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When will the left show us what "The Right Side of History" should look like?
I truly cannot stress how much Americans are GRAVELY underreacting to what is happening in America right now.
Example?
Bill Gates pulls out of India's AI summit amid Epstein files controversy https://t.co/1sScFvYKtX
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 19, 2026
Actress Molly Ringwald sparked intense debate after warning that supporters of former President Trump may one day be viewed as “collaborationists.” She said history could judge their political choices harshly. Speaking during a recent call to action, Ringwald urged voters to rethink their positions before it is “too late.” She suggested that future generations may see current political support as a betrayal of national values, comparing the moment to darker periods in history. Supporters praised her for speaking boldly, while critics accused her of exaggeration and fear-based rhetoric. The controversy highlights growing tensions over reputation, loyalty, and whether being on the “wrong side of history” can lead to lasting personal and public consequences.Do you feel motivated by her message? So, what does she think the right side of history will look like in the future?
I keep thinking of the regional terrorism, refugee crises, failed states, etc. that followed her part in the Libyan invasion. Right side of history?Susan Rice offers a taste of what’s coming should the left retake power — promises Democrats will punish corporations and other institutions who have “taken a knee to Trump.”
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 20, 2026
“It’s not going to end well for them."
“If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come… pic.twitter.com/Hr4Lk5oica
Where can I read about this in the Washington Post? https://t.co/FzU9zzTbCd
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 20, 2026
More, including stats for Canada and the UK. And David Thompson reports on a hair crisis in Canada:https://t.co/EsreF8rn5T pic.twitter.com/8qFdrLHU84
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 20, 2026
And in absurd, wearying narcissism news, a new realm of human suffering has been discovered:A Montreal hair salon has been ordered to pay $500 to a customer who claimed the company’s booking system is discriminatory. Alexe Frédéric Migneault identifies as non-binary and was asked to select a male or female haircut on the salon’s site in 2023.
Well, ladies’ haircuts generally take longer. And this has to be scheduled accordingly.Migneault was disappointed to find that during the booking process, they were asked to select between a men's or women's cut and sent an email asking for accommodation.
They say they were told to just select one or the other. . .
Naturally, this reminder of reality had to be punished, at length, and so,There's more . .They filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission, which recommended a $500 settlement.
“I was already spiralling into a huge mental health crisis… I was unable to work for a year and a half.”Right side of history? Photo of the hair and additional details at the link above. And in contrast to the Epstein mania over child sexual abuse:
A trans-identified male and “radical queer activist” residing in Seattle, Washington, has been publicly advocating for paedophilic relationships with children while also organising “in-person events for anyone under the queer rainbow.”The details at the link are quite remarkable.
WEEKEND The Week In Pictures: Game of Stones EditionI love how the "imperialism" label appears for the first time ever with modern-era Europeans. https://t.co/WsuXItmjed
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) February 20, 2026
It was a big week in the news. Marco Rubio went to Munich and mounted an eloquent defense of Western civilization. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tagged along, and proved herself not very bright for a cocktail waitress. The U.S. armada continued steaming toward Iran with no resolution in sight, and the Supreme Court lowered the boom on President Trump’s tariffs. In New York, the Mamdani era began its inevitable long decline. And much more besides. But as far as memes are concerned, the week was dominated by the Winter Olympics in Italy. Wins over Canada were sweet, and curling gripped the world’s sports audience.
And now we know what they were hiding .
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) February 20, 2026
There are only EIGHT large shipyards considered full active right now.
8
No wonder DOT suppressed the report for twenty one years https://t.co/NAa8RCcncT pic.twitter.com/995yjSqpyW
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 21, 2026 11:08 AM (CFj4+)
“I was already spiraling into a huge mental health crisis… I was unable to work for a year and a half.”
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How one says "I am unfit for life outside a rubber room" without shooting at school kids.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 11:08 AM (i1wcu)
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen...
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 11:10 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 11:11 AM (i1wcu)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2026 11:12 AM (rbvCR)
Good morning KT!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 21, 2026 11:12 AM (lpVer)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 21, 2026 11:13 AM (0N4FZ)
One wonders if China is headed for a Warring States period.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)
Good morning, all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 21, 2026 11:13 AM (EYabQ)
~~ a classic burn, via Hinderaker at Powerline
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 11:14 AM (i1wcu)
Posted by: Archimedes
As every company in China is gov run they have a bit of a funding advantage.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 21, 2026 11:14 AM (lpVer)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 11:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 11:15 AM (Nx5jP)
Simultaneously holding two opposing ideas is often defined as a high-level cognitive skill called cognitive complexity, paradox mindset, or, in literature, doublethink. It is frequently cited as the hallmark of "first-rate intelligence" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, allowing individuals to navigate ambiguity, enhance creativity, and manage complex, conflicting truths without succumbing to simple black-and-white thinking
I guess liberals really do control AI.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 11:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 11:08 AM (i1wcu)
Give him time. He's working up to it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 11:16 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 21, 2026 11:18 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: KT at February 21, 2026 11:18 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2026 11:12 AM (rbvCR)
I am wondering if electrolytic reduction of iron from its oxides could be done as it is for aluminum and magnesium?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 11:19 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"
No kidding. The "guy" should be on a watch list.
Posted by: fd at February 21, 2026 11:19 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Case at February 21, 2026 11:19 AM (Z3Kkg)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 11:15 AM (Ia/+0)
The X-axis is apparently "West to East", but bears no label. Gets docked 4 marks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 11:21 AM (8zz6B)
AI Overview
While both terms refer to working with an enemy during wartime or occupation, a collaborationist is motivated by shared ideology and active support for the enemy's victory, whereas a collaborator often acts out of pragmatism, necessity, or personal gain. Collaborationists are proactive ideologues, while collaborators may just be functioning under the new, coerced order
I'm still going to say that Molly doesn't know the difference and just used the wrong word.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
No. I just accuse her of a major case of projection.
Posted by: GWB at February 21, 2026 11:22 AM (8CMC6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 21, 2026 11:22 AM (8DR9B)
Good morning everyone
Right side of history: as we've been told, the winners write the history books and the battle is not done.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 21, 2026 11:22 AM (RkOfE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 21, 2026 11:23 AM (8DR9B)
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2026 11:23 AM (j42Fn)
I get a frisson of pleasure every time I don't pay to see Hollywood's products.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 21, 2026 11:23 AM (4NO2D)
I still don't know what that's supposed to mean. Does it refer to a male human who identifies as trans or a female human who identifies as male? Is that on purpose?
Posted by: Oddbob at February 21, 2026 11:23 AM (Fs0KI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2026 11:24 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 11:24 AM (iKtm4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2026 11:24 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 21, 2026 11:24 AM (g8Ew8)
I'm going to say that she chose the word with more syllables to sound more smarterer.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 21, 2026 11:25 AM (Fs0KI)
A great word, thanks to Lewis Carroll, from the Hunting Of The Snark
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 11:24 AM (iKtm4)
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And Jabberwocky.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 21, 2026 11:26 AM (i1VVh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2026 11:24 AM (bss/y)
Vote harder?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 21, 2026 11:26 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 21, 2026 11:23 AM (Fs0KI)
It is intentionally vague. But still a tiny bit pithier than "worthless piece of shit", which is an accurate assessment.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 11:26 AM (8zz6B)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
[Photo H/T: BirdRockDoc (Lurker)]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between from behind enemy lines this morning. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Escanaba) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be exceptional. Don't be Pretti Good.
3) Running with sharp objects will be on your permanent record.
4) Have a great weekend!!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 12/20 – Morgan, longtime lurker, takes tango lessons from Sebastian, whose son, Matias, is recovering from brain surgery. The MRI was read on 12/19, and the surgeons did not remove the entire tumor. Even though the biopsy indicated the tumor was benign, the boy is probably facing several rounds of chemo. Please pray for the boy’s continued recovery in El Salvador.
1/10 Update – Matias will have surgery in 2 weeks to try and remove the rest of the tumor, and then he will receive radiation therapy.
2/7 Update – Matias came through the second surgery, and was waiting for another MRI before he can start radiation. He has lost weight due to constant vomiting and didn’t sleep for 4 days, but he is sleeping better now and is able to keep food down. He and his parents are really struggling, though.
12/27 – BlackOrchid requested prayers for a Navy Veteran uncle who has been struggling with his health the last few weeks. The root cause is undetermined, but recurrent infection/sepsis keeps sending him back to the hospital. It seems to be worsening his dementia, which makes it harder for BlackOrchid’s aunt to handle him.
1/3 Update – BlackOrchid’s uncle (her “stand-in dad”is still not doing well. He will probably need to be put in a LTC facility although they are doing everything possible to avoid this. He is 86, and at the stage where his immune system can’t fight back well.
1/24 Update – BlackOrchid’s uncle is doing much better. He is carting around an O2 canister to help him, but otherwise is doing well. 1/6 – Diogenes requested prayers for his best friend since college, who was diagnosed with cancer. Within hours or hearing this, the friend’s son, a man that Diogenes has known since he was a baby, collapsed from what appears to be a brain tumor. The prognosis isn’t hopeful. Please pray for both of these fine men.
1/23 Update – Diogenes’ best friend’s son Sean had emergency brain surgery. The labs are back and it’s not good news. He has stage 4 brain cancer. They were scheduled to meet with an oncologist on 1/26 to determine the best pathway ahead for the time he has remaining. This is just crushing news. Thanks to all the Horde for their prayers and support for this fine young man.
2/11 Update – Sean has not started brain cancer treatments yet. There are still some issues to work out. But he had more bad news when his wife’s sister was hit by a truck on 2/10 and is in critical condition (broken back, severe concussion, bleeding on the brain). Diogenes asks for anyone in the Horde to speak up if they know of any support groups for people in Sean’s situation. Thanks in advance. 1/8 - Doof asked for prayers for his mother. She was hit hard by the flu. She couldn’t get out of bed the morning of 1/8 and was sent by ambulance to the hospital. She is alert and communicating but prayers are appreciated for her recovery. Prayers are also appreciated for Doof, as he absolutely despises hospitals.
2/18 Update – Mom was moved to a different facility on 2/12. She is still receiving post-hospital rehab, but this place also has long term care and assisted living options, so more robust care is available. She is happier there and is improving daily. She still has a long way to go, so continued prayers are much appreciated! 1/19 – NR Pax requested prayers for his father, who had a stroke on 1/16. He went back to the hospital on 1/19 and was in the ICU until 1/23 due to influenza. He is in the hospital and they do not know when he will come home.
2/5 Update – On 1/30 his dad was moved out of the hospital and into the PT wing of his retirement community. He will be going through PT twice a day and speech therapy as well. NR Pax’ mother is still dealing with the VA paperwork to get his disability raised to 100%. Thanks to everyone for their prayers. 1/24 – NR Pax requested prayers for his father, who had a stroke on 1/16. He went back to the hospital on 1/19 and was in the ICU until 1/23 due to influenza. He is in the hospital and they do not know when he will come home. 1/24 – Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd posted some updates and requests. In the blessings department: blood glucose has continued to fall, well within normal range. BP is good. The hole where his molar used to be is coming along nicely. The youngest has jaw surgery coming up in February. This is many years in the making and should correct her bite and ease the pain in her jaw and ears. She’s not looking forward to the liquid diet, but is looking forward to the pain relief. Prayers are always appreciated, and based on what they have been through, he knows they are efficacious.
2/7 Update – He does not have any pain related to his lost molar anymore. And his (adult) daughter’s jaw surgery is scheduled for 2/9. She will stay overnight at the hospital in Ann Arbor.
2/14 Update – His daughter’s jaw surgery seems to be fully successful, thanks be to God. She is recuperating rapidly, the swelling is sharply down, and she’s counting the days to getting off the liquid diet. 1/25 – Pawn at AoS asked for prayers after his dear friend Julia passed away. He asked for strength for himself and his family to fill a very large void in this world. He only has a couple of friends left so asks for protection for them. 1/27 – K asked for prayers for K’s neighbor Mike, whose doctor found a lump near Mike’s esophagus. Many thanks. 1/30 – Bulg could use prayers after a distressing medical incident. His heart was racing and he was too weak to even really walk. His doctor thinks it might be AFib; he is wearing a heart monitor to gather more information, and he needs to keep a diary of any other heart-related incidents. Prayers are much appreciated.
2/6 Update – Bulg had two prayers of thanks. The first was that he had a good phone conversation with his sister, from whom he had been estranged for 20 over years. The second was that he does not have AFib. 1/31 – George V asked for prayers for his wife. She needs a heart valve replacement but first needs a heart cath to assess the valve and determine the replacement procedure and perhaps put stents in the coronary arteries that may be partially blocked. Also, the preliminary CT scan of her heart showed spots on her lungs that may be cancerous. 2/4 – BifBewalski posted that it has been a little over a year since he took Smash to the ER for abdominal problems. After a full year of insurance BS, specialists, and other doctors visits, she has been taken back for abdominal surgery today. Please offer a prayer for her successful procedure and a speedy recovery.
2/7 Update – BifBewalski brought Smash home from the overnight stay in the hospital. She is recovering well. The post-surgery fever broke and the pain is minimal. A full recovery is expected. Thank you for the prayers – it truly makes a difference! 2/7 – Frankie asked for prayers for her godmother, Linda, who has been in declining health and recently had to move to a care facility. 2/7 – Vmom deport deport deport requested prayers for her hubby, who has had the coughing crud since 2/2.
2/14 Update – Vmom also asks for prayers on behalf of her husband, as his employer is expected to file for Chapter 11. They are hoping for a decent severance. 2/11 – Bluebell sent an update from grammie winger: "I've finished my 6th round of chemo. Thursday (Feb. 12) I will meet with the surgeon who will decide if surgery is an option for me. If not, I'm not sure if there's a Plan B. Maybe more chemo? Ugh - it's already deteriorated my vision and hearing. Nasty stuff. But it's all in the Lord's hands. I don't know how people who don't have faith do it. I miss Ace but it's something I have to set aside for now. I love each and every one of you. Even the trolls. LOL" 2/11 – Joe Kidd sent an update related to his friend, Bill, who we prayed for in December. Bill’s former girlfriend had passed away, and Bill and the girlfriend’s family were devastated by the loss. Bill has sold the house he (and the girlfriend) had lived in, and sent half the proceeds to his former girlfriend’s family. Just recently, Bill took early retirement to care for his 90 year old mother. Joe Kidd sends thanks. If you know, you know. 2/13 – Whigwife posted that Whig made it through surgery and was resting comfortably. 2/14 – TCN in Alaska asked for advice. She is currently allowing her son, his girlfriend, and their infant to live in a condo she owns, and they are providing a terrible environment for the baby: pot-smoking, booze, no food, no formula. TCN in Alaska asked for advice about how to handle the situation. Prayers would help. 2/14 – L gave an update on her brother Ron. He has been in declining health for the last 6+ months, and has been transferred to a nice facility for hospice. They had been discussing this possibility for months. He would make improvements, then relapse, each time ending up more disabled. The best part is that he is at peace with the decision. He is aware enough to assist with the final plans and is enjoying parceling out his remaining possessions to family and friends. L’s daughter’s cardiac recovery continues. L says she cannot thank all sufficiently for the many prayers. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 07:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Would appreciate prayers for my sister and her 2 children and my nieces daughter.
I tried again to figure out Annie's email and just couldn't get it
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 07:44 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 07:46 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 07:46 AM (jtM2q)
It's a hotmail address, apaslo.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 07:47 AM (gQ15S)
May the Lord have mercy on the soulbof your BiL, and may eternal light shine upon him.
May he rest in peace.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 07:49 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 21, 2026 07:49 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 21, 2026 07:51 AM (O7YUW)
A light dusting but I'm running out of places to put it.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 21, 2026 07:51 AM (WYStd)
"OK, more cross-country. Whatever."
"Wait, they're stopping and pulling something off their skis? OK, they're going downhill now. Cool. That's better."
"Hold on. Now they're putting the thingies back on their skis and waddling uphill through some railings. WTF am I watching?"
"Thingies off again. More downhill. Cool."
"STAIRS?!? They're taking their skis off and WALKING UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS?!?"
At this point I expect them to stop and ice fish for a while.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 21, 2026 07:52 AM (5YmYl)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 07:53 AM (Ookz/)
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Hiya JT
Skip, May your BiL memory be a blessing
A prayer for complete and immediate healing for Pnina Bat Surel my oldest living relative, back in hospital due to post-surgery fever poss. pneumonia.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)
2,000 pounds of pressure. Marshall can dig it!
Anyone ever had one?
https://tinyurl.com/4npredt3
Posted by: The Trash Masher at February 21, 2026 07:56 AM (Ksqrb)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 21, 2026 07:57 AM (tljrc)
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I will pray.
Honestly CPS might need to get involved
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 07:58 AM (Ookz/)
https://tinyurl.com/48x7h4hm
Admiral Akbar must work for the Post.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 08:03 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Sid at February 21, 2026 08:03 AM (D2IqN)
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 21, 2026 08:04 AM (2Ez/1)
2,000 pounds of pressure. Marshall can dig it!
Anyone ever had one?"
We did in Cali in the 70s. They had a little replaceable aerosol can in them that would give a little spritz of air freshener into the bag every time you opened the drawer. It didn't help, after 5 days or so it really began to reek so you had to take it out even if it was half full.
My opinion on trash is that it is our gift to future generations. All they have to do is figure out how to extract all the valuable materials from the landfill goldmines that we will leave them.
Posted by: fd at February 21, 2026 08:05 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 21, 2026 08:04 AM (2Ez/1)
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Yesterday was crazy. Our usual lone Red Breasted Robin was joined by about 20 other flocking brethren.
Our resident Bluebird was nonplussed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2026 08:06 AM (RIvkX)
The issue is when the government calls, what will we say. God knows, we don’t .
Posted by: Accomack at February 21, 2026 08:07 AM (/Chlc)
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Oh gosh, we had one too! With the little spritzer air freshener. I haven't thought about that thing since -- well, I guess the 70s! I can still hear it crunching the garbage.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2026 08:07 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Accomack at February 21, 2026 08:08 AM (/Chlc)
Posted by: Caffiend at February 21, 2026 08:12 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 08:13 AM (wKLSC)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 08:14 AM (46za5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 08:15 AM (FXNzP)
SCOTUS okays Ice enforcement operations.
♫
They shut down tariffs, but they did not shut down deportees...
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 08:15 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Zombie Heather Heyer at February 21, 2026 08:16 AM (oftw2)
The Mrs. Is officially past due date for the birth of #5. She's anxious to remember what being able to feel comfortable is.
Other than uncomfortable everyone is healthy.
Posted by: Inogame at February 21, 2026 08:16 AM (fcoLq)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 08:17 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Lady in Black"
I can still smell the 5 day old bag.
As I recall, dad did not let us put glass in it. So I had to take out two garbage bags. That taught me something about garbage.
Posted by: fd at February 21, 2026 08:17 AM (vFG9F)
“Vintage” garbage on federal lands, national parks and such, are protected as artifacts in the same way arrowheads and pottery shards. The Rangers get all pissy about my beer cans though.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 08:17 AM (wKLSC)
Gavin Newsom tells Jim Clyburn that he’d have trouble complying with the SAVE Act because he doesn’t know where to find his birth certificate:
“You've got to find your birth certificate. I have no clue where mine is."
Good lord. Just beyond parody.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 08:17 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 08:17 AM (jtM2q)
No more coffee at present. I'm heading out in a little while for haircut and errands, including feeding the car some ethanol-free gas. There are two or three stations around here that have it for $2.99/gal., and it's often a little higher octane than regular to boot. The Buick does not need higher octane; 87 is fine. But hey, if it's there, why not?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 08:18 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 08:15 AM (qgHp7)
Roberts is obsessed with the idea of handing out a win for every loss, and a loss for every win. He thinks this makes him look “fair”, and not just an indecisive idiot who can’t decide on any coherent rationale for his decisions.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 08:18 AM (46za5)
hope after death and redeeming the time. I don't know that he's a Catholic ,but this NC Register article says he always been a friend to Catholics. It's a nice article, but if you'd like to hear Sasse himself being interviewed by someone the the Hoover institution it's embedded in the article:
https://tinyurl.com/3wywzx5p
Posted by: Cellist at February 21, 2026 08:19 AM (IeCgc)
https://tinyurl.com/ut7ux82d
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 08:19 AM (dBJSR)
Common Tater's right, people. I got up, and I got Admiral Ackbared by Biff.
Getting up did me NO good this morning. Learn from my fail!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 21, 2026 08:20 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 08:20 AM (IeCgc)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Everyone under 50 at February 21, 2026 08:21 AM (ZOv7s)
That Park Place
@TPPNewsNetwork
Star Trek Artist Warns Fans That "Review Bombing" Starfleet Academy Could End the Franchise
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 08:21 AM (FXNzP)
My mother replaced our ancient "You gotta defrost me" refrigerator with a frost-free one in a rich brown color when I was in high school. A big leap forward in household tech, it was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 08:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Conversation pit, or sunken living rooms, were essential to the proper fondue pot/fork experience.
Posted by: Cheesemonger Mario at February 21, 2026 08:22 AM (oftw2)
Berserker I saw on the ONT wants to try a stand mixer to make dough. They work great, don’t overdo it. There is such a thing as overworking the dough. I didn’t know this at first. I figured if a few minutes is good, why, a half hour or 45 minutes ought to be really good, right? Nope. LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 08:23 AM (wKLSC)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 08:18 AM (46za5)
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It was a shitshow, and they made it fully knowing (as Kavanaugh wrote) that there are multiple other authorities for Trump to do the same thing, but the "swing voters" wanted to prove they were independent or something.
Posted by: Everyone under 50 at February 21, 2026 08:23 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Brady Bunch Kitchen Design Co. at February 21, 2026 08:24 AM (oftw2)
I pray for our Navy, right along with all the horde!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 08:24 AM (9M/i4)
Posted by: Big Penguin Is Our Friend at February 21, 2026 08:26 AM (oftw2)
Honestly CPS might need to get involved
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 07:58 AM (Ookz/)
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Do not call CPS. CPS is asshoe.
Take the baby. Get the parents to sign 1-year guardianship papers while they get their shit straightened out. It's tough to raise infants and toddlers in old age, but it can be done and the positive side is that you will have a great relationship with them, better than "normal" grandparents.
Also, second time around is a lot easier and less stressful because at the end of the day, if the kid's being a public pest, you can shrug and say: "Well, I'm just the grandparent." People will smile and nod.
Posted by: Everyone under 50 at February 21, 2026 08:27 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2026 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
Thx MisHum.
Tomorrow AM begins a winter storm warning. 6-12 inches of snow with winds up to 40 mph. Goes thru Mon morning. Winter in the middle Hudson
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 08:29 AM (/PQmQ)
I pray for our Navy, right along with all the horde!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 08:24 AM (9M/i4)
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I'm pretty sure a bill will be introduced confirming and clarifying Trump's authority and a bunch of RINOs will put their necks further into the primary noose by voting against it. Trillions of dollars and thousands of jobs are relying on this, and voting against it should be electoral suicide, but we live in stupid times.
Posted by: Everyone under 50 at February 21, 2026 08:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 08:30 AM (wKLSC)
Posted by: Everyone under 50 at February 21, 2026 08:30 AM (ZOv7s)
Gavin Newsom tells Jim Clyburn that he’d have trouble complying with the SAVE Act because he doesn’t know where to find his birth certificate:
“You've got to find your birth certificate. I have no clue where mine is."
Good lord. Just beyond parody.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 08:17 AM (FXNzP)
Hey Gav, how did you get a passport, enabling you to go to Davos and other ritzy places on the dime of Cali taxpayers, without a birth certificate?
How do people get a Real ID drivers license in your state without a birth certificate or other acceptable documentation? Illegal aliens excepted, of course.
It's more FUD from the Leftists.
FUD = Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Emphasis on the fear when employed by Democrats.
Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2026 08:30 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 08:31 AM (ZOv7s)
With all due respect to 'Doctor Dune, my friends and I started sandboarding (we called it sand-surfing) on the dunes of Lake Michigan in 1970. Some of us used the Snurfer, which was the original snowboard invented by Sherman Poppen of Muskegon, Michigan, while others built our own sandboards in our family garages and, later on, in middle school woodshop class.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2026 08:33 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Frugal Frank at February 21, 2026 08:33 AM (oftw2)
"Officials report a shortage of communal melted cheese pots in Fon du Lac, WI."
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 08:34 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
What is your definition of middle Hudson? Poughkeepsie, Bear Mountain? Further north?
Posted by: Excelsior! at February 21, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 08:37 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 08:17 AM (wKLSC)
When I was young in the 60’s, growing up in Phoenix, my dad had an early Toyota Land Cruiser, and he would take my brother and I out on weekends looking for old Papago Indian ruins out in the desert and mountain valleys. There were maps around on photo copy, there were a lot and governments hadn’t gotten around to putting any signs or restrictions on them yet. So we’d go looking for pottery shards, mostly, and he’d make some art out of them.
Best place to look was to find the midden, or garbage dump near the ruined Pueblo. It would be a raised area of dirt about 50 yards from the entrance, and if you took a shovel to it, you could find a basketful of broken pottery in quite a short time. I know this sounds illegal now, but at the time nobody cared about them. Most of it was quite intricately colored.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 08:38 AM (46za5)
Dred Scot was the match.
Posted by: Accomack at February 21, 2026 08:38 AM (GbONR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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This is why I make doggeh's food
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 08:39 AM (Ookz/)
Dad is out of the PT wing and back home. The community is making some changes to the house such as putting risers on the couches and a seat for the toilet and the shower.
Mom is still working with the VA to get his disability rating bumped up to 100%. This is one of the few times we're grateful that dad never threw away any paperwork because mom is going to bury the VA with his service records.
He still has moments of confusion and he's been taking falls. There's a long road ahead but at least he's home for it.
Thanks again to everyone for your prayers.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 21, 2026 08:39 AM (7xrfc)
And some on the right are noticing what she said-- not the euphemistic phony palpable weasel language she used to dress up her true intentions: the real intent "we mean capture and kill conservatives if we win"
And the left base is like, she didn't say that, she just wants the rule of law restored. All the crime and corruption under Trump brought to justice.
Yes, and if you read the constitution of any communist country, even NK, all guatentee the people far more "rights" than the US.
There, the who is all that matters ....
Who defines crime, corruption and justice ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2026 08:39 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
What is your definition of middle Hudson? Poughkeepsie, Bear Mountain? Further north?
Posted by: Excelsior! at February 21, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)
Trivia: The original English name for the Hudson was the North River.
Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2026 08:40 AM (5rh/l)
{grammie}
{TiFW}
{CoMM}
Hiya JT
Skip, May your BiL memory be a blessing
A prayer for complete and immediate healing for Pnina Bat Surel
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I'm just going to plagiarize this today; I just don't feel with it this morning. And add special prayers to all who are grieving the loss of loved ones.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 08:40 AM (h7ZuX)
P.J. Hoffmeister State Park just south of Muskegon was a great site for sandboarding. Lake Michigan isn't warm enough most of the year for the real thing, and as I remember fresh water boards were enormous.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 08:40 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: JTB at February 21, 2026 08:40 AM (yTvNw)
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Sounds like a great way to spend a day.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 08:40 AM (mgg5j)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 08:40 AM (/PQmQ)
Homemade bread has no soy.
Lots of great bread recipes with no soy.
Did I mention no soy?
Posted by: Accomack at February 21, 2026 08:41 AM (GbONR)
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A 5 pound bag of flour should garner 3 or 4 loaves, easy. Bread flour.
The cheap retail sandwich bread is now made with cake flour, I swear. It gets destroyed trying to spread butter on it. The final straw for me was when a slice broke in half under its own weight. LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 08:42 AM (wKLSC)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!
Well, they could actually write good shows and stop worrying about catering to approved victim groups. That would prevent review bombing.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 21, 2026 08:44 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Accomack at February 21, 2026 08:44 AM (GbONR)
https://tinyurl.com/48x7h4hm
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 08:03 AM (XvL8K)
Am I a racist? I was not expecting that. TBH, I was expecting a white tranny.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 08:44 AM (h7ZuX)
A week ago I woke up in the hospital remembering nothing. My poor dear wife not knowing if I was alive or dead for hours. Thanks be to God, doctors found nothing wrong and gave me a clean bill of health (still a few tests going forward but I’m good). I couldn’t have more gratitude to Almighty God, my wife and the doctors/EMTs
I believe this was God saying to me: It’s time to focus your remaining years (hopefully long) on God and your wife. He is gracious
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2026 08:44 AM (xT8gx)
1.5Tablespoons yeast
1.5 Tablespoons kosher salt
3c water, 100 degrees
Mix by hand until ingredients mixed, loosely, don't over work.
Rise 2-5 hours. Form into a ball, score top.
Bake 450 degrees in a Dutch oven 30 minutes, take lid off, 5 more minutes to brown top.
You can store dough in frig for a couple days, you can divide dough into three smaller balls, 1 small ball is perfect for two people for a soup dinner.
Voila.
Except for the Dutch oven and power used for oven, what's that? 2 bucks for ingredients?
Dutch ovens can be pricey...think enameled from cuisinart.
Posted by: Derak at February 21, 2026 08:44 AM (GvJ7r)
Homemade bread has no soy.
Lots of great bread recipes with no soy.
Did I mention no soy?
Posted by: Accomack at February 21, 2026 08:41 AM (GbONR)
I'm so old I recall when the price of a sliced white bread hitting a dollar a loaf was the beginning of The End Times. Same for a gallon of milk.
Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2026 08:45 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Anniestew at February 21, 2026 08:46 AM (VEsJT)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 08:17 AM (jtM2q)
I firmly believe that 70s home architecture doesn’t work without heavy smoking drinking and partying. And society has gotten too reserved for it. All the drugs and porn has actually made wallflowers out of the current homebuyers. They don’t know how to live a little because they see the darkness in society everywhere.
I think there is a strong inverse relationship between the degree of cultural exhibitionism and personal sociability, being forward and bold, extroversion.
I’m a timid introvert and even I see this.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 08:46 AM (FHh4j)
Many of the pits were bulldozed and are under and around the PA Turnpike. Not many folks cared about artifacts back then. Jasper can be sharp enough to shave with. Or, cut throats with.
Posted by: Jasper Park Emmaus at February 21, 2026 08:46 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Common Tater
Wife and I got a bread maker for a wedding gift. Normally, couples would use it a couple of times and it would gather dust. Not us. She used it for years until the motor died. Bought a new one and to this day, the only time we get store bread are hot dog buns and hamburger rolls.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 21, 2026 08:47 AM (7xrfc)
We used the dunes a just a little north of there, near the Maranatha Bible Conference Center at the Lake Harbor bridge. It was the sand excavation site of a local foundry, Cannon, Wyant, Cannon. Very steep and a real bitch to climb back up after a run.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2026 08:47 AM (Y1sOo)
His "logic" is where the laughs are, as Kos argues that PDJT reshoring manufacturing has led to reduced China imports leading to UPS distribution centers closing, leading to Teamster layoffs.
Unpack that argument and you'll be like me, SMH.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 08:48 AM (buz8q)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
Same here but I was willing to read because I doubt the Post would call a tranny a female.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 21, 2026 08:48 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Accomack at February 21, 2026 08:49 AM (GbONR)
Posted by: papagiorgio200 at February 21, 2026 08:49 AM (TPEa1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2026 08:44 AM (xT8gx)
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Dude, you really know how to party!
God be with you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 08:49 AM (ZOv7s)
In fact, aging dough is the only way to fly. A 24 hour “poolish” is one way. The aroma of baking bread in the oven is one of life’s little pleasures.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 08:49 AM (wKLSC)
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Yikes! Prayers up!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 08:50 AM (buz8q)
Posted by: Anniestew at February 21, 2026 08:50 AM (VEsJT)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Praise be to God.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 08:51 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 21, 2026 07:52 AM (5YmYl)
The competitors reach the top of the stairs, they must write a letter back home: "To my darling, Martha, the expedition continues. We lost Chet to the dropsy. We had to leave his body where it lay. Father Mike said a prayer, and we moved on, knowing the storm would catch us if we did not make it to the camp site before sundown..."
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2026 08:51 AM (F2T8D)
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Locally here a 5 lb bag of all-purpose flour is ~$6 and a loaf of store-bought sourdough bread ranges from $6-7.
I can make ~6 loaves of sourdough bread from a 5 lb bag of flour.
Substantial savings if you have the time to make your own.
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 08:51 AM (qgHp7)
A federal law that removes any statute of limitations for sex crimes.*
Or the "Every Conservative is a Rapist" law.**
And there will still be Republicans arguing for a compromise of just 30 years.
*but that's not Constitutional, you scoff.
It will be when all non-compliant Rs lose their elections due to rape charges and they've packed the Court
** yes, it's a long-shot, but the short term is to keep forcing The Narrative that Republicans are "protecting sex criminals"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2026 08:52 AM (HXT0k)
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I'll confess a certain fondness for Avocado appliances.
My current kitchen cabinets/countertops probably date to the early 90s (house built in early 70s; stainless appliances bought in 2023 to sell the house - not "smart," thank goodness). Blue formica countertops. Not what I'd choose, but they've kind of grown on me. And who else has them? I like how my red stuff (toaster, utensils, pots/pans, etc) looks with the blue. I hate the white kitchen trend. I like Kitchens of Color.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 21, 2026 08:52 AM (mNjzF)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 21, 2026 08:53 AM (beLfz)
Posted by: one hour sober
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You climbed a dune, with a board??
Whoa.
That's a workout at any age.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 21, 2026 08:54 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 08:46 AM (FHh4j)
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That would be my house, built in 1974. It is designed with entertainment in mind - formal dining room and also a great room with fireplace and downstairs a second large gathering room with another fireplace. You can basically hold two parties at the same time or host 20 people with room to spare. Instead of going out to eat, my eldest invited her friends here for senior prom and had a buffet and afterwards came back and watched movies downstairs while the parents chatted.
All that died off during Covid, but we're starting to get people coming over again. I expect the grandkids will start having parties as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 08:54 AM (ZOv7s)
A federal law that removes any statute of limitations for sex crimes.*
Or the "Every Conservative is a Rapist" law.**
And there will still be Republicans arguing for a compromise of just 30 years.
*but that's not Constitutional, you scoff.
It will be when all non-compliant Rs lose their elections due to rape charges and they've packed the Court
** yes, it's a long-shot, but the short term is to keep forcing The Narrative that Republicans are "protecting sex criminals"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2026 08:52 AM (HXT0k)
The return of Believe All Women!!!! The Democrats will the introduce the bill as the Christine Blasey-Ford Act.
Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2026 08:55 AM (5rh/l)
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what model BMW?
Posted by: Don Black at February 21, 2026 08:55 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Wow. Glad you are OK. Praise God!
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 21, 2026 08:55 AM (mNjzF)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 08:55 AM (Ookz/)
Sounds scary for your wife and discombobulating for you. Prayers for you and your family.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 08:56 AM (HQEEh)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 08:44 AM (h7ZuX)
That was Jasmine Crockett’s Spirit Animal.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 08:56 AM (46za5)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Praise be to God.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 08:51 AM (Ookz/)
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This. I am older than my father or either grandfather. Every day I wake up is gravy b"h.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2026 08:57 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: fd at February 21, 2026 08:05 AM (vFG9F)
This is why I don't wash the peanut butter out of the jars before I throw them away. After the apocalypse, it will be a grand treat for someone to find!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 08:57 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 08:57 AM (buz8q)
You are an adult now, get your IDs and live your life.
Any replacement ones, there's a fee.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 08:58 AM (Ookz/)
They weren't like surfboards. The were much shorter. Do an image search for "Sherman Poppen Snurfer" to get an idea of the size.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2026 08:58 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 21, 2026 08:52 AM (mNjzF)
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Our house was painted white by the second owner. It used to have dark wood, but all white was a thing. Beige wallpaper. We got rid of that and went with a blue color palette.
There are a few houses in the neighborhood with the original owners and when they hit the market, it's a time warp. I take the virtual tour and always show up for the estate sales. Man, the 70s were ugly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 08:58 AM (ZOv7s)
Fixed Income - a limerick
According to a baker I know
Homemade bread is the best way to go
I've got lots of time
and the aroma's sublime
Besides, I really knead the dough!
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 08:59 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 08:59 AM (Ookz/)
"leather underwear and fishnets"
Ladies, if you want to get some serious social media attention at your next protest rally...
We're just saying.
Posted by: Guys everywhere at February 21, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Is that hard to make?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 09:01 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 09:01 AM (Jtz/H)
I believe this was God saying to me: It’s time to focus your remaining years (hopefully long) on God and your wife. He is gracious
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2026 08:44 AM (xT8gx)
Tell your family I'm sorry. When I took you to that opium den, I really did think it was a sushi bar.
I would have sworn absinthe was just 7-Up with a bit of mint added to it.
And don't worry, the knife fight you got into with those four Yakuza members, no one knows. I hid the bodies well.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2026 09:01 AM (zowpU)
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I grew up with the cheap-ass fake wood paneling everywhere. That's what's under the white paint in my current house. I really like nice dark (real) wood paneling. If I stay in my current house for awhile, I'd like to have some walls that aren't white. But I'm spending a metric crap ton on the crawl space (there's a nice young man working in there at this very minute) due to moisture and pest problemos, and last year I had the house re-piped and new HVAC. Can only do necessary projects for now.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 21, 2026 09:03 AM (mNjzF)
I'm afraid that was the plan all along. Outlaw everything I hate and mandate everything I like. Then sit back and welcome the Utopia.
Posted by: Wally at February 21, 2026 09:03 AM (0e5Te)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 09:03 AM (qgHp7)
I was today year's old when I learned that A) serious thespian Richard Harris was also a singer, and B) his rendition of "MacArthur Park" was a big hit:
https://tinyurl.com/56hn55ns
I only knew of the decade-later Donna Summer version.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 21, 2026 09:04 AM (kpS4V)
A federal law that removes any statute of limitations for sex crimes.*
Or the "Every Conservative is a Rapist" law.**
From a purely legal POV, for the record, the reason this is a horrible idea is that “sex crimes” have by the highest rate of false convictions of any crime; because they frequently have no corroborating witnesses.
And what’s even worse is that the prime reason for Statutes of Limitations is that after enough time has passed, it is frequently impossible for the accused to mount a credible defense. One of the big reasons American law has them is that this was a method often used by the British crown to eliminate critics they couldn’t get rid of any other way, usually accusing them of seditious acts 30 years or more in the past.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 09:04 AM (46za5)
Threats are a sign of weakness. "When I get power, I'm gonna crush you!" is the weakest possible thing to say, especially after Biden's persecutions. It's like the old "kill all prisoners" notion, that basically means your enemies know they must fight to the death. Stupid.
Oh, and when they have power, they will show no mercy.
Franco figured it out. Offer decent, honorable turns and not only will your enemies surrender, they will even change sides. The Dems are basically threatening the normies, who have no other option than to throw in with Trump.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:05 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Cooter Brown at February 21, 2026 09:06 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Chevy Chase at February 21, 2026 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)
St. Alphonsus offered battered whitefish in addition to Walleye for last night's fish fry, sparking the discussion of is it too decadent for a church fundraiser.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:06 AM (Y8DZL)
Plus, any actual evidence in either direction is long gone.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 21, 2026 09:07 AM (qIH9H)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:07 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 21, 2026 09:04 AM (kpS4V)
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Clearly oldies stations are unknown to you, or you're only 29.
That damn tune got a lot of airplay in my youth, and kept popping up. Donna Summer's version is far superior and a Lloyd family favorite. I downloaded her greatest hits and made a mix CD and we sing along on road trips. Well most of us do, my wife sticks her fingers in her ears.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 09:08 AM (Ia/+0)
Think Tramontina. I have one. It's great.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 21, 2026 09:08 AM (qFwJc)
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So is this a bread thread or a cake thread?
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Careful. Looks like rain.
Posted by: Stupid lyrics at February 21, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 09:08 AM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:06 AM (Y8DZL)
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I've seen a few references that say while lobster isn't meat, having it for dinner on Fridays during Lent kind of misses the point.
Tuna salad and cheese pizza here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Back In The Day at February 21, 2026 09:10 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Hey, I included an Akbar warning.
The first comment to the article:
"My guess is the tires went flat before the crash, when she got in the car."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:11 AM (XvL8K)
You are an adult now, get your IDs and live your life.
Any replacement ones, there's a fee.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 08:58 AM (Ookz/)
I knew a guy, climbing his way out of a rough life, sent away for his birth cert, so he could start re-engaging in "normal" society.
They sent him the cert for his twin brother, who died at birth.
His response was essentially, "I could start all over, with none of my past getting in the way." But he didn't, he went back and asked them to correct their mistake.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2026 09:11 AM (c3A5p)
When a dyed in the wool Communist says this, just understand what "justice" and "crimes" mean by reviewing what these words meant to other Communists in the 20th century.
Crime = opposed to our total power
Justice = harvesting organs, lime pit, shot in the head
Or look at J6 - torture
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 21, 2026 09:12 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2026 09:12 AM (xT8gx)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 21, 2026 09:13 AM (8AONa)
Starting at $390K
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 09:14 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 21, 2026 08:52 AM (mNjzF)
I can handle just about anything except Nihilist Grey. I despise the grey trend.
Also, re: dutch ovens--I found mine at a thrift store, and it's just a little one, so it's perfect for a two-person loaf. But I also found a clay baker with a lid, and I use that more often than the dutch oven.
If you're willing to pop in to a thrift store regularly, with a specific item in mind, you can usually find it after a few trips.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 09:14 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Unknown Drip
What was done to the J6 ers is proof they should never get back in power
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 09:14 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2026 09:14 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 09:15 AM (FHh4j)
'Politics in our country seems reduced to Trump versus the Judiciary. '
Half of America versus the judiciary.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2026 09:15 AM (fd80v)
"The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing."
Posted by: Zephaniah 3:17 at February 21, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)
I get it. I get it. You're all crypto-socialists who desperately want to rebuild your migrant-care empires. It's got to be rough laying off all that staff. That federal money was so sweet, wasn't it. You were willing to ignore the persecution of your own foreign priests, whose deportation never got so much as a statement acknowledging it was happening from the USCCB.
And abortion. Not a priority. No threats to sanction people who voted for it. All Catholics in good standing. Oh, there were a few bishops who took action, but that was an individual thing, and you kept it hushed up. Many of you are pros at hushing things up.
I pray that you turn away from your obsession with worldly wealth and power and realize the massive harm your policies have done to your flocks. Understand that people are turning to the faith despite your bloviations, not because of them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:17 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 09:08 AM (/PQmQ)
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think manatees are land animals, horse or cow-like, who evolved, sort of backwards, to living in water.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2026 09:17 AM (ODdTz)
Posted by: kingsman at February 21, 2026 09:17 AM (ehY6c)
God rest his grifting soul. His talent for exploiting black people will be missed.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 21, 2026 09:17 AM (gVUi7)
I remember wanting to push his face into that cake out in the rain.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 09:17 AM (46za5)
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Bread thread, but only until leaven a.m. ET
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 09:17 AM (qgHp7)
Susan Rice knows she's in trouble, but "imprison all opponents" isn't a persuasive demand.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:19 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Follow me for more cheap gourmet tips at February 21, 2026 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 09:14 AM (jtM2q)
Do they have the Brady Bunch split level?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 09:20 AM (46za5)
Is that hard to make?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 09:01 AM (Ookz/)
It uses a very wet dough, so you whip it up in a stand mixer to develop the gluten. The part that needs practice is handling that wet dough to get the desired shape. Mildly difficult to master, but not too bad.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 21, 2026 09:20 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:19 AM (Y8DZL)
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They are all like Wile E. Coyote, running on thin air, realizing they're about to fall.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Amen
I like that our parish will do fundraisers for specific local charities.
Envelopes for Catholic Charities still get included periodically for second collections, but giving instead to the local pregnancy crisus group, or good pantry, etc feels a lot better.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 09:21 AM (Ookz/)
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It's still National Negro Month.
Posted by: Check your calendar at February 21, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)
'Susan Rice knows she's in trouble, but "imprison all opponents" isn't a persuasive demand.'
She's my opponent and is another reason we need a court that will convict 'Rats.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2026 09:21 AM (fd80v)
I remember wanting to push his face into that cake out in the rain.
Hate, hate, hated that song. My question after all these years and still is how and why did this come about? Was it a joke? Were they high? Drunk? Horrible stuff.
Posted by: Worst Song Ever at February 21, 2026 09:21 AM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 09:14 AM (jtM2q)a
And ending at 425 to 490.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 09:22 AM (cntUY)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 09:22 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 09:22 AM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 09:23 AM (rfn8n)
Is that hard to make?
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My daughter had never tasted that, so she bought a loaf...
(wait for it...)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 09:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Trump Blasts Anti-Tariff Justices: “Fools and Lapdogs for the RINOs,” “Swayed by Foreign Interests.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:24 AM (FXNzP)
'Hate, hate, hated that song. My question after all these years and still is how and why did this come about? Was it a joke? Were they high? Drunk? Horrible stuff.'
I don't think I can take it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2026 09:24 AM (fd80v)
I remember when politics was like a college football rivalry; heated, but generally good natured opposition.
Now it's like wearing Maize and Blue in Columbus on game day.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:24 AM (Y8DZL)
I thought about putting in a different colored island, some blue color, but said nah.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 09:24 AM (zxw28)
Posted by: muldoon
>I whipped up some sourdough biscuits this morning. Very nice. Morning egg sandwiches for the rest of the work week.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 21, 2026 09:24 AM (gVUi7)
The students are the primary source of growth. Huge uptick in Mass attendance at the campus location. I've gone to the noon Mass due to the Book Thread and it is packed. They also do candlelight Masses on Sunday evening that are capacity crowds, the vast majority being students. I've never seen it like this before.
When our family entered the Church we were the only people in our parish going through RCIA. The number of seminarians back then was 1/3 of what it is now. The Holy Spirit is very much present.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 21, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)
(wait for it...)
Posted by: muldoon
*waits*
Nope, got nothing
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 09:26 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Worst Song Ever at February 21, 2026 09:21 AM (Ksqrb)
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It's catchy until you actually listen to the boneheaded lyrics:
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Aga-a-a-a-ainnn
Alyssa Liu's skate was terrific though.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 21, 2026 09:26 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Mr. alu Fods at February 21, 2026 09:26 AM (fQsGr)
Actors who couldn't carry a tune usually spoke instead of singing.
Think of Rex Harrison in the "Dr. Doolittle" musical.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:27 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Mr. alu Fods at February 21, 2026 09:28 AM (fQsGr)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 09:22 AM (Ookz/)
I'd get a little time in on bread making before trying that one. But if you goof the ciabatta up, you just end up with a loaf that has a crumb like regular bread and a rather thin profile. >8^>
Along the "getting experience" line, I'm partial to Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Bread Bible, which has a pretty decent ciabatta recipe in it. Other authors, like Peter Reinart, are also well worth looking at.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 21, 2026 09:29 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Worst Song Ever at February 21, 2026 09:21 AM (Ksqrb)
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Richard Harris was in the film version of "Camelot" and people questioned his singing ability, so he decided to record an album, and that was one of the songs included. I think it was popular because everyone was on drugs, and Rock was going through a phase where it got pretentious and Serious, no longer being just youthful rebellion. So you get tempo changes, movements, orchestras and stuff.
If you go on Youtube and read the comments on the tune, people find his delivery very sincere and I guess if you're overwrought and worked up, it speaks to you.
I like Donna Summer's cover because it is funny, and highlights the silliness of the thing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)
May God shower blessings on all of His children this day and keep them safe from harm.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 21, 2026 09:29 AM (kB9dk)
I remember wanting to push his face into that cake out in the rain.
Hate, hate, hated that song. My question after all these years and still is how and why did this come about? Was it a joke? Were they high? Drunk? Horrible stuff.
Posted by: Worst Song Ever
Song was composed by Jimmy Webb who composed a number of hits including the song Bob Dylan said was the best song ever written, Wichita Lineman.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:30 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
White Pizza -
- alfredo sauce (use sparingly as much heavier than red)
- mozz & provalone cheese
Toppings
- shrimp
- scallops
- feta cheese chunks
- thin sliced leeks seared in butter
- kalamata olives
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 09:30 AM (/lPRQ)
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It's supposed to rally the base.
This is the iron hand inside the velvet glove of "moderate Democrats"
For example, the "moderate" governor of VA, selected to give the rebuttal to Trump's SOTU address.
"See how reasonable and nice we are? and "here is who we really are."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2026 09:31 AM (HXT0k)
MacArthur Park is one of them
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 09:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Evil American hating godless commies.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 09:32 AM (cntUY)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2026 09:32 AM (KsZMV)
MacArthur Park
Moonshadow
American Pie
Bless the beasts and the children
Stairway to heaven
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 09:33 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:24 AM (Y8DZL)
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Michigan vs Michigan State right now. It used to be dominated by Michigan, so much so that Wolverines refused to even consider the Spartans to be rivals, who were Ohio State and Notre Dame.
Yes, MSU had a great run in the 50s and 60s, and various fleeting moments of glory, but things had settled into MSU winning every third year or so. Not a threat.
But then Dantonio came along and dominated Ann Arbor. It broke them. They turned to cheating, tearing up the field, trashing the locker room, and at long last have admitted that we are the Enemy Number One. They hate losing to the Buckeyes but losing to the Spartans consistently broke them. Interesting to see what the Mormons will do with the team.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes.
Alysa Liu, the ladies skating gold medal winner, skated to the version for her award winning performance.
Posted by: Tuna at February 21, 2026 09:34 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Skip
All those District Court judges pre-emptively issuing edicts on Trump will pre-emptively take criminal cases and issue equally egregious decrees of guilt - to the gulag!
But there will be show trials.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 09:35 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:30 AM (FXNzP)
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That is a great song.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)
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Consequences shmonsequences.
- Chief Justice John Roberts
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:36 AM (FXNzP)
Think of Rex Harrison in the "Dr. Doolittle" musical.
Posted by: Auspex
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Shatner's "Rocket Man"
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 09:36 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: kingsman at February 21, 2026 09:36 AM (ehY6c)
Proper home design calls for two foot thick stone walls and crew served weapons at several points on the curtain walls.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2026 09:37 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 09:37 AM (cntUY)
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Trump and his administration fumbled this on day one. They should have gone to the mat with the judicial coup when Boasberg first started his horseshit and not played cute, knowing that at some point down the road they might be vindicated.
They misread the judiciary's plan; delay everything BAMN if it can't be overturned.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 09:37 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 09:37 AM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Sounds good. It's always nice when a batch of almost anything carries over to multiple days.
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 09:37 AM (qgHp7)
Guess I know what one co-worker will be talking about Monday.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 09:38 AM (/lPRQ)
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I mean, it's not like he hasn't lied enough.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:38 AM (FXNzP)
Like Mandami said everything would be free but now he’s in the process of jacking up taxes on the working class.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 09:39 AM (Wepjn)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 09:36 AM (qgHp7)
Didn't Leonard Nimoy record some songs as well?
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2026 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)
Moonshadow - no
American Pie - a classic of rock music
Bless the beasts and the children - no no no
Stairway to heaven - how dare you!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2026 09:39 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Rap. at February 21, 2026 09:39 AM (E6ouU)
Someday may you come to change your minds and love "McArthur Park", the way I rose from hating "Do the Tighten Up" by Archie Bell and the Drells to wanting it played non-stop at my funeral.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:39 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Case at February 21, 2026 09:39 AM (Z3Kkg)
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 21, 2026 09:39 AM (tsYFt)
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2026 09:34 AM (Lax4Q)
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They act like they are terrified. They know what they did.
Honestly, it doesn't matter if they go to jail. It would be nice, but ours is a fallen world, and there is much important work to do in terms of turning people back towards God. That should be our focus.
People getting lost in revenge fantasies become the mirror image of our enemies, who serve the great Enemy. That mode of though inevitably leads to black pilling and despair. Too much of that going on. God delivered us from almost certain persecution and for that we should be grateful and continue to press on.
The worst thing we can do isn't to imprison those people, it is to be happy, prosperous and faithful while they sit impotently by on the sidelines. Our joy is a knife in the guts to them, and our public prayers to God and joy in Him tears out their hearts.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)
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Heck of a telescope too. Amazing images. Very talented guy!
Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2026 09:40 AM (rfn8n)
Like Mandami said everything would be free but now he’s in the process of jacking up taxes on the working class.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Call them out as the Stalinists they are.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 09:41 AM (/lPRQ)
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He's still around?! God love 'im.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 21, 2026 09:41 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Auspex
Yo.
Posted by: Rap. at February 21, 2026 09:39 AM (E6ouU)
You got that right - Lou Reed
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 09:41 AM (cntUY)
Think of Rex Harrison in the "Dr. Doolittle" musical.
Posted by: Auspex
Lee Marvin's I Was Born Under a Wonderin' Star.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:41 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2026 09:41 AM (NlEaG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 09:41 AM (UDARB)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 21, 2026 09:42 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: dantesed
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Yes. Musical Akbar warning:
https://tinyurl.com/msewxaew
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:43 AM (XvL8K)
I don't understand but that was one of my Marine Sergeant Father's favorite movies.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 09:43 AM (cntUY)
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 21, 2026 09:44 AM (tsYFt)
They misread the judiciary's plan; delay everything BAMN if it can't be overturned.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 09:37 AM (jtM2q)
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No, they are playing it as well as they can. The deportations are still happening. The judges are destroying the judiciary with their Harry Potter-driven fan fiction. When it becomes necessary to ignore them, it will be like an afterthought to the public, not a constitutional crisis. This has always been the plan, just as taking action on things like tariffs that have mountains of case law behind it. How long did SCOTUS take to make a useless ruling? Almost a year and it accomplished absolutely nothing.
This is a very favorable rate of exchange.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 09:44 AM (cntUY)
"Has Been" was great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: dantesed
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Yes. Musical Akbar warning:
https://tinyurl.com/msewxaew
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:43 AM
I don't even have to click on that and I can feel the cringe. 🤣
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 21, 2026 09:45 AM (Wnv9h)
Moonshadow
American Pie
Bless the beasts and the children
Stairway to heaven
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Steak sandwiches with the kids followed by pie and cake in the moonlight is heavenly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:46 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: The Battered Whitefish Center at February 21, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 09:44 AM (cntUY)
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I mean, "Grease." Hard to miss at the time.
Damn, Hollywood used to cook back in the day. Movies dominated the airwaves. When was the last time a movie song hit the radio or was in any way interesting?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 09:37 AM (/PQmQ)
Soggy cakes.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 21, 2026 09:47 AM (ZJT0I)
Posted by: The Brill Building at February 21, 2026 09:47 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:43 AM
I don't even have to click on that and I can feel the cringe. 🤣
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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It's worth it for the album cover.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:48 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 21, 2026 09:44 AM (tsYFt)
OMG, so many people care. I was playing an online video game earlier and ALL the chat was about how the UK was showing the world that they'd stop the pedos for arresting Andrew for leaking government documents while the US wasn't arresting any of the pedos for which there's no evidence of criminal behavior, just possible code words and association with Epstein. It's the fucking McMartin preschool shit all over again.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2026 09:48 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 09:48 AM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Don't bring me into this.
Posted by: Titanic at February 21, 2026 09:49 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 09:50 AM (jtjbl)
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2026 09:50 AM (NlEaG)
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Not easy to sing while doing one-armed pushups.
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 09:50 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2026 09:48 AM (ExV1e)
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I saw that four guys who names were unredacted were simply part of a police lineup, but people came after them anyway because they are total lunatics.
Massie can't go away fast enough.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:50 AM (ZOv7s)
The message isn't meant for you.
The message is meant for their cuckish underservants, the entire GOP.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 09:50 AM (3uBP9)
Can’t get any more 70s than that!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2026 09:51 AM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at February 21, 2026 09:51 AM (m0F9m)
Posted by: JTB at February 21, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)
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We've had a good neighbor policy for centuries and we've been screwed both from north and south.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:51 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Arthur Fonzarelli at February 21, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)
Lucy on the Sky with Diamond’s by Shatner is a close second.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 09:51 AM (46za5)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
A collage of Nemoy's "plus size" nude photographs?
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 09:52 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:48 AM
I was wrong! I was expecting The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 21, 2026 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2026 09:52 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2026 09:52 AM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 09:48 AM (/PQmQ)
Obligatory Bangles video:
https://youtu.be/Zj7OJeyhq2Q
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 21, 2026 09:52 AM (ZJT0I)
Posted by: dantesed
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Yes. Musical Akbar warning:
https://tinyurl.com/msewxaew
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:43 AM
I don't even have to click on that and I can feel the cringe. 🤣
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
>Fascinating.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 21, 2026 09:53 AM (gVUi7)
Can’t get any more 70s than that!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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No wakka chikka. Must have wakka chikka for full 70s flare.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:53 AM (XvL8K)
Given that we could conquer Canada in less than a week, they're both not wrong and unwise to irritate us.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2026 09:53 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 21, 2026 09:53 AM (tsYFt)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 09:14 AM (h7ZuX)
I had a clay baker that I never used until baking sourdough. Works perfectly. I wouldn't recommend an enameled dutch oven because the heat damages the enamel.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2026 09:53 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 09:50 AM (3uBP9)
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The GOP is at a tipping point, and the RINOs know it. Trump wasn't a fluke, he is the mainstream of the party now, and it will slowly but surely be cleansed of their kind. No RINO will win a primary, no matter how much money they spend. They will have to resort to cheating and skullduggery, and that only gets them so far.
The next Congress will be more conservative and the GOP caucus more unified. That's why they are so angry, and constantly sabotaging things.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 09:53 AM (XvL8K)
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The Theme from "Shaft" has entered the chat.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)
We've had a good neighbor policy for centuries and we've been screwed both from north and south.
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We’ve been fucked over by every one of our “allies” for decades.
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 21, 2026 09:55 AM (tsYFt)
Cohabitation Increases Joy for Older Couples, But Tying the Knot Adds Little Extra Happiness
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:56 AM (FXNzP)
Many people are unaware that the Charismatic revival of the 70s began among Catholics.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2026 09:56 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Agree completely. It’s fun to think that Trump could have gone all Bukele on America, but that doesn’t happen after 50/50 elections where the opposition still controls much of the government.
And on that topic I’ll say that getting the military cleaned up and straightened out is one of the best things he’s done.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 09:57 AM (46za5)
First thing that popped into my head.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 21, 2026 09:57 AM (ZJT0I)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Yep. Every day is a gift. You just have to unwrap it to find out what is in the package.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 09:57 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 21, 2026 09:58 AM (ZJT0I)
Posted by: Hooked On A Feeling at February 21, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)
The next Congress will be more conservative and the GOP caucus more unified. That's why they are so angry, and constantly sabotaging things.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Good take.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 09:58 AM (E4rtv)
Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga
Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga
Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga
Posted by: Hooked On A Feeling at February 21, 2026 09:58 AM (2z/1)
*dance off*
Posted by: Peter Quill at February 21, 2026 09:59 AM (ZJT0I)
I love Mike and the guys but it was a hard slog getting through that movie. I think we all bonded when it was over. Over great distances, through the ether because of the mutually shared trauma in watching it.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 10:00 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:00 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
>If we take their women and beer they'll definitely collapse within a week.
When we kick their ass at hockey (again) they'll be prime pickings.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 21, 2026 10:01 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Agreed, but the imprisonment part is to discourage the others from doing this again.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 10:01 AM (h7ZuX)
They misread the judiciary's plan; delay everything BAMN if it can't be overturned.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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No, they are playing it as well as they can. The deportations are still happening. The judges are destroying the judiciary with their Harry Potter-driven fan fiction. When it becomes necessary to ignore them, it will be like an afterthought to the public, not a constitutional crisis. This has always been the plan, just as taking action on things like tariffs that have mountains of case law behind it. How long did SCOTUS take to make a useless ruling? Almost a year and it accomplished absolutely nothing.
This is a very favorable rate of exchange.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
The truth is most of our 'crises' cooked up in the last couple of decades are gay, fake, and media engendered. So people watch the shiny ball presented by media and the pols while ignoring what is really going on.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:01 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 10:01 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 21, 2026 10:02 AM (tsYFt)
“Starfleet Academy” Actor Claims Show and Franchise Is a Vehicle for LGBTQ+ Propaganda
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 10:03 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 10:04 AM (XvL8K)
MST3K Didn't die when Joel left, but the corpse started to stink when Patton Oswalt was on.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 10:05 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Democrats are post law--to them law is merely an instrument of power to be used when they are in power and to be ignored when they aren't.
Critical legal studies has turned trials with leftist lawyers and judges into crude morality plays where their side is always oppressed and thus should always win over the various multitudes of oppressors.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:05 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:05 AM (qgHp7)
“Starfleet Academy” Actor Claims Show and Franchise Is a Vehicle for LGBTQ+ Propaganda
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 10:03 AM (FXNzP)
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One of the arguments I've seen is that we can't let Starfleet Academy fail or we'll never get another Star Trek show ever again.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2026 10:06 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:56 AM (FXNzP)
I think a super world destroying STD is eventually going to escape a retirement home and bring humanity to the brink, a new dark age. You don't see zombie movies talk about that. I think they've about exhausted the useful antibiotics and preventatives but they won't stop f'ing. And they shove more in everyday. Basically a giant wrinkly undulating blob of horny old people.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 10:06 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 10:01 AM (h7ZuX)
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Yes, I very much get that, but we can't allow ourselves to get distracted and overinvested in vengeance. I see it all over the place, people yelling that "if no one goes to jail, burn it all down!"
That is the devil speaking with your voice. He is the one who wants it all burned down. Our anger actually comforts the left, because it shows they are getting to us.
When we laugh at them, they lose it. They cannot handle it. Nothing burns them up more than watching us relax, smile and laugh, completely ignoring them, caught up in our own fun and filling those around us with love.
I bet this thread is THE most enraging to them. People praying for each other, sharing joy, love, making jokes. It's got to drive them nuts seeing us riffing on rock and not really engaging on them.
Besides, anger clouds judgement.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)
Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga
Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga
Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga
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A song meant for AOC.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 10:06 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 10:06 AM (3uBP9)
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Brought to a standstill by giant screens showing "Matlock."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Auspex
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I liked Mike better. Joel had a hint of smugness.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 10:08 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:00 AM (qgHp7)
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Didn't see the game but thanks for the good description.
Congratulations to Canada!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:08 AM (r5gBF)
“Starfleet Academy” Actor Claims Show and Franchise Is a Vehicle for LGBTQ+ Propaganda
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I have to admit I may have been wrong, and the woke far Left may have been right. I believed media didn't have to be representative of the audience, and good stories were the only thing that mattered.
But, even if Star Feet Learing Academy had great stories and dialog, the non-stop GAYNESS, combined with the only white males being gay, evil, dumb, or dead, makes me realize not being represented might matter after all.
Although, I have been feeling much more villainous over the last decade or so...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 21, 2026 10:08 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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These are acceptable terms
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 21, 2026 10:08 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 10:04 AM (XvL8K)
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One of the reasons why Wrath of Khan is justly praised is that Shatner actually underplays the role at several key moments. It amplifies the gravity and power of the moment.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: banana Dream
At least we now know who is buying the 55 gallon drums of Astrolube.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 10:09 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 10:05 AM (Y8DZL)
I feel no need to ever watch one of Oswalt's episodes. They are making new ones through kickstarter. Mike, Kevin, and Bill. Along with Mary Joe and Mikes wife. Original cast. Going to make similar sets. They wanted to raise 20K. Only a few days in and they raised over 2 million.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 10:09 AM (3uBP9)
at the Finger Lakes
was fantastic.
**********
One of my biggest mistakes
(aside from the Crabby Patty cakes)
Was the day I had the nerve
To batter, fry, and serve
Fish fingers, down at the Finger Lakes
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:09 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 10:06 AM (3uBP9)
I don’t that movie will ever fly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 10:10 AM (46za5)
Team Canada Posts Cringe “Silver Shines Just as Bright” Copium That Backfires Spectacularly
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 10:10 AM (FXNzP)
No: we have about two PA Dutch markets within an hour of me which the families go to and sell their stuff.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 10:10 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Worst Song Ever
******** It might have been recorded as a joke but Harris was definitely drunk.
Posted by: Cosda at February 21, 2026 10:10 AM (IJX3T)
Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2026 10:10 AM (rsSDz)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 10:08 AM (XvL8K)
Joel seemed tired. I think he was overworked and shy maybe a bit. Mike has a better presence.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 10:11 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:05 AM (E4rtv)
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What they fail to understand is that justice can exist outside of the law. When the law and justice are in opposition, the law is often forced to yield. This is often not the case, and that's how you get tyrannies, but that is extremely unlikely in a nation with more firearms than people.
If the law is unjust, there will be a reaction. It will also not be possible to create the same conformity, so there will be just jurisdictions which will push against unjust ones, as we are seeing now. It takes a lot of energy to sustain tyranny, the left is losing theirs rapidly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Castles in the Air
2 songs that melded together in my brain as a kid along with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 10:13 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:13 AM (r5gBF)
I'm currently rewatching Chernobyl which he is in. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself. Really good.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 21, 2026 10:13 AM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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They're still shitty.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 21, 2026 10:14 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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These are acceptable terms
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 21, 2026 10:08 AM (8AONa)
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The people who hollow out our favorite IPs and wear them as skin suits really don't understand the fans. We'd rather have NO Star Trek or Star Wars than have the garbage versions they've created. It's not about the name--it's about maintaining and honoring the spirit of the original franchise.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2026 10:16 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 21, 2026 09:44 AM (tsYFt)
Hopefully the latter...
Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Epstein at February 21, 2026 10:16 AM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Shatner also starred in a film that as far as I know is the only movie ever made where they speak Esperanto entirely. Is Esperanto still a thing? Succubus, I think.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cxFcK)
at the Finger Lakes
was fantastic.
**********
Worst limerick ever!
Posted by: muldoon
"Burma Shave"
Apparently, the last sign fell down.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 21, 2026 10:17 AM (cYBz/)
On that note , I always did respect Ali for taking his medicine and not fleeing the country.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 10:17 AM (4hjRS)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:17 AM (qgHp7)
It’s not just White Males - I’ve read that they now have a mincing, prancing trans Klingon, too.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 10:17 AM (46za5)
Posted by: Virgil Fox And His Heavy Organ at February 21, 2026 10:18 AM (oftw2)
The US has a single geographic command to cover the nation; China has five. In addition to its active duty element and armed national police, China has several million militia (actual numbers are vague) that can be given clubs and riot helmets, and also plain-clothes 'enforcers' who also augment local police.
And yet for all of that, it teeters in the brink of rebellion. In fact that are lots of riots and uprisings that never make the news here. It is seething with discontent.
The point is that if China, which has had decades to perfect thought control and build the perfect security state, is now wobbling, how can the US establishment hope to maintain power in the face of popular discontent?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
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And that's not fertilizer!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 10:18 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Blutarski
Dr. Moriarty in the Robert Downey Holmes movie, Lane Price in Mad Men, and Harry Seldon in the Foundation misfire.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 10:18 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Cosda at February 21, 2026 10:10 AM (IJX3T)
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There were magnificent drunks in that era: Harris, O'Toole, and Oliver "Queensbury Rules My Ass" Reed. We will not see their like again.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 21, 2026 10:18 AM (kpS4V)
Just another day in swampland. I hope the sewage pipe break never gets fixed and the whole city stinks to high heaven all summer.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:19 AM (qVl3w)
Seen him in a number of things -- Fringe, Mad Men, The Expanse, Foundation. Terrific actor.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2026 10:19 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 10:19 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:17 AM (qgHp7)
No that was their less well known B-side, Proud Mary in the John with Ana.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 10:19 AM (46za5)
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And that's not fertilizer!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 10:18 AM (FXNzP)
We’ve already seen that ANTIFA are the worst farmers in the world.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 21, 2026 10:19 AM (4hjRS)
Posted by: muldoon
>I'm pretty sure it was about LSD, but I could be wrong.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 21, 2026 10:20 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cxFcK)
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I think it has been surpassed by Klingon in terms of speakers. No, I'm not kidding.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm always late because just not a morning person. I just read all the comments and by the time I get to the end, the thread is on to music, TV shows, actors, politics. I haven't been around much during the week. Trying to go outside every day even though the weather has sucked.
But here I get to see that you are all still the people I know and love. ❤️💃
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 21, 2026 10:20 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Don Black at February 21, 2026 08:55 AM (ZxPkt)
A wide-body model, to be sure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 10:20 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:17 AM (qgHp7)
LSD.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 21, 2026 10:20 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Razor Stubble Jones at February 21, 2026 10:20 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2026 10:22 AM (j42Fn)
Two weeks ago we had high temperatures around 15 degrees and a foot of snow on the ground. Two days ago we had 70 degrees and tornadoes. Welcome to February in Indiana!
I had to go to the urgent care clinic for my ear problem. We were right behind a storm chaser car. I told Hubbymayhem that I really felt like it was a bad idea to follow a storm chaser. He said "you are not getting out of seeing a doctor just because the weather is shitty."
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 21, 2026 10:22 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 21, 2026 10:18 AM (kpS4V)
Two of the most notorious were the Welshmen, Richard Burton and Hugh Griffith. They were long time drinking buddies and were legendary for keeping London pubs going til 5 am with their booze fueled antics.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 10:23 AM (46za5)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Several here are caustic and abrasive, but for now, the lovable ones slightly outnumber the delinquents.
Posted by: Jubilant Delinquent at February 21, 2026 10:23 AM (oftw2)
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me, baby, because I'm moanin' low
And you know I'm only in it for the gold
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A nice Grateful Dead morning, and I don't care that few here are fans.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:24 AM (qVl3w)
She don't lie
she don't lie
she don't lie
pumpkin pie
Posted by: banana Dream at February 21, 2026 10:24 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 10:24 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Tom at February 21, 2026 10:24 AM (v1Vj4)
The Star Trek conundrum starts with it being "Gunsmoke" in outer space as Roddenberry envisioned it; the solution lies in remaking that with the Long Branch Saloon becoming a gay bar and all the characters remaining unchanged.
Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2026 10:24 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Tom at February 21, 2026 10:24 AM (v1Vj4)
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Just click on the comments. Or use Brave. Both work.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:26 AM (ZOv7s)
Is why I would like to make a Maltese Falcon
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 10:26 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/2xm8xfa4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 10:27 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 10:27 AM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
You know as well as anyone that China has a long history of breaking into regions controlled by warlords after the death of a strong Emperor. Sounds like there could be 5 of them this time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 10:28 AM (46za5)
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2026 09:17 AM (ODdTz)
Whales, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 10:28 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2026 10:29 AM (Ookz/)
She don't lie
she don't lie
she don't lie
pumpkin pie
Posted by: banana Dream
>Clapton did a cover of a JJ Cale song.
Cale>>Clapton
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 21, 2026 10:29 AM (gVUi7)
Wow; That sounds worrisome. Glad you are doing better, and it sounds like you have a very concerned and direct husband.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 10:29 AM (Nx5jP)
You folks wanted this and now you're going to get it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:30 AM (tmn4j)
If the law is unjust, there will be a reaction. It will also not be possible to create the same conformity, so there will be just jurisdictions which will push against unjust ones, as we are seeing now. It takes a lot of energy to sustain tyranny, the left is losing theirs rapidly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Law in general should be viewed as a dispute resolution mechanism by setting the rules of the game. In a world absent of law, endless disputes will almost always have to be resolved by trial of force. Where leftists have a problem is that they want it both ways, laws when they can obtain them to oppress their foes in a society and no law being enforced against them. And this attitude has spread nationwide among the left. So urban areas devolved into trials of force for their pets and yet law abiders are subject to draconian enforcement.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:30 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 10:28 AM (46za5)
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That was how the Warlord Era started - the monarchy was overthrown, replaced by a Republic, but when the general who ruled it died, the regional commanders set up their own mini-states. That could happen again, with each regional command being quasi-independent.
