

Shouldn't this have been Tom Servo's comment?

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 25, 2026 02:26 PM (0bjKf)

409 Well crap. Dad's nurse called, unexpected (sort of) turn for the worse. As in call in family... Dawn.

Y'all be good, ok?

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 02:27 PM (cGjQu)

410
We simply cannot live with a voting population/demographic that is so abjectly brain dead
Posted by: imp

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It's terrifying. They're disaster-proof. No matter how bad they make things FOR THEMSELVES, they continue with their brain death.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2026 02:27 PM (5pERN)

411 >>>Leftism is not a serious form of "government" -- they exist and thrive only as critics, hecklers on the sideline who hurl insults and abuse at legitimate leaders and ideologies. But the moment they are given the reins of power, they don't know what to do other than enact their virtue-signalling dystopian totalitarianism, which instantly fails, and after a couple weeks they are lft flummoxed and flat-footed as they watch everything crumble around them.
Posted by: zombie

>You left out the grift, graft, money laundering, extortion and blackmail. And pedophilia.

Posted by: Maxine Waters at February 25, 2026 02:28 PM (gVUi7)

412 "390 And yet people still vote for them.
Posted by: Piper at February 25, 2026 02:21 PM (p4NUW)"

They are doing more than just voting. The invader-enabling, the child groomer-enabling, releasing violent criminals, all requires hundreds of thousands to commit actual criminal acts, let alone the number who excuse the acts of others or fundraise an organize (which is also often illegal, thanks to dem-caused kkk laws)

We are in this mess because they're allowed to get away with it

Posted by: heya at February 25, 2026 02:28 PM (+RkG8)

413 Marxism is revenge.

Ugly people want revenge.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:28 PM (aTgV0)

414
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 02:27 PM (cGjQu)

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Oof, sorry.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2026 02:28 PM (5pERN)

415 Well crap. Dad's nurse called, unexpected (sort of) turn for the worse. As in call in family... Dawn.

Y'all be good, ok?
Posted by: man

Prayer up, Man.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

416 Anybody have any good colonoscopy stories?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at February 25, 2026 02:29 PM (tqpXi)

417 Bing up some Jutta Leerdam, female athlete.

Posted by: Operator Error at February 25, 2026 02:29 PM (SlPS9)

418 I'm losing it.

I read that as "Anybody have any good colonoscopy recipes?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:30 PM (aTgV0)

419 Actually, there is a divide of sorts in the furry community. Some have suits that look more like caricature/sports mascots, while others try to make more "realistic" looking suits.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Ackbar is plugged in to the furry community!

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 02:30 PM (Yp6az)

420 I think the camera operator/s should also win a special award. The way he/she panned in at perfect moments last night in the gallery - stupid mooks sound asleep while you have a 99 and 100 year old veterans sitting there wide awake and attentive to the whole event, close up of the trans faker McBride while PDT talks about the whole trans insanity, close up of our favorite Illan Omar while PDT talks about Somali Pirates defrauding citizens, panned to CJ Roberts while PDT talks about the tariff decision being so bad, etc.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 02:31 PM (oiNtH)

421 417 Bing up some Jutta Leerdam, female athlete.
Posted by: Operator Error at February 25, 2026 02:29 PM (SlPS9)
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Too bad she's fucking face-tat dipshit Jake Paul.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 02:31 PM (3BwY8)

422 "Bing up some Jutta Leerdam, female athlete."

No, I'm tired of eating my heart out.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:31 PM (aTgV0)

423 76. Rashid was yelling "KKK" when people chanted "USA." Which, as she is a racist and the fact that the KKK was made up of Democrats, I guess is on brand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

A racist!? The dear woman wearing the Fu*k Trump button in Congress? The founder of the Congressional Mamas' Caucus, especially for mothers of color?

Yeah, she is & she's just a terrible person.

Her former old man ought to sue her a** to make her drop his last name.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 02:32 PM (NFX2v)

424 419 Ackbar is plugged in to the furry community!
Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 02:30 PM (Yp6az)

Today's "Knowing things you aren't supposed to know about" award goes to...

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:32 PM (3wOGw)

425 "It's terrifying. They're disaster-proof. No matter how bad they make things FOR THEMSELVES, they continue with their brain death.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2026 02:27 PM (5pERN)"

You don't get how this works. They all plan to be the one wearing the boot, even though they know they tale a risk of being the one stomped on. They aim to be the chekist, the zampolit, or the party members, or even the thugs. And those at the top have AMAZING rewards. They can line their pockets, rape, dispatch goons, the works.

Again, stupidity isn't driving this, evil is

Posted by: heya at February 25, 2026 02:32 PM (+RkG8)

426 “I’ve been disappointed in the criminal referrals collecting DUST on Bondi’s desk. THERE HAVEN’T BEEN ENOUGH ARRESTS.” - Chairman James Comer

She looked good last night though.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 02:32 PM (abIsI)

427 I read that as "Anybody have any good colonoscopy recipes?
Posted by: eleven

Probably involves shit pebbles. Maybe ASS would know.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

428 Jutta Leerdam has an ass for the ages, but she's annoying as fuck, basically leveraging her Olympic speed skating prowess into a future of being yet another e-girl thot Intsta/OF skank.

Finishes a race and immediately yanks her hood off and starts fluffing out her hair, face full of lip filler and botox, and eye makeup that would make a streetwalker blush.

Just a gross skank with terrible taste in men.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 02:33 PM (3BwY8)

429 409 Well crap. Dad's nurse called, unexpected (sort of) turn for the worse. As in call in family... Dawn.

Y'all be good, ok?
Posted by: man

🙏 for the best.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 02:34 PM (NFX2v)

430 429 409 Well crap. Dad's nurse called, unexpected (sort of) turn for the worse. As in call in family... Dawn.

Y'all be good, ok?
Posted by: man

Will say a prayer for you all...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 02:34 PM (VE6XX)

431 426 “I’ve been disappointed in the criminal referrals collecting DUST on Bondi’s desk. THERE HAVEN’T BEEN ENOUGH ARRESTS.” - Chairman James Comer

She looked good last night though.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 25, 2026 02:32 PM (abIsI)

There’s the man in charge of the Two Minutes Hate against Pam Bondi.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 02:35 PM (MNYwX)

432 I would have had a Trump Impersonator acting like a retard at my counter event. But I'm not a Democrat.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 02:35 PM (tKWMU)

433 I think the camera operator/s should also win a special award. The way he/she panned in at perfect moments last night in the gallery - stupid mooks sound asleep while you have a 99 and 100 year old veterans sitting there wide awake and attentive to the whole event, close up of the trans faker McBride while PDT talks about the whole trans insanity, close up of our favorite Illan Omar while PDT talks about Somali Pirates defrauding citizens, panned to CJ Roberts while PDT talks about the tariff decision being so bad, etc.
Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 02:31 PM (oiNtH)

The "camera operator" is told to by the director. No camera operator does that on his/her own. The director calls the shots by looking at multiple monitors, one for each camera. He/she then directs the technical director to switch to that shot. There is usually one or two cameras dedicated to wide shots as well.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 25, 2026 02:35 PM (5xuJ/)

434 Strong candidate for the most retarded headline in the long history of retarded headlines:

"Requiring proof of citizenship to vote has no basis in U.S. Constitution"

-- Chicago Sun-Times

Then again, these fuckwits think men with penises can "get pregnant" and "need tampons", so, there you have it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2026 02:35 PM (IG3/x)

435 > Too bad she's fucking face-tat dipshit Jake Paul.

Don't try to make me respect Jake Paul.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 02:35 PM (Yp6az)

436 You all follow women's speed skating more than one would expect.

Posted by: Operator Error at February 25, 2026 02:35 PM (SlPS9)

437 425 You don't get how this works. They all plan to be the one wearing the boot, even though they know they tale a risk of being the one stomped on. They aim to be the chekist, the zampolit, or the party members, or even the thugs. And those at the top have AMAZING rewards. They can line their pockets, rape, dispatch goons, the works.

Again, stupidity isn't driving this, evil is
Posted by: heya at February 25, 2026 02:32 PM (+RkG

Back when I used to know someone who turned Full Commie, I asked someone about this, and he flat out said "I'm going to be the one at the top who makes all the decisions. I'll live well, and I'll be the one to order who lives or dies."

Fairly soon after, I no longer associated with that person.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:36 PM (3wOGw)

438 Oh, Rashida was chanting KKK?

Love how these first generation foreigners are so eager to call back to the civil war to slur us.
If your family didn’t fight in that war, Rashida, you can f$&@ right off with using those references.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 02:36 PM (Hkcdp)

439 She looked good last night though.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
.......

Nice torso.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2026 02:37 PM (UjdFS)

440 Female skaters are God's gift to thighs.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:37 PM (aTgV0)

441 while others try to make more "realistic" looking suits.

Those look pretty cool, actually. I don't know why anyone would want to wear one, but they are impressive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:38 PM (PYyV9)

442 428 Jutta Leerdam has an ass for the ages, but she's annoying as fuck, basically leveraging her Olympic speed skating prowess into a future of being yet another e-girl thot Intsta/OF skank.

Finishes a race and immediately yanks her hood off and starts fluffing out her hair, face full of lip filler and botox, and eye makeup that would make a streetwalker blush.

Just a gross skank with terrible taste in men.
Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 02:33 PM (3BwY

The E-Thot economy is the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:38 PM (3wOGw)

443 ...meaning, they're here to tell actual native-born citizens that we're evil and racist and not doing enough for the fucking endless hordes...

Oh really?
Well then. Bring it bitches. Bring it to my little town and let's see whats getting done.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 02:38 PM (YbYyH)

444 Nothing rhymes with torso.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:38 PM (aTgV0)

445 Portland frog brigade looks skeevy.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 02:39 PM (LHPAg)

446 Nothing rhymes with torso.
Posted by: eleven

moreso

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

447 397 We are going to need a Franco.
Posted by: heya

Sorry, he's still dead.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

That needed a Chevy Chase sock ...

Posted by: Lorne Michaels at February 25, 2026 02:39 PM (3sXRv)

448
Nothing rhymes with torso.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:38 PM

it's like orange, only more so

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2026 02:39 PM (tljrc)

449 >>Nothing rhymes with torso?

Impossible! “Or so “you say…

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)

450 Nothing rhymes with orange torso.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:40 PM (aTgV0)

451 444 Nothing rhymes with torso.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:38 PM (aTgV0)

More so

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 25, 2026 02:40 PM (FMtrg)

452 448
Nothing rhymes with torso.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:38 PM

it's like orange, only more so
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2026 02:39 PM (tljrc)

***golf clap***

Muldoon worthy !

Posted by: browndog says woof at February 25, 2026 02:41 PM (3sXRv)

453 Jutta Leerdam has an ass for the ages, but she's annoying as fuck, basically leveraging her Olympic speed skating prowess into a future of being yet another e-girl thot Intsta/OF skank.

Finishes a race and immediately yanks her hood off and starts fluffing out her hair, face full of lip filler and botox, and eye makeup that would make a streetwalker blush.

Just a gross skank with terrible taste in men.
Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 02:33 PM (3BwY
______

In 15 years, she'll be crying about how nobody respects her anymore and how terrible it was to make piles of money off her looks

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

454
Nothing rhymes with torso.
Posted by: eleven

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

Unless you're on the Corso.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2026 02:41 PM (5pERN)

455 Nothing rhymes with torso.
Posted by: eleven

Bordeaux

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 02:41 PM (tKWMU)

456 > “I’ve been disappointed in the criminal referrals collecting DUST on Bondi’s desk. THERE HAVEN’T BEEN ENOUGH ARRESTS.” - Chairman James Comer

This is the guy who is not investigating Ilhan Omar.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 02:41 PM (1Udfd)

457 Female skaters are God's gift to thighs.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:37 PM (aTgV0)

Diogenes Granddaughter #2 has entered the chat.
(Div1 soccer player). Good looking and smart as heck too!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 02:41 PM (YbYyH)

458 Nothing rhymes with torso.
Posted by: eleven

moreso
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

Vorso

Posted by: Spinning Tops at February 25, 2026 02:41 PM (q2NNn)

459 The E-Thot economy is the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.

Its odd to me how they all seem to look the same, like they are stamped out in a factory

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 02:41 PM (PYyV9)

460 "Back when I used to know someone who turned Full Commie, I asked someone about this, and he flat out said "I'm going to be the one at the top who makes all the decisions. I'll live well, and I'll be the one to order who lives or dies."

Fairly soon after, I no longer associated with that person.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:36 PM (3wOGw)"

The main normie blind spot is not understanding these people exist, or perhaps refusing to believe they exist.

They are why my UPS guy grumbles about 100lb ammo deliveries.

Posted by: heya at February 25, 2026 02:42 PM (+RkG8)

461 Roses are Red
Violets are moreso
Oranges are orange
I like your torso

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 02:42 PM (aTgV0)

462 Nothing rhymes with torso.
Posted by: eleven

Tell that to Lee Corso.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

463 Back when I used to know someone who turned Full Commie, I asked someone about this, and he flat out said "I'm going to be the one at the top who makes all the decisions. I'll live well, and I'll be the one to order who lives or dies."

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:36 PM (3wOGw)"

Yep, talked to those many times

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 02:42 PM (tKWMU)

464 >>The E-Thot economy is the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.

I'd say the 19th Amendment.

Whores have always had a large sector of the economy.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 02:43 PM (1Udfd)

465 So, a Furry Orgy?
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (6sbTy)

You start out with a fur-ball and then the chafing felts everything into mats.
Tragedy of our time, really.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

466 A point I haven't seen mentioned by the MSM is that DJT is in pretty good shape for a guy who is 79 and a year into a very tumultuous presidential term. An hour, 48 minutes makes it the longest SOTUS in history.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 02:44 PM (rj6Yv)

467 Back when I used to know someone who turned Full Commie, I asked someone about this, and he flat out said "I'm going to be the one at the top who makes all the decisions. I'll live well, and I'll be the one to order who lives or dies."

Posted by: XTC

Reminds me of Robert Conquest's observation that "Every advocate of central planning always envisions himself as the central planner."

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

468 460 The main normie blind spot is not understanding these people exist, or perhaps refusing to believe they exist.

They are why my UPS guy grumbles about 100lb ammo deliveries.
Posted by: heya at February 25, 2026 02:42 PM (+RkG

The thing that stands out most about that guy, is the one thing he was really, really enthusiastic about, was involuntary organ harvesting. He said when everyone turned 35, they'd be eligible to be randomly chosen to be executed so that their organs could be harvested for the important people.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 02:44 PM (3wOGw)

469
438 Oh, Rashida was chanting KKK?

Love how these first generation foreigners are so eager to call back to the civil war to slur us.
If your family didn’t fight in that war, Rashida, you can f$&@ right off with using those references.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 02:36 PM

------

Her nomadic Arab ancestors, after generations of roaming, settled down in a region of the Levant recently improved by Jewish immigrants. They invented their ancient history of living in the area, and called themselves Palestinians. This is a continuation of that.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 02:44 PM (azNOR)

470 Nood. CNN copium.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 02:44 PM (bFu5X)

471 Nothing rhymes with torso.
Posted by: eleven

I am going to make pilaf, do you want me to use cous-cous or orzo?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 02:47 PM (rbvCR)

472 Do not expose your torso
To an angry Cane Corso

Ta Da!

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2026 02:48 PM (rj6Yv)

473 >>>The E-Thot economy is the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.

I'd say the 19th Amendment.

Whores have always had a large sector of the economy.

Posted by: garrett

>Didn't this Paul character have his jaw broken when he got into a real fight? I guess a large payday from the social media rubes is worth the risks.

Posted by: Maxine Waters at February 25, 2026 02:51 PM (gVUi7)

474 Wow

Tell me you're out of $$ without telling me Dems. Lol

Ea
Eeeeeeeat a baggadicks!

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 25, 2026 03:48 PM (61TgR)

475 If you don't deal with these people, they won't stop. We are going to need a Franco.

Or a Vlad Tepes.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 04:08 PM (ZVgZ4)

476 The frogs are only anti-fascist in the sense these folks want an authoritarian dictatorship based on communism instead of socialism.

Basically, in the '30s they'd be the red shirt street thugs fighting with the brown shirt and black shirt street thugs.

Posted by: you're in hell, the world ended at February 25, 2026 05:30 PM (e0l5z)

477 Someone please call the Zoo their Howler Monkeys have been found ask them to bring Nets and a Tranquilizer Gun

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 25, 2026 05:34 PM (wGqjj)

Trump Directs and Films the Main Political Advetisement for the Midterms

I personally thought the speech started well but then got tedious and meandering. Then again, I know the economy is doing pretty well. Thanks to the propaganda Nazi media, most citizens don't.

Many observers, including Democrat spinners, think it was effective.

Trump needed to sell strengths on economy, border. He did.
Ahead of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, he promised he'd discuss how we are a country "that's now doing well with the greatest economy we've ever had."
That's what he needed to do, and overall, he did.
"Our nation is back," Trump said at the start of his speech Feb. 24, marking the secure border, reduced crime, falling inflation and improving economy. "The state of our union is strong."
During his roughly two-hour address, the president stayed mostly upbeat and on message (for Trump).
His theme was "America at 250: Strong, Prosperous and Respected," with the country's 250th birthday and the midterm elections just months away, and polls showing Americans are concerned with the direction of the country.
"Tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before, and a turnaround for the ages," Trump said. "We will never go back to where we were just a short time ago."
In the past year, he has delivered on some of his top reelection campaign promises, chief among them securing the southern border and reviving the economy.
Yet, there remains a disconnect between how things are improving and how voters are feeling.
Trump's job was to make them feel at ease. He remains defensive on affordability, however, putting the blame during his speech for remaining problems squarely on Democrats.
No matter how much fault the Biden administration holds for the economy's struggles in recent years, voters now consider it Trump's economy. He needs to own it.

...
Trump may not have stellar approval ratings (who does in their second term?), but congressional Democrats are suffering far worse.
A Wall Street Journal poll from January found that voters think Republicans in Congress are best able to handle major issues facing the country, including immigration and the economy. When it comes to border security, Republicans outpace Democrats by 48% to 20%. In regard to immigration in general, the GOP still holds an 11-point advantage.
Even with other key issues, like inflation and the economy, Republicans have a 6-point edge.
Other polls confirm the unease with Democrats. A recent Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that more Americans trust Trump (33%) over Democrats in Congress (31%) to handle the country's major issues.

I didn't realize why Trump kept attacking the Democrats for not standing. I thought he was just grousing.

I didn't know he was building towards his campaign message for the midterms. He was conditioning them to not stand, so he could get the perfect video for campaign ads.

First, they refused to stand to honor the Ukrainian immigrant butchered on a Charlotte train by a Democrat released from jail a dozen times by other Democrats.

The Democrats' policies are directly responsible for this, and they can't even stand to honor a young woman that was brutally murdered.

"How do you not stand?" pic.twitter.com/BbSzr5XwT0
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) February 25, 2026

Later, he asked the assemblage to stand if they agreed that the safety of American citizens should be the American government's "first priority" above illegal Democrats.

Democrats absolutely refused to stand, and the cameras panned across the room to show America their priorities:

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just CHECKMATED Democrats in the House chamber

He asked members of Congress to STAND UP if they believe it's the duty of the US government to protect American citizens over illegals...

AND PRACTICALLY ALL DEMOCRATS STAYED SITTING

"You should be… pic.twitter.com/KyrPqFMRqj
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 25, 2026

.@VP: "'The American government should stand for American citizens, not illegal aliens,' that shouldn’t be controversial — but apparently, it was to the Democrats." pic.twitter.com/K6bPwNQu3O
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 25, 2026

🚨 WOW! Even CBS admitted Democrats made themselves look like FOOLS last night at the State of the Union

“They can’t even applaud BASIC, COMMON SENSE things!”

And the American people definitely noticed! pic.twitter.com/5G2C6qYcP7
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 25, 2026

Par for the course:

CNN analyst refers to event honoring Americans slain by illegal migrants as 'so-called Angel Moms' https://t.co/GLWwjWgZni #FoxNews
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) February 25, 2026

Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz
3h
BREAKING -- Reaction to Trump's State of the Union speech:
🟢 Positive: 63% (+27)
🔴 Negative: 36%

I know, more Trump supporters watched than Trump haters, but another CNN poll asked the same people how they felt about the country's direction both pre- and post-speech. Before the speech, 54% said the country was moving in a positive direction, and after, 64%. So the speech moved public sentiment.

🚨 CNN Instant Poll for President Trump's State of the Union 🚨

"Roughly two-thirds in the positive territory... among speech watchers." pic.twitter.com/5LToamz0YH
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) February 25, 2026

"Real reporter" Jake Tapper dismisses this: "So, a lot of red meat for the base..."

Oh, is that all, Fake Jake?

I take his glum girlish peevishness as confirmation that the speech worked. Look at this pathetic c**t:

Jake Tapper whines that Trump called out Democrats as "crazy" during his State of the Union address.
"Well here's my question. Are we ever going back to normal? I mean, are we ever coming to a back to a place where you can't just call the other party crazy in the State of the… pic.twitter.com/9yb6to2QiN
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 25, 2026

And by the way: It's important to excite the base. Trump's numbers have been soft precisely because a chunk of his 2024 voters believe the leftwing media and do not know the economy is actually doing very well.

We're in a "boomcession," the propaganda press tells us. This is an economic boom that doesn't feel like a boom. (Mostly because the propaganda press lies about it.)

Hello! My cold has gotten worse. I hope to recover enough to get some exercise outdoors now that it's warmer. How are you doing?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM

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1 Blade!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 12:11 PM (dK+Kv)

2 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:11 PM (bFu5X)

3 Damn it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:11 PM (bFu5X)

4 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:11 PM (bFu5X)

5
ESPONJA!!1!1!11

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2026 12:12 PM (tljrc)

6 The Democrats used to be so much better at hiding their contempt for America.

Glad those days are over, and now it's out in the open.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

7 Democrats are conditioned like trained rats to act the way they do.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 12:13 PM (jtM2q)

8 Screeech, top 10!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at February 25, 2026 12:14 PM (VkY89)

9 Getting the ugly Omar and Tlaib to yell will make for good memes, too.

They are a cancer, and the masks were off!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 12:14 PM (Hkcdp)

10 Two CMOH, one LOM, and one PMOF, last night.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 12:15 PM (dK+Kv)

11 Boomcession?

Yeah. Sure. Idiots....

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:15 PM (cGjQu)

12 Hard to spin the address as anything but a big success for Trump, and us by extension. Just hard to take the W for some people. I hope that tendency diminishes.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:15 PM (pDt9x)

13 My opinion Trump should propose a 90% tax on university endowments and apply it to student loan debt.

I winner policy if you ask me.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2026 12:15 PM (Vh9CX)

14 I noted last night when it was obvious the dems got the text to get off their asses. The focus groups must of been killing them.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (2WIwB)

15 FUCKING YOU TAPPER!

ARE WE EVER GOING BACK TO NOT CALLING FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF THE OPPOSITION?! OR MAYBE SAYING WE ARE GOING TO GIVE BLOODY AND VENGEFUL REPRISALS WHEN WE GET BACK IN POWER?

But you don't want to talk about that, you big dumb stupid fat cunt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (bss/y)

16 Democrats are conditioned like trained rats to act the way they do."

Zombies, according to Bob Hope...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (cGjQu)

17 Short WSJ:
- Trump was trying to convince Americans his agenda is working for them, when the numbers show it’s not.
- Trump continues to drop in polls among Republicans and Independents
- Republicans will lose their majority in Congress come November
- oh, and the people running for Congress aren’t Trump.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (wn0/z)

18 Who was the Congessman with the Ukraine pin who was napping?

Good Lord, they have no idea how bad they look to normal people.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (Hkcdp)

19 Don't insult clowns by calling the Democrats a 'clown-show." Clowning is a proud ancient profession. The Democrats are simply retards.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (Ys3Ta)

20 If you don’t know the economy is doing good you don’t own a car, you don’t have a 401,you don’t buy eggs and you live in a blue state.

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (nGraA)

21 Boomcession is a term that has absolutely no meaning. It is a contradiction in logic.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (pDt9x)

22 Hello! My cold has gotten worse. I hope to recover enough to get some exercise outdoors now that it's warmer. How are you doing?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM

Can't complain. The ZOMGSNOWPOCALYPSE wasn't too bad north of Boston.

Feel better. I hear hot toddies are good for that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:17 PM (bFu5X)

23 >>My cold has gotten worse. I hope to recover enough to get some exercise outdoors now that it's warmer. How are you doing?

Sounds like the Truvada let you down.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:17 PM (1Udfd)

24 Quick, someone start complaining about how Pam Bondi's not doing anything!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 25, 2026 12:18 PM (eStot)

25 Jake Tapper wants people to get back to calling each other Nazis.

It was a quainter time.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:18 PM (1Udfd)

26 My overall takeaway is that Democraps expected Trump to come into the speech weakened, humbled, and conciliatory.

What actually happened:

Trump rode into the speech on the back of a velociraptor, wearing Master Chief armor, holding a BFG in each hand, screaming "FREEEEEDOM."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

27 24 Quick, someone start complaining about how Pam Bondi's not doing anything!
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 25, 2026 12:18 PM (eStot)

Oldies but goldies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y)

28 24 Quick, someone start complaining about how Pam Bondi's not doing anything!
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 25, 2026 12:18 PM (eStot)

An Evergreen kvetch, that is.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:18 PM (pDt9x)

29 And Ace, you are totally wrong. The two hour speech was great from the start the middle and the end the end was great.

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (nGraA)

30 19 Don't insult clowns by calling the Democrats a 'clown-show." Clowning is a proud ancient profession. The Democrats are simply retards.
__

Hey! We don't deserve to be compared to *them.* Ick.

Posted by: Retards at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (qUkBO)

31 I'm glad my kids will be around for America's 250th birthday, I wasn't around for America's 200th. It'll be fun, and I'm curious what the biggest fireworks display around here will be.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (Wt5PA)

32 Al Green making a habit of being tossed out is golden, also.

Posted by: Let's Stay Together at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (oftw2)

33 Did anyone notice if Fettermann stood when Trump asked his citizens vs illegals question?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

34 If you don't want to be called crazy don't be.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (Cqx++)

35 25 Jake Tapper wants people to get back to calling each other Nazis.

It was a quainter time.
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:18 PM (1Udfd)

Note, back in the mists of time, did we ever call them Nazis? Not until they really got into the nazi swing. Commie was always good enough.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)

36 Boomcession makes as much sense as footpuck or soupwich.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2026 12:20 PM (y9ksN)

37 Trump plays these retards like a fiddle.

Not sure how much of a difference it will make come November, but a man can hope.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 12:20 PM (3BwY8)

38 >>Did anyone notice if Fettermann stood when Trump asked his citizens vs illegals question?

I did notice that he wore a suit.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:20 PM (1Udfd)

39 31 I'm glad my kids will be around for America's 250th birthday, I wasn't around for America's 200th. It'll be fun, and I'm curious what the biggest fireworks display around here will be.
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (Wt5PA)

It depends. Do you live in a Red State, or a Blue State. That matters. A lot.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (pDt9x)

40 'Boomcession' sounds like a B-side by Chaka Khan and Rufus.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (Ys3Ta)

41 That wind is cold and I won't be out there in it. Don't want pneumonia again.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (LHPAg)

42 >>Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (Ys3Ta)

Retard is a humble and modern condition. The Dems are more debased & eternal. Way below retard.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (NcvvS)

43 Hello! My cold has gotten worse. I hope to recover enough to get some exercise outdoors now that it's warmer. How are you doing?
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

I'm great! Colonoscopy's done!

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

44 Boomcession makes as much sense as footpuck or soupwich"

How about a manwich?

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (cGjQu)

45 As the saying goes,

you can tell how much God loves you by how stupid He makes your enemies

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (REq0p)

46 >>I'm great! Colonoscopy's done!

RIP Anal Hymen.

o7

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:22 PM (1Udfd)

47 The Democunts refusal to stand has nothing to do with whatever Trump was asking them to stand for. It has everything to do with the fact it's Trump doing the asking. Trump could ask them to stand for literally anything, and they wouldn't. The TDS worms squirming in their brains will not allow them to. It does not compute.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

48 43 Hello! My cold has gotten worse. I hope to recover enough to get some exercise outdoors now that it's warmer. How are you doing?
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

I'm great! Colonoscopy's done!
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

Snort. Well done.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:22 PM (pDt9x)

49 Democrats are conditioned like trained rats to act the way they do.

The idea behind a Republic is that the common man doesn't have the time or inclination to spend giving serious thought to the issues confronting the country, so they elect representatives who do. It's pretty clear that the Democrats in Congress don't have the inclination either.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t)

50 The women I was watching the speech with were torching the Democrat women.

“A bunch of overweight, ugly people who made extremely unfortunate wardrobe choices, especially the white pantsuits which they should think about burning and never wearing again”.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2026 12:22 PM (wn0/z)

51 ‘ Trump Directs and Films the Main Political Advetisement for the Midterms’

He sure did. I can’t believe the stupid assholes walked right into it.

They look terrible to all but the most bitter partisans.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 12:22 PM (jbnUc)

52 I did notice that he wore a suit.
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:20 PM (1Udfd)

Huh. Conspicuous for it's respect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

53 Biden called us garbage.

Posted by: Trump voters at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (2Ez/1)

54 See this...This is shit (points to a picture of the assembled leaders of the democrat party).

And this...This is Shinola. (points to a picture of himself and the USA gold winning hockey team).

Shit (democrats). Shinola. (winners at life)

Everything is going to be all right!

Posted by: President Trump Midterms Campaign Ad at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (hXJe5)

55 Democrats just showing who they are.

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (YwEeS)

56 Retard is a humble and modern condition. The Dems are more debased & eternal. Way below retard.

----

They're evil retards, like the Pakleds.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (y9ksN)

57 44 Boomcession makes as much sense as footpuck or soupwich"

How about a manwich?
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (cGjQu)

And we're back to milking minotaurs.

*throws up hands*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y)

58 41 That wind is cold and I won't be out there in it. Don't want pneumonia again.
Posted by: Eromero

Get your ass vaccinated, toot sweet!

Posted by: Tony Fauci at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (oftw2)

59 Al Green making a habit of being tossed out is golden, also.
Posted by: Let's Stay Together at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM

Never not entertaining.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (bFu5X)

60 Getting the ugly Omar and Tlaib to yell will make for good memes, too.

They are a cancer, and the masks were off!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 12:14 PM (Hkcdp)

They literally did the white cat meme!

https://tinyurl.com/2jh6m7ve

Posted by: pookysgirl can't stop laughing at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (Wt5PA)

61 Al Green making a habit of being tossed out is golden, also.

He got his 10 seconds of camera time which was exactly what he wanted.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (Fs0KI)

62 Ain’t it grand? Tapper acts as if it hasn’t been Democrats and progressives and assorted nutbars who destroyed every norm, civility, and common human decency in furtherance of their party control.

Tribalism. No Jake, it ain’t gonna be “normal” again you stupid fucking cunt

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (hF3wE)

63 29 And Ace, you are totally wrong. The two hour speech was great from the start the middle and the end the end was great.

Eh, different strokes. I watched about 30 seconds and got bored.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

64
Boomcession makes as much sense as footpuck or soupwich.
Posted by: Josephistan

Soupwich is tomato soup and grilled cheese.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 12:24 PM (Cqx++)

65 Did anyone notice if Fettermann stood when Trump asked his citizens vs illegals question?

I did notice that he wore a suit.
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026
***

I suspect he has a very good read on the polling in his state.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 12:24 PM (2WIwB)

66 >>Al Green making a habit of being tossed out is golden, also

His sign...kind of a self-own.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:24 PM (1Udfd)

67 >>I'm great! Colonoscopy's done!

Annual physical in a couple of weeks. Certainly going to be following in your footsteps, Bulg.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 25, 2026 12:24 PM (NcvvS)

68 Al Green making a habit of being tossed out is golden, also.
Posted by: Let's Stay Together at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM

Never not entertaining.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (bFu5X)
______

Now there's a monster not even the most lonely, horny, desperate woman would fuck.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

69 Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (Wt5PA)

How is Pookette holding up following the euthanasia of your cat?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:25 PM (77rzZ)

70 Their dementia patient did a literal Darth Vader speech and they all jerked off to it, but now they cry their fake cum tears begging for something "normal". I wish we could just ignore leftards forever.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:25 PM (tKWMU)

71 I'm great! Colonoscopy's done!
Posted by: Bulg

That's fine-for you. As we cry out in A-gone-knee!

Posted by: Bulg's Polyps at February 25, 2026 12:25 PM (oftw2)

72 >> Hello! My cold has gotten worse.

Zinc, Quercetin, D3 and C. One 20 cent pill at Amazon. I take it every day, and haven’t really been sick in 4 years.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (ewuvP)

73 And there's more.
Twitchy-
Dems State of the Swamp Circus: Thong-Wearing Giraffe Brags About ICE Busts ... GOP Ads Write Themselves

https://tinyurl.com/46hz6ksn

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (NpAcC)

74
Note, back in the mists of time, did we ever call them Nazis? Not until they really got into the nazi swing. Commie was always good enough.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)

Commie is worse. They have a MUCH higher body count.

On the other hand, despite being genocidal assholes the Nazis had style. Bespoke Hugo Boss uniforms vs ill-fitting commie cocksucker clown clothes made out of potato sacks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (y9nCu)

75 One of the downsides for the left having the media constantly running cover for them and building them up no matter how crazy they become is they start to believe the media is speaking for everyone.

They've gone so far off the rails they can't stand for non-partisan American heroes of for protecting American citizens over illegal aliens because Trump is a Nazi and they think they're winning. That was some spectacle last night. I don't think the Democrats recover anytime soon.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (viF8m)

76 Now there's a monster "

Oh great. Here comes the last thread...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (cGjQu)

77 59 Al Green making a habit of being tossed out is golden, also.
Posted by: Let's Stay Together at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM

Never not entertaining.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (bFu5X)

Especially seeing his idiotic animalistic uncontrolled uncivilized poo-slinging behavior directly contradict his sign.

Posted by: I'm not an ape! *acts like an ape* at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (TbWk/)

78 Retard is a humble and modern condition. The Dems are more debased & eternal. Way below retard.

----

They're evil retards, like the Pakleds.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (y9ksN)

***

Commie scum-sucking bastards!
*shouted out in Sam Kennison's voice*

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (2WIwB)

79 Holy crap. I feel like I am Sam Neill in In the Mouth of Madness.

I am watching this gal on ewetub review Morning Glory Milking Farm (after our last thread.)

This is kind of like reading the synopsis of the Serbian film.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)

80 This was an important focus on the economy - now there will be arguments about who is right. And the numbers will show Trump was, just in time for people to start feeling it. Six months before the election.

Why the democrats behaved so stupidly, allowing themselves to be set up for campaign ad hell, continues to amaze me.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (GZYu7)

81 Al Green making a habit of being tossed out is golden, also. Posted by: Let's Stay Together at February 25, 2026 12:19 PM (oftw2)

He's got a tough primary next week and early voting's already started. His district was redistricted into the other majority-black district in Houston, so it's open season in a district that's at least partly new territory. IOW, he has to get as much free publicity as he can get.

The ironic thing is that he's actually pretty effective at constituent service and all the things that you expect a generic Congressman to do. Contrast with the late Sheila Jackson Lee, whose office was well known to be a train wreck and atrocious at those things, just like they were atrocious at everything else.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (eStot)

82 It was a great speech and an amazing night of honoring Americans, of all stripes, for what they've accomplished, and not merely for who they are (or identity as).

If I had to pick a nit, two missed opportunities were hammering the renegade federal courts (during the scolding of SCOTUS on their tariff decision) and the mention of mental asylums (during the recounting of the horrible story of Iryna Zarutska's murder at the hands of a deranged psycho. Most Democrats opted to sit on their hands rather than support a grieving mother, by the way, before they received their update patch.)

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (qBsSf)

83 Hello! My cold has gotten worse. I hope to recover enough to get some exercise outdoors now that it's warmer. How are you doing?
**
I hear if you have 2 stormtrooper ID badges you can get $30/hr for shoveling snow. You can sweat that cold right out of your system.

Posted by: Scott_T at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (2waQ7)

84 The reason you like tomato soup and grilled cheese so much is because you've just divided me into two parts.

Posted by: Pizza at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

85 >>Zinc, Quercetin, D3 and C. One 20 cent pill at Amazon. I take it every day, and haven’t really been sick in 4 years.

Ace won't even consider it unless it is a suppository.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (1Udfd)

86 Jake Tapper wants everyone to forget that during Covid, the official White House Christmas card blamed the unvaccinated for all of the impending death that was surely about to occur (but didn't).

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (KbCG3)

87 19 Don't insult clowns by calling the Democrats a 'clown-show." Clowning is a proud ancient profession. The Democrats are simply retards.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2026 12:16 PM (Ys3Ta)

And takes much more training than it does to be a Demoncrat.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (3wOGw)

88 Good Morning All!

Thank you D. E. Ace for a magnificent post.

Not quite to 100 comments but:

Today's Fox Biz Varney & Co. Trivia Q:

Which country has the most official languages?

Bolivia
Singapore
South Africa
Switzerland

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

89 >>They're evil retards, like the Pakleds.

Forgot about that. Spot on. The way they responded to their NPC chip-switch seals it.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (NcvvS)

90 Here's the problem, as loathsome, evil and retarded the democrats are, they are the default ruling party of this country, and consequently, can never be counted out or underestimated.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (XV/Pl)

91 On the other hand, despite being genocidal assholes the Nazis had style. Bespoke Hugo Boss uniforms vs ill-fitting commie cocksucker clown clothes made out of potato sacks.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (y9nCu)

Yeah, the green red and brown look always looked like ass. Dissonant.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

92 I couldn't believe those a-hole Dems wouldn't even stand for the hockey team.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
=====

Chortling to myself because I've been inundated with ads for the IL primary for Dems who will:

STAND UP TO TRUMP!

Guess they can't stand up after all. Tee hee hee.
[Reposted from earlier.]

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (sLBe9)

93 53 Biden called us garbage.
Posted by: Trump voters at February 25, 2026 12:23 PM (2Ez/1)

Everyone who disagrees with leftist dogma and gender trans radicalism has been called every name in the book for the last 9 years, but Tapper and crew can't even comprehend that they have a hand in this.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 12:28 PM (i0Hi3)

94 WSJ, at least the editorial page, used to be conservative. Now they’re hardly better than the NYT.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 12:28 PM (ZVgZ4)

95 Jake Tapper’s normal is his show getting decent ratings and having free rein to slander the GOP knowing they will not fight back. Like smearing Romney for “giving his employee’s wife cancer and , oh yeah, being the guy who injected the Russia Collusion hoax into the MSM to ensure the FBI could proceed with their investigation.

F your “normal,” Tapper.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 12:28 PM (Hkcdp)

96 84 The reason you like tomato soup and grilled cheese so much is because you've just divided me into two parts.
Posted by: Pizza at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

Cannot disagree strongly enough. Completely different flavor profiles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)

97 South Africa

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (viF8m)

98 The Democrats believe they are showing strength and they're not entirely wrong. People don't want to vote for someone weak.

That said Trump put them in a box and they calculated this as their least bad option.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (tKWMU)

99 Tapper and crew can't even comprehend that they have a hand in this.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 12:28 PM (i0Hi3)

They know. They are lying.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (tKWMU)

100 I see Jake's progressing down the same elderly lesbian path as Keith Olbermann and Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (Yp6az)

101 79 Holy crap. I feel like I am Sam Neill in In the Mouth of Madness.

I am watching this gal on ewetub review Morning Glory Milking Farm (after our last thread.)

This is kind of like reading the synopsis of the Serbian film.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)

"Beefcake" wasn't supposed to mean literal beef.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (3wOGw)

102 Hello! My cold has gotten worse.

Tea, brandy, lemon and a dash of honey. And more brandy.
Doesn't cure you but you'll feel better.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (2WIwB)

103 "Well here's my question. Are we ever going back to normal? I mean, are we ever coming to a back to a place where you can't just call the other party crazy in the State of the Union address?"
=====

Was Jake clasping his pearls at the time? Having the vapors?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (RIvkX)

104 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

I'm going with South Africa.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

105 "He was conditioning them to not stand, so he could get the perfect video for campaign ads."

It was a trap! A trap I set! For those commie traitors!

Posted by: Admiral Trump-Ackbar at February 25, 2026 12:30 PM (5rh/l)

106 It depends. Do you live in a Red State, or a Blue State. That matters. A lot.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (pDt9x)

Not only do I live in a red state, but I live in what has been called "the most Republican county in America." The Fourth of July gets LOUD here!

Posted by: pookysgirl, buying more ear protection at February 25, 2026 12:30 PM (Wt5PA)

107 Think of Fapper's cries for normality as equivalent to Judge Crockett's constant claims she "don't understand".

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:30 PM (tKWMU)

108 'Boomcession' sounds like a B-side by Chaka Khan and Rufus.
Posted by: zombie

The Boom Session is what happens after you make your Booty Call.

Posted by: Chaka Khan and Rufus at February 25, 2026 12:30 PM (VHUov)

109 willowed!

280 from the SOTU--I'm not sure how PDT carried off this tongue-twister, but he did!

Together we mastered the world’s mightiest industries, shattered history’s monstrous tyrannies.
Posted by: m at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (+YA9H)

Posted by: m at February 25, 2026 12:30 PM (+YA9H)

110 shouted out in Sam Kennison's voice"

"You know what this is? This is sand. You know what it's going to be in a hundred years?

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:30 PM (3mbqG)

111 >>'Boomcession' sounds like a B-side by Chaka Khan and Rufus.

Nice. Peak Chaka.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:31 PM (1Udfd)

112 98 The Democrats believe they are showing strength and they're not entirely wrong. People don't want to vote for someone weak.

That said Trump put them in a box and they calculated this as their least bad option.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (tKWMU)

The dems are simping for a base that is increasingly unhinged and unrelenting in its fervor for more insanity. They will not abide even a modicum of moderation, which is how they've backed their rulers into a position where they're straight up putting Americans second to illegals.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 25, 2026 12:31 PM (KbCG3)

113 97 South Africa
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (viF8m)

Exactly the 'normal' Tapper wants. He'll never be a farmer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

114 Retard is a humble and modern condition. The Dems are more debased & eternal. Way below retard.
Posted by: Nazdar

May I suggest Cretin, or more accurately, Anencephalic.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2026 12:31 PM (w9Wax)

115 Democrats finally found a Ukranian thay don't care about.

Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 12:31 PM (0MjtC)

116 Which country has the most official languages?

Bolivia
Singapore
South Africa
Switzerland
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

====
RSA

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 12:31 PM (RIvkX)

117 Regarding the SoTU:

Trump asking legislators to stand if they agree that the primary role of the US gub'mt is to protect American citizens, not ill eagles is a defining moment. I think it ranks up there with Ronald Reagan's 'are you better off today' question.

Spanberger, what little I could stomach, came across as a vapid...types - deletes - I try not to post those kinds of words out of respect for myself, Ace and my fellow blog readers.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:31 PM (QGaXH)

118 WSJ had gone totally Left under new British lady Editor . They have given a regular column to Rahm Emmanuel. He is the dark horse Dem candidate in 2028, I suspect.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 12:31 PM (Hkcdp)

119 96 84 The reason you like tomato soup and grilled cheese so much is because you've just divided me into two parts.
Posted by: Pizza at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

Cannot disagree strongly enough. Completely different flavor profiles.
---------------
Tomato soup with crackers and cheddar cheese works wonders.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 12:32 PM (pZ64F)

120 >> Ace won't even consider it unless it is a suppository.

I didn’t say how to take it, did I?

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 25, 2026 12:32 PM (ewuvP)

121 The Boom Session is what happens after you make your Booty Call."

You!

/SweetDick and Fanni

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:32 PM (3mbqG)

122 >>May I suggest Cretin, or more accurately, Anencephalic.

This. +1

Posted by: Nazdar at February 25, 2026 12:32 PM (NcvvS)

123 The Democrats believe they are showing strength and they're not entirely wrong. People don't want to vote for someone weak.

That said Trump put them in a box and they calculated this as their least bad option.
Posted by: ..

Then they MIS-calculated.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:33 PM (qilzz)

124 Nice battlespace prep by The Great MAGA King and dope-a-doping these demented retards into taking 95-5 positions.

Trump should get a little bounce, and maybe something a little more permanent if the LIV finally wake up from their stupor and notice how much the economy has improved.

But I'm skeptical that in 6 months anyone will remember -- or care about -- any videos of Democraps acting like demented retards.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

125 Have the Democrats ever, and I mean ever, NOT acted like spoiled toddlers?

Without the Media shielding them, they'd be a ghost party.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2026 12:33 PM (CHHv1)

126 115 Democrats finally found a Ukranian thay don't care about.
--------------
That's gonna leave a mark.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 12:33 PM (pZ64F)

127 15
‘ FUCKING YOU TAPPER!’

I endorse the tone and content of Aetius’ comment completely.

It boils my blood to see the democrats suborn assassination and terrorism and then people like Tapper squeal like stuck pigs at Trump’s tone.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 12:33 PM (jbnUc)

128 >>Tomato soup with crackers and cheddar cheese works wonders.

Thai soup. As hot / spicy as they will make it for you.

Or, Wor Wonton Soup.

Those are my go to soups when I am sick.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:34 PM (1Udfd)

129 Annual physical in a couple of weeks. Certainly going to be following in your footsteps, Bulg.
Posted by: Nazdar

Have you had one before?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

130 The schoolbook suppository.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 12:34 PM (QScRl)

131 "Trump's numbers have been soft precisely because a chunk of his 2024 voters believe the leftwing media and do not know the economy is actually doing very well."

Because we haven't been trying to destroy the media. Too many believe they're destroying themselves and all we need to do is watch. Not good enough. They retain enormous influence.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 25, 2026 12:34 PM (INQN/)

132 The reason you like tomato soup and grilled cheese so much is because you've just divided me into two parts.
Posted by: Pizza

Cannot disagree strongly enough. Completely different flavor profiles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

But "starch, tomato, and cheese" is a classic combo. Ask any Italian. Or Messican.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2026 12:34 PM (VHUov)

133 "You know what this is? This is sand. You know what it's going to be in a hundred years? Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:30 PM (3mbqG)

NOTHING GROWS IN THE DESERT!!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 25, 2026 12:34 PM (eStot)

134 Al Green is fairly old. A lot of men his age can't stay up past 9PM. Getting ejected is probably just his get off my lawn, I'm going to bed play.

Posted by: Mr. Grouch at February 25, 2026 12:34 PM (oftw2)

135 Democrats are completely focused on the midterm elections. They are putting all their energy and organization into each race, especially the GOTV.

The GOP should get off their asses and stop trying to rely on Trump to lift them up.

Votes win races, not speeches.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2026 12:35 PM (wn0/z)

136 Did Fetterman applaud for the hockey team, at least?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:35 PM (77rzZ)

137 Holy crap. I feel like I am Sam Neill in In the Mouth of Madness.

I am watching this gal on ewetub review Morning Glory Milking Farm (after our last thread.)

This is kind of like reading the synopsis of the Serbian film.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)

"Beefcake" wasn't supposed to mean literal beef.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (3wOGw)

*shifty eyes*

*puts down cheesecake*

*zip*

*slowly backs away*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 12:35 PM (dK+Kv)

138 South Africa
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (viF8m)

Exactly the 'normal' Tapper wants. He'll never be a farmer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

So he'll be a target.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (qilzz)

139 Chicarina soup is really good. Or Italian Wedding Soup. Tasty as hell and plays on the chicken noodle format.

Plus, Italian wedding has spin-ach!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)

140 >> 130 The schoolbook suppository.

Those are the worst…

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (ewuvP)

141 I've only eaten tomato "soup" and grilled cheese when incarcerated.

Posted by: Three Time Loser at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (oftw2)

142 There was a lot of wisdom in Kinnison's words.

Posted by: Nodding sagely at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (2Ez/1)

143 The midterms are 8-9 months away.
The SOTU will be long forgotten by then.
The pending military action with Iran, and the collateral conflicts that follow will play a much more important role in November.
As will the economy, which may take a hit if the actions in the ME cause a spike in oil prices that last.
Plus, the Democrats and their media allies will gin up some other "impeachable" offense that will get hours of airtime.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (MNCvZ)

144 Thai soup. As hot / spicy as they will make it for you.

Or, Wor Wonton Soup.

Those are my go to soups when I am sick.
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For cold/flu I recommend Hot and Sour Soup. Tomato soup with crackers and grated cheddar is a fucking meal.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (pZ64F)

145 > Or, Wor Wonton Soup.

I haven't had Wonton soup in a long time. You just reminded me of it. Maybe I'll get some for lunch. I do love it.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (Yp6az)

146 CNN analyst refers to event honoring Americans slain by illegal migrants as 'so-called Angel Moms'

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CNN Headline I must have missed 4 1/2 years ago:

"13 So-Called 'U.S. Service Members' Killed in Suicide Bombing at Kabul's Abbey Gate During Biden's Disastrous U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan."

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (8LxEZ)

147 So he'll be a target.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (qilzz)

It's not rape if he's willing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)

148
Yeah, the green red and brown look always looked like ass. Dissonant.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

The North Koreans are the worst. Their generals wear ill-fitting uniforms that are all about 3 sizes too big for them, big floppy pants legs dragging on the ground. Hats that look like they're balancing a wok on their head. And their shoes look like cracked old dress shoes on the rack at the local Salvation Army store.

https://tinyurl.com/hfh8ht5d

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (y9nCu)

149 Sitting there barking at the president in a hijab and white pantsuit with a profanity lace button on your collar and a bitter expression on your face isn’t a good look.

Especially when the president ignored everything you said.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (wn0/z)

150 “The GOP should get off their asses and stop trying to rely on Trump to lift them up.”

You are assuming they want to win.

Posted by: Know what happens when you assume at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (fLwMa)

151 How is Pookette holding up following the euthanasia of your cat?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:25 PM (77rzZ)

She knew it was coming, and there was a lot of crying, but we had pizza delivered while talking about what Pooky will name our next cat(s). My FiL keeps a horse at a local farm and a pregnant cat is very friendly with him.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows the names will be weird at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (Wt5PA)

152 A new Congressional generic ballot poll dropped this morning. The poll is done by ABC/WaPo/Ipsos, not exactly a rightwing murders row.

Democrats - 47%
Republicans - 45%

That is a flashing red light for Democrats. And the poll was done entirely before last night's SOTU.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (viF8m)

153 Holy crap. I feel like I am Sam Neill in In the Mouth of Madness.

I am watching this gal on ewetub review Morning Glory Milking Farm (after our last thread.)

This is kind of like reading the synopsis of the Serbian film.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I saw 'Milking Farm' on Pron Hub.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (qilzz)

154 I remember just a few short years ago when it was the absolute how dare you audacity for one single person to yell out you lie during TFG's SOTU. Now it's all hands on deck. AOK.

Posted by: nckate at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (uQzkA)

155 Ace: hope you feel better soon! If it's sinus clogs and you can stand it (I can, my wimpy men can't): warm V8 juice in microwave. Add diced raw garlic and a bit of horseradish and Tabasco. Drink.Swallow the garlic. It will either cure you or kill you (it helps me).

I love, love, love the side eye President Trump gave the Dims for not standing for Americans.

The mid-term commercials wrote themselves! Cowards!

I hated that the camera was so long on that bald, scrotum head Kelly. I can't stand him!

The Somolian Omar went a bit nuts with her cheerleader hand. Pathetic. All of them. I hope they are all chugging Mylanta and chewing Tums today or having violent diarrhea.

President Trump racked them up like a pool shark then ran the table. None of them had the courage to go against the sewage tide.

I still have to watch the whole thing as I was in class.

I read that !suddenly! they all got a message from phones to start standing and then stood like puppets on strings. From Soros? Obama?

Invertebrates, lower than pond scum.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (WONhk)

156
I am watching this gal on ewetub review Morning Glory Milking Farm (after our last thread.)

This is kind of like reading the synopsis of the Serbian film.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)

But what I reeeeaaaallllly want is a nice guy! Where are all the good men?

Posted by: Ran-through post-wall TikTok chick at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (TbWk/)

157 There is nothing like enjoying a piping hot bowl of tomato soup with some croutons and a sprinkling of parm cheese on a cold winter day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 12:38 PM (XV/Pl)

158 Now it's a food thread.

Posted by: And I want pizza at February 25, 2026 12:38 PM (2Ez/1)

159 We know the Dems are evil, but the Doug Heffernans are very hard to get to.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:38 PM (aTgV0)

160 My first two items in my Hatefeed this morning were NPR fisking the SotU, and The Hill calling for Congress to move it from primetime to silence Trump.

It hurt. The pigs are squealing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 25, 2026 12:38 PM (BI5O2)

161 Schoolbook Suppository is adjacent to the Grassy Knoll.

Posted by: Google Maps at February 25, 2026 12:38 PM (oftw2)

162 PDT is going to bring this message all across America in the coming months. I enjoyed every minute of the speech and the presentations of the Medal of Honor and Purple Heart.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 12:39 PM (+nEug)

163 The schoolbook suppository.

Those are the worst…
Posted by: Hawkpilot

Especially in Dallas.

Posted by: JFK, Lincolnesque at February 25, 2026 12:39 PM (w9Wax)

164 Then they MIS-calculated.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:33 PM (qilzz)

Showing unity with Trump would essentially be saying he's doing a good job. This way they show division with Trump, but also unity and strength.

We tend to think through our own lens, or what we believe. The average person out there will just see an "alternative" viewpoint. It doesn't matter what that viewpoint is, unfortunately. Everyone knows there are two parties.

Unity puts them on a path to a 1984 style (not count) national drubbing at the hands of Trump's successor. But strength gives them a foothold to spread their own version of bullshit reality which gives them a strong national identity and tells people that whatever Trump is selling (even if it's awesome) is no good, and that they have something equivalent and different. Essentially by opposing Trump so strongly they draft off of his power to create their own.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:39 PM (tKWMU)

165 “They can’t even applaud BASIC, COMMON SENSE things!”

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Democrats don't even nod to common sense as they pass in the hall.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 12:40 PM (2ScKy)

166 Trump seems to get communicating to the Doug Heffernans.

Which is tedious and frustrating to normal people.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:40 PM (aTgV0)

167 Remember Alvin Green, that weird black dude who ran for Jim DeMint's Senate seat in 2010? He was a big favorite of the commenters over at Hot Air, for his comedy value.

(That was way before I joined the Horde.)

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

168 "He was conditioning them to not stand, so he could get the perfect video for campaign ads."

It was a trap! A trap I set! For those commie traitors!
Posted by: Admiral Trump-Ackbar

The funny part was that he telegraphed the trap, put a spotlight on it, painted it neon yellow and erected signs around it that read, "This is a trap." and they still fell into it. I'd say they walked into it, but you have to stand to walk.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 25, 2026 12:40 PM (qBsSf)

169 The really entertaining part was when all the Dems simultaneously looked at their phones and started standing.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 12:40 PM (3cXfB)

170 Should Americans be favored over invaders is the key difference between the two parties.

Seriously go ask you average leftist questions like:

Should we stop undocumented immigrants from getting welfare?

and listen to what they say

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 12:40 PM (sKqQm)

171 I couldn't believe those a-hole Dems wouldn't even stand for the hockey team.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

They set themselves up for Trump's trap. They planned to not stand for anyone or anything. Because if they stood to acknowledge selected people or groups, or a few particular items, they'd look worse by their picking and choosing. Then they'd piss-off very specific groups. They decided it was best to sit for everything rather than stand for everything. They chose...poorly.

Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2026 12:40 PM (5rh/l)

172 If you want it to be a food thread all you have to do is say "pizza".

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:41 PM (aTgV0)

173 Cannot disagree strongly enough. Completely different flavor profiles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I dunno, tomato soup seasoned like pizza sauce might actually be palatable.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (a+4eV)

174 The funny part was that he telegraphed the trap, put a spotlight on it, painted it neon yellow and erected signs around it that read, "This is a trap." and they still fell into it.
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Ain't I a stinker?

Posted by: Bugs Trumpy at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (VHUov)

175 I'm not talking about why Democrats will beat Trump or why they are better, I am specifically explaining their choice that seems to be confounding a lot of people today.

Their choice and method is intentional, and it's chosen from a set of very bad options that Trump gives them.

From a rabble rousing (and electoral) perspective it is better to diametrically oppose Trump and pretend to be on some kind of equal or possibly better footing than to follow him or show weakness.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (tKWMU)

176 yes! it got so bad, their phones started pinging, their minders telling them to get up. OPTICS ! . all of a sudden the last 15 minutes of SOTU they were jumping up like trained monkeys!

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (/M/4v)

177 I didn't watch. I just read Moron play-by-play.

I like Trump, I mostly like what he is doing, but I don't enjoy listening to him speak.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (4NO2D)

178 "The North Koreans are the worst. Their generals wear ill-fitting uniforms that are all about 3 sizes too big for them, big floppy pants legs dragging on the ground. Hats that look like they're balancing a wok on their head. And their shoes look like cracked old dress shoes on the rack at the local Salvation Army store.

https://tinyurl.com/hfh8ht5d
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM"
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The medals are hilarious.

Posted by: And I want pizza at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (2Ez/1)

179 Trump totally pants the entire Dem party in one fell swoop.

Not that it was that hard, though - kind of like shooting a bunch of spastic retards all trapped in a barrel.

Posted by: Boswell at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (V7158)

180 too bad, Trump had enough material by then

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (/M/4v)

181 Posted by: pookysgirl knows the names will be weird at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (Wt5PA)

That's sweet. You sound like a wonderful, fantastic mother, PG.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)

182 Schoolbook Suppository is adjacent to the Grassy Knoll.

FIFY

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (ewuvP)

183 @172

>>If you want it to be a food thread all you have to do is say "pizza".

As long as we're talking thin crust and not that Chicago Bread Bowl Italian Soup nonsense they call Deep Dish, you're talking my language.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (XV/Pl)

184
I am watching this gal on ewetub review Morning Glory Milking Farm (after our last thread.)

This is kind of like reading the synopsis of the Serbian film.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)

But what I reeeeaaaallllly want is a nice guy! Where are all the good men?
Posted by: Ran-through post-wall TikTok chick at February 25, 2026 12:37 PM (TbWk

80% of all books are written by women, for women, and edited by editors that are 80% women.

And all the come up with is a new category called cliterature.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (i0Hi3)

185 I dunno, tomato soup seasoned like pizza sauce might actually be palatable.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (a+4eV)

A good, creamy tomato soup with butter is delicious, but in my experience hard to get right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

186 Showing unity with Trump would essentially be saying he's doing a good job. This way they show division with Trump, but also unity and strength.

Not standing with America shows they are the enemy.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (qilzz)

187 "The GOP should get off their asses and stop trying to rely on Trump to lift them up."

Scott Pressler agrees. He's watching Republicans across the country sitting on their asses. Will it change between now and the midterms?

By the way, the best parts of the speech were not about the economy but about the national, patriotic revival. As Mike Benz has said (paraphrase), it's not "it's the economy, stupid" this time. We're in a cultural, moral war with the Left. People feel it. No economic "golden age" is going to change that. It will only gloss over the rot.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (INQN/)

188 >>If you want it to be a food thread all you have to do is say "pizza".

As long as we're talking thin crust and not that Chicago Bread Bowl Italian Soup nonsense they call Deep Dish, you're talking my language.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (4NO2D)

189 Thai soup. As hot / spicy as they will make it for you.

Or, Wor Wonton Soup.

Those are my go to soups when I am sick.
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For cold/flu I recommend Hot and Sour Soup. Tomato soup with crackers and grated cheddar is a fucking meal.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 12:36 PM (pZ64F)

Pho, chicken, loaded with peppers and Sriracha.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (dK+Kv)

190 They're so fucking dependent on Party discipline that they literally can't move until commanded. It works, except when it doesn't.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (BI5O2)

191
Maybe it's just my location, or low fuel cost, but I did the grocery shopping this morning and was pleasantly surprised by the falling prices, on some items lowest since the last Trump administration.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 12:44 PM (Y8DZL)

192 Here is the weirdest thing, Al Green made a very touching, poignant speech after Kirk's murder.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:44 PM (/M/4v)

193 177 I didn't watch. I just read Moron play-by-play.

I like Trump, I mostly like what he is doing, but I don't enjoy listening to him speak.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (4NO2D)

This one was worth watching and I get what you're saying...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 12:44 PM (qW/vZ)

194 The Somolian Omar went a bit nuts with her cheerleader hand. Pathetic. All of them. I hope they are all chugging Mylanta and chewing Tums today or having violent diarrhea.

President Trump racked them up like a pool shark then ran the table. None of them had the courage to go against the sewage tide.

-
And they said slapstick was dead!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 12:44 PM (2ScKy)

195 I missed the joke. Should be:

Schoolbook Suppository is adjacent to the Gassy Knoll.

Posted by: Google Maps. at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (oftw2)

196 Even the NPC masters behaved like NPCs.

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (4/qhL)

197 warm V8 juice in microwave. Add diced raw garlic and a bit of horseradish and Tabasco. Drink.Swallow the garlic. It will either cure you or kill you (it helps me).

I can't help thinking that a well-made Bloody Mary or two would go down easier.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (bFu5X)

198 And all the come up with is a new category called cliterature.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Crap. I'm going to wind up saying that at the wrong time.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (qilzz)

199 9 Getting the ugly Omar and Tlaib to yell will make for good memes, too.

They are a cancer, and the masks were off!
Posted by: Lizzy
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Apparently they walked into the two women screaming at the cat meme. Trump is the cat. Meme pix is on X. Funny.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)

200 172 If you want it to be a food thread all you have to do is say "pizza".
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:41 PM (aTgV0)

Oooo now it's a sex thread!

Posted by: The brothers Podesta at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (TbWk/)

201 "How are you doing?"

Feeling a bit tarnished.

Posted by: fd, My Inner Beauty Shines Slightly at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (vFG9F)

202 Afternoon Ace.
Even David Axelrod thought the speech was good. What's his angle?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (HYqoK)

203 >>If you want it to be a food thread all you have to do is say "pizza".

I'm making a french bread loaf and homemade Chicken Noodle Soup.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (dK+Kv)

204 But ...but.... what does David French and Bill Kristol have to say about the speech???

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (Oy/m2)

205 Al Green's only "job" in Congress appears to be making an ape of himself and getting kicked out of the SOTU.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (WONhk)

206 >>> Are we ever going back to normal? I mean, are we ever coming to a back to a place where you can't just call the other party crazy in the State of the Union...

Crazy is one of the softest terms.