The PLA is loyal to the Party, not China, and if the Party falters, there is no higher cause than yourself. I haven't gotten to watch the latest videos from China yet. Looking forward to it, though.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cxFcK)
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Esperanto is the language of the future and always will be.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 21, 2026 10:31 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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I think in any urban area, a grain of salt applies to any 'voting'. These are all rotten boroughs where money and fraud buy elections.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:31 AM (E4rtv)
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Some lousy punk-assed state judge now thinks he's James Boasberg.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:33 AM (tmn4j)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 21, 2026 10:20 AM (t/2Uw)
Good morning, Sharon!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2026 10:33 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 21, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)
There's a place for it on me!
Posted by: Aero Pinochet passenger list at February 21, 2026 10:34 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:31 AM (E4rtv)
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Glad to see you whig! I hope you're feeling well.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:34 AM (tmn4j)
Posted by: Madamemayhem
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I hope for a speedy and healing resolution to your ear problem. A thorough ENT checkup later when you can might be advisable as ear symptoms can be a result of something else.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:35 AM (E4rtv)
Can’t get any more 70s than that!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
My daughter had an art class project that was basically do a painting of song lyrics that makes the song obvious. She chose Werewolves of London. Hubbymayhem found a Warren Zevon Facebook page that is run by Zevon son. He posted a pic of the girl's artwork which got a "holy shit! That is fucking awesome!" comment from the son.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 21, 2026 10:35 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:30 AM (E4rtv)
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As we saw in Spain. I think the level of voter fraud is much bigger than anyone thinks. Blue jurisdictions used to course correct and I think that the system has been successfully rigged for that to be impossible to stop within the states because of that capture.
The danger of civil war was greatest when the Dems controlled the White House and therefore the military, which was staffed with yes-men at its highest levels. What I most feared was a clash between national and state forces because that would create a situation of divided loyalties and intense combat for control of bases and installations. Very much Spain.
But now, the correlation of forces is completely lop-sided. Even blue state National Guard units will follow Trump. If Newsome, and Walz had thought they could create an incident with them, they would have, but they know it would end in their humilation and arrest.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:36 AM (ZOv7s)
Trump Blasts Anti-Tariff Justices: “Fools and Lapdogs for the RINOs,” “Swayed by Foreign Interests.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:24 AM
I think he is wrong. I read the opinions (what a slog), as best as a I, a layman, can do, and the opinion seems valid, or at least colourable. I WANT the Congress to expressly delineate delegated powers, and they did fail to expressly allow tariffs, ie taxing, in the IEEPA.
He has other options and I think he should use them.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 21, 2026 10:36 AM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 10:36 AM (Ia/+0)
Hope she picks up some protein too, as a secondary goal.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:37 AM (tmn4j)
Strange thing for the National Security Advisor who was up to her ass in the Russia hoax to do.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 10:37 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
For having my throat slit and my windpipe shoved over to operate on my spine 9 days ago, I am feeling remarkably well thanks to modern pharmacology.
Still having some issues swallowing but do have at least part of my voice back. On resolving nerve and strength issues, way to early to tell but at least they aren't getting worse for a time.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:37 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:33 AM (tmn4j)
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Trans is another thing that is going away, and nothing the left can do will stop it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero
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ISWYDT
This reminds me of a phrase I heard on a TV commercial the other day (not sure what they were advertising):
"Progress has no end."
Ponder that for a moment.
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:38 AM (qgHp7)
Good to see you and may God continue to bless and strengthen you in your recovery.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 10:39 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 21, 2026 10:39 AM (Kt19C)
https://tinyurl.com/2xm8xfa4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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That is a wonderful gift to his grandchildren. Giving of oneself is something we see too little nowadays.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:39 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:37 AM (E4rtv)
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Good to hear. My daughter has a follow appointment on Monday to see if she can get some of the bands removed on her jaw and shift from liquids to soft foods. She's very excited and has her mother's near-regenerative capacity to heal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:39 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 21, 2026 10:40 AM (kpS4V)
Ponder that for a moment.
Posted by: muldoon at February 21, 2026 10:38 AM (qgHp7)
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Lefties would tell you it is the alpha and the omega, the skin-suit of moral civilization
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:40 AM (tmn4j)
I think the situation was a so-called "constitutional crisis" when the first few judges overstepped their authorities. In some cases more than once or twice. And some refused to reconsider. Referring to it thusly might have had the same effect as tossing around the term "Insurrection Act" had for Minneapolis.
Again, just my opinion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2026 10:41 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2026 10:41 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 10:41 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Thanks for the prayers. I always try to give a short prayer of thanks to the Lord every day when I wake up and then another prayer of thanks before going to sleep. Helps to deal with the often temporary frustrations of the day to come.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:43 AM (E4rtv)
It gets better.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 10:43 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 21, 2026 10:43 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Canada just slapped some guy with a $750,000 fine for saying there are only two genders.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 10:43 AM (46za5)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,
Aldis Lamp.
Posted by: Ships At Sea at February 21, 2026 10:43 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:44 AM (tmn4j)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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Yes, discussing the recent court decision on tariffs is a perfect example where an interpretative dance twerking would have been better than what Scotus wrought.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:44 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2026 10:45 AM (Nx5jP)
https://is.gd/RNLJg0
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 10:45 AM (Riz8t)
I think a core issue is that leftists are so colossally ignorant of history. They actually think Kent State hurt Nixon. They are assured by their lefty professors and protest songs that it did. But it didn't. The Days of Rage backfired in a huge way, and ushered in 20 years of Republican presidents, with the Carter interregnum being an embarrassing blip.
The Dems need a full cessation of deportation, and that's not going to happen. They aren't moving the needle, but are creating criminal conspiracies that can and will be pursued. For those screaming "WHEN?!" I will point to the election calendar. The time for indictments is after the ballots have been finalized.
Trump has shown a super-human degree of patience in letting all this play out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 10:43 AM (46za5)
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Carney gets away with that crap because Castreaux and his handmaiden Chrystia Freeloader stole the guns from the citizenry.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:46 AM (tmn4j)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)
This infuriates me because Trump and his agenda is about as conservative as Jack Kennedy. The average GOPe RINO is a far left Democrat and the Dems are all Trotskyites, right down to the land reform.
Trump's whole schtick is the Hamiltonian economics based around production and transportation, instead of the financialization of everything that has been both sides' goal for 50 years.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2026 10:47 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cxFcK)
Close. Incubus (1966).
But I only know that because someone mentioned it on the site yesterday.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 21, 2026 10:47 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Monica! at February 21, 2026 10:47 AM (E6ouU)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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That would be tough dealing with those bands, glad to hear she is on the mend.
I am currently on diet of baked/broiled fish and soft foods but that is better than those protein shakes, jello, etc. that I was eating.
Baked lemon pepper cod for tonight in a pinot grigio butter sauce with scalloped potatoes.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:48 AM (E4rtv)
There is also the 250th celebration, and rioting while the rest of America wants to kick back and party is about the dumbest thing one can do. People will rightly want those goons locked up, and they will be.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 21, 2026 10:48 AM (E6ouU)
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:48 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Monica! at February 21, 2026 10:47 AM (E6ouU)
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A life lesson straight from Kamala's recent memoir.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:48 AM (tmn4j)
Posted by: Monica! at February 21, 2026 10:47 AM (E6ouU)
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A life lesson straight from Kamala's recent memoir.
Please remember that it will hurt Whig to laugh.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 10:49 AM (Riz8t)
They are being pursued as we speak. Ft. Pierce, Florida.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 10:50 AM (viF8m)
Trump Blasts Anti-Tariff Justices: “Fools and Lapdogs for the RINOs,” “Swayed by Foreign Interests.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 21, 2026 09:24 AM
I think he is wrong. I read the opinions (what a slog), as best as a I, a layman, can do, and the opinion seems valid, or at least colourable. I WANT the Congress to expressly delineate delegated powers, and they did fail to expressly allow tariffs, ie taxing, in the IEEPA.
He has other options and I think he should use them.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 21, 2026 10:36 AM (4NO2D)
Here where I think he is right. The justices trampled on the constitutionality so many times, that this should have been no brainer. They become uber legalese when they have a very plausible and legal action of a Republican , and been looking the other way when it's a Democrat. They show their "inner" preference. Obamacare was a no brainer but Roberts twisted himself into a pretzel, and what most abhorrent , took action that he now claims belongs to Congress! He himself trampled on the Constitution and declared some bullshit a tax!
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2026 10:50 AM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Javems at February 21, 2026 10:51 AM (W9qVr)
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2026 10:51 AM (j42Fn)
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2026 10:51 AM (j42Fn)
Posted by: gKWVE
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Thanks. A bit wobbly still but so far this surgery was far better than knee replacement as far as issues.
Major factor is boredom as I am very limited in what I can do for the next 3 months because I have to let the implanted cage bond. That means no lifting, etc. and a collar of shame ( I think mine frightens the doggies that they might catch it).
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:52 AM (E4rtv)
tl:dr
Shorter version: SCOTUS, pick a damn lane and stick with it.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 10:52 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2026 10:47 AM (rbvCR)
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Trump revealed to the world that most of Conservatism, Inc. was just as if not more socially liberal than the left, they just supported big business. The ease with which Kristol, French, Goldberg, etc. shifted ground was telling.
Pro gun, right to life folks were played for saps by people who paid lip service to their cause and then worked tirelessly to thwart their goals. It's now just out in the open.
National Review reversing itself on federal election reforms is pretty much the epitome of this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner
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Spouses getting money for vaguely defined jobs is a major issue in court cases. Frankly Roberts crippling the investigation into the leak of the abortion decisions alone should mean resigning in shame.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:53 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2026 10:52 AM (Riz8t)
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The same liberal justices who think that there are government workers who exist *outside* the Constitution and are completely unaccountable are now worried about separation of powers? Sorry, I don't buy it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:52 AM (E4rtv)
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then we will expect to see you leading the league on comment count!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:55 AM (2NohR)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 21, 2026 10:56 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2026 10:56 AM (rbvCR)
OG Star Wars has not lost its cultural currency, new-Coke* Star Wars has zero cultural currency.
* Elements of The Mandalorian have relevancy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 10:57 AM (cRaDf)
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2026 10:57 AM (j42Fn)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 21, 2026 10:36 AM (4NO2D)
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Crucifixions every 100 yards all around the Beltway?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:57 AM (2NohR)
Also he has always been a pedophile
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 21, 2026 10:57 AM (VxqbO)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 21, 2026 10:56 AM (t/2Uw)
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I absolutely despise the University of Michigan and regard Ann Arbor as Lovecraftian nightmare, but their hospital is amazing. Everything happened on time, service was prompt, and her recovery is proceeding much faster than my other daughter and wife, who had the same procedure but at a different facility.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 10:58 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 21, 2026 10:59 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:59 AM (2NohR)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 21, 2026 11:00 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:57 AM (2NohR)
That was my fondest wish during Covid
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2026 11:00 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:46 AM (tmn4j)
Actually, the number of guns seized, stolen, or tuned in by Canadians is minuscule. It's probably a safe bet to guess that the number of handguns smuggled into the country across border-straddling Indian reserves every week exceeds the number exceeds the number of lawfully-owned firearms surrendered to the Nazis. Criminals and gang-bangers have no trouble getting guns.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 11:01 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2026 11:01 AM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 10:57 AM (cRaDf)
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No, but the IP as it is currently being used is worthless. And I will believe The Mandalorian is relevant when I see box office numbers that prove it. My family has zero interest in it and we were pretty much superfans of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 11:02 AM (2NohR)
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 10:52 AM (E4rtv)
I just hope it doesn’t have a cone attached.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2026 11:03 AM (46za5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2026 10:59 AM (2NohR)
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There is a 100% change that there are multiple tabs open on his browser, most of them being kiddie pr()n.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 21, 2026 11:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 11:03 AM (cRaDf)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 11:03 AM (viF8m)
The question is whether regulate coupled with powers over importation of goods under the IEEPA included tariffs. Roberts and five other justices said it couldn't claiming a major questions doctrine.
Roberts cites "IEEPA authorizes the President to ‘investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, prevent or prohibit . . . importation or exportation."
Yet curiously this almost absolute control recognized by the majority is used to then block tariffs because the statute does not specifically mention tariffs. These are a form of regulation as much as taxation btw as a means to address an economic emergency.
Gorsuch shows his idiosyncratic hypertextualism theory that ignores common understanding of laws so he can invent transexuals covered by the Civil Rights Act but not tariffs as a means of affecting importation of goods from other countries while allowing all other forms of blocking or limiting them. His undignified assault on the three dissenters was also indicative of his screwball idiosyncratic tangents on statutory law.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 11:05 AM (E4rtv)
>> My family has zero interest in it and we were pretty much superfans of it.
When I say The Mandolorian has relevance it’s that it is the only other property that you will see kids either wearing t-shirts or making pinewood themed derby cars or other similar displays.
For instance I’ve never seen an Andor themed anything at say a kids skating party.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 11:06 AM (cRaDf)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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My wife is threatening that if I get out of line.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 11:06 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Nice.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2026 11:07 AM (E4rtv)
Those are rookie numbers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 11:03 AM (cRaDf)
Remember, those are the numbers of guns, and gun owners, that officially exist because the handguns are registered, or the owners of long guns applied for a Posession and Acquisition license. Thousands of legacy gun owners never complied. And of course, none of the thugs and gang bangers with smuggled Glocks are complying, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 11:08 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 21, 2026 11:09 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Mick at February 21, 2026 11:13 AM (HFx9z)
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 21, 2026 10:57 AM (VxqbO)
Never not funny.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 21, 2026 11:20 AM (4NO2D)
Daily Tech News 21 February 2026
Top Story
- Discord continues to go from strength to strength, at least insofar as the levels of mishandling its introduction of age verification and the number of users fleeing the platform. (Ars Technica)
I never much liked Discord; its interface is awkward and annoying. But the age verification thing was pretty much forced on it by fascist governments in Europe and, uh, Australia.
On the other hand, the company did itself no favours by claiming that uploaded ID documents would remain secure after they had already leaked.
And even less so with the latest incident where, after reasserting that documents would be deleted immediately after they were verified - which we already knew was untrue, because deleted documents can't be leaked - they contradicted themselves in an official announcement and then deleted the announcement and pretended they had never announced it.
Tech News
- Pinterest - which apparently still exists - is drowning in a sea of AI slop and AI moderation. (404 Media)
Pinterest went all-in on AI and found themselves in the worst of all possible worlds.
- Same again only Facebook. (Pilk)
If only someone had seen this coming ten years ago.
- Google blocked 1.75 million Play Store submissions in 2025. (Bleeping Computer)
That's 1.75 million fake apps.
Time to release the badgers.
- Overclocking a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 to 850MHz. (Pimoroni)
The Pico 2 runs at 150MHz out of the box, but can clock over 300MHz at the default 1.1V. Increasing that to 1.3V takes you over 400MHz. Beyond that you have to start breaking the rules, but that takes you a long way.
- AMD's Zen 6 chips - probably to be called the Ryzen 10000 series - may not reach the desktop until next year. (WCCFTech)
They will show up this year, but perhaps only in servers.
Intel says it is still on track to launch its Nova Lake desktop chips this year, with up to 52 cores and 288MB of cache, so they might have a window to claw back some market share.
- Meta and other tech firms are banning OpenClaw, formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot, because it is hopelessly insecure in every possible way. (Wired) (archive site)
A coworker set up an OpenClaw instance in a secure sandbox to try it out. While it couldn't do anything too awful from inside its padded cell, it took me literally 30 seconds to find a major vulnerability.
- OpenAI - which now employs the creator of OpenClaw - may be doomed. (Ben Evans)
Oh no.
Anyway.
Not AI companies generally, just OpenAI specifically.
Still it's something to look forward to.
Musical Interlude
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at February 21, 2026 04:01 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 04:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 21, 2026 04:04 AM (G1ktt)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 21, 2026 04:05 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 04:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 04:22 AM (rdVOm)
Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) still wants to believe:
Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused
I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded monster that is being actively attacked at scale is not very appealing at all. Already seeing reports of exposed instances, RCE vulnerabilities, supply chain poisoning, malicious or compromised skills in the registry, it feels like a complete wild west and a security nightmare. But I do love the concept....
Posted by: m at February 21, 2026 04:27 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: m at February 21, 2026 04:28 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 04:45 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 04:52 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 05:01 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2026 05:04 AM (+nEug)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 21, 2026 05:06 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 05:08 AM (Ia/+0)
g'mornin, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 21, 2026 05:14 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 04:45 AM (gQ15S)
yay
Posted by: m at February 21, 2026 05:16 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Tuna at February 21, 2026 05:18 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 21, 2026 05:20 AM (bQ4nt)
Should work although I don't know why you would want Windows 8. What mattersis the email program. And you need to check how your current program is configured, POP or IMAP. you'l likely need to export messages and addresses.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 05:23 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2026 05:26 AM (+nEug)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 05:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 05:27 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 05:30 AM (gQ15S)
When I open the blog in the morning I glance back over Ace's headlines from the afternoon. Aside from Hegseth firing the Fort Bragg "transgender wolf" teacher (I almost typed "creature"), most of it is heavily depressing.
Miss Linda misread the "transgender wolf" story and thought it was one of the *children* in the teacher's class who was insisting on being a wolf. I guess that would hardly be news or cause for outrage.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 05:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2026 05:35 AM (+nEug)
Posted by: RickZ at February 21, 2026 05:35 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 05:37 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: m at February 21, 2026 05:38 AM (+YA9H)
You will need the settings from your mail program, incoming and outgoing servers. Should be easy to find an older computer and set up email.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 05:43 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2026 05:44 AM (+nEug)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2026 05:46 AM (+nEug)
We own the 2022 version, which will go upstairs with the old TV.
And that sale price is quite good.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 21, 2026 05:46 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2026 05:49 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)
Rejoinder: ...and in Oregon, bottles are worth a dime!
---just the punchline.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 21, 2026 06:05 AM (i1VVh)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 21, 2026 06:07 AM (u82oZ)
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.
We got some snow last night. Not a lot, but back into the under 20 ℉ temps in the early morning.
We are in an early spring weather pattern.
On a more positive note, I walk in the mall, on two separate days, with different widows. Less social isolation.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 21, 2026 06:11 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 06:14 AM (Ia/+0)
Glad to hear that you are getting out and about with other folks.
Both the exercise and social interaction are good for the body and soul.
On the downside, it was 80 degrees out yesterday, so we had to wear shorts for a bit.
Which made me feel bad, as my MiL is due to get another winter storm starting today.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 21, 2026 06:16 AM (iMotb)
We might go out to our favorite neighborhood diner/bar & grill tonight. It's hard to describe what this place is. Its name suggests coffee shop, and they do serve that and certain pastries. But they also have breakfast Fri. through Sun., lunch and dinner every day but Monday, with sandwiches, burgers, entrees, soup, etc.
We and many other patrons helped keep them in business during the Sniffle Scare with takeout orders. And they were never all in on the face diaper hoax, either.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 21, 2026 06:26 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 21, 2026 06:31 AM (jrgJz)
May you all be basking in warm weather soon. With stories to tell of the brutal winter of 2026.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 21, 2026 06:33 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 21, 2026 06:31 AM (jrgJz)
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Ouch.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 21, 2026 06:38 AM (i1VVh)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 06:39 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 06:41 AM (Ia/+0)
But This dude wins was funniest
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 06:47 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 21, 2026 06:47 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2026 06:48 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2026 06:49 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 21, 2026 06:50 AM (1FEc1)
Always liked Kate Bush but that song is annoying
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 06:51 AM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2026 06:53 AM (2GVsD)
But This dude wins was funniest
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026
***
I had no idea what that object was that looked like a cake with a red handle. It took several memes before I got it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 06:53 AM (wzUl9)
I might hit the big library for some new stuff while I'm out there in the 'burbs. I looked for the second "Knives Out" movie, The Glass Onion, at my nearby library and had no luck. Maybe the big location will have it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 06:57 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 07:02 AM (wzUl9)
Wolfus, I sent you an email yesterday. Mind taking a look?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 21, 2026 07:06 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 21, 2026
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I saw it, OE. I'll write back soon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 07:08 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hate That Song at February 21, 2026 07:13 AM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2026 07:16 AM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2026 07:08 AM (wzUl9)
Thanks. It's from Avery's edit.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 21, 2026 07:24 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 21, 2026 07:27 AM (S+2Xo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2026 07:36 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 07:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: fd at February 21, 2026 07:42 AM (vFG9F)
Maybe for tomorrow's tech thread:
https://tinyurl.com/mujpr8tz
The Register
"Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame"
Western Digital chief Tiang Yew Tan told analysts "We're pretty much sold out for calendar '26. We have firm purchase orders with our top seven customers. And we've also established long term agreements with two of them for calendar year '27 and one of them for calendar year '28."
...
Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said on his own company’s call: "Our nearline capacity is fully allocated through calendar year 2026, and we expect to begin accepting orders for the first half of calendar year 2027 in the coming months… additionally, multiple cloud customers are discussing their demand growth projections for calendar 2028, underscoring that supply assurance remains their highest priority."
...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 21, 2026 07:49 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter's department of education at February 21, 2026 08:20 AM (yJpvi)
Posted by: DoctorMew at February 21, 2026 10:39 AM (XodLO)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 06:39 AM (Ia/+0)
47 https://tinyurl.com/3srw4eu3
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 06:41 AM (Ia/+0)
48 All in all, the Olympic stuff went over my head.
But This dude wins was funniest
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2026 06:47 AM (Ia/+0)
; )
Posted by: m at February 21, 2026 11:24 AM (+YA9H)
A Meme Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
Welcome everybody to Friday meme night!
Fido Friday:Helping
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 20, 2026
Tonight's quiz
What's in a name?
K.O.
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 20, 2026
Put the pipe down
Afganistan is a horrible place run by evil men, but even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every so often
Cute content
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 20, 2026
We are so lucky to have the boneless ones in this country
Oh, snap!
Pew pew
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 20, 2026
From 160 BC, and we are scarily far to the right
Marriage
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There's an Easter version of this joke too
We are lesser sons of greater fathers
He sounds crabby
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Bon mot
It's amazing any of us survived adolescence
Heartwarming video of the day
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - she's a wonder that woman at February 20, 2026 09:58 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: Rex B at February 20, 2026 09:58 PM (GI9/m)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 09:59 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Half Dozen at February 20, 2026 10:00 PM (EYvpB)
Posted by: mindful webworker at 09:58 PM
Which one of us has a time-jumping wormhole?
I'll never tell.
Posted by: mindful webworker - time and time again at February 20, 2026 10:00 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 10:00 PM (h3Fno)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 20, 2026 10:01 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Latrina at February 20, 2026 10:02 PM (nWPIJ)
NO
STEAL
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 20, 2026 10:03 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 10:03 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2026 10:03 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 10:03 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 20, 2026 10:03 PM (kvcnI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 10:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2026 10:04 PM (nWPIJ)
We don't deserve dogs.
Dogs and beer are proof to me that God loves us and wants us to be happy during our stay here.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:06 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 20, 2026 10:03 PM (kvcnI)
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So you're the guy.
Posted by: Marcel from Dijon at February 20, 2026 10:07 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:08 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 20, 2026 10:09 PM (zuIfz)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 10:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 20, 2026 10:10 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 20, 2026 10:10 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 10:12 PM (Ookz/)
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right click
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Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 10:12 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: GWB at February 20, 2026 10:12 PM (02Em6)
Paintball?!?
My boys were PISSED when I didn’t give them a chance. “Mom. You’re supposed to let your kids win to build thei self confidence.”
Ha ha. Beat me. Then you’ll be confidant.
Posted by: nurse ratched
I was the assistant head ref for 24 years for scenario games. I've retired from reffing and spending my time playing. I played from '97 to 2002. Then started reffing. I'm back to playing now.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 10:13 PM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: Alpa Chino at February 20, 2026 10:13 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:13 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 10:13 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Marcel from Dijon at February 20, 2026 10:07 PM (nWPIJ)
Yup. Terrified as a small child every Nov 5th.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 20, 2026 10:13 PM (kvcnI)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 10:14 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)
open image in new tab
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 10:12 PM
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That's too much effort.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:14 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Joemarine at February 20, 2026 10:14 PM (y171U)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 10:15 PM (JW6Az)
Am I the only one who found the "most popular by state" completely illegible?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I have a 27 inch screen and am wearing reading glasses and have a hard time with it. I don't see how anyone uses a phone on web sites.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 10:15 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 10:15 PM (gKWVE)
The look on the husband's face says it all on the marriage one but the wife looks like she's a cutie so prob worth it.
The crab video is hilarious!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:16 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 10:16 PM (u7NM6)
Bertram,
I don't get how people comment here on phones.
The screens are too small for my big fingers.
Posted by: four seasons at February 20, 2026 10:17 PM (3ek7K)
Kaheva discussing AdChrome ... I don't know exactly what it is but ...
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 20, 2026 10:17 PM (kvcnI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)
ight click
open image in new tab
Posted by: Don Black
That blew it up. That blew it up real good.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 10:17 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Maptards at February 20, 2026 10:17 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Joemarine at February 20, 2026 10:14 PM (y171U)
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C.S. Lewis was almost killed by mortar fire. Tolkien got "trench fever" and was hospitalized. If he hadn't gotten sick, he would have been with his battalion when it was annihilated in the spring of 1918.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:18 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2026 10:04 PM (nWPIJ)
And as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:18 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 10:18 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 10:20 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2026 10:04 PM (nWPIJ)
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They are in Asia.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: 29Victor at February 20, 2026 10:22 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 10:20 PM (gKWVE)
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Ford Madox Ford had a shell blow up underneath him. Just threw him around. Hemingway was badly wounded.
Folks forget that Churchill was a battalion commander who insisted on wearing a French helmet. The Establishment very much wanted him KIA.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:23 PM (ZOv7s)
The Trump Administration should now IMMEDIATELY file lawsuits on every single Judge that has ruled against the administration... because the only reason they can do that are rules that are now UnConstitutional under that doctrine.. because it is Congress Job according to the Constitution to write the rules under which lower courts have power.... but they delegated rule writing to the Supremes in the 1930's.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 20, 2026 10:23 PM (mP0Kj)
Bertram,
I don't get how people comment here on phones.
The screens are too small for my big fingers.
Posted by: four seasons at February 20, 2026 10:17 PM (3ek7K)
That's part of the reason why I average six typos for every four comments.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 20, 2026 10:23 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: 29Victor at February 20, 2026 10:22 PM (0MjtC)
Some of the numbers are probably inflated by people going for reasons other than tourism - like to 'shop'.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:25 PM (QGaXH)
I feel like I can almost make out what's being said in the KO video
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 10:25 PM (Ookz/)
Some of the stuff you see from WWI, assuming legit, just look like the guys have gone round the bend.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2026 10:27 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: From about That Time at February 20, 2026 10:27 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 10:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Joemarine
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"Civilization ended in 1914" -- Barbara Tuchman
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2026 10:28 PM (XeU6L)
I never thought letting my kids win was ok. They got beat time and time again. Until they beat me. I remember the first time they beat me down the ski slope. They were so very happy. And they knew they won. Because they beat me.
No. I never let them win. Whether it be a board game or a foot race. If they put up the challenge, they had to try to meet it.
I guess I’m a bitch.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 10:28 PM (A5RD0)
Some of the stuff you see from WWI, assuming legit, just look like the guys have gone round the bend.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)
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They aren't. Shell shock is an actual physical concussion. You got blown up. It hurts. PTSD is more about watching all your friends die pointlessly.
Both suck.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:29 PM (ZOv7s)
I never thought letting my kids win was ok. They got beat time and time again. Until they beat me. I remember the first time they beat me down the ski slope. They were so very happy. And they knew they won. Because they beat me.
No. I never let them win. Whether it be a board game or a foot race. If they put up the challenge, they had to try to meet it.
I guess I’m a bitch.
Posted by: nurse ratched
No. Not a bitch. Awesome mom. Kids need to learn nothing will be given to them.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 10:29 PM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:30 PM (QGaXH)
All I can make out is her saying "no peleas". But, Mom, one punch is not a fight!
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 10:30 PM (JW6Az)
Yeah, he doesn't have a prayer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 10:18 PM (RIvkX)
My prayer for him is that she's a demon in the sack...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 20, 2026 10:31 PM (nbLIj)
I can think of at least 20 different places to
Take you that would be more …. PNW. But that’s my taste.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 10:31 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at February 20, 2026 10:32 PM (cRHw8)
I guess I’m a bitch.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 10:28 PM (A5RD0)
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My maternal grandfather used to play me in Chess and Stratego. He showed no mercy. Beat me every damn time.
I was frustrated at first, and then respected him for bringing his best against me.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Marriage - one of my all-time favorite videos
I might think that maybe "pussy" meant something else in England, were it not for Pussy Galore.
Oklahoma City National Memorial - been there; very moving - but, the only site less visited is… Ben & Jerry's!
Bon mot - 🥹
Thanks, WeirdDave
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Fine with Dogs (in case you missed it)
https://bit.ly/fine-with-dogs
Posted by: mindful webworker - always a great post on Friday ONT at February 20, 2026 10:34 PM (oq2IS)
I can think of at least 20 different places to
Take you that would be more …. PNW. But that’s my taste.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 10:31 PM (A5RD0
What nurse said.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 10:35 PM (XV/Pl)
Nobody other than the most hardcore Journey fans ever still cares about whether Steve Perry will ever come back to Journey.
And I loved 4 or 5 of their albums back in the day. Steve screwed this up. You can take a hiatus. You can't take a 20+ (or 30+) year hiatus and have anyone normal still give a damn about whether you come back. See ya Steve. See ya Journey.
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 10:36 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 20, 2026 10:37 PM (kvcnI)
Grandpa does not. He must earn the win. He will thank me later.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:37 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 20, 2026 10:38 PM (WG1E5)
>"Home of the Bears"
... which home is that?
Posted by: gKWVE
They're just going to tear down whatever is left of Gary and build the stadium there!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026 10:38 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 20, 2026 10:38 PM (KOx5s)
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 10:36 PM (Cjcf6)
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Who?
Posted by: Everyone under 50 at February 20, 2026 10:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 10:40 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:18 PM (ZOv7s)
and millions of people would never feel the joy of reading 30 pages on how a leaf reflects sunlight. Trench fever...I wish I knew that after reading LOTR. I would have done my best Charlton Heston pounding my fist in the sand and yelling "you maniac"! lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 10:41 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 20, 2026 10:43 PM (kvcnI)
I wish them luck and success so they can export the model to other big cities.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:45 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: LRob in OK at February 20, 2026 10:46 PM (7D3Aa)
The family that brought Worcestershire Sauce to the US built a mansion on Newport harbor they called Bonniecrest. Really beautiful place that has since been divided up internally and turned into condos. Very pricy condos.
The original place had many fireplaces for heat. All of the chimneys were designed to look Worcestershire Sauce bottles.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 10:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: some nerd in his 50s at February 20, 2026 10:47 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at February 20, 2026 10:48 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 10:49 PM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Heh. Urban renewal. Things can only get better. Mkaes me sick tolook atthe remains of
"Song Overview Eddie Hodges introduces the sunny charm of "Gary, Indiana" on the Original Broadway Cast album of 'The Music Man'
Makes me sick to see images of City Methodist Church.
"City United Methodist Church is a disused church in Gary, Indiana, United States. Once the largest Methodist church in the Midwest, it ceased as a place of worship in 1975, after just over 50 years of use."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2026 10:49 PM (XeU6L)
Me want!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2026 10:49 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 20, 2026 10:50 PM (kvcnI)
Posted by: Dr. Johnny Fever at February 20, 2026 10:50 PM (Sv1lj)
Posted by: four seasons at February 20, 2026 10:50 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Dr. Johnny Fever at February 20, 2026 10:50 PM (Sv1lj)
Remember to watch out for the phone cops!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 10:51 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Lirio100 at February 20, 2026 10:52 PM (ky7/T)
Thanks for the ONT, Weirddave! Lotsa fun content tonight.
*Mozzarella bites and stuffed mushrooms at the bar for the "meatless" crowd*
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 10:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dr. Johnny Fever at February 20, 2026 10:53 PM (Sv1lj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2026 10:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: The Paolo at February 20, 2026 10:53 PM (R86kT)
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Had it remained open for an additional 50 years, it would have had only 15 additional years of teaching Christian doctrine.
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 10:54 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: rickb223
I’m a bit popped too.
Relax. You have earned a little freedom from stress and responsibility and worry. You’re a good man and you did good.
Breathe. Relax. Feel good.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 10:54 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:45 PM (QGaXH)
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I'll let you know what success because so far its all talk.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: raimondo at February 20, 2026 10:59 PM (IV0DD)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2026 11:00 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: JackStraw
Easy for you to say.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at February 20, 2026 11:00 PM (cRHw8)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:01 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:01 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 11:01 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:01 PM (rdVOm)
You mean like being vicious fascists using the power of the state to falsely imprison people and torture them for their political beliefs?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:02 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 10:08 PM (ZOv7s)
Right-click it -> "Open image in new tab", then expand it there.
Posted by: GWB at February 20, 2026 11:02 PM (02Em6)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 11:01 PM (gKWVE)
Maybe he's been to Korea.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:02 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 10:15 PM (JW6Az)
People STOP in Kansas? We always drove right through.
Posted by: GWB at February 20, 2026 11:04 PM (02Em6)
Britain, Canada, lost many of their best leaders and men.
Rathbone was also two-time British Army fencing champion. He taught Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn sword fighting.
Posted by: Flanders Field at February 20, 2026 11:05 PM (oftw2)
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Once Girl F. learned the rules to chess she always beat me. After so many matches she got bored and moved onto another pursuit.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UdtS-8QS0
Posted by: Epobirs at February 20, 2026 11:07 PM (/0z9K)
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Went through Kansas on I-70 once, and stopped for a cheeseburger at Stucky's (somewhere... there were so many along that highway back then).
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:07 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 10:15 PM (JW6Az)
People STOP in Kansas? We always drove right through.
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Hey, if you can make it in Wichita, you can make it *anywhere*.
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 11:07 PM (Cjcf6)
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBdOutLogic
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-3MoneyWTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ
Dare to be ST00P1D
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 20, 2026 11:12 PM (s0Eto)
The real story is that years ago when it was first brought to the US, a black waiter in a NYC steakhouse was asked to bring an order to a customer with a new sauce for his steak dinner. Waiter looked at the bottle and said "What's this here sauce?"
True story.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 11:12 PM (viF8m)
The family that brought Worcestershire Sauce to the US built a mansion on Newport harbor they called Bonniecrest. Really beautiful place that has since been divided up internally and turned into condos. Very pricy condos.
The original place had many fireplaces for heat. All of the chimneys were designed to look Worcestershire Sauce bottles.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 10:46 PM (viF8m)
Good story Jack. I love Newport. I love the Gilded Age mansions. So glad the preservation society saved and restored many that were not turned into condos or demolished.
Posted by: Joemarine at February 20, 2026 11:13 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 11:13 PM (Cjcf6)
Did I screw up with the virtual bar snacks? I mean.. (assuming one maybe would still come to the bar during Lent)..
Is cheese considered "meat" by observant Catholics?
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:14 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: West Nyack, NY at February 20, 2026 11:15 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: four seasons at February 20, 2026 11:16 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: West Nyack, NY at February 20, 2026 11:15 PM (oftw2)
Winter is fucking cold.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:17 PM (bss/y)
On Feb. 11, illegal alien Floriberto Perez-Nieto of Mexico was sought by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office as the main suspect in a shooting the day before. When deputies located Perez-Nieto, they attempted to pull him over, but the illegal alien tried to evade arrest and opened fire — shooting a deputy in the chest.
The deputy was wearing a bulletproof vest and did not sustain any injuries. As a result of Perez-Nieto’s opening fire on deputies, they returned fire, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
“This criminal illegal alien illegally obtained a firearm and nearly killed a law enforcement officer,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “Thankfully, the officer’s body armor saved his life. There could have been quite a different tragic outcome for this officer and his family.”
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 11:17 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:14 PM (rdVOm)
No, cheese is fine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:17 PM (bss/y)
And that's not even top story this week.
Posted by: blaster at February 20, 2026 11:19 PM (NlEaG)
If that's the case, I can see Bill Gates, part of the WEF leadership, and Mark Zuckerberg listed as part of the ET (Eat Terrans) group.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 11:19 PM (S/Y4j)
40,000,000 my ass.
Posted by: Reforger at February 20, 2026 11:20 PM (onCFI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Thank you! Hoped that I didn't inadvertently offend anyone!
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:20 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: rickb223
Go with it man, go with it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 11:22 PM (snZF9)
40,000,000 my ass.
Posted by: Reforger at February 20, 2026 11:20 PM (onCFI)
Haven't they turned the Mall of America into a giant senior living center yet?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 11:22 PM (S/Y4j)
In his circle of friends I think most didn’t survive. The letters between the various members of the group in various biographies are crazy.
This was before the Inklings. But there must have been some massive potential that we’ll never know.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 20, 2026 11:22 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:14 PM (rdVOm)
No, cheese is fine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
As are eggs, fish and milk. It's not animal products per se that we abstain from. "meat" back in the way back times was understood to mean flesh of warm-blooded animals — animals that have "flesh and blood" - mammals and birds.
Fish, shellfish, reptiles, and eggs were never classified as "meat". Eggs were grouped with dairy products (milk, cheese, butter) as animal products that do not involve the direct killing of the animal.
The Church historically viewed the killing and eating of an animal (shedding its blood) as the core act requiring abstinence. So . . . . . eggs, etc. get a pass.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2026 11:22 PM (cYBz/)
Have Gorsuch clapping on the side.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 11:23 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Thank you! Hoped that I didn't inadvertently offend anyone!
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Any Christian who finds a reason to be offended by cheese might want to re-think a few things.
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 11:23 PM (Cjcf6)
They are an often overlooked gem. Newport is where the robber barons summered and the sheer opulence of the places is mind boggling. They absolutely rival the castles of Europe. Those that haven't been cut up or taken over by various entities are open for viewing and worth a visit.
In my misspent yute a group of women used to do a charity fundraiser they called the Gatsby Balls. They would get permission to use one of the mansions and put on a 1920s era ball. Guys in tuxedos, women in period dress. Complete with a 1920s swing band. For at least one night you got a small taste of what it was like to be a master of the universe.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 11:24 PM (viF8m)
The Pope has asked us to give up being offended or something like that for Lent.
Boy I’d like to have a few words with him about that.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 20, 2026 11:26 PM (EXyHK)
Have Gorsuch clapping on the side.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 11:23 PM (abIsI)
Use hamsters instead, Gorsuch can be a humpster.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 11:26 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: blaster at February 20, 2026 11:19 PM (NlEaG)
And it will be the same as the Epstein files. All sorts of people will take every single *mention* of aliens or UFOs as PROOF of it. And they will still say the gov't is covering up. It's really not going to stop the alien conspiracy people.
Posted by: GWB at February 20, 2026 11:26 PM (02Em6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 11:27 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 11:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Lirio100 at February 20, 2026 11:30 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Took me a while to figure out the meat sold in thelocal grocery story was called "boned". They had a bone(s) in them... then it came together - they took the bone out then shoved it back in - Boned.
Seriously. It so you do not have to cut around the bone.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)
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I would think getting the truth is more important than "stopping the alien conspiracy people."
Posted by: Methos at February 20, 2026 11:31 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 11:31 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: rickb223
I’m a bit popped too.
Relax. You have earned a little freedom from stress and responsibility and worry. You’re a good man and you did good.
Breathe. Relax. Feel good.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 10:54 PM (A5RD0)
What has happened that you're now free of stress and responsibility?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:31 PM (QGaXH)
A heavily armed 23-year-old man who told his family he wanted to commit an act that would put him "on the news," allegedly drove across the country and crashed a car into a Nevada power facility Thursday — an incident authorities are calling a potential act of terrorism.
https://t.ly/-YHUz
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 11:32 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 11:33 PM (3ek7K)
Obviously, I'm not Catholic... so quite ignorant of the specifics.
Doesn't help that vegans helped to ruin the classic definition of "meat"!
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
I wouldn't say no to a beer.....(smile)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:35 PM (QGaXH)
https://youtu.be/TuKeSUUK-A4
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - how can I be sure? at February 20, 2026 11:35 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 11:27 PM (RIvkX)
It'll brie a cold day before I hand over my cheddar, jack!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 11:35 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Thank you! Hoped that I didn't inadvertently offend anyone!
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:20 PM (rdVOm)
You? I don't think that's possible....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:38 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:38 PM (rdVOm)
Did I screw up with the virtual bar snacks? I mean.. (assuming one maybe would still come to the bar during Lent)..
Is cheese considered "meat" by observant Catholics?
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:14 PM (rdVOm)
Oh shit, are we back to this no meat friday thing already? Mrs B is going to be insufferable. Every friday I'm going to get the frigging warning.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 11:39 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Gouda thing I don't give Edam!
Posted by: The Cheez Whiz at February 20, 2026 11:40 PM (oftw2)
That became uninteresting somewhere in the vicinity of Neal Schon going hardcore TDS.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 11:40 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Thank you, ARiK.
*slides a beer down the bar*
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I don't always mean to offend people, but when I do--
I want them to know DAMNED WELL that it was INTENTIONAL!
Heh.
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:40 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: blaster at February 20, 2026 11:19 PM (NlEaG)
And it will be the same as the Epstein files. All sorts of people will take every single *mention* of aliens or UFOs as PROOF of it. And they will still say the gov't is covering up. It's really not going to stop the alien conspiracy people.
Posted by: GWB at February 20, 2026 11:26 PM (02Em6)
I'd be surprised if there's anything beyond 'we found this thing and can't figure out what it is....'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:40 PM (QGaXH)
Original fans of Journey resent that he was forced in by a record company ultimatum.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 20, 2026 11:41 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 20, 2026 11:41 PM (EXyHK)
The funny part is that he ordered it after Obama said aliens are real, and then retracted it the next day.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 11:41 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
You mean like back in the old days when after finishing a carb rebuild one would have some parts that didn't go anywhere?
Or maybe they did. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2026 11:42 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Lirio100 at February 20, 2026 11:30 PM (ky7/T)
I considered it my parental duty to make it possible for my kids to excel and accomplish beyond what I did in my life.
Sounds like your ex was a child.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:43 PM (QGaXH)
https://t.ly/-YHUz
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Before it can be officially "terrorism" they have to find a manifesto.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 11:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: The Fifth Wheel at February 20, 2026 11:44 PM (oftw2)
ARIK,
His wife had a long battle with cancer.
Rickb223 took care of his wife for a long time.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 11:33 PM (3ek7K)
Thank you fourseasons
My condolences Rickb. My poor memory prevents me from keeping track of these sorts of things.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:45 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: GWB at February 20, 2026 11:26 PM (02Em6)
And people have no freakin idea about how much information is 'classified'.
Literally every time we saw something we could not identify on Radar, it was reported... and then we were told not to talk about it... Lots of that info is flat out wrong... some of it was weird sightings of the then secret Stealth Aircraft...
A couple things I saw, yeah, made me wonder... but that was out of a couple of hundred bogus sightings.
And that is just crap I saw as a Radar Tech... multiply that times thousands and thousands... so much info it will be worthless.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 20, 2026 11:45 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 11:45 PM (S/Y4j)
Dude. Meatless is ok once a week... I guess...
I had a BLT for lunch. Baked chicken legs for dinner, but wasn't very hungry, so they will be lunch tomorrow.
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There should be an exception for bacon!!!
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:45 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: The Fifth Wheel at February 20, 2026 11:44 PM (oftw2)
In the sky. Duh!
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 20, 2026 11:46 PM (JRP2U)
The funny part is that he ordered it after Obama said aliens are real, and then retracted it the next day.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 11:41 PM (QZThv)
Well.... Obama would know... he married one...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 20, 2026 11:47 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: First Time Caller at February 20, 2026 11:47 PM (oftw2)
Dude. Meatless is ok once a week... I guess...
I had a BLT for lunch. Baked chicken legs for dinner, but wasn't very hungry, so they will be lunch tomorrow.
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There should be an exception for bacon!!!
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:45 PM (rdVO
I wanted to make a sandwich as I type that, and the friday thing hit me. In 13 minutes its saturday. Fuck it, at 12:01 I'm going in. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 11:47 PM (snZF9)
And, in case you were unaware: "Delsym is a popular over-the-counter, 12-hour, extended-release cough suppressant containing dextromethorphan polistirex, designed to treat dry, hacking coughs due to minor throat/bronchial irritation."
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 11:49 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
You mean like back in the old days when after finishing a carb rebuild one would have some parts that didn't go anywhere?
Or maybe they did. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2026 11:42 PM (cYBz/)
Many years ago I had an early 80's Suburban. One time, after changing alternator? fuel pump? something - I found a leftover bracket. I never did figure out where that thing went....it might still be kicking around somewhere in the garage - if I find it maybe I can send it to AOP.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:49 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Andre' LePlume at February 20, 2026 11:50 PM (oftw2)
And, in case you were unaware: "Delsym is a popular over-the-counter, 12-hour, extended-release cough suppressant containing dextromethorphan polistirex, designed to treat dry, hacking coughs due to minor throat/bronchial irritation."
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 11:49 PM (dIske)
Sorry, you will be receiving a warning about possible fines because you did not add in the mandatory Warnings on side effects.
Posted by: FDA at February 20, 2026 11:52 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 11:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2026 11:52 PM (XeU6L)
WW1 was one of if not the worst things that ever happened in history. We are still dealing with the results of it. And it only happened because of stupid nepotistic elites who had no idea what would happen when their egos wouldnt let them back down and their crony advisers didnt want to blow their seat at the gravy table to disagree. We would have done it again already except even the nepo elites understand atomic weapons
Posted by: Azjaeger at February 20, 2026 11:53 PM (/2Iqm)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:49 PM (QGaXH)
I guess if it was important you would have known by now. Hmm, why did the alternator leave a dent in my hood? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 11:53 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 20, 2026 11:45 PM (mP0Kj)
I was involved with the space based sensors. Every so often someone would get in trouble for getting a little too chummy with the ufo crowd....the folks that hang out in Moab...
I never saw or heard of anything questionable detected.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: FDA at February 20, 2026 11:52 PM (mP0Kj)
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Well, her brother (my friend) is named George. I jokingly call him dollar because his parents were likely starting at a One dollar bill when they name him.
Does that mean the I can also expect a call from the Treasury Department?
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 11:55 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:56 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 11:56 PM (3ek7K)
Some carburetor kits are useful for a couple (or several) different models, and not all the parts are used on every model.
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:57 PM (rdVOm)
Yup, lost most of a generation of young Men... the best and brightest who went off to war...
Then... 50 Million more folks died right after it due to the Spanish Flu.
Then... just 20 years later? WW2...
I'm really not surprised that most of Europe has never been the same.... even though we seemed to come out good.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 20, 2026 11:57 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 11:58 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2026 11:52 PM (XeU6L)
Man, you're not shitting. I go ballistic with this one harley shop I occasional work out of. I tell them, keep every last old part until the engine is done, or the bike it built, whatever. If something don't fit you have a reference if you can compare it to the old part to see what is wrong with the new one. Do they listen? Nooo. Does it always come back to bite them in the ass? All the time. Do they learn? noooo.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 11:58 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 11:47 PM (snZF9)
You're luck. My wife insists the prohibition continues until Saturday morning.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:58 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JackStraw
And a wonderful Bob Weir song it is!
Posted by: Terrapin Station at February 21, 2026 12:05 AM (oftw2)
And even if there were somehow intelligent lifeforms on other planets, they would have had to made gigantic leaps in technology that would allow them to surmount the issues with intergalactic travel, which are, time, distance, physics, biology.
Humans are optimized to live on earth, not to travel outside of the protective environment of earth, aliens would similarly be optimized for their environment and not interstellar space.
Which is why the idea of humans going to Mars is complete fantasy.
A theoretical mission to mars would expose the astronauts to 100 years worth of cosmic radiation in the theoretical 3 year mission.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 12:06 AM (XV/Pl)
It's an OK film in the Gamera MCU but there's a huge bit where we see the other Gamera films condensed. Kind of. It's like 30 minutes, so "condensed" means "not really."
Fun in a stupid way. I dare TLM to feature this in the Sidebar, or, as it has become known, "The TLM Newsfeed."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 21, 2026 12:06 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Azjaeger at February 21, 2026 12:07 AM (/2Iqm)
This year, I had already decided and quit smoking even before Ash Wednesday. It's all I can handle right now! LOL. But also I'm trying to control my new-found appetite.
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 12:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 21, 2026 12:09 AM (CHHv1)
I never saw or heard of anything questionable detected.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
AN/SPS - 40 Air Search Radar... you could spin it up to close to a MegaWatt of power (if you war tuned it), 400-450 Megahertz... which is a very low freq for a Radar.
We'd get surface ducting in the atmospherics were just right... and with only 5 usable channels... and surface formations of 10 - 15 ships in the 80's? All that power heterodyning off each other?
Lots of spurious hits, that if you WANTED to believe... it's like Global Warmering.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2026 12:09 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: First Time Caller
Juice the kumquats.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at February 21, 2026 12:10 AM (cRHw8)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Traveling only at night wouldn't help?
Posted by: SPF 50 at February 21, 2026 12:10 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 12:11 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
What about that teeny, tiny spring that went boing and then it was gone?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at February 21, 2026 12:11 AM (cRHw8)
Are the aliens that careful?
Also - it seems the sightings all started with the development of photography and flight. Why?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:12 AM (QGaXH)
Some carburetor kits are useful for a couple (or several) different models, and not all the parts are used on every model.
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:57 PM (rdVOm)
I love when that happens. They do that a lot with master engine gasket sets for harleys because there's so many changes over the years they say screw it and include everything. If I get a set for a shovelhead it comes with every gasket ever used on shovelheads from 1966 up to 1984. 3 different cam cover gaskets, 3 different type of pushrod tube seals, etc etc. Some of the earliest gaskets can be used on the even older panheads. Tons of spare gaskets and seals in one kit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 12:12 AM (snZF9)
Also - it seems the sightings all started with the development of photography and flight. Why?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:12 AM (QGaXH)
Hmmm... never heard of the books Chariots of the Gods... or as we called it... Hubcaps of the Gods?
Lots of weird carvings and such out there... but again... I think it's a case of if you want to believe.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2026 12:14 AM (mP0Kj)
LOL
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 11:58 PM (rdVOm)
*burp* mission accomplished.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 12:14 AM (snZF9)
Also - it seems the sightings all started with the development of photography and flight. Why?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:12 AM (QGaXH)
Where do you think “Leave no Trace” came from ???
Posted by: The Environmental Movement at February 21, 2026 12:15 AM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Azjaeger
The Lost Generation.
Great War screwed up a lot of people. In all sorts of ways.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 12:16 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: The Man From Athabaska at February 21, 2026 12:18 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 21, 2026 12:21 AM (1je/5)
Lots of weird carvings and such out there... but again... I think it's a case of if you want to believe.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2026 12:14 AM (mP0Kj)
I remember the book - it was popular for a while. I agree there's a lot of unexplainable stuff that becomes explainable if you postulate the existence of aliens - like the desert carvings in SE California. But that can't be the only explanation.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:21 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Stories of supernatural phenonama is usually in line with technology and culture of the times.
In the 1500s UFOs would be angels or demons.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 12:21 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Berserker
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And I'll bet that your stash of those extra parts has saved a project on more than one occasion!
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 21, 2026 12:23 AM (1je/5)
Posted by: There Are No Pockets In A Shroud at February 21, 2026 12:23 AM (oftw2)
Great War screwed up a lot of people. In all sorts of ways.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 12:16 AM (/lPRQ)
My Paternal GrandPa got gassed in France... he was in a US Artillery unit...
Was never quite the same according to family lore. He eventually died of Lung cancer, but he also not only smoked like a chimney, he worked as a Rail Road Conductor for decades (breathing soot and smoke).
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2026 12:24 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:24 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:24 AM (QGaXH)
UFO.... the only Blue Haired chicks I ever saw that were attractive... the ones stationed on the moon.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2026 12:26 AM (mP0Kj)
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Dumber maybe. They allied with the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 21, 2026 12:27 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 21, 2026 12:27 AM (+HNx/)
Like allying with North Korea. Or the UK.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2026 12:28 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Stories of supernatural phenonama is usually in line with technology and culture of the times.
In the 1500s UFOs would be angels or demons.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 12:21 AM (/lPRQ)
Your comment reminded me of a short story I read as a youth - the gist of it was a modern day researcher going thru a newly discovered library from the dark ages comes across a document in one of the books which purportedly was written by a time traveler - he managed to land in the Europe during the plague years but gets trapped there and dies but not before he writes down what happened....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:29 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Romeo13
Woo Hoo! I'm standing right over here.
Posted by: Trigglypuff at February 21, 2026 12:30 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:24 AM (QGaXH)
UFO.... the only Blue Haired chicks I ever saw that were attractive... the ones stationed on the moon.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2026 12:26 AM (mP0Kj)
I remember that show. It had that early warning spacecraft that would go - in a stately british accent - 'red alert...red alert....'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 21, 2026 12:32 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 12:34 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 12:34 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Douglas Adams at February 21, 2026 12:37 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Agree.
Funny, when the FJB admin/media was referring to ill iggles as "newcomers" I kept thinking of Alien Nation LOL.
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)
What's on the other side of where the universe ends? A film crew?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 12:39 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Well, see, there's The Bar at the End of the Universe... so after that must be, I dunno, a Denny's or something.
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
Looking at the attractions for each state and having lived in New England for a while I'm...unimpressed.
Let's start with Maine. The state is full of amazing coastal beauty and we get...The LL Bean store.
Vermont and...Ben and Jerry's mediocre ice cream? Really? A state where you can get a better home made ice cream in most of the towns? Also...try the Bennington Battle Monument. Now that is impressive.
New Hampshire and the White Mountains? I mean yes but that's a significant chunk of the whole damn state. Also don't climb Mount Washington in the winter without gear. People keep trying to die that way for some reason.
RI? Not a real state.
MA? Unfortunately a real state. Fanuiel Hall is a tourist trap. Try Hammond Castle, Crane Estate or Shelburne Falls
And just over in NY they picked dirty stinking Times Square over Niagara? Pathetic.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2026 12:42 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Vast amounts, waaay too many to count. If we run out of a seal or gasket during a repair we'll raid the leftover kits. Its last resort, but it usually always pays off.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 12:43 AM (snZF9)
The place where those socks that go missing from your dryer end up
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2026 12:43 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 21, 2026 12:45 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 21, 2026 12:46 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 12:34 AM (viF8m)
Yeah, no fucking way we're the only ones. You got billions of stars in our galaxy, and billions of galaxies with their own billions of stars. You could have had some advanced race that died out a billion years ago in a galaxy a billion light years away and never know it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 12:47 AM (snZF9)
>>In an infinite universe the idea that the only place life exists is on earth seems pretty silly. I'd be shocked if the only place life existed was here.
The number of parameters ie, miracles necessary just to get the planetary environment to the point where inorganic soup could potentially become organic life is enormous.
Then there is the other matter that intelligence is costly, dinosaurs existed on this planet for hundreds of millions of years and did not develop intelligence, our brains consume 20 pct of our resting energy.
Humans emerged because a perfect and unique environment developed so that we could.
There are literally 100s of finely tuned parameters that were necessary for life to emerge and 100s more for humans to emerge.
It's just not probable that all of the parameters necessary were repeated.
And again, the aliens would of had to emerged far sooner and developed far faster than we did, simply not possible given that it took roughly 4.5 billion years for humans to emerge.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 12:47 AM (XV/Pl)
And that "dimension" is rather warm and full of people like Ted Kennedy...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2026 12:48 AM (sKqQm)
Take one of those in detail - the formation of the moon.
A slightly bigger impactor hits the earth and....no more earth. A slightly smaller one and no moon.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2026 12:49 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2026 12:51 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2026 12:51 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 12:47 AM (XV/Pl)
In a universe thats 15 billion years old they could have developed 10 billion years ago and died off 5 billion years ago.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 12:51 AM (snZF9)
I’m pretty sure von Däniken didn’t believe his own books. I read most of them as a teen; in one of the later books, in the midst of his usual oddly shaped rocks he reprinted a supposedly ancient carving that was unquestionably an alien, holding a record-like item. It was absolute proof—if it existed. He wrote that he’d been unable to find the source and went back to writing about unaccountably spherical rocks.
Instead of moving heaven and earth to find that proof. I lost interest in Von Däniken at that point.
Decades later I was able to find the source on the net. It was indeed alien. It was by a Soviet artist for a music magazine.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 21, 2026 12:51 AM (EXyHK)
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That depends on *why* life exists.
Or the universe, for that matter.
If it was created, then it's entirely possible that an infinite empty universe is a message from the Creator about His nature. It's also possible that life was created elsewhere, but given our fall into sin, I expect they'd want to avoid us. It's further possible that some of what we think of as angels ("sons of God" in Biblical terms) are biological entities using some manner of technology (The Genesis 6 account suggests this, and also that we should avoid them).
Or if it was random, sure, there should be life everywhere, for some ratio of the stars. And one would assume that we're not the first, and given the rate of technological development we've seen in the last century (and the time scale that world view assumes), it's very hard to guess what their civilizations would look like.
Posted by: Methos at February 21, 2026 12:54 AM (vSvIl)
232 >>The universe isn't infinite, but it's big.
What's on the other side of where the universe ends? A film crew?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 12:39 AM
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Looking there with a telescope of sufficient magnification, you'd see the back of your own head.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 21, 2026 12:55 AM (VWtfl)
Infinite. That's a concept many ignore because it doesn't fit into their models. There is no end to the number of possible place live could have formed outside this solar system.
There might be a mirror image Spock out there somewhere or there could be some kind of plant or worst case a planet full of Karens but the idea that the earth is the only place in the entire universe that somehow hit a magic wildcard and life evolved seems pretty shortsighted to me.
Infinity is a pretty big thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 12:56 AM (viF8m)
There is the hypothetical Fermi Paradox. The reason we don't see advanced alien civilizations is that at a certain point they become advanced enough to destroy themselves. And we're about at that point now.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 21, 2026 01:01 AM (VWtfl)
My understanding is...you'd see just about what we can see now and nothing more.
Past a certain distance due to the expansion of the universe you can't see anything.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2026 01:01 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
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You don't get infinity out of the Big Bang.
There's some center where it happened, and whatever matter cam out of it is (at some point in the early bang) limited by the speed of light, so the age of the universe sets a limit at least on how far apart the furthest matter is. Spacetime beyond that might be infinite, but there's nothing (for certain values of nothing) there.
Posted by: Methos at February 21, 2026 01:02 AM (vSvIl)
Posted by: JackStraw
If weird alien life is found elsewhere it would be taken as proof of intelligent design because the odds of it occuring randomly is nil.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2026 01:03 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Methos at February 21, 2026 12:54 AM (vSvIl)
You only need an alien race 1000 years more advanced than ours to do some crazy ass shit. I remember reading a book about planetary civilizations. We're a type 0 civilization, and the author was saying there were real dangers that type O civilizations face as they march to a type 1, and that was they discover atomics. He made a point that the galaxy could be littered with dead type 0 civilizations that managed to wipe themselves out before hitting type 1. I think the book was by Michio Kaku. It was an interesting read. He went through all the types. he went from type 0 to maybe 3 or 4 and explained what they would be like. I think by the time you got to type 3 you were basically the frigging Vorlons from B5.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 01:04 AM (snZF9)
>>Infinity is a pretty big thing.
But there are infinate, finley tuned parameters, and also wild, almost super-natural luck that is required.
The stability of our system is also extraordinary.
And that stability has given us the opportunity to develop.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 01:04 AM (XV/Pl)
While I believe we are the only intelligent life in our galaxy (and possibly the universe), there are a number of answers to the Fermi paradox outside of destruction.
Imagine, for example in a few years on Earth we develop the ability to build something like the Matrix but where each individual can choose to live in whatever artificial reality they want (the idea predates the movie). Presuming it is 100% impossible to tell it isn't real life how many people would voluntarily enter the simulation? It might be most...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2026 01:05 AM (sKqQm)
Don't go through Belgium. Stand on defensive at your borders and make the French come to them. Then the English come into the war on the German side.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 21, 2026 01:06 AM (xj1PI)
They just come here to watch us like we are a sideshow.
Posted by: Case at February 21, 2026 01:07 AM (j6kTf)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)
>> Spacetime beyond that might be infinite, but there's nothing (for certain values of nothing) there.
That's the wild thing about space-time, the universe is expanding like a ballon, but it's not expanding into anything, it's extending reality.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2026 01:08 AM (XV/Pl)
They just come here to watch us like we are a sideshow.
Posted by: Case at February 21, 2026 01:07 AM (j6kTf)
Man, they don't just come to watch us.
Posted by: Probed Redneck at February 21, 2026 01:09 AM (NZPfR)
Of course. But then again, infinite.
There is no end. There is no lack of combinations. I'm not saying there is an equal, better or worse form of life somewhere out there but it seems in a universe full of infinite possibilities the only forms of life exist here seems wrong.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 01:12 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 01:04 AM (snZF9)
You have to bear in mind that those various categories of civilizations are merely hypothetical constructs from the mind of the author. We have exactly one data point: us.
Question: is there anything in Scripture that categorically denies the possibility of God having created other planets to be homes for other races?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 01:13 AM (8zz6B)
They just come here to watch us like we are a sideshow.
Posted by: Case at February 21, 2026 01:07 AM (j6kTf)
I always wondered if the aliens we think we see aren't just us from the distant future who managed to invent time travel to back and look at the primitives. Like perillo tours.
"Hello galactic cruisers, get your year 4520 seasonal perillo tour brochure. Go back to 21st century, relax with your tour group as you get to see the primitives. Marvel at the silliness, see the crappy wooden houses, discuss with your tour group over drinks on how the fuck we actually made it this far."
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 01:17 AM (snZF9)
259 Maybe earth people are too disgusting for the aliens.
They just come here to watch us like we are a sideshow.
Posted by: Case at February 21, 2026 01:07 AM
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*makes armpit farts*
Alien Audience: Oooh! Aaah!
*clicking cameras*
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 21, 2026 01:18 AM (azNOR)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2026 01:19 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Counter: is there anything that *promotes* the possibility?
Where did Cain find a wife?
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2026 12:51 AM (sKqQm)
I have a photo I took of lenticular clouds over Calgary. It looks like a fleet of flying saucers is approaching the city.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 01:21 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 01:22 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Boob guy trying for a little comic relief at February 21, 2026 01:26 AM (2Ez/1)
I think anybody who claims aliens, UFOs etc. exist, has a burden of proof, and it's entirely on themselves. It's not for anyone else to disprove it. it's 100% on them to back it up. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I haven't seen it.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 21, 2026 01:27 AM (VWtfl)
Posted by: mikeski at February 21, 2026 01:30 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 01:13 AM (8zz6B)
To be honest, I don't give a shit. I think the whole god thing is an earth thing, and if it isn't and it exists out there, its an alien thing. Not saying I don't think he exists, I know he or least something does. We just don't know what or who. I see way too much proof that we don't have a frigging clue whats going on. I lean towards the science of things. My biggest question is how millions of years can go by, and some species of humans can be separated by a million or so years, have little difference in tools, and yet not take another million years to discover language, or math, or science. We go from saying ugh ugh, living in caves, and suddenly modern man appears out of nowhere and 60,000 years later we're waving from the fucking moon. Shit doesn't add up.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 01:32 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 01:32 AM (8zz6B)
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LOL no, we are smack in between Aristocracy and Oligarchy.
Posted by: ... at February 21, 2026 01:32 AM (E0p3T)
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I don't think there's adequate information in Scripture to answer that. He was worried the rest of Adam's family would kill him in retribution for Abel, which suggests he avoided them, something which would be very easy to do permanently when there's only half a dozen people around. I think most people who have considered it assume it was one of that family, somehow.
Posted by: Methos at February 21, 2026 01:33 AM (vSvIl)
They just come here to watch us like we are a sideshow.
Posted by: Case
Obligatory:
https://is.gd/MjORcc
Posted by: meatski at February 21, 2026 01:34 AM (VHUov)
I worked with Arno Penzias' daughter. Got to hear him speak a couple times. Interesting guy.
I'm open to hearing any theory on what's on the other side of the non-infinite universe. To date, I remain unconvinced.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 01:35 AM (viF8m)
Damn. I'm gonna weigh 800lbs before these fking cravings go away... Ugh!
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 01:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
Like standing on the tallest building in Fargo and looking west.
Posted by: meatski at February 21, 2026 01:38 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeski at February 21, 2026 01:39 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Methos
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I don't see any mention of daughters born to Adam & Eve.
Then, there's a place called Nod, where Cain went. Next thing, he's got a wife. And she became pregnant with Enoch.
Whatever. I'm not a scholar.
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter's department of education at February 21, 2026 01:41 AM (yJpvi)
Posted by: eleven at February 21, 2026 01:42 AM (aTgV0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2026 01:45 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 21, 2026 01:45 AM (lUFok)
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I don't think there's adequate information in Scripture to answer that. He was worried the rest of Adam's family would kill him in retribution for Abel, which suggests he avoided them, something which would be very easy to do permanently when there's only half a dozen people around. I think most people who have considered it assume it was one of that family, somehow.
Posted by: Methos at February 21, 2026 01:33 AM (vSvIl)
I know where adam got his. God said, I will create a worldly mate for you, one that will worship you, be your steady companion, make your life paradise. Adam says oh cool, what will it cost? God says, I need a few fingers, an ear, one ear. and maybe one leg below the knee. Adam thinks about it and says, nah no way, what I can I get for a rib?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 01:47 AM (snZF9)
I think it works both ways. There were some folks not that long ago that North America didn't exist and when they landed here they called the natives indians because they thought they landed in India.
Why does it have to be a binary choice? Maybe there is life out there, maybe not. Let's go look around and find out.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 01:47 AM (viF8m)
Youtube, on my TV, just tossed me a suggested video called "Where Exactly Did Cain Find His Wife"
I'm going to bed.
Posted by: Methos at February 21, 2026 01:47 AM (vSvIl)
We have a launch in a couple of hours.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-25
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: February 21, 2026
Launch Time: 1:00 a.m. PST (0900 UTC, 10:00 CET)
https://youtu.be/ISsbI85skm4
If the Space Affairs guy is still unable to stream the launches, here is an alternative link.
https://youtu.be/iAcq-UGCm2o
Posted by: Joyenz at February 21, 2026 01:50 AM (2F0/Y)
I'm going to bed.
Posted by: Methos
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Eww. Fking spies. Sorry, Methos... Creepy, creepy intertube BS spying!
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
I guess we've all seen the video of Times Square tonight.
Muslims occupying the streets for Ramadan prayer. Thousands of them.
And Chad Bianco, Sheriff of Riverside County and Cali GOP gubernatorial candidate, says his deputies will not engage in any deportation activity and he wants to make Riverside "safe" for "all residents." Well, that makes it easy for me to choose between him and Steve Hilton.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 21, 2026 01:53 AM (EYabQ)
Just getting to Mars is almost impossible.
Posted by: Jimmy Carter's department of education at February 21, 2026 01:54 AM (yJpvi)
Now if I can convince Elon to build submarines and explore the oceans that cover most of this planet and we don't even understand. That would make me happy.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 01:57 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Reforger at February 21, 2026 02:00 AM (onCFI)
No, haven't watched vid of Times Square. Full of muzz? Nah, no thanks. F them and F ram-it-in.
NYC will soon be getting the *full measure* of what they voted for, and I'm not sorry for them. At all.
Sorry you're stuck with Cali choices! Be well, as well as you can be!
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 01:47 AM (viF8m)
I spent years reading about this shit, tons of books. Still didn't get answers, just a bunch of shit that don't add up or make sense. Just arguments that cancel each other out. 1 example- Oh we'll never travel into space. Ok then, why is the universe 15 billion light years across? Well, you see god wants us to see his majesty. Really? You just told me we'll never travel into space, he could have made "his majesty" 5 light years across and we wouldn't know any better. No answer huh? We'll he wanted to go big. For who? Not us obviously, we'll never see it. Are we talking some galactic Johhny appleseed cruising around seeding space for the last 15 billion years creating stars, and the 6000+ exo planets science has found? Why? Don't give me the majesty shit, because we could have the same view 5 light years away, or 10. Why make other planets that we'll never see? Oh thats right, planet formation is a by product of stellar formation. Turns out all stars seem to have them. And we are the only lucky ones??
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 02:05 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker
On the other paw, He is infinite. His power is infinite. It's literally no more effort for Him to make a universe with trillions of trillions of stars than it is for Him to make a single ant.
Posted by: mikeski at February 21, 2026 02:09 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:02 AM (rdVOm)
No shit, gonna be fun to watch..er..collapse.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 02:09 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: mikeski at February 21, 2026 02:09 AM (VHUov)
He did need a days rest after the universe. I bet an ant requires like maybe a 10 minute break.
Posted by: Reforger at February 21, 2026 02:14 AM (onCFI)
That's pretty much what's always sparked my curiosity. Maybe the universe is one big empty void. Maybe not. Why not go take a look?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 02:18 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Berserker
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Bers, iirc you're in NJ? Shit. Too close to NYC-- take care! It's gonna get very ugly, you know. The locusts will flood out to destroy the surrounding areas as they attempt to escape the results of their stupidity.
Worst will be the *immediate* surroundings-- those with the least to offer, will travel the least distance.
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)
Blondie, I have not seen video of Times Square, but I am surmising that it is now London.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2026 02:37 AM (0nHVk)
Worst will be the *immediate* surroundings-- those with the least to offer, will travel the least distance.
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)
I don't think my area would be affected. They wouldn't come here. It wouldn't suite their lifestyle at all.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 02:40 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Mortal Moron at February 21, 2026 02:43 AM (tPDXG)
Scoop out the gills, coat them all over with EVOO, a little melted butter in the 'cups' then add a mixture of grated mozzarella, chopped spinach & "italian" spice. Top with a little grated parm and a sprinkle of paprika. Put in metal pan (lined with no-stick foil) with a tablespoon or two of plain water, and bake at 375, covered, for about 20 minutes or till mushrooms are soft but not mushy. Yum!
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:44 AM (rdVOm)
That's pretty much what's always sparked my curiosity. Maybe the universe is one big empty void. Maybe not. Why not go take a look?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 02:18 AM (viF8m)
Well you have to figure that earth was bombed with all kinds of comets and asteroids that brought the right chemicals here, and no doubt the same shit happens on exo planets. Sooner or later they're going to crash on a planet that will make use of them, if they haven't already. While I'm thinking about it, think about the octopus. The thing has no ancestors, no relatives, it exists alone, like it didn't come from here. How does that shit happen?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 02:46 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker
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Hope so, Bers!
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)
Pretty frigging smart, too.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 02:52 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Berserker
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Hope so, Bers!
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)
Houses around here have property, property requires maintenance, this area requires owning a car, no local bars to walk to....see where I'm going with this? This shit is like green acres or Mayberry. No city slicker friendly in the least.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 02:55 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Pretty frigging smart, too.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2026 02:52 AM (viF8m)
Right? The damn thing is almost alien. I think its a spy. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 02:56 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JackStraw
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It's easy. Convince him that thing to explore the ocean is essential to productivity on Mars. And it shall be done.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 21, 2026 02:56 AM (KRypC)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2026 02:59 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
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Thought you were eating fish gills for a second.
whoof
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 21, 2026 03:02 AM (KRypC)
Posted by: ... at February 21, 2026 03:03 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: buddhaha at February 21, 2026 03:06 AM (2lBM+)
Posted by: buddhaha at February 21, 2026 03:07 AM (2lBM+)
There is a group of men who 'what out' for the neighbors.
There was a muslim wearing Indian sacred paraphernalia, the dot, a significant bracelet and necklace - trying to 'make time' with some Hindu girls. They caught him, beat him up and paraded him to jail.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 21, 2026 03:10 AM (KRypC)
I think Cain went off and married an Egyptian. They started the tower of Babel? I could have it all mixed up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 21, 2026 03:16 AM (KRypC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 21, 2026 03:18 AM (KRypC)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 03:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 03:27 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 21, 2026 03:27 AM (snZF9)
Just fyi the bowl lift is brutal for dough. Just a terrible machine for it. I have made a lot of bread in a lot of different ways and had to get rid of the one I bought. That said for pizza dough it would probably be passable. Read up on how big a batch to make because it does small and large batches better than medium ones. Very low bar though.
Posted by: ... at February 21, 2026 03:34 AM (E0p3T)
I have a really good cinnamon roll recipe, but need to cut it down to 1/9th for home use... raises twice... PITA!
Posted by: JQ at February 21, 2026 03:35 AM (rdVOm)
So the word on the street is that Eric Swalwell doesn’t live in CA and is committing fraud by claiming an apartment he doesn’t live in…
I thinks Eric needs to prove he actually lives here... who gets hotel rooms when you have a residence?
Swalwell is running for Cal governor.
Posted by: 13times at February 21, 2026 03:39 AM (YQOnX)
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Posted by: m at February 21, 2026 04:01 AM (+YA9H)
Vehicular Tension Cafe
Chicago under the El, I assume
From this account but I don't think he's the photographer
Vigilante justice for porch pirates:
Did I say stop..🦘😊
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The French Connection.
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A true master of physics, such as myself, is going nowhere near the driver's seat of that second car.
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Regretfully, due to the persistent and pernicious influence of Big Penguin, their work here is never really done. Sad!
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I do. There are a lot around here. They will tip over on you. And don't follow too close.
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In this case, t'would be Pixy visiting The Barrel.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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When I lived in Maine there were two hazards you had to be aware of, moose and logging trucks. Neither of them is getting out of your way and they will run your ass over.
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In this case, t'would be Pixy visiting The Barrel.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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The Barrel doesn't discriminate.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 07:47 PM (ESVrU)
The President should apply a 25% tariff on the UN and each of its members, and 10% for WHO membership. It could get messy dealing with California, but their governor is too stupid to notice the new tax.
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Even though I was told to slit my wrists because it was going to lead to 40 years of darkness, I also read that Trump can just reimpose them with other powers.
I did think it was more disturbing because some of the analysis of the opinion said it was very jumbled and was not very consistent. Kind of pointing to 'cause Trump.'
In other news, Roberts is still a little bitch.
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Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 07:54 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 07:52 PM (2GVsD)
As always, the cat ears are a mystery, but the pink hot pants are kind of nifty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 07:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: lin-duh at February 20, 2026 07:31 PM (VCgbV)
Bessant's not worried.
The rest of us are all OOOHHH AAAGHH YOOUUUWWW NARF NARF NARF
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 07:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 07:56 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
@klara_sjo
3h
PROTIP: AR-15's are cheaper than RAM, you can save money by buying a gun and robbing your local PC parts store.
Feb 20, 2026 · 9:38 PM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 07:57 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Safety Patrol at February 20, 2026 07:58 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:58 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 07:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:46 PM (viF8m)
We don't have moose in Oregon but we have chip trucks.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 07:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Joe Biden Lurking In Shower at February 20, 2026 07:59 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 07:59 PM (2GVsD)
The Four Seasons Resort in Jackson Hole sold for 650 million.
Hmmmmm, since my name is fourseasons I wonder if I can get a piece of that.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:00 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
I dunno, but we probably will have trouble getting our heads back out if we try.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 08:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 08:00 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 08:00 PM (1je/5)
Hmmmmm, since my name is fourseasons I wonder if I can get a piece of that.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:00 PM (3ek7K)
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Sue them for trademark infringement?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 08:01 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:02 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 08:03 PM (1je/5)
The rest of us are all OOOHHH AAAGHH YOOUUUWWW NARF NARF NARF
Posted by: Kindltot
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If Bessant's not worried then I'm not worried...
Posted by: lin-duh at February 20, 2026 08:03 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 08:03 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 08:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 07:59 PM (zZu0s)
Nvidia's business model is to loan its customers money to buy its hardware, which has not been built yet, for facilities that have not yet been permitted, and then take that profit to loan the money to other customers for the same reason.
This is so wonderful and clearly profitable as a long term strategy, I can find no reason to be apprehensive and I am eager to give them all my money
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 08:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 08:05 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2026 08:06 PM (sTSBN)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 08:04 PM (rbvCR)
Heh. OpenAI does not help in that it feels like the worst ponzi/flim flam scam i have ever seen in real life.
Its like The Music Man- but with retards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 08:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 08:07 PM (1je/5)
This is so wonderful and clearly profitable as a long term strategy, I can find no reason to be apprehensive and I am eager to give them all my money
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 08:04 PM (rbvCR)
Koscot International.
Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2026 08:08 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:08 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 08:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 08:10 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:10 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 08:12 PM (Pr4qS)
The Excalibur Gambit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:10 PM (2GVsD)
Dammit. I knew it was -auri something but kept getting stuck on Molari.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 08:14 PM (zZu0s)
there's some amazing stuff out there on tank trailers, too; they are pretty safe, but still, the contents, ay carramba.
for decades I have kept a copy of the DOT hazmat guidebook in the door pocket of my car to decode the UN numbers that are the only way to identify the load.
*Spock eyebrows*
Fascinating!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2026 08:14 PM (sTSBN)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 08:14 PM (zZu0s)
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Wrong franchise...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 08:15 PM (ESVrU)
The rest of us are all OOOHHH AAAGHH YOOUUUWWW NARF NARF NARF
Posted by: Kindltot
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If Bessant's not worried then I'm not worried...
Posted by: lin-duh
BE AFRAID!!! YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO FEAR INCLUDING FEAR ITSELF!!!
Please click to subscribe.
Posted by: Interwebs iNFlueNCers iNGaGE at February 20, 2026 08:15 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:18 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at February 20, 2026 08:20 PM (0aYVJ)
I made enough for three days.
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 08:20 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 08:22 PM (Q+gd/)
Who risks incarceration over something like that?
Time to bring back the firing squad.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 08:25 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:25 PM (3ek7K)
****
I do not have a porch. Postal box for the win. Just a short walk up the hill to the post office.
Posted by: clarence at February 20, 2026 08:28 PM (RU/0c)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 08:28 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:29 PM (3ek7K)
sounds like a winning combination to me!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2026 08:31 PM (sTSBN)
Posted by: clarence at February 20, 2026 08:33 PM (RU/0c)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 08:28 PM (OAPjy)
I can't wait to hear how much you distrust tokenized Treasuries when they come out.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 08:33 PM (rbvCR)
>>@ChadGilmartinCA
·
1h
>>🆕 Emails show Biden’s DOJ coordinated with Biden’s White House leading up to the Mar-a-Lago raid against @POTUS Trump
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 08:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 08:28 PM (OAPjy)
I can't wait to hear how much you distrust tokenized Treasuries when they come out.
Posted by: Kindltot
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∅
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 08:36 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: JackStraw"
How is it I already know this stuff? I must be psycho.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 08:36 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 08:39 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JackStraw"
How is it I already know this stuff? I must be psycho.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 08:36 PM (vFG9F)
I'm getting a strong sense of deja moo, that I've seen this bs before.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 08:39 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: JackStraw"
How is it I already know this stuff? I must be psycho.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 08:36 PM (vFG9F)
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Does anyone with more than half a working brain cell think FJB's DOJ would make a move on the former POTUS without getting the A-OK from the Autopen-in-Chief?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 08:39 PM (ESVrU)
Here is a rice recipe that has been in our family for decades.
1 cup raw rice
1 can Campbell soup beef broth
1 can Campbell beef broth
About a half cup of diced onion
If you like mushrooms, one small can, drained sliced mushrooms
Half of a stick of butter cut into slices.
2 qt covered casserole dish, mix all except butter.
Put butter pieces on top.
Cover dish and bake at 350for 45 to an hour.
Easy peasy and delicious.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2026 08:40 PM (+rKuc)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 08:41 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Kindltot
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As I see it, that's pretty much what government money is now. The only money is tangible assets such as coins, bars, partial corporation ownership and Benjamins the rest is 0's & 1's.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 08:41 PM (OAPjy)
Knowing is one thing. Having proof is something else.
Particularly when there is a grand jury in Florida hearing evidence of a conspiracy against Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 08:42 PM (viF8m)
That sounds pretty yummy. And would even make a great side dish for a lot of meals. Chicken or beef.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 08:42 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2026 08:42 PM (gm9Sb)
Thumbnail is a young brunette girl in a sun bonnet, and she has a blue ball-gag. Urk.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:43 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 20, 2026 08:45 PM (zuIfz)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 20, 2026 08:45 PM (+8v88)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 08:46 PM (kTyBw)
I'd like to try your recipe. Can you clarify this please:
1 can Campbell soup beef broth
1 can Campbell beef broth
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 20, 2026 08:46 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: NAAARF at February 20, 2026 08:46 PM (TbWk/)
banana dream,
It's an awesome side. I forgot to say don't add the water to the broth and bouillon.
I meant to say onecanbeef bouillon , not two cans of broth, lol.
You can substitute chicken broth also.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:46 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:43 PM (2GVsD)
Damn. Bit on the nose.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 08:48 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:50 PM (3ek7K)
Irish,
One can Campbell beef btoth
One can Campbell beef bouillon.
Sorry, I should have proofread.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:51 PM (3ek7K)
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No problem! It sounded good and very easy so I didn't want to screw it up.
Thanks!
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 20, 2026 08:54 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2026 08:42 PM (gm9Sb)
Back in my teamster days I got called out to make overtime $$$ cleaning up a wreck. A package shipping semi turned over and then another semi carrying steel sheets hit it. All at night so the second vehicle couldn't other until it was too late. But the aftermath that we were sent out to clean up looked like you put everything in a giant food processor. The packages were all sliced and diced. That's when I discovered that there were weird fetish mags that are the ick. A shipment of those and various commando, "how to kill a man" mags all going to the same destination.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 08:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:56 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 08:56 PM (ZxPkt)
My buddy makes a killer old fashioned with orange liqueur, bitters & buffalo trace.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 09:00 PM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 09:01 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JackStraw"
All involved really need to put up against a wall.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 09:03 PM (snZF9)
My buddy makes a killer old fashioned with orange liqueur, bitters & buffalo trace.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 09:00 PM (Ifu6F)
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Awesome
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 09:04 PM (RIvkX)
'Shockingly, Biden lied.'
I wonder if Biden's dementia could damage his brain so much that he started telling the truth.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 09:04 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 08:48 PM (2GVsD)
Don't take it too much to heart, Anna. AI seems to bring out the creep factor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 09:07 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 09:04 PM (fd80v)
His stutter?
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 09:07 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 09:08 PM (zZu0s)
All involved really need to put up against a wall.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Hey, O
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 09:08 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 20, 2026 09:08 PM (u9jq/)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 09:04 PM (fd80v)
His stutter?
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 09:07 PM (Q+gd/)
Largest fraud machine in history, Jack.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 09:09 PM (zZu0s)
Saw a short clip of an interview with Devin Nunes yesterday. He 100% believes they were looking for Russia collusion related documents Trump declassified and took with him.
He made it sound like they didn't find them.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 09:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 09:09 PM (OAPjy)
The MSM is creaming all over themselves crooning about how the OrangeManBad was defeated today by the SCOTUS.
Lord help me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 09:09 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 09:11 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: iamfelix at February 20, 2026 09:11 PM (9krkJ)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 20, 2026 08:40 PM (3ek7K)
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We would make that camping out with the boy scouts. Usually throw in a can of tuna.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 09:12 PM (RIvkX)
Lord help me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 09:09 PM (A5RD0)
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Kavanaugh pointed out that Trump has at least three other authorities to do the same thing. It's completely pointless.
Also, this gives Trump the opportunity to make Dems vote on a bill to confirm tariffs that brought new jobs and investment into the country. It's almost like Trump's people set it up that way...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 09:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Biden and the other actors involved in planning that raid need to be in prison.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:14 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 20, 2026 09:08 PM (u9jq/)
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The agreement the Brits were going to sign with regard to Diego Garcia required the US to give advanced notice of any and all military operations - which would be passed to China.
The UK is not our ally now.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 09:14 PM (ZOv7s)
The GSD and kittens were adorable.
Posted by: Piper
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Where are the kittens? I must not miss kittens!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 09:17 PM (EYabQ)
It is too bad we can't bomb China and be done with them.
Oh no, people won't get Temu shit anymore.
Posted by: four seasons at February 20, 2026 09:19 PM (3ek7K)
It was a one day news item.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:19 PM (cntUY)
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we should just take. rename it too. Eagle's Nest or something.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:20 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:52 PM (viF8m)
"Lying dog-faced pony soldier!!!"
Posted by: Joemarine at February 20, 2026 09:21 PM (y171U)
we should just take. rename it too. Eagle's Nest or something.
Posted by: runner
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Give the Brits an offer, sell it to us or we take it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 09:21 PM (OAPjy)
Considering that Ace puts up one of these extensive cafe compilations every weekday evening, after his massive verbiage output during the day…
…and considering that he so frequently posts a cafe link we've seen before…
…is it possible Ace never even looks at the cafe videos? Except long enough to make some little related comment, that is?
🤔
Okay, not much of a think. Hey, I've had a long day. Maybe I should just retire.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I was tired before, now I'm retired... at February 20, 2026 09:22 PM (oq2IS)
Try explaining that to the commie/proggie/socialists who hate corporations.
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 09:23 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:23 PM (j42Fn)
The thieves are almost always fat.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry
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Clumsy, too. Half of them trip and fall when they're running away.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 09:23 PM (EYabQ)
Posted by: JackStraw"
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How is it I already know this stuff? I must be psycho.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 08:36 PM (vFG9F)
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Does anyone with more than half a working brain cell think FJB's DOJ would make a move on the former POTUS without getting the A-OK from the Autopen-in-Chief?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
+++
I'd bet that Autopen-in-Chief may have directed it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 09:25 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:25 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 09:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: mindful webworker -
--
Well, you disappeared the last couple of days.
Layin' down on the job.
Just listen to those coyotes across the creek.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 09:25 PM (OAPjy)
Ace is awesome. I don't see how he stomachs all the shitty news he has to read.
So what if a video is a repeat.
Posted by: four seasons at February 20, 2026 09:25 PM (3ek7K)
The GSD and kittens were adorable.
Posted by: Piper
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Where are the kittens? I must not miss kittens!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026
Second link, the fur vermin.
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 09:27 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:28 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 09:28 PM (OAPjy)
MiladyJo, native Chicagoan, immediately identified this as the intersection of Lake and Wabash.
Posted by: mindful webworker - she's a wonder that woman at February 20, 2026 09:28 PM (oq2IS)
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we should just take. rename it too. Eagle's Nest or something.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:20 PM (j42Fn)
Rename it Airstrip One, and tell the UK that they've been demoted to Airstrip Three, behind Greenland.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 09:30 PM (S/Y4j)
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we should just take. rename it too. Eagle's Nest or something.
Posted by: runner
+++
Take Diego Garcia. Withdraw from Great Britian and declare an "open country" free for the taking.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 09:32 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 09:33 PM (EYabQ)
According to Sally Yates, it was Biden that suggested using The Logan Act to go after Mike Flynn.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 09:34 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:25 PM (cntUY)
Put a spy camera on the cat at #10 because I want to know what is going on with Starmer, that wanker.
The newborn elephant reminded me a bit of our newest girl. When she first learned to roll over from back to front she'd get her arm stuck under her. This would tick her off and I'd roll her back. Sometimes she rolls onto toys but can now figure it out. Such a sweetheart. Shorter than her siblings but fierce! Lovely lass.
I am glad we don't have porch pirates. So far. Hot tar and feathers from the second floor is my plan, altho I do like the exploding boxes. Have read of people putting dog poop in boxes, which is brilliant!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 09:35 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:25 PM (cntUY)
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I think at some point Trump is going to publicly order DoW to develop plans for a complete pullout from Western Europe.
Sometimes, the worst thing you can do is give people what they asked for.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 09:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Exactly as Putin wants!
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 09:37 PM (Q+gd/)
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start with Germany
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:38 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:39 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 09:39 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 09:37 PM (Q+gd/)
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This is the core tension with our European "allies." On the one hand, they demand our protection, but on the other they crap on us all the time to show they are so very "independent." There comes a point where a nation decides that dependencies are non-essential.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 09:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:25 PM (cntUY)
Put a spy camera on the cat at #10 because I want to know what is going on with Starmer, that wanker.
Admit it, you want to see the dogs and cats crapping on the front step.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 09:40 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 09:42 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:42 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 09:40 PM (S/Y4j)
That would be a good dog/cat interaction video.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:44 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 09:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 09:42 PM (Q+gd/)
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1.000 against Iranian air defenses.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 09:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Special Military Operation!
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:45 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:47 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:47 PM (j42Fn)
BTW, you can tell the grifter conservatives right now because they are claiming that Trump wants to start a "new war" with Iran, ignoring the fact that it's an old war from 1979.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Aren't we technically still at war with North Korea?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 09:50 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 09:51 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Yes. And I'm still drunk in Cypress, Tx at TXR Paintball.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 09:52 PM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: four seasons at February 20, 2026 09:53 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:47 PM
They think it's something Hershey makes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 09:57 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 09:50 PM (Cqx++)
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Warmonger Trump had cordial relations with Little Rocket Man. Weird how that was not permitted to continue.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2026 09:58 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: four seasons
Thank you. I am. Seeing friends I haven't seen in five+ years.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 09:58 PM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: clarence at February 20, 2026 10:04 PM (RU/0c)
My boys were PISSED when I didn’t give them a chance. “Mom. You’re supposed to let your kids win to build thei self confidence.”
Ha ha. Beat me. Then you’ll be confidant.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 10:04 PM (A5RD0)
My boys were PISSED when I didn’t give them a chance. “Mom. You’re supposed to let your kids win to build thei self confidence.”
Ha ha. Beat me. Then you’ll be confidant.
Posted by: nurse ratched
I was the assistant head ref for 24 years for scenario games. I've retired from reffing and spending my time playing. I played from '97 to 2002. Then started reffing. I'm back to playing now.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 10:10 PM (Ifu6F)
Next week is his infusion will his hand survive?
All the accusations the brown st Biden have destroyed Trump
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 21, 2026 07:21 AM (ZIfZV)
The Week in Woke
Tom BevanOnly a brokebrain AWFUL would think that she has leverage over a conservative by arguing for less sexualization of young girls. Um, you're the Groomers who tell young girls to start giving blowjobs at age 12.
@TomBevanRCP Your terms are acceptable.
John Podhoretz
@jpodhoretz The Jill Filipovic tweet about elective surgery is a landmark. It reveals as few things ever have what life inside the left-liberal bubble is like as those inside imagine they understand the non-liberal perspective and think they know how to trip it up, when the opposite is true
This may shock you, but yet another Hate Crime Hoax massively advertised by the left-wing anti-civilization media has proven to be entirely fictitious. The media will provide no apologies or explanations for once again inciting racial hatred against whites and encouraging mass violence by the left. T. Becket Adams:
Hate crime hoaxes are nothing new, but during the "woke" overcorrection of the late teens and early 2020s, when Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer, Sports Illustrated put a man on the cover of a swimsuit issue, and everyone pretended to enjoy "Hamilton," they reached heretofore unimaginable heights. Consider the 2021 incident in Plano, Texas, where a white teenager, Asher Vann, was accused of "torturing" a black classmate, SeMarion Humphrey. It was a shocking story, full of cruelty and racial animus. It was also a total fiction. It was March 2021 when Humphrey's mother, Summer Smith, alleged that Vann shot her son with BBs, slapped him, called him racial slurs, and even forced him to drink urine. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Dallas Morning News were among the first to jump on the story, each eager to report on the supposed indignities suffered by a black teen at the hands of an evidently racist white Texan. A leader of a Black Lives Matter-affiliated group claimed that Humphrey had been "tortured for hours." The NAACP organized marches. Vann was doxxed, and protesters gathered outside his home. Smith, who described Vann as "evil," made the rounds on the networks. Her attorney, Kim Cole, launched a GiveSendGo campaign "to help with the expenses of therapy and private schooling" for Humphrey. The campaign, featured on Good Morning America, raised an impressive $120,000. This was five years ago. On Jan. 22 of this year, a Texas district court judge ordered Smith and Cole to pay $3.2 million in damages to Vann. The decision followed a jury's finding last year that the duo had fabricated the story and "intentionally inflicted severe emotional distress" on the young man. As for the online donations, Humphrey's mother bogarted them. Of the $120,000 raised, only $1,000 went towards her son's schooling. Much of the rest was spent on luxury items, including "a designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent," according to a Washington Free Beacon review of account statements. As for Vann, he's now in college and moving on with his life, having spent the past five years weathering death threats and doxxing attempts. Lastly, as for the media outlets that were so eager to promote the Humphrey hoax, none of them have published follow-up reports mentioning either the 2025 jury decision or the damages awarded by the Texas judge. Vann also told the Free Beacon that none of the news outlets that amplified Smith's allegations ever contacted him for comment. Not even once.Read the whole thing. Whatever you do, White Devils, you must always give black people the benefit of the doubt. Of course, black people do not owe you the same benefit of the doubt, Colonizers. You see, you can tell who the "oppressed" and the "oppressors" are, because the "oppressed" have special, state- and culture-enforced privileges, and the "oppressors" have special, state- and culture-enforced disadvantages. Wait, what?
A woman in leftist-dominated Brazil is facing jail for saying, very controversially, that men cannot be women. Is there some hope that the nation may return to sanity? Maybe.
Surprising Revival: Gen Z Men & Highly Educated Lead Return to Religion By Joel Kotkin & Bheki Mahlobo, RealClearInvestigationsMamdani is threatening to jack up property tax rates by nearly 10%. (9.5%.) Homeowners, including the black ones (note that Mamdani's communist advisor on rent says she wants to punish white property owners, but conceded that black property owners would be acceptable collateral damage) are now attacking Mamdani for this betrayal. A transgender state rep from Minnesota -- where else would he have come from? -- says that we should not impose age-verification blocks on porn sites because children might find the hardcore deviant porn "educational if they are queer." A further milestone in queer education:
The decline of religion remains a fundamental reality in most Western countries, particularly in Europe, where over 50% of those under age 40 do not identify with any faith. Even in more religious America, some estimate that as many as 100,000 churches will close in the near future. Meanwhile, the ranks of "Nones," those outside religious communities, have grown so large that their numbers rival those of Catholics and evangelical Protestants. Yet, as we document in a new report for the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, there are signs that religion is enjoying more than a nascent revival. Data emerging from the 2020s suggest that we are witnessing a complex spiritual restructuring that intersects with economic mobility, demographic resilience, and a profound intellectual realignment. For the first time in decades, Pew Research notes, in the U.S. at least, Christianity has stopped its nosedive as more people begin to see the efficacy, and the rewards, of religious faith and practice. This fragile development is especially noteworthy as it exposes growing divides and fault lines in American politics and culture. Drawing on a vast array of longitudinal studies, interviews, and other sources, one startling finding in both America and abroad is that, contrary to past assertions, today the faithful are not poor and ignorant but increasingly from the educated upper middle class. Even the cognitive elites are experiencing a growing trend to embrace religious activity. Indeed, in a rebuke of the aggressive New Atheism of the early 2000s advanced by thought leaders such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, a counter-movement appears to be growing among scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals who view religious tradition not as a delusion to be eradicated but as a sustainable civilizational operating system. As our politics splinter along gender -- with women increasingly forming the base for Democrats and men, for Republicans -- it is men who are leading the return to church. Reversing a 25-year-long trend, men reported higher church attendance than women in 2025. This growing divide may continue to separate men and women, with grave implications at a time when rates of marriage and parenthood are declining. Even in places where religion continues to decline, the remaining faithful are shifting away from more liberal faiths to those hewing closer to traditional values. For many, more orthodox sects provide existential security and create a sustainable sense of community. As our report makes clear, the budding religious revival taking place in the U.S. reflects a global trend, especially strong in Africa, which is now the most demographically robust place on the planet. The implications and promise of this trend cannot be overstated. Data show that religious communities function as potent engines of human capital accumulation, risk mitigation, and social capital. These mechanisms effectively propel adherents up the socioeconomic ladder.
Libs of TikTokCultural Enrichment Update:
@libsoftiktok 12h JUST IN: Sec of War Pete Hegseth confirms the male teacher at Fort Bragg who identifies as a transgender wolf has been FIRED He allegedly engaged in s*xual inappropriate behavior in class, wore women's clothing, a dog collar, and an animal tail, and told children he turns into a wolf at night while making them howl Thank you @SecWar!!
Fox hails this as an "exclusive" -- but of course it's an exclusive. The leftwing propaganda networks absolutely refuse to report on illegal alien crime. Oh myyyy:
2 illegal alien 'perverts' allegedly sodomized, beat, ripped fingernails off male victim in NC home invasion
Jonathan David Garcia-Larios was previously deported in 2024 EXCLUSIVE: The two men arrested in an atrocious North Carolina home invasion last week have been identified as criminal illegal aliens from Mexico who allegedly terrorized a male victim by sodomizing and beating him and ripping out his fingernails, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News Digital on Thursday. The overnight ambush, which Pitt County authorities said involved at least three male suspects, occurred in a quiet Greenville suburb last Wednesday. "Two heinous criminals broke into the victim's home and used a sharp, edged weapon and restrained him against his will," DHS said, citing local outlet Reflector. "This is a real-life nightmare. Burglarizing, kidnapping, assaulting, and sodomizing, and ripping off the fingernails of an innocent victim are extremely wicked and heinous," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin added in a statement. The two undocumented immigrants were identified as 21-year-old Chapel Hill resident Zaid Mayen and 20-year-old Jonathan David Garcia-Larios, a homeless man who was previously deported from the U.S. in 2024. They were arrested last Friday with the assistance of the U.S. Marshals and local law enforcement. Authorities noted that the suspects entered the U.S. at an unknown date and time. DHS added that the "two sexual perverts and violent thugs" unleashed a series of horrific attacks despite having no known criminal record in the U.S. "Zaid Mayen-Esteban and Jonathan David Garcia-Larios should have never been in this country. Prior to this heinous act, these illegal aliens had no criminal record in the U.S," McLaughlin said. "Under Secretary Noem's leadership we are not waiting for illegal aliens to commit crimes before we target them for arrest and removal. We pray for the continued recovery of this innocent victim." The unnamed victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment of injuries and "thankfully survived," DHS said.
Democrats reenact the shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Good with dance pic.twitter.com/qHY8DW70zq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2026
UPDATE: Jermain Lynn Long, the man arrested for slashing the neck of a 13yo teen in Daytona Beach, is a registered S*X OFFENDER with a lengthy criminal history.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 18, 2026
He was let out of custody just FOUR DAYS before the Daytona Beach attack, when prosecutors DROPPED charges against him… https://t.co/REziBHhamb pic.twitter.com/FvG0NWdVy6
A Louisville judge cut a convicted rapist's prison sentence from 65 years down to 30 years. In response, Metro Council Republicans say they'll be releasing judicial records so voters can know more about these elected judges. Christopher Thompson was found guilty of kidnapping a woman, sexually assaulting her in a school parking lot, before forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM at gunpoint. After that, he assaulted her again. Thompson came before Judge Tracy Davis. "Regardless of what the media thinks, regardless of what anyone thinks, I apply the law," Davis said. "I do not judge people before they walk before me." Councilwoman Crystal Bast represents the Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood where Thompson kidnapped the woman, then raped and robbed her at gunpoint. "And I am beyond pissed that this judge did this," Bast said. "What example does that set?" In light of the lighter sentence, Metro Council Republican leader Anthony Piagentini says he will publish records of Jefferson County judges on a website. "We have asked for judicial transparency," Piagentini said. "We're going to be asking questions of the clerk of the court, get the data, and get it out to the voters." ... Davis, elected to her seat on the bench, had the authority to cut down the sentence. The judge said Thompson never had mental health or anger management treatment. "Unfortunately, he fell through the cracks," Davis said. "I truly hope that you get what you need while incarcerated." At his sentencing, Thompson said he didn't commit the crime. LMPD connected him to it through DNA evidence.Two maddening things: Even as she's claiming this repeat rapist isn't beyond rehabilitation, he's talking over her saying "I don't care" and "I don't care about the victim, boo hoo." And the judge also issues a Respecc My Authoritah statement, telling the public that while she may face critics, she is in charge of "the pen" and Almighty She will say what the law is.
BREAKING: Judge Tracy Davis cuts in half a 65 year recommended prison sentence for r*pist kidnapper
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 9, 2026
She portrayed his as a black victim
Even he wasn't buying it… pic.twitter.com/kMDgqrFeoz
BREAKING: Truck driver who ran a red light and kiIIed an elderly man in Indiana has been identified as Singh Sukhdeep, an illegal alien from India, according to @BillMelugin_
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 19, 2026
Every. Single. Time. https://t.co/ItXNzcbpjM pic.twitter.com/b6je2xEtL6
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: mikeski at February 20, 2026 06:26 PM (VHUov)
With a name like that, how is he a truck driver and not a gay pr0nstar?
Posted by: mikeski at February 20, 2026 06:27 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:27 PM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 06:27 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 06:28 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 06:29 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Sodomites Everywhere at February 20, 2026 06:29 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Cellist at February 20, 2026 06:29 PM (AQXU4)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 06:29 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 20, 2026 06:30 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)
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This is very upsetting to me
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:31 PM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Boobjob, phone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
That was autocorrect?
And here I thought I was missing out on the latest groovy slang.
Posted by: mikeski at February 20, 2026 06:31 PM (VHUov)
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This is very upsetting to me
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:31 PM (Ookz/)
A black female judge, no less.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:31 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 06:32 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 06:32 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 06:32 PM (3uBP9)
Career move.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:33 PM (pDt9x)
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I'm not calling for vigilante justice.
But I won't condemn it either.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 06:34 PM (HXT0k)
'In that "dance" they forgot the part where St. Renee hit the ICE officer with her car and caused internal injuries that caused him 3 days in the hospital...'
It would really enhance the dance if they had red and purple streamers shoot from Renee's head at the time of impact.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 06:34 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:34 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Miklos smh at February 20, 2026 06:34 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 06:32 PM (3uBP9)
Trafficked 14 year olds earn better on the street if they have big boobs
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 06:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:35 PM (Ookz/)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 20, 2026 06:35 PM (vOtXJ)
I'll volunteer to help the sodomizing Mexicans - Pete Buttgiggle, looking for love
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 06:35 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: tubal
I'm guessing the victim was not black
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:35 PM (Ookz/)
Would not bet against you.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:35 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 20, 2026 06:36 PM (vOtXJ)
Posted by: mikeski at February 20, 2026 06:31 PM (VHUov)
Yeah, but you'd think 'getting a booboo' would be something fun, like a 'boob job" if'n you know what I mean and I bet you do.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 06:36 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:34 PM (pDt9x)
Little of colmn a, little of column b.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 06:37 PM (uKe7i)
Posted by: Miklos considers upgrading to Verizon Premium at February 20, 2026 06:37 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 20, 2026 06:37 PM (Fs0KI)
Those who support the practice should be subject to life imprisonment, hard labor, bread water...
>>> Only a brokebrain AWFUL would think that she has leverage...
Mighty backfiry if enough say BS to the "banning" and call for executions.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 06:38 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
It works like that?
Posted by: Miklos considers upgrading to Verizon Premium
You need the new AI-enabled phone.
Posted by: Artificial Inflation at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (AlhUl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:28 PM (zZu0s)
No thanks, mine's already enough of a tit.
Posted by: SciVo at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: tubal
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I try to remember that this is not all that is happening. Good people exist, and the Holy Spirit is actively changing hearts.
If I don't have that perspective than I would be demoralized and enraged.
It's a fallen world, and we are the Lord's instruments.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ice T at February 20, 2026 06:40 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:27 PM (Ookz/)
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Why in the world would you do that?
Posted by: Eeyore at February 20, 2026 06:40 PM (AlhUl)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:41 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 06:42 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Woke left mayor, woke left governor.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:42 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 06:43 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 06:43 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 06:42 PM (Cqx++)
I saw a woman on TV who stayed with the victim while he was dying.. She tried to comfort him... It hit her hard
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 06:43 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 20, 2026 06:37 PM (Fs0KI)
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Faggot!
Posted by: Eeyore at February 20, 2026 06:43 PM (AlhUl)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:42 PM (pDt9x)
Went overboard during covid. There were a couple race hoaxes there.
The ambulance gal who's boyfriend started shooting at cops through the door and got killed? Am I misrembering that one?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 06:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 06:45 PM (Ia/+0)
They are literally alien invaders.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 06:45 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:46 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Woke left mayor, woke left governor.
Posted by: tubal
You know it's bad when Mayor Craig Greenberg illuminated the bridge in islamic colors for Ramadan.
Posted by: Miklos wonders about people sometimes at February 20, 2026 06:47 PM (8i9Vv)
... the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal handed down a much more onerous penalty on a former school trustee, Barry Neufeld, who had publicly campaigned against the idea that gender was a "social construct."
This was deemed to be "dehumanizing," "delegitimizing" and "extremely serious and damaging," and Neufeld was ordered to pay $750,000.
https://tinyurl.com/k4sknbsk
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:47 PM (O7YUW)
****
They would then say being born with an outie not an indie is a birth defect and the outie should be cut off to make an innie.
Posted by: clarence at February 20, 2026 06:48 PM (RU/0c)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Kid had to get them - medically necessary.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2026 06:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ice T
Says the car insurance guy.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 06:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:49 PM (Ookz/)
I used to enjoy traveling to Louisville to enjoy the big fireworks show "Thunder over Louisville" that they put on 2 weeks before the Kentucky Derby.
Used to.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:49 PM (O7YUW)
Just a thought.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 06:49 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 20, 2026 06:50 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:50 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 06:50 PM (OAPjy)
Where did you GET that?!
Posted by: Princess Vespa at February 20, 2026 06:51 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miklos wonders about people sometimes at February 20, 2026 06:47 PM (8i9Vv)
Miklos, remember when Charleston SC had a black Jewish Mayor, Hank Greenberg?
Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2026 06:52 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:34 PM (pDt9x)
I am in the drunk who don't know where they are, but do care camp as well as those who know where they are and care, but don't drink camp.
Posted by: Dr. Klahn at February 20, 2026 06:52 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
'
You know it's bad when Mayor Craig Greenberg illuminated the bridge in islamic colors for Ramadan.'
He must be one of the self-gassing models.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 06:53 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 06:53 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Eromero
He was Police Chief, and a hardass
Posted by: Miklos felt pretty safe in Charleston even on pub crawls at February 20, 2026 06:54 PM (8i9Vv)
Basically, yes.
https://tinyurl.com/y22ufyhj
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:55 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Dr. Klahn
Dis is not a shawade!
Posted by: Miklos assumes the Pouncing Tiger position at February 20, 2026 06:56 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:56 PM (pDt9x)
Washington state as not one, but two.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 20, 2026 06:57 PM (pE12i)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:58 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 06:58 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:59 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ice T at February 20, 2026 07:00 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: President Emeritus In The Shower at February 20, 2026 07:00 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 07:00 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
Everything is degenerating and going to shit, including driving.
Posted by: Enshittification ain't just for software at February 20, 2026 07:01 PM (TbWk/)
Yes, this is why the "Get the Epstein villains" screams the left are giving on social media ring so untrue. They are just squeeing with we finally GOT HIM thinking Trump is somehow indicted in the files (spoiler: he's not).
They spent the last 20 years in particular and 50 in general pushing for sexualizing children, they keep voting against punishing pedos, etc.
Nearly every name mentioned in the Epstein Files is Democrat. All those execs and entertainers an laywers and actors and moviemakers and bigwigs... its a sea of lefties.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 07:01 PM (PYyV9)
https://tinyurl.com/k4sknbsk
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:47 PM (O7YUW)
It's outrageous, it's egregious, it's preposterous!
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 20, 2026 07:01 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:02 PM (vFG9F)
Entertain me.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)
Dance, monkeys, dance!! Like that?
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 07:02 PM (pDt9x)
Another Venezuelan illegal randomly attacked a woman on a Florida beach, dragged her into the ocean and choked and attempted to drown her. He thought he was successful when she went unconscious and left.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 07:02 PM (cntUY)
Goes like this
Pediatricians seminar
Little girls coming in and Docs cannot tell little girls and parent that they are in puberty (or getting ready)
As they have no underarm or public hair as they have been stripped clean when Mom gets waxed.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 20, 2026 07:02 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 07:02 PM (1Udfd)
Entertain me.
Posted by: JackStraw
*invites for a sporting game of Whist*
Posted by: Miklos provides at February 20, 2026 07:03 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:03 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2026 07:03 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:04 PM (viF8m)
Washington state as not one, but two.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 20, 2026 06:57 PM (pE12i)
Texas has one also. If you have a large urban city it's always possible.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 07:04 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: Boss Moss"
It affirms you are a nut.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:05 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:05 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 20, 2026 06:50 PM (f1kZG)
+1! I hope Cornyn is a lame duck quacking.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2026 07:06 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 07:06 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 07:07 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 07:07 PM (Ia/+0)
By Gillian Mohney, News Editor
Updated Feb 20, 2026 3:57 p.m.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health announced a sharp increase in the number of documented tuberculosis cases after an outbreak at Archbishop Riordan High School was first reported in January.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health said in a news release that among the 1,261 students and staff at the high school, 219 people, or about 17%, tested positive for TB. Subsequently, 204 of those people had confirmed cases of latent TB.
The number is a major increase from the 50 latent cases detected by the end of January as testing was ramping up among the school’s students and staff. The number of confirmed active cases, reported to be three in January, has not increased.
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Update: 3 more active cases
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 07:08 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: pookysgirl did give some to Lil Pooky at February 20, 2026 07:08 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 07:08 PM (cGjQu)
It's outrageous, it's egregious, it's preposterous!
Posted by: Jackie Chiles
Sounds like an Allied Insurance commercial
https://youtu.be/-AHEHchIMI8
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 07:09 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 07:09 PM (cntUY)
Reality: The Army veteran was guarding a pot farm that used trafficked illegal immigrant children as slave labor, and then became violent and refused to comply with law enforcement. He blocked their route and refused to move his vehicle out of the road. CBP arrested Retes for assault.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 07:09 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Skip
Except that the mental health "carers" are are even crazier and making bank off the crazy
Posted by: Miklos so notes at February 20, 2026 07:09 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:10 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 07:11 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:11 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:11 PM (1je/5)
Soaking in it.
Posted by: Literally at February 20, 2026 07:12 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I freely admit that I don't even know the Spanish or Nahuatl terms for tuberculosis
Posted by: Miklos so stoopid at February 20, 2026 07:12 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m)
They need to reinstate Kate Smith and not celebrate fag month.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 07:12 PM (cntUY)
It's even uglier than that.
Mamdani is going to freeze rents, so landlords can't increase the rent to cover the property tax increase.
The objective is to drive private landlords in New York into bankruptcy, so the city and affiliated nonprofits can pick up the properties for a song.
Government control of rental housing is a major objective of the Democratic Socialists of America-types.
Posted by: Traitor Roberts! at February 20, 2026 07:13 PM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:13 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 07:13 PM (rDBMx)
Posted by: pookysgirl did give some to Lil Pooky at February 20, 2026 07:08 PM (Wt5PA)
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Sounds great.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m)
Though you did remind me to watch Goon again. I really enjoyed it the first time and it's been awhile.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 07:14 PM (cntUY)
The chart conspicuously shows every year from 2000 to 2025... EXCEPT 2024. Why? Because that year there was a big spike of measles cases too. Because its caused by a massive flood of unvaccinated illegals pouring across the border.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 07:14 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Miklos so stoopid at February 20, 2026 07:12 PM (8i9Vv)
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La ick
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:15 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
We're helping!
/Smaht Fones
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 07:08 PM (cGjQu)
Back in the Before Times, you would have the occasional driver not paying attention to the road because of fishing under the seat for a CD, or putting on eye makeup, or taking a swing at the kids in the backseat for being kids. But these were relative anomalies, and stood out for that reason. Now it seems like the overwhelming majority of drivers are dicking around with their iPhones instead of watching traffic.
Posted by: I feel so old... at February 20, 2026 07:15 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Literally"
Marge weeps...
Posted by: man
I would comfort her
But we get all kinda warranty and repair calls these days
Posted by: the Maytag Man at February 20, 2026 07:15 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:16 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: Accomack at February 20, 2026 07:16 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:16 PM (vFG9F)
In the class I am in to convert to becoming Catholic, they expected 10 people to show up. More than 40 did & I would guess 90% are from age 20 to 40yrs old. Some single, some young marrieds, & one 20yr old couple I met are engaged. The other 20yr old couple bring their infant. I first befriended the two 20yr old couples at our table, thinking they were our 40yr old sons age (because I cannot tell age). It's been great to meet so many people in that class of all ages.Majority male.
We saw young men voting for Trump in 2024...the conservative tide is turning, in spite of the media and woke stuff. I believe this.
Another huge class for this parish, that began in the fall, are being baptized and conversion around Easter. As I am baptized (Presbyterian) I can convert sooner and will after Easter.
I found an app on Pinterest, of all places, for Lent if anyone is interested. The first 90 days is free. I am adding it to my readings for Lent if anyone is interested, & it is fine if no one is!
A lot to read or listen to for Christians.
https://tinyurl.com/45v3sxa5
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 07:17 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 07:17 PM (1Udfd)
Thanks, Ace, for this blog and all the work you put into it. XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 07:18 PM (WONhk)
Just wait until the Upper East Side has shipping containers stacked 10 high with people living in them.
Well we're movin' on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin' on up
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.
Posted by: Zombie Ja'net DuBois at February 20, 2026 07:18 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:07 PM (RIvkX)
Another Gift of Diversity
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 07:19 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: fd
I am most pleasing for assist with your humour issues
Posted by: "Greg" from Bangalore Call Centre of Most Excellence at February 20, 2026 07:19 PM (8i9Vv)
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ChristyBlinkyTheGreat, congratulations!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 07:19 PM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:19 PM (1je/5)
You'd have to be gay to not get it.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 07:17 PM (1Udfd)
Must. Not. Make. Obvious. Joke.
Posted by: pookysgirl, restraining herself at February 20, 2026 07:20 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 07:20 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: Miklos so stoopid at February 20, 2026 07:12 PM (8i9Vv)
It is "Tuberculosis"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 07:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 07:20 PM (+nEug)
High school hockey in the Boston area while I was growing up was way bigger than basketball. When the ice melted we played street hockey.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:20 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: Grumpy Old Guy at February 20, 2026 07:21 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: garrett"
Fine. I like hockey. Only because of Don Rickles though. You hockey pucks.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:21 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 20, 2026 07:21 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:22 PM (1je/5)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
Everything is degenerating and going to shit, including driving.
Posted by: Enshittification
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Two causes: foreign drivers from non-driving cultures and marijuana use increase causing more stoned drivers to be on the road to add to the number of drunk drivers (illegals specifically have that issue).
"A recent study analyzing 246 drivers killed in crashes in Montgomery County, Ohio, from January 2019 to September 2024, found that 41.9% tested positive for active THC in their blood. The average THC level among those who tested positive was 30.7 ng/mL, far exceeding the 2–5 ng/mL impairment thresholds set in most U.S. states. "
And
"A study published in JAMA Network Open in April 2025 evaluated a sample of injured drivers. In this group, 16.3% tested positive for THC. . .alcohol 16.1. Over half were substance impaired.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 07:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:22 PM (vFG9F)
Communism 101
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 07:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m)
Though you did remind me to watch Goon again. I really enjoyed it the first time and it's been awhile.
Posted by: Opinion fact
I was surprised how good 'Goon' was. It was a very entertaining movie.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026 07:23 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
To be fair, in some places you need to use the extra space of both lanes to turn one of those semis through a turn or on ramp. They squeeze down the lanes too much.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2026 07:23 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Please to be doing the needful at February 20, 2026 07:23 PM (TbWk/)
The objective is to drive private landlords in New York into bankruptcy, so the city and affiliated nonprofits can pick up the properties for a song.
Government control of rental housing is a major objective of the Democratic Socialists of America-types.
Posted by: Traitor Roberts! at February 20, 2026 07:13 PM (n1OCj)
If the landlords are, they'll renegotiate the leases for $1/month, just before abandoning the property to the city. Make sure they're 3 year leases, so the non-profit or city can't handle it.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 07:23 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Miklos so stoopid at February 20, 2026 07:12 PM (8i9Vv)
It is "Tuberculosis"
Posted by: Kindltot
So
The Aztecs DO have a written language
Posted by: Miklos, learing something every day, or some days at February 20, 2026 07:23 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 07:20 PM (cntUY)
Names? Dates? I don't follow celebrity stuff other than what gets mentioned here.
Posted by: this is pookysgirl's social media at February 20, 2026 07:24 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 07:24 PM (1je/5)
Were there nooses? Nooses make it a slam dunk.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2026 07:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 07:20 PM (+nEug)
Thank you. I'd love to come but my dude does not travel well with chronic back issues (thanks to 40yrs of long distance running plus genetics of parent's arthritis). Flying, hotel beds, etc are not kind to him anymore. So a lot of our traveling may be behind us.
I thank you and think I'd have a blast! Maybe someday. I love you all and wish I could sashay in there like the one time wild college girl I was...and I still sashay as a Nana with a grandbaby on my hip (I would not bring her). XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 07:25 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 20, 2026 07:21 PM (CHHv1)
And Sukhlong
Posted by: Please to be doing the needful
No more yanky my wanky! The Donger need food!
Posted by: Long Duc Dong at February 20, 2026 07:25 PM (8i9Vv)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 07:26 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Reverse Cloward and Piven.
Also, Nood.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 20, 2026 07:26 PM (y+Apl)
He's not really a celebrity but just a former contestant that the msm pimped when they reported on the murder that happened earlier this week in Ohio.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 07:26 PM (cntUY)
Posted by: Oldcat"
Not in this case. Plenty of room and advance signage. To end up in that spot the guy was lost.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:26 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: this is pookysgirl
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Urgent Update: Guthrie disappearance remains mystery
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2026 07:27 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m)
The Icing rules are continually annoying but at least they don't fake injury like soccer.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2026 07:28 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Marjorie Taylor Greene at February 20, 2026 07:31 PM (0e5Te)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 20, 2026 07:36 PM (gQ15S)
Distracted Driving 3275 fatalities
Speeding 11775 fatalities
Drowsy driving 633 fatalities
Drug impaired driving 56% of deadly and serious injury crashes approx 32k drivers many of which combine drugs--legal, illegal, and alcohol.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 07:37 PM (E4rtv)
'Urgent Update: Guthrie disappearance remains mystery'
Any more press conferences by the sheriff?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 07:37 PM (fd80v)
... the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal handed down a much more onerous penalty on a former school trustee, Barry Neufeld, who had publicly campaigned against the idea that gender was a "social construct."
This was deemed to be "dehumanizing," "delegitimizing" and "extremely serious and damaging," and Neufeld was ordered to pay $750,000.
https://tinyurl.com/k4sknbsk
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:47 PM (O7YUW)"
10% of that 750k, whether USD or america's-hat-bucks, would buy a spectacular amount of vengeance, hypothetically speaking.
Before Musk took over twitter, the progs relied on corporate censorship. If they get the levers of power again I guarantee they'll go after speech like this. Not that we will tolerate them doing so.
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 07:38 PM (ilNpL)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 07:19 PM (Ookz/)
Thank you! I still haven't told my 95yr old mother, but if she asks I will. Have never lied to her that I can recall, & am not going to start now. She knew everything (mostly) of my college years. They still loved me anyway!
I feel at peace for the first time since 2014 when we left our Presbyterian (USA) church, that was forced to go liberal by the poohbahs. Until then we were a large church that was normal.
As I am a lot of things, one thing I am not is a hypocrite & I was not staying with the idea that ghey marriage was ok, or a ghey in the pulpit.
Presbyterian PCA is conservative and how I was raised. Unfortunatly we could not find a traditional service in any Protestant churches here. I may be a cranky minority, but praise music makes me irritated...especially if the musicians are well meaning but off key. I don't go to church to be irritated when I leave. No offense at all for those who like this type of worship, as you find what brings or adds to faith.
Through our son, DIL and grands who converted 2yrs ago it was a gradual and unexpected process. I'm home.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 07:40 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Miklos, learing something every day, or some days at February 20, 2026 07:23 PM (8i9Vv)
The Aztecs and the Maya had a written language. The other native languages not so much.
We had a couple of Mixteco outreach specialists come to the office where I was one of the team dealing with migrant field workers to "teach us about Mixteco culture and the specific barriers they face" (The mainstream Mexicans treat them like uneducated Indian peons and discriminate against them)
These leading lights in the Mixteco outreach community wanted us to be more sensitive to their plight. After the 15 minute lecture, I finally asked, "none of us speak Mixteco, is it hard to learn?" I got the answer that it was actually a complex of related languages and many of the dialects were not inter-intelligible, but most could limp along and understand the main dialect. It is also a tonal language that outsiders have trouble learning.
I then asked, "Do you think printed pamphlets would be helpful?" and I got the answer that only a few academics really can read Mixteco, it is not a literate language, and if they do write things down it is in Spanish.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 07:42 PM (rbvCR)
As an aside, it is considered to be a truth that Nahuatl and Mixteco speakers learn to speak English much more readily than Spanish speakers. It has a lot to do with the simple phonemic scheme that Spanish has as opposed to English and the Indian languages
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 07:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 20, 2026 07:44 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 07:45 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 07:50 PM (Pr4qS)
How about women give up their obsession with cutting off men's genitalia? That's really why she is upset. Democrats had a similar problem after they lost the Civil War.
Posted by: wferrin at February 21, 2026 01:40 AM (lCdHU)
China Is Sending Pregnant Women to the US to Give Birth, Have Their Children Declared American Citizens, Move Back to China, and Then Have Them Vote in US Elections When They Reach Age 18
Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, who previously exposed how much cash congressmen were taking on the sly, reports that China is directing CCP-connected pregnant women to engage in "birth tourism." They "dip a toe" into the US to have a baby, get that baby certified as a citizen, and the bring it to China to be raised under the communist system as a loyal communist stooge.
Then when the kid turns 18, he is eligible to vote in US elections. China is doing this on an "industrial scale," he says, and has already created one million Manchurian Voters it will have vote from overseas to turn US elections to the Chinese communist party's favor. He makes the case that this is only possible due to the bizarre notion of "birthright citizenship," and we must end this judge-created mistake or else China will be electing all of our politicians in ten or twenty years. That video below the fold. The GOP is pushing a law that would end incentives for Chinese birth tourism. Note that it wouldn't end birthright citizenship, though, or ban pregnant Chinese women from visiting the US. It would, however, end an Obama-Biden rule that allows Chinese nationals to get a quickie visa. Like, when they start feeling contractions.Three Republican senators are urging the Trump administration to shut down visa and parole programs they say allow Chinese nationals to exploit US citizenship laws through birth tourism and surrogacy. Sens. Rick Scott, Jim Banks, and Markwayne Mullin sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum calling the programs a national security risk. They argue the policies allow nationals from Communist China to gain fast-track access to US citizenship through children born in US territories. The senators focused on the Guam--Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Visa Waiver Program and a newer offshoot created under the Biden administration. They said the programs allow visa-free entry for Chinese nationals and have fueled a sharp rise in birth tourism in Saipan. "We write to express our gratitude for your commitment to protecting the homeland from foreign threats," the senators wrote. They said an Obama- and Biden-era policy allows Chinese nationals "to obtain fast-track American citizenship," calling it a "clear and significant short- and long-term national security risk". The letter cites a Wall Street Journal investigation that found Chinese nationals increasingly using the US surrogacy system to secure citizenship for their children. The senators said these practices often occur outside traditional immigration vetting.
Of course, we shouldn't worry about that too much, because Democrats are already allowing straight-up foreigners from hostile countries to vote in our elections.
See the link to RedState for more. Foreign pirates and conquerors are stealing our country out from under us.
During a raid of Khan's home in October 2020 on unrelated charges, officials observed a stash of 41 sealed and completed mail ballots for the 2020 presidential election. Due to CA's ballot harvesting laws the ballots were not seized, but investigators photographed the ballots and documented their findings. In the fall of 2021, officials noticed 70 people were registered to vote at one address in Lodi, which they recognized as Khan's. Sheriff's investigators determined that Khan had used the state's online voter registration system to re-register existing California voters from other districts to his address, and at least a few non-citizens living in foreign countries (including his brother in Pakistan) to vote using his address, email address, or phone number. Investigators reviewed the ballot return envelopes from ballots cast in the 2020 general election, which had been maintained by the Registrar, and found that many of those tied to Khan's address all had the same handwriting on the outside. ...
Khan forced voters whose information he'd hijacked to vote for him and for Joe Biden, either by filling them out himself or threatening the voter.
When Khan heard that investigators were speaking to people he'd fraudulently registered to vote, he posted a video to TikTok to threaten and intimidate them.
Easy, it’s because she was given birthright citizenship in my homeland which offered her and her family freedom, and instead she chose to represent our authoritarian adversary on the world stage. https://t.co/1DgAVzpUkB
— Blake Herzinger (@BDHerzinger) February 18, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Why else would you vote against voter id? Paper ballots? For birthright citizenship? Against clean voter roles?
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2026 05:26 PM (Q7yzj)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 05:26 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 20, 2026 05:27 PM (+8v88)
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2026 05:27 PM (Q7yzj)
Not only are the babies USA citizens, but their kids and grandkids will be too. In time, millions of CCP will have claim to USA citizenship
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 05:28 PM (P+H85)
It’s not about hate. It’s about loathing traitors.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2026 05:27 PM (Q7yzj)
I don't have a problem with hate, keeps me warm.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 05:29 PM (kTyBw)
The enemy from within.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2026 05:29 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 20, 2026 05:30 PM (Pjo0m)
Posted by: Mascara Snake at February 20, 2026 05:30 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 05:33 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 20, 2026 05:33 PM (Pjo0m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:36 PM (zZu0s)
I guess each province can be a state.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 05:36 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Dread Judge Roberts at February 20, 2026 05:36 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: turambar at February 20, 2026 05:37 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: 13times at February 20, 2026 05:37 PM (bqxN5)
Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2026 05:38 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 05:38 PM (j42Fn)
Here is another thought I never shared. I always suspected Ted Kennedy wanted brown immigrants because he was resentful that the Irish Catholics were looked down upon by the WASPs. He wanted someone they would consider lower. But he got played because the brown muzzie immigrants are now on top of the heap!
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 05:38 PM (P+H85)
funding and organizing America-destroying activities and street thug protests via the operation of 53 consulates in the United States, far more than other major countries like the UK (6) and China (7) -- are detailed in Schweizer's latest book The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 05:38 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2026 05:39 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Edward at February 20, 2026 05:39 PM (9gg3L)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 20, 2026 05:39 PM (TTUKx)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 05:40 PM (j42Fn)
I did not have that on my bingo card for this month.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 05:40 PM (0N4FZ)
At this point, we are just bleeding out.....
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 20, 2026 05:41 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 20, 2026 05:41 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 05:41 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: steevy at February 20, 2026 05:41 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:42 PM (zZu0s)
Schweizer also documents numerous quotes from Mexican officials who publicly state that their goal is Reconquista -- an irredentist ideology advocating for the political and cultural return to Mexico of the US Southwest (encompassing California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming).
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 05:42 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 05:42 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt)
When you have the media and Democrats supporting ignominy like traitors, an illegal immigrant invasion, fraudulent elections and aligning with the most authoritarian regime on the planet, China, it’s almost here.
Not only that, but you have corrupt courts making rulings which are completely antithetical to established law and constitution as a means of creating a fifth column against societal order. That is, an order voted for by the people.
Finally, Democrat after Democrat has now promised retribution. That is, the use of law and government against the people simply for not agreeing with them. I just watched another video of Susan Rice promising it’s coming when they’re back in power.
This smells a lot like the end game. Because at this point a majority of the people are not going to sit around and be put under the thumb of government.
That’s before we get to who will be doing it, and whether they are willing. Also whether they have crew served weapons.
Trust in God, and God alone.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2026 05:43 PM (h9A1n)
Mark Elias has admitted on video that he committed serious ethical violation by soliciting pregnant illegal alien women to act as his plaintiffs in his lawsuit against Trump's EO.
As noted early in Better Call Saul, state bar associations, and law firms, used to take violations like that very seriously even in blue states.
"Ambulance chasing" is actually grounds to be disbarred.
Like, even hinting or some variation of asking if you can represent them is forbidden.
But, cartel judges and clown lawyers ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 05:43 PM (HXT0k)
Ice-cold take: I don't really care who Eileen Gu represents in the Olympics. It's amateur sports, not spying or trade wars or military capability.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 05:44 PM (tzeSw)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 05:40 PM
Back in the 80s Hong Kong and Macau were the best liberty ports in Westpac. The Brits had the China Fleet Club on their Navy Base in HK and it had an amazing duty free shop.
Macau had world class hotels and casinos.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 05:44 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Charlie Chan In Paris at February 20, 2026 05:45 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2026 05:46 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 05:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 20, 2026 05:33 PM (Pjo0m)
Cuntiferous - Related to primarily perennial, trees and shrubs, mostly evergreen, vascular plants with a regular branching pattern, reproducing with a female seed-bearing woody-cunt organ.
Posted by: banana Dream - Gynobotanist at February 20, 2026 05:47 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt)
There are rules. Wife was pregnant with son 1, when I was stationed in Germany (back in 198
. Doc fudged the due date a little bit so that she could fly, but she was getting close. Son was born less than a month after wife arrived.Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 20, 2026 05:47 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 05:44 PM (tzeSw)
Its a professional sport, and we fund a lot of the other teams too.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2026 05:48 PM (8avO+)
Cocksmokers.
Posted by: ballistic at February 20, 2026 05:49 PM (5aZAZ)
She is cute and a good at her sport.
But I haven't liked her since she debuted in 2022 competing for China and every media outlet drooled over her despite her red uniform.
She claims she competes for China because it's her Mom's homeland.
I guess Dad's homeland, where she was born and raised, gets no consideration other than it's where she lives because who wants to live in China when she can just rake in their endorsement money and social media cash while living in California.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 05:50 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 05:50 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:50 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 20, 2026 05:51 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2026 05:51 PM (LHPAg)
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Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt)
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Yeah she's literally a fucking whore. OnlyFans girls come by their dirty money more honestly than Eileen Gu.
Posted by: ballistic at February 20, 2026 05:52 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: pookysgirl, born to American citizens at February 20, 2026 05:52 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 05:50 PM (/PQmQ)
I'm afraid you'll have to read his erotic poetry to find out.
Posted by: Vogons at February 20, 2026 05:52 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Piper
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Or they will walk across from Windsor or Vancouver.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 05:53 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 05:53 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 05:54 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: turambar at February 20, 2026 05:37 PM (Q0yOR)
We could talk about Alysa Liu whose father Arthur escaped China after the Tianamen Square massacre. China later tried to recruite Alysa for the 2022 Winter Olympics and he told them to GFY.
Same for this year. "Her father denied the recruitment, citing the Chinese government abusing the basic human rights of the Chinese people." She seems to love representing Team USA and did a damn good job at it, winning a gold medal yesterday.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 20, 2026 05:54 PM (k9OZB)
Cocksmokers.
Posted by: ballistic at February 20, 2026 05:49 PM (5aZAZ)
The Chicoms followed the Liu family and spied on them, trying to get her to compete for China. They refused.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 20, 2026 05:54 PM (zuIfz)
She competes for China because the CCP gave her $6 million.
I'd love to have $6 million but there is no amount of money I would take to sell out the US.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 05:54 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 05:55 PM (pDt9x)
I saw Kennedy tweeted about glyphosate (roundup). He said a big source if food is that farmers use it to desiccate wheat - that is practice of spraying it before harvest to speed up the drying so all wheat is ready to harvest at once. Great, but now you are harvesting wheat with lots of glyphosate that never broke down or got washed away.
I brought this up a few years ago, after reading about an organic homesteader who had his family tested and the levels were off the charts -- his only source of outside food was some fruits like strawberries, and the feed for his cattle. That was the source.
This is a big deal. We need to address these policies but Trump is all in on big Ag, and even wants more ethanol in our fuel which is total waste.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 05:55 PM (P+H85)
Just picking up abandoned property.
Posted by: DaveA at February 20, 2026 05:55 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 05:55 PM (n5tGW)
Honestly I am not surprised at all by this scheme, China has always taken a longterm view of things like this. I would be shocked if they hadn't been doing this for decades.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
I heard of this decades ago.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 05:55 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 05:54 PM (viF8m)
Ahh, I didn't know the CCP paid her, too.
I know she's a celebrity over there and makes plenty of yen because of that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:56 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 05:56 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 20, 2026 05:57 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 05:57 PM (+nEug)
Ice-cold take: I don't really care who Eileen Gu represents in the Olympics. It's amateur sports, not spying or trade wars or military capability.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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That is just it -- if this slag will sell out the USA for money, how many Chinese working for tech, gov. defense contractors, DoW, etc. will sell out the USA?
10% -- That would be a million. Many already have - how do you think China industrialized so fast..
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 05:59 PM (P+H85)
Posted by: They sold our birthright for pottage at February 20, 2026 06:00 PM (TbWk/)
We've seen the stories for years of the wealthy from a lot of country's doing it.
An American citizenship & passport is still a valuable thing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 06:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 05:57 PM (+nEug)
Have not had meaningful borders since before WWII.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:00 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 06:01 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 20, 2026 05:57 PM (CWTWj)
I don't think they actually care. The ruling class see themselves as the select eternal golden elite standing over a world of slaves. Same as our rulers, of course, but that particular sentiment is deep within the Chinese political psyche for centuries.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
Make them choose.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
doesn't happen because too many globalists in charge are dual citizens. They don't want to lose their own privilege to go to a safe place after destroying the USA
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 06:02 PM (P+H85)
Make them choose.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 06:01 PM (6ydKt)
Not in the Constitution. Just another madeup self serving piece of DC bullshit. We are being crushed by bullshit from DC.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:03 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 06:03 PM (jJj0s)
Posted by: Chief Asshead Roberts at February 20, 2026 06:04 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 06:03 PM (jJj0s)
Either “ it’s a tax” - or - “ begone Prole, no standing to speak to me”.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:05 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:08 PM (Ookz/)
A lot of good people hold dual citizenship, but it's being abused by scammers like just about everything else.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 06:11 PM (+nEug)
Enough already.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 06:12 PM (viF8m)
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I WAS PROMISED GLOBAL WARMINGGGGGG
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 06:13 PM (Ookz/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 06:15 PM (W2Pud)
Fun fact about Alysa Liu. Her father is a single man who wanted kids, so he got five of them through surrogates. There is no mother in the home. Alysa is a wokester, but at least she keeps her opinions to herself when she's competing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 06:17 PM (tzeSw)
They don't want to lose their own privilege to go to a safe place after destroying the USA
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Or, conversely, they don't want to lose their privilege to go to the safety of the USA after they destroy the other country.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 06:18 PM (tzeSw)
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: Leftist school faces mass calls for a lawsuit after an 11 YO CHILD with SPECIAL NEEDS got left in the dust, miles from school, during an anti-ICE walkout
He called the mother. She didn’t even know it was happening.
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We don't need a "red vs blue" civil war. This is just another example of how the real "civil war" will come when responsible citizens have had enough of irredeemable and irresponsible people messing up their lives.
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 06:19 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: pookysgirl isn't sharing at February 20, 2026 06:19 PM (Wt5PA)
Fun fact about Alysa Liu. Her father is a single man who wanted kids, so he got five of them through surrogates. There is no mother in the home. Alysa is a wokester, but at least she keeps her opinions to herself when she's competing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Any reason he didn't marry and have children the traditional way?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 06:22 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 06:22 PM (Ia/+0)
I was going to make espresso.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 06:15 PM (W2Pud)
Nice!!
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:22 PM (pDt9x)
I was going to make espresso.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 06:15 PM (W2Pud)
In traffic?
Dinner time?
Depressing news day?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 06:22 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 06:22 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:23 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: US Taxpayer at February 20, 2026 06:23 PM (aHJLe)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 06:23 PM (PYyV9)
"We had too many white men in charge"
"The executives should reflect the city"
White men in charge get shit done, dude.
Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2026 06:24 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 06:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 06:25 PM (pDt9x)
Enough already.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 06:12 PM (viF8m)
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Quit your bellyaching! 12-16 here.
At least this time it won't turn into snowcrete. Lots of warm days after it.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 20, 2026 06:25 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 06:26 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 05:46 PM (viF8m)
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Yes I saw it and thought it was remarkable.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 06:31 PM (RIvkX)
35 Related:
Mark Elias has admitted on video that he committed serious ethical violation by soliciting pregnant illegal alien women to act as his plaintiffs in his lawsuit against Trump's EO.
As noted early in Better Call Saul, state bar associations, and law firms, used to take violations like that very seriously even in blue states.
"Ambulance chasing" is actually grounds to be disbarred.
Like, even hinting or some variation of asking if you can represent them is forbidden.
But, cartel judges and clown lawyers ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 05:43 PM
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"We need a *criminal* lawyer."
-Jesse Pinkman
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 06:40 PM (hZ1gu)
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Ice-cold take: I don't really care who Eileen Gu represents in the Olympics. It's amateur sports, not spying or trade wars or military capability.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 05:44 PM
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Red China doesn't do amateur.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 06:42 PM (hZ1gu)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 20, 2026 06:48 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 20, 2026 06:58 PM (Vvh2V)
Yen is Japanese money. You mean yuan or renminbi.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 20, 2026 07:01 PM (+8v88)
Btw, the Cartel bosses, Russians and many more have employed this system inside the USA.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2026 08:43 AM (NFX2v)
Educational Excellence: "Honors Student" Who Cannot Read or Write Sues Government School Which Allowed Her to Graduate as a Complete Illitarate
Incredible.
But it's not. We all know these failure factors are churning out one illiterate after another and scamming the taxpayer $30,000 per student per year for this "service."
A Connecticut college student is suing the Hartford Board of Education and the city of Hartford for negligence. Nineteen-year-old Aleysha Ortiz says she graduated from high school with honors and earned a college scholarship, but she can't read or write. In some ways, Ortiz is living an American dream. The 19-year-old began her freshman year at the University of Connecticut in Hartford this past fall. She's excited to study public policy; it's the culmination of hard work after moving north from Puerto Rico as a child.By the way, the problem isn't that she speaks Spanish. She's spoken English since birth. She cannot read or write in any language.
"I remember I was very nervous, but I know it was going to be better opportunities for me to learn," Ortiz remarked. But Ortiz says those opportunities never came to fruition. "All I see is words everywhere," Ortiz said. Ortiz graduated from the Hartford Public Schools system last year, but she says she is now illiterate and still doesn't know how to read or write. "They would just either tell me to stay in a corner and sleep or just draw pictures, flowers for them," Ortiz said about her earlier education. When she was in high school, Ortiz relied on speech-to-text programs and other apps to read or write essays. Ortiz said her mother, who does not speak English well, tried to get answers. "She advocated so much," Ortiz said. "She went to the school. The principal promised her that it would be better. Sometimes it would be people from the district or the directors promising her they would do better." Now, Ortiz is suing the Hartford Board of Education and the city for negligence. ... Turner fears a crucial guardrail will be lost if President Donald Trump's administration follows through with abolishing the Department of Education. "How do I protect the special education children?" Turner asked. "Who do I go to if I close it down?"Oh yeah, we have to keep the Department of Education open. It's done such a bang-up job so far. Now I know this girl seems to have cheated her way through school, and undoubtedly, she has the first responsibility for her own education. She and her mother. But this school appears to have just passed this illiterate dum-dum through grade after grade without every verifying she could read simple sentences at a five-year-old level. Hey I know how we can improve government teacher performance: Just pay them more. That will attract new talent.
Oh, but also, you're not allowed to actually hire new talent. We have written the law to require that teachers have useless degrees in education, which is a huge entry barrier to people who studied more useful things in college, and who don't want to go back to school for three years to be a teacher. So we'll just pay the existing, horrible teachers more. This will attract new talent... from within them! Second headline: Left-Wing Teachers Oppose Deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens Because They'll Get Less Money if Illegal Alien Children Leave the Country
Mark KrikorianIt's all about the kids with these teachers. All about the kids. Nothing but the kids. Powerline:
@MarkSKrikorian "Public schools depend on the children of illegal aliens to keep up enrollment levels and extract more money from state taxpayers."
This, from the Minneapolis Star Tribune,School leaders fear declining attendance during ICE surge will also lower state funding.Public schools depend on the children of illegal aliens to keep up enrollment levels and extract more money from state taxpayers. More students means more teachers, which means more public school teacher union members, which means more union dues, which means bigger donations to the Democratic party.... Democrats in Minnesota have gone all-in on an illegal-immigrant-based economy....
To that end, public schools in Minnesota have sued the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security in an effort to kick ICE out of the state (File No. 26-cv-1023). It's one of many such lawsuits filed by Democrats and Democrat-controlled institutions. The Star Tribune reports,
Because the money to pay teachers, counselors, bus drivers and principals is tied to attendance, officials fear prolonged absences by students in hiding will lead to declining state funding for schools.
FischerKingIn better education news: Three red states, Alabama, Mississippi, and Lousiana, are seeing historic gains in student learning by using teaching techniques that actually work. These aren't new techniques. They're very old techniques. They're techniques the left-wing, grifter educrat establishment chucked aside to pursue novel, failing techniques because educrats don't get paid if they just tell people to keep using the same techniques that worked in the past. No, the EduGrifters only get paid if they propose something New! and Counter-Intuitive! The educrats are constantly proposing new pedagogies for the exact same reason they put out a new Madden Football every single year: Churn. You have to keep churning out new product to keep your business going. Soaking wet lefty Nicholas Kristof of the NYT is surprised to find out that it's conservative states, not his beloved edugrifter blue ones, who are actually teaching children how to read and do math.
@FischerKing64 22h This would be funny if it weren't so serious. Illegal alien children in American public schools degrade education for everyone across the board because of the lack of English proficiency, which slows everything down, prevents native students from getting the education their parents pay for through taxes. But the schools/teachers/unions actually want illegals because it drives up enrollment - which means more funding, more teachers etc. So those taxpayers wind up paying more but getting less. This is from the Minneapolis tribune, will link to full article in next post.
A ray of hope is emerging in American education. Not among Democrats or Republicans, each diverted by culture wars.Actually, Nick, it is among Republicans. Nice try though!
Not in the education reform movement, largely abandoned by the philanthropists who once propelled it.The edugrifter's "reform" movement that has produced nothing but failure upon failure for 50 years? Yes, quite right, the hope isn't coming from them.
Why is that so unlikely? Oh, because leftwingers, who fail at everything, are so smart and talented, right?
Rather, hope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states here in the Deep South that long represented America's educational basement.
These states -- Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi -- have histories of child poverty, racism and dismal educational outcomes, and they continue to spend less than most other states on public schools.Oh they spend less? Well everyone knows that when you give every kid a $700 laptop and pay their teachers on the level of lawyers, educational achievement goes up. Oh wait it doesn't. Never did.
Oh an admission that lefties really think the sun shines out of their assholes and have contempt for anyone not like them. (You know, like true tolerant, welcoming cosmopolitans.)
Yet, consider:I wrote about Mississippi's educational successes in 2023, but many of my fellow liberals then scoffed at the notion of learning from a state so tainted.
Louisiana ranks No. 1 in the country in recovery from pandemic losses in reading, while Alabama ranks No. 1 in math recovery. The state with the lowest chronic absenteeism in schools is Alabama, according to a tracker with data from 40 states. Once an educational laughingstock, Mississippi now ranks ninth in the country in fourth-grade reading levels -- and after adjusting for demographics such as poverty and race, Mississippi ranks No. 1, while Louisiana ranks No. 2, according to calculations by the Urban Institute. Using the same demographic adjustment, Mississippi also ranks No. 1 in America in both fourth-grade and eighth-grade math. Black fourth graders in Mississippi are on average better readers than those in Massachusetts, which is often thought to have the best public school system in the country (and one that spends twice as much per pupil).