They are worse than the Democrats on the eve of the Civil War.
At least those Democrats believed they were for America.
This crew says 'fuck the US'. And that is not metaphorically.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (/lPRQ)

207 Crap. I'm going to wind up saying that at the wrong time.
Posted by: rickb223
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Depends on your reading habits.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)

208 "The North Koreans are the worst. Their generals wear ill-fitting uniforms that are all about 3 sizes too big for them, big floppy pants legs dragging on the ground. Hats that look like they're balancing a wok on their head. And their shoes look like cracked old dress shoes on the rack at the local Salvation Army store.

https://tinyurl.com/hfh8ht5d
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

The medals are hilarious.
Posted by: And I want pizza

Look like Yugo hubcaps.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (qilzz)

209 Green is an old coot, a relic.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (/M/4v)

210 Jake Tapper always has an interest in meat. Red meat, bull meat, engorged meat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (gVUi7)

211 Are we ever going back to normal?

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You literally drew First Blood, Fake Crapper.

lol gf

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (eGJ47)

212 If you want it to be a food thread all you have to do is say "pizza".

Don't like pizza. At all.

*shrugs*

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (cGjQu)

213 Hello! My cold has gotten worse. I hope to recover enough to get some exercise outdoors now that it's warmer. How are you doing?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM

pours Chicken Soup into USB port....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (QGaXH)

214 What worries me is whether "the American people noticed". Often, they don't.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (AlhUl)

215 I can't help thinking that a well-made Bloody Mary or two would go down easier.
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Yep. Add a bowl of French Onion Soup and you can fly.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (pZ64F)

216 There's a place near me that has Hot and Sour soup that could launch a thousand ships.

And the US goalie getting the American Freedom award was such a nice troll job.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (aTgV0)

217 >>And all the come up with is a new category called cliterature.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

That's good wordsmithing.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (1Udfd)

218 Afternoon Ace.
Even David Axelrod thought the speech was good. What's his angle?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (HYqoK)

The latest leftist gaslight is that the 2028 hopefuls are "normal," not like the insane clown nazis we've seen since 2016. The mouthbreathers will buy it, of course.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (dK+Kv)

219 The Chicago Slop they call pizza should be pilloried at every opportunity. Ghastly!

Posted by: The Galloping Gourmet! at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (oftw2)

220 Showing unity with Trump would essentially be saying he's doing a good job. This way they show division with Trump, but also unity and strength.

Not standing with America shows they are the enemy.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:43 PM (qilzz)

Did Fetterman attend? Anyone know what his stand/sit performance was?

Did McConnell, Tillis, and the GOP Abortion Twins stand a lot or a little?

Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (5rh/l)

221 The Democrats have become social media personified.

They are behaving like toddlers and worse they have ZEEO remorse for the destruction they have left in their wake.

I don't see them winning midterms. .. their behavior resembles that of Twitter (and now Blew Sky) which is to say, NOT THE MAJORITY

I hope they suffer huge losses

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (9EHC/)

222 199 9 Getting the ugly Omar and Tlaib to yell will make for good memes, too.

They are a cancer, and the masks were off!
Posted by: Lizzy
=======
Apparently they walked into the two women screaming at the cat meme. Trump is the cat. Meme pix is on X. Funny.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)literature.

Be nice if someone would ask Omar if making wine was halal or haram.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (i0Hi3)

223 Not that it was that hard, though - kind of like shooting a bunch of spastic retards all trapped in a barrel.
Posted by: Boswell
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Poetic. Nice to see you around. Been awhile.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)

224 >> 195 I missed the joke. Should be:

Schoolbook Suppository is adjacent to the Gassy Knoll.

I tried to bring it home for you, with a strike through on the little r, but one letter strike through didn’t really show up. I got you though…

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (ewuvP)

225 The arc of Great Lakes area weather is bending toward spring. My feet will get wet, but I am going to run this afternoon.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (GPa4z)

226 Don't like pizza. At all.
Posted by: man

And what is your opinion on boobs?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

227 My newsfeed is telling me that Trump's speech was an evil but clever act of psychological programming of the viewers, and also that his advanced senility and impending death were revealed.

Kind of like when W was simultaneously a stupid chimp-man and an evil Supergenius.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (4NO2D)

228 Normal was when no one knew there were commies among us. And the answer is no we're not going back.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (tKWMU)

229 What's up, Gavin?

>>@EricLDaugh
·
26m
>>🚨 BREAKING: The FBI just RAIDED the home and office of deep-blue Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho

>>Search warrants were carried out just moments ago and the affidavit for the search is under seal

>>EXPOSE IT ALL! LA and its schools are run by corrupt Democrats

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (viF8m)

230 Here is the weirdest thing, Al Green made a very touching, poignant speech after Kirk's murder.
Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:44 PM (/M/4v)

If you're a partisan hack who always pushes the extreme end of your party's position as boob bait for the bubbas, it can help to adopt a completely uncontroversial position so you can position yourself as a moderate when you need to.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (BI5O2)

231 217 >>And all the come up with is a new category called cliterature.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

That's good wordsmithing.
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (1Udfd)

Stolen.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (i0Hi3)

232 The really entertaining part was when all the Dems simultaneously looked at their phones and started standing.
Posted by: Ian S.

They got their Critical NPC download.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (/lPRQ)

233 "Real reporter" Jake Tapper dismisses this: "So, a lot of red meat for the base..."

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That's fucking politics.

It's what Obama did, and Jake Tapper still masturbates to Obama speeches from 2011.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

234 Thoughts on the “boomcession”: it’s not just bad press, the situation is much more complex than that. We now have a bifurcated economy; New York City and State, Portland, Seattle, all of California, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and most of New England are now headed into near depression level economies that they are not going to pull out of.

However, most of the states to the south of them and in the center of the country are headed into boom times the likes of which has not been seen in decades, as they absorb the jobs, industries, and wealth that is fleeing the dying areas. There’s little Trump can do to save the places that do not want to be saved, so for a long time we will be seeing polls that reflect our “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” mentality.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (k/Sbk)

235 "The Somali Pirates who pillaged the US of billions of dollars..!!" *camera immediately pans on hijabed fugly Omar.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (/M/4v)

236 It was a trap! A trap I set! For those commie traitors!

-
One of our advantages is we know them, who.they are, and what they think. (Well, what they "think" anyway.) They don't understand us at all.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (2ScKy)

237 I haven't seen his direct mortar hit on Pelosi and insider trading mentioned.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (+nEug)

238 Hello! My cold has gotten worse. I hope to recover enough to get some exercise outdoors now that it's warmer. How are you doing?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM

pours Chicken Soup into USB port....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Aka, Jewish penicillin.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (qilzz)

239 220 Did Fetterman attend? Anyone know what his stand/sit performance was?

Did McConnell, Tillis, and the GOP Abortion Twins stand a lot or a little?

Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM (5rh/l)

=======

He clapped appropriately.

He will also lose his primary in a couple of years by 20 points.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

240 And what is your opinion on boobs?"

Gotta see em all. Once.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (cGjQu)

241 The tomato while using creatine causing bad stomach acid is still a thing for me, but the philly cheesesteak pizza from domino's is a delicious alternative. No green peppers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)

242 Did Fetterman attend? Anyone know what his stand/sit performance was?

Did McConnell, Tillis, and the GOP Abortion Twins stand a lot or a little?
Posted by: Gref

I believe he stood. And had some choice words for dems.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (qilzz)

243 Don't go outside , ace! that is what gave you the cold in the first place!

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (/M/4v)

244 167 Remember Alvin Green, that weird black dude who ran for Jim DeMint's Senate seat in 2010? He was a big favorite of the commenters over at Hot Air, for his comedy value.

(That was way before I joined the Horde.)
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

I can't hear his name without thinking of Basil Marceaux, for some reason.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (3wOGw)

245 Jake Tapper always has an interest in meat. Red meat, bull meat, engorged meat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (gVUi7)

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

Shit-on-a-Tingle.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (eGJ47)

246 229 What's up, Gavin?

>>@EricLDaugh
·
26m
>>🚨 BREAKING: The FBI just RAIDED the home and office of deep-blue Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho

>>Search warrants were carried out just moments ago and the affidavit for the search is under seal

>>EXPOSE IT ALL! LA and its schools are run by corrupt Democrats
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (viF8m)

That's a terrible thing to have happen. I wish jim the best of luck on all of his future legal maneuvering

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (i0Hi3)

247 I want Trump to sue a childless retired public school teacher into oblivion for calling him a pedophile. That would be so much fun!

Posted by: Oglebay at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (GPa4z)

248 I'm great! Colonoscopy's done!
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM

Did they manage to find and retrieve your urologist's class ring?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (9CJNc)

249 "The North Koreans are the worst. Their generals wear ill-fitting uniforms that are all about 3 sizes too big for them, big floppy pants legs dragging on the ground. Hats that look like they're balancing a wok on their head. And their shoes look like cracked old dress shoes on the rack at the local Salvation Army store.

https://tinyurl.com/hfh8ht5d
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

The medals are hilarious.
Posted by: And I want pizza

Look like Yugo hubcaps.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (qilzz)
__________

IIRC, they have so many medals in large part because medals are passed down from ancestors. The high-ranking military class in NK is basically hereditary or at least very dependent on who your father and grandfather were. So each of those sus clowns in the pic are wearing medals originally awarded to their ancestors generations ago.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

250 Before I forget and move on - the answer to today's trivia question was Bolivia with 37 official languages with spanish being the predominant language.

Note - If you're ever at co-host Lauren Simonetti's house and they pull out the Trivia game - run, don't walk, run for the exits!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (QGaXH)

251 "Showing unity with Trump would essentially be saying he's doing a good job."

That's it. They're trapped. They cannot possibly agree to anything he says or does or do anything that confirms his authority or even humanity. Remember when Jimmy Fallon rubbed Trump's hair and was vilified by the Left for "normalizing" him?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 25, 2026 12:50 PM (INQN/)

252 If you're a partisan hack who always pushes the extreme end of your party's position as boob bait for the bubbas, it can help to adopt a completely uncontroversial position so you can position yourself as a moderate when you need to.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 25, 2026 12:48 PM (BI5O2)

Isn't this the story of Barack Obama?

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:51 PM (tKWMU)

253 Did someone say cheese pizza?

Posted by: Kimmy Jimmel got the Grape Soda at February 25, 2026 12:51 PM (7Q0e+)

254 234 Thoughts on the “boomcession”: it’s not just bad press, the situation is much more complex than that. We now have a bifurcated economy; New York City and State, Portland, Seattle, all of California, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and most of New England are now headed into near depression level economies that they are not going to pull out of.

However, most of the states to the south of them and in the center of the country are headed into boom times the likes of which has not been seen in decades, as they absorb the jobs, industries, and wealth that is fleeing the dying areas. There’s little Trump can do to save the places that do not want to be saved, so for a long time we will be seeing polls that reflect our “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” mentality.

Posted by: Tom Servo

======

A full 1% of GDP was removed from the economy in the Q4 of 2025 because government spending was down relative to the rest.

Think about that. The shrinking of government actually shrank GDP.

Also, imports were more than expected.

Topline numbers almost never give good indications of the health of the economy, but the Q4 GDP numbers are fascinating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

255 239 He clapped appropriately.

He will also lose his primary in a couple of years by 20 points.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

Conor Lamb is going to destroy him.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 12:51 PM (3wOGw)

256 Did they manage to find and retrieve your urologist's class ring?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

No. No WWI French artillery shell, either.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:51 PM (77rzZ)

257 Thai soup. As hot / spicy as they will make it for you.

Or, Wor Wonton Soup.

Those are my go to soups when I am sick.
Posted by: garrett

I've discovered that you can make a decent sickday soup by sprinkling dried jalapeno bits and dried ginger into your ramen broth. For best results, put the meat and dried bits and other seasonings in the water and boil them together for 5-10 minutes before adding the noodles.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 12:51 PM (a+4eV)

258
The medals are hilarious.
Posted by: And I want pizza

The Norks are allowed to wear their own medals along with the medals their fathers wore. So they end up looking like a Mexican cholo upholsterer went crazy with the conchos on the back seat of a classic Chevy Impala.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 12:52 PM (y9nCu)

259 And what is your opinion on boobs?

Meh.

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at February 25, 2026 12:52 PM (9CJNc)

260
"My head does not resemble a tarantula"

Posted by: Rep. Al Green at February 25, 2026 12:52 PM (VWtfl)

261 Did someone say cheese pizza?
Posted by: Kimmy Jimmel got the Grape Soda

Figured you liked children.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (qilzz)

262 Dems State of the Swamp Circus: Thong-Wearing Giraffe Brags About ICE Busts ... GOP Ads Write Themselves

https://tinyurl.com/46hz6ksn

"pumpkin spice satan" LOL. New one to me.

Posted by: Nicless at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (nPp6w)

263 Thoughts on the “boomcession”: it’s not just bad press, the situation is much more complex than that. We now have a bifurcated economy; New York City and State, Portland, Seattle, all of California, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and most of New England are now headed into near depression level economies that they are not going to pull out of.

However, most of the states to the south of them and in the center of the country are headed into boom times the likes of which has not been seen in decades, as they absorb the jobs, industries, and wealth that is fleeing the dying areas. There’s little Trump can do to save the places that do not want to be saved, so for a long time we will be seeing polls that reflect our “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” mentality.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM

Just so.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (4NO2D)

264 Today's New York Post Cover-

https://tinyurl.com/3hf683pm

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (NpAcC)

265 255 239 He clapped appropriately.

He will also lose his primary in a couple of years by 20 points.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

Conor Lamb is going to destroy him.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 12:51 PM (3wOGw)

======

Polling has consistently showed him deeply underwater with Democrats in PA and favorably seen by Republicans in the state.

He's a one termer, just like Kristen Sinema.

It doesn't matter that he votes lockstep with the left. He says that Republicans aren't Nazis. That's punishable by death.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

266 Before I forget and move on - the answer to today's trivia question was Bolivia with 37 official languages with spanish being the predominant language.

Wow, that was a tough question. Three of us here said South Africa.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (77rzZ)

267 > The really entertaining part was when all the Dems simultaneously looked at their phones and started standing.
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I'm genuinely interested in who made the call/text to them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (jtM2q)

268 Trump asking Omar if she "kisses her brother with that mouth", during one of her screechings, might have earned him a fourth term.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (qBsSf)

269 Dried Ginger aka Joy Behar

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (tKWMU)

270 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (/M/4v)

271 Be nice if someone would ask Omar if making wine was halal or haram.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
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I think her argument would be no wine was actually made but it made a great way for her to be paid jizya from the infidels by money laundering.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 12:54 PM (E4rtv)

272 267 > The really entertaining part was when all the Dems simultaneously looked at their phones and started standing.
---------
I'm genuinely interested in who made the call/text to them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (jtM2q)

======

Some 75 year old white man who still works at the DNC punched a green haired black lesbian to get the phone away from her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

273 "The Somali Pirates who pillaged the US of billions of dollars..!!" *camera immediately pans on hijabed fugly Omar.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM (/M/4v)

That was gold.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 12:54 PM (dK+Kv)

274 Trump humiliated the Democrats last night when they refused to acknowledge even for a brief moment one of the most basic purposes of having a government, a collective protection of its citizenry.

Saying the Democrats looked like petulant fools last night is easy, saying they clearly demonstrated they despise the nation's ethos, traditions, and culture is even easier.

The receipt the Democrats got last night for their anti-American behavior is they showed they have abandoned the American citizenry, the nation itself, and now represent replacing it with something foreign populated with their true constituency: illegal alien invaders.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 25, 2026 12:54 PM (tqpXi)

275 Cannot disagree strongly enough. Completely different flavor profiles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I dunno, tomato soup seasoned like pizza sauce might actually be palatable.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 12:42 PM (a+4eV)

I can accept that, I can even accept Italian Sausage and mushrooms, or even pepperoni, but I draw the line on putting pineapple in any tomato soup.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 12:54 PM (rbvCR)

276 >>>Jake Tapper whined

No. No! No way!

[snark]

Posted by: m at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (+YA9H)

277 Today's New York Post Cover-

https://tinyurl.com/3hf683pm
Posted by: redridinghood

Wow. JD looks like he's having the time of his life. Even Johnson looks pleased.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (77rzZ)

278 If you want it to be a colonoscopy thread, all you have to do is say "colonoscopy".

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (aTgV0)

279 I can accept that, I can even accept Italian Sausage and mushrooms, or even pepperoni, but I draw the line on putting pineapple in any tomato soup.
Posted by: Kindltot

XD An entirely reasonable limitation.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (a+4eV)

280 Crazy is one of the softest terms.

They are worse than the Democrats on the eve of the Civil War.
At least those Democrats believed they were for America.
This crew says 'fuck the US'. And that is not metaphorically.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 12:46 PM (/lPRQ)

I agree and would add that we are in the most existentially dangerous period any country has faced, ever. The reason being that the enemy is inside the country and is likely your next-door neighbor. WWII was bad, hell the Civil War was the bloodiest in American history, but even in those cases you didn't have to worry that your fucking neighbor wanted you dead because you weren't his Party. The enemy was overseas or at least across the Mason-Dixon line. Not in this case. And this cannot stand. Not if we are to survive as a nation.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (YxMyw)

281 We now have a bifurcated economy"

Interesting observation. We had guests over the holidays from Northern climes, and to a person they were amazed at the relative "prosperity" in the region.
I may stumble thru some of those areas this summer and see for myself

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (cGjQu)

282 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...
Posted by: runner

I think I started the convo on Monday. So 3.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:56 PM (77rzZ)

283 Colonoscopy and pizza are related in a interconnectedness of the Universe kind of way.

Like Seinfeld.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:56 PM (aTgV0)

284 If you want it to be a colonoscopy thread, all you have to do is say "colonoscopy".
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (aTgV0)

Does it also work for vasectomies ?

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:57 PM (/M/4v)

285 IIRC, they have so many medals in large part because medals are passed down from ancestors. The high-ranking military class in NK is basically hereditary or at least very dependent on who your father and grandfather were. So each of those sus clowns in the pic are wearing medals originally awarded to their ancestors generations ago.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Mixed feelings when Dad gets blown from the gun for treason.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 12:57 PM (/lPRQ)

286 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy..."

It's a polypular topic

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:57 PM (cGjQu)

287 Did Fetterman attend?

Yep, wore a good suit, and was the lone Democrat Trump sought out to shake hands with during his entrance.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 12:57 PM (jBtak)

288 There is a vas deferens between Trump and the Democrats

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:57 PM (tKWMU)

289 Before I forget and move on - the answer to today's trivia question was Bolivia with 37 official languages with spanish being the predominant language.

You see! I was right!
Bolivia IS north of the equator!!

Posted by: AOC at February 25, 2026 12:57 PM (w9Wax)

290 Does it also work for vasectomies ?"

Prometheus.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:58 PM (cGjQu)

291 Bulg, did you get a vasectomy too ? They might have given you an volume discount !

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:58 PM (/M/4v)

292 I can't help thinking that a well-made Bloody Mary or two would go down easier.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:45 PM (bFu5X)

Garlic is anti-viral and will clear sinuses when raw.

The bonus is it will clear rooms as well if you want to be alone. If I have a sinus infection, the bane of my existence, I want to be alone and don't care what my husband says.

When our sons were small they had to endure a French garlic soup, an old remedy. They hate me to this day.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 12:58 PM (WONhk)

293 "Let's rollllll him over now ...Gladys, prep him..."

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:58 PM (/M/4v)

294 I noticed a lot of D women wearing tags that said 'Release the (blank) files'

What was the point of the 'blank' - why not just print Epstein?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM (QGaXH)

295 Thoughts on the “boomcession”: it’s not just bad press, the situation is much more complex than that. We now have a bifurcated economy; New York City and State, Portland, Seattle, all of California, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and most of New England are now headed into near depression level economies that they are not going to pull out of.

However, most of the states to the south of them and in the center of the country are headed into boom times the likes of which has not been seen in decades, as they absorb the jobs, industries, and wealth that is fleeing the dying areas. There’s little Trump can do to save the places that do not want to be saved, so for a long time we will be seeing polls that reflect our “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” mentality.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 12:49 PM

Just so.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (4NO2D)
_________

Umm ... NYC is booming by any economic metric. Incomes way up. Wealth way up. More millionaires created in the last 10 years than ever before. Richest city in the world, and only getting richer. The reason the taxes are so high is that people can afford them.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

296 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...
Posted by: runner

Geezh, what an asshole.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM (tqpXi)

297 Panamanians and Uruguayans can scarcely communicate though they both speak Spanish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM (QScRl)

298 Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)

49,480.72 +306.22 (+0.62%)
As of 12:59:02 PM EST. Market Open.

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM (4NO2D)

299 Umm ... NYC is booming by any economic metric. Incomes way up. Wealth way up. More millionaires created in the last 10 years than ever before. Richest city in the world, and only getting richer. The reason the taxes are so high is that people can afford them.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM

How's the upstate?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (4NO2D)

300 Up .62 bull market.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (QScRl)

301 They set themselves up for Trump's trap. They planned to not stand for anyone or anything. Because if they stood to acknowledge selected people or groups, or a few particular items, they'd look worse by their picking and choosing. Then they'd piss-off very specific groups. They decided it was best to sit for everything rather than stand for everything. They chose...poorly.
Posted by: Gref
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All or nothing (also black and white) logical fallacy.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (E4rtv)

302 I voted for Trump because he "fights".

I didn't realize he had some actual genius political instincts like Reagan.

Ace's comment about conditioning the Democrats so they would react exactly as Trump wanted certainly was one more tiny act of genius.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (HlyYF)

303 Before I forget and move on - the answer to today's trivia question was Bolivia with 37 official languages with spanish being the predominant language.

You see! I was right!
Bolivia IS north of the equator!!

Posted by: AOC at February 25, 2026 12:57 PM (w9Wax)

My follow-up trivia question would be: How many of those Bolivians are functionally illiterate in all 37 of those languages?
Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (YxMyw)

304 Heh. Just saw the hockey team entering, and Dems not standing. Also, a Dem wearing a mask like it's 2020.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (gm9Sb)

305 I surprised that Texas elected a wolfman to the legislature. This nut is a total embarrassment. Baying at the moon and licking your sack doesn't seem like the best way to garner votes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (gVUi7)

306 Colonoscopies >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Penguins

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (9CJNc)

307 Flat chest and great ass v flat butt and great chest?

Yeah, you know you are an ass man.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 01:01 PM (aTgV0)

308 305 I surprised that Texas elected a wolfman to the legislature. This nut is a total embarrassment. Baying at the moon and licking your sack doesn't seem like the best way to garner votes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (gVUi7)

=====

Gingles, man. Created the majority-minority district.

Fingers crossed, it goes away soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:01 PM (GBKbO)

309 If you want it to be a colonoscopy thread, all you have to do is say "colonoscopy".
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (aTgV0)

Does it also work for vasectomies ?
Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:57 PM (/M/4v)

Breast enhancements?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 01:01 PM (2WIwB)

310 296 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...
Posted by: runner

Geezh, what an asshole.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Did they bring back Ted Koppel and Nightline for that discussion? Day 2: Innards held hostage.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:01 PM (E4rtv)

311 The NASDAQ is a bit happier. Waiting on Nvidia's earnings call.

NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC)
23,134.8 +271.16 (+1.19%)

Buy on rumor, sell on news.

*touches nose*

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (4NO2D)

312 Umm ... NYC is booming by any economic metric. Incomes way up. Wealth way up. More millionaires created in the last 10 years than ever before. Richest city in the world, and only getting richer. The reason the taxes are so high is that people can afford them.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM

How's the upstate?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (4NO2D)
_______

Depends how far upstate. North of NYC (Westchester, etc) is booming. But NY is a huge state. There are parts of NY upstate that are basically 1950s farms. Not sure how they are doing.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

313 72 >> Hello! My cold has gotten worse.

Zinc, Quercetin, D3 and C. One 20 cent pill at Amazon. I take it every day, and haven’t really been sick in 4 years.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 25, 2026 12:26 PM (ewuvP)

If you are taking a lot of zinc over extended periods you should also consider Copper (not taken at the same time) and Magnesium. If you take D3 you should also work in K2.

Posted by: Inogame at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (53oGX)

314 BREAKING -- Reaction to Trump's State of the Union speech:

🟢 Positive: 63% (+27)
🔴 Negative: 36%

===

This is huge. That is why the Dems were standing up all of a sudden.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (/M/4v)

315 Interesting observation. We had guests over the holidays from Northern climes, and to a person they were amazed at the relative "prosperity" in the region.
I may stumble thru some of those areas this summer and see for myself
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:55 PM (cGjQu)

Oregon has failed to recover from the 2008 recession. There is little new housing outside of apartment complexes, almost no new businesses and the small businesses and restaurants are failing outside of the main population centers. It is pretty grim and any recovery gained by 2020 was destroyed by Kate Brown and Covid.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (rbvCR)

316 The high-ranking military class in NK is basically hereditary or at least very dependent on who your father and grandfather were.

This, too, is the story of John McCain.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (2ocoG)

317 The big question about Bulg's colonoscopy is this his 1st, 2nd or 3rd?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (XV/Pl)

318 NOW - Democrats refuse to stand for Anna Zarutska, the mother of Iryna Zarutska.

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Remember, the Donks are big supporters of Ukraine, unlike Trump who has sold out to Putin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (2ScKy)

319 Space Yoda says Trump's speech was -- get this --divisive.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 25, 2026 01:03 PM (Y1sOo)

320 305 I surprised that Texas elected a wolfman to the legislature. This nut is a total embarrassment. Baying at the moon and licking your sack doesn't seem like the best way to garner votes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM

Have you met any actual Democrat voters?

Those things are literally a badge of honor in their anti-normie culture.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 25, 2026 01:03 PM (HlyYF)

321 Gingles, man. Created the majority-minority district.

Fingers crossed, it goes away soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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From the normal assignment patterns of opinions, it appears that Alito or Gorsuch will be writing it.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:03 PM (E4rtv)

322 Garlic is anti-viral and will clear sinuses when raw.

The bonus is it will clear rooms as well if you want to be alone. If I have a sinus infection, the bane of my existence, I want to be alone and don't care what my husband says.

When our sons were small they had to endure a French garlic soup, an old remedy. They hate me to this day.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 12:58 PM

I'll meet you in the middle and go with a classic Greek raw garlic dip and some bread, washed down with a Bloody Mary.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 01:03 PM (bFu5X)

323 310 296 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...
Posted by: runner

Geezh, what an asshole.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

That's what his proctologist said!

Posted by: Assholes all day every day at February 25, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

324 NYC is a quarter of the state's population, right?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (4NO2D)

325 130 The schoolbook suppository.

The depth of this post !

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (LOZbR)

326 321 Gingles, man. Created the majority-minority district.

Fingers crossed, it goes away soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
From the normal assignment patterns of opinions, it appears that Alito or Gorsuch will be writing it.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:03 PM (E4rtv)

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"GORSUCH?! HE'S NEVER VOTED FOR US EVER! WE'RE DOOMED! DOOOOOMED!!!!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

327 The NASDAQ is a bit happier. Waiting on Nvidia's earnings call.

NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC)
23,134.8 +271.16 (+1.19%)

Buy on rumor, sell on news.

*touches nose*
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (4NO2D)
_________

Doesn't everyone already know what nVidia will report?

"The company is thriller to report monster, incredible, record-breaking sales ... to one or two customers ... who we are lending money to finance the sales ... maybe."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

328 Trump should have slipped in, "if you don't stand you support Epstein."

See who was paying attention,

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (cMdij)

329 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...
Posted by: runner

I own the media rights.

Posted by: Katie Couric at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (w9Wax)

330 Get some nicotine to your nicotine receptors.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (QScRl)

331 Buy on rumor, sell on news.

*touches nose*

==

insider traders, all of them !

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (/M/4v)

332 Trump's speech was perfect. it reflected a year of success, was eloquent (as only Trump can be eloquent) and lacked the more booming rhetoric that he had last year, coming off the campaign trail. I suspect he will pivot now to campaign mode as the stumps for the midterms. It will be awesome.
God protect him!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 01:04 PM (2WIwB)

333 88 Good Morning All!

Thank you D. E. Ace for a magnificent post.

Not quite to 100 comments but:

Today's Fox Biz Varney & Co. Trivia Q:

Which country has the most official languages?

Bolivia
Singapore
South Africa
Switzerland
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

RSA

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 01:05 PM (fYhK6)

334 ...
....This, too, is the story of John McCain.

Posted by: Ian S.

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at February 25, 2026 01:05 PM (dzZCL)

335 Golgi Bodies v Islets if Langerhans?

I'm a Langerhans guy.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 01:05 PM (aTgV0)

336 I'm genuinely interested in who made the call/text to them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM

"If you zoom waaaaaay in on the CNN feed here, you can see one of the phones is showing a call from 1-800-THE-JEWS. I knew it!" - Candace Owens, probably

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:05 PM (2ocoG)

337 I noticed a lot of D women wearing tags that said 'Release the (blank) files'

What was the point of the 'blank' - why not just print Epstein?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)

Release the redacted files.

Posted by: Tuna at February 25, 2026 01:05 PM (lJ0H4)

338 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...
Posted by: runner

*Katie Couric makes 'call me' gesture.*

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 25, 2026 01:05 PM (qBsSf)

339 Spits

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at February 25, 2026 01:05 PM (dzZCL)

340 NOW - Democrats refuse to stand for Anna Zarutska, the mother of Iryna Zarutska.

-
Remember, the Donks are big supporters of Ukraine, unlike Trump who has sold out to Putin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 01:02 PM (2ScKy)

They're big supporters of schizophrenic black criminals stabbing pretty young white women to death.

Posted by: Reparations of at February 25, 2026 01:05 PM (TbWk/)

341 Bulg's Bung is not a topic I wish to discuss any further. I'm headed over to Hot Air to find vibrant topics that don't give me cramps.

Posted by: Ram It Up Your Poop Shoot! at February 25, 2026 01:06 PM (oftw2)

342 The big question about Bulg's colonoscopy is this his 1st, 2nd or 3rd?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

2d. First was in 2021.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 01:06 PM (77rzZ)

343 I noticed a lot of D women wearing tags that said 'Release the (blank) files'

What was the point of the 'blank' - why not just print Epstein?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM (QGaXH)
________

Release the Kraken >>> Release the Files

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

344 The NASDAQ is a bit happier. Waiting on Nvidia's earnings call.

NVDA's earnings number is "yes".

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (2ocoG)

345 Umm ... NYC is booming by any economic metric. Incomes way up. Wealth way up. More millionaires created in the last 10 years than ever before. Richest city in the world, and only getting richer. The reason the taxes are so high is that people can afford them.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

SALT deduction helps.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (fYhK6)

346 I rode Nvidia this morning but warily. In at 7AM, in and out a few times, out right now, but never with a big commitment.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (4NO2D)

347 323 310 296 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...
Posted by: runner

Geezh, what an asshole.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

That's what his proctologist said!
Posted by: Assholes all day every day at February 25, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

***

Ahhh...Dr Knuckles!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (2WIwB)

348 BREAKING -- Reaction to Trump's State of the Union speech:

🟢 Positive: 63% (+27)
🔴 Negative: 36%

===

This is huge. That is why the Dems were standing up all of a sudden.
Posted by: runner

===

Big speaches usually have live reaction polls. Ordinary folks in a room with a dial =, moving it +/- second by second.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (/lPRQ)

349 They literally did the white cat meme!

https://tinyurl.com/2jh6m7ve
Posted by: pookysgirl
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Thanks. I saw that this morning on X but couldn't find it again.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)

350 The third colonoscopy is enema action!

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (aTgV0)

351 The dem women were all wearing white. Like a virgin.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (/M/4v)

352 322 garlic smell clearing a room.Back in the 80s, DMSO was a thing for aches and pains and I worked in a shop with a lot of old guys with aches and pains. DMSO, when rubbed in, gives off a garlic smell that not only fills the room but sticks to your body. All these guys were buying it from bootleg dealers and the shop smelled like a garlic field.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (gm9Sb)

353 What was the point of the 'blank' - why not just print Epstein?

The blank was intended to evoke the black redaction squares on the released documents. It's a Democrat article of faith that behind every one of those squares is "Donald Trump".