By "metrics," he means testing kids to make sure they are learning. And as you know, our failing teacher-grifters are adamantly opposed to testing -- which they deride as merely "teaching to the test" (as has historically been done) -- because testing kids reveals their own failure to teach them and undermines their case for the next big raise during their next teachers strike.
Skeptics, mostly on the left, have made many critiques of the gains, including that they fade in upper grades, that the states are cheating, that this is all a temporary blip and that any progress is simply a result of holding back weak readers. The critiques have been effectively rebutted -- for starters, they can't explain the continuing gains in Mississippi or the magnitude of the gains. Just as striking, the Mississippi gains increasingly are being replicated in Alabama and Louisiana, as they follow similar approaches. That's enormously encouraging, for it suggests that other states can also lift student trajectories if they are willing to learn from Southern red states they may be more accustomed to looking down on. So I traveled through Mississippi and Alabama with the photographer Lynsey Addario to understand the lessons to be learned. Perhaps the most important is an insistence on metrics, accountability and mastery of reading by the end of third grade. And while reading gets the attention, just as important is getting kids to attend school regularly.
.. In classrooms and offices, teachers and administrators frequently mentioned the motivating power of report cards -- not the letter grades given out by schools, but those they (the schools themselves) receive.Well what do you know, testing and measuring actually improves performance. Literally everyone who is not an ideologically-captured denialist knows this. It is true in every field. "What gets measured, gets improved," the saying goes. And what doesn't get measured is allowed to slide and slide until it becomes a disaster. Ask your friends in Minnesota about how their practice of not checking up on social welfare businesses turned out.
.. What I see is schools fighting for their students. These states have created a structure that closely monitors each school's performance and incentivizes principals and teachers alike to do everything they can to get kids back in class and learning.Teachers union teachers are adamant that they not be measured for actual job performance, so good luck with that in the blue states.
For many years, skeptics have offered dispiriting arguments about the prospects for educational gains: The way to improve literacy is to fix the family, fix addiction, fix the parents, for as long as the child's environment is broken, there's not much else that can be done. The gains in these states suggest that that critique is wrong. Mississippi and Alabama haven't fixed child poverty, trauma and deeply troubled communities -- but they have figured out how to get kids to read by the end of third grade. This matters in myriad ways: One recent study found that states with large increases in school test scores enjoyed rising incomes and drops in teen motherhood, incarceration and arrest rates compared with states that didn't enjoy such gains. What's particularly impressive is that the Southern surge states lifted student achievement with only modest budgets. Spending per pupil in Alabama and Mississippi was below $12,000 in 2024, while in New York it was almost $30,000. That's worth celebrating and emulating. Yet, unfortunately, there's not much sign of that.No. I wonder why. By the way, Kristof focused on these schools' fight to reduce truancy and make sure students actually show up for class. He completely refused to mention which pedagogy they employ. Are they using time-tested phonics, thrown on the scrapheap by edugrifter "reformers' in the seventies, or the "whole word" reading, where supposedly you just look at a word and its meaning magically appears in a student's mind, which the edugrifters used as an improvement over phonics and then saw students become illiterate? Well Nick and the New York Times won't tell you so I will, with an assist from Google AI:
Alabama public schools use the Science of Reading, focusing on systematic phonics, phonemic awareness, and explicit instruction through programs like the Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI), mandated by the Alabama Literacy Act (2019), which requires K-3 reading proficiency, teacher training, and bans the ineffective three-cueing system to build strong decoding and comprehension skills for all students.A "phoneme" is just a part of a word, like "sh" or "nt," or just any single letter, that makes a specific sound. In other words, just phonics. Why did Nick Kristof hide this information from readers? Even when he's telling liberals "you should emulate the Alabama system," he can't be honest about it. Why? Because leftists and their "experts" are facing the worst legitimacy and credibility crisis in Western history and they can't afford admitting another huge "L." So they'll just pretend, publicly, that the Alabama plan is just about New! and Exciting! education reforms made to reduce truancy. But they're the honest, good, caring, kind people only motivated by concerns for the public good and entirely untainted by grubby tribal concerns like always making sure your tribe comes out on top. Just ask them! Or just read the signs on their lawns! "In this house, We Believe..."
Black children in Mississippi are now performing better in reading and math than black children in New York and California-- despite having much higher rates of poverty and spending much less per student.
— Rep. Josh Williams (@JoshWilliamsOH) February 10, 2026
And the secret was simply not allowing children to move up a grade level… https://t.co/aQ79TyGSA0
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:21 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: GF at February 20, 2026 04:22 PM (gKOEq)
See? We're getting more egalitarian with time! Prosit!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:23 PM (Hx0tZ)
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I remember class room size and student to teacher ratios being really important.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 04:23 PM (LQ2H/)
She tested in and passed with flying colors in all the metrics that matter?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:25 PM (Hx0tZ)
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Posted by: Dr F'nstein at February 20, 2026 04:28 PM (vFG9F)
By the way, the problem isn't that she speaks Spanish. She's spoken English since birth.
She cannot read or write in any language.
Her 1st grade teacher needs her ass whipped. Every teacher after that needs her/his ass whipped. The stupid bint herself needs her ass whipped.
Work or starve. If you're stupid, learn to suck cock.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 20, 2026 04:28 PM (QVmho)
Ban general education degrees. You can allow SPED (though it has its own problems) but any adult that knows something can teach it without an advanced degree
*Lower* salaries and formerly set reduced hours - since teaching is a part time job you should mostly be hiring people partially retiring from industry/science. A 58 year old chemist with 30 years in the field will make a better chemistry teacher then a 28 year old that signed a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
Teaching will focus on literacy, math, basic science, and civics, and that it.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:28 PM (sKqQm)
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Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 04:31 PM (j+aD2)
Even in the reddest of red states faculty are freaks and administrators are kafkaesque parodies.
Anyone sending their kid to public school thinking otherwise is delusional - and this is why we will probably lose, because people aren't willing to give up the free public daycare.
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 04:31 PM (ilNpL)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 20, 2026 04:29 PM (zuIfz)
Or play for the Redskins
Posted by: Dexter Manley at February 20, 2026 04:31 PM (CNl8/)
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Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 04:31 PM (j+aD2)
Seriously! Did someone else take the test for her? Fill out the applications for her? I had to jump through hoops to apply/enroll in a college in the 80s. I can't imagine trying to do it now if you can't read or write.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 20, 2026 04:33 PM (k9OZB)
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Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein From You Know Where at February 20, 2026 04:33 PM (oftw2)
I taught at LaSalle (the college) bc I wasnt' allowed to teach in PA schools because I went to Penn I didn't go to JUNIATA.
let smart people teach - they don't do that in PA
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 04:33 PM (j+aD2)
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Any of you 29 year olds remember this?
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Posted by: Eeyore at February 20, 2026 04:36 PM (AlhUl)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 04:37 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Ralph Dorfman at February 20, 2026 04:37 PM (u9jq/)
My predictions:
Some commentors claim this is a rightwing lie to make minorities and teachers look bad
Some commentors claims this is due to institutional racism and not spending enough money
and...some commentors will make BOTH arguments
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:38 PM (sKqQm)
In CA here. We discovered that a teachers union exists to protect the interests of the worst teachers. The good teachers don't need a union, and they are deeply resented by the layabouts -- the bums think diligence and innovation are dirty tricks.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 04:38 PM (VWtfl)
I wish for once I could read the NYT, because I'd love to see the comments. I've already run online into people who simply cannot believe this is happening in "backward" states, while their progressive paradises are falling ever farther behind.
Posted by: Eeyore
They're probably ahead where it counts.
In abortions and tranny operations.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 04:38 PM (Cqx++)
Although ICE agents asked Mecklenburg County law enforcement to transfer Guevara-Lopez into federal custody, they refused, releasing him back into the community. The illegal alien was re-arrested after his release from jail for failing to meet his bond conditions.
“These are the types of monsters North Carolina sanctuary politicians are protecting from immigration enforcement and releasing from their jails into our neighborhoods to prey on American children,” the Department of Homeland Security’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
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Forgetting the Red vs Blue, I don't understand how the people of North Carolina aren't in the middle of their very own civil war? How can the citizens of that state sit idly by as some of their own release child-rapists from custody and back into their midst?
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 04:38 PM (TN0g+)
WISH High is an online effort to reach more remote areas of Japan to help high school students prepare for college entrance exams.
This online cram school costs $65/month. And will cover subjects such as math, chemistry, and English.
The twist is, all the qualified teachers will use VTuber avatars.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 04:39 PM (xo7Vw)
New Hotness: Ok kids let's talk about our private parts and why we should cut them off!
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Dexter Manley at February 20, 2026 04:39 PM (affD0)
what's the point
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 04:31 PM (ZxPkt)
Life.
Apathy permits evil. Even if you fail, stand for good.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)
Because there isn't an FNM talking about it endlessly.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 04:31 PM (j+aD2)
She's brown. It's not like we could refuse her. -- UConn
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:40 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 04:41 PM (xo7Vw)
And yes, they get paid per enrollment. Don't know how Newsom is going to squirm out of this debacle.
Posted by: Random PJ at February 20, 2026 04:41 PM (+jscL)
Posted by: Kami Harris at February 20, 2026 04:41 PM (u9jq/)
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 04:38 PM (TN0g+)
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We just don't go into Charlotte.
The blue enclaves of the state are quite compact.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:42 PM (GBKbO)
Teachers do not care. Schools do not care. So it is trivial to fake it and get passing grades and a diploma
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:42 PM (sKqQm)
It's not just UConn. It's going on everywhere.
Harvard offers courses in basic math because many kids arrive at Harvard with zero ability to do basic math.
Government schools have been going to shit for years. People need to worry less about AI and robots and more about the ability of today's children being able to function as productive citizens.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 04:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 20, 2026 04:43 PM (Ksqrb)
Tenure? What makes you think we can't replace you with a fucking monkey?
I wouldn' t give a shit, but the American taxpayer is getting shafted by these pickpocket slobs.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 04:43 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)
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Hell, *I* would fail that test. Embarrassingly, spectacularly so.
Good thing I gots life experience to fall back on.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 20, 2026 04:43 PM (0aYVJ)
Eliminate all public education. Bulldoze every existing school, even if they were just completed yesterday. Give $20,000 to the parent (parents) per child per year. Have a testing service that tests each kid each year to see if they are at the minimum level set by the state. If so, the parent gets the money for the next year. If not, they get a one year grace period to catch up on the previous year plus the current year. If they fail, a "educational guardian" takes 10% of the $20K stipend to decide how the kid is educated. For children who do keep up at grade level, the parent keeps whatever they have left over. The parent can teach the kid themselves, or hire a tutor. Other parents can band together to hire a teacher to educate their kids. It's up to the parent.
Posted by: jwest at February 20, 2026 04:44 PM (KtqtS)
They run, and have played a major part in ruining, CA.
Coupled with the ideological poison that took over the "education" industry even as it ramped up the grift ace has so eloquently described.
I remember reacting, instantly, the first time I heard about "new" teaching methods - JFC, there is absolutely nothing new under the sun when it comes to learning to read, do math, and behave. A Civil War soldier's diary is something few "educators" today could dream of producing, many probably can't even understand such writing. As collapsed and pathetic as so much of the US is, institutionally and as individuals, the social degradation caused by modern "education" remains the most worrisome thing. And lets not talk about law schools.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2026 04:44 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 04:44 PM (xo7Vw)
Then, when she graduated, someone whispered in her ear that she could sue the school district so now that's her grift.
There are no good guys in this story and she really doesn't deserve much sympathy as she gamed the system to graduate and now she's looking to cash in.
Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at February 20, 2026 04:45 PM (Iwv3U)
You got replaced by an illegal? LEARN TO CODE
Oh you did learn to code and got replaced by an H1B? Well, maybe euthanasia is the right answer for you! Or...have you thought about fentanyl?
Wait...a teacher lost her job?!? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
Posted by: The FNM at February 20, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)
Hmm. Didn't we discuss that island a few days back? It's time to wave adios....
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 04:45 PM (cGjQu)
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I'm no lawyer, but it would seem to me that plaintiff is complicit in her failure
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 04:46 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: The FNM at February 20, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)
Wait until you find out that a relative of a media person is missing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:47 PM (ExV1e)
Likely by requiring the vendor to pay massive licensing fees to the state.
And classifying them as a "for-profit educational institution."
While all the legislators who vote in favor of that bill still send their children to exclusive private schools.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 04:47 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: WisRich at February 20, 2026 04:47 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 04:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 04:48 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 04:48 PM (dK+Kv)
Wait, isn't this the same media that always complains that the media itself spends too much time talking about missing white women?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
It’s shady shit and graft from top to bottom.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 04:49 PM (tsYFt)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 20, 2026 04:49 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 04:48 PM (RkOfE)
Yes. If we must fund education then fund the student, not the institution.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:49 PM (ExV1e)
Also in CO, a school is not allowed to hold back a student without parental consent.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 04:50 PM (n5tGW)
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Crucial guardrail lost? The same one that allowed this young woman to graduate completely uneducated? Um, okay. This does not compute.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2026 04:50 PM (qBdHI)
The biggest thing that stood out to her is that it's all about funding. Butts in seats. It dictated everything from discipline to lice treatments. The funding for the reading assistant positions was tied directly to the school lunch program. In their wisdom, the bureaucrats deemed that the number of kids needing free lunch correlated to learning disabilities. (I guess rich kids can't have disabilities; only poor kids?) Kids used to be sent home for lice and had to be nit-free for several days before returning. Not so anymore. And the schools don't get funding for kids who are held back and repeat a grade. So they get passed along year after year, no matter if they're ready or not.
And that's in the schools where they're actually trying to teach the kids, not where the teachers see fresh meat for their ideology to be infused into someone else's spawn.
Posted by: red speck at February 20, 2026 04:50 PM (Ve/HL)
That's the point of the government overall though anyway.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)
61 ; it's the culmination of hard work after moving north from Puerto Rico as a child."
Hmm. Didn't we discuss that island a few days back? It's time to wave adios....
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 04:45 PM
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It would become a Red Chinese base within months.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 04:50 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
Well, yes, but we meant white women unrelated to members of the media. -- FNM
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:50 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: pahound at February 20, 2026 04:50 PM (z7yPV)
Looking at the recent SC decision on tariffs, what's the difference between American pols controlled by China and pols from "independent" countries controlled by China?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 04:52 PM (zZu0s)
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Well, for starters you could try teaching them something.
Idiocracy, prophetic
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 04:52 PM (S+j2h)
Hello Idiocracy.
Posted by: red speck at February 20, 2026 04:52 PM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: ballistic at February 20, 2026 04:52 PM (5aZAZ)
Copilot, write a press release on how everyone is rayciss and I'm always the victim...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 04:52 PM (S+j2h)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 04:53 PM (4NO2D)
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3rd grade? My kids were reading in kindergarten. And so were all their peers. If 3rd grade is the benchmark it’s still a big failure.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 04:53 PM (tsYFt)
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 04:53 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 04:53 PM (S+j2h)
Jasmine Crockett, is that you?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 04:53 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: nckate at February 20, 2026 04:54 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)
High School test?
Try 8th grade graduation test.
It's online somewhere. Betcha ain't as smart as you think you are.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:54 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 20, 2026 04:55 PM (TTUKx)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 04:55 PM (Ia/+0)
3rd grade? My kids were reading in kindergarten. And so were all their peers. If 3rd grade is the benchmark it’s still a big failure.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 04:53 PM (tsYFt)
Some boys can't...I had kids learn at 3, 4, 5.5, and 7.5...guess which 2 were the boys? The more rambunctious and attention limited the kid, the more time it took.
But just b/c they can't read doesn't mean you can't keep learning going in many ways...they get there if you keep at it without frustrating them and if you keep learning of some type going every day.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 04:55 PM (tOcjL)
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No. This would just create a new problem.
Parents and local communities can and should educate their children.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 04:55 PM (RkOfE)
This is what the Democrats want.
Posted by: Random PJ at February 20, 2026 04:55 PM (+jscL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 04:52 PM (zZu0s)
My sister, they figured it out in first grade. She is General Manager of a good size company. We all helped.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 04:55 PM (S+j2h)
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at February 20, 2026 04:56 PM (WI9yY)
SAVE Act: Rep Tim Burchett confirms rumor that McConnell’s Chief of Staff Terry Carmack won’t allow the election integrity bill out of committee to give Thune and Cornyn cover for not bringing the bill to the floor for debate.
(emphasis mine)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 04:56 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 04:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 04:57 PM (OoFl2)
UC San Diego, long known as a truly elite science and math school with very competitive admissions, now has a substantial remedial student element (WTFFF?).
Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2026 04:57 PM (U/Byj)
Common stupid.
GTFO with that shit, drawing all kinds of pictures to do math
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 04:52 PM (S+j2h)
My kids went to Core Knowledge based charter schools, which is the polar opposite of "Common Core" (you see how the left continuously fucks with terminology?). Core Knowledge was very old school; reading, writing, math, science, history, and in later years, philosophy and exploring the classics. They left me in the dust educationally.
And this was in Colorado, back when it was still a good place to live.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 20, 2026 04:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Meaning the method of Socrates.
Fucking stupid kids.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 04:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 04:57 PM (S+j2h)
School can teach, and teach very well, when it comes to those topics.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 04:58 PM (tsYFt)
Try 8th grade graduation test.
It's online somewhere. Betcha ain't as smart as you think you are.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:54 PM (Hx0tZ)
https://is.gd/IfUUY4
It's not a measure of smart, it's a question of focus.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:58 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 04:58 PM (RIvkX)
In other words, reading is white privilege.
I wonder how this will hold up of the struggling districts start teaching phonics in the classroom?
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 20, 2026 04:58 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: A bumper sticker Duncanthrax used to have at February 20, 2026 04:58 PM (bJ9QV)
And this was in Colorado, back when it was still a good place to live.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 20, 2026 04:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Awesome
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 04:58 PM (S+j2h)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (1Udfd)
Seems like a more appropriate priority, opposed to creating social media revenge porn.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (gVUi7)
I hope that is just normal getting more 29.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)
A reminder: after Bill Ayres escaped justice for planting bombs in the 1960s, thanks to his millionaire dad's high-priced lawyers, he got a graduate degree and became a professor of education at U Chicago. Common Core has his fingerprints all over it. He continued working to destroy society, by other means.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (VWtfl)
Duh these old tests are like easy. I got like the answer to like this one. Its racism. Its like, all old white racist people.
Posted by: Some modern teacher at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (sKqQm)
SAVE Act: Rep Tim Burchett confirms rumor that McConnell’s Chief of Staff Terry Carmack won’t allow the election integrity bill out of committee to give Thune and Cornyn cover for not bringing the bill to the floor for debate.
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There should be a political price to pay.
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (TN0g+)
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A Retard who needed two handlers to help him walk, graduated from high school with my son, going on two decades ago. The audience cheered when said retard was drug across the stage. He stopped, spread his legs and arms like one of the "scarecrows" on the cliff in one of the, "Planet of the Apes," movies. Then, the audience went wild. I guess everyone was amazed that Tardy McTardFace had managed to go so long without aspirating and dying.
Posted by: Marooned at February 20, 2026 05:00 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: Ja'quell at February 20, 2026 05:00 PM (bJ9QV)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 04:57 PM (S+j2h)
Easier for a cunt raed to pass through a gay man's apartment than it is to find a dictionary in a Somali learing center.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 05:01 PM (0N4FZ)
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Same. I can’t remember things like are there two Ls in this word or just one? Or should there be an e here or an i here.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 05:01 PM (tsYFt)
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (TN0g+)
There should be a political price to pay for the people who won't either force it out of committee or replace McConnell. Pretty sure that's within the power of the Leader.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (ExV1e)
years ago, i saw a psa slide on the pbs station reading "if you or someone you love is illiterate, call xxx-xxx-xxxx".
i chuckled.
Posted by: anachronda at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (oY6Yp)
I distinctly remember all through elementary we had 30 kids and 1 teacher
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (1Udfd)
Maybe use a filter. The ladies do not want to give up the crystal clear butthole right away.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (zZu0s)
What you fear you'll get from AI: The terminator
What you hope you'll get from AI: "Computer write all my work emails for me and send them"
What you'll get from AI: Why is every other video in this feed AI furry pron?!?
Posted by: Obligatory at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (3uBP9)
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There should be a political price to pay.
Posted by: Crusader at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: That Guy who says "Nothing will happen." at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (bJ9QV)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (Ookz/)
In fall of 2024, she had to teach students in ELEVEN different languages due to all of the illegal aliens and refugees.
The low-income English speaking kids generally lost about a third of the education period while she was translating instructions to get all of the other kids started.
Diversity is NOT our strength.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 20, 2026 05:03 PM (HlyYF)
But much better education than what he'd have gotten if it was just left to public funded teachers. Posted by: PaleRider at February 20, 2026 05:03 PM (vlkz/)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 04:59 PM (1Udfd)
I am the great Cornholio !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:03 PM (S+j2h)
Posted by: The guy sending Terry Carmack an invitation to the new Epstein island at February 20, 2026 05:03 PM (sKqQm)
Only 3 of us could read aloud in any coherent way. I could, based on my NYC Catholic and Public School Education, a friend of mine, don't know where he went to school, but his parents were Professors too, iirc, and one other guy, who had been in the Marines.
The rest were all hopeless. This was CUNY, so not some fancy shmancy school, but still, it was pathetic.
Posted by: jocon307 at February 20, 2026 05:04 PM (EuROc)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 05:04 PM (tsYFt)
Posted by: Dr F'nstein at February 20, 2026 05:04 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 05:04 PM (gtcuf)
One of the areas that Idiocracy was just flat out wrong is thinking modern media would be all about some guy getting kicked in the nuts, not young wimmins showing their bits...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 05:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2026 05:05 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Dr F'nstein at February 20, 2026 04:28 PM (vFG9F)
Particularly teachers whose degrees are in education. Absolutely retarded. On the other hand I've met really smart and effective teachers who, as a rule, were actually educated in the subjects they taught.
Posted by: Not Dr. Jill approved at February 20, 2026 05:06 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 05:06 PM (tsYFt)
It is kinda ironic that the biggest communists in the country have the biggest capitalist grifter schemes extracting rent from the state.
Well, now that I think about it, maybe it isn't so ironic; it's standard operating procedure.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: banana Dream
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Can they also apologize for whatever the fuck that first reboot was? Never been so disappointed after looking forward to something.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2026 05:07 PM (XvL8K)
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This provides cover for the schools - parents aren't reading/can't read, so it's their fault, not ours - but it's not their fault either, society is to blame. Therefore a push to extend "school" to daycares.
Spoiler alert this won't educate anyone, but it does put children in the hands of the state instead of parents.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 05:07 PM (RkOfE)
But, I bet she is registered to vote.
And has voted.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (HXT0k)
And studying Public Policy for her degree. A trifecta of sorts.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2026 05:07 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 05:05 PM (sKqQm)
Well MTV and jackass and much of the horrid reality tv preceded the movie so they had reason to believe that was the future.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 05:07 PM (3uBP9)
Shhh. You'll spoil my surprise retirement plan.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (dK+Kv)
In the 1950s, black high school students had a 90+% literacy rate -- even in states with segregation and thus poorly funded black schools -- simply because teachers (of all races) taught "The Three R's" rigorously.
Nowadays, the black literacy rate is closer to 35% - -a catastrophic decline.
Old-school schooling works.
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (se8lQ)
Just what we need, more illiterate assholes.
Posted by: Wait for it... at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Not Dr. Jill approved at February 20, 2026 05:06 PM
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Bill Nye, The Science Guy at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (bJ9QV)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2026 05:07 PM (XvL8K)
I don't think they were involved much. A bunch of lefties were. Rifftrax went on in parallel.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 05:05 PM (sKqQm)
In the 2006 satirical film Idiocracy, Starbucks is depicted as having evolved into a franchise that offers "handjobs" as part of its services, reflecting the film's theme of extreme societal degradation and vulgar commercialism. This product placement satire aimed to mock the extreme evolution of consumer brands
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (S+j2h)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2026 05:05 PM (Vh9CX)
Vermont is always near the top of education rankings. Vermont doesn’t have an especially smart population of kids. However their population is over 90% white.
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (tsYFt)
Yep. They act like it was just any other Theory.
Not the distilled knowledge of generations.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (Wmg4n)
A few years ago a young female Japanese motorcycle enthusiast made a big splash. She wasn't doing anything sexual, just talking about and riding motorcycles.
But...it came out a little later she was actually a he using filters and clever camera work.
So, there is still hope for you. Of the Hope Solo sort.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)
@amuse
SAVE Act: Rep Tim Burchett confirms rumor that McConnell’s Chief of Staff Terry Carmack won’t allow the election integrity bill out of committee to give Thune and Cornyn cover for not bringing the bill to the floor for debate.
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This is the oId way. I don't think Trump is just going to take this.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (VWtfl)
*the preceding was generated on behalf of our client based on some grunts and yells that we heard.
Posted by: Aleysha Ortiz c/o her Text-to-Speech at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (LQ2H/)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (TTUKx)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (S+j2h)
Old Contest: Guess how many marbles are in the fishbowl.
New Contest: Count the starfish wrinkles.
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Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (wVcYX)
that is not true. they were just fagged out after a prolonged squawk.
Posted by: ca state university system at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (PMi3m)
DEI.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2026 05:10 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (PMi3m)
Probably didn’t take it. SAT is optional at most colleges these days.
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (tsYFt)
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This provides cover for the schools - parents aren't reading/can't read, so it's their fault, not ours - but it's not their fault either, society is to blame. Therefore a push to extend "school" to daycares.
Spoiler alert this won't educate anyone, but it does put children in the hands of the state instead of parents.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 05:07 PM
I know this might be an unpopular opinion but comic books are a great way to get younger kids to read. Worked with our son, teenage mutant ninja turtle comics for the win on reading proficiency at an early age.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Kindltot - I don't think this is a left vs right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 05:12 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (0N4FZ)
You should have beat him until he hated reading comic books then forced him to read Charles Dickens upon threat of more beating.
Posted by: You're a terrible parent! at February 20, 2026 05:12 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: tankdemon
I'm wondering how she would spell SAT.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 05:12 PM (LQ2H/)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 20, 2026 05:12 PM (vlkz/)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (0N4FZ)
hell, yes. The Tintin graphic novels got me reading in English, there was enough action and suspense to get me to the next block of text.
The Asterix graphic novels got me over the initial hump in learning Spanish.
Posted by: Kindltot - I don't think this is a left vs right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a at February 20, 2026 05:13 PM (rbvCR)
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After 10 years of paid-for college, she'll become a commercial airline pilot.
Go long body bags and caskets ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 05:13 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Dr F'nstein at February 20, 2026 05:13 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (PMi3m)
Probably didn’t take it. SAT is optional at most colleges these days.
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (tsYFt)
They now determine admissions on the three S's: Skin color, Surname, and Sexuality
Posted by: Exceptions for legacy only at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM
And yet, despite my erudite efforts to educate you and bring you along, many of you continue to mock me.
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from r at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (u8vU5)
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New pedagogies keeps the teachers from refining their ability to actually teach the materials to children who all come with unique pre knowledge and learning styles.
It also allows the textbook creators to fill the content with the "current thing" - climate change, recycling, save the earth, etc.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (0N4FZ)
My oldest taught himself from video games. Back then, Mario only spoke in word balloons.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (TTUKx)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 05:11 PM (0N4FZ)
hell, yes. The Tintin graphic novels got me reading in English, there was enough action and suspense to get me to the next block of text.
it was video games what did it for jr. chronda. he liked final fantasy, but mrs. chronda got tired of reading the menus for him, so he decided to figure it out himself.
Posted by: anachronda at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Kindltot
Isn't Asterix a French comic?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at February 20, 2026 05:15 PM (2W0v+)
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The curriculum begins with Communism 101 and ends with Communism 100,000,000 Deaths.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 05:15 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (TTUKx)
Kids used to read cereal boxes cuz they didn't have phones to allow them to scroll through porn at the breakfast table.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 05:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: garrett
Also known as "the copybook headings."
Rudyard Kipling wrote a lot of great things, but his overlooked masterpiece was "The Gods of the Copybook Headings," about this very topic -- that the "old ways" are not just random oppressive obsolete customs, but instead the distilled wisdom of countless generations.
"The "copybook headings" to which the title refers were proverbs or maxims, often drawn from sermons and scripture extolling virtue and wisdom, that were printed at the top of the pages of copybooks, special notebooks used by 19th-century British schoolchildren. The students had to copy the maxims repeatedly, by hand, down the page. The exercise was thought to serve simultaneously as a form of moral education and penmanship practice."
Sample stanza:
"In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 05:16 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Kindltot
Isn't Asterix a French comic?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (Ookz/)
Asterix the Gaul? Probably Welsh.
Posted by: Possibly Thai at February 20, 2026 05:16 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 05:16 PM (LQ2H/)
Posted by: tankdemon
I'm wondering how she would spell SAT.
wingardia leviosa! *swish and flick!*
Posted by: anachronda at February 20, 2026 05:16 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2026 05:16 PM (wVcYX)
...that your yard sign indicates you are an ignorant, arrogant twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 20, 2026 05:16 PM (I40wl)
I enjoy Brazilian Jujitsu.
But imagine if rather than teaching the gradual, normal way, where you learn fundamentals and then test and apply them, gradually growing in skill and ability, and keep coming back because its rewarding... instead all the gyms took brand new white belts and just beat the ever living shit out of them.
Like you show up for the first time, no idea what's going on, and then spend the whole class getting choked out, arm barred, wrist locked, and ankle locked, over and over and over. You don't even sorta know what's happening or why. When you tap, the guy beating the shit out of you will laugh, say you must be stupid, and crank harder. Suck it up.
[. . . ]
This post isn't about Jujitsu. It's about High School English classes and the dumb ass way the American education system keeps on reliably failing kids, smugly.
(to torture this analogy further, the Scarlet Letter is a smother choke from a really sweaty fat guy!)
Posted by: Kindltot - I don't think this is a left vs right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a at February 20, 2026 05:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 05:02 PM (3uBP9)
Good. I friggin' hate the new one. It sucks. Know how I know? B'cuz Patton Oswalt.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 20, 2026 05:17 PM (0aYVJ)
Oregon ranks 16th highest in dollars per student paid for education ($19,000) each year.
Oregon is 45th in the country for quality of education, according to Newsweek.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:17 PM (PYyV9)
Was it Scholastic books or something like that ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:18 PM (S+j2h)
"As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man—
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:—
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return"
Damn, that dude was brutal.
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 05:18 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (TTUKx)
Kids used to read cereal boxes cuz they didn't have phones to allow them to scroll through porn at the breakfast table.
reminds me of an interview i saw with bill plympton, a cartoonist. he said his life changed the day he realized he could draw his own pron.
Posted by: anachronda at February 20, 2026 05:18 PM (oY6Yp)
Oregon ranks 16th highest in dollars per student paid for education ($19,000) each year.
Oregon is 45th in the country for quality of education, according to Newsweek.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:17 PM (PYyV9)
They won't let you pump your own gas there
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (S+j2h)
It just came via UPS and when I unpacked it, they had thrown in a ninja throwing star and a cheap stun-gun/LED flashlight.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (4NO2D)
Parents and local communities can and should educate their children.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 04:55 PM (RkOfE)
You've got it half right. Parents can and should educate their children. If they get the money being wasted by the education/industrial complex, they can do it (or pay for someone to do it).
Posted by: jwest at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (KtqtS)
I homeschooled him for two semesters during covid. He read Shakespeare, did real math, and read Western Civ. He failed Western Civ, although he read the entire book and discussed at length with me. He was too lazy to do the homework, said the math took too long and he didn't have time left for history.
But he knows it.
No idea why public schools could not figure out how to teach him anything, except for felonious levels of neglect.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (I40wl)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 05:14 PM (Ookz/)
Tintin and Asterix were written in French, but translated to pretty much every language. I read Tintin in Humpty-Dumpty magazine umpty-odd years ago.
The Asterix were the Spanish ones. I also read the graphic novel version of some of the Jules Verne books in Spanish too.
Posted by: Kindltot - I don't think this is a left vs right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (rbvCR)
That black people are retarded and need while liberal saviors
That age is just a number and MAPs deserve protection
That children should get free sex-reassignment surgery on request
That fetuses aren't humans and can be chopped up at the mother's whim
That rape, murder, sex-trafficking and drug trade are a small price to pay for cultural diversity
Posted by: If those stupid fucking signs were honest at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (TbWk/)
If Brazilian Ju-jitsu were like our high schools, they would just give you the belts and then send you home to defend yourself on the streets. How could he miss the point so badly?
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (LQ2H/)
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 05:08 PM (se8lQ)
I agree with the premise that all so called advances in education have done a great deal of damage, but I think a much larger share of that blame is on the one-two punch of "Great Society" welfare dependency followed by no fault divorce completely imploding family structure.
Posted by: Sjg at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (aqZN1)
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* PhD Degrees and Minimum (or Expected) Publishing Requirements for Professors have entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 05:20 PM (5FL4d)
French Class in High School had French and English versions, I love em all. They are silly and dumb but fun, great illustration.
The teacher also subscribed to Paris Match and brought those to read too, which all the boys loved because every issue had at least four sets of naked hooters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:20 PM (PYyV9)
Was it Scholastic books or something like that ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:18 PM (S+j2h)
"Book Fairs".
They were a favorite part of my elementary school time, as well.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Kindltot - I don't think this is a left vs right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a at February 20, 2026 05:16 PM (rbvCR)
That book blows
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:20 PM (S+j2h)
Oregon ranks 16th highest in dollars per student paid for education ($19,000) each year.
Oregon is 45th in the country for quality of education, according to Newsweek.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:17 PM (PYyV9)
They won't let you pump your own gas there
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (S+j2h)
Don't look at Alaska's numbers. They are humiliating.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 20, 2026 05:20 PM (I40wl)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 05:21 PM (Ookz/)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (S+j2h)
They do now, most places.
Posted by: Kindltot - I don't think this is a left-right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a du at February 20, 2026 05:21 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein
Oh, look at you!! Spelling is correct, grammar is correct, and you even used a 25 cent word. Well done, little Mary! Gold star!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 05:21 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: banana Dream
__________
I'd like to see them redo some of the classics. Mitchell, Time Chasers, Laserblast. Give us a whole new list of names for Fist Rockbone in Space Mutiny.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2026 05:21 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 05:21 PM (/PQmQ)
I think I bought some "Choose Your Own Adventure" books from them, which I loved when I was a kid.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Marooned at February 20, 2026 05:00 PM (kt8QE)
He bleeds! The Lawgiver bleeds!
Posted by: Ursus at February 20, 2026 05:22 PM (Ksqrb)
https://tinyurl.com/ym9b7bre
I guess it is discontinued.
Maybe I will have my wife stun me with it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 05:22 PM (4NO2D)
You can now, a ballot measure passed a few years back. I would prefer not to, but I don't pump any gas.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:22 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Dr F'nstein at February 20, 2026 05:13 PM (vFG9F)
Have you noticed how most people text? Or are you on Facebook (better example.) Many people communicate by meme because they cannot express their feelings in a paragraph. Its eerie when you realize it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Tik Tik Boom at February 20, 2026 05:22 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)
As did I.
Posted by: Nerds unite at February 20, 2026 05:23 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 05:23 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein
Oh, look at you!! Spelling is correct, grammar is correct, and you even used a 25 cent word. Well done, little Mary! Gold star!
adjusting for inflation, that's a $20 word, same as downtown.
Posted by: anachronda at February 20, 2026 05:23 PM (oY6Yp)
But he knows it.
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Sounds like he should be commenting here!
/Eagerly awaiting new commenter "son of tcn in AK."
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 05:23 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Dr F'nstein at February 20, 2026 05:13 PM (vFG9F)
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I guess she's functionally illiterate. Like a blind guy who can still kinda see.
Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 20, 2026 05:24 PM (qUkBO)
I think I bought some "Choose Your Own Adventure" books from them, which I loved when I was a kid.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)
That's it, the book fair, I loved that !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:24 PM (S+j2h)
Posted by: Nerds unite at February 20, 2026 05:23 PM (TbWk/)
I must've read 10 or 15 of those books over a few years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Indy Bill at February 20, 2026 05:24 PM (iTeaO)
https://tinyurl.com/ym9b7bre
I guess it is discontinued.
Maybe I will have my wife stun me with it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 05:22 PM (4NO2D)
Some guys pay good money for action like that.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2026 05:24 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 05:25 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 05:25 PM (4NO2D)
And leave the duct tape at home.
Posted by: Also the plastic sheeting at February 20, 2026 05:26 PM (TbWk/)
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I agree, stop all government funding of education and eliminate taxes.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 05:26 PM (RkOfE)
How many times was he voted homecoming queen? I don't know if they are still doing that but for a while it was always the downs syndrome girl who got voted homecoming queen because she was clearly the most beautiful, socially wonderful, academically capable, and representative girl in school.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:27 PM (PYyV9)
https://tinyurl.com/2nx85pkr
I probably will email the sender and ask if he meant to send these.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 05:27 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: jwest at February 20, 2026 05:27 PM (KtqtS)
I wrote several of those. They are kind of a pain to design and you need to make the map really small.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:28 PM (PYyV9)
But he knows it.
No idea why public schools could not figure out how to teach him anything, except for felonious levels of neglect.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 20, 2026 05:19 PM (I40wl)
My mom taught us to read early just to give us something quiet to do. But it was interesting when interacting with kids who did not take well to schools that they could remember tens of thousands of stats and events about sports they were interested in, calculate batting averages and such, and one year where the spring break was moved to the aftermath of an ice storm and everyone came over and played Kingmaker, a game on the War of the Roses in the 1400s how everyone learned the geography, heraldry and locations of areas in Medieval England by heart.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2026 05:28 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2026 05:28 PM (PYyV9)
That's cool though.
I may have read some of your work.
I imagine it's kind of like video game design/scripting these days.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 05:29 PM (6ydKt)
When California voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, they were told cannabis tax revenue would fund youth substance abuse prevention. Six years and $370.25 million later, Rhetor's AI-powered forensic audit — conducted in partnership with CAL DOGE — reveals where that money actually went: into a sprawling network of 517 grants funding political organizing, voter registration drives and "social justice youth development," all administered by a single nonprofit intermediary most Californians have never heard of.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:29 PM (S+j2h)
How many times was he voted homecoming queen? I don't know if they are still doing that but for a while it was always the downs syndrome girl who got voted homecoming queen because she was clearly the most beautiful, socially wonderful, academically capable, and representative girl in school.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
In my school, a "developmentally disabled" kid -- he didn't have Down's Syndrome, but he was just bone-stupid, and was totally utterly illiterate -- was given the "Student of the Year" award. When all the straight-A students complained and asked why, the principal said it was because "he NEEDED it most" to "boost his self-esteem."
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 05:30 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Beartooth at February 20, 2026 05:31 PM (GGatE)
Phonics were the key for her, she would still not be reading if it was sight word based.
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (Wmg4n)
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Few things boil my blood more than that "Whole Word Language" shit. It's a F*CKING DISGRACE that this crap wasn't laughed out of the idiotic hellhole from which it emerged.
My best friend in 10th grade moved away and I looked him up 25 years later. He had been the Principal at a rural school in Texas.
I told him my opinion on the horrors of having ignored the teaching of phonics -- at least three generations of illiterates cranked out of the public schools -- and he refused to agree with me and tried to cut the baby in half by rationalizing "that children needed to be taught both!"
Ugh. I lost much respect for him that day ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 05:31 PM (5FL4d)
It's a Schooner!
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 05:31 PM (1Udfd)
When California voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, they were told cannabis tax revenue would fund youth substance abuse prevention. Six years and $370.25 million later, Rhetor's AI-powered forensic audit — conducted in partnership with CAL DOGE — reveals where that money actually went: into a sprawling network of 517 grants funding political organizing, voter registration drives and "social justice youth development," all administered by a single nonprofit intermediary most Californians have never heard of.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 05:29 PM (S+j2h)
Wait, I thought the LOTTO already paid for everything!!
some people never learn.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2026 05:32 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 05:09 PM (Wmg4n)
Nobody learns that way and ever has.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2026 05:32 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 05:33 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 05:30 PM (se8lQ)
Probably should have just bought a sheaf of gold star stickers and given him one every three days.
At least that way he would not be considered for HR or the C-Suite.
Posted by: Kindltot - I don't think this is a left-right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a du at February 20, 2026 05:33 PM (rbvCR)
I do not understand how they are supposed to get it the other way? I thought rote memorization was bad?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway
Sounds about right.
People have no idea just how royally fucked this state is. California's economy is bigger than 25 other states COMBINED, but 95% of our taxes are either stolen, wasted, squandered, or spent on communist garbage projects, with money being funneled to the most toxic "activists," revolutionaries and con artists in the state. In astronomical dollar amounts that would leave most states gasping in amazement.
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 05:35 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Kindltot - This is not really a left-right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a dumba at February 20, 2026 05:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: turambar at February 20, 2026 05:35 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:34 PM (zZu0s)
Rote memorization is not a good thing in reading. You need some method to decipher the words to start with, and that is phonics. As we get better with phonic reading we can move to whole-word identification that requires memorization of the "shapes" of the words, but that is also fraught since we can flip and miss letters in our head. I had the darndest time with "place" and "palace" in grade school for example
Posted by: Kindltot - This is not a left-right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a dumbass. at February 20, 2026 05:38 PM (rbvCR)
I learned to read before we had phonics, so phonics were like learning a different, though simple language just to please the test. In hindsight, I wish they'd taught us IPA so I could read all the stuff the Wikipedia pinheads post.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 05:39 PM (LQ2H/)
I do not understand how they are supposed to get it the other way? I thought rote memorization was bad?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 05:34 PM (zZu0s)
Its like trying to teach math without breaking up numbers into the individual columns. units, tens, hundreds, thousands. Too many combinations with no basic principles.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2026 05:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Kindltot - This is not a left-right thing, I think we're all united in thinking she's a dumbass. at February 20, 2026 05:38 PM (rbvCR)
That isn't a huge problem since people surprisingly can read text where all but the first and last letters are scrambled almost perfectly
Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2026 05:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: wferrin at February 20, 2026 05:44 PM (lCdHU)
Oh well.
Posted by: ballistic at February 20, 2026 05:44 PM (5aZAZ)
Um, question from the back, WHY is Massachusetts thought to be the "best in the country", exactly?
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 20, 2026 05:47 PM (vOtXJ)
Ditch degrees in "education". Everyone gets a degree in something useful, like math, physics, business, chemistry, etc. If you want to be a teacher, you take exactly two classes - classroom management and teaching methods. They just teach you the basics on how to manage the job. That's it.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 20, 2026 05:50 PM (vOtXJ)
Oh well.
Posted by: ballistic a
Wish I had seen this sooner, ballistic, home school groups would love to have your help!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 08:07 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: bradc at February 21, 2026 04:14 AM (3hcA3)
Democrats Shut Down DHS, Attempting to Force Trump to Accept Biden's Open Borders Regime As the Law of the Land
DHS funding ran out last Friday.
Christian CollinsIronically, the incompetent Democrat Theater-Kids and Groomers aren't shutting down ICE at all, which was fully funded for a year under the Big Beautiful Bill:
@CollinsforTX
Due to the Democrat shutdown: - TSA agents are working without pay
- FEMA workers are working without pay
- DHS employees are working without pay. Meanwhile, Democrats have just announced a "Trans Bill of Rights." These unserious politicians need to be voted out.
For his part, Trump's playing hardball. If you recall, when Republicans have shut the government down, Democrats have always employed what is called "the Washington Monument Strategy" to make shutdowns as painful as possible for the public. They not only shut down parks, but they had park personnel, who were on furlough, act like cops and chase visitors out. Obama even had Rangers working near Mount Rushmore drag chains across a turn-off on a local road to keep people from parking their cars just to look at the monument. They spent government money, in short, during a shutdown to punish the public so that they'd pressure Republicans to cave. Trump is taking a page from the Democrats.
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor BREAKING: The US Senate has just FAILED to advance the DHS funding bill, which means DHS will likely shutdown tomorrow night Fetterman was the lone Democrat to vote in favor. These idiots aren’t shutting down ICE, because ICE is FULLY FUNDED for the year. They’re shutting down the Coast Guard, TSA, Cybersecurity agencies, and more. Democrats are putting our country at risk for PURE POLITICS. Disgusting.
A Maryland sewer line just burst and is pumping in tons and tons of unprocessed shit and piss into the Potomac. But FEMA's not coming.
President Donald Trump's administration has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to disaster-affected areas around the country while the Department of Homeland Security is shut down, internal messages reviewed by Reuters showed. DHS, which FEMA is part of, entered a partial shutdown on Saturday, but has largely continued to operate since most of its functions are deemed essential. The shutdown happened after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a deal on immigration enforcement reforms. "DHS has issued a stop-travel order for all DHS funded travel, effecting 2/18/26, for the duration of the lapse in appropriation. Currently this DOES include disaster travel," according to an internal email sent by Kurt Weirich, a chief of staff at FEMA. More than 300 FEMA disaster responders were preparing for upcoming assignments but were told to stand down, including some who are currently at a training facility, CNN reported earlier.
CNN has never before objected to the Washington Monument Strategy. Suddenly they're all "But the public shouldn't suffer for Washington's squabbles!" This is the Democrat Party -- the Party of Illegal Aliens. The Party Against the American People.
The freeze comes after Trump said on Monday the federal government will step in to protect the Potomac River following the collapse of a major sewer pipe in the Washington, D.C., region last month. A sewer line in Montgomery County, Maryland, collapsed on Jan. 19, causing an overflow of more than 240 million gallons (909 million liters) of wastewater into the Potomac River. Trump said FEMA, which has seen significant staff cuts since he took office in January 2025, will coordinate the response. So far, however, FEMA has deployed few, if any, resources to assist with the sewage spill, CNN reported, citing three agency officials.
Again, unlike Americans when they are locked up for committing crimes & separated from their children, illegal aliens are given a choice to bring their kids to jail with them. Further. kids abandoned by their illegal alien parents are taken care of, not “locked up” in facilities. https://t.co/kumCSoOn0U
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 19, 2026
Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen defends criminal illegals by saying American citizens are the real "worst of the worst."
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 11, 2026
COHEN: "The worst of the worst are not the immigrants, the worst of the worst, records show, are native-born Americans." pic.twitter.com/KXVg0ys0IW
Mark Hemingway
@Heminator I keep seeing this argument and it's so logically flawed it's ridiculous. Even if it's true, we shouldn't have to tolerate ANY lawbreaking from anyone who shouldn't be here, whereas we have obligations to fellow citizens.
This is the propaganda they're running against ICE -- telling people that ICE is randomly kidnapping US citizen girls, apparently with the intent to rape them. Note the end features a "Republican congressman" sexually menacing the girl.
Democrat PACs are now putting out complete BS propaganda commercials portraying Republicans and ICE agents as kidnappers who are deporting American citizens.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 9, 2026
They'll lie about anything to protect criminal illegals.pic.twitter.com/aZSdDWxsQX
British comedian Pat Smith brilliantly points out the hypocrisy surrounding the subject of mass migration in the UK. pic.twitter.com/RjKFBfJzqc
— Aɴᴛ (@AntSpeaks) February 13, 2026
Meanwhile: The Grooming Party continues grifting from weird pervert billionaires.
Dems: we hate billionaires who rig the system and won't pay their fair share.
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) February 19, 2026
Also Dems: Please cough up $310,100 to attend an event and be part of the "Jeffries 300." https://t.co/QMOUzMmA4Z https://t.co/xENLdejfDB
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)
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It should be through 2028.
At the increased funding levels that made it three times larger than it was in 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:21 PM (8EgcX)
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Democrat PACs are now putting out complete BS propaganda commercials portraying Republicans and ICE agents as kidnappers who are deporting American citizens.
They'll lie about anything to protect criminal illegals.
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This ad is like a year old.
And it's hilarious because if the base illegal was that attractive of a woman, AWFLs would be screaming for their deportation more than anyone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 20, 2026 03:22 PM (bc2uT)
red NH is so close.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Is it really that red anymore?
Posted by: Bulg at February
Red gov, red super majority in sen, red +39 in house.
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Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 03:22 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 03:23 PM (zZu0s)
The Cultural Marxists No Borders should be shut down
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 03:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Pretty much Cato's slogan now. Their flogging their 'study' that says, AKSHUALLY, most terrorism is right wing~!!$&*$&
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 20, 2026 03:23 PM (diia5)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 20, 2026 03:23 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:24 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:24 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 03:24 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:25 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:25 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 20, 2026 03:23 PM (diia5)
This makes perfect sense. Since everything good emanates from the Left; if it's not good, then it must emanate from the Right. QED.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper at February 20, 2026 03:25 PM (bc2uT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (zZu0s)
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Now, that's a campaign slogan!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (FXNzP)
And it's hilarious because if the base illegal was that attractive of a woman, AWFLs would be screaming for their deportation more than anyone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
Hell, they'd be manning pillboxes all along the southern border.
Posted by: I think someone already did this meme though at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (TbWk/)
Pretty much Cato's slogan now. Their flogging their 'study' that says, AKSHUALLY, most terrorism is right wing~!!$&*$&
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 20, 2026 03:23 PM (diia5)
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Why does Cohen want the angels of the world to be exposed to the worst of the worst?
Especially in a nation where the police prey on black people, systemic racism keeps them all down, and capitalistic greed prevents single payer healthcare?
Wouldn't it be in their interest to leave America and move to a country without racism like Mexico?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (zZu0s)
What will we do with all the unemployed Somalis?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 03:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
Hell, they'd be manning pillboxes all along the southern border.
Posted by: I think someone already did this meme though at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (TbWk/)
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"Your mid Latina girlfriend is going to be deported, whitie!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:27 PM (8EgcX)
You're looking to shun just about everyone for a fundraiser?
Quite the strategy, Cotton......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Especially in a nation where the police prey on black people, systemic racism keeps them all down, and capitalistic greed prevents single payer healthcare?
Wouldn't it be in their interest to leave America and move to a country without racism like Mexico?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
The "Worst of the Worst" are supposed to be a slave class that exists only to generate revenue to distribute to the "Angels of the World".
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:28 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 03:28 PM (duOzU)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 03:27 PM (rbvCR)
Pig farms? Mine sweeping in Ukraine? Hey, how about those unmapped mine fields around Gitmo?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 03:28 PM (zZu0s)
Clay Travis
@ClayTravi
AOC is concerned that Republicans are radicalizing young men by pushing them to be more masculine.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 03:28 PM (FXNzP)
Well yea. This has nothing to do with shutting anything down. It's about showing MUH RUHSISTUNCE, no matter what.
The fact that it's an agency involved in the deportation of leper illegals is only icing on the cake.
"We are RESISTING that DASTARDLY Orange Man. We will NEVER STOP FIGHTING THE FIGHT. Send us money!"
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:28 PM (iFTx/)
Not that I'm calling for anything nor would likely, possibly condone anything of that nature. Nope.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:28 PM (FpHTM)
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Wasn't that what USAID was for?
Why did Biden bring millions here when USAID was doing the work necessary?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
They are not immigrants.. They are illegals who have already broken the law by coming here...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 03:29 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
I'm pretty sure there is a very generous hot weather girl allowance in immigration.
Woah... I just realized that Tricia O'Kelley and Kaitlin Olson are two different people. Oh wow, (again) Tricia was on an episode of Always Sunny.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 03:29 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:29 PM (8EgcX)
The fact that it's an agency involved in the deportation of leper illegals is only icing on the cake.
"We are RESISTING that DASTARDLY Orange Man. We will NEVER STOP FIGHTING THE FIGHT. Send us money!"
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:28 PM (iFTx/)
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Remember 9 years ago when there was Russian collusion?
Paul Ryan was in on it and everything.
Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 20, 2026 03:30 PM (bc2uT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (zZu0s)
It has the potential to make my trip next week a f*cking nightmare........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: turambar at February 20, 2026 03:30 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Big Penguin at February 20, 2026 03:31 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Kindltot
They can start more Learing Centers. They'll be fine.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:31 PM (77rzZ)
Perfect.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:24 PM (jtM2q)
MCGA - Make Cholera Great Again
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:31 PM (QGaXH)
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Projection is not just a river in Egypt.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:32 PM (5FL4d)
You had your chance. It's someone ELSE'S turn now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:32 PM (8EgcX)
It wasn't just Rushmore. I think the term comes from Obama having them put up barricades so that you could not even get near the Washington Monument, or any other DC park. They had to find barriers to keep people out of open, unmanned, open spaces.
The Park Rangers were made to lock the toilets in national parks all around the country, but the doors had not locks -- they had to chain them of find other means. Open access park roads were blocked just to say F U to the flyovers. This all cost a lot of money.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:32 PM (P+H85)
Posted by: turambar at February 20, 2026 03:33 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:33 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 20, 2026 03:33 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 03:33 PM (1Udfd)
I can only assume that, to the extent there are any real numbers involved at all, he is conflating raw numbers with per capita incidence. It's irrelevant anyway since they have all committed a criminal act by illegally entering and remaining in the United States.
Posted by: Red herring anyone? at February 20, 2026 03:33 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Old Iron Pants at February 20, 2026 03:34 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Ea Nasir at February 20, 2026 03:35 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
I'm pretty sure there is a very generous hot weather girl allowance in immigration.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 03:29 PM (3uBP9)
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There is. Not joking. I forget which one (H1B3?) but it's a specific category for "fashion models."
It's supposed to be for famous, very marketable actual fashion models. But I'm sure you can figure out what this category is really used for.
Also the category for "motion picture or TV" stars. That's now being used overwhelmingly for ... OF whores.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)
Send Nick Shirley there!
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 03:35 PM (duOzU)
Posted by: Old Iron Pants at February 20, 2026 03:34 PM (Ksqrb)
This. They will not change. They are not your friends. They never will be. They'll lie to you, use you then try to kill you at some point in the name of 'equity.'
This country is at war. Only the left is fighting.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:35 PM (ZxPkt)
I wonder what you get for that type of donation?
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 03:35 PM (Vqf0f)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (8EgcX)
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Just to be Crystal F*cking Clear; we are on the cusp of smacking Iran around which will, without question, activate their sleeper cells in the US, graciously and imcompetently allowed in by the Democrats. AND, they've compromised a number of the entities used to address those threats (TSA, Coast Guard, etc.)
The targets of those sleeper cells isn't going to be some place in Iowa. It will be downtown NYC, Boston, LA and the like.
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (dIske)
they did this in philly too
it was ... so petty
they closed all the bathrooms in the parks, and those never got opened back up as far as I can tell
I knew how to get into VF and Hopewell Furnace "secret ways" so we'd still go just to be subversive
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (j+aD2)
They'll lie about anything to protect criminal illegals.
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If there isn't one already -- we're gonna need a bigger Tenth Circle of Hell.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Bueller? Bueller? at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (bc2uT)
Why did Biden bring millions here when USAID was doing the work necessary?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
Because the "Worst of the Worst" still had comfortable lives, and that couldn't continue.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (iXqHn)
everything else, meh
let's cut the TSA loose!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 03:37 PM (OoFl2)
I wonder what you get for that type of donation?
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 03:35 PM (Vqf0f)
$50,000 handy in the bathroom at the event.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:37 PM (8EgcX)
Save us!!!
Posted by: Bueller? Bueller? at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (bc2uT)
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Wes Moore is the Joe Biden of Deval Patricks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (dIske)
We can absorb a terrorist attack. -- Barry Soetoro
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 03:38 PM (ExV1e)
I kid, of course
nothing in this country works
politicians at every level have fucked up EVERYTHING
can anyone tell me what the Senate does
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:39 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 03:39 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Hey, it's a step above Andrew Gillum.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:40 PM (iXqHn)
Neighbor in Minneapolis got word his neighbor had some illegals living in his house.
Dropped a dime to ICE.
ICE rolled up, snatched the 3 Juans.
And the homeowner for harboring.
LOL
FAFO
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 03:40 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 03:40 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:40 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:39 PM (ZxPkt)
They're "the greatest deliberative body on Earth." Just ask them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 03:40 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:39 PM (ZxPkt)
*makes vague wanking motion*
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (iXqHn)
Neighbor in Minneapolis got word his neighbor had some illegals living in his house.
Dropped a dime to ICE.
ICE rolled up, snatched the 3 Juans.
And the homeowner for harboring.
LOL
FAFO
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 03:40 PM (HXT0k)
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He's sending brown people out of racist, capitalist America to go back to socialist paradises without racism.
The left should celebrate this man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (ExV1e)
Breaking:
UK and France officially deny the US to use their soil against Iran .
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (ZxPkt)
What's the downside?
Posted by: one hour sober at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
your expectations of TSA are different from mine ...
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (j42Fn)
Maybe give them half pay for time missed to start.
The gov. workers are mostly Dems, and they get a paid vacation from all this. That has to end.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (P+H85)
Breaking:
UK and France officially deny the US to use their soil against Iran .
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (ZxPkt)
France? Not surprising at all.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (fYhK6)
What's the downside?
Posted by: one hour sober at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (Y1sOo)
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Can you imagine the news coverage?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (GBKbO)
I wonder what you get for that type of donation?
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 03:35 PM (Vqf0f)
Cheese pizza
Posted by: They're all deviants at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (TbWk/)
UK and France officially deny the US to use their soil against Iran .
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (ZxPkt)
Why wouldn't Yookay and France side with their fellow Islamic country?
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: turambar at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Hey, it's a step above Andrew Gillum.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:40 PM (iXqHn)
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I think you mean a step BEHIND ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:43 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:43 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (j42Fn)
My expectations of TSA are based purely on my interactions with TSA.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 03:43 PM (ExV1e)
Leonidas 300 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jeffries 300
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 20, 2026 03:43 PM (0sNs1)
Maybe give them half pay for time missed to start.
The gov. workers are mostly Dems, and they get a paid vacation from all this. That has to end.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (P+H85)
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The solution is to empty out roles and then not fill them so that every time a shut down happens, a percentage of the federal workforce if fired and not replaced.
In related news, the fed government has its smallest workforce in terms of number of employees since the 60s. It had the largest workforce in decades at the end of 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:43 PM (GBKbO)
COHEN: "The worst of the worst are not the immigrants, the worst of the worst, records show, are native-born Americans."
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Flesh eating goblin.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 03:43 PM (azNOR)
The targets of those sleeper cells isn't going to be some place in Iowa. It will be downtown NYC, Boston, LA and the like.
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (dIske)
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Make Terrorists Attacking The U.S. Capitol Great Again!
/Puerto Rican Terrorists Pardoned By Bubba Clinton
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:44 PM (5FL4d)
Fuck them. Let them serve their muslim masters.
They'll get their just desserts.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 03:44 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 20, 2026 03:44 PM (P+H85)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 03:44 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:44 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (iFTx/)
Moore hasn't been caught doing meth with gay prostitutes yet.
Yet.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 03:44 PM (j42Fn)
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Do they have bases in overseas French properties closer to the Middle East?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Max Power at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (q177U)
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'What was it you say you do around here again?'
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 03:44 PM (j42Fn)
I suppose we can always 'accidentally' bomb their embassy in Iran. Accidentally.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (ExV1e)
He just told everyone he hates Americans and think they're the root of all evil.
Yet, he'll get re-elected overwhelmingly next go around.
Americans can be f*cking stupid, for sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (v93NZ)
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (dIske)
We can absorb a terrorist attack. -- Barry Soetoro
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 03:38 PM (ExV1e)
"The targets of those sleeper cells .... will be downtown ... LA and the like."
Your terms are acceptable......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (iFTx/)
Moore hasn't been caught doing meth with gay prostitutes yet.
Yet.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (iXqHn)
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He was caught on camera stanning like a 50 year old woman meeting a K-Pop band with Trump at a football game about a year ago.
Worse for a Democrat office holder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Max Power at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (q177U)
Heh.
Someone should throw that up in his eXcrement feed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
See how long it takes for Dems to cave.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (tsYFt)
I bet, you could use a blond to travel through "the ways", there being only one real blond instance distributed all across space and time, if you were an advanced spacefaring civilization and all.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (3uBP9)
- The Dems
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (8EgcX)
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This is the way.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:47 PM (8EgcX)
UK and France officially deny the US to use their soil against Iran .
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (ZxPkt)
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That sort of sh*t makes me wonder if they have been circumventing the sanctions on Iran in some capacity. They aren't going to take a stance on principle. But, they certainly would based on money.
Technically, they were circumventing the sanctions on Russia until just two weeks ago. So, to them it wouldn't be a moral issue.
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 03:47 PM (dIske)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
In Djibouti!
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 03:47 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:47 PM (8EgcX)
Land o Lakes squaw hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (8EgcX)
From my sister in Boise:
Only it wasn't a state building it was a medical building.
A building next to St Lukes hospital.
They rented an office to DHS not even sure that was where the office was located.
Posted by: lurking Brown at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (d2wVO)
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A couple of not-yet-found and deported jihadi's that crossed over the border during *biden's reign are licking their chops.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (jtM2q)
- The Dems
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (n5tGW)
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Of course:
(1) They use absolute, not relative, numbers to shit on American Citizens; and
(2) They ignore the fact that 100% of illegal immigrants are, in fact, criminals.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (5FL4d)
The solution is to empty out roles and then not fill them so that every time a shut down happens, a percentage of the federal workforce if fired and not replaced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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That never worked with strikes. In the 70s and 80s, in steel, auto, etc. with each walkout they lost staff but got raises and the union bosses didn't care since they had more money for them.
I think the Dems will just think they will rehire all these people next time in power. They need for their constituents to pay a price for not working due to the shutdown.
Hell, if I don't work I don't get paid so why should they be different?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (P+H85)
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This is the way.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (5FL4d)
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The no pay back is not a bad idea.
But just...5% of the fed workforce gets fired every shutdown?
There's a reason this is such a pathetic shutdown only affecting like 20% of one agency.
Because the last one hurt the left. A lot.
Yeah, they won two governor's elections that they were going to win anyway, but they lost a lot more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 20, 2026 03:49 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 03:49 PM (j+aD2)
Well, in France's case, that's been practically the national sport any time there are sanctions anywhere against anyone... I wouldn't be surprised at Chuck's GB also playing those kind of game.
Posted by: RandomDave at February 20, 2026 03:49 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:47 PM (8EgcX)
Land o Lakes squaw hardest hit.
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She had a great pair of knees.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 03:49 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (8EgcX)
It might also include provisions about, say, doing their grocery shopping for them so they don't have to leave their house and get caught.
A couple of things to keep in mind as the left thinks "immigration law is just a civil violation."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (HXT0k)
I'm open to having representatives and senators chained hand and feet.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (/PQmQ)
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I look at him and I struggle to argue that he is incorrect.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (P+H85)
Say no more. I agree.
Jaime during her Earl days and Robbie as Harley Quinn.
Same girl, different timelines.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 03:51 PM (Hx0tZ)
That never worked with strikes. In the 70s and 80s, in steel, auto, etc. with each walkout they lost staff but got raises and the union bosses didn't care since they had more money for them.
I think the Dems will just think they will rehire all these people next time in power. They need for their constituents to pay a price for not working due to the shutdown.
Hell, if I don't work I don't get paid so why should they be different?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (P+H85)
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It depends on how they're fired. The way Trump is doing it now (well, not specific to this "shutdown" but in general) is to let the individual go and then eliminate the position by eliminating the regulations authorizing the role.
In a post-Chevron world, that's going to be a whole lot harder to undo.
Never mind that it's 3 years from fired to "hey, Dems want you back," but there's also the whole new regulation process that is now under judicial review. If they even get past that, they have to staff up and find funding.
That's not, "flick a switch and bring them all back." That's a long slog through rebuilding a torn down infrastructure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
Every round of embargoes, yes. This has been going on for decades.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 03:51 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Piper
Now, THAT is some funny stuff!
Posted by: Cellist at February 20, 2026 03:51 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (jtM2q)
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I hope I'm wrong, but I fear it's closer to a couple thousand.
Although it will, as you suggest, likely be a small percentage that acts when activated.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:51 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 03:52 PM (gVUi7)
Any person who—
knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
... shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B)
Penalties vary by circumstances (per alien involved):
Up to 5 years imprisonment (and/or fine) in standard cases.
Up to 10 years if done for commercial advantage or private financial gain.
Up to 20 years if it causes serious bodily injury or jeopardizes life.
Life imprisonment or even the death penalty if death results.
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jUst A CiVIL viOlaTiON!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 03:52 PM (HXT0k)
It might also include provisions about, say, doing their grocery shopping for them so they don't have to leave their house and get caught.
A couple of things to keep in mind as the left thinks "immigration law is just a civil violation."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (HXT0k)
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It's almost like we don't need more laws. That there are hundreds of laws on the books to deal with our immigration problem, and the problem was that we never had a DOJ willing to enforce the laws.
Instead, we had fucking George W. Bush.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Piper
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"One for EACH OF THE 57 GENDERS, H8R!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:52 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 03:52 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 20, 2026 03:49 PM (2ap+5)
Wait, that's not a Key and Peele sketch?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 20, 2026 03:52 PM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:42 PM (iFTx/)
Moore hasn't been caught doing meth with gay prostitutes yet.
Yet.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:45 PM (iXqHn)
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He was caught on camera stanning like a 50 year old woman meeting a K-Pop band with Trump at a football game about a year ago.
Worse for a Democrat office holder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
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The vid is unbelievable. Like it's AI.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (/PQmQ)
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They really can't. Senate is one item at a time. It's just how it works.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:53 PM (GBKbO)
FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers should re-route the Potomac through the Capitol Building.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 03:53 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:53 PM (P+H85)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:54 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 03:52 PM (gVUi7)
I saw Rew Sewage open for Turds of Misery at the Capital Centre.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:54 PM (iXqHn)
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Nice shithole democratic cities you got there, be a shame if sumthin happen to em....
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops is out of fcks at February 20, 2026 03:54 PM (hDrm1)
Sounds like ALL the NGOs, Churches, and Employers to me.
Arrest them all. Seize their holdings.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 03:55 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Piper
Shoulda used wing dings
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 03:55 PM (MGB5H)
He was caught on camera stanning like a 50 year old woman meeting a K-Pop band with Trump at a football game about a year ago.
Worse for a Democrat office holder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
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The vid is unbelievable. Like it's AI.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
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Anti-Trumpism is theater in the certain parts of the highest levels of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
It might also include provisions about, say, doing their grocery shopping for them so they don't have to leave their house and get caught.
A couple of things to keep in mind as the left thinks "immigration law is just a civil violation."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (HXT0k)
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Title 8 U.S.C. § 1324 - Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:55 PM (5FL4d)
Breaking:
UK and France officially deny the US to use their soil against Iran .
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (ZxPkt)
Tell the French we'll do what we want and if they don't like it take it up with the 10,000 dead American teen-agers buried above Normandy......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:55 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:56 PM (8EgcX)
"Likely"? What's with the weasel word?
I think I now see what's going on. Democunts look tough and very resist-y on Friday. Then, in the middle of the night, while their filthy constituents are too busy sucking each other's dicks and eating yummy shit pebbles, the Democunts cave and DHS gets funded.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:56 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mark in SC at February 20, 2026 03:56 PM (Vvo0d)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 03:57 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:57 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 03:57 PM (6ydKt)
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NATO exists in order for America to pay the salaries of
Attacking NATO is an attack on freedom.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bob"
After a week or two there was a genuine Peaceful Protest and a large group of patriots forcefully removed a number the barriers and carried them to a spot and piled them up. There was an picture of a young man, a vet I think in his wheelchair carrying part of a barrier. Should have been picture of eh years, but naturally the MSM never published that anywhere . You really can't hate those vile creatures enough.
Posted by: Ripley at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (GUOwU)
Back in the 1970s, there was a constant raw sewage overflow into Cabin John Creek in Montgomery County MD. This is a tributary of the Potomac. It was due to sewage flow exceeding the capacity of the sewer line. Like a lot of main sewer lines, this one ran next to a creek:
I went and looked at the overflow. Must have been thousands of gallons an hour. The water authority went to local schools encouraging residents to put a couple of bricks in their toilet tanks to diminish the flow. So, sewage flow into the Potomac has occurred in the past. This latest cave-in and abject incompetent failure sounds like the worst yet. By far. I think the Authority should not be part of the DC government.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (azNOR)
The Bay has a lot of nice homes with water access, and that is a kind of big deal to them. They are very proud of how clean they keep it by enforcing all kinds of laws on the lower classes. It is DCs private lake.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (P+H85)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:48 PM (jtM2q)
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I hope I'm wrong, but I fear it's closer to a couple thousand.
Although it will, as you suggest, likely be a small percentage that acts when activated.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:51 PM (5FL4d)
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You're correct. It's estimated there are over 10K Middle Eastern single men here that illegally entered the US during *biden's 4 years.
Many are unaccounted for. They do not make themselves publicly available, when possible. For obvious reasons.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (6ydKt)
Worse for a Democrat office holder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
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The vid is unbelievable. Like it's AI.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
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Anti-Trumpism is theater in the certain parts of the highest levels of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea. But Moore was genuinely giddy with excitement and so fawning in praise and respect that it was just ... weird. I don't think the MAGA-iest MAGA gov would meet Trump like that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
That f'ing tard just got himself 3 charges of harboring, with up to 5 years each.
15 years in Club Fed, lol
Sure, go take that week's worth of groceries to that house full of 15 illegals.
Nothing will happen.
Just a slap on the wrist.
You'll be home before sunset if you do get caught.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (HXT0k)
It's a tax! Overruled because it didn't go through budgetary process!
Posted by: John Roberts at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (n5tGW)
Many are unaccounted for. They do not make themselves publicly available, when possible. For obvious reasons.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (jtM2q)
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I would be shocked if a not insignificant number of them have gone native and just watch porn all day, having completely abandoned any ideals of destroying the great Satan in between weflare for their apartments and videos of blonde American girls kissing each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
You're correct. It's estimated there are over 10K Middle Eastern single men here that illegally entered the US during *biden's 4 years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM
and that's just in dearbornistan
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Obvs. at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 04:00 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
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I met him once.
He signed my copy of a biography of Zachary Taylor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 03:50 PM (/PQmQ)
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They really can't. Senate is one item at a time. It's just how it works.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:53 PM (GBKbO)
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has strongly advocated for the SAVE America Act to be attached to a must-pass spending bill that, in theory, would survive a filibuster.
Don't know if that would work in practice or Thune has the testicular fortitude to do so. Would likely cause yet another "government shutdown" as Dems object -- but in theory they'd eventually cave ... again.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 04:01 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 04:01 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)
If you replace ‘NATO’ with ‘EU’ you’ll begin to understand what their real priority is.
When Trump said the EU was created just to compete with the U.S. they knew the jig was up.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (6ydKt)
That kicks it to 10 years per illegal.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 03:57 PM (6ydKt)
When he's not busy with side-quests, maybe Trump should have Rubio deliver a speech to the NATO leadership, wherein he lists demands for continued American membership. Among those demands would be France and the UK giving up their nuclear arms to the US.
And Greenland.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 04:03 PM (8EgcX)
Don't know if that would work in practice or Thune has the testicular fortitude to do so. Would likely cause yet another "government shutdown" as Dems object -- but in theory they'd eventually cave ... again.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 04:01 PM (5FL4d)
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Parliamentarian would probably object on something like a second Reconciliation bill, and it would be up to Thune to sneak it through again like he did most of what got pulled out of the OBBB.
I prefer the straight forward, "let the Senate debate for a week and then have a real floor vote" strategy, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Obvs. at February 20, 2026 04:03 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 04:03 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 20, 2026 04:04 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 04:01 PM (ZxPkt)
I hope that Trump finds an opportunity to introduce them to the Dildo of Consequence.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:04 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 04:05 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (Q+gd/)
I don't know how it came to be etymology wise, but means being a super fan of something.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 04:05 PM (3uBP9)
Many are unaccounted for. They do not make themselves publicly available, when possible. For obvious reasons.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (jtM2q)
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I would be shocked if a not insignificant number of them have gone native and just watch porn all day, having completely abandoned any ideals of destroying the great Satan in between weflare for their apartments and videos of blonde American girls kissing each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
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The purported "Iranian assassination squad(s)" here to kill Trump are not necessarily a figment of the FBI's imagination. More than a handful are here to do us harm.
But, as you say, some... perhaps many, have "gone native" and don't really care about "the great Satan."
Those that are here with purpose will cause chaos if not caught before.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 04:05 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 04:05 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
Until their Imam from the Old Country follows them here and finds out...
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 04:05 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (Q+gd/)
'stalker fan'. Super stupid fans of someone or something.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 20, 2026 04:05 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (6ydKt)
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I thought the EU was explicit about that at the time. Heck I thought they were explicit about it in the precursor organization, the EC.
It's just that the idea of a union of Germany, France, England, Italy, and Spain was and continues to be ludicrous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
There's been worries of Iranian sleeper cells for decades and I suspect the vast majority of them have gone native.
Peace and prosperity have a way of soothing all but the most fervent.
Anyone here less than 5 years may still be suspect.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 04:05 PM (3uBP9)
The Eminem song "Stan", about an obsessed fan who keeps writing him weird/creepy/stalker-ish letters.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
This is what separates me from them.
Blonde, brunette, redhead, raven-haired…
I appreciate all flavors of American women kissing each other.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (Q+gd/)
'stalker fan'. Super stupid fans of someone or something.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 20, 2026 04:05 PM (xcxpd)
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AtC and BTS, for instance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
Oops. Nobody expects a shit boomerang!
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 04:07 PM (LQ2H/)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 04:07 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Plenty of opportunities on OF for shoe fetish and sexual groping.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 04:07 PM (abIsI)
30 24 This trans politician [Rep. Leigh Finke (D)] opposes age restrictions for porn because it could "be educational" for "queer" kids 🤔
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Also . . .
EXCLUSIVE: Top PornHub staff admits to inserting “gay” and “trans” themes into mainstream porn to “convert” straight men
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Boy, if you can't trust PornHub, who can you trust?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (FXNzP)
Pornhub a no go in my state without age verification now. Oops, Oopsie!!
Posted by: tubal
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 04:07 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 04:07 PM (Ia/+0)
"NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio — North College Hill City Schools is working with police to identify who participated in "riotous behavior" after police said a student walkout (ICE Protest) resulted in "disorderly conduct" at a local Kroger Wednesday afternoon."
Everybody in charge claims the students organized the event.
Uh-huh.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 20, 2026 04:07 PM (DgMqy)
The Bay has a lot of nice homes with water access, and that is a kind of big deal to them. They are very proud of how clean they keep it by enforcing all kinds of laws on the lower classes. It is DCs private lake.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 03:58 PM (P+H85)
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I heard yesterday from someone who lives near there that owing to the recent harsh winter weather, The Potomac is frozen over -- and the sewage is spilling on top of the ice.
Gross ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 04:07 PM (5FL4d)
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And the enthusiastic scissoring!!! Arts and crafts dont you know!
Posted by: Obvs. at February 20, 2026 04:08 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 04:08 PM (8EgcX)
Pornhub a no go in my state without age verification now. Oops, Oopsie!!
Posted by: tubal
Even with the Texas law, there's SOOOOO much porn out there available to the naked eye.....or naked guy, looking for some visual stimulation.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 04:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (/PQmQ)
Sunni vs Shia.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:09 PM (ExV1e)
Aha, they've noticed the extraordinary powers of the Coast Guard. I bet they won't be shut down when it counts.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 04:09 PM (LQ2H/)
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DC stinks on ice.
Posted by: Obvs. at February 20, 2026 04:09 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
Ruh roh! Better put your shinguards on!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:09 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 03:29 PM (3uBP9)
Indeed, they would fall under the auspices of the O1-B visa for "extraordinary ability in the arts, motion picture, or television industry," which is so generous that even "influencers" and OF camthots are getting in that way.
Posted by: SciVo at February 20, 2026 04:10 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
or taking a note from the Japanese
Round them up and employ them as comfort women.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 04:10 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
They were, but not boisterous about it.
It’s just nobody, esoecially an American president, is supposed to say it out loud.
That would be crass, rude and unfriendly, and typically American.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt)
Oops. Nobody expects a shit boomerang!
Posted by: t-bird
>> Have you received your OSHA approved inoculations? Do you have the proper PPE? You can't just wade into the situation and muck around like this is a barnyard crisis.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 04:10 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 03:57 PM (6ydKt)
When he's not busy with side-quests, maybe Trump should have Rubio deliver a speech to the NATO leadership, wherein he lists demands for continued American membership. Among those demands would be France and the UK giving up their nuclear arms to the US.
And Greenland.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (Hx0tZ)
and....well, actually, there's nothing else I would want from them.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 04:10 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)
Who on Earth trusts anything coming from CNN at this point?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Gross ...
Posted by: ShainS
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LOL.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 04:12 PM (P+H85)
-Rubio's last line, kicking over the podium and taking the last helicopter out of Berlin
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 04:12 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 04:06 PM (/PQmQ)
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Stench Warfare.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 04:12 PM (5FL4d)
And Greenland.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:02 PM (Hx0tZ)
and....well, actually, there's nothing else I would want from them.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 04:10 PM (QGaXH)
That's short-sighted. I'd also demand that both countries adopt Ubbi Dubbi as their common, official, language and that all government work would be required to be performed therein.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:13 PM (ExV1e)
This is the Democrats' limited-hangout version of "white people are terrible and must be eliminated".
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 04:13 PM (2ocoG)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6kVdt2vos
This is a good channel to find out what's going on in the DC streets and WH.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 04:14 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)
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* golf clap *
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 04:14 PM (5FL4d)
Whom do you serve?
Posted by: Saruman at February 20, 2026 04:14 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:13 PM (ExV1e)
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"If you want America to continue to invest in NATO, you will bring me King Charles III. He will bow to me, declare me the God King of the planet, and officially name his country Airstrip One. And when he's done that, I will shoot him in the head, and all of Britain will applaud me. And then we will consider staying in NATO."
-a pause-
"The answer will still be no."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 04:15 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: turambar at February 20, 2026 04:15 PM (Q0yOR)
-Rubio's last line, kicking over the podium and taking the last helicopter out of Berlin
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)
Once in a while I actually do laugh out loud.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:15 PM (Hx0tZ)
Funny, sad, and true. I wonder if he's in jail yet.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 04:15 PM (LQ2H/)
This is the Democrats' limited-hangout version of "white people are terrible and must be eliminated".
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 04:13 PM (2ocoG)
Given the attitudes of the various electorates these days, you'd think a Jew would be moderating his stances in an effort to be able to transform into a RINO.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:15 PM (ExV1e)
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And a not insignificant percentage of the electorate agrees with him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 04:16 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 04:16 PM (QGaXH)
Short straw drives the Zamboni today.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 04:17 PM (LQ2H/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:18 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 04:22 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 04:23 PM (Hx0tZ)
Let us join hands with our fellow Americans of different stripes to employ all manner of trebuchet, catapult, longbow, and crossbow to rid ourselves of these pestilent c*nts forevermore.....
Posted by: Al Swearingen at February 20, 2026 04:23 PM (kOluj)
"Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen defends criminal illegals by saying American citizens are the real "worst of the worst."
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Whom do you serve?
Posted by: Saruman
I read that in George Thorogood's voice
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They've help kill more than enough US citizens.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 04:30 PM (NFX2v)
Fortunately, it's downriver from Trump National golf course.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 20, 2026 04:32 PM (w6EFb)
To be fair, the worst of the worst, records show, are American democrats.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2026 04:40 PM (cmBK8)
Congressional Democrats Will Introduce Law to Assert Some Unknown Federal Power to Regulate State Health Codes, and Insist That Hospitals Must Continue Mutilating Children's Genitals and Breasts
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) ridiculously says that critics of men pretending to be women are just jealous of them.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 16, 2026
She said this as she promoted her Trans Bill of Rights.
Jayapal wants to push her extremist gender ideology onto your children.pic.twitter.com/qpedq6V5d7
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) says his “Trans Bill of Rights” says children should be allowed to have elective gender surgeries and get documents that say they’re a different gender than their chromosomes dictate.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 18, 2026
Markey is shamefully promoting harm, not care.pic.twitter.com/omSCnz1asp
Hospitals who ended mutilation surgeries on minors following pressure from the Trump admin
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 19, 2026
Countless children will be saved.
This makes me so emotional 🥲
I was banned for exposing this and called a conspiracy theorist for saying this is happening pic.twitter.com/wgXxjC7xWm
The Tumbler Ridge "gunperson" transitioned six years ago. It just so happens that six years ago, the CBC spread the trans mind virus by airing a very positive documentary about children transitioning.
This X post contains a timeline of the latest trans shooter's eruptions of insanities, including his problem with mixing street drugs with psychotropic SSRIs. Seems to me a real psychiatrist could have stopped this at any of ten different points, if she weren't so busy "affirming" this psychopathic monsters.
#BREAKING: The person who carried out a school massacre is an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues, but she did not give a motive for one of the worst mass shootings in Canada's history. https://t.co/qOfSYsFDAw
— ABC News (@abcnews) February 11, 2026
Remember, the would-be Supreme Court Assassin also decided he was trans and got a reduced sentence because the AWFUL judge said she was "heartened" that he had embraced his trans identity. Also, a tranny plotted to assassinate Scott Bessent.
Also good to remember that the man in this photo in a gun shop showed up at the house of Supreme Court Bret Kavanaugh with that gun after researching the addresses of Kavanaugh and two other justices online before losing his nerve and turning himself in.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) February 11, 2026
At the sentencing, the… https://t.co/CMeg4RxzdL pic.twitter.com/jsPJpH8zqR
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:20 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 02:20 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:20 PM (ExV1e)
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I prefer Republican failure theater.
It's less insane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:21 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2026 02:21 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:22 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Dr F'nstein at February 20, 2026 02:22 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:22 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Mhandisi at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (osAJt)
So... serious question... if a girl got a sex change to become a boy, would they also become smart enough to get documentation? Someone should ask Markey that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (ExV1e)
While they're at it, have them pass a law to spay or neuter democrats. That's essentially what they are doing to children, right?
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2026 02:24 PM (IifOV)
Pretty obvious what they're up to here, using sex in weird demonic mind-control ways.
It's an unmentioned Dem Party platform.
There are no normal non-perverted Democrats any longer.
That bobblehead weird dude Talarico, as perverted as any of them.
When they see children they see opportunity, just as Sleepy Perv Joe did. They want to get their hands on them, shaking at the thought.
Imagine Scott Weiner, future President, around a group of young boys.
Think he could keep his hands to himself? How about walz? Dude is a NAMBLA member.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at February 20, 2026 02:25 PM (et1vG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:25 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (uEmCf)
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Yeah, but ... Rhode Island.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 02:25 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (ExV1e)
The Dems don't care about girls wanting to become boys.
That's no man's secret sexual fetish.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:25 PM (uEmCf)
His stack today was a tough read. These people are monstrous:
benappel.substack.com/p/this-is-what-theyre-doing
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 02:25 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:26 PM (8EgcX)
It demonstrates that the Democrat power brokers are sufficiently out of touch that they are willing to allow this sort of insanity!
I cannot believe that more than a small minority of mainline Democrats support this stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at February 20, 2026 02:26 PM (n9ltV)
While they're at it, have them pass a law to spay or neuter democrats. That's essentially what they are doing to children, right?
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2026 02:24 PM (IifOV)
That is exactly what they are doing. Created a gelded class of eunuchs suitable only for petulant bitchiness and endless toadying to their masters.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:26 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 02:26 PM (2UnvF)
Democrats and liberals have an unhealthy fixation with the genitalia of children.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (IifOV)
119th Congress (2025-2026)
So call your Representatives and say, 'F**k, no.' if they continue to allow the torture of children.
And ask, too, how will they be covering THAT in Obamacare?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (NFX2v)
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Also . . .
EXCLUSIVE: Top PornHub staff admits to inserting “gay” and “trans” themes into mainstream porn to “convert” straight men
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Boy, if you can't trust PornHub, who can you trust?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Dread Justice Roberts at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (FHh4j)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (Kt19C)
Congress can probably do this through the Commerce Clause. That clause has been fucked in the ass by the Supreme Court for decades, and now basically means "Fuck it, Congress can do anything." That's been pared back recently, IIRC, but the CC is still interpreted broadly.
There's no chance this perverted butcher's bill will ever get through Congress, let alone signed by Trump, but if it ever did, I think there's 99% chance it would be upheld by courts.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:28 PM (iFTx/)
It's a tax!
Posted by: John Roberts at February 20, 2026 02:28 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 02:28 PM (RHGPo)
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Also . . .
EXCLUSIVE: Top PornHub staff admits to inserting “gay” and “trans” themes into mainstream porn to “convert” straight men
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Boy, if you can't trust PornHub, who can you trust?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (FXNzP)
Pornhub a no go in my state without age verification now. Oops, Oopsie!!
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:28 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 02:29 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:29 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 20, 2026 02:29 PM (Kt19C)
Good thing I'm not in charge.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 02:30 PM (Hx0tZ)
To the chippers with all these degenerate sadistic pedos.
...and those that support them.
Posted by: Operator Error at February 20, 2026 02:30 PM (nm8hu)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 02:31 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:32 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 20, 2026 02:32 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 02:32 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:33 PM (K885Z)
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (rj6Yv)
Get your Money for Nothing,
and your Dicks for Free
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:32 PM (n5tGW)
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The Democrat Party will not moderate.
It has no financial incentive to.
All of its donors want open borders and transgendered kids. It is their reason for being now.
Completely unrelated, I wonder why the generic congressional vote polling is showing something closer to 2022 than 2018. It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dread Justice Roberts at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (+48wn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:35 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2026 02:35 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:33 PM (K885Z)
I think she had a litter of jackals.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (RHGPo)
1. "You WILL be trooned out, unless you are over 35 and will turn out too ugly to make Democrat dicks hard."
That's it, that's the whole bill.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (uEmCf)
God is looking down and is disgusted with what he sees.
This will NOT end well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz
Doesn't have to be that much money. Bolton sold out his country for 10k. These people are cheap.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (+48wn)
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The Pritzker family are one of the largest donors to the Democrat Party.
They envision a future where sexual organs are something like a fashion that can be changed out at will. The IL governor's brother thinks he's a woman.
I think they're ground zero for the tranny push. I'm sure there are other donors pushing it, but the Hyatt money funds a lot of this nonsense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (GBKbO)
Further destroy the nuclear family.
Groom children who are mentally and physically forever changed and damaged.
Create a monster army against the normies because they've been infused with so many hormones and other drugs that alter their brains that causes extreme rage and lack of impulse control, depression, and suicidal ideation.
Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (oiNtH)
Because, I guess, protecting kids from mutilation of their sex organs, deport rapists, fund police depts. and keep criminals locked up makes you a Nahtzee.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:35 PM (1Udfd)
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1. Quality use of the object.
2. Every single Democrat running for president in 2028 will promise to do it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:28 PM (pDt9x)
32 30 Mine to.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:29 PM (8EgcX)
How strange...here in California the gay side of PH is a mandatory down load on middle-schooler's school laptops....**
**I'm kidding - it is not in any way allowed..it was just a joke people....lighten up, Francis...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 02:37 PM (QGaXH)
Look. I'm no fragile little flower here. But a lot of us can feel a certain sense of uneasiness when we are around men we don't know. Add an obvious mental instability to the equation and the danger is way more than hypothetical.
Posted by: Taylor at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (vt7xw)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (1Udfd)
Because, I guess, protecting kids from mutilation of their sex organs, deport rapists, fund police depts. and keep criminals locked up makes you a Nahtzee.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (Dv3i1)
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The Italian Democrat Party has gone from 50/50, effectively, with the right wing party in the 2000s to pretty much ignorable. They are second largest party in the Italian parliament, but the first and third largest are both right wing parties that formed a coalition to create a super majority.
The Italian Democrat Party will not step back from demanding open borders despite twenty years of decreased importance and election returns.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (GBKbO)
I think a lot of them have sold their souls and can no longer resist evil. Or even recognize it, in a lot of cases.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (DgMqy)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (y+qgR)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (1Udfd)
They envision a future where sexual organs are something like a fashion that can be changed out at will. The IL governor's brother thinks he's a woman.
I think they're ground zero for the tranny push. I'm sure there are other donors pushing it, but the Hyatt money funds a lot of this nonsense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (GBKbO)
Neil Gaiman wrote a short story about that.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:39 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at February 20, 2026 02:39 PM (i1VVh)
Posted by: Taylor
Men are terrible. By the way, how yoo dooin?
-A Bear
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 02:40 PM (Dv3i1)
Truth.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (1Udfd)
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Every single nominee in 2020 said they would pay for health insurance for illegal aliens.
I'm not sure who thinks the party is moderating...but it ain't. It's just going to get crazier.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
AGAIN WITH THE FIRST?????
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 02:40 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:40 PM (pDt9x)
Heh. That said, I got a bad gut feeling about the midterms. Probably about GOP voters showing up or not.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:40 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:40 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (oiNtH)
Another thing happening here is that there's a trend now of teens and early 20-somethings taking LARGE amounts of recreational drugs at once to achieve "Ego Death", and there have been a lot of dudes who decided to troon out after frying their brains that way.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:41 PM (uEmCf)
Get a fucking grip. If you want to check out for a day, fine.
Everybody thinks they can become a shaman with supernatural knowledge and powers.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 02:41 PM (gVUi7)
When all you have is the Irrational, the Rational has limited appeal.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:41 PM (1Udfd)
Every single democrat piece of shit and a few republicans, I'm sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bill Kristol acolyte, his pinky extended at February 20, 2026 02:42 PM (TbWk/)
How would I know? Talk to my therapist. She'll publish my manifesto sooner or later.
Posted by: "Jesse" at February 20, 2026 02:42 PM (oSFYW)
AGAIN WITH THE FIRST?????
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 02:40 PM (QGaXH)
Always, sir. Always.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bert G at February 20, 2026 02:42 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 02:43 PM (W2Pud)
Heh. That said, I got a bad gut feeling about the midterms. Probably about GOP voters showing up or not.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:40 PM (n5tGW)
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Eh. Base assumption should be Democrats "win" it. The House, mainly, but not by much. Gerrymandering and population movements have made the number of actual winnable seats by the other party less than 30, and most will remain in the same party's hands.
And Senate races drive up turnout to presidential levels in the states that have them. It's why the GOP gained two senate seats in 2018 despite the generic ballot being D+9.
It's just...out of power electorates tend to vote more in midterms. No one knows how to reverse it. Obama's team never figured it out.
That being said...the deportations, voter roll cleanup led by the DOJ, and the fed grant pull backs should have some kind of material effect on the results.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:43 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sid at February 20, 2026 02:43 PM (D2IqN)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2026 02:43 PM (i1VVh)
Posted by: Bert G
That's an excellent analogy.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:44 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bert G at February 20, 2026 02:44 PM (VARTN)
-A Bear
Posted by: Chuck Marte
And dating sucks. I had one with a guy who kept saying he was an "alpha." Pass.
Doing OK. Been spending a lot of time at work blowing things up this month. Literally. Loitering munitions platforms are fun.
Posted by: Taylor at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (vt7xw)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (K885Z)
I’m so proud of her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 02:43 PM (W2Pud)
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Liquid nitrogen freezes solid at the iciness of this post.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (i1VVh)
I am of the opinion that Trump has an Historical Opportunity to do so.
He can roll the 250th anniversary celebration of our country into a re-kindled Populist Movement, if he plays it right.
Just an opinion. But, this is a rare opportunity for the Executive.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:38 PM (8EgcX)
I know Boss - but I don't like posting falsehoods without a strong disclaimer.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Taylor
No. You must shit, shower and shave with men who look like Randy Savage but are feeling pretty that day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Doing OK. Been spending a lot of time at work blowing things up this month. Literally. Loitering munitions platforms are fun.
Posted by: Taylor at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (vt7xw)
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"I only date sigmas, beta boy."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bert G
Probably does in the Chinese calendar. Gregorian calendar, not so much.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal
It resonates with me strongly. People who will sell their soul for money and power no matter what the consequences is a story as old as time and is demonic. We've seen this time and time again in Congress and these demons don't care as long as they get the money and power they crave. It's disgusting but God will have the last word and judgement.
Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (oiNtH)
If that provokes a verbal response to me. I very calmly say something like, "You look like an idiot."
If you think that behavior on my part is uncalled for, and that I should just ignore them...well, I disagree. I hold those condoning this behavior as normal, and patronizing these individuals with their preferred ways of addressing them as encouragement of mental illness and fantasy. I don't support the behavior, and feel it necessary to make that point as clearly as possible so that my conscience on the issue is clear.
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 02:46 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Taylor
And yet, in the wayback machine of the 80s and 90s, many a girl at Summerfest or State Fair here in Wisconsin would go into the mens room without fear, rather than pee themselves waiting for a stall in the ladies room.
So it's not men per se. These girls had little fear of normal (even drunk) men, but it's clear you're a creeper if your're trying to get into the ladies room under false auspices.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 02:46 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2026 02:43 PM (i1VVh)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bert G at February 20, 2026 02:42 PM (VARTN)
Hostage Rescue Team?
Posted by: Might need it for a freakout at February 20, 2026 02:46 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Weed, Dude! at February 20, 2026 02:46 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at February 20, 2026 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:36 PM (GBKbO)
TJM, if you're referring to "Jennifer" Pritzker, he's the governor's cousin.
Here's his Wikipedia page ( caution, Akbar approved )
https://tinyurl.com/5acrtupf
It's interesting the family relationship is not mentioned in JB's Wiki page....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper at February 20, 2026 02:47 PM (bc2uT)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM
Don't bother...he's dumber than a box of rocks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 02:47 PM (Wnv9h)
He can roll the 250th anniversary celebration of our country into a re-kindled Populist Movement, if he plays it right.
Just an opinion. But, this is a rare opportunity for the Executive.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (1Udfd)
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I think it's possible.
It won't be 2002, but a hold of the Senate and a hold of the House would be interesting and within the realm of possibility where Democrats became over-reliant on fed grants for funding and fortification for winning, while both of those things are being attacked from a place of power.
I just wouldn't put money on it.
I did put money on Kamala winning the nomination, though. My $400 is going to turn into $7500 by next June.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
OH YEAAAHHH
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 02:47 PM (y+qgR)
You don't have that problem if you stick to busty lesbian pron. So I hear.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 20, 2026 02:48 PM (Fs0KI)
Here's his Wikipedia page ( caution, Akbar approved )
https://tinyurl.com/5acrtupf
It's interesting the family relationship is not mentioned in JB's Wiki page....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper at February 20, 2026 02:47 PM (bc2uT)
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Thanks. I thought it was his brother, but oh well.
Still, fucking weird family with a huge influence on Democrat politics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
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Do the tranny advocates accept "assigned at birth"? Seems they would fight even this limited concession to biology.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2026 02:48 PM (XvL8K)
The opening paragraph: In five years the penis will be extinct." Yawn from the protagonist, who has heard this before.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 02:49 PM (u82oZ)
I’m so proud of her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 02:43 PM (W2Pud)
so we have you to blame....?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 02:49 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bert G
That's an excellent analogy.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:44 PM (77rzZ)
And quite accurate according to an interview with an ex-Antifa guy. The ones you see on the street rioting are almost always drugged to the gills.
Posted by: Sharpens you up for the ultra-violence at February 20, 2026 02:49 PM (TbWk/)
The opening paragraph: In five years the penis will be extinct." Yawn from the protagonist, who has heard this before.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 02:49 PM (u82oZ)
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"THE PENIS IS EVIL! THE GUN IS GOOD! ZARDOZ!"
-ZARDOZ
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
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They just want to date me.
Posted by: Don Lemon at February 20, 2026 02:50 PM (XeU6L)
It demonstrates that the Democrat power brokers are sufficiently out of touch that they are willing to allow this sort of insanity!
I cannot believe that more than a small minority of mainline Democrats support this stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at February 20, 2026 02:26 PM (n9ltV)
I see it differently. I predicted Worldy acceleration in another thread, on these grounds:
1. The open conspiracy to destroy all the nations, centered in George Soros's Open Society movement, is smartly focused on destroying the most powerful nations, since then none would be able to resist.
2. This transnational treachery throughout Europe and the Anglosphere is now proceeding at different rates in different countries, thanks to Trump and MAGA stalling it in America. And, in our hyperconnected world, images and news are flowing freely between them.
3. The Clerisy, the transnational managerial class of the Davos-linked transnational Ruling Class, is primarily selected by social skills and clique loyalty; they're bright, but not enough to manage the psyop differential.
4. So, the Worldies have to rush the process everywhere.
Posted by: SciVo at February 20, 2026 02:50 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 02:51 PM (/PQmQ)
What is your profession, that you get to blow things up?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:47 PM (77rzZ)
Balloon sales
Posted by: And twisty animal shapes! at February 20, 2026 02:51 PM (TbWk/)
I work on a few things. We just finished up a really cool product (Google "Vapor CLE"). There's also a beefed up version of the Switchblade platform.
Testing days are fun.
Posted by: Taylor at February 20, 2026 02:51 PM (vt7xw)
https://tinyurl.com/5acrtupf
*vomits*
*vomits again*
*vomits again*
*passes out*
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at February 20, 2026 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:41 PM (1Udfd)
That and they are all trained to measure worth not by the state of things, as they are, but by the delta over time. Things could all be a smoldering wreck, but it doesn't matter. There must always be "progress" into change, into the unknown, into the irrational. All of the past, history, tradition, and because of its nearness, even the present, are both the eternal enemies of the left.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 02:51 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Doing OK. Been spending a lot of time at work blowing things up this month. Literally. Loitering munitions platforms are fun.
Posted by: Taylor at February 20, 2026 02:45 PM
Taylor, I think you just got all the single Morons' attention with that comment.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 02:51 PM (Wnv9h)
-ZARDOZ
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
"YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED UP FROM BRUTALITY TO EXTERMINATE THE BRUTALS, WHO MULTIPLY AND ARE LEGION."
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:51 PM (uEmCf)
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It's a literal Conspiracy To Commit Murder, to and including the medical & Big Pharma butchers, the parents of children with
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 02:52 PM (5FL4d)
Don't google anything. Google is the devil, wants your soul and will kill you to get it.
Find an alternative.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Shit Tywin Lannister said at February 20, 2026 02:52 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:52 PM (1Udfd)
Thomas Pritzker, another cousin, just got bounced from the board of Hyatt after his name was found in the Epstein files.
That is one twisted family tree.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 02:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sharpens you up for the ultra-violence at February 20, 2026 02:49 PM (TbWk/)
Would have a lot of parallels. African child soldiers, Norko troops.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Taylor
I can imagine. Lucky you.
The Legal Department at your company doesn't need a paralegal, does it?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
apparently he found out the night before he went pew-pew
so yeah
what a hot mess. and why did he marry his cousin? and he had 6 kids with three different women too?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM (j+aD2)
That is one twisted family tree.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 02:52 PM (viF8m)
Most billionaires are in a cult all to themselves. The money affords them the sickest shit imaginable, because they're BORED. They already HAVE everything, so they have to invent NEW things to excite themselves.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)
I’m so proud of her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 02:43 PM
I feel your pain, nurse.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 02:54 PM (Wnv9h)
Varley wrote several stories in the collection The Persistence of Vision where he posits a world where people can change their gender on a whim.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper at February 20, 2026 02:54 PM (bc2uT)
True then, and now we see the matter clearly.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 02:54 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:55 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Bulg
I'll ask but I'm not sure. Maybe if the Iranian army gets standing to sue us for making explosives that get dropped on their stupid rusty tanks.
Posted by: Taylor at February 20, 2026 02:56 PM (DJPFk)
One can almost forgive him for being French.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:56 PM (1Udfd)
Canada is Killing People in Assisted Suicide the Same Day They Request It
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:56 PM (n5tGW)
Are they hiding their pizzagate adjacency here?
I would say they are digesting some baby jerky while screeching about hacking young boys to bits.
What do they do with the cut off balls and dicks?
We know they sell off baby body parts.
A political party of damned cannibals.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at February 20, 2026 02:57 PM (et1vG)
Posted by: Alpha Centaurian at February 20, 2026 02:57 PM (IlL6s)
Posted by: Shelbyville Manhattan at February 20, 2026 02:57 PM (gKWVE)
Canada is Killing People in Assisted Suicide the Same Day They Request It
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:56 PM (n5tGW)
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I hear they have great single payer healthcare and all progressives should move there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:57 PM (8EgcX)
I mean, marvel at the lunacy contained in that statement.
As has been noted, if the right does not impose their moral vision, the left will.
This is their moral vision.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 02:57 PM (XV/Pl)
https://tinyurl.com/2p552nbk
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper at February 20, 2026 02:58 PM (bc2uT)
Markey is a complete enigma. The guy has the charisma of a damp sponge and yet somehow he's managed to spend his entire adult life in DC.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 02:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (GBKbO)
The weekend is here
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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Do they have take out? Door Dash? Asking for my children...
Posted by: Magda Goebbels at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (77rzZ)
Canada is Killing People in Assisted Suicide the Same Day They Request It
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:56 PM (n5tGW)
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That's actually kind of ironic. They now have a 16.2 week wait period for a standard MRI.
Posted by: Orson at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (dIske)
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I somehow missed this story at the time.
The MDM-MSM useful idiots memory-hole all this crap faster then you can say "Everything within The Death Cult, nothing outside The Death Cult, nothing against The Death Cult" or "1984" ... but mostly "1984."
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (5FL4d)
It was a simpler time.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (FXNzP)
Once back out on the streets again, he started making TikTok videos that are so toxic and narcissistic that you head will explode..
This trans terrorist really deserves his own thread:
https://www.conservative.ca/ monsters-who-stab-children-should-stay-in-jail/
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZrSWo9zM8es
Google "Alice Michael Attwood" -- beyond infuriating.
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February
Not that it’s an improvement, but first cousin once removed. Her grandfather was his great grandfather. And if you look at them, you can see the family resemblance. I didn’t read about all the kids - holy smokes. He wasn’t attractive as a male, let alone in drag. He went through all the surgeries, which is shocking since he exhibited all the fetish signs like the vomit inducing thong on the motorcycle instagram pictures.
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 03:00 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 03:00 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 03:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Go To Woodchipper.
Do Not Stop.
Do Not Pass Go.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 03:01 PM (1Udfd)
To strip myself of my pride
Almost persuaded
To push my conscience aside
Then we danced and she whispered, "I need you"
"Take me away from here and be my man"
Then I've looked into her eyes and I saw it
The reflection of Pramila Jayapal
Posted by: Oglebay at February 20, 2026 03:01 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Paging Mr. Don Lemon. Mr. Don Lemon, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:01 PM (77rzZ)
Canada AGAIN, already?
Jeebus Creebus.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:02 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM
Oddly enough, mine does, but...Massachusetts...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 03:02 PM (Wnv9h)
The idea that 1/2 of males kill themselves after they become fake women is not enough. All those hormones, surgery and then he/she can't pee normally or have sex/orgasm,chronic infections and severe pain. As the report I read was from Canada maybe they don't care: if you have seasonal depression you are good to die.
I never thought I'd see this on my bingo card, but sometimes I'm not surprised. I honestly thought beastiality would be higher on the demonic insanity leader board.
After all, it is not really known if the animals are giving consent!
Similar to asking my 5mo old granddaughter if I have consent to change her diaper (some weirdos think we should ask, so we do and laugh). She only gives true consent for her bottles. GAH!
I am thankful I don't live among these freaks. But you can see from this map what happens if caught shagging your dog,cat,bird,raccoon, or ostrich. Unsure if this applies to stuffed animals.
https://tinyurl.com/exuuk4v4
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 03:02 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Do they have a branch in NoVa?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:03 PM (77rzZ)
Because they're so attractive.
Posted by: Shelbyville Manhattan at February 20, 2026 02:57 PM (gKWVE)
I worked with a gentleman from (third world s-hole) who had a profoundly disabled child. The rumor was his was an arranged marriage to a first cousin....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:03 PM (QGaXH)
The can "introduce" anything they want to, it isn't going to go anywhere. This is a bull$hit sop to the radical left base to pander for midterm votes, nothing more.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 03:04 PM (0N4FZ)
Right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg
I'll ask but I'm not sure. Maybe if the Iranian army gets standing to sue us for making explosives that get dropped on their stupid rusty tanks.
Posted by: Taylor at February 20, 2026 02:56 PM (DJPFk)
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Future Headline (#Soon): "US District Clown Judge Bozoberg Has Ordered The Trump Administration and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth To Turn Those Dropped Explosives Around Immediately.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:04 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:04 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:03 PM
Our state government? No, but it looks like NoVa's trying to catch up with us.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 03:05 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 03:06 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Skip
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“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
Posted by: Matthew 18:6 at February 20, 2026 03:06 PM (XeU6L)
https://youtu.be/zdM4tdLQBg0
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (GBKbO)
What, no life saving black female mathematician to save the day?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
I thought you worked for the state.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 03:06 PM (y+qgR)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:53 PM
Oddly enough, mine does, but...Massachusetts...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 03:02 PM (Wnv9h)
New Hampshire's not that far away.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:07 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:59 PM (FXNzP)
There's a weird short story, science fiction, I read it in OMNI back in the day, where guys were genetically modifying their junk in a way that they could produce synthetic pharmaceuticals, textiles, space age materials and such through the sex act.
I forget the details but guys would hang out as gigolos offering up their services to women, but not for the sex, rather what merchandise they could manufacture in the gal's womb. Very odd story.
Imagine The Paulo, but you also get a set of kitchen plates when you're done.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 03:08 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:06 PM
I do. But my team does need a paralegal.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 03:08 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 20, 2026 03:08 PM (v93NZ)
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It is known, however, that she was nucking futs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 03:08 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 03:04 PM (0N4FZ)
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If they were really smart, they'd be attempting to murder ICE Agents -- hoping to get several of their own useless idiots offed.
* Meridian, Idaho has entered the chat *
To quote Ace above: #DoBetter.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:09 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:07 PM
Commuting distance. That's why I'm looking for a house there.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 03:09 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 03:09 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 03:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip
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“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
Posted by: Matthew 18:6 at February 20, 2026 03:06 PM (XeU6L)
..those who believe in me....
Ah...I see a loophole.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:10 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 03:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Indeed. The Bible is clear on the abuse of children as well as sodomy, homos, incest,mutilation of your body, etc.
These demons are swirling over the lake of fire.
A few brave teens have testified of the pressure put on them from parents or medical/psych professionals. After all, they get money from the procedures.
Never mind that the girl's testimony I read will be screwed up mentally forever in not being able to have children and the scars of a double mastectomy. As long as the Munchausen's parents are happy, it's cool (NOT).
Well, I need to go be productive vs farhting in the general direction of deecee.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 03:11 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 03:12 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:10 PM (QGaXH)
...and I want to paint it black.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:12 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:07 PM
Commuting distance. That's why I'm looking for a house there.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 03:09 PM (Wnv9h)
Looking from a distance, I think that's part of why MA is so blue - red NH is so close.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
I thought that 'Ettes don't fart. Was I misinformed?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 03:10 PM (viF8m)
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Yea. Duh. All this bullshit in front of the SC was just that -- a steaming pile of sweaty bullshit. There's a reason they shat it out on a Friday.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (iFTx/)
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Dr. Mengele was a visionary ahead of his time. Who knew?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (ohHw+)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)
Only skeevy stoners fart.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:14 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2026 03:14 PM (ohHw+)
Too bad she is a dot head but not a muslim. A burqa would suit her ugly mofo ass just fine.
Posted by: The Penis at February 20, 2026 03:14 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (iFTx/)
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"All I did was read a headline 4 hours ago, and I know that you're wrong. Tariffs are dead and Trump can't deport anyone anymore. I'm voting for Newsom because he has a white wife."
-Kamala voter acting like he once supported Trump
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wally at February 20, 2026 03:15 PM (DXJuz)
Posted by: Skip
There's never a millstone around when you need one.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 03:15 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 03:06 PM (y+qgR)
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Yep, The Wifey has forbidden me from being an organ donor for this very reason.
We are surrounded by diabolical soulless ghouls (which is what led me to believe in Satan, and hence God).
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:16 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 03:10 PM (viF8m)
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Yea. Duh. All this bullshit in front of the SC was just that -- a steaming pile of sweaty bullshit. There's a reason they shat it out on a Friday.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (iFTx/)
Yeah - a 178 page pile of it. Maybe the old saying about if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bs is in effect here....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:17 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 03:17 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Skip
There's never a millstone around when you need one.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 03:15 PM (FXNzP)
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Make Smiting Great Again!
/Often a request in my prayers ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:18 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:14 PM
Depends on where you are. Portsmouth? Commies. Where RI Red is, not so much.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 03:18 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 03:18 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 20, 2026 03:18 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 03:17 PM (MGB5H)
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Wolverines!!!!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
Yes? Hello, can we have your liver?
What? Your Liver?
There's a large, uh glandular organ in your abdomen
You know it's uh, it's reddish brown, it's sort oh uh
Yeah, yeah yeah, I know what it is but, I'm using it
C'mon sir, don't muck us about
Hello?
What's this then?
A liver donor's card
Need we say more?
No, listen, I can't give it to you now, it says "In the event of death"
Nobody who's ever had their liver taken out by us has survived
Just lie there sir, it will take a minute...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper at February 20, 2026 03:18 PM (bc2uT)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Is it really that red anymore?
Posted by: Bulg at February
Red gov, red super majority in sen, red +39 in house.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 03:19 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper at February 20, 2026 03:19 PM (bc2uT)
Nobody who's ever had their liver taken out by us has survived
Just lie there sir, it will take a minute...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper at February 20, 2026 03:18 PM (bc2uT)
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And then Eric Idle sings a song about how we're so infinitesimally small that we don't matter and you might as well just die.
I mean, it's pretty funny.
But Eric Idle rubs me the wrong way. He seems...psychotic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Is it really that red anymore?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:14 PM (77rzZ)
Perhaps not - but better than MA? I used to go to Waltham on occasion for work and that's what I heard from the cow-workers there - that a lot of folks escaped to NH to avoid Taxachusettes....
I wish we had a similar low-tax haven close to so. Cal.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:20 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I'm working on a Powerpoint presentation about animals in the Bible. In the course of my research, I learned that the word "large" in the "large (or "great") millstone" phrase is actually the adjectival form of the Greek word for "ass" (i.e., "donkey") and denotes a millstone that is so heavy that it has to be turned by a donkey rather than a human being.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:20 PM (77rzZ)
Clay Travis
@ClayTravi
AOC is concerned that Republicans are radicalizing young men by pushing them to be more masculine.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 03:22 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 03:17 PM (QGaXH)
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Imagine what that will look like when they go full-"AI" -- more like 1780 pages of bullshit.
At least we don't have legislative bills in Congress that are nearly 5600 pages long ...
Wait, wut?
* The 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act has entered the comment *
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:24 PM (5FL4d)
Clay Travis
@ClayTravi
AOC is concerned that Republicans are radicalizing young men by pushing them to be more masculine.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 03:22 PM (FXNzP)
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BREAKING: CongressCritter Alexander Ocasio-Donkey-Chompers Introduces Legislation To Ban Penises. Developing ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 03:26 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 03:36 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)
Only skeevy stoners fart.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 03:14 PM (iXqHn)
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at February 20, 2026 03:41 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 03:43 PM (6ydKt)
Trump: "Bad Things" Will Happen to Iran If They Don't Agree to Stop Producing Uranium, Building Long-Range Missiles, and Funding Hamas;
Meanwhile, the USS Ford Closes In on Iran
Is Trump ready to strike Iran? I don't put a lot of stock in Lindsey Graham's insane, low-T ramblings, but he claims the decision to strike has already been made:
Insider PaperYeah I dunno. Trump's mind is very changeable. And he's often both ingratiating and noncommittal, meaning he'll speak to someone and make vague noises that sound like agreement but actually are not definite and don't commit him to anything. There may be a roadblock, too: "Our great allies" in the Ummah Kingdom of Great Britain are forbidding us from using our base in Diego Garcia in any strikes on Iran:
@TheInsiderPaper BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham, in an interview with Sky News Arabia: "The US decision regarding Iran has already been made. The ships are not arriving in the area only because the weather is pleasant at this time of year"
On the other hand, we've moved one-third of our Navy and a huge number of jets into the area. "Experts," whatever that means now, say there's a 90% chance of hostilities.
Faytuks Network
@FaytuksNetwork The UK has blocked U.S. use of RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia for Iran strikes, citing international law, leading Trump to withdraw support for Starmer's £35B Chagos Islands handover deal with Mauritius. Senior UK officials privately called the situation 'bleak.' - The Times
A massive fleet of US warplanes is heading to Iran to lay the groundations to bomb the Islamic Republic. Aircraft including combat jets and support plane like air-to-air refuellers are flying to the Middle East - just hours after Iran launched a series of wargames. These manoeuvres, in conjunction with the approaching USS Gerald R Ford strike group and USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, have led insiders to estimate that there is a 90 per cent chance of war. Former Israeli intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said he believes a strike would happen in a "matter of days". The fleet of planes includes more than 50 American fighter jets, which include F-35s and F-16s, and dozens of air-to-air refuelling tankers. One source within the administration told Axios: "The boss is getting fed up. Some people around him warn him against going to war with Iran, but I think there is a 90 per cent chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks."The USS Ford will reportedly be poised to strike by next week. Trump says "bad things" will happen if Iran does not agree to his demands.
Iran held annual military drills with Russia on Thursday as a second American aircraft carrier drew closer to the Middle East, with both the United States and Iran signaling they are prepared for war if talks on Tehran's nuclear program fizzle out. President Donald Trump said he believes 10 to 15 days is "enough time" for Iran to reach a deal. But the talks have been deadlocked for years, and Iran has refused to discuss wider U.S. and Israeli demands that it scale back its missile program and sever ties to armed groups. Indirect talks held in recent weeks made little visible progress, and one or both sides could be buying time for final war preparations.Iran insists that the only thing it will discuss is its nuclear program, and also, it will not make any concessions regarding its nuclear program. Let's definitely keep talking to them!
Iran's theocracy is more vulnerable than ever following 12 days of Israeli and U.S. strikes on its nuclear sites and military last year, as well as mass protests in January that were violently suppressed. But it is still capable of striking Israel and U.S. bases in the region, and has warned that any attack would trigger a regional war.The war will be fought in the region of Tehran.
Iran earlier this week launched a drill that involved live-fire in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow opening of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the world's traded oil passes. Tensions are also rising inside Iran, as mourners hold ceremonies honoring slain protesters 40 days after their killing by security forces. Some gatherings have seen anti-government chants despite threats from authorities. The movements of additional American warships and airplanes, with the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier near the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, don't guarantee a U.S. strike on Iran -- but it bolsters Trump's ability to carry out one should he choose to do so. ...On the other hand, this genius warns us that Iran's missile system is mighty and will send the US fleet to the bottom of the sea. Say how did Iran's drones, anti-ship missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles work in Venezuela? I heard not so good. What did you hear? And now, as reported by the WSJ via Ed Morrissey, Trump is considering launching a "limited" strike against Iran to convince them he is serious and prod them to make actual concessions on nukes, missiles, and funding terrorist proxies. I think that's kind of dumb. Nothing convinces an opponent you are not serious than your preference to deliver mere pinprick Attitude Adjustment strikes.
The official said top national security officials gathered Wednesday to discuss Iran, and were briefed that the "full forces" needed to carry out potential military action are expected to be in place by mid-March. The official did not provide a timeline for when Iran is expected to deliver its written response. "It's proven to be, over the years, not easy to make a meaningful deal with Iran, and we have to make a meaningful deal. Otherwise bad things happen," Trump said Thursday.
... Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged his nation's citizens to immediately leave Iran as "within a few, a dozen, or even a few dozen hours, the possibility of evacuation will be out of the question." He did not elaborate, and the Polish Embassy in Tehran did not appear to be drawing down its staff. The German military said that it had moved "a mid-two digit number of non-mission critical personnel" out of a base in northern Iraq because of the current situation in the region and in line with its partners' actions. It said that some troops remain to help keep the multinational camp running in Irbil, where they train Iraqi forces.
This image provided Thursday Feb. 19, 2026 by the Iranian military and dated ... "This week, another 50 U.S. combat aircraft -- F-35s, F-22s, and F-16s -- were ordered to the region, supplementing the hundreds deployed to bases in the Arab Gulf states," the New York-based Soufan Center think tank wrote. "The deployments reinforce Trump's threat -- restated on a nearly daily basis -- to proceed with a major air and missile campaign on the regime if talks fail."
There are many lessons of Vietnam, but one of the biggest ones is that slow escalation is a terrible strategy. An enemy can absorb small attacks and disruptions and adapt to them. The right strategy is the same optimal strategy for picking up a girl at a bar: Go Ugly Early.
Talks continue between Iran, the US, and the various mediators hoping to avert military action as the weekend approaches. Thus far, Iran still thinks it can get a new JCPOA, while Donald Trump still thinks he can force them to deal rationally. Both sides appear ready to be disappointed, at the very least.
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi insisted that the regime's nuclear program will survive both the strikes in June and the coming reckoning from the US armada assembling in the Persian Gulf. Araghchi did offer yet another deal in which Iran just postpones the inevitable... In other words, Araghchi offers only a restoration of Barack Obama's 2015 Iran deal, ... If the Iranians remain locked in a JCPOA fantasy, Trump may be stuck in some misapprehensions of his own. The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is now considering a limited opening strike, perhaps to push the Iranians into concessions on ballistic missiles and terror proxies. That strategy has its own problems:
President Trump is weighing an initial limited military strike on Iran to force it to meet his demands for a nuclear deal, a first step that would be designed to pressure Tehran into an agreement but fall short of a full-scale attack that could inspire a major retaliation. The opening assault, which if authorized could come within days, would target a few military or government sites, people familiar with the matter said. If Iran still refused to comply with Trump's directive to end its nuclear enrichment, the U.S. would respond with a broad campaign against regime facilities--potentially aimed at toppling the Tehran regime. The first limited-strike option, which hasn't been previously reported, signals Trump might be open to using military force not only as a reprimand for Iran's failure to make a deal, but also to pave the way for a U.S.-friendly accord. One of the people said Trump could ratchet up his attacks, starting small before ordering larger strikes until the Iranian regime either dismantles its nuclear work or falls.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (1Udfd)
ESPONJA11!!11!1
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:23 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:23 PM (2UnvF)
Why people bring Third World children into this country is a mystery to me?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 20, 2026 01:23 PM (u2UY2)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (ilHZO)
"The Democrats on the Court are thrilled"
"they are a disgrace to our nation"
"the Court has been swayed by foreign interests"
"certain Justices are afraid"
LOL
Huh, this sounds like a declaration of war on SCOTUS.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (abIsI)
The Elite Republican Guard of Iraq is not available for comment.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Guy who has a problem with the ads at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (HXT0k)
Any word on what he's gonna do about the tariffs ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (K3KEI)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (WCaCG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (y+qgR)
If I'm making momentous, secret decisions involving the world's militaries, the first person I would confide in would be Lindsey Graham.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (oSFYW)
That ends today, implied.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 01:26 PM (HXT0k)
Why people bring Third World children into this country is a mystery to me?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
It's the ultimate virtue signal.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 01:26 PM (abIsI)
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If we already have military assets there, maybe we should just seize the island and tell the UK to pound sand.
Posted by: Methos at February 20, 2026 01:26 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (K3KEI)
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He's speaking now.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:26 PM (2UnvF)
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I remember how their defenses kept Fordow intact from US attack and their offensive capabilities destroyed several US bases in the region in response.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)
I hear in Thailand it's a good idea as the pretty girls have dicks...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2026 01:26 PM (ynpvh)
Why people bring Third World children into this country is a mystery to me?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
It's the ultimate virtue signal.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 01:26 PM (abIsI)
Why is that such a horrible thing?
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM (oSFYW)
Posted by: kingsman at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM (ehY6c)
Send Robert's boy back to Ireland.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM (4NO2D)
Ask the hot girl if her uglier friend is single.
Keeps all your options open.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM (/PQmQ)
Why people bring Third World children into this country is a mystery to me?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 20, 2026 01:23 PM (u2UY2)
And Roberts' Illegal Irish adopted kids are goin' back to Drunken Potatoland.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (2UnvF)
This is how I feel about all the deployments, preparations, maneuvers, readiness, plans, build-ups, and "we're getting ready for something big"s in Iran: it's all wishcasting bullshit.
Hey, wasn't I assured at least a month ago that Iran's government would fall in a week? I'm still waiting. I suspect I'll still be waiting in 6 months, then a year, then 2 years, then ...
I hope I'm wrong. But nothing I've seen suggests that I am wrong.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
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If we already have military assets there, maybe we should just seize the island and tell the UK to pound sand.
Posted by: Methos at February 20, 2026 01:26 PM (
Given the UK tried to give away Diego Garcia to a PRC ally for a song, I think that is a mighty fine idea.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (2UnvF)
Good
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (K3KEI)
Posted by: kingsman at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM (ehY6c)
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I was told just in the last thread that the tariffs were completely over.
Was that not true?
Was the correct reading of the opinion actually rather limited and gave Trump a host of wiggle room to still do what he wanted?
Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
He eats shit then he spouts shit; at least it's consistent.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (ynpvh)
The right strategy is the same optimal strategy for picking up a girl at a bar: Go Ugly Early.
It's also the most humane strategy as it ends things faster.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM
You mean you hit on Trigglypuff first thing, before donning the beer goggles?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)
So you're a pimp?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (ExV1e)
Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (8EgcX)
The UK horseshit is IMO payback for the Epstein revelations and media exposure that led to former Prince Andrew getting sacked. The House of Windsor is pissed about that. We don't honestly need Fairfield. It's a gas 'n go stop. Diego Garcia on the other hand...
Besides, you don't put that much firepower in the gulf region if you're not intending on using some, or all of it to make a point.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (fYhK6)
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He's most likely Indian.
Nothing gets him worked up more than stories about limiting Indian immigration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (GBKbO)
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 20, 2026 01:27 PM
Never gets old. I laugh every single time.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:30 PM (4NO2D)
PDT is letting the pressure build on Khamenei. The EU has designated the IRGC a terrorist group.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 01:30 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 01:30 PM (ZxPkt)
This is how I feel about all the deployments, preparations, maneuvers, readiness, plans, build-ups, and "we're getting ready for something big"s in Iran: it's all wishcasting bullshit.
Hey, wasn't I assured at least a month ago that Iran's government would fall in a week? I'm still waiting. I suspect I'll still be waiting in 6 months, then a year, then 2 years, then ...
I hope I'm wrong. But nothing I've seen suggests that I am wrong.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
Coach Z, You're Nasty.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:30 PM (FpHTM)
I have no idea what this means
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Nothing gets him worked up more than stories about limiting Indian immigration.
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hmmm
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:30 PM (j42Fn)
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This isn't about me.
Posted by: Ayatollah Khameini's Mother at February 20, 2026 01:31 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 01:31 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM
You mean you hit on Trigglypuff first thing, before donning the beer goggles?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (77rzZ)
King Arthur doesn't have enough flour for that shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 20, 2026 01:31 PM (P7vXf)
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the deals—
Of the deals, deals, deals—
To the tolling of the deals,
Of the deals, deals, deals, deals—
deals, deals, deals—
To the moaning and the groaning of the deals.
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 01:31 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 01:31 PM (rj6Yv)
Trump made a great point, he used tariff threats to prevent war between Paki and India.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:31 PM (n5tGW)
They need to stop doing the "traverse half the remaining distance with each move" thing.
Just a Joke!
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 20, 2026 01:32 PM (DgMqy)
The Elite Republican Guard of Iraq is not available for comment.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (1Udfd)
Yahoo news (which I get as a 'perk' of having a yahoo mail account) wanted to let me know, given the threat of a US strike, what Tehran is doing to prepare. I didn't click the link, but apparently that angle is being pushed.
Posted by: Methos at February 20, 2026 01:32 PM (vSvIl)
Our personnel are in danger living on the economy of a totalitarian, third world state. Not to mention our tactical nukes at Lakenheath.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 20, 2026 01:32 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 01:32 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
Sounds like you need more lighter fluid for that hair, fella. You're not taking this latest doom which will kill us all as seriously as you should.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Kier's controllers don't care. They're trying to crash the UK so it can be parceled off to foreign adversaries of the US and the West. Any base closed by the US will be back in operation within a month under CCP management.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
We must have run out of American children waiting to be adopted. Must have. Right?
Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM
You mean you hit on Trigglypuff first thing, before donning the beer goggles?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (77rzZ)
It'll win one the Silver Star of barroom bravery. A real hero.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Cray Cray at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM (IsPfS)
But the next morning is really awkward.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM (diia5)
They'd likely prefer an Islamic master.
Probably Qatar.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:34 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 01:34 PM (gVUi7)
If I was running this kind of show, a top priority would be consistent tracking of the leadership which is probably nowhere near Iran at this point.
Posted by: MartynWW at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (M9zxq)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Kier's controllers don't care. They're trying to crash the UK so it can be parceled off to foreign adversaries of the US and the West. Any base closed by the US will be back in operation within a month under CCP management.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Before leaving, destroy all buildings, runways, any viable assets that could be salvaged and salt the earth. Also a big sign saying "Fuck You Wankers" in multiple languages might be nice.
Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Octochicken at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (j42Fn)
Well you can be sure that China hates you too...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Ben Had"
They only had one instructor? How many F-4s do they have left?
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (vFG9F)
Trump just said all tariffs are still in effect.
Plus now a new 10% bump worldwide.
a/k/a: How's my ass taste, SCOTUS?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (HXT0k)
i got questions about hobo ass
Posted by: SAD! at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (Gi6Pt)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (1Udfd)
Now this is a cause I can get behind.
Posted by: *checks notes* Yes, behind. at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Ben Had"
They only had one instructor? How many F-4s do they have left?
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (vFG9F)
F-3.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (2UnvF)
Just a couple points of note...
- Andrew has been sidelined since before Elizabeth died.
- Charles gives slightly less than zero fucks about Andrew.
- The crown has no actual power. They're dancing monkeys.
- The Labour Party also gives slightly less than zero fucks about Andrew.
- It's possible that the UK government has greater concerns about that minister who had to resign after it was shown that he was cozy with Epstein.
Still, keep spouting about Andrew.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Cray Cray at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (IsPfS)
Posted by: MartynWW at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (M9zxq)
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You mean run like Texas Dems avoiding a quorum call?
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (rj6Yv)
Trump just said all tariffs are still in effect.
Plus now a new 10% bump worldwide.
a/k/a: How's my ass taste, SCOTUS?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 01:36 PM (HXT0k)
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"Who wants another round?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: kingsman at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (ehY6c)
I have no idea what this means
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
Go after the hound dog nobody else wants and go home early. That way, after you bang her, you've still got time to hang with your bros, punch each other in the shoulder, and holler "Flinch!" and whatnot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:38 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 01:38 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 01:32 PM (ZxPkt)
It's a tariff!
Posted by: John Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:38 PM (0bjKf)
Still, keep spouting about Andrew.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (ExV1e)
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Maybe it's easier to explain that Labour is populated with people who hate America (as well as the UK, but that's incidental) and just want to stick a finger in America's eye.
I mean...it's the freaking Labour Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:38 PM (GBKbO)
Now that's a darn shame. You know, there's a limited supply of those.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 20, 2026 01:38 PM (Fs0KI)
Why people bring Third World children into this country is a mystery to me?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 20
Because she adopted them and they are her kids? I am not always excited about ACB, but this is unrelated.
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 01:39 PM (OoFl2)
But the next morning is really awkward.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM
It's a coyote trap.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:39 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:33 PM (viF8m)
1. Go to her place. (this has the added advantage that she doesn't know where you live.)
2. Leave immediately afterwards.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:39 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 20, 2026 01:40 PM (bNf8H)
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another one ?
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:40 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (+nEug)
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It dropped like a brick, probably.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 01:40 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: kingsman at February 20, 2026 01:40 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 01:41 PM (tsYFt)
And her hot, horny, lonely girlfriend shows up late after you've left with her friend and you screwed up. Enjoy breakfast the next morning Ace.
Posted by: Cheri at February 20, 2026 01:41 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:41 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (+nEug)
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It dropped like a brick, probably.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 01:40 PM
ISWYDT
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:41 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 01:41 PM (oSFYW)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 20, 2026 01:41 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: kingsman at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (ehY6c)
"Suck my big beautiful steely balls, Roberts! You have none, you don't know what they are...but you can suck on mine."
Posted by: Roberts has no balls. Sad, very sad. at February 20, 2026 01:41 PM (TbWk/)
There may be a roadblock, too: "Our great allies" in the Ummah Kingdom of Great Britain are forbidding us from using our base in Diego Garcia in any strikes on Iran:
Fuck Limeystan. Their military contribution to Diego Garcia is about 50 clerk-typists in the island admin section. And they kicked out all of the native population all by themselves by closing the border to natives returning from trips off island, the natives on the island were denied food/medical supplies, and an island-wide killing of every dog they could find. The remainder were rounded up at gunpoint and removed by force.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 01:42 PM (kTyBw)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:42 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:37 PM (j42Fn)
I imagine Israel has had all bunkers and military targets mapped out for some time now. The mullahs have nowhere to hide in that country.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2026 01:42 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 01:42 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM
That makes sense to us, because rightists are K-selected wolf types, for whom violence is more of an off/on switch. As r-selected rabbit types, the Iranian mullahs (and leftists in general) can be observed to treat violence like a dial, and so they can be expected to respond to a violence-dial treatment as if it were sensible and serious, because that's their nature.
Posted by: SciVo at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (Sy6m/)
We need to airlift pallets of guns and ammo to the resistance. As many as 50,000 civilians have been gunned down in the streets by the IRGC, with women being gang-raped in the prisons before being executed, because the Muslims believe this will make them ineligible for their whorehouse in the hereafter.
I hope Trump goes medieval on their ass in ac way that unleashes the Iranians to topple the Mullahs themselves.
Posted by: Beverly at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (reMys)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (FXNzP)
*rant on*
FFS, "administration source", and everyone else, stop with the fake, gay, and lame Obama-era phrase "kinetic military action".
*rant off*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 20
For a while that was the thing to do for AWFLs. Big virtue signal points for having a black baby. That’s kind of a thing of the past. The hot new thing is having trans kids.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (tsYFt)
Posted by: Cheep Thrills at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2026 01:42 PM (g8Ew
It was a mistake to stop them in June.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: kraki at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (cG6Xc)
Posted by: The_Hoser at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (H4qGm)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:44 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:44 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:42 PM (2UnvF)
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He's following their ruling.
The ruling was about IEEPA authority. He's given that up and is using different authority.
He's being completely deferential.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: kraki at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (cG6Xc)
These days it requires heavy machinery
Posted by: Cranes, whale cradles at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (2UnvF)
If so, I have to assume that all the people who wail, daily, that Trump needs to tell the judges to fuck off will start wailing that Trump told the judges to fuck off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (ExV1e)
https://tinyurl.com/ydr3fzmr
Posted by: illiniwek at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:44 PM
He could never have outfought the Colonel.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (kgE5c)
If so, I have to assume that all the people who wail, daily, that Trump needs to tell the judges to fuck off will start wailing that Trump told the judges to fuck off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (ExV1e)
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It's not.
He's not happy about it, and he's not hiding that.
But he's following their ruling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)
-
Sounds good to me.
Posted by: Methos at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: I gotta ask at February 20, 2026 01:46 PM (7EEbj)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:46 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (n5tGW)
Still basically flat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:46 PM (ExV1e)
Trump's best feature is he never gives up.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (FXNzP)
Lots of covert sabotage going on
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (+nEug)
Trump's best feature is he never gives up.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:46 PM (viF8m)
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Someone was telling me that I was misguided and that tariffs were dead in the last thread.
Are you saying that person was incorrect?
He was appropriately black-pilled and everything!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (FXNzP)
With his forked tongue.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: kraki at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (cG6Xc)
Except that you can still go ugly late.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (dK+Kv)
Justice Kavanaugh writes: "...Those statutes include, for example, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Section 232); the Trade Act of 1974 (Sections 122, 201, and 301); and the Tariff Act of 1930 (Section 33
."Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (oSFYW)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: H. Sanders at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (7EEbj)
Trump's best feature is he never gives up.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:46 PM (viF8m)
Bessent previously said that they have multiple alternatives.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (ExV1e)
Justice Kavanaugh writes: "...Those statutes include, for example, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Section 232); the Trade Act of 1974 (Sections 122, 201, and 301); and the Tariff Act of 1930 (Section 33."
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (oSFYW)
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Presidents having tariff authority is a long-held legal reality.
Which is weird because I was assured that all tariffs are now illegal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (dK+Kv)
But then ugly might have to stay overnight.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (FpHTM)
Iran has needed a spanking since '79. Every conflict has Iran intertwined in it. That's almost my whole life. Trump is the last of the old time leaders who could do it.
Also, Reagan let France know what he thought of them denying us flying through their airspace to bomb Khadafi. We "accidentally" dropped a few bombs on the French embassy due to our pilots being so fatigued and tired by flying around French airspace.
Let's roll.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2026 01:49 PM (IifOV)
We need to airlift pallets of guns and ammo to the resistance.
THIS.
B2s overflying Teheran, Qom and Isfahan, dropping thousands of Glocks by little parachutes. Care packages with a Glock 19, 4 standard magazines, 4 extended length mags, a "switch" with instructions, cleaning kit and 200 rounds of ammo. Should all fit in an Air Jordan shoebox.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 01:49 PM (kTyBw)
Posted by: H. Sanders at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (7EEbj)
Well, you got at least two or three kinds of salt in that mix, Harlan.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 20, 2026 01:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JackStraw
i thought his best feature was his tendency to CAPITALIZE all the IMPORTANT WORD in his social MEDIA posts.
Posted by: zombie at February 20, 2026 01:49 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:50 PM (8EgcX)
You pay her to leave.
Posted by: I thought everybody knew that at February 20, 2026 01:50 PM (7EEbj)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:43 PM (n5tGW)
Still basically flat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
*sob*
-- Zombie Rachel Corrie
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
I have no idea what this means
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
Go after the hound dog nobody else wants and go home early. That way, after you bang her, you've still got time to hang with your bros, punch each other in the shoulder, and holler "Flinch!" and whatnot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:38 PM (FXNzP)
__________
Ah. That strategy is alien to The Blade. The Blade's strategy is the complete opposite. He zeros in on the hottest girl(s) at the bar, and makes his move. He hunts big game.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)
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"NOOOO!!!!!"
-John Nash
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Duke Lowell"
They hate him SO much.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 01:52 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: steevy at February 20, 2026 01:52 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Guy who has a problem with the ads at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (vFG9F)
Maybe consider increasing your own donations to AoS so that maybe Ace won't need as many adds?
I'm sure all the "repeal 19th amendment" guys donate big, and also the old gals who tell newly minted 'ettes to "go take a nap".
Just a thought.
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at February 20, 2026 01:52 PM (JCLJi)
Glocks? Do they even have bears in Iran?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:50 PM (8EgcX)
Well, they have lots of swarthy, hairy men...
The other thing with Glocks, when the mullahs whine about it, we can blame the Austrians.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 01:52 PM (kTyBw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Duke Lowell"
+++
This is what we voted for.
Posted by: Trump voters everywhere at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (7EEbj)
In a world full of Merricks, be Al Swearengen.
https://tinyurl.com/muur4862
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had"
Maybe he was trying to escape and they shot him down.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (8EgcX)
In a world full of Merricks, be Al Swearengen.
https://tinyurl.com/muur4862
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (viF8m)
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That Swearengen sure does say cocksucker a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
The ruling was about IEEPA authority. He's given that up and is using different authority.
He's being completely deferential.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)
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The suit was filed by private-sector companies demanding refunds for a tariff they thought was illegitimate. A majority of the court agreed (man, the USSC sure expanded the "standings" doctrine didn't they). The majority opinion also stated that resolving their decision could get messy.
Refunds. hmmm? Court didn't say. The refunds, according to the Court's reasoning, will have to be done through an act of Congress, since Article I is the flavor du jour. That's a helluva'n election issue, refunding PRC-owned companies. And the President would have to sign the bill, too, for the disbursement to take place.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 01:54 PM (rj6Yv)
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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Pepperidge Farms Hearty White bread is both hearty and white. Good, too.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 01:54 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (+nEug)
I am surprised no one has ever made soccer ball grenades.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 01:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Gross ugly toenail fungus ads at February 20, 2026 01:54 PM (7EEbj)
Posted by: Donkey Chompers at February 20, 2026 01:54 PM (zuIfz)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)
Rosie O'Donnell big.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Donkey Chompers
I thought they were west of it.
-- KBJ
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (8EgcX)
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The ballroom needs another varnish on the dance floor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (/PQmQ)
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I've never heard of that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: The Comic Sans combat unit at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (7EEbj)
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
OPERATION GLOCKENSPIEL
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (diia5)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (8EgcX)
Mozart.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sid at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (D2IqN)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (dK+Kv)
But then ugly might have to stay overnight.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:48 PM (FpHTM)
Ugly gotta eat, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)
In a world full of Merricks, be Al Swearengen.
https://tinyurl.com/muur4862
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 01:53 PM (viF8m)
Still waiting for my time to give some punishment back. Someday.
Posted by: Too much standing at February 20, 2026 01:57 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (8EgcX)
Yeah. It’s all getting a little tiresome isn’t it?
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 01:57 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:57 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 01:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
OPERATION GLOCKENSPIEL
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Nice glockers!
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)
Eating is probably how ugly got ugly in the first place.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:58 PM (FpHTM)
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Meh, go ugly early. Cleaning your tubes is just basic hygiene. It takes me an number of purges to clean the barrel.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 01:58 PM (pZ64F)
With the precision we saw with past bombings, and Venezuela, I have hope. Do it if needed...and it seems to be needed.
I believe in treating a wound internally with meds before lancing, to avoid fistulas. Perhaps it is time to lance and drain the pustule once and for all.
I would prefer that Miss Lindsey sit this one out. I am sure Sen Paul will disapprove with the Dims if there is bombing and whatever else is in store with the ear bleeding trick of Special Forces. There are weapons none of us, including the incompetent Congress, know about. Let 'er rip!
Another blog I read there is a mouthy womman who seems to think she is the Sec of Defense in all matters military. Because! She listens to podcasts and reads X. I have no pretense in thinking I know squat, but I am fairly sure my lack of knowing matches hers. I have argued with her in the past about the Kirk Killer (she seems to favor a conspiracy theory vs furries).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 01:58 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 01:58 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:58 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at February 20, 2026 01:56 PM (n9ltV)
Bibi signaled to Roberts to take a dive to increase the Chosen People's stock portfolios.
Good enough?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 01:58 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:59 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Guy who has a problem with the ads at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (vFG9F)
Mo' bettah boob adz ftw.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 01:59 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Teri Garr at February 20, 2026 01:59 PM (7EEbj)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 01:59 PM (pDt9x)
Are waitin' at the end of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in, cut 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in rawhide
Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapproving
Keep them doggies movin', Rawhide
Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:59 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Wally at February 20, 2026 02:00 PM (DXJuz)
Posted by: Guy who has a problem with the ads at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (vFG9F)
Consider developing a foot fetish.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 02:00 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:00 PM (8EgcX)
Been that way since I was there in the mid-80s. There were never any operational Brit assets there. Just admin types and a security unit, always dressed in their tropic uniforms complete with pith helmets.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 20, 2026 02:00 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 02:00 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)
Rosie O'Donnell big.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
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Fake news. Trigglypuff!
Although I have no idea who that is. I only know she's considered by many here to be hideous.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:59 PM (OAPjy)
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Man, I love the Blues Brothers. Great film. Strong recommend.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (rj6Yv)
We need to start tariffing the Greys and Reptilians for their abductions.
The Tall Nordics can hang out with me.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (8EgcX)
-- Jimmy Buffet
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (77rzZ)
Every day you show up to the fight you give punishment back.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Guy who has a problem with the ads
You prefer boob fungus?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 20, 2026 02:02 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (Y1sOo)
I think it's time we showed them exactly what we can do - and that the strike on their nukler facilities wasn't a one-off. We need to go in and destroy every single military and government installation we can find. Level the place then make the rubble bounce a few times.
After that, air drop guns and ammo to the population so they can eliminate these creeps once and for all.
I'll sit back comfortably in my easy chair and watch from a safe distance...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 02:00 PM (+nEug)
I suppose I am just a little - impatient.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (pDt9x)
Although I have no idea who that is. I only know she's considered by many here to be hideous.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
I'd hate for a man of your caliber to be so ignorant. Here's a link to a short video of her most famous Ted Talk.
https://is.gd/tFuHgr
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (Kt19C)
Just a thought.
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at February
Wait- someone was told to take a nap? I miss all the good drama.
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (kgE5c)
Badgering readers that come only to read Ace's posts on the front page and not the comments page is counter productive.
and, Pixy said this morning she has no control over the ads or the subject of the ads.
Posted by: old chick at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Mike Tython at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:04 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (rbvCR)
They say a person who wants to drop bombs constantly is compensating for something...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 02:04 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM
You mean you hit on Trigglypuff first thing, before donning the beer goggles?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:29 PM (77rzZ)
Absolutely not.
Guys know about where they stand on the 1-10 scale but can't resist trying for the brass ring.
If you''re a five, try hitting up the fives while you're still sober enough to be nice.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 02:05 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 02:04 PM (VE6XX)
Constipation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:05 PM (ExV1e)
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That'll fix everything!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:05 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:05 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:50 PM (8EgcX)
Glock also makes farm animal inseminators.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2026 02:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tubal "
My lawn. It's under your feet.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 02:06 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: old chick
I thought Pixy was a dude.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal "
My lawn. It's under your feet.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 02:06 PM (vFG9F)
The 50’s sound like a better time.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (8EgcX)
Although I have no idea who that is. I only know she's considered by many here to be hideous.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
I'd hate for a man of your caliber to be so ignorant. Here's a link to a short video of her most famous Ted Talk.
https://is.gd/tFuHgr
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (ExV1e)
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That's not AI??
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
Nope. That's her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:05 PM (pDt9x)
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Watched it as a kid. Preferred Maverick, though.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 02:08 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 02:08 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
Nope. That's her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:07 PM (ExV1e)
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[holding back vomit]
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (iFTx/)
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h
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 01:55 PM (/PQmQ)
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I've never heard of that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Aka Smoot Hawley.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: old chick at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (F3Dlr)
That's a man, baby.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (syXXq)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (77rzZ)
@EndWokeness
"Leave our taxes alone!!!"
NY Democrats are not happy with the new plan by Mayor Mamdani to raise taxes on middle class:
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Old and busted: good and plenty clause
New and cool: good and hard clause
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (uEmCf)
Has Pixy ever said, definitively?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (/PQmQ)
Go after the hound dog nobody else wants and go home early. That way, after you bang her, you've still got time to hang with your bros, punch each other in the shoulder, and holler "Flinch!" and whatnot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:38 PM
That's two punches for flinching.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (K885Z)
Trump hasn't made a decision on Iran.
Predication: They accept his terms or we blow them up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (uEmCf)
Has Pixy ever said, definitively?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e)
So, a zombie scenario?
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Aka Smoot Hawley.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (E4rtv)
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You see, it was a joke because I had referred to the 1930 Tariff Act, specifically Section 338, several times in the previous thread.
This is an intended subverting of expectations that should lead to a humorous realization on the part of the reader.
However, you were not present in the previous thread, so this joke would be missed by such an absence. So, I do my civic duty and explain a joke in such detail that any chance of hilarity is drained from it like blood.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (GBKbO)
A 2 at 9 is a 9 at 2.
This saves you on the bar tab and you're most likely taking the 2 home anyway.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (77rzZ)
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I only remember Walter Brennan in "The Real McCoys". That was TV, in California, and contemporary.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 02:12 PM (rj6Yv)
The dinosaur spice must flow.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 02:12 PM (gVUi7)
https://is.gd/skpQGe
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 02:12 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:12 PM (8EgcX)
@EndWokeness
"Leave our taxes alone!!!"