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (2ocoG)

354 All or nothing (also black and white) logical fallacy.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:00 PM (E4rtv)

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Something with which I've psychologically struggled most of my life.

I can't stand to do something half-assed, so I either give it my all or nothing at all (quite limiting) -- which often bleeds over to my views of, and thinking about, things.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (st3Ux)

355 When the earnings call happens, the stock will either go up or down.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (4NO2D)

356 Ear pieces instructed them to stand.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (QScRl)

357 Hey, you guys can always switch the topic to Sydney Sweeney's boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (77rzZ)

358 When the earnings call happens, the stock will either go up or down.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (4NO2D)

! Let me write that down!

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (/M/4v)

359
220

Did Fetterman attend? Anyone know what his stand/sit performance was?

Did McConnell, Tillis, and the GOP Abortion Twins stand a lot or a little?
Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2026 12:47 PM

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The Senator stood and clapped at all the right times.

-Senator McConnell's staff

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 01:09 PM (VWtfl)

360 NVIDIA is up 2%.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 01:09 PM (QScRl)

361 IIRC Suffragettes wore white.

Besides the costume stores were out of Handmaid Tale costumes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 01:10 PM (cMdij)

362 Umm ... NYC is booming by any economic metric. Incomes way up. Wealth way up. More millionaires created in the last 10 years than ever before. Richest city in the world, and only getting richer. The reason the taxes are so high is that people can afford them.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

SALT deduction helps.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (fYhK6)
______

Sure. Plus, if you are smart and/or can hire a sharp accountant or lawyer, you can find lots of loopholes and gimmes and abatements that reduce the overall tax liability.

Lotsa doomsaying over a possible increase in property taxes. Well, nobody pays the top-line taxes, because there are ways around it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

363
In Chicago they are just now figuring out that the 5 foot letters spelling out a Barry word-salad on his memorial flack tower will attract nesting birds that like to poop a lot.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 01:10 PM (Y8DZL)

364 When the earnings call happens, the stock will either go up or down.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (4NO2D)

The John Madden school of financial analysis.

Posted by: They can't win without more points! at February 25, 2026 01:10 PM (TbWk/)

365 Holy shit...McConnell's corpse is still alive?????

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 01:10 PM (aTgV0)

366 NVIDIA is up 2%.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2026 01:09 PM

It was higher earlier, last peak at 12:19EST at 197.63.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:11 PM (4NO2D)

367 I've had one sparkling colonoscopy and was told I don't need another. I also did an unwise thing and told my GI guy that he was a sadist for the prep, just before he did his thing. He laughed, as he thought I was funny. His Brit nurse was highly offended and got in my face.

It was not wise for me to do this as when my husband came to my bedside I was mooning everyone (I think the Brit nurse did this on purpose). He also said I was laughing loudly at others farhting and told me to cool it.

The horrific prep started off with our casanova son informing me he was wanting to go back to his wicked redheaded girlfriend.After a horrid break up of hers, and I could have run over her several times.

I tried to reason with him, told him that I did not want to see her til after the holidays and only after I had a chat with her (this scared her and we never chatted). The percolation set in and I told him I was done with this conversation and spent the rest of the day in the loo. My last 8oz I had my head on the kitchen island moaning (mooing) that I can't. My husband made me and I did.

Since I now have the ICD code of syncope I think that's the card I will play if it comes up again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 01:11 PM (WONhk)

368 359 Fetterman actually wore a suit instead of the hoody and shorts. Bought the suit at Big Goon's Wearhouse, on sale.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2026 01:11 PM (gm9Sb)

369 My company just had layoffs. Again.

Our Indian CTO was just bragging at an all-hands meeting that we're going on a hiring surge. In meetings the next day, we found out all the hiring surge will happen in India.

I wasn't laid off.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2026 01:11 PM (Yp6az)

370 In Chicago they are just now figuring out that the 5 foot letters spelling out a Barry word-salad on his memorial flack tower will attract nesting birds that like to poop a lot.

Obama is very familiar with poop and butts, so that tracks.

I just love that he displaced actual black people to build what looks like a brutalist outhouse.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:12 PM (2ocoG)

371 365 Holy shit...McConnell's corpse is still alive?????

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2026 01:10 PM (aTgV0)

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Reports are his chief of staff is holding up the SAVE act in committee because he hates Trump.

No, the reports literally do say it's Mitch's chief of staff.

Mitch's chief of staff is leaking to reporters that he's actually in charge of everything Mitch does now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

372 They took the bait.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2026 01:12 PM (+rKuc)

373 In Chicago they are just now figuring out that the 5 foot letters spelling out a Barry word-salad on his memorial flack tower will attract nesting birds that like to poop a lot.
Posted by: Auspex

A fitting adornment to that ugly ass building.

Posted by: Tuna at February 25, 2026 01:13 PM (lJ0H4)

374 NYC is booming by any economic metric"

So the empty storefronts are filled? Corner shops reopened?

No? Hmmm.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:13 PM (cGjQu)

375 I read that they eventually started standing, what did he say that they stood up for?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2026 01:13 PM (n5tGW)

376 "GORSUCH?! HE'S NEVER VOTED FOR US EVER! WE'RE DOOMED! DOOOOOMED!!!!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Consensus was Alito would get the Louisiana redistricting case and perhaps Gorsuch get the Alphabet People counseling case.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:13 PM (E4rtv)

377 376 Consensus was Alito would get the Louisiana redistricting case and perhaps Gorsuch get the Alphabet People counseling case.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:13 PM (E4rtv)

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Ah, consensus.

How the scientists do scientism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

378 You are the dancing frog
Dumb and creep, and very green
Dancing frog
Feel the beat from that View hog
Oh, yeah

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (2ScKy)

379 Meanwhile, the Democrat's sideshow was ... literally a sideshow with a guy* in a giraffe onesie dancing and singing on stage.

*a paid professional protestor bragging how he's been arrested in Portland and Minneapolis.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (HXT0k)

380 See? Darn it, it's just always one darn person that "hates" Trump who holds up the giant legislation Republicans all so *desperately* want to pass. They're fightin'!!! See? It's just their bad luck. Again. Donate today.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (tKWMU)

381 Mitch's chief of staff is leaking"

First read that as "Mitch's staff is leaking"

Arrrgh.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (cGjQu)

382 n Chicago they are just now figuring out that the 5 foot letters spelling out a Barry word-salad on his memorial flack tower will attract nesting birds that like to poop a lot.
Posted by: Auspex

Electrify the letters and collect the corpses in a net below it.
Serve as squab in the cafeteria.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (/lPRQ)

383 Consensus was Alito would get the Louisiana redistricting case and perhaps Gorsuch get the Alphabet People counseling case.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:13 PM

Bet: John Roberts will write the birthright citizenship opinion.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (4NO2D)

384 Our Indian CTO was just bragging at an all-hands meeting that we're going on a hiring surge. In meetings the next day, we found out all the hiring surge will happen in India.

Unfortunately this has been "the big thing" in tech for a while now

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (sKqQm)

385 IIRC Suffragettes wore white.

Besides the costume stores were out of Handmaid Tale costumes.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2026 01:10 PM (cMdij)

It made them really identifiable when they started to act up

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (rbvCR)

386 380 See? Darn it, it's just always one darn person that "hates" Trump who holds up the giant legislation Republicans all so *desperately* want to pass. They're fightin'!!! See? It's just their bad luck. Again. Donate today.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (tKWMU)

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Thune is making the right mouth sounds.

I dunno.

I still put it at 40-60 it actually gets a real floor vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

387 Where is the Biden Lieberry and when does it open?

Posted by: Dewey Decimal System at February 25, 2026 01:15 PM (oftw2)

388 357 Hey, you guys can always switch the topic to Sydney Sweeney's boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM
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Wait wut?

Posted by: Guys everywhere at February 25, 2026 01:15 PM (2Ez/1)

389 I can only imagine what kind of man would hook up with Ilhan Omar. Such a nasty, angry hostile creature should be fed to the hogs.

She should not be allowed to be on any committee that has influence on a federal level. She does not represent the rest of the United States.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 01:15 PM (gVUi7)

390 Daily Mail: "Rise of the lunch hour boob job: The risky quick-fix that boosts breasts by three cup sizes in just 15 minutes... and you won't believe the price"

TLDR: "But it is not cheap, costing about $3,000 to $5,000 compared to about $7,000 for breast implants."

https://archive.ph/ctkWq

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (tqpXi)

391 The Senator stood and clapped at all the right times.

-Senator McConnell's staff
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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They had puppet strings on Mitch and were controlling him from the gallery.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (E4rtv)

392 [snip]

All these guys were buying it from bootleg dealers and the shop smelled like a garlic field.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2026 01:07 PM (gm9Sb)

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

Wifey takes DMSO orally, and I can smell it on her just walking into the house.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (AgHWE)

393 NYC is booming by any economic metric"

So the empty storefronts are filled? Corner shops reopened?

No? Hmmm.
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 01:13 PM (cGjQu)
_____

Umm .. yea, they are. There is new construction and renovations all over the city. Residential, commercial, mixed-use, etc. Even the poor areas (south Bronx) have construction all over the place.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

394 *a paid professional protestor bragging how he's been arrested in Portland and Minneapolis.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 01:14 PM (HXT0k)

Oh, hay. Crossing state lines to commit crimes.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (rbvCR)

395 358 When the earnings call happens, the stock will either go up or down.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:08 PM (4NO2D)

! Let me write that down!
------------
It likely will do both.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (pZ64F)

396 387 Where is the Biden Lieberry and when does it open?
Posted by: Dewey Decimal System at February 25, 2026 01:15 PM
###
It's in Biden Falls, Delaware.
We're a big sponsor.

Posted by: Bell Helmets at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (2Ez/1)

397 When the Democrats get asked about staying seated, they should say that their seats were toilets, and they were in thd middle of a #2 when the President asked them to stand.

They couldn't give a crap about Americans because they were too busy crapping on them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (S/Y4j)

398 Watching some CTV to watch the Canadians crying over losing the gold medal in men’s hockey…I ran across some loser who was bitching about it and of course he had to say it hurt even more thins time thanks to Donald Trump. Fucking loser.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 01:17 PM (fYhK6)

399 This seems like a huge story, that I had not seen before, was it covered here ever?

https://x.com/BreannaMorello/status/2026465853970043229

Ever wondered how TSA was allowing illegal aliens to board commercial flights without IDs under the Biden regime?

Well I sued TSA to find out and learned that Biden’s DHS allowed CONVICTED sex offenders on to flights by showing their sex offender paperwork.

She won. They are paying her legal fees.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:17 PM (PYyV9)

400 It likely will do both.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM

Be on the right side and be fast.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:17 PM (4NO2D)

401 If last night was tedious, which adjective will adequately describe the crushingly lame, charisma-free crap we will get from the next prez (either party)? Oh well.

The Dems' imitation of a Stalin party congress scene is utterly unsurprising and still shocking. Manchin blazed the trail years back when he glanced at Schumer and immediately stopped applauding and sat down when Trump said something (I think about energy) that was of course yuuuge and great for West Virginia. It's worth finding out, if just for yukks, exactly how it happened (the signal to reverse course and stand for obvious standing moments).

Leaving all the other degradation and vile alien behavior from the Dems, this pathetic descent into a Stalinist lickspittle display is a very bad sign for the society.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 25, 2026 01:17 PM (U/Byj)

402 Daily Mail: "Rise of the lunch hour boob job: The risky quick-fix that boosts breasts by three cup sizes in just 15 minutes... and you won't believe the price"

TLDR: "But it is not cheap, costing about $3,000 to $5,000 compared to about $7,000 for breast implants."

https://archive.ph/ctkWq
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 25, 2026 01:16 PM (tqpXi)
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You gotta be nuts to do something like this. And a top-quality boob job (implants) is $15k now, maybe more.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

403 What's that line from Margin Call? Be smart, cheat, or be first.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:18 PM (4NO2D)

404 I just love that he displaced actual black people to build what looks like a brutalist outhouse.
Posted by: Ian S.

By chance did you misspell "gay bathhouse?"

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 25, 2026 01:18 PM (tqpXi)

405 Daily Mail: "Rise of the lunch hour boob job: The risky quick-fix that boosts breasts by three cup sizes in just 15 minutes... and you won't believe the price"

Does it involve massages? Because I don't think that works. Worth a try, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:18 PM (PYyV9)

406 TLDR: "But it is not cheap, costing about $3,000 to $5,000 compared to about $7,000 for breast implants."

+++++

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at February 25, 2026 01:19 PM (2Ez/1)

407 387 Where is the Biden Lieberry and when does it open?
Posted by: Dewey Decimal System

It's an electric bookmobile that cruises around Delaware elementary schools.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 01:19 PM (Y8DZL)

408 379 Meanwhile, the Democrat's sideshow was ... literally a sideshow with a guy* in a giraffe onesie dancing and singing on stage.

*a paid professional protestor bragging how he's been arrested in Portland and Minneapolis.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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/s
EM Baris, People Republic Pollster
"ZOMG, the Dems are making a play for the critical FURRY voting bloc. GOP again caught on its hind feet. We are all doomed, DOOMED, I tell you that Trump and the GOP are not FURRY friendly. Polls show Furry bloc has moved from 99.6 percent Democrat to 99.9."

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:19 PM (E4rtv)

409 Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could drive traffic by opening a gun range in the basement.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 25, 2026 01:19 PM (rJ48h)

410 I'll meet you in the middle and go with a classic Greek raw garlic dip and some bread, washed down with a Bloody Mary.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 01:03 PM (bFu5X)

Done! I do admit to adding vodka once I was better to my V8. Then my sinuses not only cleared but I felt better. Booze is dehydrating, so I don't recommend for a sinus clog. Plus you should not take with analgesics or OTC meds.
Rx by Dr. ChristyB

In college I thought Nyquil was the best cure. Then as I got older OTC meds made me wonky and I now endure on Advil and my V8 mix with chicken soup and lots of hot drinks (hot drinks kill viruses in the back of your throat...a dot Indian doc told me this).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 25, 2026 01:19 PM (WONhk)

411 Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could drive traffic by opening a gun range in the basement.

==

there might be an unofficial one around the building

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (/M/4v)

412 It's in Biden Falls, Delaware.
We're a big sponsor.
Posted by: Bell Helmets

Cool. I've been on that bike path many times. It's quite nice there. But, too many NY/NJ refugees.

Posted by: Pedal Pusher at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (oftw2)

413 Rise of the lunch hour boob job
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Boy did I ever read that wrong

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (tKWMU)

414 I'm doing alright, having mostly killed my cold. Don't give me your viruses, Ace.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (Gv43W)

415
You gotta be nuts to do something like this. And a top-quality boob job (implants) is $15k now, maybe more.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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I thought invading Venezuela would reopen the export market there on cheap boob jobs to Americanos.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (E4rtv)

416 In every debate, every Republican is going to ask:

Do you believe it's the duty of the US government to protect American citizens over illegals?

Watching the entire Hollywood and Madison Avenue machines smoke and sputter trying to help the Democrats craft a "just right" response is going to be just as fun to watch.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (HXT0k)

417 I didnt watch either the state of the union or the Democrat side show, but I saw pics from the latter. One part involved a guy in a Giraffe onesie prancing around stage. The Dems are just hopelessly lost. I don't know if its all the drugs, or because they have the maturity of a 13 year old, or what but they are damaged people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (PYyV9)

418 @399 - also on the tweet
"Predators were allowed into the country if they promised to take sexual deviancy counseling and register as a sex offender."

I assume/hope ICE has the records of these people and are including them in the roundups.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (Dv3i1)

419 I ask all those TX HD 88 residents reading this now to go vote for John Browning for Rep and ditch the RINO Ken King. I saw Mr. Browning’s campaign event last night and came away much impressed.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 01:21 PM (fYhK6)

420 266 Before I forget and move on - the answer to today's trivia question was Bolivia with 37 official languages with spanish being the predominant language.

Wow, that was a tough question. Three of us here said South Africa.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (77rzZ)

So did a couple of the co-hosts - but Lauren, as usual, got it right. NEVER play trivial pursuit if she's around!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 01:21 PM (QGaXH)

421 "Sparkling colonoscopy" sounds like the worst drink at a gay bar.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

422 409 Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could drive traffic by opening a gun range in the basement.

The structure itself would make a good backstop

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 25, 2026 01:21 PM (LOZbR)

423 Well the GOP didn't waste time in trying to squander anything beneficial from the Trumpenfuhrer's amazing speech.

Thune said he'll get SAVE to the floor. To do the ridiculous kabuki of filing for cloture, failing, and that's that. Oh - he and the many dim people who can't keep their mouths shut about "politics" say that THIS WILL PUT THE DEMS ON RECORD ON THE 15% SIDE OF AN 85/15 ISSUE!! Right.

Meanwhile, as usual, few will know or even notice it all, so there will zero political fallout. And elections in many US states will continue to be on the level of Zimbabwe or Venezuela under Chavez. Nice.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 25, 2026 01:21 PM (U/Byj)

424 It's an electric bookmobile that cruises around Delaware elementary schools.
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Does it advertise free showers?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 01:21 PM (pZ64F)

425 When the Democrats get asked about staying seated,

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Trump put Gorilla Glue on their chairs! You know, to honor Al Green.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 25, 2026 01:21 PM (2ScKy)

426 416 In every debate, every Republican is going to ask:

Do you believe it's the duty of the US government to protect American citizens over illegals?

Watching the entire Hollywood and Madison Avenue machines smoke and sputter trying to help the Democrats craft a "just right" response is going to be just as fun to watch.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (HXT0k)

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Nah.

They'll focus group a response like, "Of course it is, but that can't mean we're blind to the needs and rights of our neighbors here without documents."

They were just caught off guard last night.

If I could come up with something barely passable in a couple of seconds, their consultants can come up with something as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

427 270 this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...
Posted by: runner at February 25, 2026 12:53 PM (/M/4v)

I'm a few years overdue for my second one myself so we're not out of the woods yet....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 01:22 PM (QGaXH)

428 Ah, consensus.

How the scientists do scientism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Had to adopt something else after the Magic 8 Ball stopped working.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)

429 You gotta be nuts to do something like this. And a top-quality boob job (implants) is $15k now, maybe more.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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I thought invading Venezuela would reopen the export market there on cheap boob jobs to Americanos.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:20 PM (E4rtv)
__________

Brazil, my friend. Brazil. But they ain't cheap.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

430 I assume/hope ICE has the records of these people and are including them in the roundups.

They do seem to be targeting sex offenders in particular in these raids, every single one of the big news story raids in Minnesota involved one. That woman who tried to run over an ICE guy? The illegal was a child rapist. That's who she died to protect.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (PYyV9)

431 The GOP is being handed long term control of the country by a hopelessly deranged Democrat party.

Will they take it?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (jtM2q)

432
363
In Chicago they are just now figuring out that the 5 foot letters spelling out a Barry word-salad on his memorial flack tower will attract nesting birds that like to poop a lot.
Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 01:10 PM

-----

The substandard DEI contractor concrete is already cracking and flaking. If they want the words gone, all they have do is wait.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM (azNOR)

433 what is going on around here?

I've never seen such a bunch of black pillers

after last night you know what?

I'm sick of it. rhomboid where have you been? you just pop up here eeyoring like crazy?

last night was masterful. it was amazing. it changed minds.

PDJT was unleashed and he WENT FOR IT

I'm still floating and thinking about everything

but I guess, too slow, not perfect blah blah doesn't matter we're all gonna die

dear God people

sorry I just ... I can't anymore, I'm not patient like The James Madison

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (j+aD2)

434 The GOP is being handed long term control of the country by a hopelessly deranged Democrat party.

Will they take it?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 01:23 PM

The GOP reacts to the idea of work like Maynard Krebs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (4NO2D)

435 417 I didnt watch either the state of the union or the Democrat side show, but I saw pics from the latter. One part involved a guy in a Giraffe onesie prancing around stage. The Dems are just hopelessly lost. I don't know if its all the drugs, or because they have the maturity of a 13 year old, or what but they are damaged people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

You missed the inflatable frogs at one point. HR Puffenstuff crap. With a real life Democrat playing WitchyPoo.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (E4rtv)

436 I can accept that, I can even accept Italian Sausage and mushrooms, or even pepperoni, but I draw the line on putting pineapple in any tomato soup.
Posted by: Kindltot

Try my pineapple-tomato jello surprise!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (ZVgZ4)

437 nood frogs

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (Rw0Zp)

438 The GOP is being handed long term control of the country by a hopelessly deranged Democrat party.

I am completely confident that the Republicans will find a way to screw this up and lose.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (PYyV9)

439 *this is day 2 we are forced to discuss Bulg's colonoscopy...*

Glad they were able to get to the bottom of things.

Posted by: Oh, no... at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (2Ez/1)

440 Snow?? 51 in central Montana. So far this winter I have played golf at least 15 times since early December. Mountains are a bit behind snowpack but March is usually wet.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 25, 2026 01:25 PM (iNp3L)

441 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

They may very well borrow "neighbors without documents"

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (tKWMU)

442 They call DJT Hitler- - No problem.
He calls them crazy - - The melt down.

Posted by: Pronoun Denier at February 25, 2026 01:26 PM (PoaF2)

443 Thune said he'll get SAVE to the floor. To do the ridiculous kabuki of filing for cloture, failing, and that's that.
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La-dee-freeking-dah.

That should have happened as soon as the House sent it up, whipping taking place beforehand. Then when cloture failed, pick the date where you need a couple weeks to get through the Dem talkfest filibuster, and then you're ready to vote with 50 Senate supporters plus Vance. I could run the Senate better than boneless Thune.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (Dv3i1)

444 Colonoscopy. If you are on blood thinners, there is an alternative to the usual ramming a camera and cutting instrument up there. It involves a plug, lots of air and barium, and they watch things on the screen. And no happy gas. This was invented by the Gestapo (Klaus Barbie) in Lyons France to get info and confessions and it worked. Don't do it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2026 01:27 PM (gm9Sb)

445 >>>Trump put Gorilla Glue on their chairs! You know, to honor Al Green.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

>The ratings on the Gorilla Channel during the SOTU speech were thru the roof!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (gVUi7)

446 Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 25, 2026 01:24 PM (j+aD2)

Don't let the bastards get you down. I thought this place was pretty chipper overall

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (tKWMU)

447 57 44 Boomcession makes as much sense as footpuck or soupwich"

How about a manwich?
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:21 PM (cGjQu)

And we're back to milking minotaurs.

*throws up hands*

I see how you got there but wasn't manwich some kind of competitor to a Sloppy Joe? As a kid in the 70's and 80's, i have a vague recollection of 'but a manwich makes a meal.'

Posted by: Minotaur Milking Farm Ambassodor at February 25, 2026 01:28 PM (7gpcF)

448 They may very well borrow "neighbors without documents"
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Who are the killers in your neighborhood, in your neigbhorhood, in your neigh - bor - hood...

Posted by: Zombie Mister Rogers at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (Dv3i1)

449 TLDR: "But it is not cheap, costing about $3,000 to $5,000 compared to about $7,000 for breast implants."

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Is that per pair, or a Buy one, get one price?

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (IifOV)

450 dear God people

sorry I just ... I can't anymore, I'm not patient like The James Madison
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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Adopt the Princess Bride mental hack---

"Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."

Speech was effective at moving the needle as seen above, a key Scotus case is coming up regarding redistricting and the VRA with a fair possibility of eliminating majority minority districts as contrary to the 14th Amendment, economic indicators are moving the right way, and most polling regarding control of Congress, even with the thumb on the scale for Dems is about a +1 or +2 for Democrats.

So anyone can take the half empty, half full at any one time as is normal throughout history in the world.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (E4rtv)

451 Ha! from the interwebz:

Manwich is a popular,, quick-prep canned sauce introduced in 1969 for making homemade sloppy joes by adding it to browned ground beef. Marketing the slogan "A sandwich is a sandwich, but a Manwich is a meal," the brand offers Original, Bold, and Thick & Chunky flavors, typically served on hamburger buns.

Posted by: Minotaur Milking Farm Ambassodor at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (7gpcF)

452 "Sparkling colonoscopy" sounds like the worst drink at a gay bar.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

The current procedure is to inflate the colon, during the procedure, with CO2. This is both a neutral gas; besides being cheap, the extra traces are absorbed through the intestinal wall and reduces gas pains and bloating after the procedure. CO2 is readily thrown off the blood via respiration, and just needs O2 nasal feed to speed the process of driving the CO2 off

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (rbvCR)

453 SOTU was too short.
How about a sequel.

Posted by: Pronoun Denier at February 25, 2026 01:29 PM (PoaF2)

454 Of course, the techs could use Helium to inflate the colon during the procedure, which would make the patient fart in the Soprano range, but as humorous as that would be . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2026 01:30 PM (rbvCR)

455 That should have happened as soon as the House sent it up, whipping taking place beforehand. Then when cloture failed, pick the date where you need a couple weeks to get through the Dem talkfest filibuster, and then you're ready to vote with 50 Senate supporters plus Vance. I could run the Senate better than boneless Thune.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Dunno, I think the first priority is to force through a DHS spending bill==Coasties, FEMA, law enforcement, etc. are not getting paid right now.

If necessary, Thune can use a reconciliation vehicle but that requires all sorts of prep to do it.

FWIW, a talking filibuster requires no other business be conducted including nominations, and there are at least three key Court of Appeals vacancies that need to be filled. Estimates are that a talking filibuster, if the Dems treat it as existential, would take about 4-6 weeks of the Senate being in session and tied up debating the bill.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)

456 sorry I just ... I can't anymore, I'm not patient like The James Madison

He gets his patience from Prometheus. Or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2026 01:33 PM (2ocoG)

457 454 Of course, the techs could use Helium to inflate the colon during the procedure, which would make the patient fart in the Soprano range, but as humorous as that would be . . .
Posted by: Kindltot

Pure oxygen and a Zippo lighter might be funnier.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 01:36 PM (Y8DZL)

458 Suddenly, I feel like we're up shit creek without a paddle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 25, 2026 01:37 PM (gVUi7)

459 While Trump was addressing the nation, the Democrats were doing THIS

https://tinyurl.com/6usw3ejs

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2026 01:42 PM (ZxPkt)

460 if the Dems treat it as existential, would take about 4-6 weeks of the Senate being in session and tied up debating the bill.
Posted by: whig
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Possible. But if we assume that their side is not much better than ours in doing work, 4-6 weeks might end up only being half of that, existential or not.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (Dv3i1)

461 66 >>Al Green making a habit of being tossed out is golden, also

His sign...kind of a self-own.
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:24 PM (1Udfd)

With that face... Holding that sign... Oof. That's like yelling, "I are not retarded!" Or lithping, "I am tho not gay." If you have to tell people, that's bad enough, let alone if the mode, medium, or messenger contradicts the message.

I can't tell if he's an idiot or a savant for the juxtaposition.

Posted by: SciVo at February 25, 2026 01:44 PM (Sy6m/)

462 I think most everyone would love to go back to not calling the other party crazy in the SOTU. But that is contingent on the Democrats not being crazy. So. Your move, assholes.

Posted by: tintex at February 25, 2026 01:51 PM (vlq8m)

463 Trump’s numbers are not soft because the base doesn’t know the economy is okay. They’re soft because none of the leftist criminals who belong in jail, are. All we get is new revelations from Bondi and Patel which lead to no arrests. So the base is like, if we aren’t going to have justice, what’s the point.
Basically the sequence goes: excitement, apathy, taking matters into our own hands. What you’re seeing the the second, with quiet reservation awaiting the third.

Posted by: Rdubs at February 25, 2026 08:37 PM (/5mQm)

Wednesday Morning Rant

Government Efficiency

This is not going to be a SOTU post. I managed to stay awake for it - and it was very good and I recommend you watch it if you missed it (or at least watch the conclusion) - but it's too late to write anything about it that will be worth reading.

While "government efficiency" is usually viewed as an oxymoron and said with one's tongue firmly planted in his cheek, it does exist in some cases. Where the thing in question is something that the citizens of the country might want or - even worse - need, the wheels of government tend to grind very, very slowly. These things are also how most people interact with the government and so it is the most common perception. There is, however, an opposite scenario.

When the thing is for the government's own benefit, it can move quite quickly. When the thing is for the government's own benefit and bad for the citizens, it can move in the blink of an eye. It's all about motivation. For a prime example of this, we can cast our eyes north and look at Canada, and specifically at Canadian medicine. Medicine, after all, is something people tend to want and need - and in Canada, it's mostly state-owned.

It is no secret that "Canadian medicine" and "waiting" have gone hand-in-hand for a long time. Late last year, the Fraser Institute published a study about medical wait times in Canada. The findings can be summarized in one word: bad. They break it out by procedure category and in two pieces: the amount of time between referral by a GP to a specialist, and the time between seeing a specialist and beginning treatment. I won't go over it exhaustively, but will pick a few examples.

At the low end of the waiting list is oncology. "Radiation Oncology" has a 1.8-week median wait time from referral to specialist, and a 2.4-week wait time between specialist visit and starting treatment for a 4.2 week median total. "Medical oncology" comes in similarly, at 2.2 and 2.5 weeks, for a total of 4.7 weeks. Canada has been working on cancer, and it shows.

Outside of cancer treatment, which is an outlier, cardiovascular surgery is the next-lowest. It has a referral-to-specialist median wait time of 8.8 weeks and median specialist-to-treatment time of 1.9 weeks - if it is considered "urgent." If it is considered "elective," the latter median wait time is 10.8 weeks. So either 10.7 or 19.6 weeks total. Not great. I hope your ticker isn't too bad. But it could be worse. You could need gynecology.

Gynecology has a median referral waiting time of 25 weeks, and a median wait time of 15.6 weeks after than for treatment to begin. 40.6 weeks. Nearly 80% of a year spent waiting for many gynecological procedures. If you're looking for a "War on Women," don't bother looking on this side of the border. Just cast your eyes El Norte.

But that's only one side of the story. There are parts of Canadian medicine that are astonishingly fast and efficient. You might wait months for gynecology and nearly a full year for neurosurgery, but you won't have to wait for everything. You will not, for example, have to wait to die. Canadian medicine is nice and quick on that front. Yes, of course this is about MAID - "Medical Assistance in Dying." It's Canada's state-sponsored Kevorkian program.

According to the recent report from Ontario, MAID has remarkable efficiency since the mandatory 10-day cooling-off period between MAID request and execution (literally) was repealed in 2021. Per the report, 2024 saw major speedups. Of 4,528 Ontario MAID requests in that year, 3,749 of them - 82.8% - were completed within 90 days. That's pretty good as compared to most specialty medical procedures in Canada, but that masks the really high-speed bit.