NY Democrats are not happy with the new plan by Mayor Mamdani to raise taxes on middle class:
-
Old and busted: good and plenty clause
New and cool: good and hard clause
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (FXNzP)
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I can't wait for Mamdani's press conference where he announces he's cutting fire department budgets to pay for illegal immigrant legal services.
It would be so fucking funny.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM (uEmCf)
Has Pixy ever said, definitively?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e)
So, a zombie scenario?
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (pDt9x)
Something like that. I've seen it speculated both ways. Seems like Pixy said once which was correct but I'm not certain.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Go ahead SCOTUS, strike these new tariffs down, and I'll use another authority and jack them up another 25%. Your paymasters overseas will be calling, begging you to stop.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 20, 2026 02:13 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 02:09 PM
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 02:13 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 02:13 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (GBKbO)
Have you considered making youtube videos?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)
Every time. Every time a democrat says raise taxes on the rich, the middle class better hide their wallet.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:14 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 02:14 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:14 PM (8EgcX)
Every time. Every time a democrat says raise taxes on the rich, the middle class better hide their wallet.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 02:14 PM (n5tGW)
So, the notion of “rich” is a fluid concept?
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:15 PM (pDt9x)
So, a zombie scenario?
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (pDt9x)
Something like that. I've seen it speculated both ways. Seems like Pixy said once which was correct but I'm not certain.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)
I think zombie is a dude.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:15 PM (K885Z)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at February 20, 2026 02:15 PM (et1vG)
(Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems the mighty O built a lot of trapdoors into US policy, especially for future administrations, such as Trump's.)
Anyway, I don't know why we're doing what we're doing. If there for potential to halt nuclear weapons issues, alright. If we're there as the great liberators, forget about it. They'll neither love us more hate us less for involvement. (They're NOT ditching Islamic beliefs as a whole, now or ever.)
All, imo. Now I'll wait patiently for my a** kicking.
Ps - While everyone is stationed there, better watch our shores here. Half the political BS here is distraction..
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 02:15 PM (NFX2v)
So, a zombie scenario?
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:11 PM (pDt9x)
Something like that. I've seen it speculated both ways. Seems like Pixy said once which was correct but I'm not certain.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)
I think zombie is a dude.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:15 PM (K885Z)
Well, maybe.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:16 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Tar Bae at February 20, 2026 02:16 PM (uR4Tu)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:14 PM (8EgcX)
I will do my civic duty and explain the joke in such detail that any chance of hilarity is drained from it like blood.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:16 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:16 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:15 PM (K885Z)
Pixy is a dude; zombie is not.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 20, 2026 02:16 PM (TQmWD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 02:14 PM (8EgcX)
I will do my civic duty and explain the joke in such detail that any chance of hilarity is drained from it like blood.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:16 PM (ExV1e)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:17 PM (GBKbO)
@EndWokeness
"Leave our taxes alone!!!"
NY Democrats are not happy with the new plan by Mayor Mamdani to raise taxes on middle class
I'm so sorry that's happening to you.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 20, 2026 02:17 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 02:17 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 02:13 PM (4NO2D)
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That rings a bell. I never watched it, though.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 02:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Emmie
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Slow and steady. My right and left hands are still swollen from the IV ports and turning interesting colors. That is affecting me more right now than the surgery cut in my neck. Dialed back pain meds to only at night now and taking short walks again in the sun. Basically another 3 weeks of boring nothingness (no lift, drive, etc.) while the cage bonds with my spine. Then minimal activity until 3 months after surgery.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 02:17 PM (pZ64F)
Never thought John Brennan was that old.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:18 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:03 PM (ExV1e)
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That's not AI??
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Shut your eyes and dream of a cold, cold winter's night.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 02:18 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: old chick at February 20, 2026 02:18 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:16 PM (pDt9x)
Going undercover in San Fransicko, one probably needs to be able to look like both.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Jackson K. at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (u9jq/)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
Remember Pat from the SNL skits. Think that, more obviously feminine a bit heavier and a lot more petulant and whiney.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (zZu0s)
56% of the TX primary early vote is female.
This means something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (GBKbO)
Yes. They can be counted on.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:15 PM (K885Z)
Pixy is a dude; zombie is not.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 20, 2026 02:16 PM (TQmWD)
I'm not a biologist or anything so...
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:20 PM (K885Z)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That post reminds me of an Alec Guinness digression in his better movies.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:20 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (+nEug)
Good and Hard.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2026 02:20 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by whig
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Good, keep it that way. Recovery going well, excellent.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 02:20 PM (OAPjy)
This trans politician [Rep. Leigh Finke (D)] opposes age restrictions for porn because it could "be educational" for "queer" kids 🤔
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Also . . .
EXCLUSIVE: Top PornHub staff admits to inserting “gay” and “trans” themes into mainstream porn to “convert” straight men
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Boy, if you can't trust PornHub, who can you trust?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:21 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 02:21 PM (u82oZ)
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Also, Roberts has to shine Trump’s boots.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (FXNzP)
and warsh his car and walk his dog.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 02:21 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 02:19 PM (+nEug)
You know that thing he pro.ised not to do in your mouth, NYers? Yeah, he did that and he invited his bro over too...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 02:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:22 PM (K885Z)
May your recovery be swift and smooth.
And your nurses comely but distant when your wife is in the room.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (u82oZ)
This means something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Teachers, social workers, higher ed, other gubmint/affiliated employees. These are the low hanging fruit that the Democrats harvest early and bank. GOP and their GOTV needs to focus more on early voting, especially in blue districts where the Dems feign incompetence blocking GOP voters from the polls.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 02:21 PM (FXNzP)
Some sites seem to do this (nkt that I would know) but others seem to have realized their traffic will fall off so they gated it to being an option in kind of thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)
Something like that. I've seen it speculated both ways. Seems like Pixy said once which was correct but I'm not certain.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)
I think zombie is a dude.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 20, 2026 02:15 PM (K885Z)
I thought that zombie was a hawt Asian chick.
I'm getting mighty Clan McAdder vibes here.
https://youtu.be/kbosGuW1VWU?t=56
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (kTyBw)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:23 PM (1Udfd)
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Also, Roberts has to shine Trump’s boots.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:47 PM (FXNzP)
and warsh his car and walk his dog.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 02:21 PM (QGaXH)
and clean Trump's and Vance's shoes with his tongue.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 02:24 PM (S/Y4j)
I thought Zombie was that guy with Saline Inflated Scrotum?
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:24 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 02:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Well, successful in that it did not make my prior conditions worse. I did it to forestall additional loss of strength and control over my arms and hands. Some chance that I can roll back those strength losses in the last six months but time will tell.
Thanks for the kind wishes.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: deepelemblues at February 20, 2026 02:26 PM (AQ30M)
Nay. She documented his perversion at the Folsom Street Fair. *Spit*
Too much weirdness there.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (u82oZ)
May your recovery be swift and smooth.
And your nurses comely but distant when your wife is in the room.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Thanks for the kind wishes. In my case, I just want the nurses/technicians draw blood or set up IVs correctly.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:27 PM (E4rtv)
I'm not a biologist or anything so...
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Zombie has validated his sex more than the rest of us. His authenticity was questioned and he refereed back to his website. Illustrated here how he was going to change it. - It was changed - then after an appropriate period of time reverted back to the original.
The thought of zombie being that cute Asian girl whose picture he posted still lingers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 02:28 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: garrett
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Just figure in my obtuseness and apply TJM's std. I don't get that reply.
Webtime is limited to what I can endure while icing neck.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:29 PM (E4rtv)
As usual, your hard-won wisdom shines through.
Get some restorative sleep, please. I promise no lullabies from me.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 02:29 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: epador at February 20, 2026 02:30 PM (TRnzq)
Posted by: Braenyard
Still have cobwebs in my thinking but all my parts work after surgery. There are people far worse off than I. Thanks for caring.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:31 PM (E4rtv)
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Answering a compound question there was a side question on foreign influence. As a aside he said, it will come out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 02:32 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 02:32 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:32 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
I would say, it depends. I've known several folks adopted from various 'Stans and China that grew up all-American and are now wonderful people. Others, not so much...
Posted by: Martin Tell at February 20, 2026 02:33 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 02:34 PM (1Udfd)
Limey bastards think we are there solely to defend them from arrack.
F them. Declare them an "open nation".
Posted by: Operator Error at February 20, 2026 02:37 PM (nm8hu)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 20, 2026 02:41 PM (zZu0s)
The combat abilities of the U.S. military are now on the next level. In Iran they can take out most of the IGRC in one stroke. There is no where they can hide - the U.S. is tracking all their movements and has a specialized weapon for every situation. All the tracking and planning is assisted by AI and is happening in real time. 10 years ago, they would struggle to put together 50 strike packages a day, now they can do hundreds per day. Iran's military is not better than it was in the 1990s. The U.S. has massively accelerated technological development since then, so the gap is much bigger. The only limit on the U.S. limits that are self-imposed. I say smack them hard and fast - cut the head off the IGRC - every command structure. Take out all offensive weaponry. Let the people do what they want, and any time regime forces concentrate, hit them hard. In short, scare the shit out of the world.
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Posted by: whig at February 20, 2026 02:31 PM (E4rtv)
Prayers every night, whig. You'll have those cobwebs cleared soon...fluids, dude, for post anesthesia and drugs. XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 03:19 PM (WONhk)
Hysterically funny
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 20, 2026 04:09 PM (MEM1G)
By 6-3 Vote, Supreme Court Rules All of Trump's Tariffs Illegal
Of course Roberts and Coney-Barrett joined the left. I don't know why we say "joined the left." They're on the left.
Just going to guess that the libertarian Gorsuch also joined the left. (Update: He did. Actually I also just guessed that the liberal cooze Coney-Barrett once again joined the left, and that guess was right as well. Although it's barely a "guess," is it?) Terrible.The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The 6-3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs he levied on nearly every other country. It's the first major piece of Trump's broad agenda to come squarely before the nation's highest court, which he helped shape with the appointments of three conservative jurists in his first term. The majority found that the Constitution "very clearly" gives Congress the power to impose taxes, which include tariffs. "The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.Except that Congress has also been determined to have the power to delegate this power to Executive decision-making -- which is exactly what Congress did, in granting the President the power to "regulate... importation" in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. "The tariffs at issue here may or may not be wise policy. But as a matter of text, history, and precedent, they are clearly lawful," Kavanaugh wrote. Trump called the majority decision "a disgrace" when he was notified during his morning meeting with several governors, according to someone with direct knowledge of the president's reaction, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation. ... The majority did not address whether companies could get refunded for the billions they have collectively paid in tariffs. Many companies, including the big-box warehouse chain Costco, have already lined up to demand refunds in lower courts. Kavanaugh noted the process could be complicated. "The Court says nothing today about whether, and if so how, the Government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it has collected from importers. But that process is likely to be a 'mess,' as was acknowledged at oral argument," he wrote. The Treasury had collected more than $133 billion from the import taxes the president has imposed under the emergency powers law as of December, federal data shows. The impact over the next decade was estimated at some $3 trillion.
Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman 16m 🚨BREAKING: Justice Clarence Thomas just UNLEASHED pure FIRE in his dissent on the tariff ruling, dropping TRUTH BOMBS that expose the majority's BS and defend President Trump's America First authority like a boss! He didn't mince words. He straight-up NAILED it: "NEITHER the statutory text nor the Constitution provide a basis for ruling against the President." BOOM. Read that again. The Constitution and the law ITSELF back Trump--no ifs, ands, or buts. Thomas keeps swinging: "Congress authorized the President to 'regulate . . . importation.' Throughout American history, the authority to 'regulate importation' has been understood to include the authority to impose duties on imports." Historical facts don't care about your feelings, globalists. He doubles down: "The meaning of that phrase was beyond doubt by the time that Congress enacted this statute, shortly after President Nixon's highly publicized duties on imports were UPHELD based on identical language." Nixon did it. Courts said YES. Same exact words. Case closed. Then the kill shot: "The statute that the President relied on therefore authorized him to impose the duties on imports at issue in these cases." Crystal. Clear.
Cynical PubliusActually, Justice Gorsuch seems to be driving at that in his concurrence. There is a question about whether Congress even has the power to delegate its constitutional powers. Prior rulings that it can do this is what empowered the gigantic leviathan state we now live in. Some people want to overturn that system of congressional delegation of the powers the Constitution grants solely to it.
@CynicalPublius 19m So let me get this straight. Congress can totally delegate extreme, life-changing powers to rogue federal executive agencies like the EPA for 50+ years, but it cannot delegate tariff power to the President? I know the laws governing the two issues are not the same, but the absurd inconsistency is the only thing laymen see.
Gorsuch wants to know why the liberal justices want to read this and only this statute of being incapable of granting the president congressional powers, while permitting every other statute to delegate equal powers to the president. He seems to want to go further and overturn the entire system of Congress granting the Executive law-making power so it can churn out Infinite Laws, and mocks the majority for keeping that system in place while finding a violation only with Trump's use of congressionally-delegated power.
Despite the ruling, many commentators point out that the Supreme Court only denied Trump's power to lay tariffs based upon the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) -- which, of course, actually authorizes the president to "regulate... importation" -- but there are other statutory bases for this power that Trump can now assert.
🚨 JUST IN: Legal expert Jonathan Turley confirms that President Trump still has a massive toolbox of tariff options despite the 6–3 Supreme Court ruling.
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 20, 2026
"The admin has other tools... it can impose tariffs under other statutes."pic.twitter.com/ML0tnaDhpl
The Supreme Court's decision to strike down President Trump's International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs is a welcome victory for constitutional governance and the rule of law. But anyone hoping this spells the end of the administration's tariff spree should think twice. Even without IEEPA, the president retains ample statutory authority to quickly recreate much of the current trade policy chaos. Some of these are familiar. During Trump's first term, he invoked Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to hit China and impose steel and aluminum tariffs. Yet US law provides other tools that have largely escaped notice. Two lesser-known provisions--Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930--could let the administration continue its tariff onslaught even without IEEPA.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav 32m The Supreme Court's decision against Trump's emergency tariffs is a complete mess, both as a matter of logic and construction, as the opinion has different majorities in different sections. The justices themselves couldn't even consistently agree on the ruling. As Kavanaugh notes in his dissent, the decision effectively means Trump may unilaterally ban all foreign imports (an infinite tariff for all intents and purposes) on an emergency basis, but may not levy a $0.01 tariff on any good. You don't have to be a lawyer to see how stupid and illogical that is. But given his Obamacare decision, Roberts has made clear that stupid and illogical is the defining characteristic of Roberts' tenure as chief justice.
The Supreme Court’s decision against Trump’s emergency tariffs is a complete mess, both as a matter of logic and construction, as the opinion has different majorities in different sections. The justices themselves couldn’t even consistently agree on the ruling.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 20, 2026
As Kavanaugh… pic.twitter.com/ndwMeIpBb5
Kavanaugh points out that even if today's mess of a ruling creates all sorts of chaos for previously imposed tariffs, Trump has many other options for imposing tariffs going forward. pic.twitter.com/Rdw2ab4o1G
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 20, 2026
Varad MehtaI would not count on that. If the Court wants to "save" a position, they will often search statutes and laws themselves -- sua sponte, on their own initiative -- and find alternate bases for justifying that position. That is, if the liberals on the Court were willing to consider alternate legislative authority for Trump's tariffs, they already would have considered it and ruled differently. They would have said that while Trump cannot rely on the IEEPA for imposing tariffs, he can rely on other legislative language. The fact that they did not do so and were brazen enough to overturn the clearly expressed will of the American voters tells me they will negate all subsequent assertions by Trump to have the tariff power under alternate parts of the US Code.
@varadmehta It's gonna be weird next week when Trump reimposes most of his tariffs and all the people celebrating their demise today are like, wait a minute.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 12:10 PM (BpO1e)
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This is outright wrong.
Not all his tariffs.
Only the tariffs under the authority of the IEEPA, which essentially amounts to the 20% reciprical tariff. Most of the existing tariffs since Liberation Day are under different authorities. They were the bilateral agreements with the countries in response to the reciprical tariff.
Also, Trump will be able to refile the affected tariffs under something like Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 with a simple EO proclamation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
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May?
Of course he will.
Congress gave up the tariff power a century ago and has just affirmed that the president has the authority for decades.
Trump's team went with the IEEPA probably because there's no cap to the tariffs under it (well, they assumed). So, threats of 1,000,000% tariffs could exist in people minds.
But the vast majority are under 50%, and the cap on the Section 338 tariffs is 50%. So, anything affected in that range...just come right back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:13 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 12:14 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 20, 2026 12:14 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 12:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 12:16 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 12:17 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:17 PM (VE6XX)
The Left's euphoria will be short lived.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 20, 2026 12:18 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Guild Navigator at February 20, 2026 12:18 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 20, 2026 12:18 PM (kVAAW)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)
~ Ace
This may be true, but it will take time to get back to SCOTUS. Assuming “normal order” and all that nonsense.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 20, 2026 12:20 PM (vMhK6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)
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It was the style at the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Marcel Marceau at February 20, 2026 12:20 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Set the matches down, back away.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 12:20 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 20, 2026 12:21 PM (t/2Uw)
So, can I set my hair on fire or not, you bunch of waffling pussies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Only if you run around in circles afterwards.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 12:21 PM (Cqx++)
Well, America was good while she lasted, but they may have just shot her in the head.
Posted by: Beverly at February 20, 2026 12:21 PM (reMys)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:21 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Marcel Marceau at February 20, 2026 12:20 PM (4NO2D)
A point I hadn’t considered before.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 20, 2026 12:22 PM (vMhK6)
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:22 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 12:22 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 12:22 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 12:22 PM (4NO2D)
But the fact of the matter is that Americans are addicted to the fruits of slave labor and our Elite Overlords are addicted to money from the CCP slavemasters (when they're not on Pedo Island raping children).
There's only one way out of this and it isn't voting. Pay attention to the UK and France in the next couple years and you'll get a sneak preview.
Posted by: Mr. Wilhelm at February 20, 2026 12:22 PM (q+ghK)
Quite a nice ‘Constitutional ‘ system we have now.
Posted by: Voter theater. at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (xKbSi)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (duOzU)
Posted by: It's me donna
I still think, if it goes through, it'll end up a dummymander. VA was only a 6 point state in 24. And they are acting like it was MA.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (MGB5H)
And ACB was a mistake. She is from academia. Stewing in liberal pieties means she is incapable of thinking outside the box of conventional faculty room logic. Never appoint from a law school. FFS!!!
Posted by: FFS at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (oSFYW)
Quite a nice ‘Constitutional ‘ system we have now.
Posted by: Voter theater. at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (xKbSi)
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Thune can get the SAVE act passed without Mitch. He has 50 cosponsors. Just do the full debate, 50+Vance, and Bob's your uncle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mr. Wilhelm at February 20, 2026 12:22 PM (q+ghK)
Is that you, Mr. Steyn?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (vMhK6)
Posted by: the guy who always says it's Cuckley Barlson's fault at February 20, 2026 12:24 PM (80kdn)
Should be fun with the Supreme Court all seated in front of the President. I wonder how many will show up.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 12:24 PM (rj6Yv)
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Trump's sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
Summary
Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs have been struck down by the US Supreme Court, in a major blow to the president's economic agenda, that he calls a "disgrace"
With a 6-3 majority, the Supreme Court rules Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs via a law reserved for national emergencies - they say he needs congressional approval to impose taxes on imports
The court's decision represents a rare check on this president's broad use of executive authority - read our North America correspondent's snap analysis
The ruling applies to his so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs, but not individual tariffs he's imposed on specific countries or products
Trump has long argued tariffs boost American manufacturing - but many in the business community, as well as Trump's political adversaries, say the costs are passed on to consumers
Wall Street responds quickly and positively to the court's ruling in early trading
What are tariffs? They're taxes on imported goods, which are usually charged as a percentage of a good's value. (More)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 12:25 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2026 12:25 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Do we want to start placing wagers on whether or not SCOTUS will torpedo this as well?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 12:25 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (Q+gd/)
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I don't know a percentage, but it essentially amounts to the 20% recipricol tariff (which has mostly been replaced by the bilateral agreements) and some of the Chinese tariffs (because Section 338 tariffs have a cap of 50%, and those are much higher than 50%).
Anything not over 50% will be refiled under different authorities within days (Section 338, most likely), and those over the 50% will have to go through an investigatory period to meet the requirements of other sections of the Tariff Act of 1930 to be reimposed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (GBKbO)
>>Of course he will.
Regardless, there is going to be massive litigation to claw back monies collected by the tariff, and as noted, it simply re-animates the tariff war and all of the anger and animosity that engendered.
SCOTUS clown show is getting tedious.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)
Should be fun with the Supreme Court all seated in front of the President. I wonder how many will show up.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 12:24 PM (rj6Yv)
They could have waited with this ruling till after the SOTU address...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (2WIwB)
There's only one way out of this and it isn't voting. Pay attention to the UK and France in the next couple years and you'll get a sneak preview.
Posted by: Mr. Wilhelm
Camp of the taints.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (Cqx++)
Better call Saul.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (gxokI)
The Blade gave up. It's Friday. Trump will just use some other authority to do exactly what he already did.
This decision is an entire waste of time.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Do we want to start placing wagers on whether or not SCOTUS will torpedo this as well?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 12:25 PM (ESVrU)
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I can't wait for Section 2 of the VRA (or at least Gingles) gets overturned and everyone acts like it's nothing and doesn't matter.
Gonna be great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)
It's 2026, you can do whatever you want.
But where your eternal soul goes is between you and Jesus.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 12:27 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
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Saw elsewhere mention that another option would be to use Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, which permits temporary 15% tariffs for 150 days -- although that's not really as much leverage as the POTUS needs in negotiations and punishments, especially on reciprocal tariffs.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:27 PM (5FL4d)
We have social media responsibilities! Can't spend our time legislatin' and stuff.
Posted by: Congress at February 20, 2026 12:27 PM (oSFYW)
Posted by: mrp
Same day as my colonoscopy. I'll probably be fast asleep by then.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 12:27 PM (77rzZ)
I wonder if Trump has just kept quiet and not said anything overt about the tariffs if anyone would have noticed enough to make a stink about it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 12:28 PM (jtM2q)
Was thinking this myself, but dollars to doughnuts, there will be on "normal order" in this case.
"Maryland man" illegal alien? Let that work its way through the courts for two decades.
Trump and tariffs? USSC will be stopping all other business to get on it.
Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at February 20, 2026 12:28 PM (Iwv3U)
I'm not sure that the SAVE Act will even work because some treacherous cretin added a carve-out that allows the states to conjure up their own scheme to "prove" US Citizenship including mere "vouching" or winning two out of three Rock Paper Scissors.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 12:28 PM (pUU4E)
>>Of course he will.
Regardless, there is going to be massive litigation to claw back monies collected by the tariff, and as noted, it simply re-animates the tariff war and all of the anger and animosity that engendered.
SCOTUS clown show is getting tedious.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)
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I'm betting only a fraction of the $175 billion eligible for redress gets in front of a judge at all.
I mean, most are paid by foreigners, and foreigners have...shaky abilities to sue the US government in US courts.
Plus, diplomatic pressures and "sunk cost" logic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:28 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 12:28 PM (4NO2D)
Gonna be great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
Thomas has wanted to blow that up forever.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 12:28 PM (MGB5H)
The Blade gave up. It's Friday. Trump will just use some other authority to do exactly what he already did.
This decision is an entire waste of time.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (iFTx/)
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But hair must be on fire, Elric.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (gxokI)
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Yeah, for all we give "credit" to McConnell for acting on judges, keep in mind that he picks judges for HIS benefit, not ours.
Any overall benefit to our side in general is purely coincidental and never guaranteed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 12:29 PM (ESVrU)
China has more standing before the SCOTUS than an American citizen.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 12:29 PM (pUU4E)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 12:29 PM (S+j2h)
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If only The Framers hadn't vested National Security power to the Unitary Executive.
Oh, wait ...
/National Security == Economic Security
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:30 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:30 PM (8EgcX)
Gonna be great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
Do you think it will be over turned ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:30 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
For the time being, just put on your hand grenade earrings.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 12:30 PM (y+qgR)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 12:31 PM (4NO2D)
A basic tenet of contract law is that it has to be interpreted in such a way that it does not eliminate the viability of the underlying transaction. For example, if one party could vary terms on a whim, no one would sign a contact because it would be worthless.
So if the President can ban all trade with a country ("regulate importation") that means Trump's only options are to ban all trade with countries that are not trading fairly. Well that doesn't work. They are saying that we have to suffer intolerable and unsustainable trade imbalances, or ban it totally. Why would we (the USA) trade with any country if they can slowly milk us dry, buy up all our assets with the revenue, and take over? We must ban all trade. Do they understand that is the only option they leave us?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:31 PM (P+H85)
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 12:31 PM (hDrm1)
>>Plus, diplomatic pressures and "sunk cost" logic.
I hope you're right, but no one is predisposed to make anything easy on The Trump administration.
Norm Eisen probably had Peter North sized ejaculate when he heard this decision.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 12:31 PM (XV/Pl)
That’s why I don’t watch congressional hearings anymore. They’re only used for clickbait videos for the mainstream media’s progressive narrative purposes.
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:32 PM (duOzU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:32 PM (8EgcX)
Gonna be great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
Do you think it will be over turned ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:30 PM (VE6XX)
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Gingles most likely. Section 2, maybe.
Gingles is what really made the whole majority-minority district thing a requirement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 20, 2026 12:32 PM (2SORG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)
Can't I just finish my waffle?
Posted by: Obama, the OG waffling pussy at February 20, 2026 12:33 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 12:33 PM (y+qgR)
U.S. trade deficit totaled $901 billion in 2025, barely budging despite Trump’s tariffs
https://shorturl.at/9cRUS
But hey, at least we're bringing back manufacturing.
Oh, wait!
Manufacturing jobs in the United States declined in 2025
https://shorturl.at/YVWZg
Posted by: 6-3 at February 20, 2026 12:33 PM (Yp3HR)
I hate when people say we do. We have a moderate majority at best. More like 2 conservatives, 3 extreme commies, and 4 moderates.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:33 PM (P+H85)
Not to distract from our daily outrage but:
Today's Fox Biz Varney trivia question:
Which President lived the longest?
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
George HW Bush
Jimmy Carter
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (QGaXH)
Which would move the ball the way Gorsuch wanted - back to actually designated Constitutional powers.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (XV/Pl)
And it is only vested in congress.
We get to interpret any law made by congress.
See what I did there?????
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:31 PM (P+H85)
Yes.
At some point, it was decided that principles MUST be a suicide pact.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 12:35 PM (rj6Yv)
Manufacturing jobs in the United States declined in 2025
https://shorturl.at/YVWZg
Posted by: 6-3 at February 20, 2026 12:33 PM
Heh. ABCnews.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 12:35 PM (4NO2D)
So the globalists have influenced the court same as ever.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:35 PM (P+H85)
Posted by: Boswell at February 20, 2026 12:36 PM (j10i6)
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But that would just be dicta, and another case based on a different statute would still have to be teed up for a definitive ruling.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2026 12:36 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at February 20, 2026 12:26 PM (gxokI)
And she overturned Roe/Planned Parenthood V Casey...so whatever else she does, she has that shining moment on her docket...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 12:37 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 12:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 12:38 PM (2UnvF)
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Dicta was the best coach the Bears ever had.
Posted by: Gavin Newsom, Dyslexic at February 20, 2026 12:38 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:39 PM (8EgcX)
https://shorturl.at/YVWZg
Posted by: 6-3 at February 20, 2026 12:33 PM
Heh. ABCnews.
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It reminds me of watching the news in 1981 82. When they kept insisting the economy was terrible but everyone in your neighborhood was doing great, and your Dad decided to buy a new car.... womp womp. Behind the curve...
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 12:39 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 12:38 PM (2UnvF)
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It'll be a signing ceremony where he signs an EO imposing the affected tariffs under different authorities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
But if you're not going to get a broad ruling to return full authority to the Constitution, then don't use it as an excuse to vote in bad faith on a case.
Posted by: RandomDave at February 20, 2026 12:39 PM (aJQbY)
Can he close trafe to indidual countries?
Posted by: Operator Error at February 20, 2026 12:40 PM (nm8hu)
Posted by: Boswell at February 20, 2026 12:36 PM (j10i6)
Constitutional Amendment: Part 1: President Trump can impose whatever tariffs he wants for the duration of his term. After which things go back to the way they were.
Part 2: John Roberts is a poopy-head
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:40 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 20, 2026 12:40 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:40 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (tOcjL)
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An interesting opinion. Who conducts trade negotiations? Does EVERY SINGLE dot and jot on a PROPOSED agreement require congressional and judicial approval? We're talking INTERNATIONAL policy here. Essentially, no agreement will be accepted by a foreign power without Congressional AND Judicial approval because every agreement has costs and expenses.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 12:41 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
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Could be. Trump knew this was a possibility and was ready for it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 12:41 PM (2UnvF)
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The 6 judge majority is acting outside the law. A lawless ruling.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 12:41 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:41 PM (8EgcX)
And it is only vested in congress.
We get to interpret any law made by congress.
See what I did there?????
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (hDrm1)
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The DOJ's Solicitor General should have made this argument -- as well as present every historical case where every court (from District Clown Courts to the SCOTUS Clown Court) has overruled an Executive Branch decision.
As if such contradictions would make a difference ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:42 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:42 PM (duOzU)
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He isnt wrong. But these strings connected to my mouth and hands control what i say and do....not the law.
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 12:43 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: She Hobbit
Paste fail! Sposda be a response to Roberts.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 20, 2026 12:43 PM (ftFVW)
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Dicta was the best coach the Bears ever had.
Posted by: Gavin Newsom
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Tiny Ditka would kick the shit out of Legal Dicta.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2026 12:43 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: mrp
Or, alternatively, a treaty with Iran can only be overturned by a 60 vote majority in the Senate.
Bitches!
Haaahahaha!
-Barak Obama
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 12:43 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:42 PM (duOzU)
Then they're gonna get Vance
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:43 PM (VE6XX)
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Rotation, some members have exceeded their sell by date and have become rancid an should be replaced.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:44 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Max Power at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:42 PM (duOzU)
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Oh no.
Democrats will get a small majority in the House and waste all of their time on useless theater.
What ever will the administration do?
Perhaps use the appropriations for an expanded ICE to deport millions more people. Hell, they deported 700,000 in the first year alone with reduced numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (8EgcX)
All those costs were carried by retail customers.
Do they get a refund?
Posted by: Operator Error at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (nm8hu)
Posted by: Traitor Roberts! at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (n1OCj)
Posted by: J Roberts
I thought that's what the hand up your butt was for.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:41 PM (8EgcX)
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The BLaMtifa brown-shirt shock-troops are well-funded, trained, & supported by the FBI and GloboHomo Deep State, psychotic, will be free from any accountability & prosecution, and ready to Burn, Loot, and Murder upon Benedict Roberts' command!
And even without it ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:43 PM
an angry Vance.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 12:46 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 12:46 PM (gVUi7)
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guy can't catch a break
the courts hate him
the Senate hates him
the media hates him
uphill, both ways for this man
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 12:46 PM (ZxPkt)
Do they get a refund?
Posted by: Operator Error
LOL, no.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 20, 2026 12:46 PM (ftFVW)
Weren't the tariffs paid by the exporter?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (8EgcX)
Tiny Ditka would kick the shit out of Legal Dicta.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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They wanted Ditka to run for congress. He said, I can't, I'm honest.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:43 PM
an angry Vance.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 12:45 PM (4NO2D)
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In the final days of Trump's first term, at his lowest point politically and right after 1/6, the House impeached Trump.
The Senate, faced with the power to keep Trump out of electoral politics forever, just needing 67 votes to convict him...fell 10 votes short.
You people are freaking ninnies. No, no impeachment is going to succeed. Impeachment is a joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
Random question I've had but forget to look into: Why does no one stage the tragedy "Cato" in our modern era?
Cato was a beloved play during the colonial era, and Washington's fave play. It influenced many of the founding fathers. Not once in all the places I've lived has it ever been staged. I have seen SO much theatre over my lifetime. Shakespeare, Wilde, etc. Not once has anyone staged it.
Is it because the left controls theatre, and it is anti-left? Has it just not held up over time as a good play? Could someone on the right revive it, maybe this year on the 250th? I would love to see it performed live, in person, before I die.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (gWBY1)
The whole country hangs on getting two more conservatives on the SCOTUS and replacing all the commies in the lower courts.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (P+H85)
*quietly buys another case of ammo*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 20, 2026 12:48 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 12:48 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 12:34 PM (77rzZ)
Let me get this in before Trump's 12:45 presser starts...
Answer to Varney Trivia is indeed Jimmy Peanuts....an easy one today.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:48 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)
Your Congress Critter and demand that Congress pass a law allowing the President to impose the Tariffs.
Any Congressperson against it will have to face the wrath of constituents.
Posted by: Czech Chick at February 20, 2026 12:48 PM (vK/Ja)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:49 PM (8EgcX)
The stock market hasn't crashed yet.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 12:49 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Sid at February 20, 2026 12:49 PM (894Cm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:49 PM (8EgcX)
The whole country hangs on getting two more conservatives on the SCOTUS and replacing all the commies in the lower courts.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (P+H85)
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Well, the chances of Democrats getting the Senate are...very low.
Like...pretty much impossible.
And with Mitch getting replaced by someone less awful than him, a loss of a GOP seat (in, say, NC) in the chamber is actually something of a break even point.
But, it must be remembered that in 2018, a terrible GOP midterm, when the congressional popular vote (it's sort of a thing) was D+9....the GOP won 2 Senate seats. Because Senate races change turnout in the states that have them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:49 PM (GBKbO)
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Incorrect. Most of Trump's tariffs are untouched.
Look at the stock market: Unfazed. That should tell you something.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:49 PM (OAPjy)
All those costs were carried by retail customers.
Do they get a refund?
Posted by: Operator Error
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Hahahahahaha
Oh, wait, you're serious?
Let me laugh again, harder.
At Costco they will get more spending on trannies and queers on pride month.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:50 PM (P+H85)
But if you're not going to get a broad ruling to return full authority to the Constitution, then don't use it as an excuse to vote in bad faith on a case.
Exactly right. Otherwise, we get conflicting “precedents”, which is antithetical to Constitutional powers!
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:50 PM (duOzU)
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
The tariff ruling may turn out to have a silver lining in 8 months.
Because they put upward price pressure on imported goods, removing them will do the opposite.
At the same time, targeted tariffs for trade/foreign policy purposes can be reimposed.
Trade agreements that were compelled by tariffs remain in place. With the US economy still atop the world in terms of productivity and wealth creation, companies that have announced investments in U.S. based manufacturing are not likely to change their minds.
The coercive benefit of the tariffs over the past year have been realized. To the extent they have hampered economic growth they are now going to evaporate.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 20, 2026 12:50 PM (4gRuz)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:49 PM (OAPjy)
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The stock market can never tell me anything useful.
It is a playground for algorithms designed by degenerate gamblers with the only mantra of "must go up".
But otherwise, yeah, this ruling is actually quite narrow and has little effect and Trump will undo the little effect easily.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:50 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:50 PM (VE6XX)
Wait until the GOP loses the mid-terms, which they will because MAGAMAGAMAGA doesn’t vote unless Trump is on the ballot. Besides, the CONservative podcast clickbait echo system is already starting the “we gotta teach these rinos a lesson” narrative.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 20, 2026 12:51 PM (5TWd1)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:42 PM (duOzU)
Then they're gonna get Vance
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 12:43 PM (VE6XX)
Do you want a President Vance? Because this is how you get a President Vance.......bwa haw haw haw.......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:51 PM (QGaXH)
It is a playground for algorithms designed by degenerate gamblers
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 12:51 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (8EgcX)
Wait until the GOP loses the mid-terms, which they will because MAGAMAGAMAGA doesn’t vote unless Trump is on the ballot. Besides, the CONservative podcast clickbait echo system is already starting the “we gotta teach these rinos a lesson” narrative.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 20, 2026 12:51 PM (5TWd1)
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From a practical legal point of view, yes they did. IEEPA obviously didn't work from a practical legal point of view. It should have. The language is clear, but oh well.
It's not like there are half a dozen other authorities he can choose from now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The Senate is underwater now if you only count actual conservatives.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (P+H85)
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It's good I don't run a discussion board or anything similar. I would banject 'panicans' and the like so hard there'd be like three people left. If I were made uber-dictator I'd find said people and . . . I'll just stop there.
Posted by: the lower depths at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (Dg7ng)
The problem is the tariffs thwart a global takeover, if we demand the world pays its fair share.
The government DROOLS at collecting our money. Us average plebe US taxpayer, it wants all our money. But when it comes to taxing the world, crickets.
Tariffs? No.
Taxing remittances (when for some countries remittances are more than their GDP)? No.
Seeing who the left is NOT willing to tax is as important as who they ARE wiling to tax.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (gWBY1)
It is a playground for algorithms designed by degenerate gamblers with the only mantra of "must go up".
But otherwise, yeah, this ruling is actually quite narrow and has little effect and Trump will undo the little effect easily.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:50 PM (GBKbO)
We need more of a "The Sopranos" approach to degenerate gamblers.
Posted by: Or Casino. Either way it should hurt. at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (20K3i)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (P+H85)
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And yet, a strong leader who bends to the whims of the electorate can get things done with it.
Thune delivered more conservative victories in one year than Mitch did in 10 because Mitch just actively worked against us while Thune blows in the wind.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:53 PM (GBKbO)
The Senate, faced with the power to keep Trump out of electoral politics forever, just needing 67 votes to convict him...fell 10 votes short.
You people are freaking ninnies. No, no impeachment is going to succeed. Impeachment is a joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
The House has barely managed to help Trump while in GOP hands. People here have spent the last year or so being apoplectic over penny-ante losers like Massie being a thorn in Trump's side. A Democrat-controlled House is likely to be a bigger thorn, whatever one thinks of its impeachment theater.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 12:53 PM (y+qgR)
I guess I should've wished for a debilitating aneurysm.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 12:54 PM (20K3i)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
"Den we gon' impeach Vance and we goin' keep impeachin' tillz we has a Democrat as pRezident!"
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 12:54 PM (BpO1e)
Exactly right. Otherwise, we get conflicting “precedents”, which is antithetical to Constitutional powers!
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:50 PM (duOzU)
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Dred Scott-like impact, I'm afraid.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 12:54 PM (rj6Yv)
I hope that the Republicans keep the Senate, otherwise, they’ll hamstring JD Vance as well.
Posted by: Unkaren at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (duOzU)
Posted by: Marooned at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 12:53 PM (y+qgR)
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They will do theater. It will be annoying, but it will affect surprisingly little.
Imagine noted genius Jeffries trying to wrangle a 5 seat majority into doing anything meaningful, all while the Senate remains in GOP hands and won't pass their bullshit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (GBKbO)
Also remember we have voices who just want you to despair and be ready to slit your own wrists.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (bss/y)
What do you have against coastal waterfowl?
Posted by: Ornithophobe! at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (TbWk/)
Seeing who the left is NOT willing to tax is as important as who they ARE wiling to tax.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (gWBY1)
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Indeed. Human behavior is driven by both disincentives, incentives, AND -- where our society has descended to -- perverse incentives
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:56 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 12:56 PM (pZ64F)
In the final days of Trump's first term, at his lowest point politically and right after 1/6, the House impeached Trump.
The Senate, faced with the power to keep Trump out of electoral politics forever, just needing 67 votes to convict him...fell 10 votes short.
You people are freaking ninnies. No, no impeachment is going to succeed. Impeachment is a joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
When was the last time congress passed ANYTHING of significance with a veto-proof majority? The last time I remember was when they spanked O'Bama for cutting the funding for the Air Traffic controllers during the budget dispute - every agency had to cut 5% - so O was going to cut the FAA ATC budget - they overrode him in a hurry with near unanimous majorities.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (QGaXH)
In fairness to the SCOTUS Six, spit, they're saying that Congress - a legislative body which has done nothing to benefit the nation they represent for over a century - has the power to slowly and laboriously enact tariffs, with the concurrence of the President, but they are not permitted to recognize their own inability to act in a timely fashion and to, therefore, delegate matters.
They may, of course, delegate other matters which the founders didn't grant to the federal government at all and which are not in any fashion time sensitive, but that's different.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (hDrm1)
New hotness: Protecting the EU, which includes Canada, and the Chicoms ongoing looting of the USA.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (tqpXi)
Posted by: It's me donna
I still think, if it goes through, it'll end up a dummymander. VA was only a 6 point state in 24. And they are acting like it was MA.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 12:23 PM (MGB5H)
Yes and no. With honest elections, spreading their voters so thin can backfire wildly, as you say. They would just be one Wave Election away from a complete reversal, a Republican sweep of every seat -- probably just for only that one Congress, but still. Highly volatile.
But, that's a huge caveat. Do they not understand basic arithmetic, or do they believe that The Fix Is In and their Election Fraud Machine is unbeatable?
Posted by: SciVo at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (Sy6m/)
I simply don't see why SCOTUS is sticking their nose into Congressional matters. Yeah, I know, lawsuits and baloney.
It seems an overstep of their branch of government, considering the tariffs are international.
But what do I know? Not a lot. Although I do know President Trump and others will figure out this mess.
It is such a bummer that a few justices are transparently liberal vs being neutral in their decisions. Pity that the one with her bone or shell necklaces did not submit her ideas (which, I hope NEVER pertain to ICE, as she was photographed at the Grammy's and is totally transparent in her beliefs as well as profoundly stupid).
While RBG was a liberal weirdo, she did not go to the Grammy's and hobnob with celebrities that I am aware of. Of course I mostly tried to avoid looking at her, so she could have worn a puthy hat and marched for all I know.
All will be well. I have hope and prayer always.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (gWBY1)
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Can you say Chy Nah?
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (pZ64F)
Fingers crossed.
I keep flirting with the idea of Tulsi as VP, it would drive the left nuts. But she's like RFK: still a lib on a lot of issues, just channeled by Trump into the right job to clean house at the right time.
Rubio is a rock star where he is, VP will clip his wings as far as actual effectiveness. I think he should be secretary of state forever...at least until he's fixed Cuba.
Who else even makes sense as a reliable VP pick? Sarah Huckabee?
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (QGaXH)
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What did Congress under Democrat control do under Biden?
The Inflation Reduction Act which affected no actual policy and was just a massive payoff to connected Democrat cronies.
Congress doesn't do policy. Even talking about the SAVE act is a massive historical anomaly at this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:58 PM (GBKbO)
But women don't want the US to have domestic manufacturing capacity. It creates pollution, and traffic, and noise, and NIMBY...
That is if you go by the courts, the AWFLs, the female AGs, the female "educators" the bird hand female influencers, etc.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 12:59 PM (WCaCG)
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 12:59 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)
No tariffs? Fine.
Any of youse Eurotrash bogbillies and chain-smoking Asian douchecanoes say a single word in public celebrating this decision, then please to enjoy the new cargo inspection rules, where goods inspections are ramped up, to protect the American People from your shoddy products and smuggled contraband.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 01:00 PM (kTyBw)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:00 PM (8EgcX)
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Fixing Cuber is easy. Just let Miami do the fixing. You won't even need to fund it.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 01:00 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 20, 2026 12:14 PM (CHHv1)
Roberts needs to find a horse-head in his bed, when he awakens...
Posted by: Pinochet Air Flight Attendant at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (zL/eJ)
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Only because they all fly out of Reagan National. And you saw what happens there....
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (RHGPo)
@GuntherEagleman
16m
🚨BREAKING: Justice Clarence Thomas just UNLEASHED pure FIRE in his dissent on the tariff ruling, dropping TRUTH BOMBS that expose the majority's BS and defend President Trump's America First authority like a boss!
Is this guy 15 years old?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (qivay)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (8EgcX)
Utah conservatives got way more than the 200K signatures needed to repeal Proposition 4, which allowed the Utah maps to be redrawn to give dems a blue congress seat. Fingers crossed!
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (gWBY1)
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Been there done that. How do you think these strings got attached to my mouth and hands....
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:02 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:02 PM (iFTx/)
Because they don't want to. They rather please China.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 01:02 PM (WCaCG)
Posted by: Texican ette at February 20, 2026 01:02 PM (SNf74)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 01:02 PM (gVUi7)
They may, of course, delegate other matters which the founders didn't grant to the federal government at all and which are not in any fashion time sensitive, but that's different.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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OK, that's a good point, but it does effectively hobble the President's power to "regulate importation"
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 01:03 PM (P+H85)
How in the world could tariffs ever be imposed with the trade of every other country if each and every one would have to go through congressional approval? Which is the globalists goal of course because it can't be effectively done.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:03 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: zombie Carlos II at February 20, 2026 01:03 PM (i1VVh)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti
Yeah, this stuff is annoying.
I find most of the internet unreadable.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 20, 2026 01:04 PM (P+H85)
Bro, you think I'm gonna wade through all that legalese? Sota and I are heading down to the cafeteria. It's pizza day!
Posted by: Justice Jackson at February 20, 2026 01:04 PM (qivay)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 01:04 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 01:04 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:05 PM (OAPjy)
Surfer Joe gets cold.....(1960's song reference)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 01:05 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (gWBY1)
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She'd be good.
How 'bout Scott Bessent?
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 01:05 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2026 01:05 PM (i1VVh)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:05 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 12:57 PM (gWBY1)
Either Don Jr. or Eric?
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:05 PM (FpHTM)
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How do you know the globalists are pulling the strings? When the US supreme court rules we have to continue being the worlds patsy, because the constitution requires it.....
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:05 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:05 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 12:52 PM (20K3i)
Dude....really ? (LOLOL!)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 01:06 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 20, 2026 01:06 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (qivay)
In influencer years.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 01:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 20, 2026 01:06 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 01:07 PM (K3KEI)
Posted by: Pinochet Air Flight Attendant at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (zL/eJ)
I swear she was alive when we went to sleep!
Posted by: Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:07 PM (qivay)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 01:07 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Samuel Jumanji-Jackson Browne at February 20, 2026 01:07 PM (7Q0e+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:07 PM (8EgcX)
Well, meow.
Posted by: Chief Justice Joan Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (TTUKx)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (8EgcX)
I actually wish he wouldn't do that. It makes him appear unprofessional and disorganized. if you say 12:45 then be there at 12:45....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (QGaXH)
Because they don't want to. They rather please China.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Their paymaster.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (OAPjy)
That’s what the leftists have been doing to the USA for decades now. Once you know what to look for, or what you’re looking at, you can’t unsee it. If these were merely incompetent people, then by the law of averages they would make mistakes now and then that benefit America.
That never happens
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (tgJVA)
So Article I of the Constitution and Congress passing laws for the President to then sign is a “globalist” thing now?
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Justice Jackson at February 20, 2026 01:04 PM (qivay)
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Plus you're busy writing your first Grammy-Award Winning book "55 Years A Slave."
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (qivay)
In influencer years.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
Hmmmm, I think even my 14- and 16-year old little hobbits would only write like that to be ironic.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (n5tGW)
But women don't want the US to have domestic manufacturing capacity. It creates pollution, and traffic, and noise, and NIMBY...
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 12:59 PM (WCaCG)
AWFLs think that their totally authentic $12,000 Rolex Lady Date-Just is built in the back room of the local jewelry store.
The Ettes know better.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (kTyBw)
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Then he'll just have to impose the tariffs without the court's approval.
It's not like there's any actual reason to cooperate with judges.
Posted by: Methos at February 20, 2026 01:09 PM (vSvIl)
Is in 6-3 majority, the CJ found a way to support Obama.
But in another 6-3 majority, the CJ found a way to constrain Trump.
And according to the CJ, there are no political judges.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at February 20, 2026 01:09 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (QGaXH)
IKR?
Posted by: William J. Greatthings Clinton at February 20, 2026 01:09 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:09 PM (8EgcX)
Then at the SOTU, physically shove ACB up Roberts' ass where she spends most of her time anyway.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (pZ64F)
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They'll both be eclipsed by the National Paint-Drying Competition.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (i1VVh)
@GuntherEagleman
16m
🚨BREAKING: Justice Clarence Thomas just UNLEASHED pure FIRE in his dissent on the tariff ruling, dropping TRUTH BOMBS that expose the majority's BS and defend President Trump's America First authority like a boss!
Is this guy 15 years old?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at February 20, 2026 01:01 PM (qivay)
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It's also stupid because it doesn't matter how much FIRE anyone UNLEASHES ... in dissent.
It's like a guy bragging about how the girl he asked to prom was HOT AS MOLTEN FIRE, but she Heismanned him and went with some Chad instead.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (iFTx/)
Is in 6-3 majority, the CJ found a way to support Obama.
But in another 6-3 majority, the CJ found a way to constrain Trump.
And according to the CJ, there are no political judges
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There are no political judges because there is only one party, and Trump isnt in it. Neither are any of you....
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Comes under the heading, Democrats not reading the room.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: TakeFive at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (ZoWdm)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 12:59 PM (WCaCG)
The Only Jobs That Matter. If you work in any other sector other than manufacturing, you are SHIT.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:11 PM (fYhK6)
It's like a guy bragging about how the girl he asked to prom was HOT AS MOLTEN FIRE, but she Heismanned him and went with some Chad instead.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (iFTx/)
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"Dissents are really important."
-RBG's fans for like 10 years
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TakeFive at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (ZoWdm)
Take Five for ad blockers.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:11 PM (fYhK6)
The decision is. Trade policy must be in the hands of the executive branch.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:11 PM (n5tGW)
When the USA's opponents are in favor of a SCOTUS ruling that hamstrings Trump's economic and foreign polices agendas pretty much sums up why today's IEEPA ruling is a disaster.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 20, 2026 01:12 PM (tqpXi)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 01:00 PM (kTyBw)
Fuck no. We can't afford to hire a bunch more inspectors. All that shit will just have to sit in the port until someone can get to it. Hope it's not perishable.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:12 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: pudinhead at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (pZ64F)
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They should relocate both to Maryland -- and build Obama's Presidential Outhouse & Bathhouse upon the Potomac Interceptor, and build the High Speed Train across the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 01:12 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:12 PM (8EgcX)
-RBG's fans for like 10 years
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
RBG was at the center of a cult of personality.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:13 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: Operator Error at February 20, 2026 01:13 PM (nm8hu)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:11 PM (fYhK6)
Well, there's also being a Badass Killer in the Special Forces.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:13 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (abIsI)
Scotus just told Trump to fuck off. Tariffs are dead.
Posted by: Not Sugarcoating It at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (DbQvn)
As long as that President is a Democrat.
Him and Anti-Abortion Barbie should burn in hell.
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (gtcuf)
But women don't want the US to have domestic manufacturing capacity. It creates pollution, and traffic, and noise, and NIMBY...
That is if you go by the courts, the AWFLs, the female AGs, the female "educators" the bird hand female influencers, etc.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 12:59 PM (WCaCG)
And does absolutely NOTHING to help them get their little transchild status symbol accessories, like having a teacup chihuahua in their Hermes bags used to be. Glamorous stunning and brave allyship!
Posted by: Oh your toddler is trans? Mine too! You're so brave! at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:12 PM (ExV1e)
Are you kidding? We need more CBP inspectors to check everyone’s passport when they LEAVE the United States, to catch visa overstays/violators.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 20, 2026 01:12 PM (tqpXi)
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I think Chy-na and Califzuela have declared today National Holidays.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (8EgcX)
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How can you tell the globalists are pulling the strings? When i write an opinion saying the US has to be the worlds patsy.
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (hDrm1)
Did Canada cheat against the Finns?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:09 PM (8EgcX)
*waves razor sharp puukko while pounding down vodka*
Try it, cheese-curds boy.
And Tim Horton was a pansy.
Posted by: The Finns at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (kTyBw)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:15 PM (j42Fn)
Scotus just told Trump to fuck off. Tariffs are dead.
Posted by: Not Sugarcoating It at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (DbQvn)
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Lots of not understanding the ruling and its scope.
But you revel in your ignorance. Make you seem big and smart.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:15 PM (GBKbO)
Whose side are they on?
Must we embrace some new interpretation of a non-existent "international law"?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 01:15 PM (gVUi7)
And the framers also very clearly did not vest in the Supreme Court, the ability to write all rules for lower courts. That power was given to Congress.
Ergo, by this legal definition, the Rules our Courts run under are clearly Unconstitutional.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 20, 2026 01:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Just re-impose the same tariffs under the same authority and force the companies to re-litigate it all the way back to SCOTUS.
Like, just refuse to revoke the tariffs and force the plaintiff's to go all the way back to SCOTUS.
Honestly, why not?
The cartel judges have eviscerated any moral authority of the courts as some sort of neutral arbitrator.
And Trump can just say, "yes SCOTUS ruled on that but this is different. Because, that's why."
Or, a more blunt way of saying to Roberts, "you made your ruling, you and I know you can't enforce it. Make me a deal on kneecapping the cartel judges and I'll let you have your win."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 01:16 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:16 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: TakeFive at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (ZoWdm)
Take Five for ad blockers.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Remedies have been overstated. Complaining is just another way to troll.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:17 PM (OAPjy)
Did Canada cheat against the Finns?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:09 PM (8EgcX)
No,no, NO! Pure as the driven snow. Just like those commenting on the Canuks moving the rocks in the curling game. It wasn't their fault - they DO move on their own....
Posted by: Pinochet Air Flight Attendant at February 20, 2026 01:17 PM (zL/eJ)
As long as that President is a Democrat.
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (gtcuf)
It's (D)ifferent when they do it.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:17 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM (2UnvF)
Yeah, I don't get it either.
adsay blocksay.
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM (n5tGW)
Did Canada cheat against the Finns?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:09 PM (8EgcX)
No,no, NO! Pure as the driven snow. Just like those commenting on the Canuks moving the rocks in the curling game. It wasn't their fault - they DO move on their own....
Posted by: Pinochet Air Flight Attendant at February 20, 2026 01:17 PM (zL/eJ)
The Czechs got away with cheating against the Canadians in the previous round (though they still lost in the end).
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM (FpHTM)
Whose side are they on?
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I just wrote an opinion saying I AM NOT ON YOUR SIDE. WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO DO TO MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!!!
I serve the globalist elite.
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: J Roberts at February 20, 2026 01:14 PM (hDrm1)
I’m a globalist. I know because I have a valid passport, and it has visas. I have expired one with even more visas. That’s all you need to be one. So, as a certified globalist, I can safely say Mr. Roberts has one guiding principle when writing opinions - will The Cool Kids like it? Will I be able to stay on the Inside The Beltway Super Cool Cocktail Party Circuit?
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM (fYhK6)
adsay blocksay.
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM
Just switching to Brave browser fixes everything.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:18 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: TakeFive at February 20, 2026 01:10 PM (ZoWdm)
While I understand that none of the people who come to the comments to bitch about the front page actually read the comments... just in case:
- Use a browser with an ad blocker. Please hit the tip jar regularly.
- Don't hit "Continue reading", use "Comments" instead.
This will solve most of your issues.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: epador at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (TRnzq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (8EgcX)
I actually wish he wouldn't do that. It makes him appear unprofessional and disorganized. if you say 12:45 then be there at 12:45....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 01:08 PM (QGaXH)
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[The Wifey Snarks:] Trump's reading Ace.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (5FL4d)
Fuck no. We can't afford to hire a bunch more inspectors. All that shit will just have to sit in the port until someone can get to it. Hope it's not perishable.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:12 PM (ExV1e)
Good point. Lots of places in the Channel for Long Beach-bound container ships to anchor. Not SHELTERED places, but there's plenty of room out there.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (kTyBw)
That’s what the leftists have been doing to the USA for decades now. Once you know what to look for, or what you’re looking at, you can’t unsee it. If these were merely incompetent people, then by the law of averages they would make mistakes now and then that benefit America.
That never happens
Posted by: Common Tater
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Nice connection! And here is where I encourage the readers to revive the old stories for they hold a lot of truth.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: Operator Error at February 20, 2026 01:13 PM (nm8hu)
Everybody that wants refunds, all their goods are embargoed until they forfeit the claim and agree to whatever tariffs Trump wants. Bam! Trade, regulated.
Posted by: SciVo at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (Sy6m/)
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Better yet, simply ignore the ruling and expose the SC as the paper tiger it is.
Posted by: Methos at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (ilNpL)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:20 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (ExV1e)
I think it's people who constantly refresh the front page waiting for a nood.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 01:20 PM (FpHTM)
Yeah, I don't get it either.
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Some cant do that on work equipt.
Posted by: Hur dee dur at February 20, 2026 01:20 PM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 12:53 PM (y+qgR)
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They will do theater. It will be annoying, but it will affect surprisingly little.
Imagine noted genius Jeffries trying to wrangle a 5 seat majority into doing anything meaningful, all while the Senate remains in GOP hands and won't pass their bullshit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:55 PM (GBKbO)
Don't get me wrong; I'm not getting fitted for a noose. But we'd all rather the GOP retain the House, such as the GOP is. It's just a sign of how far gone serious lower-case-r republican governance is that capturing the emperorship, I mean presidency, is the be-all end-all.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (y+qgR)
You know they will
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 01:19 PM (ilNpL)
Have we met?
Posted by: Bruen v New York at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (fYhK6)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (j42Fn)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (2UnvF)
i got hobo ass questions
Posted by: SAD! at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (odGVN)
Posted by: kingsman at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: SAD! at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM
Heh.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
nood bad things
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: guy who complains about the ads at February 20, 2026 01:22 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2026 01:23 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: kingsman at February 20, 2026 01:23 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 01:21 PM (y+qgR)
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This ruling isn't going to affect any of the races.
Differential turnout will account for 90% of the results (out of power parties just do better) while the final 10% will be the turnout battle of GOTV efforts.
I just know that the 2018 scenario is not going to happen. Nothing but the worst polls show anything close to that actual result (D+9, which still netted the GOP 2 Senate seats).
It'll probably be D+3 or so. Which is effectively even. And I wouldn't be surprised if the GOP gained a Senate seat (holds NC and wins GA).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 01:23 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: guy who complains about the ads
That's because those are the ones that billionaires don't want you to see.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:24 PM (77rzZ)
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That'll fix everything!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: toby928(c)
He hasn't gone anywhere. He's still here, ruling over us benignantly.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 01:25 PM (77rzZ)
Those 3 along with McConnell are doing the heavy lifting to destroy America and freedom worldwide and usher in the neo-dark-ages.
Posted by: geoffb at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (r//c2)
Posted by: Frank at February 20, 2026 01:35 PM (DXPhz)
Posted by: Tar Bae at February 20, 2026 02:22 PM (uR4Tu)
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at February 20, 2026 04:15 PM (KoOs5)
The Supreme Court ruled today that IEEPA — a 1977 emergency law — can’t be used to impose sweeping global tariffs without Congressional authorization. Roberts wrote it. Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh dissented like champs.
Here’s what the left and the media aren’t telling you: this is a procedural ruling, not a policy death sentence.
The tariffs that actually matter — Section 232 steel and aluminum, Section 301 China-specific — are untouched. Still standing. Still working. The White House isn’t rolling anything back. They’re already pivoting to the Trade Act, national security authority, and Congress if needed.
The left is celebrating like American manufacturing just got handed back to China.
It didn’t.
Tariffs protect American jobs. They bring factories home. They punish unfair dumping and force real deals at the table. One procedural setback doesn’t change any of that.
We don’t lose. We reload. 🇺🇸💪
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 05:38 PM (K/iZ8)
The problem here is only THIS will be deemed too far.
If this ruling laid the foundation for striking down a whole host of rules and agencies created under the guise of congressional "delegation" then, I'm all for it. I'll let go of the tariffs if the EPA goes down with it.
But that's not how it will work.
Posted by: Rich at February 21, 2026 08:48 AM (6fttg)
THE MORNING RANT: General Motors Hires Another Senior Executive from a Money-Losing EV Startup
, Mr. Anderson was hired less than a year ago from Aurora Innovation, a tech start-up he co-founded that is pursuing the grail of self-driving semi-trucks. After losing $4 billion over the past four years at Aurora, and putting less than 10 test vehicles on Texas interstates, Mr. Anderson left Aurora and has quickly positioned himself to be General Motors’ next CEO. CNBC reported a few weeks ago that Mr. Anderson “has consolidated power to oversee ‘the end-to-end product lifecycle’ of GM vehicles, including manufacturing, engineering, battery, software and services product management, and engineering teams, according to GM.”
I noted in the Spectator piece that despite GM’s massive EV losses under Mary Barra, “the company is apparently casting its lot with a tech executive whose profit-and-loss experience is with cash burn rather than cash flow.”
And now, with Claudia Gast, GM is yet again staffing a high-level executive position with a person who has no experience in high-volume, mass-market products, nor does she bring from Lucid experience in running a profitable operation.
Lucid Motors sells a low-volume, specialty product, specifically luxury EVs. The starting price for a Lucid is about $80,000, with sales of about 15,000 units per year. By contrast, GM sells about 3 million vehicles per year.
Investors in Lucid stock have been taken to the cleaners. From its split-adjusted* IPO stock price of $150 per share in 2021, the stock peaked at over $550 per share in 2022, and has since fallen below $10 per share – a 98% decline. (*The IPO was at $15 per share, but due to the stock price subsequently crashing to near-zero, Lucid did a 1-for-10 reverse stock split last August.)
As for financial performance, Lucid has lost about $12 billion over the past four years, and it is running out of cash. At the end of 2024, Lucid had $4 billion in cash. Nine months later it was down to $2.3 billion, and it will likely be lower still when the full-year 2025 financial statements are released soon. Ms. Gast is wise to jump ship before the cash runs out.
There is nothing in the resumes of Mr. Anderson or Ms. Gast that indicates they have any experience steering a ship with a product line and customer base like General Motors. After the catastrophic run under Mary Barra, and the damage from the EV distraction, GM desperately needs to focus on being a profitable, mass-market manufacturer of traditional gas and diesel vehicles.
GM’s Board of Directors should have brought in (or promoted) industry veterans who understand what GM’s customers want to buy and what its dealers can sell. Instead, they’ve brought in executives who have experience managing cash burn and losses on low-volume, niche products. This negligent oversight by the Board is a dereliction of their fiduciary duty.
[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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Aka: being fucking stupid. It is like everyone is just retarded these days.
I am starting to realize why my grandparents were cranky sometimes...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:03 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Jaimo at February 20, 2026 11:03 AM (BCuCF)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2026 11:03 AM (3Ofdo)
I would buy a used corvette.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:03 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2026 11:04 AM (3Ofdo)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 11:05 AM (QZThv)
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 11:05 AM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Cosmo Kramer, Denizen of the C-Suite at February 20, 2026 11:05 AM (ZJT0I)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 11:05 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 11:05 AM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Obvs. at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (hDrm1)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (3Ofdo)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 11:05 AM (MZ+PY)
Executive and democrat pockets.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)
It's a shame to see how they have gone all-SUV, Buick anyway, and are deliberately pounding their heads against a stone wall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (vlkz/)
and no offense, but the last thing GM needs is another Ms.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings
They need a hit!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (Cqx++)
Well, the industry veterans haven't exactly covered themselves in glory for the last 60-odd years. Could the new guys do worse?
Trump needs to say explicity; "There will be no more bailouts. Good luck!"
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
If Mary wants to burn shareholder money by the billions every year, who am I to stop her. If shareholders are retarded enough to keep investing, well again who am I to stop them.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:07 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2026 11:08 AM (g8Ew8)
I never considered a GM. I gave Ford and Chrysler multiple chances, and they screwed the pooch (and me) each time. They're out of second chances.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
Susan Rice will bail them out.
*types* *deletes*
Spoils system. Score settling. Get even first.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:09 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 11:09 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM
Bingo.
GM lags the overall market by a significant margin, and the millions of Americans who own its stock are being penalized just so a bunch of virtue-signaling board members can feel good about themselves for doing something to save the planet!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 11:09 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Archimedes
I have only owned Japanese brands. And I've been quite happy with them.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
Euro cars: fun to drive but unreliable
Big 3: boring AND unreliable
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Toyota is not supposed to be bad, plus they are supposed to be working at doing a far cheaper truck. I would not mind a truck if they did not cost as much as a house cost when I was 10.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (bss/y)
Wow. Did they can any federal money/contracts?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026
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Even if I wanted to spend the kind of ca$$$h they want for vehicles now, there are precious few I'd want. I have no need for an SUV and prefer sedans. If something happens to the current Buick and I can't find one of the last-gen LaCrosses or a good lightly-used Cadillac XTS, I'll have to go Toyota or maybe even Hyundai.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (wzUl9)
The slight problem with this cunning plan is that a lot of these cars are rentals, which have been returned to the rent-a-car companies, and unsuspecting tourists and businessmen who rent these cars find themselves forced to stop by mobs blocking their cars and interrogated.
This will doubtless have wonderful effects on the already wounded Minneapolis economy.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (n1OCj)
Jasmine Crockett says Democrats’ attacks on her are racially motivated:
“The thing that is not normal is for me to be attacked from the Left… I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer and I see when they’re sending out ads and they’re darkening my skin.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (FXNzP)
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"Not on our watch. They're Too Big To Fail!"
-- W and Obama bailing out “Government Motors" circa 2008-2009
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (5FL4d)
It must drive the company executives nuts trying to plan more than a couple years down the road.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (wzUl9)
Buick is profitable.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 11:11 AM (n9ltV)
Trump needs to say explicity; "There will be no more bailouts. Good luck!"
Posted by: Archimedes
Overruled!
-SCOTUS
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 11:11 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: iamnotthekenyaninterloper at February 20, 2026 11:12 AM (y9skt)
GM has its own history of pissing money away so looking for people from a different background doing it is pretty on brand.
Posted by: blaster at February 20, 2026 11:12 AM (NlEaG)
https://tinyurl.com/249ae978
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 11:12 AM (4NO2D)
“The thing that is not normal is for me to be attacked from the Left… I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer and I see when they’re sending out ads and they’re darkening my skin.”
Well? Are they?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
Susan Rice offers a taste of what’s coming should the left retake power — promises Democrats will punish corporations and other institutions who have “taken a knee to Trump.”
“It’s not going to end well for them."
“If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to play by the old rules…they’ve got another thing coming."
“There will be an accountability agenda."
“This is not going to be an instance of forgive and forget."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (bss/y)
Toyota has a far cheaper truck. The Hilux. It's just not legal in the US.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (wzUl9)
Buick is profitable.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 11:11 AM (n9ltV)
SUVs sell. They always have. Sit higher. Functional.
You really notice how big all the cars have gotten when you drive a 2001 Miata SE as your daily driver for 13 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:06 AM (wzUl9)
Buick is profitable.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026
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I've read that's because of sales to China. The Chinese love Buicks, even to having their own Park Avenue model.
I'll admit the big Buick SUV, the Enclave, is good-looking inside and out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (wzUl9)
“The thing that is not normal is for me to be attacked from the Left… I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer and I see when they’re sending out ads and they’re darkening my skin.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM
Is she ashamed to fail the paper bag test?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (4NO2D)
They don't care. They are happy to punish car rental businesses for renting to ICE. Just look at how they are punishing local hotels - they want to not renew their liquor licenses.
Antifa/ICE protest groups are a giant destructive force. They want a revolution. Revolutions don't really care about individuals or businesses who et caught in the crossfire.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 11:14 AM (tj6OY)
The SC tariff decision is going to make the screeching left somewhat happy. Didn't kill them all but the will be lost on the sherp
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 11:14 AM (/PQmQ)
But the interesting thing...government spending was down almost 1%. It dragged the overall number down from almost 2.3%.
Considering I think government spending should be negative rather than positive in GDP calculations, the numbers are pretty good. Not as good as everyone had hoped, but pretty good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
https://tinyurl.com/249ae978
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 11:12 AM (4NO2D)
I like that they run with the: REPUBLICANS TO LOSE SEAT!!!!!!!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (FXNzP)
The only way I'd want to buy a newish pickup now if if DEF gets the boot and a non UWA company sells a heavy diesel pickup. People tell me todays gas engines have more power, so probably don't need a diesel for towing but I'd need to hear it from multiple people that had towed a lot with one.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (vlkz/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (XV/Pl)
“It’s not going to end well for them."
“If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to play by the old rules…they’ve got another thing coming."
“There will be an accountability agenda."
“This is not going to be an instance of forgive and forget."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
They're going to come after all of us once they get back in power. It's going to be bad. Very bad.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (bss/y)
Had to replace my old Tundra a couple ago, after an accident. Bought a new Tacoma. It's a good truck, but I tell people it's half the truck for twice the price.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (TTUKx)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (FXNzP)
Democrats want their slaves back!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (Q9G/L)
Of course they are.
They only supported you when you could help stir up race drama, and now they will dump you when another approach is needed. In this case, they want to stir up religious drama.
Sucks, but that's how they roll, Jasmine.
Glad you've noticed. Now what?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (FXNzP)
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Crockett winning the primary with this message is going to just further enhance the incentive structure within the Democrat Party to run on racism.
Her losing by 10 points in the general won't matter.
No one will have thought she had a chance.
But going forward, it's going to be increasingly popular to accuse Democrats of racism in primary elections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026
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I don't think it's weird. My Buicks have all delivered 70% of the Mercedes driving experience at 50% of the cost. I think it is a near-premium brands. (Yes, I'm biased; stipulated.)
Buick's marketing campaign of a few years back was enough to gag a maggot. "That's not a Buick!" "I don't see a Buick!" They didn't even advertise their sporty-ish Regal Turbo and the GS; nobody knew those good cars were available.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (wzUl9)
‘ One has to wonder where $4 billion in losses came from, and where it all went. Somalia?’
I wouldn’t be surprised to find some of it actually had.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (jbnUc)
There are hundreds and hundreds of rental cars in MN now that are essentially cursed, entered into directories of ICE vehicles, and if you have the misfortune of getting one, you could be watched with suspicion, followed, whistled at. That's what the rental agency gets for helping paramilitaries!
Common now as ICE draws down in MN: observers pursue some known ICE vehicle for miles, only to discover it had been returned to the rental agency and re-rented to some poor tourist.
We clear the vehicle, but we tell them: complain to the agency they're blacklisting their cars by renting to ICE
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But it also means the folks left over are the diehards, veritable combat veterans from the siege, who are, at this point, usually pros at this. People with incredible instincts for spotting ICE, who will do combat driving to keep up, who will walk up to a car full of agents and knock on the window.
Imagine being a tourist being "pursued for miles" by "veritable combat veterans" who are engaged in "combat driving".
State and local governments will do nothing about this, of course, since they are on Antifa's side.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (bss/y)
Which from my perspective is wonderful. I like being comfortable on long driving trips, and big cars are simply more comfortable.
And...my big SUV gets better mileage than my first car, which was tiny in comparison!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (MZ+PY)
There is a guy who lives near here (I see the truck fairly often) who is still driving an S-10. It is just ridiculous to compare it to a modern truck, size wise. But it looks useful.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Women recognize like 63,518 different colors. Could get out of control.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026
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Yes! We could use some reds, blues, and greens.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:18 AM (wzUl9)
Old rules? You mean like when your guy O told the bankers he was the only one sanding between them and the pitchforks in order to get them to "take a knee" to him?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 11:18 AM (tj6OY)
I don't see any red flags so far, this all checks out.
Posted by: DEI at all cost! ...mostly yours at February 20, 2026 11:18 AM (IHM9O)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026
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And some more interior colors besides black and gray, and occasionally tan.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:18 AM (wzUl9)
Old rules? You mean like when your guy O told the bankers he was the only one sanding between them and the pitchforks in order to get them to "take a knee" to him?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 11:18 AM (tj6OY)
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Oh, so the Obama faction is going to do what they did last time again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (GBKbO)
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LOL! Yes, because as everyone knows, leftists have been nothing but sweetness and light for the last 60 years. Jeeze Louise. These people are just rancid.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (Oj76K)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (n1OCj)
Hopefully a few of those tourists beat the snot out of some of those Antifa terrorists.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (n9ltV)
And...my big SUV gets better mileage than my first car, which was tiny in comparison!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 11:17 AM (n9ltV)
Heh. You are not wrong. A sports car suspension is awesome... until you drive from Lexington to Louisiana in a single day. It feels like Rosie Greer has been playing bongo on your kidneys when you get out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (bss/y)
Had to replace my old Tundra a couple ago, after an accident. Bought a new Tacoma. It's a good truck, but I tell people it's half the truck for twice the price.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (MZ+PY)
You have the turbocharged 4 banger, yes ?? What do you think about it so far?
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (pDt9x)
Had to ditch spouse's preference for Honda b/c of VA car tax...helps to prioritize best value car without best value hold when buying new cars (no, I don't want my Honda still worth a crapton 9 years in b/c I pay for that all those years)...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (tOcjL)
Oh, so the Obama faction is going to do what they did last time again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (GBKbO)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)
I wouldn’t be surprised to find some of it actually had.
Millions of dollars in cash was flown out of the Minneapolis airport by Somalis.
Purely coincidentally, much of the airport workforce is Somali.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (n1OCj)
So in other words, GM probably turns out more defective 6.2L V8's in a month than Lucid sells cars in a year.
Maybe GM should focus on fixing their fucking engines (also including the oil pickup design flaw on the Duramax) instead of hiring EV Karens.
And Stellantis, for that matter, who is a decade+ into having Pentastars and Hemis clatter themselves apart because they keep using chinesium cam followers and shitty induction hardened cast camshafts. Though they may have figured it wasn't worth the hassle assuming they were planning to ditch both for the new I6 before their CEO got the boot.
In other news related to this and Trump's EPA/CARB/CAFE housecleaning, it's becoming VERY obvious that the super thin motor oil thing automakers jumped on for MPG gains was as much of a mistake as anyone with common sense said it was going to be. GM just had to start recommending 0w40 in the 6.2's as a bandaid because they can't get a handle on their QC and metal
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (rYw47)
Posted by: dananjcon at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (8C1eU)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (Dv3i1)
>>Yes! We could use some reds, blues, and greens.
I primarily have bought blue and orange vehicles, I was in the running for a Lime Green Gladiator, but the dealer decided he wanted to add 10k in smoke to the purchase price so the deal went south.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (LHsLT)
No, not for domestic use: To sell to the US.
Cars, solar panels, windmills, etc.
And now ... no market.
LOL, poor thieves are sitting in shit.
Related: how insanely does the left hate America?
This much:
Trump in GA; business owner says our product sells for $150, China steals the design, sells for $90. Now they can't, thanks to you.
Response of left?
Trump supports robbing American consumers to support his big business buddies!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 11:21 AM (HXT0k)
The Miata was just more fun to drive.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:21 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (Dv3i1)
Lots of people hate America I think.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 11:21 AM (pDt9x)
Purely coincidentally, much of the airport workforce is Somali.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (n1OCj)"
The feds and customs approved that. It wasn't smuggled, they let it happen deliberately.
Go try and fly with 15k and see what happens to you.
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (rYw47)
Gorsuch and Barrett both Trump appointees. Un freakin' real.
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Very rewarding. Not. at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (TbWk/)
Trump should just repeal the stupid Chicken Tax since it's only an LBJ Presidential EO, so that Toyota can start importing Hilux trucks again, without jumping through hoops of shipping them without beds to get through US customs. Then they had to be mated up with US-built beds.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (kTyBw)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (pDt9x)
Nope. Got the last of the V6s. It is identical in size to my old Tundra, which was a V8. The performance difference is obviously noticeable, but I didn't have a choice at the time.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (gtcuf)
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Trump is going to reimpose almost all of them within a few business days under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
This is going to end up being a storm in a teapot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (gtcuf)
*douses head in gasoline*
*looks for matches*
Never where you last saw them...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:23 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:23 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 20, 2026 11:24 AM (oSeBJ)
Yup.
Hey, remember when Obama's goons raided Gibson guitars, prosecuted the Little Sisters of the Poor, after the GM bailout they closed the dealerships that supported GOP candidates, IRS harassment of Tea Party groups. . . ?
Rice is threatening they'll go harder?
Enact the SAVE Act now.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 11:24 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2026 11:24 AM (t+TFX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (bss/y)
I had no idea you were gay.
Posted by: NTTAWWT at February 20, 2026 11:24 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 11:19 AM (pDt9x)
Nope. Got the last of the V6s. It is identical in size to my old Tundra, which was a V8. The performance difference is obviously noticeable, but I didn't have a choice at the time.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 11:22 AM (MZ+PY)
Just wondered. I bought a year old Tacoma because it had the 3.5 V6 instead of the new 4 cylinder. Thought about a Tundra but for my usage the Tacoma is fine. Nice truck. Expect to drive it forever.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 11:25 AM (pDt9x)
Hegseth fires "trans wolf" called "Lilith Deathhowl" who was employed as teacher at Fort Bragg
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A group of military families at Fort Bragg is expressing deep concern about a teacher at their children's school who identifies as a transgender wolf. One mother said her daughter expressed fear, saying, "Mommy, I'm scared he's going to come eat me," referring to statements the teacher made about turning into a wolf at night.
Another child reportedly said, "Mommy, Ms. Roxxie says he was born in a male's body, but he's actually a woman, but he likes boys!"
Liberty Counsel is fighting to have the teacher removed, citing several names the teacher purportedly uses, including "Roxxanne Wildheart," "Kiera Blackheart," "Lilith Deathhowl," "Captain Roxxie," "Artemis Deathhowl," "savagebeastqueen" and many others.
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Our military should be a vast rainbow of a mosaic of mixed nuts! Werewolves are people too!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:25 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 20, 2026 11:25 AM (eIjqH)
The only way I'd want to buy a newish pickup now if if DEF gets the boot and a non UWA company sells a heavy diesel pickup. People tell me todays gas engines have more power, so probably don't need a diesel for towing but I'd need to hear it from multiple people that had towed a lot with one.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (vlkz/)
Just one data point for you - I tow a 30', 7000 lb travel trailer using a Ram 1500 Hemi with a factory tow package - including a 3.92 rear end. We went from southern California to Yellowstone, across to eastern SD via the Black Hills and back via Denver and the Rockies with ease. The truck had plenty of power going up hills and the few times I tried passing anything. I kept my speed to about 60 and averaged around 12 mpg over a 4500 mile trip.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:25 AM (QGaXH)
This is going to end up being a storm in a teapot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
I hope so. God I am tired of playing defense against corrupt and intransigent idiots and traitors.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2026 11:26 AM (t+TFX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM
Again?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 11:26 AM (4NO2D)
That is all.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
I remember how, after Dobbs, lots of folks here were saying that Roberts was henceforth going to be a figurehead, and Clarence Thomas would be the real, de facto, Chief Justice.
Guess that didn't happen.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:26 AM (77rzZ)
‘ Jasmine Crockett says Democrats’ attacks on her are racially motivated:…. I see when they’re sending out ads and they’re darkening my skin.”
Please, 🙏 be true.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 11:26 AM (jbnUc)
but they didn't. I imagine their owners call the shots.
"Institutional investors own approximately 92.67% of General Motors" with the top three being the usual Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 11:26 AM (oSFYW)
It’s the End of the World as we know it
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 11:26 AM (pDt9x)
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They are coming after everyone now, when they are out of power too.
They were always going to come after everyone. That’s what they do. It’s always the same in every country. Russia, China, Germany, Korea, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Cambodia, etc etc.
Sarajevo hosted the Olympics, within a couple years the entire city was under siege. Artillery fire, snipers, the whole works.
Leftists have been laying the groundwork for war against whitey in this country for decades. Demonization of a class, religion, ethnicity, whatever, it always works the same in every country. “Otherizing” in the press, government, and academia. Sound familiar? It should.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 11:27 AM (Oj76K)
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Quick read from the folks I follow:
This is a jumbled, confused, typical retard work from John Roberts that answers nothing, does nothing.
Levin notes, under what he's read, they grant Trump the right to ban the import under the emergency power but not to impose even a penny in tariffs.
So, basically, Trump will go back to anyone who wants a refund and say, "I'm retroactively banning your product. Or we can deem you paid the import penalty equal to the tariff previously paid."
PS: that Roberts wrote this sorta means this is his big "win" as author and everything else will be written by conservatives.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 11:27 AM (HXT0k)
W
T
F
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 11:27 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 11:27 AM (9s47C)
Posted by: NTTAWWT at February 20, 2026 11:24 AM (TbWk/)
Heh. British racing green with silky wood steering wheel, shifter and brake. Leather interior. Virtually bulletproof engine (worst I ever had was a coil went out when the car was about 15 years old.)
By far the most fun to drive in the twisties.
Like having a Triumph Spitfire that runs.
No shame to my game.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:28 AM (bss/y)
This is going to end up being a storm in a teapot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
LOL! That would be great, but I haven't read the ruling- is that an option?
Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2026 11:28 AM (mFhj8)
PS: that Roberts wrote this sorta means this is his big "win" as author and everything else will be written by conservatives.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 11:27 AM (HXT0k)
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More importantly, it was only about his power under the IEEPA.
The president has like half a dozen other tariff authorities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:28 AM (GBKbO)
The letter also alleges that the teacher has involved children in his sexual fetishes by doing the following:
telling students he turns into a 'wolf' at night - his fetish animal;
directing them to howl like wolves;
requiring them to call him by some of his online wolf character names;
requiring his students to address him by inaccurate female names and pronouns;
and telling the children he is 'actually a woman' who 'likes boys.'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:28 AM (FXNzP)
Guess that didn't happen.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:26 AM
Gorsuch and Barrett were the swing votes. Roberts was meaningless.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 11:30 AM (4NO2D)
I just came across this trailer for a new Peaky Blinders movie. Yeah, it looks awesome.
I may have to delay cancelling Netflix for a bit longer.
Could Hollywood be learning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcvUGs3xaDM
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
This is going to end up being a storm in a teapot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
I hope you post this on his Truth account. I assume he knows but it would be good to make sure.
Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2026 11:30 AM (mFhj8)
The FNM is still strong, I am okay with SCOTUS saying there are limits on presidential power since we might get another Demonrat in the whitehouse.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 20, 2026 11:31 AM (vlkz/)
Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2026 11:28 AM (mFhj
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The admin used the IEEPA as its justification for tariffs from the start. It's probably because it gave them freedom to impose tariffs as high as possible and as fast as possible.
The Tariff Act of 1930, Section 338, caps tariff rates at 50%.
The vast majority of existing tariffs from Liberation Day are under 50%, and I think the ruling was really only directed at the 20% recipricol tariff against the whole world. So, he signs an EO outlining who gets what tariff under 50% under the Section 338 authority. For the stuff above 50% (China, mostly), he just makes it goods based rather than country based and gets those done as well.
Seriously, considering the structure of tariff authority in the US, this is a flash in the pan that will be seen as a nothing burger in no more than a month.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: There. I typed it. at February 20, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:31 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: nckate at February 20, 2026 11:31 AM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
My '91 was daily for 26 years. Still drive it, but people can't even see me anymore (I'm pretending that they care to look), they're so high off the ground.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 11:31 AM (oSFYW)
Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2026 11:30 AM (mFhj
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I hope he has a strong enough legal team who can look at tariff authority by themselves and don't need some illiterate asshole who watches too many movies to tell him that Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 exists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2026 11:32 AM (t+TFX)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 11:31 AM (oSFYW)
Yeah, thats a fun one. Marginally safer than a motorcycle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:32 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: toby928(c)
My point being, that if Thomas really were in charge, their votes might have gone the other way.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:25 AM (QGaXH)"
The electrically heated emissions stuff Cummins is working on might be a game-changer, especially if it cuts out a bunch of EGR nonsense.
I have a gasser myself, but the main issue between the current diesel vs gas setups (at least for GM and Ram) is up front cost/maintenance hassle for the diesel, vs high rate of lemons in the gas V8's. Tow mode in the newer trucks, especially the Rams, makes up for the lack of diesel engine braking somewhat.
The diesels can last a lot longer but you run the risk of the DPF system shitting the bed, which is 10-15k, on top of the extra 7-12k cost of the engine itself. Replacement gas V8 is 7-10k
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 11:32 AM (rYw47)
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The only reason, of course. They historically have liked the currency because of “reserve status”, de facto the only game in town. I’m not smart enough to know how that could change, but if it were to come unwound, it would be Katy bar the door, with a bath salts chaser. Yeesh.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 11:33 AM (Oj76K)
This is going to end up being a storm in a teapot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
What is important is young women get their blueberry smoothies. Or was that about illegal immigration? In any case, we must have national priorities.
Posted by: Ripley at February 20, 2026 11:33 AM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:33 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 11:33 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:32 AM
or not.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 11:33 AM (4NO2D)
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2026 11:25 AM (pDt9x)
Same. Forever, or the end of the world. Whichever comes first.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2026 11:34 AM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:31 AM (bs"
Wait until they put the last knife in our back over the 2A. A ruling is literally decades overdue and I guarantee you they'll fuck it up.
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 11:34 AM (rYw47)
Kavanaugh dissented, and Gorsuch voted with the majority.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2026 11:35 AM (t+TFX)
Kavanaugh wrote the dissent, joined by Thomas & Alito.
Posted by: Nazdar at February 20, 2026 11:35 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2026 11:35 AM (t+TFX)
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Kav is kind of awesome, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Joey shit for brains at February 20, 2026 11:36 AM (91Fmh)
Posted by: Nazdar at February 20, 2026 11:36 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:36 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 11:34 AM (rYw47)
This is what I am saying. It has been a LOOOONG time (pre Obamacare tax ruling) that we have been bullish on the supreme court. We are always waiting for Roberts, Comey, Kavanagh to fuck us in the ass.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:36 AM (bss/y)
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When I was in the .mil the wives would have roasted that freak over a spit. DOD would have never hired him in the first place. Clown World
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 11:37 AM (Oj76K)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026
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I feel that way now and then, and my Buick is -- by today's standards -- a big sedan.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:37 AM (wzUl9)
I've joined you. I was a Jeep fan and really wanted to get another Jeep until I kept running across a myriad of owners and former owners who got tired of the recalls, the constant repair shop visits and the depreciation.
Went with a Genesis built in SK without paying the UAW Pension Hickey, and not a victim of the MBAs overturning engineering decision after engineering decision to deliver a mediocre product.
Even Toyota has joined the enshittification with their crappy new drive trains.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 11:37 AM (WCaCG)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:36 AM (TtdNq)
I don't notice it as much in the Mustang.
THAT was odd. When you change cars and look at the trunk of a Mustang GT and go 'WOW- That's a huge trunk!!! I can fit anything in there!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:38 AM (bss/y)
I like the story I read this AM that China invested heavily into "green energy."
No, not for domestic use: To sell to the US.
Cars, solar panels, windmills, etc.
And now ... no market.
LOL, poor thieves are sitting in shit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 11:21 AM (HXT0k)
I've mentioned before that I rather like listening to Sarah Paine's historical and strategic analysis on yootoob. She gets a lot of things right, but she's got two great big glaring flaws.
A reflexive academic Trump-hatred where she opposes everything he does. Although, she's rather quiet about it for the most part, not frothing at the mouth like a rabid coyote.
The other thing is that she's all-in on "green energy" and thinks that ChyNah's lead in manufacturing green energy components makes them a superpower and the Wave Of The Future. She never considers the truth, that China just sees green energy as another market for their shitty industrial goods, built in factories powered almost exclusively by the dirtiest coal-fired power stations. They aren't stupid enough to actually use green energy themselves.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 11:38 AM (kTyBw)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:39 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:39 AM (bss/y)
The Congress that just might be impeaching Trump soon for the third time in another two year dog's breakfast.
Posted by: torabora at February 20, 2026 11:39 AM (91Fmh)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 11:40 AM (1Udfd)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 11:40 AM (4NO2D)
Which is not to say we shouldn't be developing them for future generations, but the mass marketing is misleading, and usage by the general population is not going to happen until the tech matures into something practical.
The ICE is here to stay for a long time.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 11:40 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:39 AM (TtdNq)
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The ruling is bad.
Presidents get to define emergencies, and the IEEPA does give the president authority to impose tariffs. It's pretty clear in the language.
But, presidents have been given about half a dozen major authorities to impose tariffs from Congress for a century. The IEEPA is just one of the newer ones (passed in the 70s).
Congress really didn't want to vote on tariffs long before they became completely useless instead of just being mostly useless.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:41 AM (gtcuf)
Taking things particularly hard has been sportswriter Sally Jenkins, publishing a piece called “You Can’t Kill Swagger” in The Atlantic. “The Post Sports section is, was, no ordinary section, in heritage or in coverage,” Jenkins wrote. “It was habitually young, because it required hiring people with no sense of off-the-clockness. … The Post’s sportswriters were trained “...to regard sportswriting as merely another portal through which to report on the broadest subjects: labor issues, performance enhancement, domestic violence, racism, sexism, terrorism, global corruptions such as vote-buying in the Olympics.”
Jenkins then went over Jeff Bezos and Matt Murray, the owner and editor of the Post: “Usually, when people in an office distrust feckless leaders, ...they will subtly gear down their efforts,” Jenkins writes. “But my former colleagues do the opposite. For every half-wit decision by a poseur in a 42-long, slim-fit suit, they report even harder.
https://is.gd/XocSRA
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 11:40 AM (gVUi7)
I think Hybrids have a place.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:41 AM (bss/y)
I don't know about awesome, but he brings the Boof.
Also, I bet he could drum Obama in a one on one Basketball Game.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026 11:42 AM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:41 AM (gtcuf)
This.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:42 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2026
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Bad Bunny could drum Obama in a one on one Basketball Game.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 11:43 AM (wzUl9)
If you have any mechanical skills at all, there is near-infinite supply of worthy older vehicles out there that have bottomed out in their depreciation curve, which can be made into perfectly viable transportation with the addition of a some parts and some sweat equity.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 11:43 AM (8zz6B)
>> I've mentioned before that I rather like listening to Sarah Paine's historical and strategic analysis on yootoob.
She drips of leftist douchebaggerie.
And a lot of her analysis is from hindsight not from forward thinking hypothesis that is frequently wrong.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 11:43 AM (XV/Pl)
Susan Rice offers a taste of what’s coming should the left retake power — promises Democrats will punish corporations and other institutions who have “taken a knee to Trump.”
“It’s not going to end well for them."
https://is.gd/GzMdNo
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
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"...report even harder." !?!?
Ay yi yi.
Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2026 11:44 AM (mFhj8)
Prince Andrew Joins UK Muslim Rape Gang So He Can Keep Abusing Young Girls
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:44 AM (FXNzP)
She drips of leftist douchebaggerie.
And a lot of her analysis is from hindsight not from forward thinking hypothesis that is frequently wrong.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 11:43 AM
I concur.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 20, 2026 11:44 AM (4NO2D)
‘ Kav is kind of awesome, to be honest.’
Let’s not get carried away.
I’ll go as high as less shitty than Roberts and Barrett.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 11:44 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
That's what the alternator is for! Where do I sign up for my EV subsidy backpay?
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 11:44 AM (oSFYW)
This is going to end up being a storm in a teapot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
Hope you are right - Hassett seems pretty confident so maybe it's a nothing-burger.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:46 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 11:46 AM (Cqx++)
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I can't be the only one who read that as "... nor does she "bring lucid experience" in running a profitable operation."
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 11:46 AM (5FL4d)
Typical Democrat.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 11:47 AM (OAPjy)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 11:44 AM (oSFYW)
Heh.
As a general curiosity, I would still like to see whether a diesel generator with electric motor set-up is more efficient than the most efficient ICE or hybrid car. I love the idea for some reason, because you get the range of a ICE but with the power take off of an electric.
But I have never seen a single company trying to do something like this outside of trains, so I am thinking it does not scale down well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 11:47 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Feckless media members at February 20, 2026 11:47 AM (2Ez/1)
‘ I rather like listening to Sarah Paine's historical and strategic analysis’
I used to too but started smelling leftism.
She’s good on stuff farther back in the past though.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 11:47 AM (jbnUc)
Yeah, pretty much. Socially and individually we're degenerating. People can barely string coherent sentences together. Brains are being rotted by social media and AI slop. People can't think beyond whatever slogans the MSNBC tells them to repeat. Our officials have the intelligence and maturity of 12 year old middle school mean girls. Many of our cops sound like street thugs. Teachers groom kids into tranny werewolf shit instead of reading writing or 'rithmetic. High school graduates cant fucking read but get admitted to college because of the color of their skin. These are not good times.
Posted by: Seems contagious at February 20, 2026 11:48 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
Ha. Not so illiterate -- and there's nothing wrong with belts AND suspenders! except fashion-wise of course.
Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2026 11:48 AM (mFhj8)
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And yet, still no shareholder class action lawsuits against these #Woketopia DEI asshats?
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 11:49 AM (5FL4d)
Well?
We're waiting.
Been talking and talking for a while now--time to do.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 11:49 AM (HXT0k)
‘ ACB was "conservative" on exactly one issue: repealing Roe v Wade. Once that was taken care of, she went full-on Sandra Day-O'Connor.’
If you told me she bases every single one of her decisions on whatever it takes not to get beat up by leftists I would believe you.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
Incorrect, my good man, GM stands for Government Motors, therefore whatever schemes they put forth are fully endorsed by the government and underwritten by you the US tax payer.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 11:51 AM (OAPjy)
>>She’s good on stuff farther back in the past though.
Yes, because it's easy to see why this or that decision in the past was a bad decision, it's a lot tougher to offer cogent analysis and predictions of future outcomes.
I will grant that she has a mildly entertaining persona, largely owed to the fact that she looks like an 1920's frontier librarian.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 11:52 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 11:53 AM (/PQmQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2026 11:53 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 11:13 AM (TtdNq)
Chinese could not pronounce "Oldsmobile".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 11:54 AM (8zz6B)
Any country that agreed to specific tariffs are not affected by this ruling. It's really only about the worldwide 20% reciprocal tariff.
So, Country A got hit with the tariff, entered negotiations, and came out with a bilateral agreement for 15% or whatever?
The period they were under 20% is refundable. Everything since? Not touched by this ruling because the individual tariff agreements weren't done under the IEEPA.
"All the tariffs are gone!" is very, very wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 11:55 AM (GBKbO)
Incorrect, my good man, GM stands for Government Motors, therefore whatever schemes they put forth are fully endorsed by the government and underwritten by you the US tax payer.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Picturre Cleavon Little holding the gun to his own head - perpetually. And the rest of us forced to take him seriously - perpetuall.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 20, 2026 11:55 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 11:55 AM (gtcuf)
If you told me she bases every single one of her decisions on whatever it takes not to get beat up by leftists I would believe you.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
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"You haven't lived until you've finally been accepted at all the best cocktail parties in town, dahling ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 20, 2026 11:55 AM (shv/h)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Buy one pre-1984
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 11:56 AM (0U5gm)
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Roberts kids; Leaks to the press?
Barrett, hot skirting?
Can't embarrass KBJ but you know there's a scandal.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 11:56 AM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 11:56 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 11:56 AM (VE6XX)
‘ Think TJM is correct that this will be a big nothing burger in the long run. ’
Maybe it’ll make Trump as angry at the judiciary as he should already be.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 11:56 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: MJ at February 20, 2026 11:57 AM (XOmY9)
Susan Rice offers a taste of what’s coming should the left retake power — promises Democrats will punish corporations and other institutions who have “taken a knee to Trump.”
“It’s not going to end well for them."
https://is.gd/GzMdNo
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
"They go low, we go high."
- Moochelle
Yet another lie by a Democrat.
Susan Rice is an ultra-partisan creature. She's simply showing her spots again. Also auditioning for a top role in the next Democrat Administration. As a partisan hell-bringer who well knows the Exec Branch/DeepState power levers the White House can use. While not mentioning she'll be an Obama spy/operative.
Posted by: Gref at February 20, 2026 11:58 AM (5rh/l)
>>Trump should agree with the liberals and expand the number on the supreme court to 47.
To be current, he needs to expand the court to 6-7.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 11:58 AM (XV/Pl)
Did not know that.
Posted by: Thomas Benderperpetually.
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That's been the case for a long time. I think it's the only reason the brand survived back when Pontiac and Olds got whacked.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 20, 2026 11:58 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: Won Hung Lo at February 20, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 11:59 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Seems contagious at February 20, 2026 11:48 AM (TbWk/)
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Old & Busted: "Defining Deviancy Downward."
New Hotness: "Defining Deviancy as 'Virtue'."
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 11:59 AM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Flaming Conflagration of Cash at February 20, 2026 11:59 AM (oftw2)
Or post something without using profanity that adds nothing.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Degeneracy! Degeneracy everywhere! at February 20, 2026 12:01 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: t-bird
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Didn't Obama Zero out private GM bonds?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:01 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Bang! Ding! Ow!!!! at February 20, 2026 12:01 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: heya at February 20, 2026 11:20 AM (rYw47)
I run 15W-40 in all my vehicles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 12:02 PM (8zz6B)
‘ I will grant that she has a mildly entertaining persona, largely owed to the fact that she looks like an 1920's frontier librarian.’
Do I make you horny?
Posted by: Sarah Payne at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)
Beats posting something smugly self-righteous and condescending that adds nothing.
Posted by: Go lever yourself at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (5FL4d)
A 'reform' that, instead of changing things, would cement the Supreme Court's (and all those foreign Federal District judges') power. Somehow, somewhen, he's going to smack them down. It will be enjoyable.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (oSFYW)
I detest Barrett and Roberts with the fire of a thousand suns. Burn in hell, traitors.
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (gtcuf)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (gm9Sb)
The Trump administration is considering a 'weeks-long campaign' in Iran that could look like 'full-fledged war' and prove 'existential for the regime' in a move that could have a 'dramatic influence on the entire region.'
Fears are mounting that the US could be on the brink of a major military confrontation with Iran, with sources warning that any operation would be much larger in scale than recent interventions and could begin sooner than many expect.
Insiders say a potential US strike would not resemble a limited or targeted mission but instead unfold as a sustained, weeks-long campaign that would look 'like full-fledged war.'
The operation is expected to be coordinated with Israel and would be broader in scope than last year's 12-day conflict, which escalated when the US joined Israeli efforts to destroy Iran's underground nuclear facilities.
https://is.gd/7mvFUc
Could be true, could be a signal to the mullahs to leave while they can.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes
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180K on my F-150, no complaints.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:04 PM (OAPjy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:25 AM (FXNzP)
Firing seems so...inadequate. Got any scrap silver?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 12:06 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:06 PM (OAPjy)
Did not know that.
What was Buick's version of the schoonermobile, a convertible Riviera? Would love to see one of those taking up two lanes in China.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 12:07 PM (oSFYW)
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* Virtually the entire list of Fortune 500 companies, both those publicly-traded and privately-held, have entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:07 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Sloan Ladder Envy at February 20, 2026 12:07 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Won Hung Lo
>We have laser surgery to correct your vision problem.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 20, 2026 12:07 PM (gVUi7)
This will, in all likeliness, be a trillion dollar shit show because the fraud in trying to resolve the refunds given that there is no process or organization established to validate claims and issue refunds - this will be like The Trillion Dollar Covid Sweepstakes International Give-Away.
Go long on MB selling their inventory of G Wagons.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 12:08 PM (pUU4E)
I detest Barrett and Roberts with the fire of a thousand suns. Burn in hell, traitors.
Posted by: Delurker at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (gtcuf)
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Not understanding the scope of the ruling is not a huge surprise.
It's amazing how few of the tariffs are actually affected by the ruling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:08 PM (GBKbO)
‘ You haven't lived until you've finally been accepted at all the best cocktail parties in town, dahling’
God I wish someone would take a firehose to that rat’s nest known as DC and watch them scatter.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2026 12:09 PM (jbnUc)
This will, in all likeliness, be a trillion dollar shit show because the fraud in trying to resolve the refunds given that there is no process or organization established to validate claims and issue refunds - this will be like The Trillion Dollar Covid Sweepstakes International Give-Away.
Go long on MB selling their inventory of G Wagons.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 12:08 PM (pUU4E)
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Nope.
Only affects those tariffs under IEEPA authority. Most of the tariffs since Liberation Day are under different authorities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's a classic at February 20, 2026 12:09 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: davidt at February 20, 2026 12:09 PM (Q+gd/)
A giant wave looks impressive as it comes ashore but it does end as froth.
There is a lot of noise from the usual seagulls, but for the sharks and eagles, nothing has changed.
Posted by: Accomack at February 20, 2026 12:10 PM (GbONR)
Clearly you haven't been paying attention.
Posted by: Tsewer Tsunami at February 20, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ford the Wagon Master at February 20, 2026 12:10 PM (oftw2)
It's amazing how few of the tariffs are actually affected by the ruling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:08 PM (GBKbO)
What is a little odd, to me, is china is one of the few affected. Which no one dem or rep had a problem with.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 12:10 PM (MGB5H)
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With 19-year-old rock-ribbed Charlie Kirk-type conservatives.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 12:10 PM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:04 PM (OAPjy)
$180K is a lot of money to spend on a truck.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:11 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: ShainS -
Associate justice Blade, perhaps.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 12:11 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 20, 2026 12:12 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: It's a classic
There's a black ob/gyn doc here locally that drives a 48 Pontiac. It's a nice car.
Posted by: Pre Wide Trac at February 20, 2026 12:12 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 20, 2026 12:13 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2026 12:14 PM (gm9Sb)
What is a little odd, to me, is china is one of the few affected. Which no one dem or rep had a problem with.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 20, 2026 12:10 PM (MGB5H)
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Because of the percentages on those tariffs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 12:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's a classic at February 20, 2026 12:09 PM (2Ez/1)
One of the benefits of living in an ice-free climate - you occasionally see things like an original mid-50s' Pontiac sedan, appeared to be an unrestored survivor, sitting in the grocery store parking lot. It was gone by the time I came back out.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:15 PM (QGaXH)
At best, GM is promoting someone who knows what doesn’t work, and steers them away from the pitfalls of unbridled automation. At least they aren’t promoting an accountant, who uses cheap parts to “save” $100,000 on a production run that will later cost 10x that much in premature failures and reputation damage.
Posted by: Advo at February 20, 2026 12:16 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Sloan Ladder Envy at February 20, 2026 12:07 PM (oftw2)
I thought they had quality problems.....in addition to an unfortunate resemblance to certain....erm....uh...female....gulp......parts...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 12:18 PM (QGaXH)
Could be true, could be a signal to the mullahs to leave while they can.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)
Lot of redundancy there,
Lot of redundancy there.
Lot of redundancy there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 12:18 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Ford the Wagon Master at February 20, 2026 12:10 PM (oftw2)
There were a few Edsel trucks, too. Very few, but they did exist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 12:20 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2026 11:53 AM (gm9Sb)
Well, there is a new top contender for my next vehicle, and I don't even know looks or specs yet!
Posted by: SciVo at February 20, 2026 12:33 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 20, 2026 12:40 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 20, 2026 01:06 PM (fYhK6)
I have done the routine maintenance on it every 5K and the service tech tells me it is better than ANY new lexus out there. I too expect it to outlive me those 3.5 Toyota's are the stuff none today can match
Posted by: paulnjax at February 20, 2026 01:09 PM (PPnyU)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at February 20, 2026 04:53 PM (///6J)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus This is sort of a repeat, because the first one I used had an incorrect title, and was also gaudy looking with oversaturated color. For this version I went to the source; The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the Met's description:
A celebrated masterpiece of Northern Renaissance Art, this painting was signed and dated 1449 by Petrus Christus, the leading painter in Bruges (Flanders) after the death of Jan van Eyck. The panel attests to Netherlandish artists’ keen interest in pictorial illusionism and meticulous attention to detail, especially in the luminous jeweled, glass, and metallic objects, secular and ecclesiastic trade wares that are examples of the goldsmith's virtuosity. The main figure in this enigmatic painting was long identified as Saint Eligius (the patron saint of goldsmiths) due to the presence of a halo, which was recognized as a later addition and subsequently removed. The panel is likely a vocational painting, which portrays the profession of goldsmithing and perhaps a specific goldsmith. Technical analysis reveals the underdrawing of the goldsmith's face to be very carefully modeled—more so than the faces of the couple—indicating the possibility of a portrait. It has been suggested that he is Willem van Vleuten, a Bruges goldsmith who worked for Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. In 1449, the date of this painting, the duke commissioned from van Vlueten a gift for Mary of Guelders on the occasion of her marriage to James II, King of Scots. That couple may well be depicted in this painting, portrayed buying a wedding ring that is being weighed on a scale. The girdle that extends over the ledge of the shop into the viewer’s space is a further allusion to matrimony. The convex mirror, which links the pictorial space to the street outside, reflects two young men with a falcon (a symbol of pride and greed) and establishes a moral comparison between the imperfect world of the viewer and the world of virtue and balance depicted here.
Often these descriptions are a mess of post-modern, woke nonsense. This one is good!
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Posted by: AltonJackson at February 20, 2026 09:30 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Nazdar at February 20, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 09:31 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: George Costanza at February 20, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:32 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 09:32 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 20, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Guy wearing black hat at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM (jAw5X)
Huh.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: huerfano at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM (98kQX)
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM (EIcmO)
It is like the faces are done separately, remotely. Then when complete they are plopped down on a otherwise completed painting.
It is just a weird look.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Doof at February 20, 2026 09:34 AM (tceez)
Posted by: Sol Moskovitz In The Diamond District at February 20, 2026 09:34 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: No Name Today at February 20, 2026 09:34 AM (8mulE)
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM (EIcmO)
We're all God's children in the dark.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 09:34 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 09:34 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: huerfano at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM
They're very tall, too! Just ask them.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 09:34 AM (kgE5c)
Didn't see the halo until you mentioned it. Must have been one of Barry's ancestors.
Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (Kt19C)
Some woman looked at that headpiece and said, "I want to look like I've tied two beaver tails to the side of my head. That'll be hot."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (ExV1e)
But she is showing a little cleavage, so I'll give her a pass on the silly hat.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (+nEug)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:36 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 20, 2026 09:36 AM (s32T4)
Posted by: Guy wearing black hat at February 20, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:36 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:36 AM (uEmCf)
BIT too early for coke.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 09:37 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 20, 2026 09:37 AM (h/O4U)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 09:37 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: huerfano at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (98kQX)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 09:37 AM (jtM2q)
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Between two pillows
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (s32T4)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (NpAcC)
Don't accept those Disney lies. This is what real mouse ears look like.
https://youtu.be/8YvgUouPio0
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
On the lady's shoulder.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (ftFVW)
Princess Leia's ear covering hair style.
Would hang
Thx CBD have a great weekend
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 09:39 AM (Kc+Vz)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:39 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: banana Dream - That was great! I want to jump something else! at February 20, 2026 09:39 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 09:34 AM (0nHVk)
Good morning, DDS!
Mary was a "Van den Berg's Poffertjes" 5.
Posted by: Doof at February 20, 2026 09:39 AM (tceez)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (vFG9F)
Bow chicka wow wow.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 09:39 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2026 09:40 AM (5mQt6)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:40 AM (cGjQu)
We see three social parasites just begging for a re-education from the masses, nicely rendered though they are.
-- Today's Art Critics, Today!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 09:40 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 09:40 AM (jtM2q)
Uh, yes for a wedding ring.
And exactly 34 Gorlaps of material. Uh Sorry, uh yes that amount you are showing.
Where are we from? We are from France.
Posted by: The Coneheads visit a goldsmith at February 20, 2026 09:40 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 20, 2026 09:41 AM (DgMqy)
Pepsi then?
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:40 AM (cGjQu)
Moxie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 09:41 AM (bss/y)
"Do these veiled wings make my ears look big?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 09:41 AM (xG4kz)
Good morning Doof, good to see you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 09:42 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:42 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 09:43 AM (3uBP9)
I see that the goldsmith had a supplier for red coral, so he was no slouch at sourcing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 09:44 AM (xG4kz)
.
They're Dutch. Probably stick a finger in a dike...
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:44 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 09:44 AM (Riz8t)
Saw a visiting Star Wars costume exhibit at the art museum. With each one, they included the sketches and photos of inspiration. It was surprising how much effort and research went into each one, not to mention the work on some of those beaded and feathered ones worn in the 2nd trilogy.
IIRC, Leia's ear covering was based on a Native American tribe's styling?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:45 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:45 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 09:45 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes"
Polishing rouge?
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:45 AM (vFG9F)
Haven't been downtown in a major city lately, huh?
Yeah, I'll take these people over a 300 lb woman in yoga pants any day.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 09:46 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: I'm illiterate at February 20, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Archimedes"
Polishing rouge?"
A closer look reveals that one appears to be translucent.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:46 AM (vFG9F)
I would guess it's hidden by the guy in red's left shoulder?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:47 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:47 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: dantesed at February 20, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Were I that goldsmith, I'd give some serious thought to plying my trade dressed in something other than that richly red outfit. It would be far too easy to ruin it working at the jeweler's bench.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 09:47 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Guy wearing black hat
She's got a special position that she calls the Zuider Zee.
It's worth it, believe me.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:47 AM (cGjQu)
But then why in the form of a bar? Note that there is also some coral in there. That's clearly decorative.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 09:48 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: red speck at February 20, 2026 09:48 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 09:48 AM (XCUp7)
"Like, comment, subscribe "
We've been trying to contact you about your car's warranty...
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 09:49 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: dantesed
"Don't...forget...to...drink...your..."
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:49 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:50 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: red speck at February 20, 2026 09:50 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: dantesed at February 20, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
"See you next Wednesday"
Posted by: John Landis at February 20, 2026 09:50 AM (tceez)
His left hand is on what appears to be the ornate pommel of a sword. Is he planning a smash and grab?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 09:50 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:50 AM (tj6OY)
Trust, but verify.
Posted by: No Name Today at February 20, 2026 09:50 AM (8mulE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2026 09:51 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 09:51 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 09:51 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 09:51 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 09:51 AM (TJlGq)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
Patton. One of my favorite movie themes.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)
The shelving is reserved primarily, it seems, for his finished works. Red rouge or any polish, or any other such processing material, likely would not be displayed there.
The clear appearing bar might be a quartz or selenite "wand". Dunno about the other one.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 09:52 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:52 AM (tj6OY)
I more amused by the notion of taking a young woman in skin tight pants with "juicy" on the back to this time period and asking their opinion...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 09:53 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Chick in the elaborate headgear at February 20, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
"...Spanish... Inquisition?"
What a rip-off.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:54 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2026 09:54 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
I think that's the brown band that over the left side of the table.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 09:54 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Chick in the elaborate headgear at February 20, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
It's the top of the handle for his onion.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:55 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
"...Spanish... Inquisition?"
What a rip-off.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:54 AM (uEmCf)
Nobody expected that.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 20, 2026 09:55 AM (ZJT0I)
Think it's the thing that looks like a wide ribbon or scarf sitting on the table?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:55 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2026 09:55 AM (XvL8K)
I more amused by the notion of taking a young woman in skin tight pants with "juicy" on the back to this time period and asking their opinion...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 09:53 AM (sKqQm)
"Ahem!"
- - Leisure Suits circa 1973
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 09:55 AM (x0n13)
Can anyone make out the the inscription on the front of the table?
Posted by: dantesed
"Pay cash or get outta here"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 09:56 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 09:56 AM (S+j2h)
Posted by: banana Dream
Huh. I thought that was just the belt of her robe, but on closer inspection it does not appear to be connected to her clothes.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
Prior to 2005 you could make the argument anyone associating with Epstein/Maxwell didn't know but by 2010?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 09:56 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sharkman at February 20, 2026 09:57 AM (Wz3H2)
Guy at the chair is saying some medieval version of Oh look, a squirrel, and the two standing are giving him the side eye and keeping their eyes on their jewelry.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 09:57 AM (Hx0tZ)
Yeah, or the people you see wearing obvious pajamas and slippers in public.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:57 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Sharkman
Stop carping about it.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Limerick lover at February 20, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 20, 2026 09:56 AM (S+j2h)
8 0 0 8 5
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:58 AM (uEmCf)
Bo Snerdley
@BoSnerdley
Wonder if she'll talk about the 50 new taxes she and her fellow Democrats want to soak Virginia taxpayers with.
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Mamdani wasn't available?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 09:59 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Lincolntf at February 20, 2026 09:59 AM (vV6n9)
Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry at February 20, 2026 09:59 AM (Wz3H2)
Posted by: Donny Brook at February 20, 2026 09:59 AM (Dc1Hd)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
The Deep State Rebuttal, brought to you by the CIA's Spanberger.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (tj6OY)
Bo Snerdley
@BoSnerdley
Wonder if she'll talk about the 50 new taxes she and her fellow Democrats want to soak Virginia taxpayers with.
Perhaps she can talk about Boeing HQ's departure from NoVa for the low tax environs of Missouri.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (Riz8t)
But remember our elites the kind that give and watch Ted Talks are better then you...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (20K3i)
Bo Snerdley
@BoSnerdley
Wonder if she'll talk about the 50 new taxes she and her fellow Democrats want to soak Virginia taxpayers with.
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Mamdani wasn't available?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 09:59 AM (FXNzP)
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I figured it would be Tim Walz.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (20K3i)
Posted by: cmeat at February 20, 2026 10:01 AM (R11M+)
I reckon Walz will disappear entirely from public view, and nobody will miss him until someone says "say, whatever happened to Tim Walz?". By then, he'll be holding hands with Jimmy Hoffa.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t)
The two women in the mirror were the infamous "Scolds of Bruges" so beloved in tales from that time.
Today they'd be honored as the "Two Karens of Bruges".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 10:02 AM (xG4kz)
The goldsmith named Jan VanderBarge
'Twas thought that he way overcharged
"Sure it's gold-plated!"
He defiantly stated.
"I admit it. I'm gilt-y...as charged!"
Posted by: muldoon at February 20, 2026 10:02 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 20, 2026 10:02 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 10:02 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 20, 2026 10:02 AM (bNf8H)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 10:03 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 10:03 AM (Riz8t)
While it's typical of the place and time, the people's eyes bother me. They seem sleepy with little spark. I have the same problem with Vermeer's faces. It seems an odd lack given the obvious talent displayed in the rest of the painting.
Posted by: JTB at February 20, 2026 10:03 AM (yTvNw)
-- Zombie Jimmy Hoffa
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
well, we can work around it
also might be a signal/sop that other more interesting decisions go the right way
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:03 AM (j+aD2)
Apparently, he and a buddy (name of David Stern), signed some sort of advisory deal with the now-bankrupt Chinese property developer Evergrande to work on data center deals in Britain. Telegraph says the deal may have been worth L20 million (pounds) to Stern and Andrew, who were mainly expected to contribute "influence".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 10:03 AM (oXDWE)
Here, want some tulip bulbs? They're gonna be big!
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 10:04 AM (rDBMx)
Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2026 10:04 AM (S+zAX)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 20, 2026 10:04 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 10:04 AM (vFG9F)
You're right. It is strange, given that he clearly knows how to paint reflections, as shown in the glass.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 10:04 AM (Riz8t)
Lady - hand and eyes in a direct line to smith's hand on the scales.
Her partner' s face is turned to the lady, but his side-eye is also focused on the hand and scale. One arm around the lady, the other hand gripping a the hilt of a weapon. That is a cold, wary face on him.
The goldsmith isn't looking directly at the lady. He's apparently looking out the window, likely at the lads. The smith is not happy.
This is painting shold be seen not only as a set-piece portrait of a day in a goldsmith's life. It is rife with intrigue within an allegorical context.
As in, what's the message presented with two rich young men standing in a city square with a falcon on the fist?
Everyone is focused on the scale except for the smith himself.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 10:04 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 10:05 AM (oXDWE)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (vFG9F)
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, please explain baby oil.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 10:05 AM (Hx0tZ)
What did she talk about?/i]
But that point she had her own grift - the TerraMar Project.
This was a more traditional grift, looking to launder money from the UN to save da Erf, or I guess da Ocean
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 10:05 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 10:05 AM (xG4kz)
Herr Vleuten llooks pissed.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 20, 2026 10:06 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:06 AM (FXNzP)
They are giving him the bird.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 10:06 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 10:07 AM (oXDWE)
Remember shooting Ashli Babbit in the neck while she was stuck in a doorway is good, shooting Good while she was driving to run down an officer is bad.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 10:07 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 "
I bet she flew there on a jet.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 10:07 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (vFG9F)
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, please explain baby oil.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
If tin whistles are made of tin, what do they make foghorns out of?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:07 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe at February 20, 2026 10:08 AM (Uy/WF)
The Supreme Court says some tarriff, are, like, a tax, man.
Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2026 10:08 AM (Y8DZL)
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Auditioning for President... sometime down the road.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 10:08 AM (jtM2q)
@thehill
U2 releases song ‘American Obituary’ honoring Renee Good
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:06 AM (FXNzP)
Unbelievably bad.. Some of the lyrics" Mother of 3 took a bullet for each one.... or something to that effect so St Renee
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:08 AM (VE6XX)
U2 releases song ‘American Obituary’ honoring Renee Good
Immigrant honors idiot woman harassing LEOs enforcing immigration.
Go home, Bono. We all know you fled your homeland to avoid the crazy taxes.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 10:08 AM (tj6OY)
judgment in No. 24–1287 is vacated, and the case is remanded with
instructions to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction; the judgment in No. 25–
250 is affirmed.
No. 24–1287, 784 F. Supp. 3d 209, vacated and remanded; No. 25–250,
149 F. 4th 1312, affirmed.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the Court with respect
to Parts I and II–A–1:
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"It's a tax"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 10:08 AM (oXDWE)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (vFG9F)
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, please explain baby oil.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 10:05 AM (Hx0tZ)
Step back.
Posted by: Girl Scout Cookies at February 20, 2026 10:09 AM (ZJT0I)
Good morning Doof, good to see you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 09:42 AM
Ayuh. Mild, but dreary and with more snow on the way later.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 10:09 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 10:09 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Joe
I wonder if they did that with Carrie's own hair, or just used some kind of hair extensions. Probably the latter.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cocktails at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (TtdNq)
Yes... 6-3
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: GWB at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (02Em6)
Posted by: Bulg "
You mean those were not cinnamon rolls?
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Have you heard anything from the now-retired Mr. Poppins?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
⁹
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Spartacus says he hasn’t dismissed the idea of running for president again in ’28.
He dropped out of the 2020 Democrat primary while polling at 2%.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Toad-0 at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (ayTkb)
Brugean goldsmith was one of Alan Arkin's lesser known roles.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (TtdNq)
@thehill
U2 releases song ‘American Obituary’ honoring Renee Good
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:06 AM
Fuck that guy, in particular.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (kgE5c)
One of them looks Amish.
Posted by: But that's just me at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (2Ez/1)
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Gorsuch, Barrett, Kagan, Sotomayor and the retard who doesn't know anything.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)
I wasn't available to comment on yesterday's art thread. I did see it that afternoon. Thanks for including the painting by Caspar David Friedrich. I not only enjoy his work but it syncs with the Romantic era poets, among my favorites, and their appreciation of nature as a spiritual creation.
Posted by: JTB at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM
I thought I saw him on the blog the other day. I've got to get him out to the range again when the weather warms up a bit.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 10:12 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:38 AM (vFG9F)
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, please explain baby oil.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
If tin whistles are made of tin, what do they make foghorns out of?
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:07 AM (77rzZ)
You're Lipschitz? My ass whistles.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 10:12 AM (x0n13)
I'll be sure and not watch. Just another Socialist out to ruin the country. Virginia sits too close to DC.
Posted by: Case at February 20, 2026 10:12 AM (j6kTf)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 10:12 AM (cGjQu)
*and Sponge dropped the mic*
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 20, 2026 10:02 AM (ftFVW)
It's the only karaoke I do.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 20, 2026 10:12 AM (20K3i)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 10:12 AM (n9ltV)
It was "Performance Art".
Posted by: Operator Error at February 20, 2026 10:13 AM (nm8hu)
opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II–A–1, and II–B, in which
SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, GORSUCH, BARRETT, and JACKSON, JJ., joined, and
an opinion with respect to Parts II–A–2 and III, in which GORSUCH and
BARRETT, JJ., joined. GORSUCH, J., and BARRETT, J., filed concurring
opinions. KAGAN, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring
in the judgment, in which SOTOMAYOR and JACKSON, JJ., joined.
JACKSON, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the
judgment. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion. KAVANAUGH, J., filed
a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO, JJ., joined.
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So, basically 6-3 (though it gets a little twisty turny)
Roberts write for the majority, except Jackson (who just meandered through stuff) and Kavanaugh, Thomas and Alito dissented.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 10:13 AM (oXDWE)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Not so fast.
- Rand Paul
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 10:13 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:13 AM (TtdNq)
Trust, but verify.
Terrain's a little flat across the landscape there, anyway. lol
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 20, 2026 10:13 AM (DgMqy)
Posted by: The Stentorian yet Mellifluous voice of Don LaFontaine at February 20, 2026 10:14 AM (ZJT0I)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:14 AM (VE6XX)
This. I kinda get it. There are procedures... but how to work within those boundaries...
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 10:14 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo"
It is politics though. These people are not on our side. (h/t Chris Plante)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 10:14 AM (vFG9F)
Who got his balls caught in a doorway . . .
I forgot the rest. Paging Muldoon!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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It's not my usual practice to fix other people';s limerick fails, but JJ has earned it.
D-I-Y Emasculation - a limerick
There once was a young man from Norway,
Who got his testicles caught in a doorway
He soon came unhinged
As he yelled, cried and whinged
Sneered his wife, "You just had to do it your way!"
Posted by: muldoon at February 20, 2026 10:14 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:15 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Operator Error at February 20, 2026 10:15 AM (nm8hu)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 10:12 AM (n9ltV)
Hahaha! Congress stepping up to anything not resembling a pig trough?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 10:15 AM (Hx0tZ)
He can reimpose with other laws, but not the one he used...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 10:15 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: muldoon at February 20, 2026 10:15 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: JTB at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (yTvNw)
It wasn't Friedrich's best work, but I really like him, and I have used a dozen or so of his paintings!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 10:15 AM (n9ltV)
⁹
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Spartacus says he hasn’t dismissed the idea of running for president again in ’28.
He dropped out of the 2020 Democrat primary while polling at 2%.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:11 AM (FXNzP)
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He had a boomlet about a year ago right after his talking filibuster (against what? i dunno) that took him into second place in like 2 polls.
Faded immediately.
Because polling outside of certain points in time is beset by response bias issues where progressives tend to answer the phone more than conservatives at very high levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (GBKbO)
@WesternLensman
Andy Beshear distances himself from Gavin Newsom and his tactics:
“If somebody is looking for a Democratic version of Trump, that's not me."
Aw Shucks Andy is going all-in on the Spanberger “Sensible, Moderate Democrat” campaign model.
The radical left turn then comes should his campaign fool enough voters to win.
Just like Spanberger.
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He's more the Democrat version of Barney Fife.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (ESVrU)
Nah. He has zero chance of ever becoming President.
CIA Spanberger is being positioned for either 2032 or 2036.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (uEmCf)
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If they were willing to do that it would have already been done negating the need for Trump to take action initially. It’s never going to happen.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:17 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 10:17 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Limerick lover at February 20, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 10:00 AM (ESVrU)
Nah. He has zero chance of ever becoming President.
CIA Spanberger is being positioned for either 2032 or 2036.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (uEmCf)
Or 2028, before she actually has to do something unpopular, which has sunk the MD Gov...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 10:17 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (VE6XX)
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Heh. Yes, can't wait.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 10:17 AM (oXDWE)
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I think it was against heterosexuality.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:18 AM (FXNzP)
U2 releases song ‘American Obituary’ honoring Renee Good
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good
Good boys! Now, go join Bruce Springsteen over there in the pile of "Forgotten, But Not Gone" musicians.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 10:18 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (TtdNq)
Yes... 6-3
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (VE6XX)
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The severely conservative SCOTUS.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 10:18 AM (5FL4d)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:18 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
Nobody would run for National Office if they couldn't grandstand.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 10:18 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: cmeat at February 20, 2026 10:18 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good
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I wrote a song with the same title after the 2008 Presidential election.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 10:19 AM (5FL4d)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:18 AM (VE6XX)
Companies want refunds...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 10:19 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 10:16 AM (uEmCf)
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She showed Democrats the way to win: get blonder, don't debate, smile and say very moderate things, and once elected, drop the hammer and (only then) go radical left.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 10:19 AM (oXDWE)
No word if it's related to Taylor Lorenz.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 10:20 AM (xo7Vw)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 20, 2026 10:21 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: I gotta ask at February 20, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)
He had a boomlet about a year ago right after his talking filibuster (against what? i dunno)
It was a nothing burger yackfest, staged simply for him to break the previous "longest speech delivered in the Senate" record.
An empty and substance free performance art piece delivered by an empty and substance free human.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 10:21 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: I gotta ask at February 20, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/
Yes in a way.. Says she is the mother of 3 kids and she took a bullet for each or some such dribble
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:22 AM (VE6XX)
Canadian tribunal fines man $750,000 for believing there are only two genders
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:22 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 10:19 AM (oXDWE)
Also, be positioned and controlled by the ruling eternal administrative state. They get what they want.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 10:22 AM (3uBP9)
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At least they didn't cowardly stick their heads up their asses and allow a Presidential election to be stolen -- disenfranchising likely 100 million actual legitimate voters -- in 2020.
Oh, wait ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 10:22 AM (5FL4d)
She showed Democrats the way to win: get blonder, don't debate, smile and say very moderate things, and once elected, drop the hammer and (only then) go radical left.
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Other than going blonde, this has been SOP for every Democrat for 50 years.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:22 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 10:23 AM (xo7Vw)
They allow him to do any tariff up to 50%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:24 AM (GBKbO)
Oh, wait ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 10:22 AM (5FL4d)
Someone needs to leak the truth about Judas Roberts' illegal Irish kids, already.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 10:24 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:24 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 10:24 AM (xo7Vw)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (TtdNq)
They allow him to do any tariff up to 50%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:24 AM (GBKbO
So not as dire as I thought ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (VE6XX)
Thanks goodness.
Posted by: Mistakes In Marketing at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
Barrett shows once again she’s an AWFl who should never been picked.
I worry now about the rifle and magazine bans. No way with her reasoning Barrett is on the 2A side.
Worst. Pick. Ever.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (TmQh+)
Thanks goodness.
Posted by: Mistakes In Marketing at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
Name leaves a lot to be desired
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:26 AM (VE6XX)
"Additional dutiesThe President when he finds that the public interest will be served shall by proclamation specify and declare new or additional duties as hereinafter provided upon articles wholly or in part the growth or product of, or imported in a vessel of, any foreign country whenever he shall find as a fact that such country"
The problem was the defense under the IEEPA. It should have worked, probably, but the president has several authorities to impose tariffs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:26 AM (GBKbO)
They allow him to do any tariff up to 50%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:24 AM (GBKbO
So not as dire as I thought ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (VE6XX)
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No, it's not. Most things aren't that dire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:26 AM (GBKbO)
So SCOTUS is in charge of foreign policy now? Wonderful.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
So SCOTUS is in charge of foreign policy now? Wonderful.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
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Anything over 50% will have to be redone. Anything under that will get refiled under Section 338 and just move along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 10:27 AM (xo7Vw)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 20, 2026 10:27 AM (CNl8/)
NY AG Warns School Boards to Not Allow Public to Question Boys Playing Against Girls
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:27 AM (FXNzP)
No, it's not. Most things aren't that dire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:26 AM (GBKbO)
The media is portraying it as shutting down Trump's tariffs.. They are absolutely giddy...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (VE6XX)
Thanks goodness.
Posted by: Mistakes In Marketing at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
I didn't know that.
Always thought the Buick Boomlet was nine months after the Roadmaster was introduced.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (VE6XX)
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Until he signs a paper that reimposes them all.
Then it'll be, "I thought he was beaten!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
The Paolo has no need to mention the size of his, how you say, filly buster.
Posted by: The Paolo at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 10:27 AM
I haven't thought about Buick as a brand in ages.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Most people at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 10:30 AM (xo7Vw)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 10:30 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:26 AM (GBKbO)
Our traitors, which is most of the government, will fight tooth and nail to give our enemies back the tariff moneys already raised first. They are already talking about it.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 10:30 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
We’re in charge of immigration policy so it makes sense.
Posted by: Lowly District Courts at February 20, 2026 10:30 AM (TtdNq)
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The tariffs were filling the treasury, helping onshore businesses and had no real effect on inflation, which was making America great again. Of course the media would be giddy, they hate America.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 10:30 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (Wnv9h)
I have an Enclave, and it's great.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 10:30 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Well, next time you talk to him, please give him my regards. Despite his doom and gloom, I always enjoyed interacting with him.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 10:32 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 10:32 AM (rj6Yv)
Regardless of the issue.
Regardless of truth.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 10:33 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Will Robinson at February 20, 2026 10:33 AM (2H3yT)
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 10:33 AM (IHM9O)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 10:12 AM (n9ltV)
They'll get right on that after the next Dem President slaps a 40,000% tariff on the US, paid to China.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:33 AM (ExV1e)
The ruling was a 6-3 decision, with Chief Justice Roberts writing the main opinion, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. He says that the law allows the president to "regulate importantation" in emergency situations, but that does not mean adding taxes.
Roberts claims that "those two words ['regulate importation'] cannot bear such weight" when used to justify tariffs with massive economic consequences. He invoked the major questions doctrine (MQD), requiring "clear congressional authorization" for actions of extraordinary economic and political significance. The opinion noted that the Constitution assigns taxing and commerce powers to Congress, and no president had ever used IEEPA for tariffs in its nearly 50-year history.
Ultimately, this means that companies can get refunds to the tune of up to $175 billion. In the future, presidents will likely have less control over major economic issues, giving Congress more control.
https://is.gd/Z2OkeY
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Amy Conehead Barrett, Collecting Of African Trophy Children at February 20, 2026 10:34 AM (hXJe5)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 20, 2026 10:34 AM (CNl8/)
Posted by: muldoon at February 20, 2026 10:34 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:33 AM (ExV1e)
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Trump imposed a bunch of tariffs on China in his first term. There were tales of woe and impending doom from Democrats.
They remained in place until Biden's administration when...Biden's admin kept the tariffs and even expanded them.
Democrats don't reduce tariffs. They just bitch about them when Republicans do it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:34 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2026 10:36 AM (VE6XX)
Two tyrannical black robed Supreme Court hacks in b l ack took it away.
Thanks Gorsuch and ACB for nothing
Posted by: torabora at February 20, 2026 10:36 AM (Opwcy)
Who?
And who *IS* Orange Julius?
https://y.yarn.co/3e87a2c0-e900-4bd8-a1c6-452125e2a0f0.mp4
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-OrangeLotus
Orange Lotus: How the Trump Show Outwits Reality
Just watch what happens to the nu-media when they discover the Az/Kidnapping was transnational and their own complicity in its cause.
Can't wait?//Upcoming Clinton testimonies-talkingpoints//Incoming//Summarized: What Difference does it Make? It's your own fault! You're all gonna Die...
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 20, 2026 10:36 AM (YuPLX)
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Not so fast there, Bucko!
- Big John Roberts
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:37 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 10:37 AM (RHGPo)
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Oh, is that all? Pffft.
Posted by: Your Somalian Neighbor at February 20, 2026 10:38 AM (Dv3i1)
Worst dictator ever!
Posted by: Ripley at February 20, 2026 10:38 AM (GUOwU)
>>They allow him to do any tariff up to 50%.
Perhaps, but I would assume that the collected tariffs to date would have to be returned as the levy was just ruled unconstitutional/not provided for in statute or law.
This... is going to be a mess.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)
An odd thing about these style of paintings that has always struck me:
It is like the faces are done separately, remotely. Then when complete they are plopped down on a otherwise completed painting.
It is just a weird look.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 09:33 AM (bss/y)
I seem to remember that in the great art machine businesses, like Rembrandt's in later years, the master artist would do the sketches and initial layout, and then the lower level painters would work on the portrait (usually a portrait) according to their specialties. Jan would work on indoor backgrounds, Geertgen did robes/clothing, Jaap did hands, and Koenraad did faces.
Portraits Henry Ford-style. Minor nobles and merchants could now afford to have portraits made, rather than just the wealthiest families.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 10:39 AM (kTyBw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDGEWgzcxJ4
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 10:39 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 10:39 AM (RHGPo)
>>They allow him to do any tariff up to 50%.
Perhaps, but I would assume that the collected tariffs to date would have to be returned as the levy was just ruled unconstitutional/not provided for in statute or law.
This... is going to be a mess.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)
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Probably.
The refunds thing surprised me, but okay.
Still, there's going to be efforts to get people to not ask for refunds. As in, "We negotiated down to 10%. You paid 10%. You don't want it to be 20% in the future, do you?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:39 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2026 10:40 AM (TmQh+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:40 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Enclave is being discontinued in favor of the new Buick Cul-De-Sac.
Posted by: Motor Weak at February 20, 2026 10:41 AM (oftw2)
https://is.gd/Z2OkeY
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)
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In the Age of AI, with electronic transfers, modern markets, ballistic missiles, and WMDs, we'll have to sit on our hands and wait for Congress and the Courts to make their august decisions. Roberts and the Majority own this. Matters like this are best left to the electorate.
If the Court wishes to control US foreign policy, then they should face elections, too.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2026 10:41 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Vengeance
"The great nation of Venezuela, which is west of the Equator..."
-- KBJ
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bullshit at February 20, 2026 10:42 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 10:42 AM (OAPjy)
>>Still, there's going to be efforts to get people to not ask for refunds. As in, "We negotiated down to 10%. You paid 10%. You don't want it to be 20% in the future, do you?"
Sure, Trump could play hardball again, but this ruling just makes everything acrimonious again and will flair up hostilities that have been bedded down.
A really unfortunate decision by SCOTUS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 10:42 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:40 AM (FXNzP)
Down h'yar in Texas, renters always vote for property tax increases to stick it to the man and then whine about their rents going up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)
243 Kavanaugh, Alito and Thomas dissent.
Barrett shows once again she’s an AWFl who should never been picked.
I worry now about the rifle and magazine bans. No way with her reasoning Barrett is on the 2A side.
Worst. Pick. Ever.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (TmQh+)
*****
No, she's not.
Posted by: David Souter, Hack USSC at February 20, 2026 10:42 AM (Opwcy)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:10 AM (TtdNq)
Yes... 6-3
Wow. Here we go to the precipice. Sorry that you just lost so much power, SCOTUS.
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 10:43 AM (IHM9O)
... this crap should be prosecuted as if self-victim had been attacked by the self-attacker, and the self-attacker sent to jail.
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 10:43 AM (RHGPo)
Sure, Trump could play hardball again, but this ruling just makes everything acrimonious again and will flair up hostilities that have been bedded down.
A really unfortunate decision by SCOTUS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 10:42 AM (XV/Pl)
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It's going to be work that the admin has to do again, but Trump has a year of beating people into doing his whim in other countries. "Seriously, do you want to go through that again?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:43 AM (GBKbO)
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My GAF meter appears to be broken.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:43 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2026 10:44 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:44 AM (TtdNq)
I'm more interested in VRA ruling
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:45 AM (j+aD2)
243 Kavanaugh, Alito and Thomas dissent.
Barrett shows once again she’s an AWFl who should never been picked.
I worry now about the rifle and magazine bans. No way with her reasoning Barrett is on the 2A side.
Worst. Pick. Ever.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2026 10:25 AM (TmQh+)
****
I thought we were friends....
Posted by: KBJ, Idiot wing USSC at February 20, 2026 10:45 AM (Opwcy)
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My GAF meter appears to be broken.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:43 AM (FXNzP)
Hey, no murders in Seattle for the last 32 years. Gotta keep those detectives busy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:45 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 20, 2026 10:45 AM (CNl8/)
they are unable to think objectively
I think it's physical lol
there are outliers but we're probably autistic or something
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:45 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 10:46 AM (Dv3i1)
We would like to thank whomever did it. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Posted by: Eardrums Worldwide at February 20, 2026 10:46 AM (hXJe5)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:46 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 20, 2026 10:46 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: Hall monitor at February 20, 2026 10:46 AM (TbWk/)
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My GAF meter appears to be broken.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:43 AM (FXNzP)
****
We do what we're told.
Posted by: Shotguns at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (Opwcy)
how did a Leftist governor happen in Kansas
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Braenyard
There's a funny picture online of Zero Mostel sitting next to an adult Shirley Temple at some awards program. Her gown shows the goods and Mostel is giving serious side-eye looking down her cleaverage.
Posted by: A Peek and a Poke... at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 10:46 AM (Dv3i1)
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I think the only tariffs over 50% are on China. And he could probably reimpose the higher rates by making them good by good tariffs rather than directed solely on the country of origin.
The rest get reimposed immediately under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (GBKbO)
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And the perverts! Don't forget the perverts!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (FXNzP)
they are unable to think objectively
Posted by: BlackOrchid
You've never met my wife.
I'm a flibbertigibbet compared to her.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
WE DRESS THAT WAY FOR OURSELVES!!!
Posted by: Ubiquitous female lie #28 at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 10:46 AM (Dv3i1)
Probably. Remember at the beginning when we had dueling tariffs with China over 100%.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:48 AM (ExV1e)
how did a Leftist governor happen in Kansas
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (j+aD2)
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"Democrats are harmless when we have a super majority in the legislature."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:48 AM (GBKbO)
There is no way they’re getting off.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 20, 2026 10:48 AM (TmQh+)
I'm a flibbertigibbet compared to her.
oh I believe you. they do exist
just rare
and probably suppressed by current norms
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:48 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Yoga Pants at February 20, 2026 10:48 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Eardrums Worldwide
Why, you're quite welcome!
-- Courtney Love
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 20, 2026 10:49 AM (DgMqy)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:49 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 20, 2026 10:49 AM (gQ15S)
No tariffs? Fine.
Here's your new import inspection system, China. All imported products must be inspected for consumer safety. All incoming shipping containers must be opened and inspected to combat drug smuggling and human trafficking.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 10:50 AM (kTyBw)
>>I think you can get your tariff refund but then pay for it another way. There is no way they’re getting off.
This ruling is going to generate a crapton of litigation, it also just reignites the tariff wars all over again for no good reason.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 10:51 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 20, 2026 10:51 AM (gQ15S)
flatly untrue
manufacturing at least here in PA is rolling and that train will not stop due to this (not unexpected) ruling
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:51 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: A Peek and a Poke.
I just looked it up. He's not being subtle about it at all.
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)
Man was only fined and not enrolled in MAID.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2026 10:24 AM (xo7Vw)
Is he rich?
$750K ain't nothing.
He might decide to go with MAiD anyhow so he doesn't have to work for the Canadian government for the rest of his life.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 10:52 AM (6ydKt)
that's fine
if you want stability, you'll bring manufacturing back stateside
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:52 AM (j+aD2)
Good Lord, it would take me years to parse thru the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 USC Ch. 4). Help me grok this, Grok!
https://shorturl.at/WdCl8
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 10:52 AM (IHM9O)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 10:51 AM (j+aD2)
Is that rolling because of the tariffs though?
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:53 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2026 10:51 AM (XV/Pl)
On the one hand, I really want judges to issue opinions based on the actual law without regard to the consequences, or their preferences, or their feelings.
On the other hand, given that Thomas and Alito dissented, I'm betting that's not what happened here.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:53 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 20, 2026 10:53 AM (gQ15S)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs
This is my concern. I'll admit I don't understand all the options but, what does this ruling do to all the big dollar commitments to investment in USA which were based on lowering tariffs?
Posted by: old chick at February 20, 2026 10:53 AM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: cmeat at February 20, 2026 10:53 AM (R11M+)
I wonder if this ruling is as big as thought?
The markets are barely moving--either it's priced-in or no one thinks it is a "win"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 10:54 AM (HXT0k)
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It's in the emanations of the penumbras of the Ten Commandments.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:54 AM (FXNzP)
The rest get reimposed immediately under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:47 AM (GBKbO)
But they are going to fight to round up every tariff money made so far. To break trump and have passing around money.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 10:54 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: old chick at February 20, 2026 10:53 AM (F3Dlr)
I seem to recall Bessent saying that they weren't worried about the ruling because they had other tools in the bag.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:55 AM (ExV1e)
Good Lord, it would take me years to parse thru the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 USC Ch. 4). Help me grok this, Grok!
https://shorturl.at/WdCl8
Posted by: t-bird at February 20, 2026 10:52 AM (IHM9O)
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I assume Trump's team went with the IEEPA as the authority because it was faster and easier to do tariffs of countries as a whole while giving him the authority to go sky high in terms of rates.
Given the SCOTUS ruling, that was obviously a long-term mistake, but it might not be. The short term gains from the threat of 1,000,000% tariffs in people's nightmares got them to the table.
Yes, the admin is in for a short term mess of having to deal with requests for refunds. I assume some will get paid out, but the tariff regime Trump started can just be replaced with a simple declaration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:55 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 10:54 AM (HXT0k)
Or the money guys are waiting to see what Trump does in response.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:55 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:53 AM (ExV1e)
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Presidents get to define emergencies. The majority got it wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
"It's a tax!"
-- Moses
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 10:56 AM (77rzZ)
This is a hell of a win for companies. They increase the price by $100 pass that to consumers, then the govt gives them another $100 back as a refund. Nice little scam.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:56 AM (TtdNq)
But they are going to fight to round up every tariff money made so far. To break trump and have passing around money.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 20, 2026 10:54 AM (3uBP9)
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"Tell your companies to shut up, or we take the 10% negotiated tariff and make it 30%."
-it'll work on most of them
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
Hope everyone is doing well.
Thank you for the painting CBD. I like these kinds of paintings. Almost like a window into the past.
Unfortunate news from the Supremes today.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:57 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 10:57 AM (TtdNq)
Kurt Cobain’s Death Declared a Homicide by Seattle Police Captain Ordered to Investigate
Aren't ALL killings carried out by a human hand classified as homicides? Just that some are justified, some aren't.
I guess the end game is to dig up Kurt's corpse and put Zombie Cobain on trial.
"See, your honor! The defendant doesn't deny that he pulled the trigger!"
"Unnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnhhhhh"
"I think that what my client is TRYING to say is, "Nnnnnnnnhhhh unnnnnnn braaaaaiiins"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 10:57 AM (kTyBw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
++++++++++++++
Don't comment on old threads!
Posted by: Bulg
**********
THIS is how it's done, folks.
Posted by: muldoon at February 20, 2026 10:58 AM (qgHp7)
Although a quick run through Instagram and Tik-Tok reels might leave one doubting that.
Posted by: Ripley at February 20, 2026 10:58 AM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:57 AM (QGaXH)
Yup. These were real people!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 10:58 AM (n9ltV)
"See, your honor! The defendant doesn't deny that he pulled the trigger!"
"Unnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnhhhhh"
"I think that what my client is TRYING to say is, "Nnnnnnnnhhhh unnnnnnn braaaaaiiins"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 10:57 AM (kTyBw)
https://youtu.be/SVMOWNRE1HQ
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 10:59 AM (ExV1e)
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Not so fast there, Bucko, Part Deux.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 10:59 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: torabora at February 20, 2026 11:00 AM (Opwcy)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Even if it's putting on a good face I appreciate cooler heads and competent people like Bessent have been anticipating this day and not reacting as if it comes as a complete surprise.
Posted by: old chick at February 20, 2026 11:00 AM (F3Dlr)
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I was admonished for being part of the patriarchy, a patriarchy that forces women to wear high heels. The hell we don't, we don't care one way or another ladies.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2026 11:00 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Guy Who Skims Headlines Quickly at February 20, 2026 11:01 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:01 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2026 11:01 AM (Cqx++)
Probably a good plan as her career did nothing but nosedive since the mid-90s.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 20, 2026 11:03 AM (6ydKt)
dig up Kurt's corpse
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Smells Like Zombie Spirit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:01 AM (FXNzP)
Which will probably smell better than Kurt did before he ate the shotgun.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 20, 2026 11:04 AM (kTyBw)
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The plutocrats just don't care about Nirvana.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 20, 2026 11:04 AM (FXNzP)
Presidents get to define emergencies. The majority got it wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
****
Tee Hee
Racking up my wins.