Of the 3,749 MAID executions, 154 of them (4.1% of completed requests; 3.4% of total requests) occurred on the day after the request. Snappy indeed, but it could still be faster. 65 of those deaths (1.7% of completed requests; 1.4% of total requests) occurred on the same day. Now that is speedy service!

If you need a knee replacement, your combined median wait time in Ontario is about 34 weeks, or 238 days. If you're depressed over your chronic joint pain, MAID can get you taken care of in about a third of that time. If you're really lucky, they'll put your toe tag on you within a week.

See? Efficiency. All it takes is the proper motivation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 THE STATE OF THE UNION IS STRONG. THE STATE OF THE BLADE IS ... FIRST

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:01 AM (iFTx/)

2 Hiya!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:01 AM (tj6OY)

3 Toe tags are gay.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 11:01 AM (Kt19C)

4 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 11:02 AM (bFu5X)

5 >>Of the 3,749 MAID executions, 154 of them (4.1% of completed requests; 3.4% of total requests) occurred on the day after the request. Snappy indeed, but it could still be faster. 65 of those deaths (1.7% of completed requests; 1.4% of total requests) occurred on the same day. Now that is speedy service!

We are living in a dystopian novel.
Several of them concurrently.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:02 AM (tj6OY)

6 Government efficiency.

*makes note to make a oxymoron joke*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:02 AM (bss/y)

7 Gynecology has a median referral waiting time of 25 weeks, and a median wait time of 15.6 weeks after than for treatment to begin. 40.6 weeks. Nearly 80% of a year spent waiting for many gynecological procedures. If you're looking for a "War on Women," don't bother looking on this side of the border. Just cast your eyes El Norte.

What about obstetrics? If the wait is 41 weeks, it's kind of a self-resolving problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

8 I blame the start of all this assisted suicide crap on that asshoe American Jack Kevorkian in the 80s.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

9 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 25, 2026 11:05 AM

Gayer than a toe tag.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 11:06 AM (bFu5X)

10 It is no secret that "Canadian medicine" and "waiting" have gone hand-in-hand for a long time. Late last year, the Fraser Institute published a study about medical wait times in Canada.

There is a Medicare youtuber I watch who, when explaining the costs of healthcare, said that it all boils down to access, technology, wait times, and cost. You can optimize for three. The US prioritizes 1 - 3. Other countries prioritize cost at the... cost... of one of the other areas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

11 I see BroFo yelled at Trump that he was a murderer at the SOTU

Didn't the FNM have a shit fit a few years ago when some congressman called Obama a liar?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

12 "Best I can do for you is MAID."

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:06 AM (3wOGw)

13 >>I blame the start of all this assisted suicide crap on that asshoe American Jack Kevorkian in the 80s.

Add to it: Groningen Protocol and Liverpool Care Pathway. I'm sure there have been others, maybe never properly named. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (tj6OY)

14 So, ass, did you stand for the lady who had her daughter brutally murdered? Or did you too stay seated until the call went out to look like a fucking human being with a fucking human feeling inside?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)

15 "Best I can do for you is MAID."
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:06 AM

Wait until Canada gets Mega MAID. That'll really suck. Or blow.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (bFu5X)

16 You know who else's government was efficient.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (Cqx++)

17 The Dems are in the wilderness

I hope the wolves eat them

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (61TgR)

18 How can they even convene the "Death Panel" in 24 hours?
Bureaucrats never move that quickly.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (MNCvZ)

19 Add to it: Groningen Protocol and Liverpool Care Pathway. I'm sure there have been others, maybe never properly named. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (tj6OY)

Aktion T4.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (8zz6B)

20 Where did this monkey get money to play poker? Did a democrat rent him?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 25, 2026 11:08 AM (JRP2U)

21 When a man needs a MAID.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 11:08 AM (Cqx++)

22 >>Aktion T4.

Ah yes, forgot that one.
And the original Planned Parenthood under Margaret Sanger's management.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:09 AM (tj6OY)

23 Add to it: Groningen Protocol and Liverpool Care Pathway. I'm sure there have been others, maybe never properly named. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM

Sounds better in the original German.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 11:09 AM (bFu5X)

24 Sorry, joe, but the change in the dems when they all started standing actually makes the sitting before that much worse. The only reason they were sitting was because they believed being heartless fucks would benefit them. Then they only stood because the polling and their robed masters told them to. This from the group of fucking asshats who believe they are all brilliant individual flowers with their own mindthoughts that no one has ever had!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:09 AM (bss/y)

25 When government controls healthcare people that need it are an expense taking money away from the things they care about like grifting and bribing immigrants to vote for them.

So they'll minimize those costs as much as they can. And frankly since the Canuckistanis and Euroniks apparently will stand by and take any outrage this will continue until all they get are pain pills and MAID

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

26 11 I see BroFo yelled at Trump that he was a murderer at the SOTU

Didn't the FNM have a shit fit a few years ago when some congressman called Obama a liar?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

Which is why FNM needs to be viewed with the same level of contempt as MSNBC, CNN and their related ilk.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 25, 2026 11:09 AM (N39Ws)

27 Add to it: Groningen Protocol and Liverpool Care Pathway. I'm sure there have been others, maybe never properly named. . .
Posted by: Lizzy

Thanks. I didn't know about those. I just looked them up.

They were way after Kevorkian. Maybe Kevorkian is too far in the past to have been an instigator of the current madness. But his case is the first time I remember the issue coming up.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

28 Liverpool Care Pathway
-----------
Is this where you get a new liver? David Crosby wants to know.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (pZ64F)

29 18 How can they even convene the "Death Panel" in 24 hours?
Bureaucrats never move that quickly.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (MNCvZ)

Because killing people (in dishonorable ways) is the one thing that actually excites and motivates them.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (3wOGw)

30 >>Gynecology has a median referral waiting time of 25 weeks

15 more weeks and they can just refer them to pediatrics!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (AoT6J)

31 20 Where did this monkey get money to play poker? Did a democrat rent him?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 25, 2026 11:08 AM (JRP2U)

Wait, are you saying the dems rented him for... butt stuff?

I can believe it. Ass, care to comment?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (bss/y)

32 French Maids > Maid cafes > Milk Maids >>>> MAID

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (sKqQm)

33 Bulg, commies are always good at suppressing demand and not so good at increasing supply.

MAID does that for all resources.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (xvV+O)

34 Fake news about MAID. The waiting times just increased due to a spike in demand after Canada lost to USA in Olympic hockey.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

35 Sorry, joe, but the change in the dems when they all started standing actually makes the sitting before that much worse. The only reason they were sitting was because they believed being heartless fucks would benefit them. Then they only stood because the polling and their robed masters told them to. This from the group of fucking asshats who believe they are all brilliant individual flowers with their own mindthoughts that no one has ever had!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:09 AM (bss/y)
++++
When did I say otherwise?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (3OtAS)

36 When a man needs a MAID.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Everybody ought to have a MAID.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

37 Because killing people (in dishonorable ways) is the one thing that actually excites and motivates them.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (3wOGw)

There is a lot to this. Having the power of life and death. The ability to destroy their perceived enemies or just anyone really.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:11 AM (bss/y)

38 How can they even convene the "Death Panel" in 24 hours?
Bureaucrats never move that quickly.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (MNCvZ)

We only have one stamp to use. We can move pretty quick. -- Death Panel Bureaucrat

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 11:11 AM (ExV1e)

39 I'm not dead. Just busy! Moving. Getting hitched. Hope yall are well.

Banger of a SOTU last night. Classic ad material. Stand up if you support Americans!

Crickets...

Dems love kicking their own asses.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2026 11:11 AM (mEFgz)

40 French Maids > Maid cafes > Milk Maids > Milking Minotaurs >>>> MAID
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:10 AM (sKqQm)
_________

FIFY

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

41 Canadian Healthcare is not bad if you learn how to use it. For example, if you think you'll need an ambulance next month, best to call in now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (FXNzP)

42 Dems love kicking their own asses.
____

Whereas we prefer to step on our own dicks.

Posted by: Congressional Republicans at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (Dv3i1)

43 Thx Joe.
Saw some Canadian woman saying the people taking advantage of MAID were overwhelming white . So all the Canadian white leftists end themselves and what you have is conservatives, Muslims and Asians in BC. We'll take the prairie provinces , Yukon and NE territories,BC can go at it alone and the muzzies get Ontario and Quebec. The Atlantic provinces can join England

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (/PQmQ)

44 41 Canadian Healthcare is not bad if you learn how to use it. For example, if you think you'll need an ambulance next month, best to call in now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (FXNzP)

Where do rich Canadians go when they need immediate healthcare?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (mEFgz)

45 The moist amusing part of the Milking Minotaurs fad is that it is a bunch of urban AWFLs.

I suspect farm hands that might actually have to attend to a bull/inseminate a cow are not quite into the fantasy...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (sKqQm)

46 Five percent of the deaths in Canada are now "assisted suicides".

Just imagine what that number will be in ten years.

Posted by: Jeb the LOSER! LOSER! at February 25, 2026 11:13 AM (n1OCj)

47 45 The moist amusing part of the Milking Minotaurs fad is that it is a bunch of urban AWFLs.

I suspect farm hands that might actually have to attend to a bull/inseminate a cow are not quite into the fantasy...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (sKqQm)

Freudian slip?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2026 11:13 AM (mEFgz)

48 37 There is a lot to this. Having the power of life and death. The ability to destroy their perceived enemies or just anyone really.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:11 AM (bss/y)

"If I decide who lives and who dies, and when they die, then I have usurped the power of G-d, proving G-d doesn't exist."

This is so, so, so much of it.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:13 AM (3wOGw)

49 29 18 How can they even convene the "Death Panel" in 24 hours?
Bureaucrats never move that quickly.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 25, 2026 11:07 AM (MNCvZ)

Because killing people (in dishonorable ways) is the one thing that actually excites and motivates them.
Posted by: XTC

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

Don't overthink it - I bet dollars to donuts there is a cash incentive program. It would make sense, since The State sees these people as an expense. Killing people is what they call "increasing efficiency."

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 11:14 AM (AoT6J)

50 I remember news stories about Canadian women going to Great Falls, MT for care with their pregnancies due the long wait period in Canada.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 25, 2026 11:14 AM (ggkmJ)

51 To government healthcare is a cost center.

To private companies healthcare is a profit center.

You do the motivation and accounting.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (xvV+O)

52 Canada is run by Satanists.

Getting people to lose all hope and kill themselves, then calling that compassion and healthcare.

Demons.

Saw a post the other day about a depressed 22 yo whose appointment to die was right around the corner. What a fucked up world.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (mEFgz)

53 Speaking of gubmint efficiency, has Iran blow'd up yet?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)

54 Everybody ought to have a MAID.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:11 AM

Everybody ought to have a working girl.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (bFu5X)

55 Knew a guy, friend since high school; his liver gave out. Alcohol played a role, but he was functional, and made a good living. The docs (in B.C.) would not put him on the transplant wait list, so he elected MAID instead, when his liver became so bad he could not carry on. I'd have told him, "shit, Andrew, sell your house, and your RV, and fly to India or China, and get a transplant for cash. The Uighur whose liver get ain't going to care; the PRC would have killed him anyway."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (8zz6B)

56 11
‘ Didn't the FNM have a shit fit a few years ago when some congressman called Obama a liar?’

Yes they did. And as the congressman called Obola a liar for claiming that Obolacare would not go to illegal aliens, I’d say the FNM owe him an apology.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (jbnUc)

57 Get the government out of health care completely and entirely. Even in this country, conservatives and libertarians (so called) are always asserting the government should do this or that. People are looking for politicians to solve it. NO! Just GTFO.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (+48wn)

58 I would imagine the negative imagery of the Democrats snubbing everything last night will never see the light of day on any MSM site.

It simply didn't happen. Says every MSM site.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (jtM2q)

59 Whereas we prefer to step on our own dicks.
Posted by: Congressional Republicans"

"Dang, that waters cold"

*waits for punch line *

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:16 AM (cGjQu)

60 Have they offed their hockey team yet?

Posted by: 29Victor at February 25, 2026 11:16 AM (0MjtC)

61 And the original Planned Parenthood under Margaret Sanger's management.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:09 AM (tj6OY)

And still carrying out that Prime Directive.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:16 AM (8zz6B)

62 Hmmmmm
My neighbor is a doctor. And a Visiting Maids car shows up every Monday.
Should I be worried???

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 11:16 AM (2WIwB)

63 Deep, too.

Posted by: Rimshot at February 25, 2026 11:17 AM (2Ez/1)

64 Canadian Healthcare is not bad if you learn how to use it. For example, if you think you'll need an ambulance next month, best to call in now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (FXNzP)

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

[Headline from JJ's Morning Report:]

Everyone in the UK receives free health care, assuming you can get to the hospital.

Waiting 10 Days For An Ambulance — The Dark Side Of ‘Free’ Health Care

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:17 AM (GSV+h)

65 Hazel was on the air 1960-65. She might have irked Mr. B often, but she never offed anyone.

Posted by: Whitney Blake Fan at February 25, 2026 11:17 AM (oftw2)

66 Freudian slip?"

Nylon. Or dacron...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:17 AM (cGjQu)

67 >>And still carrying out that Prime Directive.

Yup, just not as openly.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:18 AM (tj6OY)

68 Ape Lives Matter

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 25, 2026 11:18 AM (ufFY8)

69 I love me some Shirley Booth!

Posted by: Creepy Joe at February 25, 2026 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)

70 I predict Canada's demise will be when the muzzies and Indians are fighting it out for control of Toronto and Montreal, and the First Nations decide to take advantage of the distraction to take control over mining and refining businesses. Appeals from what's left of government will go out to the Chinese to save Canada. I give it less than 10 years.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 11:18 AM (Dv3i1)

71 Deep, too.
Posted by: Rimshot"

Thanks. Tip your waitress

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:18 AM (cGjQu)

72 45 The moist amusing part of the Milking Minotaurs fad is that it is a bunch of urban AWFLs.

I suspect farm hands that might actually have to attend to a bull/inseminate a cow are not quite into the fantasy...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (sKqQm)

There is something to the fact that a lot of these chicks like the idea... not of rape explicitly, but rather being... forced in a way. 'Shown what they really want.' Forced, but explicitly not forced, because they want to have it done. That seems to be part of the milking farm or why the Handmaid stuff seems to have so much attraction for certain women.

I'll say again: people are fucked up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:18 AM (bss/y)

73 Speaking of government efficiency, my road isn't plowed yet, day three.
If you remember the Brown univ shooting media sessions from a couple of months back, this will be no surprise. Actually doing a job is way low on Providence priorities.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 25, 2026 11:19 AM (sl73Y)

74 I imagine some old Ukrainian lady wouldn't have a clear picture of America's crazy ass politics, particularly the crazy ass Democrats. I've lived here my whole life, I understand them better than most, and I still find myself scratching my head, from time to time.

"Did you just say the Diary of Anne Frank was a children's book," or "did you just tell a room full of blacks that blacks are too dumb to read?" That sorta thing.

But you gotta figure that nothing solves the puzzle like the President of a friendly country inviting you to a major event to commemorate your daughter's death and promise justice in the matter, and looking at a room full of scowling faces so consumed by their petty hatreds that they refuse to even acknowledge you.

Puzzle solved. The Dems are lunatics.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 25, 2026 11:19 AM (BI5O2)

75 Dems love kicking their own asses.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2026 11:11 AM

Not the verb I'd have chosen, but also not wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 11:19 AM (bFu5X)

76
It's interesting that the Canadian communist government came up with MAID as the acronym for their state sponsored murder program. Like it's cleaning up unwanted human debris.

I'd bet that no invading Chinese, Indians, or muslims are using the program. Just "heritage" Canadians. They're the unwanted debris. It's monstrous.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2026 11:19 AM (biznJ)

77 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (8zz6B)

Sorry about your friend, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:19 AM (bss/y)

78 So, the State of the - Everything is a mixed bag as usual.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (pDt9x)

79 "moist amusing"

Posted by: ISWYDT at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (2Ez/1)

80 The moist amusing part of the Milking Minotaurs fad is that it is a bunch of urban AWFLs.

I suspect farm hands that might actually have to attend to a bull/inseminate a cow are not quite into the fantasy...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (sKqQm)
______

Yea, but there is similar "monster romance" porn for men too. It's a very weird genre overall. Would The Blade fuck a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe? Yes. Yes he would. But he's not going out of his way to read books about it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

81
Where do rich Canadians go when they need immediate healthcare?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Is private healthcare illegal there?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (Cqx++)

82 Gynecology has a median referral waiting time of 25 weeks, and a median wait time of 15.6 weeks after than for treatment to begin. 40.6 weeks.

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

I suspect it's actually half that time if you're male.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (GSV+h)

83 Shown what they really want.' Forced, but explicitly not forced, because they want to have it done"

50 Shades of $$$ agrees

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:21 AM (cGjQu)

84 69 I love me some Shirley Booth!
Posted by: Creepy Joe

You got good taste! Triple Crown of Acting, Oscar, Emmy, Tony! Only about two dozen people on the planet have accomplished that.

Posted by: Shirley Was Awesome! at February 25, 2026 11:21 AM (oftw2)

85 Yea, but there is similar "monster romance" porn for men too. It's a very weird genre overall. Would The Blade fuck a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe? Yes. Yes he would. But he's not going out of his way to read books about it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Mind the teeth.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 11:21 AM (Dv3i1)

86 Yea, but there is similar "monster romance" porn for men too. It's a very weird genre overall. Would The Blade fuck a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe? Yes. Yes he would. But he's not going out of his way to read books about it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

Hell, I think that is half the point of the Avatar flicks. Get put into a fully functional idealized body, fuck alien women with tails and big eyes.

I like big tits. I am glad this is enough for me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:22 AM (bss/y)

87 72 I'll say again: people are fucked up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:18 AM (bss/y)

It should probably be illegal to be fucked up.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:22 AM (3wOGw)

88 66 Freudian slip?"

Nylon. Or dacron...
Posted by: man

Cilice.

Freud had issues.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 25, 2026 11:22 AM (AoT6J)

89 Is private healthcare illegal there?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Yes, I believe it is.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

90 Not the verb I'd have chosen"

"Dancing"?

*insert 80s Jack Nicholson quip here*

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:22 AM (cGjQu)

91 50 Shades of $$$ agrees
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:21 AM (cGjQu)

Yeah, because that also shows the weird dichotomy(s). Loss of control but not really loss of control because their rapist really loves them.

It is a gigantic bundle of contradictions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:23 AM (bss/y)

92 It should probably be illegal to be fucked up.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:22 AM (3wOGw)

Heh. Then there would be almost no one outside of prison.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:23 AM (bss/y)

93 Cilice.

Freud had issues."

Ouch

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:23 AM (cGjQu)

94 Yea, but there is similar "monster romance" porn for men too. It's a very weird genre overall. Would The Blade fuck a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe? Yes. Yes he would. But he's not going out of his way to read books about it.

That sounds like heresy my fellow subject of the Emperor

Posted by: Some Inquisitor getting his warhammer charged up at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

95 65 of those deaths (1.7% of completed requests; 1.4% of total requests) occurred on the same day. Now that is speedy service!

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

They can get those numbers in negative territory if they just start executing them before the request!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (rEr2I)

96 58 I would imagine the negative imagery of the Democrats snubbing everything last night will never see the light of day on any MSM site.

It simply didn't happen. Says every MSM site.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM (jtM2q)
The same 'entity' who made the call for the dems to stand up, their very next call was to the 'media' to shove the story down the memory hole.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (LHPAg)

97 93 Cilice.

Freud had issues."

Ouch
------------
True. But he also had a shit ton of billable hours.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (pZ64F)

98 Any word on the stranded Canadians in Mexico? Maybe they can get some dentistry work while waiting for things to cool off?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (jtM2q)

99 Freud had issues.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Geesh, you paint ONE nekkid lardass on an ottoman...

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

100 Oh for the record, I'd back a hot fairy too. But in like a Christian way.

We are talking about dudes in dresses not like tinker belle right?

Posted by: David French at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

101 Sorry about your friend, man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:19 AM (bss/y)

It's been a few years now. His decision. Me? If I am ever faced with that decision, I'll fly to China, and pay the Commies for a new whatever, if it is possible to do it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (8zz6B)

102 because their rapist really loves them"

You mean therapist?

*jeopardy joke, last thread*

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (cGjQu)

103 92 Heh. Then there would be almost no one outside of prison.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:23 AM (bss/y)

I agree. But shouldn't there be some sort of actionable pressure on everyone to be serious and normal all the time?

I doubt I would survive under those conditions, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:25 AM (3wOGw)

104 100 Oh for the record, I'd back a hot fairy too. But in like a Christian way.

We are talking about dudes in dresses not like tinker belle right?
Posted by: David French at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

I wonder if French realizes how much of an object of ridicule he is? LOL. I hope he does.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:26 AM (bss/y)

105 Yea, but there is similar "monster romance" porn for men too. It's a very weird genre overall. Would The Blade f*** a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe?

I wouldn't call those monsters. They're ordinary female women on the youngish side with a few minor mods, like ears, skin color, or a fish half. Okay, that last one isn't really minor, but the top half is a Darryl Hannah-esque woman.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

106 Would The Blade fuck a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe? Yes. Yes he would. But he's not going out of his way to read books about it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

And with a few clicks on his computer, he doesn't have to.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 25, 2026 11:26 AM (KAi1n)

107 Any word on the stranded Canadians in Mexico? "

Al pastor or adobada?

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (cGjQu)

108 You know you want me.

Posted by: Succubus at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (Dv3i1)

109 I agree. But shouldn't there be some sort of actionable pressure on everyone to be serious and normal all the time?

I doubt I would survive under those conditions, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:25 AM (3wOGw)

Well, that was kind of the point of social pressure and the reward/ostracism system. You could do whatever you wanted, but you would be ostracized to reinforce to the group that this was not normal or desirable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (bss/y)

110 74
‘ Puzzle solved. The Dems are lunatics.’

You emphasize their insanity at the expense of their inhumanity.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (jbnUc)

111 or a fish half. Okay, that last one isn't really minor, but the top half is a Darryl Hannah-esque woman.
Posted by: Archimedes

So, how do f**k a chick whose lower half is that of a fish?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

112 because their rapist really loves them"

You mean therapist?

*jeopardy joke, last thread*
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM

Suck it, Trebek!

Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X)

113 This should be a reminder of what will eventually happen here if Ocare isn't repealed. OR, WA, and others have already jumped onto the death cart.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (g8Ew8)

114 Of 4,528 Ontario MAID requests in that year, 3,749 of them - 82.8% - were completed within 90 days.
-

Not good enough. Canadians demand "Minute MAID"!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (VFv8R)

115 I'd bet that no invading Chinese, Indians, or muslims are using the program. Just "heritage" Canadians. They're the unwanted debris. It's monstrous.

When the Covid vaccine first became available, an "equity commission" convened by the State of Oregon concluded that old people in Oregon were just too white, so young, healthy minorities should get the vaccine ahead of the eighty-year-olds.

The State of Oregon did not accept that recommendation (this time), but Oregon did provide the vaccine to all the members of the teacher's unions ahead of the eighty-year-olds. (Oregon still kept the schools closed, of course.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (n1OCj)

116
Canada: "We can send the ambulance on June 14th, 2028"

"Ok. Is that a Wednesday?"

Canada: "Yes but what does it matter?"

"I've got the plumber coming"

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (tKWMU)

117 109 Well, that was kind of the point of social pressure and the reward/ostracism system. You could do whatever you wanted, but you would be ostracized to reinforce to the group that this was not normal or desirable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (bss/y)

"You want to be employable, there'd better not be a single f***ing weird thing about you" would be a good start.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (3wOGw)

118 *jeopardy joke, last thread*
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:24 AM

Suck it, Trebek!
Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X)

It's a funny name.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (bss/y)

119 Of 4,528 Ontario MAID requests in that year, 3,749 of them - 82.8% - were completed within 90 days.

Can you withdraw the request if you change your mind?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

120 I see BroFo yelled at Trump that he was a murderer at the SOTU
-----

I liked him better as a singer.

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (TN0g+)

121 Don’t Fear the Reaper.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:29 AM (pDt9x)

122 So, how do f**k a chick whose lower half is that of a fish?
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

It would be a fluky occurrence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:29 AM (8zz6B)

123 "You want to be employable, there'd better not be a single f***ing weird thing about you" would be a good start.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (3wOGw)

Ok. Who gets to define weird?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:29 AM (bss/y)

124 ‘ Puzzle solved. The Dems are lunatics.’

You emphasize their insanity at the expense of their inhumanity.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (jbnUc)
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Trump should have called them cruel, sinister, and evil.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2026 11:29 AM (VFv8R)

125 86 Yea, but there is similar "monster romance" porn for men too. It's a very weird genre overall. Would The Blade fuck a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe? Yes. Yes he would. But he's not going out of his way to read books about it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

Hell, I think that is half the point of the Avatar flicks. Get put into a fully functional idealized body, fuck alien women with tails and big eyes.

I like big tits. I am glad this is enough for me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Exactly. Men are more visual, so you'll see plenty of weird porn with dudes fucking monsters and such. Less books and stuff...cause reading is gay lol

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 11:29 AM (JCZqz)

126 Can you withdraw the request if you change your mind?"

Sure.

*digs thru canopic jars for organs*

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:30 AM (cGjQu)

127 123 Ok. Who gets to define weird?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:29 AM (bss/y)

Probably some hardass military guy.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:30 AM (3wOGw)

128 Can you withdraw the request if you change your mind?
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM

Monty Python's live organ donation sketch comes to mind.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (bFu5X)

129 Probably some hardass military guy.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:30 AM (3wOGw)

What, like Lloyd Austin?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (bss/y)

130 Out: I kissed a girl and I liked it

In: I kissed Grashnak Blackhoof and I liked it

Posted by: Katy Pery at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

131 *digs thru canopic jars for organs*

It's a little known fact that canopic jars are for canapes, at least among zombies.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

132 129 What, like Lloyd Austin?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (bss/y)

That would be Candyass, not hardass.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (3wOGw)

133 117 "You want to be employable, there'd better not be a single f***ing weird thing about you" would be a good start.
Posted by: XTC

Welp, I'm out. Off to the unemployment line.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (svLOV)

134 So, how do f**k a chick whose lower half is that of a fish?"

*remembers HS bio class. ... you wanna open that carton of eggs?*

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:32 AM (cGjQu)

135 Ok. Who gets to define weird?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:29 AM (bss/y)
-

Al?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2026 11:32 AM (VFv8R)

136 Never thought the aliens in Avatar were sexually appealing. The girls were sort of AOC - like with odd mods.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:32 AM (pDt9x)

137 It's a little known fact that canopic jars are for canapes, at least among zombies."

Crunchy.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:33 AM (cGjQu)

138 Something I don't see mentioned:

Are these helpfully-euthanized Canadian or Canadian-adjacent corpses also organ donors? Are the 'patients' signing their kidneys away within the fine print of the sign-off process for getting their tickets punched?

Posted by: Another Anon at February 25, 2026 11:33 AM (4h45B)

139 > This should be a reminder of what will eventually happen here if Ocare isn't repealed. OR, WA, and others have already jumped onto the death cart.
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I have a suspicion that a lot of MAID "patients" here would be transgenders and rabid leftists who can't cope.

I'm not seeing much of a downside if that's the case.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 11:33 AM (jtM2q)

140 What was the topic of your post again, Mannix? Too lazy or disengaged to check.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:34 AM (pDt9x)

141 Can you withdraw the request if you change your mind?
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
++++
Yes.

Thus, I suspect, the push for rapid service. It used to be the law that there was a mandatory 10-day waiting period. They repealed that part of it, which is what the Ontario study looks at.

They don't, however break it out in detail for within 10 days (the old cooling-off period). Based on the chart they provide and some estimation therefrom, however, it looks to me like about 1,700 done within the old waiting period.

So somewhere in the neighborhood of 40% of all MAID requests were serviced *within* the old legally-mandated cooling-off period.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 11:34 AM (3OtAS)

142 Yea, but there is similar "monster romance" porn for men too. It's a very weird genre overall. Would The Blade f*** a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe?

I wouldn't call those monsters. They're ordinary female women on the youngish side with a few minor mods, like ears, skin color, or a fish half. Okay, that last one isn't really minor, but the top half is a Darryl Hannah-esque woman.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
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Well, yea. I ain't fucking a female CHUD. The monster romance for females is similar though. Usually ripped up studly Chads with some monster features. The minotaur is pushing it, but even then he's a yuge muscled beast like no human man could ever be. So not a disgusting monster.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

143 You know at one point in our past some of our ancestors decided sexy time with Neanderthal was a good idea. Maybe they were really into redheads?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:34 AM (sKqQm)

144 133 Welp, I'm out. Off to the unemployment line.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (svLOV)

I wouldn't be employable either, under those conditions.

But isn't that the ideal we should be aiming for, for all citizens? Regimented, Serious, and Strict?

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:34 AM (3wOGw)

145 That would be Candyass, not hardass.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:31 AM (3wOGw)

But how would you know? What about James Mattis? Who seemed on the outside to be hard as nails and a fellow traveler?

I am playing Devil's Advocate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:35 AM (bss/y)

146 Canadian or Canadian-adjacent corpses also organ donors"

IIRC, parts of Canadaland are "implied consent"...discussed on this here smart military blog...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:35 AM (cGjQu)

147 Are these helpfully-euthanized Canadian or Canadian-adjacent corpses also organ donors? Are the 'patients' signing their kidneys away within the fine print of the sign-off process for getting their tickets punched?

no matter what they sign, their pieces are going straight over to the CCP

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 25, 2026 11:35 AM (j+aD2)

148 Are these helpfully-euthanized Canadian or Canadian-adjacent corpses also organ donors? Are the 'patients' signing their kidneys away within the fine print of the sign-off process for getting their tickets punched?
Posted by: Another Anon at February 25, 2026 11:33 AM (4h45B)

Probably. I don't know if all of them are. Would not surprise me to learn that some organs get stolen, either. I mean if your medical system is so corrupt that you can rationalize killing people, what's a little organ theft, eh?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:36 AM (8zz6B)

149 Are these helpfully-euthanized Canadian or Canadian-adjacent corpses also organ donors? Are the 'patients' signing their kidneys away within the fine print of the sign-off process for getting their tickets punched?

My understanding from China is that if a member of their elite needs an organ that they'll start looking for people to execute for a crime who could be a donor for him...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)

150 The US system ain’t perfect but I’m thrilled and thankful to be here. I can see my doctor almost always within a day or two of calling for an appointment. He’s excellent… I get prescriptions easily. I can see any specialist I want… also very fast, usually within a week. Special tests like MRIs also within a week. It’s remarkable really….

Of course I’ve had too much need to see a doc recently so I wish I didn’t have reasons to rave….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 25, 2026 11:36 AM (xT8gx)

151 142 Well, yea. I ain't fucking a female CHUD. The monster romance for females is similar though. Usually ripped up studly Chads with some monster features. The minotaur is pushing it, but even then he's a yuge muscled beast like no human man could ever be. So not a disgusting monster.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

Why would anyone be attracted to a fat monster, or a fat anything?

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:36 AM (3wOGw)

152 You know at one point in our past some of our ancestors decided sexy time with Neanderthal was a good idea. Maybe they were really into redheads?"

Check out the back hair over there!

/Ogg to Bogg

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:36 AM (cGjQu)

153 Are the Canucks touting "Maid in Canada" with pride?

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2026 11:37 AM (f1kZG)

154 Do they rummage through the organs before or after the last breath. I imagine that is important to the one on the table.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:37 AM (pDt9x)

155 136 Never thought the aliens in Avatar were sexually appealing. The girls were sort of AOC - like with odd mods.
Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:32 AM (pDt9x)

Agreed. I have never gotten the catgirl/alien/animal girl fetish. What is it about sticking ears on some busty gal hat seems to capture so much anime imagination? Is this a Japanese thing that has bled outward?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:37 AM (bss/y)

156 139
‘ I have a suspicion that a lot of MAID "patients" here would be transgenders and rabid leftists who can't cope.

I'm not seeing much of a downside if that's the case.’

A house cleaning.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:37 AM (jbnUc)

157 I have never fantasized about monsters. Just redheads, which is worse.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 11:38 AM (tKWMU)

158 Canadian medicine is nice and quick on that front. Yes, of course this is about MAID

hmm.... *scribbles note* spinoff of "the tick" focusing on american maid, who has an astonishing and unexpected superpower.

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 11:38 AM (sGtp+)

159 I'll probably be sorry I asked , but what is a CHUD?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 11:38 AM (PFs9e)

160 157 I have never fantasized about monsters. Just redheads, which is worse.
Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 11:38 AM (tKWMU)

The original Danger Hair.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:38 AM (pDt9x)

161 Why would anyone be attracted to a fat monster, or a fat anything?"

Check the various pron sites

/according to a ... someone on the intertubes

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:38 AM (cGjQu)

162 ‘ I have a suspicion that a lot of MAID "patients" here would be transgenders and rabid leftists who can't cope.

I'm not seeing much of a downside if that's the case.’

A house cleaning.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:37 AM (jbnUc)

Tranny organs could be problematic. Who wants a liver that has been steeped for years in cross-sex hormones?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:40 AM (8zz6B)

163 154 Do they rummage through the organs before or after the last breath.

yes.

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 11:40 AM (sGtp+)

164 44 41 Canadian Healthcare is not bad if you learn how to use it. For example, if you think you'll need an ambulance next month, best to call in now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (FXNzP)

Where do rich Canadians go when they need immediate healthcare?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (mEFgz)

The US, obviously.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 25, 2026 11:40 AM (tOcjL)

165 Do they rummage through the organs before or after the last breath"

"OK, We've got a nice liver here! Who'll start the bidding?

I gottaonedollabillgotone

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:40 AM (cGjQu)

166 136 Never thought the aliens in Avatar were sexually appealing. The girls were sort of AOC - like with odd mods.
Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:32 AM (pDt9x)

Agreed. I have never gotten the catgirl/alien/animal girl fetish. What is it about sticking ears on some busty gal hat seems to capture so much anime imagination? Is this a Japanese thing that has bled outward?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:37 AM (bss/y)

Yeah, I don’t get it either… the avatar chicks had tails; huge turn off. Way too animal like which is perverse…. Now the green alien on Star Trek TOS was just a hot chick with green skin so that was fine…. But she’s gotta be human(oid)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 25, 2026 11:40 AM (xT8gx)

167 164 44 41 Canadian Healthcare is not bad if you learn how to use it. For example, if you think you'll need an ambulance next month, best to call in now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (FXNzP)

Where do rich Canadians go when they need immediate healthcare?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2026 11:12 AM (mEFgz)

The US, obviously.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 25, 2026 11:40 AM (tOcjL)

Or Progreso Mexico.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:40 AM (pDt9x)

168 155 Agreed. I have never gotten the catgirl/alien/animal girl fetish. What is it about sticking ears on some busty gal hat seems to capture so much anime imagination? Is this a Japanese thing that has bled outward

cat girls are more than ears. there's also the hairy tentacle poking out the back.

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 11:41 AM (sGtp+)

169 Well, yea. I ain't fucking a female CHUD. The monster romance for females is similar though. Usually ripped up studly Chads with some monster features. The minotaur is pushing it, but even then he's a yuge muscled beast like no human man could ever be. So not a disgusting monster.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

Why would anyone be attracted to a fat monster, or a fat anything?
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:36 AM (3wOGw)
_

The minotaur is not fat. He's an impossibly ripped up bipedal monster. Like a human bodybuilder only 8 feet tall and furry.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

170 139
‘ I have a suspicion that a lot of MAID "patients" here would be transgenders and rabid leftists who can't cope.

I'm not seeing much of a downside if that's the case.’

---------

They still need to be committed to Happy Fun Home until that special day arrives.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (g8Ew8)

171 Omar: "You killed Americans"

Trump (I wish): "Well no, I didn't but you did marry your brother"

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (+rKuc)

172 >Is private healthcare illegal there?
Not exactly, but it's mostly forbidden for the public health system to pay for it, so buyers pay out of pocket.
Private healthcare of course upsets liberal-minded people, because they read a liberal rag that asserts it's unfair that wealthy people can skip the line, blah blah blah. Well guess what, 98% of Canadian doctors are public providers, and poor people *still* don't get what they need because of how poorly things are run. And it's only gotten worse over the last 10 years, an undeniable crisis right now, and the 2% of private doctors can't be blamed, the USA can't be blamed, Trump can't be blamed, etc.

Posted by: fb at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (JVEmw)

173 159 I'll probably be sorry I asked , but what is a CHUD?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 11:38 AM (PFs9e)

Cannibal
Humanoid
Underground
Dweller.

From an 80s film. Now used to define political opponents.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (bss/y)

174 168 cat girls are more than ears. there's also the hairy tentacle poking out the back.
Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 11:41 AM (sGtp+)

And obnoxiously sticking "Nyaah" into every sentence.

*raises largest shields possible*

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (3wOGw)

175 Where do rich Canadians go when they need immediate healthcare?"

Across to the other side of Miami

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (cGjQu)

176 As I think about it, there are really only two times the average citizen comes up against the State (not counting sending in taxes). The first is when you get stopped by a cop...and the cop is armed. The second is when you renew car tags. In Washington state, the government outsourced this to a private firm so the public wouldn't yell at the employees because of the costs.
Politicians are bad enough, but bureaucrats are pure cowards.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (2WIwB)

177 162
‘ Tranny organs could be problematic. Who wants a liver that has been steeped for years in cross-sex hormones?’

Someone running out of time does.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (jbnUc)

178 The minotaur is not fat. He's an impossibly ripped up bipedal monster. Like a human bodybuilder only 8 feet tall and furry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

Not unlike some depictions of Satan.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (8zz6B)

179 169 The minotaur is not fat. He's an impossibly ripped up bipedal monster. Like a human bodybuilder only 8 feet tall and furry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

I know. My point is that of course he's impossibly ripped, becuase who the hell would want him to be fat?

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (3wOGw)

180 I saw the Red-Headed Neanderthal open for Four Non Blonds at Finsbury Park in '93.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (O7Gvs)

181 Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (bss/y)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (PFs9e)

182 The remake of Red Sonja had a female humanoid ape character that was kinda sexy. The Blade ... might.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:44 AM (iFTx/)

183 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (PFs9e)

Hi Fen, I hope you and yours are well.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 11:44 AM (tKWMU)

184 179 169 The minotaur is not fat. He's an impossibly ripped up bipedal monster. Like a human bodybuilder only 8 feet tall and furry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

I know. My point is that of course he's impossibly ripped, becuase who the hell would want him to be fat?
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (3wOGw)

A Dom DeLuise Minotaur would be a hard sell.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:44 AM (pDt9x)

185 A Dom DeLuise Minotaur would be a hard sell.
--------------
Go with Zero Mostel.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 11:45 AM (pZ64F)

186 The minotaur is not fat. He's an impossibly ripped up bipedal monster. Like a human bodybuilder only 8 feet tall and furry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

Not unlike some depictions of Satan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (8zz6B)
_______

Yea. On a probably not unrelated note, one of the female monsters in one of the male-oriented books is an impossibly voluptuous female demon, with the horns, hooves, tail, etc.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

187 I didn’t expect this to turn into a monster sex fantasy thread.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

188 Dom DeLuise Minotaur would be a hard sell.
--------------
Go with Zero Mostel."

Danny DeVito FTW...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (cGjQu)

189 186 Yea. On a probably not unrelated note, one of the female monsters in one of the male-oriented books is an impossibly voluptuous female demon, with the horns, hooves, tail, etc.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

Hell, one of the most popular species in D&D anymore are the Tieflings, which are basically red-skinned fuck-devils.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (3wOGw)

190 The minotaur is not fat. He's an impossibly ripped up bipedal monster. Like a human bodybuilder only 8 feet tall and furry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

I know. My point is that of course he's impossibly ripped, becuase who the hell would want him to be fat?
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (3wOGw)

A Dom DeLuise Minotaur would be a hard sell.
Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:44 AM (pDt9x)
________

There is a porn subculture featuring morbidly obese chicks. There is nothing that's so creepy or revolting that it can't be made into porn. Ya know, there should be a "rule" for that or something ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

191 Communist genocide is usually pretty quick and efficient. And for some, that IS what they want.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (dK+Kv)

192 Not unlike some depictions of Satan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:43 AM (8zz6B)

Ultimate Bad Boy.

Hell, wasn't that the point of the show Lucifer?

LOL. And that had a romance arc, didn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (bss/y)

193 So, how do f**k a chick whose lower half is that of a fish?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

Heh.

Posted by: Flipper at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (nPp6w)

194 I didn’t expect this to turn into a monster sex fantasy thread.

NOBODY expects the monster sex fantasy thread!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

195 187 I didn’t expect this to turn into a monster sex fantasy thread.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

Is every thread a monster sex fantasy thread going to become a thing??

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (pDt9x)

196 I didn’t expect this to turn into a monster sex fantasy thread"

Prometheus.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:48 AM (cGjQu)

197 Omar: "You killed Americans"

Trump (I wish): "Well no, I didn't but you did marry your brother"
Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (+rKuc)

***

Somewhere in Magadishu a street corner is missing its ho.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 11:48 AM (2WIwB)

198 My favorite bumper sticker during the DeathCare debate here:

"ObamaCare -- Death and Taxes All in One Package!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:48 AM (O7Gvs)

199 Yea. On a probably not unrelated note, one of the female monsters in one of the male-oriented books is an impossibly voluptuous female demon, with the horns, hooves, tail, etc.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

Hell, one of the most popular species in D&D anymore are the Tieflings, which are basically red-skinned fuck-devils.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (3wOGw)
________

Yea. The Blade would. Well, only the female ones. There are male Tieflings too.

The Dragonborn? The Blade ... might.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

200 Oddly enough, I'm going to need a neurosurgeon, and I was told it would be six weeks or so before I can see one.

Oh, and thanks for the reminder. I need to call my doctor and find out where I am in the process of getting the referral.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 25, 2026 11:49 AM (aTl7+)

201 198 My favorite bumper sticker during the DeathCare debate here:

"ObamaCare -- Death and Taxes All in One Package!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:48 AM (O7Gvs

Government Efficiency, Prole!!

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:49 AM (pDt9x)

202 Communist genocide is usually pretty quick and efficient. And for some, that IS what they want.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 11:47 AM (dK+Kv)

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

"We love the smell of crematoria in the morning ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:50 AM (O7Gvs)

203 A Dom DeLuise Minotaur would be a hard sell.
--------------
Go with Zero Mostel.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 11:45 AM (pZ64F)

Raymond Burr

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 25, 2026 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)

204 I'm going to need a neurosurgeon, "

Try Jiffy Trepanning - 30 minutes or it's free!

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:51 AM (cGjQu)

205 200 Oddly enough, I'm going to need a neurosurgeon, and I was told it would be six weeks or so before I can see one.

Oh, and thanks for the reminder. I need to call my doctor and find out where I am in the process of getting the referral.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 25, 2026 11:49 AM (aTl7+)

So, not an emergency. I remember with my gall bladder - elective was planned for 2 weeks...and then the next day, I had an emergency, and it wasn't 2 weeks anymore

...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 25, 2026 11:51 AM (tOcjL)

206 Would The Blade fuck a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe? Yes. Yes he would.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

Watch out for the A'askavariians, dude.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 11:52 AM (dK+Kv)

207 Raymond Burr"

Steve Martin, reporter...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:52 AM (cGjQu)

208 Government Efficiency, Prole!!

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:49 AM (pDt9x)

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

Heh -- and the thread comes full circle back to the title of the post.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:52 AM (O7Gvs)

209 195
‘ Is every thread a monster sex fantasy thread going to become a thing??’

I expect that will be a recurring theme for some of us over the next few months, yes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:52 AM (jbnUc)

210 This thread HAS taken an odd turn. Partially my fault.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:52 AM (bss/y)

211 there's also the hairy tentacle poking out the back.
Posted by: anachronda

most people call that a "tail"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 11:52 AM (a+4eV)

212 211 there's also the hairy tentacle poking out the back.
Posted by: anachronda

most people call that a "tail"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2026 11:52 AM (a+4eV)

Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:53 AM (bss/y)

213 Trump to Dems last night:

"You see that right there on the ground? That is a rake. Don't step on the rake. Seriously, don't step on that rake."

They just can't help themselves.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 25, 2026 11:53 AM (2UnvF)

214 I didn’t expect this to turn into a monster sex fantasy thread.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:46 AM (jbnUc)
_________

"Fucking monsters is a god-given right of every patriotic, red-blooded American man and woman!"

-- Trump at SOTU

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

215 What is with the Horde's sudden obsession with trepanning?

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:53 AM (3wOGw)

216 Would The Blade fuck a hot fairie or mermaid or alien babe? Yes. Yes he would.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

Watch out for the A'askavariians, dude.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 11:52 AM (dK+Kv)

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

Not to mention The Reavers.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 25, 2026 11:53 AM (O7Gvs)

217 I didn’t expect this to turn into a monster sex fantasy thread.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

-----------
Monster Chiller Horror Theater > Monster Sex Fantasy Thread

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 25, 2026 11:54 AM (5yDGQ)

218 What is with the Horde's sudden obsession with trepanning?

Right? I need it like I need a hole in my head.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 11:54 AM (Riz8t)

219 This bikini brunette on a boat is pleased that she doesn't live (or die) under MAID - and she isn't into Minotaur porn:
http://tiny.cc/dugz001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 11:54 AM (3OtAS)

220 What is with the Horde's sudden obsession with trepanning?"

Well, that's a hole in the head, so..

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:54 AM (cGjQu)

221 Ahh the word has gone out and that word is "rebukes"

Time Mag: "Spanberger's Blunt Rebuke to Trump!"

Sacramento Bee: "Sen. Padilla Rebukes Trump!"

etc etc...

Yeah - all these people are just hive minded toddlers...

Posted by: Boswell at February 25, 2026 11:55 AM (V7158)

222 219 This bikini brunette on a boat is pleased that she doesn't live (or die) under MAID - and she isn't into Minotaur porn:
http://tiny.cc/dugz001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 11:54 AM (3OtAS)

Sending out the Bat Signal???

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:55 AM (pDt9x)

223 You know at one point in our past some of our ancestors decided sexy time with Neanderthal was a good idea.

So, hot Neanderthal chick or hot Denisovan chick?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

224 210
‘ This thread HAS taken an odd turn. Partially my fault.’

That isn’t true.

It is entirely your fault.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

225 219 This bikini brunette on a boat is pleased that she doesn't live (or die) under MAID - and she isn't into Minotaur porn:
http://tiny.cc/dugz001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 11:54 AM (3OtAS)

Altered all to hell. Sorry man, it IS getting hard on a general search to find real, normal everyday boobs.

One might also point out that gals who are hot do not NEED to be into minotaur milking porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:56 AM (bss/y)

226 It still amazes me how the Dems got last night so wrong.

The 70 or so who boycotted looked like petulant children on a time out, in the cold, who no one cared about.

To start - Caveman supreme Al Green getting kicked out with his stupid ape sign.

1. Not standing when asked to support Americans over illegals.
2. PDT pointing out the massive fraud in MN, OH, CA, etc. with Trump also saying the Somali Pirates and Omar and Talib getting hysterical and screaming at him. Really good look.
3. Trump calling the Dems cheaters to their faces and calling for the passing of the SAVE act. Underscoring Mandami of NYC requiring 2 forms of ID to just shovel snow.
4. Brilliant camera work showing Dems in the wild doing what they do best - being obnoxious, asleep, stupid.

Overall, PDT highlighting the greatness of America while Spanberger looked and sounded like an albino Karen HOA nightmare.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2026 11:56 AM (oiNtH)

227 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Bikini brunettes on a boat at February 25, 2026 11:56 AM (2Ez/1)

228 This bikini brunette on a boat is pleased that she doesn't live (or die) under MAID - and she isn't into Minotaur porn:
http://tiny.cc/dugz001"

Hmm. Bringing a sailboat in that close to shore could be...problematic.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:56 AM (cGjQu)

229 Oddly enough, I'm going to need a neurosurgeon, and I was told it would be six weeks or so before I can see one.

So, not an emergency. I remember with my gall bladder - elective was planned for 2 weeks...and then the next day, I had an emergency, and it wasn't 2 weeks anymore...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 25, 2026 11:51 AM

My son had a need for a neurosurgeon in a hurry. It was less than 24 hours between when the diagnosis happened and when the surgery happened. In my case, I don't anticipate needing surgery at all, but the surgeon has the skills to evaluate what needs to be done.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 25, 2026 11:57 AM (aTl7+)

230 This bikini brunette on a boat is pleased that she doesn't live (or die) under MAID - and she isn't into Minotaur porn:
http://tiny.cc/dugz001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2026 11:54 AM (3OtAS)
______

A babe pic with some dude's crotch on display??

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

231 That isn’t true.

It is entirely your fault.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

Lol. Possibly. *looks upthread*

Objection! It was 18-1 who first brought up milking minotaurs. I just riffed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:57 AM (bss/y)

232 I can always turn the thread back to my colonoscopy.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

233 Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 11:44 AM (tKWMU)

Thanks. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. ellipses.
How are you?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 11:58 AM (PFs9e)

234 233 I can always turn the thread back to my colonoscopy.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

Turn the Beat Around

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

235 233 I can always turn the thread back to my colonoscopy.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

Do you think you could pass a Minotaur through your colon?

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:58 AM (3wOGw)

236 That isn’t true.

It is entirely your fault.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

Lol. Possibly. *looks upthread*

Objection! It was 18-1 who first brought up milking minotaurs. I just riffed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:57 AM (bss/y)
________

It was The Blade ... #40

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

237 I can always turn the thread back to my colonoscopy."

Begun, the polypsinsenian wars have...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 11:59 AM (cGjQu)

238 Do you think you could pass a Minotaur through your colon?
Posted by: XTC

This is the second time this morning you've made this joke (the first time was with Elvis). I don't get it.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

239 We have hospice care available in the USA. It is not the same as "assisted suicide", but there are elements of helping people die comfortably. In general, afaik, it is for those already dying, and is a gracious service.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 25, 2026 11:59 AM (vbXSk)

240 "...pass a Minotaur through your colon?"

Semi

Posted by: Punctuation humor! at February 25, 2026 11:59 AM (2Ez/1)

241 236 233 I can always turn the thread back to my colonoscopy.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

Do you think you could pass a Minotaur through your colon?
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:58 AM (3wOGw)

I brought up my tooth extraction yesterday but it went nowhere. Not as sexy as a colonoscopy I guess.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 11:59 AM (pDt9x)

242 Average wait time for ass's mom is about 10min.

But weight time for his mom is when they load her on the truck to the pig abbatoir.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 25, 2026 12:00 PM (BI5O2)

243
Yacht girls.

Sigh.

Welcome back from the land of pics of chix who you'd take home to meet mom, Joe.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 12:01 PM (Y8DZL)

244 239 This is the second time this morning you've made this joke (the first time was with Elvis). I don't get it.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

The Elvis thing was a Denis Leary reference.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 12:01 PM (3wOGw)

245 Bulg refers to his colonoscopy, and the ASS troll appears. Coincidence???

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 12:01 PM (8zz6B)

246 In general, afaik, it is for those already dying
Posted by: illiniwek

Not always. Let's dance!
-- Jimmuh

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

247 174 168 cat girls are more than ears. there's also the hairy tentacle poking out the back.
Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2026 11:41 AM (sGtp+)

And obnoxiously sticking "Nyaah" into every sentence.

*raises largest shields possible*
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 11:42 AM (3wOGw)
I was waiting to see who stepped into that trap..

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 12:01 PM (LHPAg)

248 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 11:58 AM (PFs9e)

Good here overall. But then I just had time off from work which is always welcome. You are a blessing don't forget that.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:01 PM (tKWMU)

249 I brought up my tooth extraction yesterday but it went nowhere. Not as sexy as a colonoscopy I guess.
Posted by: tubal

Can you eat normal food and drink booze yet?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

250 The docs (in B.C.) would not put him on the transplant wait list, so he elected MAID instead, when his liver became so bad he could not carry on. I'd have told him, "shit, Andrew, sell your house, and your RV, and fly to India or China, and get a transplant for cash. The Uighur whose liver get ain't going to care; the PRC would have killed him anyway."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 11:15 AM

My understanding is that you don't have to die to donate your liver to someone. They take like a third of it and it grows into a full-sized-liver while your liver regenerates.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 25, 2026 12:02 PM (aTl7+)

251 250 I brought up my tooth extraction yesterday but it went nowhere. Not as sexy as a colonoscopy I guess.
Posted by: tubal

Can you eat normal food and drink booze yet?
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

It is the age old “ could I, or should I” conundrum, Bulg.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:03 PM (pDt9x)

252 Posted by: ... at February 25, 2026 12:01 PM (tKWMU)

Thanks. And so are you. Remember that as well.🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 12:03 PM (PFs9e)

253 It is the age old “ could I, or should I” conundrum, Bulg.
Posted by: tubal

Ah. Gotcha.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:04 PM (77rzZ)

254 245 239 This is the second time this morning you've made this joke (the first time was with Elvis). I don't get it.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

The Elvis thing was a Denis Leary reference.
Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 12:01 PM (3wOGw)

It was a bit where Leary was talking about people who ate a lot of fiber (grape nuts?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 12:04 PM (bss/y)

255 246
‘ Bulg refers to his colonoscopy, and the ASS troll appears. Coincidence???’

It’s like waving a brown cape.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 25, 2026 12:05 PM (jbnUc)

256 Is psycho Sid going to give us a stock market update today? He was strangely silent yesterday.

Posted by: Sidroid at February 25, 2026 12:05 PM (qUkBO)

257 >>I brought up my tooth extraction yesterday but it went nowhere. Not as sexy as a colonoscopy I guess.

I don't know...I'm not a doctor, but a tooth growing in your colon is pretty rare.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:05 PM (1Udfd)

258 Government Efficiency
________

Milton Friedman's four ways to spend money:

1. You spend your own money on yourself – You have a strong incentive to economize and get the highest value for your dollar, as you directly bear the cost and enjoy the benefit.
2. You spend your own money on someone else – You care about the cost but may not prioritize the recipient’s preferences (e.g., buying a birthday gift). The recipient may not value it as highly as you think.
3. You spend someone else’s money on yourself – You have a strong incentive to maximize personal benefit (e.g., a business expense account lunch), but little incentive to economize, since you aren’t paying.
4. You spend someone else’s money on someone else – This is government spending, where the spender has minimal incentive to control costs or ensure quality, leading to inefficiency.

Posted by: Three Amigos at February 25, 2026 12:05 PM (XvL8K)

259 too far down the stack to comment

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2026 12:05 PM (ZxPkt)

260 The State Of The Union is broke, in debt, sick, sober and sad.

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Bond at February 25, 2026 12:06 PM (hXJe5)

261 260 too far down the stack to comment
Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2026 12:05 PM (ZxPkt)

Oh, go on, there’s no downside.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:06 PM (pDt9x)

262 I leave for a few minutes to eat and I come back to the thread discussing sexual congress with monsters.

One of those days I guess.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 12:06 PM (E4rtv)

263 263 I leave for a few minutes to eat and I come back to the thread discussing sexual congress with monsters.

One of those days I guess.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 12:06 PM (E4rtv)

Is there a “ forbidden topic” at the HQ??

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 12:08 PM (pDt9x)

264 thread discussing sexual congress "

Congress? Not those a**holes again

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 12:08 PM (cGjQu)

265 I leave for a few minutes to eat and I come back to the thread discussing sexual congress with monsters.
Posted by: whig

You know better than to leave us unsupervised.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

266 Much like the burning during urination.

Posted by: Kramer at February 25, 2026 12:08 PM (2Ez/1)

267 I don't know...I'm not a doctor, but a tooth growing in your colon is pretty rare.
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:05 PM (1Udfd)

If you had two of them they could click together when you fart. It would sound like Ilhan Omar making a speech.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 12:09 PM (8zz6B)

268 >>I leave for a few minutes to eat and I come back to the thread discussing sexual congress with monsters.

How you gonna keep them down on the farm once they've seen me?

Posted by: Minotaur at February 25, 2026 12:09 PM (1Udfd)

269 I don't know...I'm not a doctor, but a tooth growing in your colon is pretty rare.
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2026 12:05 PM

I don't know...most politicians talk out of their asses.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 12:09 PM (bFu5X)

270 In the USA I'm waiting months for a simple wellness visit and months for a dental appointment or even an eye doctor visit.

So I'd like to see the USA numbers.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2026 12:09 PM (Vh9CX)

271 I leave for a few minutes to eat and I come back to the thread discussing sexual congress with monsters.

One of those days I guess.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 12:06 PM

Could be worse if we reignite the half sheet paper towel fight.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 25, 2026 12:10 PM (ggkmJ)

272 Nood.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 12:11 PM (dK+Kv)

273 >I brought up my tooth extraction yesterday but it went nowhere. Not as sexy as a colonoscopy I guess.

Just be sure the string tied to your tooth is tied tight to the door knob and you close it firmly.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 12:11 PM (2WIwB)

274 I guess Ace is working on an epic post-SOTU movie review.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 12:11 PM (8zz6B)

275
POKER MONKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2026 12:12 PM (y9nCu)

276 What's all this about holes in heads?

/Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 25, 2026 12:22 PM (O7Gvs)

277 I couldn't believe those a-hole Dems wouldn't even stand for the hockey team.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
=====

Chortling to myself because I've been inundated with ads for the IL primary for Dems who will:

STAND UP TO TRUMP!

Guess they can't stand up after all. Tee hee hee.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2026 12:24 PM (sLBe9)

278 Can you eat normal food and drink booze yet?
Posted by: Bulg

Thats the wrong order

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 25, 2026 12:25 PM (m+uh6)

279 from the SOTU--I'm not sure how PDT carried off this tongue-twister, but he did!

Together we mastered the world’s mightiest industries, shattered history’s monstrous tyrannies.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2026 12:29 PM (+YA9H)

280 What if you are a Canadian with no health for which to care?

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Untitled
Beulah Loomis Hyde

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Love it. But I think we’ve seen it before.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 09:31 AM (2QNxJ)

2 Untitled?
I think I know why.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2026 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

3 Hopperesque. Nice.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

4 This looks familiar...

It's also ugly brutalism. No wonder it doesn't have a title.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM (4S2yc)

5 No boobs. No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

6 Yawn.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM (/XV1M)

7 Why doesn’t the telephone pole have any wires?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM (2QNxJ)

8 Sponge

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM (m24qK)

9 Hey Nurse!

Posted by: JSpicy at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM (C7Yya)

10 The windowless buildings were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at February 25, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

11 I was also thinking we had seen this before, but maybe it was another by the same artist?

Posted by: BonnieBlue at February 25, 2026 09:33 AM (dIPcq)

12 I love this work, the simple flatness and angles give the impression of the train moving at great speed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 09:33 AM (RIvkX)

13 This painting gives off the warmth of collectivism.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 25, 2026 09:34 AM (0nHVk)

14 Bleak and dull.

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2026 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

15 Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at February 25, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

16 No boobs, but really long smoke stack. Beulah had her priorities.

Posted by: JSpicy at February 25, 2026 09:34 AM (C7Yya)

17 Untitled?
I think I know why.
Posted by: redridinghood

Should be Bob, the Painting.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 09:34 AM (FXNzP)

18 Beulah?

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:35 AM (3wOGw)

19 ~~Untitled~~ Unfinished

Uninteresting

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 09:35 AM (JCZqz)

20 This is an excellent reminder to warn folks about grain bin safety. Drowning in corn or soy beans is a tough way to go. Make sure your local Fire Department/Rescue Squad has the equipment and training to extract Mr. Green Jeans from the silo.

Posted by: RFD-TV at February 25, 2026 09:35 AM (oftw2)

21 Originally titled - "Eh, whatever", but painter decided even that wasn't worth the bother.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 25, 2026 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

22 7 Why doesn’t the telephone pole have any wires?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM
+++
Makes Hooterville look downright opulent, don't it?

Posted by: Mr. Haney at February 25, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

23 Oddly, I find this calming. Probably because there's absolutely nothing going on in it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 09:36 AM (jtM2q)

24 Who names their kid Beulah?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

25 yow!
stark.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 09:36 AM (R11M+)

26 Thomas Beulah's Day Off.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:37 AM (3wOGw)

27 To what building does that really tall smokestack belong?

Posted by: I gotta ask at February 25, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

28 Untitled
Beulah Thomas Hyde

Unimpressed

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 09:38 AM (jBtak)

29 Weve seen similar, and it looks very competent. And uninspiring.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 25, 2026 09:39 AM (sl73Y)

30 Eh, I like it.
Like these types of paintings in general.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:39 AM (tj6OY)

31 Did a quick pookup. There is a Beulah Loomis Hyde who painted in the early 1900’s. Same woman as this one I think.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 09:39 AM (pDt9x)

32 Windows? I don't do windows.

Posted by: Beulah Thomas Hyde at February 25, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

33 Takes no technical skill at all but not horrible.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:40 AM (cntUY)

34 22 7 Why doesn’t the telephone pole have any wires?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM
+++
Makes Hooterville look downright opulent, don't it?
Posted by: Mr. Haney

If you're not going to use it, we could put it to good use...
https://tinyurl.com/3hx28u5u

Posted by: Most developing and 3rd world nations at February 25, 2026 09:40 AM (JCZqz)

35 kid used to work for me named boxcar.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 09:40 AM (R11M+)

36 Beulah means married in Hebrew. Meaning the relationship between God and his elect.

Posted by: Isaiah 62:4 at February 25, 2026 09:40 AM (oftw2)

37 "A Hopperesque exploration of limnal spaces."

Modern art historian

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 25, 2026 09:40 AM (p9rFX)

38 Eh, I like it.
Like these types of paintings in general.
Posted by: Lizzy

So do I.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

39 She is known as a pioneer in Northwest modernism, specializing in industrial scenes.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 09:41 AM (pDt9x)

40 >>Why doesn’t the telephone pole have any wires?

Photoshop?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:41 AM (tj6OY)

41 I mean, the painting is just kind of there, which might be the whole point.

You have a splinter in your minds eye that there has to be something more to it than what it is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 09:41 AM (XV/Pl)

42 23 Oddly, I find this calming. Probably because there's absolutely nothing going on in it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It's a good thing you're seeing it now...it got a little crazy for a few hours after Hyde finished.

Posted by: Drying Paint right after it was finished at February 25, 2026 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

43 40 optic fiber.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 09:42 AM (R11M+)

44 Looks like the Purina plant in Denver. Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:42 AM (tj6OY)

45 I like it. Clean lines. I prefer to some of her paintings of much more industrial settings,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 09:42 AM (lQ+/f)

46 Why doesn’t the telephone pole have any wires?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Jesus, lady- I'm already at the limits of my ability!

Posted by: Beulah Thomas Hyde at February 25, 2026 09:42 AM (ABedB)

47 It's a painting I would take one minute viewing at a museum before I move on to the next one.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:43 AM (cntUY)

48 In a bold move that has shaken up the contemporary art scene, Beulah Thomas Hyde has allowed the audacity of her genius to shine through in her latest work, "Untitled." This enigmatic piece—masterfully shrouded in ambiguity—daringly raises questions not just about the nature of art, but also about our very existence.

Posted by: Snooty Art Critic at February 25, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

49 The calm before the big blast.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vGlc2wRmbLY

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 09:43 AM (98kQX)

50 The prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan are dotted with old, wooden grain bins like this. Most could use a coat of paint.

Posted by: Sherwin-Williams-Cover The Earth (and Seas) at February 25, 2026 09:43 AM (oftw2)

51 Lots of smoke stacks, telephone poles, grain silos in her work. She the straight Georgia O'Keefe.

Posted by: JSpicy at February 25, 2026 09:44 AM (C7Yya)

52 For some reason, I like paintings portraying abandoned, or seemingly abandoned, structures. Just the buildings with no people around.

Kind of like I prefer landscapes without any people. Just admire the starkness and loneliness of the scene.

But, if there are people, they'd better be females with bodacious ta-tas.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

53 CBD knows that he should put up a dull, blah picture, because everything else would pale in comparison to last night.
Can’t hardly wait to exceed the 100 comment threshold.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 25, 2026 09:45 AM (nNjWE)

54 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Females with bodacious ta-tas. at February 25, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

55 Grain elevators and train yards. Things be hopping.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 09:46 AM (pZ64F)

56 Hooterville is less a tourist destination since the Bradley girls turned 80 and could no longer climb the ladder into the water tower.

Posted by: All Things Must Pass at February 25, 2026 09:46 AM (oftw2)

57 If you want to see a painter paint random things that are more interesting, check out James Gurney on YouTube.

His main medium is gouache, but he also paints in watercolor and tempora.

Dude will paint a random alley that had more interest than most artists masterworks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 09:47 AM (XV/Pl)

58 But I think we’ve seen it before.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 09:31 AM (2QNxJ)

Nope.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2026 09:47 AM (n9ltV)

59 She was trained. Apparently she worked with the artist Mark Tobey

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2026 09:47 AM (lQ+/f)

60 >>So do I.

I love Edward Hopper's paintings, and these industrial ones remind me of his work.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:47 AM (tj6OY)

61 This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Females with bodacious ta-tas

It's always about you, ladies.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

62 It's a painting I would take one minute viewing at a museum before I move on to the next one.
Posted by: Opinion fact

If the next wall were bare, I'd look for her signature in the corner.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 09:47 AM (MQmdM)

63 39 She is known as a pioneer in Northwest modernism, specializing in industrial scenes.
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So where are the Somalis?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 09:47 AM (pZ64F)

64 61 Even when it's not about you.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

65 I like it. I like farms. I assume that's what this is. If I'm wrong, I still like it because it reminds me of a farm.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 09:48 AM (DgMqy)

66 But I think we’ve seen it before."

The Dearborn/Ford factory at River Rouge a couple of weeks ago?

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 09:48 AM (cGjQu)

67 His main medium is gouache

So he's an Argentinian cowboy?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

68 We went from a$$, to titz, to . . . industrial architecture.

Liking the variety, but I've got no puns or dirty jokes for this.
*sigh*

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:49 AM (tj6OY)

69 Untittied. Would not hang.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2026 09:49 AM (w9Wax)

70 So where are the Somalis?
Posted by: pudinhead
$$$
"Quality Learing Center" sign just out of frame.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2026 09:49 AM (2Ez/1)

71 I like it....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 09:50 AM (qW/vZ)

72 ?But I think we’ve seen it before.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2026 09:31 AM (2QNxJ)

Nope.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2026 09:47 AM (n9ltV)
-

We can unsee it so that in the future you can post it again as new.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2026 09:50 AM (VFv8R)

73 So...there's plenty of empty space on that red barn on the right to have a giant mural of sexy WW2 pinup nose art...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 25, 2026 09:50 AM (JCZqz)

74 Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2026 09:39 AM (pDt9x)

Thanks for the correction. I have no idea where I got "Thomas."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2026 09:50 AM (n9ltV)

75 It seems Bulg has a one-track, nay, two-track mind.

Posted by: On Topic, Because Of Grain Car at February 25, 2026 09:50 AM (oftw2)

76 >>So where are the Somalis?

Driving away in trucks full of whatever used to be in that silo?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 09:50 AM (tj6OY)

77 Looks very lonely. Not on the level of di Chirico, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2026 09:51 AM (CHHv1)

78 But I think we’ve seen it before.

I remember the prior painting having multiple telephone poles, also without wires.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2026 09:51 AM (w9Wax)

79 53 Can’t hardly wait to exceed the 100 comment threshold.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!

Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT!

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 09:51 AM (Y8DZL)

80 The prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan are dotted with old, wooden grain bins like this. Most could use a coat of paint.
Posted by: Sherwin-Williams-Cover The Earth (and Seas)

Well, maybe the ones in Wullerton *spit.* They keep their shit spic-and-span in Dog River.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

81 Untitled
Beulah Thomas Hyde

**************

You're The One With All the Dirty Pics, Doc - a limerick

Tall erect buildings as anyone can see
Train goes in tunnel, quite coitally
I bet you that Freud
Would be truly annoyed
It's not real, it's just phallus-y

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2026 09:51 AM (qgHp7)

82 65 I like it. I like farms. I assume that's what this is. If I'm wrong, I still like it because it reminds me of a farm.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

This looks more like the local COOP, where farmers bring/sell their grain, and then trains come to load up and transport it away.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 25, 2026 09:51 AM (JCZqz)

83 79 53 Can’t hardly wait to exceed the 100 comment threshold.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!

Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT!

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 09:51 AM (Y8DZL)

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Stay on target!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

84 Like this , very simple.
Don't see a lot of women named Beulah anymore.
Thx CBD , would hang

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (/PQmQ)

85 We need Hadrian. No one here mentioning the canine dearth.

Posted by: Purina Dog Chow at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (oftw2)

86 The Idyllic Communist Farm, right before Mao forced people who know nothing about farming to labor the land, making sure the crop yield would be horrible.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (3wOGw)

87 Oh, I almost forgot to mention...

A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus

Mid-Morning Art Thread from awhile back.

Was in a Jeopardy! clue last night!

I almost jumped off the couch, but I was too comfy under my t-shirt quilt.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (DgMqy)

88 85 We need Hadrian. No one here mentioning the canine dearth.

Posted by: Purina Dog Chow at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (oftw2)

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Comment 5 does not exist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

89 Art comment.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (nNjWE)

90 Another art comment.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (nNjWE)

91 This looks more like the local COOP, where farmers bring/sell their grain, and then trains come to load up and transport it away.

And zombie Pete Seeger would have you believe he spent many an hour as an honest, exploited working man.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (Riz8t)

92 86 The Idyllic Communist Farm, right before Mao forced people who know nothing about farming to labor the land, making sure the crop yield would be horrible.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (3wOGw)

=======

We call them kolkhozy, comrade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

93 So we don't know whose train set this is?

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (EQlDs)

94 I'm sorry. The theme this week is nekkid wimmins. Your submission is rejected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (ExV1e)

95 85 We need Hadrian. No one here mentioning the canine dearth.
Posted by: Purina Dog Chow at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (oftw2)

Nor the lack of young soldiers and sailors being sent off to their doom killing and being killed for their country.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (3wOGw)

96 She the straight Georgia O'Keefe.

Posted by: JSpicy at February 25, 2026 09:44 AM (C7Yya)

O'Keefe wasn't a lesbian.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (n9ltV)

97 Don't see a lot of women named Beulah anymore.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

The only "Beulah" I can think of is the actress Beulah Bondi, who played Jimmy Stewart's mother in It's a Wonderful Life.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

98 100

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 25, 2026 09:54 AM (vfth7)

99 Derp

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 25, 2026 09:54 AM (vfth7)

100 It's not real, it's just phallus-y
Posted by: muldoon
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Beulah was feeling frisky that day, my friends.

Posted by: G. Costanza at February 25, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

101 Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT!

Hold! HOLD! HOOOLLLLDDDDD!!!!

Posted by: William Wallace at February 25, 2026 09:54 AM (Riz8t)

102 O'Keefe wasn't a lesbian.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (n9ltV)

She was an adulteress iirc but aren't all painters.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:54 AM (cntUY)

103 This is why I should never gamble

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (vfth7)

104 Crudely done, might as well use crayons. Would not hang.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (E4rtv)

105 @87 saw that last night on Jeopardy. Posted about it in the Cafe.
CBD has foresight

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (/PQmQ)

106 Wheeeeeew!
T has not lost his fastball. That was a masterclass last night.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (nNjWE)

107 101 Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT!

Hold! HOLD! HOOOLLLLDDDDD!!!!

Posted by: William Wallace at February 25, 2026 09:54 AM (Riz8t)

======

Lost Tiree, lost Hutch. It came from...behind!

ARGH!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

108 This is why I should never gamble
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

You would be very good at blackjack!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (w9Wax)

109 Another art comment.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (nNjWE)

You, sir, are a great American.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (dK+Kv)

110 The least Beulah could have done was paint a Wall Drug or Red Man Chewing Tobacco ad on the broad side of those silos. And some graffiti on the train car.

Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (oftw2)

111 The Idyllic Communist Farm, right before Mao forced people who know nothing about farming to labor the land, making sure the crop yield would be horrible.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (3wOGw)

Normal ANTIFA farmers.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:56 AM (cntUY)

112 Here, James Gurney demonstrates painting a USPS Postal Truck and tells a story.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7zkf3r

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 09:56 AM (XV/Pl)

113 97 The only "Beulah" I can think of is the actress Beulah Bondi, who played Jimmy Stewart's mother in It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

Professional Wrestler Tommy Dreamer's wife and former manager went by the ring name "Beulah McGillicutty" (her real name was Trish, though).

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:56 AM (3wOGw)

114 Well, the lady can draw straight lines. But it has no soul. The colors are bland, even the sky. The horizon is the same dull blue as one of the buildings. There is no sense of movement or activity and not just because there are no people in the painting. It gives me the same emotional response as a blueprint. If I saw this in a gallery I would pass by in a few seconds.

I'm glad she stuck to industrial or cityscapes. Imagine the horror of her trying to paint a birch tree or a sylvan glade.

Posted by: JTB at February 25, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

115 111 The Idyllic Communist Farm, right before Mao forced people who know nothing about farming to labor the land, making sure the crop yield would be horrible.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (3wOGw)

Normal ANTIFA farmers.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:56 AM (cntUY)

=====

Think we can convince them to kill all the sparrows because they're counter-revolutionary?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 09:56 AM (GBKbO)

116 I like the starkness of it...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 09:56 AM (qW/vZ)

117 110 The least Beulah could have done was paint a Wall Drug or Red Man Chewing Tobacco ad on the broad side of those silos. And some graffiti on the train car.
Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined!

just as long as it's not Aunt Jemima or Uncle Ben

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 25, 2026 09:56 AM (FZYNt)

118 This is why I should never gamble
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Call me!

Posted by: Zombie Bob Barker at February 25, 2026 09:57 AM (w9Wax)

119 It gives me the same emotional response as a blueprint. If I saw this in a gallery I would pass by in a few seconds.

I wouldn't even slow my stroll.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 09:57 AM (Riz8t)

120 I'm on the other side.

Posted by: See Rock City at February 25, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)

121 And zombie Pete Seeger would have you believe he spent many an hour as an honest, exploited working man.
Posted by: Archimedes

Me too! I grew up at the local Co-op, uh....counting the grain by hand! Like most of you farmers, though, I couldn't get much higher than 138 or so! We're so similar!

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (JCZqz)

122 I wouldn't even slow my stroll.

At least blueprints are usually well executed.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (Riz8t)

123 119 It gives me the same emotional response as a blueprint. If I saw this in a gallery I would pass by in a few seconds.

I wouldn't even slow my stroll.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 09:57 AM (Riz8t

As they say.... Art is in the eye of the beholder...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (qW/vZ)

124 Yeah, it's the River Rouge art again.

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (cGjQu)

125 Wheeeeeew!
T has not lost his fastball. That was a masterclass last night.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 25, 2026 09:55 AM (nNjWE)

I didn't get to watch live, but I watched, and I agree. Very well done, respectful, tasteful, and full of contrast between otherwise do-nothing Republicans and bitter, hateful, evil Democrats.

Bless Iryna's poor mother and congratulations to the three military honorees.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (dK+Kv)

126 I like the starkness of it...
Posted by: It's me donna

Yes, I do, too.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

127 I’ve got it. The Squad is buried in a shallow grave behind the barn. Their epitaph is “Just couldn’t be bothered to stand for America.”

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (nNjWE)

128 Me too! I grew up at the local Co-op, uh....counting the grain by hand! Like most of you farmers, though, I couldn't get much higher than 138 or so! We're so similar!

Posted by: Gavin Newsom

Okay, that's funny.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (Riz8t)

129 Is Jeopardy! any good post-Alex? Isn't that asshoe Ken Jennings the host now?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

130 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 10:00 AM (qW/vZ)

131 I couldn't believe those a-hole Dems wouldn't even stand for the hockey team.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

132 Untitled
Beulah Thomas Hyde

I like the painting but am unfamiliar with the artist. After just a little searching, I found I like her body of work.
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Interesting article -

TIO Pacific Northwest: “Structure & Form: The Art of B. L. Hyde,” Cascadia Art Museum!

A ground-breaking exhibition is now on display at the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington. Curated by art historian David Martin, “Structure & Form: The Art of B. L. Hyde” is up through February 2, 2025.
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I would hang her industrial paintings (maybe all 'Untitled') together.

Thanks!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (NFX2v)

133 "Is Jeopardy! any good post-Alex? Isn't that asshoe Ken Jennings the host now?"

It's OK. Ken is actually charming, if I can say that about a man.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (DgMqy)

134 131 I couldn't believe those a-hole Dems wouldn't even stand for the hockey team.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

Too patriotic... {{{shudder}}}

Posted by: Commie Dems at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (qW/vZ)

135 OK, afterglow is over. Imaginary cigarette has been smoked. Back to art.

Loved the Barn Red red.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (nNjWE)

136 If you like stark , compare this painting to Wythe's Christina's World.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (cntUY)

137 It's OK. Ken is actually charming, if I can say that about a man.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

no homo

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (FZYNt)

138 And some graffiti on the train car.
Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined!

If you look closely, you can see the graffiti boobs painted on my side!

Posted by: The Box Car at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (w9Wax)

139 @129 Jennings is ahole but the show is still good. Too many "special tournaments" though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (/PQmQ)

140 This painting is about as exciting as soot.

Posted by: fd, My Inner Beauty Shines Slightly at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (vFG9F)

141 I Ken Jennings is on CNN now.

Posted by: But I don't even own a TV at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)

142 129 Is Jeopardy! any good post-Alex? Isn't that asshoe Ken Jennings the host now?
Posted by: Bulg

Jeopardy died when they fired Art Fleming!

Posted by: Zombie Merv Griffin at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (oftw2)

143 no homo

I knew that was coming. lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (DgMqy)

144 There's a line of very large grain elevators across the street from the high school in my hometown. Those things explode and burn. If the bad thing happened, it would be very bad for my hometown.

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (98kQX)

145 130 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?
Posted by: It's me donna

The far Left is upset that she seemed calm and rationale. They want screaming hysterics because Democracy is dying, or something, and the Dem response should reflect what they are feeling on the inside (and what they falsely think the majority of Americans are feeling, too).

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

146 It's OK. Ken is actually charming, if I can say that about a man.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

I can't forgive him for the shit he said about Barron Trump. Dude's a douchebag of the first water.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

147 Our local grain elevator had a wide belt with hand holds and narrow steps on it that you'd ride from floor to floor. It ran continuously and you'd grab and jump on, hold on as you passed through floors on your way to where you were going and then you'd step off at your destination floor.

OSHA would have had a fit.

Posted by: Zombie Foghorn Leghorn at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (cYBz/)

148 Beulah better hide.
Bleak.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:03 AM (Edoh6)

149 Meh

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 25, 2026 10:03 AM (w6EFb)

150 Meh on the art today. For some reason, it appears unfinished to me and the shadows (chiaroscuro?) appear out of place. Quite a bit of odd detail, but no lines for electric/phone tree.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2026 10:03 AM (sLBe9)

151 105 CBD has foresight
Posted by: Smell the Glove

So, no brit milah?

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 10:03 AM (Y8DZL)

152 She was an adulteress iirc but aren't all painters.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 09:54 AM (cntUY)

Absolutely not. Some are adulterers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 10:03 AM (ExV1e)

153 145 130 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?
Posted by: It's me donna

The far Left is upset that she seemed calm and rationale. They want screaming hysterics because Democracy is dying, or something, and the Dem response should reflect what they are feeling on the inside (and what they falsely think the majority of Americans are feeling, too).

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

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When Democrats net like 3 seats in the House and gain nothing in the Senate, they're going to go fucking insane.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

154 Off Loudmouth Snook sock!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 10:04 AM (cYBz/)

155 Jennings is ahole but the show is still good. Too many "special tournaments" though
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2026 10:01 AM (/PQmQ)

This week on Jeopardy, a special tournament for people who have fled Trump's America.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 10:05 AM (ExV1e)

156 153 145 130 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?
Posted by: It's me donna

The far Left is upset that she seemed calm and rationale. They want screaming hysterics because Democracy is dying, or something, and the Dem response should reflect what they are feeling on the inside (and what they falsely think the majority of Americans are feeling, too).

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (JCZ

I wasn't speaking of Spanberger.. I saw that.. I was referring to the outdoor one they were supposedly gonna hold...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 10:05 AM (qW/vZ)

157 In interviews I've seen Ken Jennings is a smug douche nozzle. Granted those interviews were on Howard Stern before he was a host.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:05 AM (cntUY)

158 131 I couldn't believe those a-hole Dems wouldn't even stand for the hockey team.
Posted by: Bulg

Especially insensitive to Canadian adjacents.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 10:06 AM (Y8DZL)

159 Geez! You lose the Crown Jewels ONE TIME and they never let you live it down!

HISTORIC: First female director of the Louvre resigns after crown jewels stolen on her watch

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:06 AM (FXNzP)

160 146 It's OK. Ken is actually charming, if I can say that about a man.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

I can't forgive him for the shit he said about Barron Trump. Dude's a douchebag of the first water.
Posted by: Bulg
====
True of most of our celebutard class. Hope your happy fun medical procedure went okay Bulg.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:06 AM (E4rtv)

161 grokipedia has a good article on her, much more than the wikipedia one.

She lived just a few days short of her 97th birthday. One husband, three sons, no scandals mentioned.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (MQmdM)

162 159 Geez! You lose the Crown Jewels ONE TIME and they never let you live it down!

HISTORIC: First female director of the Louvre resigns after crown jewels stolen on her watch

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:06 AM (FXNzP)

====

The First Blind Director of the Louvre will do better, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

163 "In interviews I've seen Ken Jennings is a smug douche nozzle. Granted those interviews were on Howard Stern before he was a host."

I just see Ken when me and The Missus watch Jeopardy! I have no idea what he says otherwise.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (DgMqy)

164 The alternate SOTU looked like a furry convention.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (cntUY)

165 My favorite contestant ever on Jeopardy (in the Alex era) was this cute young woman named Larissa. Made the most money of any woman candidate up to that point. She bet aggressively, like a guy. Cute, too. Blinked a lot, though.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

166 It's no Hudson River School.

Posted by: red speck at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (Ve/HL)

167 O'Keefe wasn't a lesbian.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

**********

Ah, the wry appropriateness of this particular comment juxtaposed with this particular sock.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (qgHp7)

168 130 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?
Posted by: It's me donna
###

I think this is in reference to the event outside of the Capitol building on the National Mall in thirty degree weather.
Which sounds perfectly miserable.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)

169 I couldn't believe those a-hole Dems wouldn't even stand for the hockey team.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
=====

Chortling to myself because I've been inundated with ads for the IL primary for Dems who will:

STAND UP TO TRUMP!

Guess they can't stand up after all. Tee hee hee.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (sLBe9)

170 HISTORIC: First female director of the Louvre resigns after crown jewels stolen on her watch

The payoff alone should help her retire comfortably.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2026 10:08 AM (MQmdM)

171 I just see Ken when me and The Missus watch Jeopardy! I have no idea what he says otherwise.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

This is how it should be, if celebs just STFU about anything outside of their job...

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 25, 2026 10:08 AM (FZYNt)

172 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Untitled? Looks like some old grain elevator in eastern Washington.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:08 AM (2WIwB)

173 I wasn't speaking of Spanberger.. I saw that.. I was referring to the outdoor one they were supposedly gonna hold...
Posted by: It's me donna

Ahh, the People Rally or some other commie bullshit name.

Brave AI summary,
"The rally, hosted by MoveOn and MeidasTouch, began at 8:30 p.m. ET and was livestreamed on MoveOn.org/live and Indivisible’s YouTube channel, drawing an estimated 220,000 online viewers. Attendees and speakers criticized Trump’s policies on immigration, healthcare, and democracy, with chants like “Abolish ICE!” and “Release the files!”—referring to the unredacted Epstein files.

Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove stated she boycotted the official address because Trump was making a “mockery” of a “sacred constitutional duty.” Other events, like “State of the Swamp” at the National Press Club, featured figures such as Robert De Niro and Mark Ruffalo. The protests reflected broad opposition to Trump’s agenda, with organizers calling it a rejection of “normalization” of his administration. "

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:08 AM (E4rtv)

174 Hope your happy fun medical procedure went okay Bulg.
Posted by: whig

Bulg! You didn't 'transition' did you?

No judgement but we loved you just the way you are/were.

(Hope you are doing fine.)

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 10:08 AM (cYBz/)

175 True of most of our celebutard class. Hope your happy fun medical procedure went okay Bulg.
Posted by: whig

Yes, it did, thanks. How are your medical issues today?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

176 "Beulah".

Now, there's a name you don't often hear any more.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (ZANBw)

177 =====

Think we can convince them to kill all the sparrows because they're counter-revolutionary?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
-----------

We are allowed to kill all the sparrows because they are an invasive species that kill and diminish our native birds.
Other agencies should take a hint.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (Edoh6)

178 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?
Posted by: It's me donna

It was a Joypalooza!

https://is.gd/e3Pink

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (FXNzP)

179 It's also ugly brutalism. No wonder it doesn't have a title.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2026 09:32 AM (4S2yc)

So that’s why my first impression was that this is the Obama Library of Nebraska.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (k/Sbk)

180 I wasn't speaking of Spanberger.. I saw that.. I was referring to the outdoor one they were supposedly gonna hold...

The one with the frogs?
https://is.gd/wvfJro

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (Riz8t)

181 Dog River, Saskatchewan. Before and after the tee vee show.

Posted by: Will Robinson at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (2H3yT)

182 145 The far Left is upset that she seemed calm and rationale. They want screaming hysterics because Democracy is dying, or something, and the Dem response should reflect what they are feeling on the inside (and what they falsely think the majority of Americans are feeling, too).
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

Don't know why they'd expect a lifetime CIA Fed to shake and scream.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (3wOGw)

183 Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:08 AM (E4rtv)

LOL.. So it went as "well" as expected...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (qW/vZ)

184 Beulah is a name you do not hear much anymore either.

Not one that I think of fondly though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:10 AM (bss/y)

185 (Hope you are doing fine.)
Posted by: Tonypete

Yes, I am, Tonypete. After the misery of the last two days, I almost feel like a 20-year-old again.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

186 The problem with currently constituted Jeopardy is that they have now moved to a more frequent tournament/challenge format and are trying to cultivate personalities from their contestants.

I would say there was a titanic shift after the James Holzauer run.

I liked James a lot but ultimately, he was bad for Jeopardy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 10:11 AM (XV/Pl)

187 This is how it should be, if celebs just STFU about anything outside of their job...
Posted by: Rick in SK
--------
Corporate bosses, pr handlers, and agents all push their hires to be political in the right way or be replaced by someone who is simpatico.

Same as universities, media, etc.

Even the silent ones are suspect so if you are in such a deep blue job market, you have to thread the needle very successfully to keep your job.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:11 AM (E4rtv)

188
The one with the frogs?
https://is.gd/wvfJro
Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (Riz8t)

OMG.... Insane...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 10:11 AM (qW/vZ)

189 Beulah boola...boola boola
Beulah boola...boola boo!

Go Yale, Beat Hahhhvad!

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2026 10:11 AM (qgHp7)

190 185
Yes, I am, Tonypete. After the misery of the last two days, I almost feel like a 20-year-old again.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

Do you feel like you could pass Elvis through your colon?

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 10:11 AM (3wOGw)

191 The one with the frogs?
https://is.gd/wvfJro
Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (Riz8t)

Okay they were frogs. I just saw a photo of the stage from far away. I thought they were bunch of furries.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:11 AM (cntUY)

192 HISTORIC: First female director of the Louvre resigns after crown jewels stolen on her watch

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:06 AM (FXNzP)

====

The First Blind Director of the Louvre will do better, I'm sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
=================
The Louvre should go full Mandami, for DEI demonstration purposes, and invite a reformed art thief or forger to be the new Director. Otherwise it isn't inclusive enough.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2026 10:12 AM (ZANBw)

193 I liked James a lot but ultimately, he was bad for Jeopardy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

No one will ever live up to Trebek in my book.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

194 This looks like something Grant Wood might have done late in his career after he'd decided "Screw it. I'm half-assing it and cashing in on my name."

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2026 10:12 AM (0e5Te)

195 She was largely forgotten until a Northwest one-artist show two years ago. Now she's "Antiques Roadshow" worthy.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 25, 2026 10:12 AM (zdLoL)

196 Not only should it be left untitled, but it should be displayed in a dark, locked room without any electricity innit.

Posted by: F'tumch at February 25, 2026 10:13 AM (7Q0e+)

197 Do you feel like you could pass Elvis through your colon?
Posted by: XTC

Well, they did remove that French WWI artillery shell.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

198 “Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove stated she boycotted the official address because Trump was making a “mockery” of a “sacred constitutional duty.”

I’ve always felt it was particularly devilish for people to throw around the word “sacred” when in fact they do not believe anything is “sacred” and that All is infinitely corruptible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 10:13 AM (k/Sbk)

199 LOL.. So it went as "well" as expected...
Posted by: It's me donna
======
Event may have lacked a good spirit drummer as it was not noted in reviews--leftists love their spirit drums. To them spirit drums are the equivalent of church bells for the faithful Christians.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:13 AM (E4rtv)

200 The Louvre should go full Mandami, for DEI demonstration purposes, and invite a reformed art thief or forger to be the new Director. Otherwise it isn't inclusive enough.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

The state of the shit world they are in is that you could present this very argument in a board meeting and it would be seriously discussed.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 10:13 AM (cYBz/)

201 The thing about the Democrats and their belligerence at the SOTU address is that they're all conditioned, trained, to be like that. It's obvious. They are almost always in lockstep. Many saw that last night when the proverbial bat signal was sent to their smartphones.

The question asked, but as far as I know, not answered is; "who sent the message?"

That person saw what was happening, and made a ham handed attempt to stop it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 10:13 AM (jtM2q)

202 Did they ever recover the jewels that were stolen?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

203 133 jennings is a commie. the show is still a challenge, although there is more "commercial" content than ever. plus a fair stream of pink haired men these days, nttawwt.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 10:14 AM (R11M+)

204 Socalism got its foothold here in the Depression, and Roosevelt bought it

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 10:14 AM (EQlDs)

205 202 Did they ever recover the jewels that were stolen?
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

Not that I heard...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2026 10:14 AM (qW/vZ)

206 he was bad for Jeopardy."

I lost on Jeopardy, baby...

Posted by: Weird Al at February 25, 2026 10:15 AM (cGjQu)

207 Event may have lacked a good spirit drummer as it was not noted in reviews--leftists love their spirit drums. To them spirit drums are the equivalent of church bells for the faithful Christians.
Posted by: whig

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Fake Indian drummer at the March for Life

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

208 Plain. No dog. No tree. No boobs.

Title checks out. (Almost 200 comments, surely I'm not the first with this standard pithy observation.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - goooood morning Moron Horde at February 25, 2026 10:15 AM (rlEvI)

209 93 So we don't know whose train set this is?
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (EQlDs)

This style of painting looks to me much like the card miniatures model railroaders make to test fit a structure in a scene, and act as a "place holder" until the detailed structure is made and installed. Hopper includes much more detail.

Posted by: capercaillie4901 at February 25, 2026 10:15 AM (f1WVr)

210 I’ve always felt it was particularly devilish for people to throw around the word “sacred” when in fact they do not believe anything is “sacred” and that All is infinitely corruptible.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=====
Well, Democrats are devilish in general so they misuse sacred a lot. A sacred right to whack at genitals, a sacred right to make others wear a mask and be injected with the vaxx, a sacred right not to hear a discouraging word.

Seems like every Democrat policy is 'sacred'.

Stan though does love his inversions and it is a favorite tactic of his minions.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:15 AM (E4rtv)

211 beulah witch. i saw kukla and ollie (no fran) at the goodman theatre in the '80s... tillstrom was brilliant.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)

212 Beulah boola...boola boola
Beulah boola...boola boo!

Go Yale, Beat Hahhhvad!

Posted by: muldoon

====

That's the one they lifted from U of Oklahoma, correct?

* ducks *

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 25, 2026 10:16 AM (8AONa)

213 Another example of art by an unfortunate victim of cataracts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 10:16 AM (8zz6B)

214 liked James a lot but ultimately, he was bad for Jeopardy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

No one will ever live up to Trebek in my book.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

I like Trebek and especially the jokes about him when a contestant would miss a question.

' no sorry only a retard would get that wrong'

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:16 AM (cntUY)

215 Plain. No dog. No tree. No boobs.
Posted by: mindful webworker

But abundant perches for the sniper, however. But, because there's no one around to snipe at, he got bored and went home.

So, no sniper, either.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

216 203 133 jennings is a commie. the show is still a challenge, although there is more "commercial" content than ever. plus a fair stream of pink haired men these days, nttawwt.
Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 10:14 AM (R11M+)

There's EVERYTHING wrong with that.

A man should be institutionalized the second he buys pink hair dye.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 10:17 AM (3wOGw)

217 That's the one they lifted from U of Oklahoma, correct?

* ducks *

Boomer Sooner?

Posted by: Weird Al at February 25, 2026 10:17 AM (cGjQu)

218 Kinda Hopper vibe. Not bad.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 10:18 AM (bFu5X)

219 This is about me, isn't it?
-- Fake Indian drummer at the March for Life
Posted by: Bulg
---------
Ah yes, the fake indian who was really a failed HVAC 'vet' and all around asshole.

What I would have paid good money to see is Keith Moon confounding the left by playing the drums at a protest. They would never be able to figure out when he was filling or when he was taking the lead. Mass confusions for the inevitable chanting.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:18 AM (E4rtv)

220 It used to be that a viewer with a modicum of general knowledge could watch Jeopardy and have fun guessing at the answers, getting some right. The Ken Jennings version has shifted from general trivia to ridiculous obscure answers with horrribly tortuous phrasing of the clues.

It's now nothing but humorless autistic nerds who spend countless hours prepping/studying for the show like it's the SAT.

Trebek was affable. Jennings is insufferable.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2026 10:18 AM (qgHp7)

221 Re: art

No wires on the telephone pole
I got nothin'

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2026 10:19 AM (ZxPkt)

222 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Also, they had giant green frogs because . . . uhhhhhh.

https://is.gd/MAQLXt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:19 AM (FXNzP)

223 147 a few of the lake shore drive buildings here have man lifts that are just flaps you step onto that run continuously. pretty neat.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 10:20 AM (R11M+)

224 That's the one they lifted from U of Oklahoma, correct?

* ducks *

Boomer Sooner?

Posted by: Weird Al

====

Yup.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 25, 2026 10:20 AM (8AONa)

225 Mass confusions for the inevitable chanting."

Especially when parts of the kit went flying...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:21 AM (cGjQu)

226 I just saw comment #7

I got nothin'

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2026 10:21 AM (ZxPkt)

227 This style of painting looks to me much like the card miniatures model railroaders make to test fit a structure in a scene, and act as a "place holder" until the detailed structure is made and installed. Hopper includes much more detail.
Posted by: capercaillie4901
_________

So it's a Train in Vain?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2026 10:21 AM (XvL8K)

228 I used to watch Jeopardy when I got home from school. They would repeat the episode later that evening and I would watch with my parents after they got home for work. I would answer all the questions almost immediately. My father caught on after a couple of times but their reactions were hilarious while it lasted.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (cntUY)

229 201 The question asked, but as far as I know, not answered is; "who sent the message?"
That person saw what was happening, and made a ham handed attempt to stop it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It didn't happen. We shall not speak of it. Another Trump lie.

You'd think someone would try to find out, wouldn't you?

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (Y8DZL)

230 222 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Also, they had giant green frogs because . . . uhhhhhh.

https://is.gd/MAQLXt
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:19 AM (FXNzP)

You can't fight "Even Worse Than Hitler" without inflatable frog suits.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (3wOGw)

231 No wires on the telephone pole"

Who needs wires?

/fetus with cellphone

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (cGjQu)

232 220 It used to be that a viewer with a modicum of general knowledge could watch Jeopardy and have fun guessing at the answers, getting some right. The Ken Jennings version has shifted from general trivia to ridiculous obscure answers with horrribly tortuous phrasing of the clues.

It's now nothing but humorless autistic nerds who spend countless hours prepping/studying for the show like it's the SAT.

Trebek was affable. Jennings is insufferable.
Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2026 10:18 AM (qgHp7)

Huh. This is interesting. He's made it into the worst of how geeks can be about anything they are interested in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (bss/y)

233 It's now nothing but humorless autistic nerds who spend countless hours prepping/studying for the show like it's the SAT.
Posted by: muldoon

I saw Humorless Autistic Nerds open for Maximum Value Daily Double Chasers at the Alex Trebek Memorial Arena.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (cYBz/)

234 So it's a Train in Vain?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

On a plain!

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

235 Trebek was affable. Jennings is insufferable.
Posted by: muldoon

Pretty much a microcosm of our current celebutard class. In almost every area, the new crop is inferior to the older in grace, charm, and likability. Movie stars, sitcoms, models, musicians, reporters, artists, etc.

Fake virtue signalling has replaced charm and affability where these celebutards actually think they are morally superior to the hoi polloi.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:23 AM (E4rtv)

236 So it's a Train in Vain?"

Artist vs Artist = clash?

*ducks*

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:24 AM (cGjQu)

237 New generic Congressional ballot poll from ABC/Wapo:

Democrats - 47%
Republicans - 45%

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 10:24 AM (viF8m)

238 25, 2026 10:11 AM (3wOGw)

191 The one with the frogs?
https://is.gd/wvfJro
Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2026 10:09 AM (Riz8t)

Okay they were frogs. I just saw a photo of the stage from far away. I thought they were bunch of furries.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:11 AM (cntUY)

Wow. You know I try to anticipate insanity, but I find that I really can’t. I’m just not stupid enough to think of actually doing something like that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2026 10:24 AM (k/Sbk)

239 You can't fight "Even Worse Than Hitler" without inflatable frog suits.
Posted by: XTC
======
Someone misread WWII stories of valourous frogmen.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:24 AM (E4rtv)

240 I used to watch Jeopardy when I got home from school. They would repeat the episode later that evening and I would watch with my parents after they got home for work. I would answer all the questions almost immediately.
Posted by: Opinion fact

The Bill Murray character did that in Groundhog Day, based on all his past relivings of the day.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

241 Some Venom For Jeopardy! just splashed through my screen and burned a hole in my nice blue shirt.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 10:24 AM (DgMqy)

242 222 OT/ but any word on the dems alternate SOTU ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Also, they had giant green frogs because . . . uhhhhhh.

https://is.gd/MAQLXt
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:19 AM (FXNzP)
That woman looks insane.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 10:24 AM (LHPAg)

243 When you've lost CBS . . .

CBS's Major Garrett admits President Trump successfully drew a clear contrast with Democrats tonight:

"They can’t even applaud basic commonsense things."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:25 AM (FXNzP)

244 It's also of note that Jennings literally went on Jeopardy and had no life and just stayed. That became his life.

Most of these game shows (go back and watch old game shows on ewetub) would have real people who had real lives just going to cali for a vacation and being on a game show. People with ratty clothes or glasses taped together, all of it.

Now, everyone has to look like a movie star if they get on camera or else they are mocked and you have to be a complete autist to get on Jeopardy.

Interesting- but probably not good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:25 AM (bss/y)

245 @220

>>It's now nothing but humorless autistic nerds who spend countless hours prepping/studying for the show like it's the SAT.

As I noted, there was a major shift after James Holzauer came within a whisker of dethroning Jennings record.

Seeing James success, a lot of people that would normally not have tried out for Jeopardy are trying their luck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 10:25 AM (XV/Pl)

246 Now, everyone has to look like a movie star if they get on camera or else they are mocked and you have to be a complete autist to get on Jeopardy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Well, to be fair, the host of the show is essentially the star of the show and should look the part.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

247 244 Most of these game shows (go back and watch old game shows on ewetub) would have real people who had real lives just going to cali for a vacation and being on a game show. People with ratty clothes or glasses taped together, all of it.

Now, everyone has to look like a movie star if they get on camera or else they are mocked and you have to be a complete autist to get on Jeopardy.

Interesting- but probably not good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:25 AM (bss/y)

Not always. Go back and see how many "Before they were famous" people ended up on 70s and 80s game shows as contestants.

It may not be a _ton_, but it's enough that you notice.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 10:26 AM (3wOGw)

248 That woman looks insane."

You misspelled "is"

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:27 AM (cGjQu)

249 Yeah, it's the River Rouge art again.
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 09:58 AM (cGjQu)

Ashcan't School.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 10:27 AM (8zz6B)

250 As I noted, there was a major shift after James Holzauer came within a whisker of dethroning Jennings record.

Seeing James success, a lot of people that would normally not have tried out for Jeopardy are trying their luck.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 10:25 AM (XV/Pl)

Hmmm, so you are implying that Jennings has made the changes so no one ever has a chance of matching his record? It is all about him?

It would make sense from what I have seen of the guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:27 AM (bss/y)

251 177 sparrows, starlings, rock doves (pigeons) and monk parakeets: open season nuisance.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 10:27 AM (R11M+)

252 Wow. You know I try to anticipate insanity, but I find that I really can’t. I’m just not stupid enough to think of actually doing something like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=======
If you make a mistake in search terms at Amazon looking for books, you will promptly find a whole subgenre of perverted idiots that would think exactly like that. One time, I was looking for a BBC dvd and used the search term BBC. Needless to say, the results were charmless, obscene, and odious. And for some time after, Amazon would randomly feed something from that into book suggestions.

But, if you think about it, frogs are a perfect symbol of the swamp in DC. Except, the Democrat frogs are all mutated into having three eyes, fur, etc.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:28 AM (E4rtv)

253 Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 10:26 AM (3wOGw

Tom Selleck and a famous serial killer whose name I can't recall right now were on the Dating Game.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:28 AM (cntUY)

254 sparrows, starlings, rock doves (pigeons) and monk parakeets: open season nuisance"

Well, we're waiting...

/locusts everywhere

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:28 AM (cGjQu)

255 Infamous = famous

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:28 AM (cntUY)

256 Beulah Loomis Hyde

-------

Not my kid - she's Mr. Hyde's kid.
-Dr. Jekyl...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 25, 2026 10:28 AM (QGaXH)

257 I wasn't speaking of Spanberger.. I saw that.. I was referring to the outdoor one they were supposedly gonna hold...
Posted by: It's me donna

What about the "State of the Swamp" response event? Here's a clip where (I think) psychopath Kyle Wagner is "entertaining" a crowd of fellow radicals.
https://tinyurl.com/bdf3xrty

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2026 10:29 AM (JCZqz)

258 I had a cousin who was one of the imposters on To Tell the Truth back in the 70s.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

259 Hurricane Beulah?

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 10:30 AM (fYhK6)

260 Infamous = famous
Posted by: Opinion fact
_________

Infamous > famous

Posted by: Three Amigos at February 25, 2026 10:30 AM (XvL8K)

261 Lyle Waggoner >>>>> Kyle Wagner

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

262 DOGS
PLAYING
POKER

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 10:30 AM (fYhK6)

263 253 Tom Selleck and a famous serial killer whose name I can't recall right now were on the Dating Game.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:28 AM (cntUY)

Former Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick was on the 70s Match Game, as was Kirstie Alley.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 10:31 AM (3wOGw)

264 Jeopardy?

I'd rather watch the two girls with Popsicles on The Gong Show...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:31 AM (cGjQu)

265 > Also, they had giant green frogs because . . . uhhhhhh.
--------
Pepe

The green frog used in memes.

Other than that... I got nuffin

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2026 10:32 AM (jtM2q)

266 229 201 The question asked, but as far as I know, not answered is; "who sent the message?"
That person saw what was happening, and made a ham handed attempt to stop it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It didn't happen. We shall not speak of it. Another Trump lie.

You'd think someone would try to find out, wouldn't you?
Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (Y8DZL)
Ultimately it was shaitan. it was shaitan who put them in that state and only he could jerk them out of it, but one of his minions like val-jar or ubama made the call.

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2026 10:32 AM (LHPAg)

267 Tom Selleck and a famous serial killer whose name I can't recall right now were on the Dating Game.
Posted by: Opinion fact

The serial killer known as "The Dating Game Killer" is Rodney Alcala, who appeared on the popular TV show in 1978.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 10:32 AM (qilzz)

268 Look away! Look away!

https://is.gd/AQ8Acm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:32 AM (FXNzP)

269 Rodney Alcala was the serial killer. Had to look it up.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:32 AM (cntUY)

270 Well, we're waiting...

/locusts everywhere
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:28 AM (cGjQu)

I’m waiting to be born again.
Wanting is the saddest kind of pain
Waiting for the day that I will crawl away.

Nothing is what I feel. Waiting for the drugs to make it real. Waiting for the day when I will crawl away.

Waiting to be disciplined. Aching for your nails across my skin. Waiting for the day when I will crawl, waiting for the day when I will crawl away.

(H/t, Porcupine Tree)

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 10:33 AM (fYhK6)

271 I was gonna say something about Wheel Of Fortune, but not now... lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 10:33 AM (DgMqy)

272 Trebek was affable. Jennings is insufferable.
Posted by: muldoon

Concur.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2026 10:33 AM (2WIwB)

273 I was gonna say something about Wheel Of Fortune, but not now... lol
Posted by: Bad Andrew

Is Vanna still on there?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

274 Huh. University of Montevallo? Never heard of that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:34 AM (bss/y)

275 Vanna White was in contestant's row in 1980 on The Price Is Right.

Posted by: It's On Youtube at February 25, 2026 10:34 AM (oftw2)

276 The question asked, but as far as I know, not answered is; "who sent the message?"
That person saw what was happening, and made a ham handed attempt to stop it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

=====

I'm picturing the DeNiro character in "Wag the Dog."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 25, 2026 10:34 AM (8AONa)

277 Pat Sajak would have been a great Jeopardy host.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:34 AM (cntUY)

278 Most of these game shows (go back and watch old game shows on ewetub) would have real people who had real lives just going to cali for a vacation and being on a game show. People with ratty clothes or glasses taped together, all of it.

Let's Make A Deal & The Price is Right

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 10:34 AM (qilzz)

279 "Is Vanna still on there?"

Yes. (ducks behind body-length shield)

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 25, 2026 10:35 AM (DgMqy)

280 Arutz Sheva reports the MoD has banned pizza delivery to Hakirya so that can no longer be used as a predictor for military action.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 10:35 AM (RIvkX)

281 Ever wonder if there are too many universities? Maybe that is like saying there are too many deodorant brands ala Bernie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:35 AM (bss/y)

282 "228 I used to watch Jeopardy when I got home from school. They would repeat the episode later that evening and I would watch with my parents after they got home for work. I would answer all the questions almost immediately. My father caught on after a couple of times but their reactions were hilarious while it lasted.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:22 AM (cntUY)"

I think my family banned me from watching Jeopardy with them by the time I was 15 or so. Not because I cheated but because my bullshit powers of guessing were too effective.

If you're going to pick a life skill, offensively effective intuition is a good one, especially for being lazy. I'm one of the only non-engineers in my role and I drive the rest of them batshit by ass-pulling solutions and guessing the correct source of problems.

Posted by: heya at February 25, 2026 10:35 AM (+RkG8)

283 Vanna White was in contestant's row in 1980 on The Price Is Right.
Posted by: It's On Youtube

She was the ~~breast~~ best.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 10:35 AM (qilzz)

284 *It's now nothing but humorless autistic nerds who spend countless hours prepping/studying for the show like it's the SAT.*

----

I've been noticing for a few years now what smartphones have done to small group casual conversations. It seems inevitable that at least one person will play the role of the online Cliff Clavin researching every nerdy piece of trivia realtime and then reading too much of it verbatim to the group as some kind of insecure show off.

Yeah. Don't be that guy.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

285 Let's Make A Deal & The Price is Right
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 10:34 AM (qilzz)

Price is Right especially always seemed very slice of real life.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:36 AM (bss/y)

286 The Price is Right
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 10:34 AM (qilzz)
====

Has it's own channel on Sling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

287 The price is wrong, Bob!

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m)

288 I agree that the questions have become a lot more obscure inside baseball type knowledge. Oddly enough, I’ve found final Jeopardy to be easier now than in the past. I don’t watch it often but the odd time I do I more often than not know the answer.

It’s an odd dichotomy.

Posted by: Trebek Can Never Be Replaced at February 25, 2026 10:36 AM (9aoE1)

289 Look away! Look away!

https://is.gd/AQ8Acm"

Dixie Land?

Oh...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:36 AM (cGjQu)

290 Ever wonder if there are too many universities? Maybe that is like saying there are too many deodorant brands ala Bernie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I KNOW that there are too many.

I mean, competition is good, but the market is way over-saturated.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

291 @250

>>Hmmm, so you are implying that Jennings has made the changes so no one ever has a chance of matching his record? It is all about him?

Perhaps, but a smarter more savy pool of contestants are trying out for Jeopardy now.

After James, there was a succession of contestants that went on really long runs, and then when Jennings took over the reigns, the runs have not been quite as long but the contestant personality quotient has risen.

Also the tournament format controls and prevents massive payouts over the long haul.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 10:36 AM (XV/Pl)

292
Where have you gone Art Fleming?

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you...

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at February 25, 2026 10:37 AM (IQhz0)

293 If you're going to pick a life skill, offensively effective intuition is a good one, especially for being lazy. I'm one of the only non-engineers in my role and I drive the rest of them batshit by ass-pulling solutions and guessing the correct source of problems.
Posted by: heya at February 25, 2026 10:35 AM (+RkG

------
I have lived my whole life doing this without ever seeing it described this way lol. Gonna keep "offensively effective intuition" for later use.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at February 25, 2026 10:37 AM (5aZAZ)

294 sock fail lol

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2026 10:37 AM (5aZAZ)

295 I've been noticing for a few years now what smartphones have done to small group casual conversations. It seems inevitable that at least one person will play the role of the online Cliff Clavin researching every nerdy piece of trivia realtime and then reading too much of it verbatim to the group as some kind of insecure show off.

Yeah. Don't be that guy.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

Remember what it was like pre-internet though? When you'd be discussing something and you could not remember and you did not have a reference to hand. In college, you'd go to the library or try to find a set of encyclopedias to look it up?

If you really wanted to know, you could look it up. But you had to work for it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:37 AM (bss/y)

296 92 86 The Idyllic Communist Farm, right before Mao forced people who know nothing about farming to labor the land, making sure the crop yield would be horrible.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 09:52 AM (3wOGw)

=======

We call them kolkhozy, comrade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 25, 2026 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

Go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

Posted by: Mao at February 25, 2026 10:38 AM (fYhK6)

297 And so, we come to the final question....WHY?

Professor Erwin Corey, The World's Foremost Authority

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at February 25, 2026 10:38 AM (uNwvV)

298 Stan though does love his inversions and it is a favorite tactic of his minions.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2026 10:15 AM (E4rtv)

Stan? The guy at the Polish deli? Thought there was something a bit "off" about him.

Posted by: Nicless at February 25, 2026 10:38 AM (nPp6w)

299 Let's Make A Dope Deal!!

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:39 AM (cGjQu)

300 Heh. Stanislaus.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:39 AM (bss/y)

301 Remember what it was like pre-internet though? When you'd be discussing something and you could not remember and you did not have a reference to hand. In college, you'd go to the library or try to find a set of encyclopedias to look it up?

If you really wanted to know, you could look it up. But you had to work for it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I probably spent half my life in libraries doing that, pre-internet.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

302 Vanna White was in contestant's row in 1980 on The Price Is Right.
Posted by: It's On Youtube

You couldn't be bothered to link? https://tinyurl.com/mvm63re

I thought boobs and babies were supposed to bring us together!?!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 10:39 AM (JCZqz)

303 THE PRICE IS WRONG, BITCH!!!

Posted by: Happy Gilmore at February 25, 2026 10:39 AM (fYhK6)

304 Let's go old school:

Bob Barker in Truth or Consequences. (1956 - 1975)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2026 10:40 AM (qilzz)

305 After James, there was a succession of contestants that went on really long runs, and then when Jennings took over the reigns, the runs have not been quite as long but the contestant personality quotient has risen.

reins

Posted by: humorless autistic nerds who spend countless hours prepping/studying for the show like it's the SAT at February 25, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

306 My mom took a few classes at The University of Montevallo back when it was named Alabama College, State College for Women.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2026 10:41 AM (2Ez/1)

307 292:

I remember
The day we pushed your piano
Out into the garden
Making tracks across the lawn

(H/t Porcupine Tree)

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 25, 2026 10:41 AM (fYhK6)

308 I would read the Readers Digest World Almanac every year. It's what hooked me on trivia.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 25, 2026 10:41 AM (cntUY)

309 299 Let's Make A Dope Deal!!
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:39 AM (cGjQu)

This old whore house!

This was a series of skits on a sketch comedy show on... Showtime? back in the 90s. It was essentially Bob Villa (stand in) and Norm working on odd and funny situations. I cannot find the whore house one (ewetub) but here is

This old house party!

https://tinyurl.com/4h8223zx

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)

310 then when Jennings took over the reigns,"

God Save the... game show host?

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:42 AM (cGjQu)

311 Jennings sucks. But he’s at least better than Blossom who was the hostfor a while. God she was insufferable.

Posted by: Trebek Can Never Be Replaced at February 25, 2026 10:43 AM (9aoE1)

312 I love the reigns down in Africa.
-- African monarchist

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

313 306 My mom took a few classes at The University of Montevallo back when it was named Alabama College, State College for Women.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Yomommadowhanow?

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 10:43 AM (Y8DZL)

314 310 then when Jennings took over the reigns,"

God Save the... game show host?
Posted by: man

We've secretly replaced Ken with the superior Scott Jennings. Will the audience notice the based difference?

Posted by: Folger's Challenge at February 25, 2026 10:44 AM (JCZqz)

315 Plain. No dog. No tree. No boobs.
Posted by: mindful webworker

But abundant perches for the sniper, however. But, because there's no one around to snipe at, he got bored and went home.

So, no sniper, either.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:17 AM

I can't add anything to this, except the paucity of happy little bushes.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at February 25, 2026 10:44 AM (0sNs1)

316 Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
CNN: 64% of speech watchers say President Trump's polices will move the country in the right direction

-
Al Green didn't put them over the top?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:44 AM (FXNzP)

317 I love the reigns down in Africa.
-- African monarchist"

Reign on me...

/who?

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:45 AM (cGjQu)

318 311 Jennings sucks. But he’s at least better than Blossom who was the hostfor a while. God she was insufferable.
Posted by: Trebek Can Never Be Replaced

They keep pushing her in front of a camera a lot.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 10:45 AM (Y8DZL)

319 220 nah, it's still enjoyable.
i always hated the presidents catagories. but now there's too much celebrity and product crap. plus they never do motobikeys.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 10:45 AM (R11M+)

320 We've secretly replaced Ken with the superior Scott Jennings. Will the audience notice the based difference?
Posted by: Folger's Challenge"

Jim never has a second Jennings at home...

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:46 AM (cGjQu)

321 Odd, I am not seeing as much mention of the 'Why won't you stand for a lady who lost her little girl?!' as there should be.

Fucking robot monsters who should be shown as such.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:46 AM (bss/y)

322 I would read the Readers Digest World Almanac every year. It's what hooked me on trivia.
Posted by: Opinion fact

I don't know if it was put out by RD or not, but there was an annual World Almanac that I would always try to buy. I especially liked the part about the countries of the world and their flags.

This was in the 70s, when new independent countries would come online virtually every year. So there was pretty much always a new country to read about.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

323 Reign on me...

/who?
Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:45 AM

Russian hookers, natch!

Posted by: Deep State at February 25, 2026 10:46 AM (0sNs1)

324 They keep pushing her in front of a camera a lot.
Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2026 10:45 AM (Y8DZL)

I guess she was popular on Big Bang Theory? I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:46 AM (bss/y)

325 I guess she was popular on Big Bang Theory? I dunno."

Why we watched. Also, the science!

/winemoms

Posted by: man at February 25, 2026 10:47 AM (cGjQu)

326 This was in the 70s, when new independent countries would come online virtually every year. So there was pretty much always a new country to read about.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:46 AM (77rzZ)
====

Fond memories of the United Arab Republic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2026 10:48 AM (RIvkX)

327 Another Update on the Canadian Troon Shooter.

Now his older brother has ALSO been arrested for attempted murder, according to the New York Post.

Posted by: XTC at February 25, 2026 10:49 AM (wa/yD)

328 New jeoprady is a lot more pedantic. There was one final jeopardy answer Gadsden Purchase. One contestant wrote Gasden Purchase. And it was deemed incorrect. I’m like dude come on.

Posted by: Trebek Can Never Be Replaced at February 25, 2026 10:49 AM (9aoE1)

329 313 306 My mom took a few classes at The University of Montevallo back when it was named Alabama College, State College for Women.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Yomommadowhanow?
+++
I saw a reference to the school back at #347.

The details are fuzzy, but before I was born I believe she and my two oldest siblings moved back to the hometown in Demopolis to live with family while my dad had extended sea duty lobbing shells from a heavy cruiser onto the shores of North Korea.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)

330
This was in the 70s, when new independent countries would come online virtually every year. So there was pretty much always a new country to read about.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

"Today's Emerging Country is Ralston-Purinatania. It has a czechered flag."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 10:50 AM (8zz6B)

331 Ever wonder if there are too many universities? Maybe that is like saying there are too many deodorant brands ala Bernie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I KNOW that there are too many.

I mean, competition is good, but the market is way over-saturated.
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:36 AM

*Boston has entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2026 10:51 AM (bFu5X)

332 @324

>>I guess she was popular on Big Bang Theory? I dunno.

There's that but it's also she's a "smart" girl, which is legitimate, having a Phd in neuroscience and all.

She's fairly based if you look up her history, she claims she's a bleeding heart leftist but if you dive deeper, that may just be some boob bait for the leftist bubbahs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2026 10:51 AM (XV/Pl)

333 Fond memories of the United Arab Republic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

That one was before my time. But I remember that we had an old atlas that showed it.

We also had an old jigsaw puzzle of the world map from the WWII era. It had Manchukuo and Tannu Tuva on it.

I love old maps and atlases.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

334 >>I've been noticing for a few years now what smartphones have done to small group casual conversations. It seems inevitable that at least one person will play the role of the online Cliff Clavin researching every nerdy piece of trivia realtime and then reading too much of it verbatim to the group as some kind of insecure show off.

Heh.
At work, we women of a certain age will be chatting, say, making an entertainment recommendation, and one of us will be like, "I forget the name, but it's got that guy - you know - the one who played an assassin, but he's killing bad guys so he's good, and that girl who was in the tv show with the vampires - no, not that one - and she was also in that other thing. . ."

And then someone will look it up and put us out of our misery. Aging suuuucks.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 10:53 AM (tj6OY)

335 I love old maps and atlases.
---------------
National Geographic really excelled at maps and native bewbs.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 10:53 AM (pZ64F)

336 I guess she was popular on Big Bang Theory? I dunno.

Speaking of girls popular for big bangs, did you see Bonnie Blue is pregnant?

...claiming the pregnancy resulted from a "breeding mission" in which she had unprotected sex with approximately 400 men in February 2026...She stated she had collected DNA samples and contact details from all participants in case of paternity questions.

That poor, poor kid.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

337 National Geographic really excelled at maps and native bewbs.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 25, 2026 10:53 AM (pZ64F)

"but mostly"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 10:55 AM (8zz6B)

338 National Geographic really excelled at maps and native bewbs.
Posted by: pudinhead

Yeah, Nat Geo's maps were da bomb. The smaller maps they have in the magazine now are generally pretty good, but nothing like the paper wall maps they used to put out.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

339 Politics aside Jennings and blossom just aren’t very good at hosting.

David Faber, the guy from cnbc did a great job when he guest hosted. Should have given it to him.

Posted by: Trebek Can Never Be Replaced at February 25, 2026 10:56 AM (9aoE1)

340 Sniper's behind the chimney, on the lower roof. Overwatch is on the higher roof.

Also, didn't we see this one before? Not a problem, but it bugs me that it feels familiar.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2026 10:56 AM (qfO9U)

341 ...claiming the pregnancy resulted from a "breeding mission" in which she had unprotected sex with approximately 400 men in February 2026...She stated she had collected DNA samples and contact details from all participants in case of paternity questions.

That poor, poor kid.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

What happens if it is quimtuplets?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2026 10:57 AM (8zz6B)

342 Speaking of girls popular for big bangs, did you see Bonnie Blue is pregnant?

...claiming the pregnancy resulted from a "breeding mission" in which she had unprotected sex with approximately 400 men in February 2026...She stated she had collected DNA samples and contact details from all participants in case of paternity questions.

That poor, poor kid.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

I guess mission accomplished?

What the actual fuck?

These guys should have read the consent form. One of these lucky guys is now on the hook for 18 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:57 AM (bss/y)

343 I guess she was popular on Big Bang Theory? I dunno.

She was a good fit for the character. The fact that the other guys were getting women out of their league was silly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2026 10:58 AM (ExV1e)

344 Speaking of girls popular for big bangs, did you see Bonnie Blue is pregnant?

...claiming the pregnancy resulted from a "breeding mission" in which she had unprotected sex with approximately 400 men in February 2026...She stated she had collected DNA samples and contact details from all participants in case of paternity questions.

That poor, poor kid.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

I guess mission accomplished?

What the actual fuck?

These guys should have read the consent form. One of these lucky guys is now on the hook for 18 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 10:57 AM (bss/y)
______

Odds this really happened? Approximately zero.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

345 "...but it's got that guy - you know - the one who played an assassin, but he's killing bad guys so he's good, and that girl who was in the tv show with the vampires - no, not that one - and she was also in that other thing. . ."
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I'm sitting right here. Just open a new tab.

Posted by: IMDB at February 25, 2026 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)

346 Untitled is Unremarkable

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 10:59 AM (iFTx/)

347 claiming the pregnancy resulted from a "breeding mission" in which she had unprotected sex with approximately 400 men in February 2026...She stated she had collected DNA samples and contact details from all participants in case of paternity questions.

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A Lifetime movie? Rolling the Dice for Life.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 25, 2026 10:59 AM (FXNzP)

348 >>I'm sitting right here. Just open a new tab.

Exactly. But this happens on all topics, so someone will eventually open up Bing and get the name that eludes us. This is the cringe my kid finds so annoying, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:00 AM (tj6OY)

349 A Lifetime movie? Rolling the Dice for Life.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Will she shout her abortion, or move to fetish porn while pregnant? Turn her life around and find Jesus? Lolol

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2026 11:00 AM (JCZqz)

350 Also, didn't we see this one before?
Posted by: GWB

According to the Head Dildo in Charge, No.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

351 Odds this really happened? Approximately zero.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 25, 2026 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

If they were unprotected, could be.

You figure this is a stunt for attention?

Could ALSO be, which is fucking sad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:01 AM (bss/y)

352 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:02 AM (bss/y)

353 Its Feb 25, that would be sex with 16 guys a night. I don't know who Bonnie Blue is, but she must have awesome scheduling skills. Or 15 guys each day/night were perfectly willing to sex her even knowing they were not the first of day. Whole thing is ewww to my somewhat germphobic self.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 25, 2026 11:03 AM (Sokdp)

354
*HDIC

Posted by: Head Dildo In Charge at February 25, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)

355 >>ts Feb 25, that would be sex with 16 guys a night. I don't know who Bonnie Blue is, but she must have awesome scheduling skills.

Don't look her up.
Just remain unaware of this HO.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2026 11:04 AM (tj6OY)

356 253 rodney alcala.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 11:05 AM (R11M+)

357 354
*HDIC
Posted by: Head Dildo In Charge at February 25, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)

He rarely arrives lubed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)

358 Donald Trump’s SOTU Speech Least Popular This Century: Poll

The trend is also moving in the wrong direction for Trump. His "very positive" score has fallen steadily from his previous addresses—down from 44 percent in 2025, and far below peaks in his first term, including 59 percent in 2019 and 57 percent in 2017.

Trump's latest snap results lag those of former presidents. In 2022, President Joe Biden's speech drew a "very positive" result of 41 percent, while Obama's 2010 and Trump’s 2018 addresses both reached 48 percent.

Posted by: Blue Tsunami 26 at February 25, 2026 11:06 AM (dihdP)

359 295 there was a payphone in the tavern that we would call my mom from. her answer was final and the money changed hands accordingly.
now she's 98 and will whup yo' ass at jeopardy.

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 11:13 AM (R11M+)

360 309 hbo hardcore tv. it is the ONLY series that they will not honor with a boxed set. they so em bare assed. but it was good. bensonhurst 11210, raging bullwinkle, fly fishing jam, miracle stick. bob ross making happy little tats on bare naked booties.
[norm chop saws miracle stick ("it's a belt!")]
bob vila, "but norm, that's miracle stick!"
norm, "nawt enny moah, bob!"

Posted by: cmeat at February 25, 2026 11:38 AM (R11M+)

361 Phone pole. No transmission lines. Must take a while for anyone trying to make a call to speak with an operator, yes … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at February 25, 2026 12:06 PM (ayRl+)

362 Play the songs 5:00 World and Taking Care of Business

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 25, 2026 05:37 PM (wGqjj)

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