Posted by: KBJ at February 20, 2026 11:04 AM (Opwcy)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 10:57 AM (QGaXH)
Yup. These were real people!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2026 10:58 AM (n9ltV)
But try as I might - I can't locate the d*** halo - it's supposed to be over the seated figure in red - correct?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 20, 2026 11:05 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: fd
There was a job called "whitesmith," you know.
I don't know about calling "Pressure" an unknown story.
Group Captain Stagg was King of The Weathermen for the rest of his life. CB, OBE, Royal Academy, Met chief. All the honours.
In that business, you can get it right just once...
Always a thrill to hear Ike say, "OK, let's go," though.
I never met Julius Caesar or Napoleon. Just read about them.
I did meet Ike once.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 20, 2026 11:08 AM (zdLoL)
michelangelo:
artist +
lived to 88 +
painted a ceiling +
kurt cobain:
artist +
lived to 88 X
painted a ceiling +
Posted by: cmeat at February 20, 2026 11:10 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Case at February 20, 2026 11:14 AM (j6kTf)
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I know they have bigger things in mind for her, but has any SOTU response-giver gone on to higher office?
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 20, 2026 11:15 AM (0bjKf)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2026 10:28 AM (Wnv9h)
Obama Motors killed the Pontiac and Oldsmobile brands, but kept Buick because Buick sold well in Chy-nah.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 11:16 AM (8zz6B)
No tariffs? Fine.
Here's your new import inspection system, China. All imported products must be inspected for consumer safety. All incoming shipping containers must be opened and inspected to combat drug smuggling and human trafficking.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Do they have containers made for justices?
Can justices fly with stones tied on their nethers?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 11:18 AM (OAPjy)
Posted by: The Swamp at February 20, 2026 11:23 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Eardrums Worldwide at February 20, 2026 10:46 AM (hXJe5)
He was a whiny puke. Justifiable homicide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 11:27 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 20, 2026 05:38 PM (wGqjj)
The Morning Report — 2/20/26
Good morning kids. Once again we've got trouble at home and trouble abroad (hmm, sounds like the opening of a Grateful Dead ditty) Let's start off overseas with things heating up in and around Iran. The internal unrest inside that nation that we had all thought or hoped would at long last see the toppling of the Muallahocracy appears, at least from what I can tell, to have significantly quieted down. Of course the IRGC and other security forces have arrested and/or executed hundreds if not thousands of protesters at this point and hence the quieting down. That said, as the unrest was building, President Trump ordered a carrier battle group to take up station in the Mediterranean within striking range of Iran and now that it is in position, the saber rattling is reaching a fever pitch.
President Donald J. Trump warned that the U.S. could strike Iran if a nuclear deal is not reached within the next ten days. . . President Trump, world leaders attending the Board of Peace meeting, and Iranian officials involved in nuclear negotiations.. . February 19, 2026, during the inaugural Board of Peace meeting in Washington, DC.. . : “We may have to take it a step further, or we may not. Maybe we’re going to make a deal. You’re going to be finding out over the next probably ten days.” — President Donald Trump . . The U.S. military has mobilized assets in the Middle East, as nuclear negotiations with Iran remain ongoing.
I seriously do not understand what the hell this is all about. First, I thought we along with the Israelis took out Iran's nuclear capabilities with the bombing campaign a few months ago? And what's to negotiate? Why is allowing their heinous, evil government to remain in power an acceptable outcome for a promise that is not worth the paper it's written on?!
And this whole Board of Peace nonsense is a complete waste of time given the nature of Islam, despite the supposed phony moderation of some of the players involved. Islam has been on the march for close to a millennium and a half and it will not stop until it conquers the entire world, even if it means bringing about Armageddon to obtain that goal. And Armageddon is a central pillar of Shiite Twelverism (look it up) which is at the heart of the Iranian regime.
Until Islam reforms itself or is eradicated from the face of the Earth for all time, there will be no peace in the region and indeed the rest of the world where it is allowed to flourish.
So, dealing with the Mullahs is one thing, but back here at home, President Trump needs to park a carrier battle group up the sigmoid of the Judiciary:
On Thursday, a federal judge in California overturned a previous immigration court ruling that supported the Trump administration’s illegal immigrant detention policies. U.S. District Court Judge Sunshine Sykes, a Joe Biden appointee, criticized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for their characterization of detainees as the “worst of the worst.”“‘Worst of the worst’ is an inaccurate description of most of those affected by DHS and ICE’s operations,” Judge Sykes ruled. She argued that the administration’s language was designed to justify the scale of its actions against illegal immigrants.“Even though these press releases might contain an inkling of truth, they ignore a greater, more dire reality,” she claimed, adding: “Beyond its terror against noncitizens, the executive branch has extended its violence on its own citizens, killing two American citizens—Renée Good and Alex Pretti—in Minnesota,” Sykes wrote in her decision, adding, “The threats posed by the executive branch cannot be viewed in isolation.”The ruling, if upheld, could block mass deportations and ensure bond hearings for many non-convicted illegal immigrant detainees. Previously, DHS had denied bond hearings to migrants arrested by federal immigration authorities, even if they had been in the United States for years. Those who recently illegally crossed the border were also not guaranteed immediate bond hearings under the policy.
And yet, per Tom Homan:
” White House border czar Tom Homan said that there will be “mass deportation. . . “I will do whatever I can, because the president has made a promise to the American people, there will be mass deportation, but it’s going to prioritize public safety threats first. And that’s just the way we should be doing it. Targeted enforcement operations are a way to go. And for the people are going nuts is if you’re walking away from mass deportation. Look at the numbers. We already got record numbers to deportation but arresting the public safety threat first makes sense because you’re the biggest danger to the community. Prioritize public safety threats and national security threats doesn’t mean to forget about everybody else. I’ve said it from day one, if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table. We’re looking for you, and we’ll remove you when we find you.”
So Mr. Border Czar, how does your declaration square with what Biden's hack in black has said and done.
Lots of other links to peruse and ponder, especially regarding socialism, it's embrace by more and more Americans, especially youth and what can be done to smack people upside the head before the bodies pile up in mass graves or freeze to death in the NYC cold or starve to death due to the raging success of Free Grocery Stores!!!!
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
How Apple News and other tech giants change the narrative for Democrats
Teaching the Truth About Socialism in America’s Public Schools (See also the related story in the Culture Wars section - jjs)
New York’s First Free Grocery Store Opens
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- The Democrat congresswoman further revealed, “There is a lot of conversation about what the dismantlement of the Department of Homeland Security should look like.”
Watch: Ilhan Omar Says Democrats Don’t Just Want to Abolish ICE, They Plan to Dismantle DHS
- Terrorists for dismantling counterterrorism.
Rep-tilian. Bro-FO Omar Calls for Dismantling Department of Homeland Security - Across the country, students have walked out of school to protest ICE, especially since Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers were involved in the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in January. Principal Daniel Weber addressed the students in a video posted on TikTok by a user known as othersideofanalia. (RELATED: ‘If I Had A Gun, I’d Pew-Pew Your Motherf*cking A*S!’: Students Assault, Threaten Journalists At Anti-ICE Walkout)
Watch Principal Lay Down The Law To Students On Anti-ICE Walkout "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - The ruling could block mass deportations and guarantee bond hearings for many non-criminal illegal immigrant detainees, though the Department of Justice (DOJ) is likely to appeal. (hat is this "non-criminal" bullshit? There mere presence on our soil is a criminal act! - jjs)
Biden Judge BLOCKS Mass Deportation Powers. - “I will do whatever I can, because the president has made a promise to the American people, there will be mass deportation, but it’s going to prioritize public safety threats first. And that’s just the way we should be doing it. Targeted enforcement operations are a way to go. And for the people are going nuts is if you’re walking away from mass deportation. Look at the numbers. We already got record numbers to deportation but arresting the public safety threat first makes sense because you’re the biggest danger to the community. Prioritize public safety threats and national security threats doesn’t mean to forget about everybody else. I’ve said it from day one, if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table. We’re looking for you, and we’ll remove you when we find you.”
Tom Homan: ‘There Will Be Mass Deportation’ - "When asked if he was remorseful, Hernandez Gonzalez stated he felt nothing."
Biden Shielded Him From Deportation. He Was Just Arrested For Trying To Drown A Woman.
- The deportation flight signals a potential shift in immigration cooperation between the United States and Cuba.
ICE Has Resumed Deportations to Cuba.
- They created a seismic mess and voters opted to have it cleaned up. There’s no easy way to do it. There’s nothing that can “traditionally” be done. There’s no “moderate” option. Either the people in the country leave voluntarily, or they’re removed by force.
There Is No ‘Moderate’ Solution To The Extreme Immigration Problem Democrats Created DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - “There is currently no impact to drinking water."
Radical Left ‘Environmental Hazard’? Trump’s Potomac Sewage Dare To Dems
- The Transportation Department still has 97 schools under investigation.
Duffy Orders Over 550 Commercial Drivers Licensing Schools to Close Over Safety Failures
- Somehow, they didn't foresee this happening when the billionaires fled the fleecing.
Public employee unions that endorsed Mamdani watch as he raids their pension funds - The project has sparked Democrat lawfare challenging its compliance with historic preservation laws.
Fine Arts Commission Approves Trump’s White House Ballroom. WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - There’s a difference between immigrants, who come seeking a better life and want to assimilate, and conquerors.
Muslims behaving badly
- Mohammed was the original feminist.
Moderate Taliban Urge Beating Women Without Breaking Bones
- “Disassociation” as deception.
Muslim Federation’s CAIR Lie and a City That Looked the Other Way
- Standing up to Sharia.
Is Texas Winning the War Against Islamization?
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION - As admitted by Toobin, Democrat-appointed judges have become a critical feature of the left’s evolving lawfare against Trump and his voters.
NYT Accidentally Confesses There’s A Left-Wing Judicial Coup Against Trump - Washington promised reform, yet one year into President Trump’s second term, Executive Orders abound while arrests, prosecutions, and structural change remain conspicuously absent.
A Year Into Trump’s Second Term: When Does Accountability for the Deep State Begin? THE ECONOMY, STUPID - The dramatic nine-month improvement suggests Trump’s tariff strategy is achieving its core objective of reducing America’s trade imbalance. March represented the peak of the deficit as importers rushed to bring in goods ahead of announced tariff increases, creating what economists call “front-loading.” The subsequent decline reflects both reduced import volumes and increased export competitiveness.
U.S. Trade Deficit Nearly Cut in Half Since Liberation Day
- The current state of de-dollarization resembles a long-term structural drift rather than a financial rupture; danger is not imminent, and the dollar remains at the center of global payments, funding, and trade.
Structural Shifts in a Still-Dollarized World
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are one of the most significant proposed shifts in modern currency. But...
Trading Cash for a Government Digital Leash CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - A thief allegedly stole the Oakland, California, mayor’s SUV after breaking into her City Hall office on Feb. 16.
Oakland Mayor’s SUV Allegedly Loses Car In Brazen Robbery FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - The master anti-Israel manipulator pulls a cheap stunt.
Crybully Tucker Carlson Claims Detained At Ben Gurion Airport – US Embassy and Israelis Deny
- The guide also bans the word 'Islamist' and stipulates that Taiwan 'is not a country'
Inside Al Jazeera’s Style Guide, Which Forbids Reporters From Calling ISIS a ‘Terrorist’ Organization
- CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe learned a new concept Wednesday: facts. . .
Ed O’Keefe’s Trump Derangement Is So Bad, Even The White House Press Corps Is Laughing At Him* * * * * - The biggest threat isn’t AI, but genuine intelligence (GI) hosted by new technology.
AI Is Artificial Instinct (Not Intelligence) RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - The EPA’s retreat from regulating CO₂ as a pollutant reframes climate orthodoxy, arguing that carbon dioxide underpins modern prosperity as much as it complicates environmental debates.
Waiting to Exhale?
- Repealing the EPA’s biofuel boondoggle ought to be a no-brainer—but can reformers overcome the “liquid pork” regime?
A Simple Policy to Reduce Food Prices
- Green activists may be appalled by the Trump administration’s placement of economic growth, national security, and energy affordability ahead of fighting climate change -- but they don't have the final word.
President Trump Not an Outlier on Climate
- Green ideology is anti-Western at its core.
The Trump Administration Takes on the Green Political Religion EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Not all Asians are narrow-minded grinders, nor are all non-Asians free-spirited risk-takers.
What The ‘Asian Grind Culture’ Panic Gets Wrong About American Education
- Margaret Peters, the associate director of UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations, accused the CBS editor in chief of weaponizing free speech against liberals (Burkle = Obama+Urkle? - jjs)
UCLA Professor Threatens To Resign Leadership Role if Bari Weiss Gives Journalism Lecture THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH - The talking filibuster is worth trying. It is worth a public accounting of whether this Senate, in this moment, for this American people, can deliver on its duties.
Bringing Back The Talking Filibuster Could Do More To Save America Than Just Passing The SAVE Act L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN - Andrew allegedly gave Epstein confidential reports when the former prince served as a UK trade envoy between 2001 and 2011.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested Over Epstein Scandal
- Plaskett visited Epstein at Southern Trust Company office, two miles away from sex offender’s private island
Dem Rep. Stacey Plaskett Visited Epstein at Office He Used To Scam Virgin Islands Government out of Hundreds of Millions of Dollars, Records Show DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - This “Republican” vows to fight for mass amnesty.
Attention California: Don’t vote for Chad Bianco
- Cherfilus-McCormick, an embattled lawmaker first elected to the House in a January 2022 special election, is facing up to 53 years in prison for allegedly stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) overpayments among other charges. A recent House ethics subcommittee report found that a “substantial amount” of the funds were laundered in support of her special election campaign and subsequent November 2022 reelection bid.
Democrats Stay Mum On Keeping Indicted Lawmaker’s Campaign Cash
- Omar’s sudden, inexplicable rise in wealth.
Bro-Fo Omar’s Under Investigation (incestuous relationships, literal and figurative! - jjs)
- A powerful and wealthy politician is desperately trying to hide behind victimhood.
Newsom Lied About Dyslexia, Used it to Get a Pass in College POLITICS - Trump’s disapproval rating sits at 46 percent.
One of 2024’s Most Accurate Pollsters Puts Trump at 50 Percent Approval
- A Virginia judge has just blocked an April referendum on the Democrats’ egregious gerrymandered map for the state.
Judge Halts Virginia Gerrymandering
- Wilson, a self-described socialist, has been widely compared to socialist Democrat New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. She received poor reviews on her address, which began with technical difficulties and touched on city issues, including crime, homelessness and affordability, according to The Center Square. (RELATED: Seattle Mayor Proudly Admits She Is Not Seeking Probe Into Somali Scammers)
Seattle’s New Democrat Socialist Mayor Bombs Major Address
- Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), who is seeking to unseat incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Republican primary, is launching a new satirical ad highlighting Cornyn’s record of partnering with Democrats on gun control and immigration legislation — arguing that if the senator “votes like a Democrat” and “acts like a Democrat,” then “he must be a Democrat.”
Exclusive: Wesley Hunt Unveils ‘Don’t Vote Democrat’ Ad Blasting Cornyn’s Gun Control, Amnesty Record IRAN ON the BRINK?! - The U.S. military has mobilized assets in the Middle East, as nuclear negotiations with Iran remain ongoing.
Trump Gives Iran 10-Day Ultimatum to Reach Nuclear Deal.
- Iranian spokesman Capt. Hassan Maqsoudlou said the Iranian units participating in the joint exercises included “special operations units” from the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy and the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization.
Iran Holds Joint Naval Drills with Russia, Fearing U.S. Strikes Imminent
- Profile of a madman. (Meh, typical Islamic male - jjs)
Khameini the Psychopath ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said the pope "will not participate in the Board of Peace due to its particular nature, which is clearly not that of other states.”
Vatican rejects 'Board of Peace' invite from Trump, appeals to United Nations to handle matter FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - All in all, it represents one of the most remarkable under-the-radar diplomatic achievements in recent history. When President Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace plan reached a dead end, he turned around, cut a deal with India, and strangled the Russian economy overnight. Along with the economy of Russia’s petro-partner, Iran, which is trapped in gunboat diplomacy. (Venezuela, of course, was already dealt with.) And now China — ludicrously heralded by the BBC as a “Green Superpower”(!) despite Chinese greenhouse emissions exceeding all developed nations combined — will now eat the higher cost, too. All of America’s strategic rivals were caught flatfooted.
Trump Defeats Russia, Wins War for Ukraine: The Shocking Story Behind the Diplomatic Coup of the Century
- The meeting was a momentous occasion that, as Marco Rubio said at the event, "the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has both an ability and a willingness to use the power of his office to think outside the box." He's right, and Trump is having fun doing it.
Firing Rubio? Trump's Got Jokes, and He's Having a Darn Good Time.
- The investigation was one of several criminal procedures against the former president launched following his loss in the 2022 presidential election to socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence after being convicted on spurious charges of attempting to stage a coup following Lula’s election, linking Bolsonaro to a riot that occurred in Brasilia in January 2023 when the ex-president was in the United States.
Jair Bolsonaro Gets Court Win: Pandemic-Era ‘Genocide’ Charges Shelved
- The British government is reconsidering the transfer, which would have seen Britain cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while paying large sums of money to continue leasing Diego Garcia, which hosts the military base.
UK Pauses Diego Garcia Deal After Trump Intervention, But Blocks U.S. From Using Base Against Iran.
- Fred Fleitz: Trump reduced the North Korean threat through pressure and diplomacy. Biden’s passivity reversed those gains, deepened hostile alliances, and left a more volatile nuclear standoff.
Solving the North Korea Mess That Biden Left Trump
- Under the agreement, Southeast Asia’s largest economy will eliminate tariffs for 99% of American goods while the U.S. will maintain tariffs on most Indonesian goods at 19%, the White House said. That is the same rate the U.S. has set for Cambodia and Malaysia. Indonesia also agreed to address non-tariff barriers to U.S. goods and to remove restrictions on exports to the U.S. for critical minerals and other industrial commodities, the White House said.
Indonesia’s president reaches a trade deal with US while in Washington for Trump’s Board of Peace
- Merz’s short meeting with Newsom, staged for the press, suggests that Berlin sees a high probability of Newsom becoming the Democrat presidential candidate in 2028.
Newsom and Merz in Wonderland HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - Former head Jim O’Neill has been tapped to lead the National Science Foundation.
Trump Names NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as Acting CDC Director
- Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s vaccine and biologics division, initially refused to review the vaccine because of an inadequate clinical trial.
- The executive order invokes the Defense Production Act to safeguard the domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, according to a White House fact sheet. Trump wrote in the order that “ensuring an adequate supply of” both is “crucial to the national security and defense” of the U.S., “including food-supply security, which is essential to protecting the health and safety of Americans.”
Trump Ignites Political Firestorm With Executive Order Backing Notorious Pesticide ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - This is a cool discovery, because it tells us there is much out there hidden in the darkness we will always find difficult if not impossible to detect.
The dimmest galaxy yet found
- I pulled these images from the New Horizons’ archive specifically because I don’t remember ever seeing them publicly released by the science team. More important, they show a surface far more alien than other more well-known New Horizon pictures.
Pluto’s splotched surface FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - People who gravitate toward gender ideology are already struggling psychologically. They are offered the false promise that affirmation, hormones, and surgery will heal their distress.
Trans Ideology KILLS—we have to stop pretending it doesn’t - "Women and girl’s private spaces will be protected from biological men."
Battle Over Women’s Bathrooms Delivers A Biological Reality Check
- Publicizing the harm of transgender surgery will vilify the procedures and further isolate them.
Another ‘Detransitioner’ Is Suing Her Pro-Trans Therapist For Malpractice
- The EU Parliament has done great harm. This is far more than progressive virtue signaling. We hear warnings of transhumanism.
EU Parliament Says Men Are Women And Anyone Can Get Pregnant
- A new poll confirms growing public skepticism of these practices—even “when deemed medically necessary.”
Is Gender Medicine Diminishing Trust in Doctors?
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - After all, capitalism is based on competition, risk-taking, and ultimately, rewards to those who produce the most value for others. It produces winners—and losers. Socialism, on the other hand, gives partisan and flawed government officials vast authority over economic decision-making, minimizes head-to-head competition, and eliminates real winners and actual losers (or “disparity in outcomes,” to use one of today’s preferred euphemisms). For the fearful, fragile, and timid—those who seek security, rather than progress—socialism (in theory) provides a ready tonic to all of our anxieties.
Gen Z’s Embrace Of Socialism Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone (See also the related story Above the Fold - jjs)
- Christian Toto: Aging rockers ignore facts for very good reason, and it's not about justice
Here’s Why U2, Springsteen Joined Anti-ICE ‘Resistance’
- Once his lie was exposed, he looked like a fool.
Colbert Cries Censorship, But The Joke’s On Him - But the move, first reported by the LA Times, allegedly had nothing to do with the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act. . . “Steven’s move to the East Coast is both long-planned and driven purely by his and Kate Capshaw’s desire to be closer to their New York-based children and grandchildren,” spokeswoman Terry Press said.
Legendary director Steven Spielberg is latest billionaire to flee California in another blow to state HITHER & YON - Earlier Thursday, Trump chastised former President Barack Obama for saying aliens are “real” in a recent interview. “He gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that,” the president told reporters on Air Force One. “I don’t know if they’re real or not, but I can tell you he gave classified information.”
Trump to release government UFO and ‘extraterrestrial life’ files: ‘Extremely interesting and important’
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Good morning all...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 07:33 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 07:34 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Nazdar at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Larry Storch at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (zojZo)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 07:36 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:36 AM (vFG9F)
F'em. Deport deport deport. What's the judge going to do?
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:39 AM (vFG9F)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 20, 2026 07:40 AM (tljrc)
The guide also bans the word 'Islamist' and stipulates that Taiwan 'is not a country'
Inside Al Jazeera’s Style Guide, Which Forbids Reporters From Calling ISIS a ‘Terrorist’ Organization.
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Al Jazeera is the official voice of Qatar
Also Taiwan is a country and China is asshoe!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:40 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 07:41 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 07:41 AM (4jnK3)
I assume the judge declared that foreign criminals are a class to allow them to get around the whole "district judges cannot make nationwide rulings" while completely ignoring the whole "article 3 judges have no say in immigration matters" thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 07:41 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)
I sure hope so.
This has my mom very worried. Her yard guys from Guatemala have been in the US for 20 years. They claim they are trying to get citizenship. For this she hates PDT.
I asked her if she knew who was paying for the new ballroom. She had no idea. Thanks PBS!
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:42 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 07:41 AM (4jnK3)
Cod or Walleye!!!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 07:43 AM (x0n13)
NYC has its first GUM store? Good for them!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 07:43 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:43 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2026 07:44 AM (sTSBN)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)
Pima County Sheriff Nanu-Nanu has announced -- boldly, mind you -- that Woody Guthrie may or may not be off the list of suspects in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 07:46 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 07:46 AM (qFwJc)
I think there is a bit more to that though. For the most part, job prospects are dim for them because companies want H1-Bs filling the offices at slave wages. Buy a house? Start a family? Without inherited wealth, that's not an easy prospect.
And don't get me started on how tough the dating world is for them.
So with all that against them, along comes Big Daddy Government telling them "We will give you everything for free in return, we want-" and they're signing on the dotted line before they can finish the sentence.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 07:46 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: pookysgirl, not feeling affirmed at February 20, 2026 07:47 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 07:43 AM (xG4kz)
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The translation for GUM is State Universal Store.
It's analogous more to Macy's than to a grocery store.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: fd
I am imagining a press conference where Tom Homan is saying "The judge was accidentally caught up in the deportations. We have asked Somalia to return him and are waiting for a response."
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 07:48 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: pookysgirl, not feeling affirmed at February 20, 2026 07:47 AM (Wt5PA)
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Works better if you wake up gassy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)
Judge Sunshine Sykes?
Who else is on the bench? Judge Moonbeam Myers? What about Judge Starshine Smythe?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 07:49 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Wally at February 20, 2026 07:51 AM (DXJuz)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 07:46 AM (BpO1e)
Along comes Big Daddy Government and they turn to the very thing which created/allowed their problems in the first place.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)
Trump's plan:
Indonesian soldiers are going to disarm Hamas in Gaza.
Mooslim to Mooslim?
Now we get to tell a whopper, right?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 07:52 AM (xG4kz)
Judge Sunshine Sykes?
Who else is on the bench? Judge Moonbeam Myers? What about Judge Starshine Smythe?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 07:49 AM (xG4kz)
Judge Lilith Bloodhowl, and you're a bigot if you don't let Xir drink your blood, h8r!
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 07:53 AM (iXqHn)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 07:46 AM (qFwJc)
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Disagree. This is a function of culture.
A heritage American would not take food if not needy.
Someone from a third-world s*thole low-trust society would take as much as they can carry if not needy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 07:55 AM (xG4kz)
Yeah right. And it has nothing to do with all the BS that has proceeded it.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F)
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This is absurd. Judicial fairy tales do not inspire confidence going forward. The CINC has broad executive power by design. That is the intent and purpose of a chief executive, and directly or indirectly expressing the will of the people, the overwhelming majority.
I’m just sick of these psychos in nightgowns fucking up the country on purpose
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 07:57 AM (19v1I)
Yeah right. And it has nothing to do with all the BS that has proceeded it.
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F)
The things that Spielberg has supported and, no doubt, funded.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 07:57 AM (ExV1e)
I have seen things...just what happens to the Sweet N Low on the table...the horror, the horror.
Posted by: Wolfie's, Miami Beach 1978 at February 20, 2026 07:59 AM (hXJe5)
California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania already risk losing millions in federal funding and decertification due to noncompliance.
Reportedly, 1 out of 5 non-domicile CDL's are issued from Illinois.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 20, 2026 07:59 AM (gbOdA)
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There was a guy at work once, I recall boasting that he skipped breakfast and lunch, so he could pig out on free pizza Tuesdays or whatever at one of the bars after work. Yes he was a Democrat.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:00 AM (19v1I)
Posted by: Wolfie's, Miami Beach 1978 at February 20, 2026 07:59 AM (hXJe5)
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Stealing Sweet n Low is merely for the low-grade thrill of it. Don't deny grandma her little amusement.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 07:57 AM (19v1I)
They know that eventually, Judas Roberts will blink, and endorse their special "Get Trump" injunctions.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 08:01 AM (iXqHn)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
And the people that sign up still insist that things will work this time.
So yeah, I don't think it's just laziness motivating the youngsters. It's desperation from realizing that their degrees aren't opening doors, the jobs they can find don't pay very well and they can't afford to put down roots.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 08:01 AM (BpO1e)
Schools don't teach much of anything, if one simply looks around at their product.
Whatever glories about "Democratic Socialism" the government schools are pushing, one would think would have as much stick as remembering the Pythagorean Theorem.
One thing about lies, everyone tells them, and everyone has a differing lie about a given topic. So its 100% certain that the lies of socialism by one "educator" is different than the lies of socialism told by another.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 08:02 AM (U4c/V)
They're not trying to shut it down.
They are fighting it on the coup's terms tho'. In the legal arena, the judiciary's home turf.
I have questions about all that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 08:02 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 20, 2026 08:02 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2026 08:03 AM (t+TFX)
Between AI and H1Bs, the next generation is properly phuqued - for those who went to college.
Those who go to trade school though....
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 08:04 AM (U4c/V)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:00 AM (19v1I)
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As a poor graduate student I was guilty of the same at the Pizza Hut. At the time I was lifting about 2 hours a day and went through there like Sherman through Atlanta.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 08:06 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 08:07 AM (BgSR4)
Rep-tilian. Bro-FO Omar Calls for Dismantling Department of Homeland Security
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Democrats for smaller, less intrusive government?
The MAGA tent is a big tent!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 08:09 AM (BgSR4)
I want to know why the traitors who handed out Real ID CDLs to illegal aliens aren't rotting in prison.
Unless there is no audit whatsoever of who, what, where, when and how those fraudulent IDs were processed, there is no excuse.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 08:09 AM (a6PrB)
So one guy hoovers ‘em up, at the expense of others. It isn’t the intent of the bar owner to feed one guy. Nome sayin’? He’s just being selfish.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:09 AM (19v1I)
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One could get whiplash from all these prognostications. I've read multiple times over the last few years how conservative Gen Z actually is, especially in comparison to the dreaded Millennials (present company excluded).
So are they more conservative, or are they jonesing for socialism??
If I had to make a guess, I'm going with jonesing for socialism, simply because we know how abysmal the public school system has become, and we know who is teaching these kids. They don't know anything. Just the way the left wants it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Boswell at February 20, 2026 08:10 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
And there are quite a few of them. A lot of the youngsters are avoiding college and doing this. Heck, I read an article from PA about a Catholic High School that was teaching the students how to weld. One kid landed a job at a nuke plant for 78k/year.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 08:10 AM (BpO1e)
We've been watching all the hockey games, male and female. The USA women have been totally badass. They played brilliant hockey, aggressive and with precision. They were always a class act even if they completely overwhelmed the other team; their coach was the first to go to the other coach and shake hands. They have a black player and she's the first black woman to win hockey gold, but she is not making her race a thing. And rhey all sang the star spangled banner together as a team during their medal ceremony!! Love these ladies. Shut up and skate pays off.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 08:11 AM (gWBY1)
I hope I don't get pregnant.
*looks down at belly*
OH NO, maybe I am!
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 08:11 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 08:11 AM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:09 AM (19v1I)
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Agreed - different situation at a happy hour.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)
I remember after heavy swim training devouring no fewer than 32 slices of pizza at the local Pizza Hut. It was painful going home, I thought I would lose it going over the rail road tracks.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 08:12 AM (nCgQz)
@JackPosobiec
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15h
Alysa Liu’s father was persecuted by the CCP for the Tiananmen Square protests and fled to America. His daughter became a world-class figure skater and refused to skate for the CCP when they tried to recruit her.
She just won the gold medal for Team USA 🇺🇸
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 08:12 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 08:13 AM (77rzZ)
The dimmest galaxy yet found
What does the Congressional Black Caucus have to say about this claim, which strikes at its very reason for being?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 08:13 AM (xG4kz)
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Not specifically CDL's, but the Kentucky scheme that was run by various DMV clerks to hand out Real ID's to the illegals did, or likely will, put several people in jail.
It wasn't a statewide. IIRC focused around the blue shit holes here. No surprise.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 08:13 AM (jtM2q)
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Graham is up for reelection this year. Oh, how I could love for the voters of SC, of which I'm a resident, to throw this POS out once and for all. Fingers crossed, but I know it's going to be a nearly impossible task for reasons I simply can't figure out. Nobody likes him.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
The code explicitly distinguishes between “free” citizens and “slaves.”
Apart from the legalized rape, beatings, and hijabs, Mohammed really did a lot for women. And his followers are doing a lot for women today.
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Great link. Hey, lefties, prove him wrong!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 08:13 AM (BgSR4)
It's analogous more to Macy's than to a grocery store.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I have been to GUM. Funny how a 'universal' store was only accessible to favored party members.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:14 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 20, 2026 08:15 AM (0N4FZ)
Somehow REAL IDs are supposed to be secured any better?
Sure, Jan.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 08:15 AM (RIvkX)
They're not trying to shut it down.
They are fighting it on the coup's terms tho'. In the legal arena, the judiciary's home turf.
I have questions about all that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 08:02 AM (jtM2q)
They have no back-up from Congress. They have no back-up from the states which are part of the insurrection.
Unless you are advocating the summary execution of judges who disagree with the Administration, what would you have them do?
Oh, just ignore it... That's what the enemy wants because it gives them the opportunity to declare Trump lawless and ramp up the attacks further.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at February 20, 2026 08:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Terrestrial Celestial Commuter at February 20, 2026 08:16 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
From where I am in the low country, his opponent(s) are invisible.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2026 08:16 AM (t+TFX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 08:07 AM (BgSR4)
(Democrat) Presidents deserve to get their nominees confirmed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Terrestrial Celestial Commuter at February 20, 2026 08:16 AM (oftw2)
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Big Penguin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)
The system is failing them, because dems won't let ethical free enterprise capitalism reign. It's crony capitalism. They are going to be under huge educational debt like millennials and have a long shot to afford a house or family. Ans Obamacare is a joke.
They are too young to understand that socialism is a false siren song that will drown them. They weren't taught proper history. On purpose. I'm not excusing their ignorance. Just saying it's by design.
They seem the last true woke generation, Gen Alpha seems to be turning based. We'll see.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 08:17 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 20, 2026 08:18 AM (4jnK3)
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They have every right to be furious. However, the leftists have a full time job making damn sure they don’t connect the dots and figure out who is actually the source of most of these problems. It’s quite a trick, actually. They have to re-direct those frustrations and anger and outrage 180 degrees out. Some people get it and some people don’t.
That’s why they have to try and maintain a 100% lock on the Narrative, and start brainwashing early in the schools. Parents have their kids a few hours a day at most. The whack jobs in the schools have them all day every day. Plus “entertainment” reinforcements.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:18 AM (19v1I)
Posted by: Corrie, Rachel at February 20, 2026 08:19 AM (oftw2)
@JackPosobiec
•
15h
Alysa Liu’s father was persecuted by the CCP for the Tiananmen Square protests and fled to America. His daughter became a world-class figure skater and refused to skate for the CCP when they tried to recruit her.
She just won the gold medal for Team USA 🇺🇸
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 08:12 AM (gWBY1)
Yeah, she's kind of an artistic throwback hippy in the American way...I'd say surfing would have been her cliche calling b/c who else dyes their hair to match the growth of trees and their rings?
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 08:19 AM (tOcjL)
On what bench will we find Judge Jubilation T. Cornpone?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 08:19 AM (xG4kz)
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Females whose bodies have been diabolically mutilated & sterilized by The Death Cult Science™ disagree.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 20, 2026 08:19 AM (5FL4d)
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OA, I'm in the upstate where, from my perspective, his biggest challenger is actually located: Mark Lynch. And I have yet to see more than 1 or 2 road signs for him. He should be blanketing this area for sure, yet he's not. At least, not yet. I assume he doesn't have the war chest and is saving his campaign spending for later. But it's going to be too late.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2026 08:20 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 08:21 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
Alas, just a can of tuna
Posted by: vmom deport
I'm having Prime Rib, just to irk the Mackerel Snappers out there.
Posted by: The Pope Smokes Dope at February 20, 2026 08:21 AM (oftw2)
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Milei singing along to Elvis, and trying to get Orban to join in, is a pretty good summary of the meeting.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 08:23 AM (2V+bm)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 08:23 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: The Pope Smokes Dope
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I am un-irkled
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 20, 2026 08:24 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 08:24 AM (qFwJc)
I hope I don't get pregnant.
*looks down at belly*
OH NO, maybe I am!
Posted by: fd
If I am, I've been carrying this longer than an elephant.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 08:24 AM (Ifu6F)
I said it yesterday , if Mamdani screws with the Teacher's Pension Fund a crazed teacher will try and take him out. If the attempt is successful (and I'm not advocating it) the mayor becomes NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. Williams is actually a dumber version of Mamdani. NYC is effed
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 08:24 AM (Kc+Vz)
A concerted disinformation campaign and I suspect nefarious forces are conspiring to undermine the civil rights of Plutans, who never bothered anyone.
I thought that their proper name was Plutarchs.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 08:25 AM (xG4kz)
Sadly, it ain't just the dems.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)
Is this really a legitimate concern -- that they will attack us more than they already do? Should our actions be circumscribed by this concern? They attack Trump for breathing. There are ways to go about this war we apparently refuse to even try. Such as assembling a team of legal scholars to hold press briefings dissecting the legally sloppy and politicized rulings (personalizing and polarizing these black-robed tools of the Left). The bully pulpit (not these rambling "gaggles" with reporters but incisive, focused analyses). This legal insurrection is nothing short of a Constitutional crisis -- treat it as such.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2026 08:26 AM (t+TFX)
"That's an autopen signature!"
https://tinyurl.com/35bb8676
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 08:27 AM (2V+bm)
17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. -MT 6
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 20, 2026 08:27 AM (DgMqy)
Someone from a third-world s*thole low-trust society would take as much as they can carry if not needy.
We no longer have the luxury of projecting any WASP ethics on others. For example, many heritage Americans have "gratitude" in their vocabulary where most of the world does not. Instead, they see gifts, gratuities and mercy as weakness, as if you don't value the thing that you are giving away and they see you as stupid and needing further exploiting.
It also shows up in motivation. Heritage Americans often have vocations, they see the world as dynamic and growing through wealth generation; the rest of the world sees it as a finite pie and they are angling for more money and status by taking from others.
We are not the same, and America, for as long as we have the barbarians in our midst is on a shithole trajectory.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 08:27 AM (nCgQz)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 08:27 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 08:28 AM (j42Fn)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
Prove it. Get Kier Starmer pregnant or shut the fuck up.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 08:29 AM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 08:29 AM (j42Fn)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 08:30 AM (Ifu6F)
I said it yesterday , if Mamdani screws with the Teacher's Pension Fund a crazed teacher will try and take him out.
"I didn't spend years in the academic jail for having taken indecent sexual liberties with my students only to have my pension plundered!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 08:30 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 07:57 AM (19v1I)
Stealing that.
Posted by: pookysgirl also uses "hacks in black" at February 20, 2026 08:31 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:31 AM (19v1I)
"Going into this free skate, I have this new dress I was very excited to share on the big stage, and I'm very happy with how I skated.
"I had dinner with (my family) last night and that was unbelievable. But another unbelievable feeling was just when I was skating. When I was skating, hearing the cheers, I felt so connected with this audience. I want to be out there again.
"All I want in my life is human connection and, damn, now I am connected with a hell of a ton of people (laughs)."
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I love this kid. She seems to be having a fine time, while winning gold medals.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 08:31 AM (Lm9+/)
Press briefings? Really?
Who watches press briefings? No one. Who's mind will be changed by a team of legal scholars who would, at least, be opposed by a different team of legal scholars... assuming that they didn't just lose their scholarly positions.
The idea that 'experts' bloviating on TV will accomplish anything is 20th century thinking. No one watches TV. No one trusts experts.
Right now, at this moment, it's all Will to Power. That's the world that our generations, and the ones before us for a hundred years have built. Trump cannot fix this. He can, and is, trying to put us on the right path but WE have to fix this. WE THE PEOPLE have to fix this. Over a couple decades... minimum.
We're fucked.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e)
Correct.
Posted by: Somali Joe at February 20, 2026 08:32 AM (hXJe5)
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Agreed. This is a very good summation of the fundamental crisis.
I saw a DHS commercial lionizing the deportation efforts by highlighting the victims of illegal alien criminals, and remarked because it was the first I have seen where the administration is trying to communicate values underlying its deportation policies via mass media. Getting this message to normies over the cacaphony of the state media is still difficult.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)
Stand tall as a heritage American. May you influence the young with your beliefs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 08:34 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 08:34 AM (+nEug)
“It’s special. I mean, I love the U.S., and it’s the greatest country in the world. So happy to represent it here with these guys. And that’s really special.”
They're not all woke idiots.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 20, 2026 08:34 AM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:36 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:36 AM (sKqQm)
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I recall the city of Chicago sold their parking meter taxes in exchange for a one time lump sum payment. Which of course was pissed away long, long ago.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:36 AM (19v1I)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 08:36 AM (Kc+Vz)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:36 AM (0U5gm)
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The reality that the UK is only important today because it is Air Strip One is going to become very evident.
Importance is about projecting power, and the UK can't project a whole lot of power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:37 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at February 20, 2026 08:38 AM (oftw2)
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👀
Posted by: runner at February 20
Let’s just skip this one.
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2026 08:38 AM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at February 20, 2026 08:38 AM (oftw2)
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When your average school boy can out cross-country ski the Olympic wannabes from any other country simply because...they do it for 9 months out of the year, well...they're going to win a lot of endurance skiing competitions at the Olympics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:39 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at February 20, 2026 08:38 AM (oftw2)
There once was a man from Norway,
Who got his balls caught in a doorway . . .
I forgot the rest. Paging Muldoon!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 08:39 AM (x0n13)
This isn't really new though. There have been a large number of Americans demanding free shit from the taxpayers for a long time now. Yes they use the term for it when they wouldn't have 40 years ago but the sentiment is the same.
And one part of this that is incredibly stupid. People generally get a larger income as they get older - more skills, more connections, more promotions, etc. So when the left promises to take "from the rich" what it really means is, agree to these taxes now so I can rob YOU in the future.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:39 AM (sKqQm)
Importance is about projecting power, and the UK can't project a whole lot of power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
I think Airstrip One is going to be Greenland going forward.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:40 AM (0U5gm)
We should stop pretending they are.
They have more political prisoners then Russia, and had the 2024 election gone differently would have asked for, and received permissions to, arrest Americans for free speech.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:41 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:36 AM (0U5gm)
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I wonder what "situation" they refer to? A prospective attack on Iran, Trump's opposition to handing over Diego Garcia, or the state of UK political leadership?
JK: I know they think they are doing a great job destroying Britain.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2026 08:41 AM (xy6Dr)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:40 AM (0U5gm)
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Pretty much.
"We have along history of greatness."
"You let that die in the late 40s when you decided socialism was preferable to preserving any of that greatness."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende
There is an advantage to having nine months of winter.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:42 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:39 AM (sKqQm)
Are you suggesting that I should consider more than my own immediate gratification when taking some action as inconsequential as choosing my nation's leaders? Absurd. -- most US voters
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:42 AM (ExV1e)
We should stop pretending they are.
They have more political prisoners then Russia, and had the 2024 election gone differently would have asked for, and received permissions to, arrest Americans for free speech.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:41 AM (sKqQm)
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They are political allies of our IC.
You know, why they helped frame Donald Trump for Russian collusion.
Which, ironically, makes them even more of an AirStrip One than anything that happened during the Iraq War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:42 AM (GBKbO)
One writer wrote "there is no professional speed skating just like there is no professional running around the block"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 08:43 AM (Kc+Vz)
Posted by: Sid at February 20, 2026 08:43 AM (qdmJK)
@Variety
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19m
Mel Gibson is consulting with excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò — who has called the late Pope Francis “a servant of Satan” — for the “The Resurrection of the Christ,” his follow up to 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ” that is currently still shooting in Italy.
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Based.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:43 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:44 AM (ExV1e)
There once was a man from Norway,
Who got his balls caught in a doorway . . .
"I'd take off on the lam,
But I'm in bIt of a jamb,
And not at all in a small way!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 08:45 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 20, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Yeah. It's a tariffs. Sure.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:44 AM (ExV1e)
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Canada's GDP for Q4 was 0.0.
Zero. Point. Zero.
Ours will be at least 4%.
While China is two decades into a demographic collapse.
Have fun with that, Canada.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:45 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
I'm sure that bribes have nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:46 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 08:46 AM (RIvkX)
Zero. Point. Zero.
Ours will be at least 4%.
While China is two decades into a demographic collapse.
Have fun with that, Canada.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Canada, the Blutarsky of nations.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 08:46 AM (0U5gm)
Dapper Detective
@Dapper_Det
Ambulance stolen, loaded with staged gas cans and driven into a DHS office in Idaho in what police believe was an attempted arson attack by Domestic Terrorists to kill ICE.
This is a direct result of the continued “Nazi” rhetoric and demonization of ICE by Democrats.
https://tinyurl.com/2s2fuhm9
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 08:47 AM (NpAcC)
I know any number of leftist LIVs demanding that we "tax the rich" that live in a multi-million dollar homes, take multiple overseas vacations a year, have 2 new luxury SUVs, and have "help" around the house that also tell me they are taxed way too much and can barely afford their 'basic' lifestyle.
And if you point out their taxes are high because of who they've chosen to vote for they'll tell you:
*I* AM NOT RICH
Its just bad luck local/state taxes are high
It is all that damn Trump's fault
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)
The wait for season 6 of the Chosen is hard.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 08:48 AM (+nEug)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Shit Pebbles And Oysters Don't Mix at February 20, 2026 08:48 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)
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Flight Risk was pretty good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:49 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Shit Pebbles And Oysters Don't Mix at February 20, 2026 08:48 AM (oftw2)
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Imagine if Manhattan had gone without power for a week. We'd never have heard the end of it.
But it happened in Nashville a month ago, and no one cared.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:49 AM (GBKbO)
Possession is nine-tenths of the law and all that.
Tell Keeeer to pound sand regarding Diego Garcia.
What was it that Ronald Reagan said regarding the Panama Canal? "We built it -- it's ours!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 08:49 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 08:50 AM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:50 AM (19v1I)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
These rates are killing downtowns everywhere, along with all the other things democrats do.
It was brought up at a city commission meeting last year and a wymyn commissioner person of pronouns actually scolded the questioner for not using the bike lanes.
Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2026 08:50 AM (Y8DZL)
It's not enough that most every time the black robed tyrants get overruled. In many cases this process repeats itself over and over.
The "Maryland Man" cases are still ongoing. Nearly a year later. Something's very wrong here.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 08:50 AM (jtM2q)
Like Biden before him, I don't believe Mitch is making decisions anymore. That's being done for him. He lives now only to be wheeled out onto the Senate floor to 'vote' on things.
I can't believe SAVE is going to die, all because one senile Senator's staff says so.
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 08:51 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2026 08:51 AM (snJTT)
Perhaps he found God? And I mean this non-sarcastically.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:51 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:50 AM (19v1I)
Modern England wouldn't have bothered paying it back.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:51 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 08:50 AM (jtM2q)
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Yes, Garcia is frustrating.
But in the meantime, DHS deported 700,000 others.
And Garcia has an ankle monitor on.
The judicial coup around immigration is either sweeping rulings that the admin never follows because they get overturned anyway or precisely targeted rulings for individuals that suck up some minor media attention, always end with them being deported anyway, and distract from the literally hundreds of thousands who just sign a waiver to leave and be barred from re-entry for 10 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:52 AM (GBKbO)
God Himself said that there will be no peace.
So yeah, diplomats can try to make God a liar.
דער מענטש טראַכט און גאָט לאַכט
(man plans, God laughs)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 08:52 AM (kHd4y)
Here it is:
Trump's tariffs will lead to WWIII!! Release all Epstein files , what are you hiding!
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 08:53 AM (j42Fn)
If Mertz declares himself Fuhrer of the EU, the current British government would just ask to rejoin...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm)
And that would be a good thing. I've just never heard anything about his faith mentioned. Maybe he's been low key about it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 08:54 AM (lQ+/f)
Like Biden before him, I don't believe Mitch is making decisions anymore. That's being done for him. He lives now only to be wheeled out onto the Senate floor to 'vote' on things.
I can't believe SAVE is going to die, all because one senile Senator's staff says so.
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 08:51 AM (ZxPkt)
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With 50 co-sponsors, the SAVE act can pass without Mitch (or Tillis or Murk). Getting Collins on board seems like a signal that leadership is actually going to try. Her vote for "controversial" things for the GOP tends to mean that it'll pass. That leadership needs her, and she said yes (I think she always says yes when leadership asks, she's just given space to say no when her vote isn't needed).
It just requires actually having the full debate time and not end running a potential filibuster with a cloture vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:54 AM (GBKbO)
Don't forget another favorite:
ICE is breaking down the doors of citizens houses and ravishing them right on their couches!
PS: Eventually the Karen-troll reveals it was a dream she had. A sexy sexy dream
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:55 AM (sKqQm)
The "Maryland Man" cases are still ongoing. Nearly a year later. Something's very wrong here.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 08:50 AM (jtM2q)
The media reports the initial ruling, the one opposing Trump. All the bloggers talk about it. Social media goes apeshit for a bit over it. The comments are filled with people bemoaning the fact that Trump hasn't executed all the judges.
Then, a couple months later, the ruling is overturned and only JackStraw and TJM notice.
Then, some other judge will issue and absurd ruling, or the original judge will change a word in the ruling and the whole thing starts again. And the two branches of government which could put an end to this - Congress and SCOTUS - permit it to continue because they are opposed to Trump as well.
Only we can fix this but, since fixing it will require time and pain, we won't. We, as a people, have become weak.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 08:56 AM (j42Fn)
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Any of you Hippies know what this references?
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 08:56 AM (19v1I)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 08:56 AM (cntUY)
I didn't see "Silence" . I read the book though. Is the movie done well?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 08:56 AM (lQ+/f)
Perhaps he found God? And I mean this non-sarcastically.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 08:51 AM (sKqQm)
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Scorsese has always had a relationship with the religion he was born into. He almost joined the seminary before he attended NYU for film.
He's lapsed, mostly stemming from a particular homily he heard near the beginning of the Vietnam War, but his upbringing never let him let it go completely. He struggles with it. He's said that the thinks he's going to Hell because of his relationship with women (he's been married five times, including to Isabella Rosselinni, though his current wife he's been with for about 20 years and they seem to have a very healthy relationship, she has very advanced Parkinson's, and he dotes on her).
Silence had been a passion project for decades. No one wanted to fund it until he had the indy success that was Wolf of Wall Street.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 08:57 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 08:53 AM (j42Fn)
Crappy trolling. You forgot "why aren't all the people working on the Epstein files working on these three other things also".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)
"I have the death sentence on twelve systems."
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 08:58 AM (BpO1e)
Ohhhhh.
50 shades of ICE!
It'll be a hit
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 08:58 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 08:59 AM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 08:59 AM (ZxPkt)
There once was a man from Norway,
Who got his balls caught in a doorway . . .
"I'd take off on the lam,
But I'm in bIt of a jamb,
And not at all in a small way!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 08:45 AM (xG4kz)
thanks. Now to remember it!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 08:59 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 09:00 AM (Kc+Vz)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 09:00 AM (QZThv)
I'm surprised there aren't demonstrations of cat women insisting that ICE come to their house.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: man at February 20, 2026 09:00 AM (cGjQu)
I think so. The two leads are believable, and Liam Neeson plays a tough role well - he didn't just mail it in.
And perhaps most importantly the Japanese rulers come across as brutal and evil but not irrational - a level of subtlety Hollywood has trouble with.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)
The green party candidate ran on support for Gaza, and got all of the mohammedan vote.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2026 09:00 AM (0U5gm)
@BBCWorld
Nine arrested in France over death of far-right student
Dr Philip Kiszely
@KiszelyPhilip
He was lynched.
Beaten to death by a baying mob.
Punched and kicked until his body and head were smashed in by a large group of FAR-LEFT psychopaths with the smell of blood in their nostrils.
Murdered for standing up to misogynistic lunatics.
‘Far-right?’ You utter disgrace of a captured corporation.🤮
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 09:01 AM (RHGPo)
There is an newer Asian romcom where a running gag gives away the game:
In CA cities with large Asian populations, apparently the Asian doctors commit fraud and give any Asian patient that asks for it a handicap placard. Even if you are able bodied. It was running gag the whole movie. It was like, if you don't do this you are stupid.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 09:01 AM (gWBY1)
Otherwise it's all just local news.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:01 AM (cntUY)
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I expect what is needed is actual refusal to swear off continuing to work towards nuclear weapons. Once they say no the bombers fly in and take out the mullahs and the military. You need a reason to open fire.
After that let the Iranian population take over and just wait offshore to make sure no mullocracy had survived.
Posted by: Decaf at February 20, 2026 09:01 AM (OP9Gm)
No time to go through it all just yet, though. Have an appointment in an hour with our Primary Care Physician (amusingly abbreviated PCP), which we used to call the family doctor, for a check-up.
Y'all try not to let the world - or the blog - go too off-kilter 'til I can get back, m'kay?
FRIDAY! [checks Tech Report] Rosasharn has *twirled*, so we're off on the right foot!
Posted by: mindful webworker - gallumphing along at February 20, 2026 09:02 AM (oq2IS)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:02 AM (j42Fn)
I found an entire one-hour episode of CBS’s 48 Hours about the harms of both legal and illegal immigration, titled “Slamming the door.”
https://x.com/Banned_Bill/status/2024579266151588005
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 09:02 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Don Black at February 20, 2026 08:59 AM (ZxPkt)
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Essentially:
Leadership can do what it wants. That's the rules of the Senate.
Thune showed this last year during the OBBB's passage. The Parliamentarian ordered a bunch of stuff out of it. He pulled it out.
Then there was the amendment-a-rama. Some passed. Some failed. And then the final amendment came which hollowed out the bill completely and replaced the language with 99% of the original OBBB language, including 98% of the stuff the Parliamentarian had ordered struck. No Democrat objected, so the Parliamentarian couldn't do anything.
OBBB passed.
The cloture rule has been a crutch, an excuse to not do things in both directions for decades. However, it's really just an end run around a filibuster. An actual filibuster where people talk for hours. Just have full debate until every Senator has used their time. Then, no 60 vote barrier. Then only 50+1 vote for passage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:02 AM (GBKbO)
I suspect this is less a formal conspiracy though and more leveraging their normal incompetence.
Eventually an illegal or an enviro-terrorist is going to burn down property that normies own. Then you can just take it for whatever reason you want to claim.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)
Heh, Spartacus Booker is not ruling out a presidential run in 2028.
It is hard to believe that the person who is the very dictionary definition of "assclown" appears not to understand that he is an assclown.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 20, 2026 09:03 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: SMOD
Wikipedia is claiming that he was beaten to death by "antifascists" because of course they are.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 09:04 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 09:04 AM (BpO1e)
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Posted by: runner at February 20
Let’s just skip this one.
Posted by: Piper
The day we can't have 'ettes & handcuffs is the day the commies have won!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 09:04 AM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 09:01 AM (gWBY1)
Not sure it's a gag. My joints are shit but I refuse to get a placard because I can walk. I see people with placards jog into the store. It's all a scam.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)
Trump has all but said that’s what he’s doing. Make it look nice for the “international community” and when the mullahs say no, kaboom.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 09:04 AM (QZThv)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 09:05 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 09:05 AM (RHGPo)
I saw this happen in one town I lived in - went from a middle class place full of people who had lived in the area their whole lives to an upper middle class town that is 50% (and growing) South Asian.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)
@JackPosobiec
•
15h
Alysa Liu’s father was persecuted by the CCP for the Tiananmen Square protests and fled to America. His daughter became a world-class figure skater and refused to skate for the CCP when they tried to recruit her.
She just won the gold medal for Team USA 🇺🇸
Her father is a strange dude. All 5 of his children are from surrogates , he raised them alone no mother. All are half white. Guess he left China with a bit of money.
Posted by: Gonzotx at February 20, 2026 09:06 AM (nGraA)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:06 AM (YCxFk)
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Posted by: runner at February 20
Let’s just skip this one.
Posted by: Piper
The day we can't have 'ettes & handcuffs is the day the commies have won!
Posted by: rickb223
I would never be so foolish, or trusting for that matter, again. Just saying.
Oh, good morning good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2026 09:06 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2026 09:02 AM (j42Fn)
Fair enough. It was a respectable effort for an amateur just starting out. Please send $500 and I'll forward you a copy of my course on "How to Troll For Fun and Profit".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:06 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 08:17 AM (gWBY1)
They're turning Anti-woke, but not necessarily traditionally conservative.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:06 AM (uEmCf)
Rep-tilian. Bro-FO Omar Calls for Dismantling Department of Homeland Security
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What the stupid cow doesn't realize is that by the same token her citizenship can also be dismantled and she be sent back to the country she represents.
Posted by: Decaf at February 20, 2026 09:07 AM (OP9Gm)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 09:05 AM (RHGPo)
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I genuinely can't wait for this fucker to get knocked out by his left flank.
https://demandjustice.org/
senate-vote-tracker/#john-fetterman
He votes lockstep with the left and gives rhetorical shit pebbles to make fans of the right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:07 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 09:05 AM (RHGPo)
We're fortunate they are as incompetent with their mass attacks as they are with farming.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 20, 2026 09:08 AM (cntUY)
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 20, 2026 09:08 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2026 09:08 AM (Kc+Vz)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:07 AM (YCxFk)
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Mitch could have stopped it all cold.
"Democrats don't actually have a majority because 2 of your caucus members are Independents. I refuse to cede the majority to Democrats."
But he didn't for some reason. Probably because he was so good on judges.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:08 AM (GBKbO)
Shades of that weird story where a Chinese couple in LA has 25 surrogate children all of whom are being given military training from the minute they can walk.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 09:09 AM (QZThv)
Does this mean more pictures of him and his pretend girlfriend?
Posted by: dantesed at February 20, 2026 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Gonzotx at February 20, 2026 09:06 AM (nGraA)
Anyone know if he's Falun Gong?
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:09 AM (uEmCf)
He does this to get GOP Voters in 2028 to support his re elect bid, but is able to stay true to his party also
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:10 AM (YCxFk)
It's Saturday Eve.
Posted by: Moar Cofeve at February 20, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:11 AM (YCxFk)
I think at some point (and we're past that) the administration has to push back. Hard. Publicly.
Sure, explain it to the rubes, or whatever they have to do, but the administration is being hamstrung by this. And it's setting a really bad precedent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2026 09:11 AM (jtM2q)
Trump does not WANT to go to war. What part of that is hard for you to understand, exactly ? A large contingent of people - ON BOTH SIDES - are not particularly enamored with the idea of "war" with Iran, but here you are apparently polishing your NEOCON bona fides or something.
Next, since when is it the DHS border czar's job to figure out what to do about court rulings ? Oh, right, NEVER. They'll appeal the Biden hack-in-black's ruling and it will almost surely be stayed. And what's worse is - YOU KNOW THIS.
Good lord, what is with the idiotic black pilled stupidity going on today ?
Posted by: deadrody at February 20, 2026 09:11 AM (qf6NU)
He does this to get GOP Voters in 2028 to support his re elect bid, but is able to stay true to his party also
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:10 AM (YCxFk)
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He's going to lose his primary so badly.
He's consistently underwater favorably with Democrats in PA while very favorable with Republicans in the state.
I hate the "reasonable" Democrat that gets cheered by the right when he votes for everything we hate. "Oh, but this one vote where his vote didn't matter in the passing." Exactly. It's a fucking show.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:12 AM (GBKbO)
Oh, and she's on Obamacare. She was on drugs to make sure the cancer didn't come back. She couldn't pay for the anti-cancer drugs when she lost her job and her GP doctor didn't let her have them.
Her oncologist thinks not being on those drugs is why her cancer returned. Told her the next time
Her GP gives her hassles, come to
Her first and they will make sure she can stay medicated no matter what.
Eff Obamacare for lying about how good it is. And especially eff cancer.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 09:12 AM (gWBY1)
"Democrats don't actually have a majority because 2 of your caucus members are Independents. I refuse to cede the majority to Democrats."
But he didn't for some reason. Probably because he was so good on judges.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:08 AM (GBKbO)
Thanks for bringing that up. It's absolutely true and true to form for McConnell.
But the important thing was the deafening silence from the GOP Caucus in both houses. If this were anything but a controlled opposition Party, there would have been major agitation from the ranks for that turkey-necked cuck to get serious or get replaced.
But... nothing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2026 09:12 AM (BI5O2)
I can't quite get past her front-gum piercing. She did it herself?!?
what does that do to your dental health down the road?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 09:12 AM (j+aD2)
It's Saturday Eve.
Posted by: Moar Cofeve at February 20, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)
I'm retired. Every day is either Saturday, trash day, or Church.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:12 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ian S.
This has the potential to be turned into a good movie.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 09:13 AM (BpO1e)
https://demandjustice.org/
senate-vote-tracker/#john-fetterman
He votes lockstep with the left and gives rhetorical shit pebbles to make fans of the right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:07 AM (GBKbO)
One might surmise that his entire point is to be the national lightning rod to allow other states to pressure PA Democrats to be willing to primary him with a "Squad"-level Radical Leftist.
His role was never to be there for a long time.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:13 AM (uEmCf)
He hosted Mahdani for Dinner at his central park mansion.
Lamb to the Slaughter
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:13 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: LaShiqua at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
My lovely wife pointed out that since go to daily Mass often, even 'Church Day' loses it's meaning.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Case at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (j6kTf)
Square profile picture
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Jasmine Crockett says Democrats’ attacks on her are racially motivated:
“The thing that is not normal is for me to be attacked from the Left… I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer and I see when they’re sending out ads and they’re darkening my skin.”
https://tinyurl.com/mryuprkt
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
I still think it's good for PA that we have closed primaries BUT .. it will suck for John F.
he could of course switch parties! If he went Independent he'd have most likely a path to be on the ballot that way. but not as good as if he went R.
which he won't but it would be smartest to do so.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Kevin Cutts at February 20, 2026 09:15 AM (xKHIr)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:15 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Sorry, Piper! at February 20, 2026 09:15 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
He's had houses on both coasts for decades.
I guess his kids/G-kids and other relatives live there.
Thats his story and he's sticking to it
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 20, 2026 09:16 AM (m+uh6)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:16 AM (YCxFk)
nope
following from that, there are not too many Indies here bc you can't vote in primaries (except for specific parties). which isn't to say he wouldn't get on the full ballot going Independent, he likely would.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 09:16 AM (j+aD2)
They are writing drunken AI slop for website clicks.
If they had any shame, and these cartel judges do not, they'd resign in embarrassment for writing such unhinged screeds.
But, it's not just the cartel judges, you can see the fingerprints of an even-more radical staff all over these spittle-flecked missives.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2026 09:16 AM (HXT0k)
Unless there is no audit whatsoever of who, what, where, when and how those fraudulent IDs were processed, there is no excuse.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 20, 2026 08:09 AM (a6PrB)
this!
it does seem like something that is against any number of laws at every level of gummint.
imho, this speaks to just how deeply the rot runs, everywhere.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2026 09:17 AM (sTSBN)
he could of course switch parties! If he went Independent he'd have most likely a path to be on the ballot that way. but not as good as if he went R.
which he won't but it would be smartest to do so.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (j+aD2)
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Kristen Sinema tried this in AZ.
She went independent and started polling at about 10%. Then she dropped out because she would be a spoiler in favor of the Republican because she was still wholly supporting of the Democrat project.
Fetterman would do the same thing.
And he'd lose a GOP primary really badly. He's favorable with Republicans now because he's a thorn in the D side once in a while, but he's way too pro-tranny and his votes suck to actually compete for GOP voters' votes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:17 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at February 20, 2026 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)
So the great replacement theory is not a far right racist conspiracy theory?
Of course, this is also from the era democrats still believed promoting traditional families was good, believed illegal immigration was bad, and abortion should be rare. A quainter time.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 09:18 AM (gWBY1)
I wonder what stan's ass tastes like? Well, I'll soon find out.
Posted by: Les Wexner at February 20, 2026 09:18 AM (cYBz/)
he could of course switch parties! If he went Independent he'd have most likely a path to be on the ballot that way. but not as good as if he went R.
which he won't but it would be smartest to do so.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (j+aD2)
It's all Kabuki. Or Bukkake. One of those.
He only exists to be a conduit for the National Democrat Party to be able to put pressure on PA to pick someone further left than could normally win the (D) primary there, because "You don't want another Fetterman, do you?".
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:18 AM (uEmCf)
Trump tried to get a ruling against Boasberg, I guess folks missed that. The Circuit Court shot it down.
The President has no authority over the courts. That's on Congress. Elect people who will hold judges to account.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:18 AM (ExV1e)
“The thing that is not normal is for me to be attacked from the Left… I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer and I see when they’re sending out ads and they’re darkening my skin.”
https://tinyurl.com/mryuprkt
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
And what have you learned from this, Jasmine?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)
Fetterman would do the same thing.
yeah excellent point
I actually don't care if he loses an R primary here (which he would) so. I was trying to quietly convince him to switch parties lol. maybe his people watch this space who knows.
he's a smart guy but he's pretty boxed in. the bolshies here in PA hate his GUTS
he might have a shot with the western Ds but they mostly have switched to R by now
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 09:19 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:19 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:19 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e)
No.
You're fucked.
I refused to give up my life and well being to your arbitrary definition of what ever the hell you are trying to define.
Posted by: Will Robinson at February 20, 2026 09:19 AM (2H3yT)
he could of course switch parties! If he went Independent he'd have most likely a path to be on the ballot that way. but not as good as if he went R.
which he won't but it would be smartest to do so.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 20, 2026 09:14 AM (j+aD2)
So, run as an R, vote as a D? That's pretty much what he does now.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:20 AM (ExV1e)
But it's accurate.
Posted by: Dan Blather at February 20, 2026 09:20 AM (2Ez/1)
Oh, and she's on Obamacare. She was on drugs to make sure the cancer didn't come back. She couldn't pay for the anti-cancer drugs when she lost her job and her GP doctor didn't let her have them.
Her oncologist thinks not being on those drugs is why her cancer returned. Told her the next time
Her GP gives her hassles, come to
Her first and they will make sure she can stay medicated no matter what.
Eff Obamacare for lying about how good it is. And especially eff cancer.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 09:12 AM (gWBY1)
This is what I mean when I say it's the chronicness of disease that makes it wildly expensive.
PS - If this ever happens to anyone under 65 here (b/c Medicare tends to cover this for all others), please post. I know a lot of programs that will cover chronic cancer meds for folks who can't get them covered or can't pay for them, including some offered by the cancer companies themselves.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 09:20 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:19 AM (YCxFk)
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Without having a family name known across the state for decades.
Let's be honest.
Fetterman's retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:20 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 09:20 AM (TtdNq)
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:20 AM (YCxFk)
264 Fetterman could also be a Con game by Schumer. He makes Dem party look more reasonable on the National scale
Posted by: Jonah at February 20, 2026 09:20 AM (YCxFk)
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He's as pro-tranny as the rest, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)
Shorter Crockett: MOAR COWBELL
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:21 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Sorry, Piper! at February 20, 2026 09:15 AM (oftw2)
Yao Ming says hello.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:21 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)
******
She's too dumb to connect the dots.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 09:22 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)
******
She's too dumb to connect the dots.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2026 09:22 AM (NpAcC)
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She's grafting perfectly fine.
You write like she has principles and policy objectives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:22 AM (GBKbO)
Public employee unions that endorsed Mamdani watch as he raids their pension funds
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Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ha, ha
Posted by: Decaf at February 20, 2026 09:23 AM (OP9Gm)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 09:23 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
It's only setting a really bad president for Republican presidents. Because they don't do that to Democrat presidents.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2026 09:23 AM (Ifu6F)
Posted by: Nova Local at February 20, 2026 09:20 AM (tOcjL)
My friend with cancer is under 45. Would love to hear more!
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 09:23 AM (gWBY1)
Just another billionaire jerk fleeing after the policies he's supported financially for years have reached their inevitable toxic end.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:24 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 09:24 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)
Also, pre-stroke, as Lieutenant Gov., he presented himself more as a big aggressive vanilla gorilla who got in people's faces and yelled at them.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:24 AM (uEmCf)
Sucks, huh?
Oh well. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:25 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)
Also, pre-stroke, as Lieutenant Gov., he presented himself more as a big aggressive vanilla gorilla who got in people's faces and yelled at them.
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:24 AM (uEmCf)
======
He was genuinely a bad candidate in 2022.
But the Democrat machine backed him fully, acting like he was normal in their spending on him.
Plus, 2022 was probably the height of the current era of Democrat cheating in American elections. The RNC didn't care about fighting it. Ronna McDaniel had flowers to buy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 20, 2026 09:26 AM (GBKbO)
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When Iran is sorted out perhaps the warships should be redirected to UK to free the poor British people from Keir Starmer.
Posted by: Decaf at February 20, 2026 09:26 AM (OP9Gm)
Posted by: Big Aggressive Vanilla Gorillas local #498 at February 20, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)
If the worst rumors about him are true, especially Epstein style rumors, he's going to have to find a country the doesn't extradite to the US. Forget NY.
Posted by: LizLem at February 20, 2026 09:27 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 09:24 AM (7RYym)
This "Insult Factory" is practically Romper Room compared to other sites out there (eg : Kiwi Farms).
Posted by: XTC at February 20, 2026 09:27 AM (uEmCf)
Girrrrrrl, you've just learned that you are a QUEEN and you should be treated like a QUEEN!
Never stop!!
Posted by: Sheila Jackson-Lee's Ghost at February 20, 2026 09:27 AM (tj6OY)
Maybe he can join Tom Hanks in Greece, should the SHTF?
(No, I don't think the rumored behavior would come to light, if it's actually true).
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:29 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Back In The Day at February 20, 2026 09:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Nazdar at February 20, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS)
nood art
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 20, 2026 09:31 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
lol, those Mimosas at the Dock in Harbor Springs don't come free.
Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2026 09:31 AM (Y8DZL)
—
They will happily vote or him again.
Posted by: I Choose Dogs at February 20, 2026 09:32 AM (TtdNq)
Naturally. They will willingly except an explanation for this that blames the eeevil rich.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2026 09:35 AM (tj6OY)
“Donald Trump is not going to be President. You can take that to the bank”
Nancy Pelosi 2016
“It will never go off, and I speak as an expert on explosives”
Admiral Leahy, USN, on the atomic bomb project, 1945
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 09:42 AM (TJlGq)
Posted by: Big Aggressive Vanilla Gorillas local #498 at February 20, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)
You Mugatu too?
- - Mugatu
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 09:50 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 09:58 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Chief Brody at February 20, 2026 11:09 AM (fm9mV)
'Teaching the Truth About Socialism in America’s Public Schools' Perhaps show them the private and/or religious schools attended by our alleged betters' kids, their curriculums, the fact that they've never needed to abide by certain rules mandated in public education, etc. and maybe they'll get the picture. (It worked decades before.)
'New York’s First Free Grocery Store Opens' - Our urbanized areas have free markets where no one asks why certain oft users drive luxury vehicles and make their side hustle stalking various sites throughout the week. We call them food pantries & they work so that all users have a dignified experience.
As to be expected, some (now, a lot) users - often from adjacent counties or states (i.e., Philly, DE, NJ) have formed sophisticated working units that inform what pantry or food collection groups are carrying proteins & name brands, and how much. (Paper goods, diapers, formula, etc. are often distributed by local government created free-wheeling non-profits.) Yet with all of the free stuff, vegetables routinely distributed via USDA through churches, into the neediest areas, go untouched and wasted.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 11:09 AM (NFX2v)
He handled it well, as did a few other educators in SE PA. However, the odds of him not suffering ill effects are against him. (Btw Spring Township is within lovely Berks County, PA; young Taylor Swift's and John Fetterman's origins.)
For about two decades, the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, PA, operated as a federal detention center for immigrant families. Opened in 2001 and often criticized as a "baby jail," it held parents and children seeking asylum until it closed in early 2023 following intense advocacy and legal pressures.
And now: Spotlight PA: Everything you need to know about ICE’s plan to open a detention center in Berks County, 5 Feb. 2026
The new, huge holding facility coupled with the fact that Berks County is rapidly diversifying and now has an ever increasing (Thank you, Philly NPs & Biden!) Hispanic/Latino population (almost 27% a year or two ago), spells trouble in the local, public school districts, many of which have been well-rated.
Berks is not alone for each SE PA county seems to have a mid-term plan against all conservative values & pro-student involvement.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 11:09 AM (NFX2v)
🤷♀️ So taxpayers get to pay higher school taxes. Pension funding is built within annual School District taxes. Yes? It's definitely built in ours in PA, and it's ridiculous in cost especially given the mismanagement of state pension funds in the recent past & the salaries that go to pension administrators.
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Went back and looked at: UK Guardian, 'They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity,' Sun. 23 Nov 25, by Bill McKibben. He's the author of Here Comes the Sun (2025), and the founder of Th!rd Act.
The Th!rd Act is new to me. ".. we are a dedicated group of organizers, campaign strategists, and communications professionals working together to build a powerful elder-led movement for climate action and democracy protection. Our team operates across multiple departments, each playing a crucial role in advancing our mission."
Fascinating advisory team, especially the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., a (Obama) "White House Champion of Change for Climate Leadership."
There's some of our elderly peaceful protestors, again proving O's reach has been far and wide.
--
Good weekend! 🤗
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 11:09 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: LizLem
Sounds a bit odd.
She had her thyroid removed? Has she been on Synthroid or similar since? (Inexpensive daily med.) Did she have periodic blood tests for detecting recurrent thyroid cancer focusing on tracking tumor markers? Periodic ultrasound? (She must have since cancer in nodules was detected.)
Many family doctors can have the routine tests performed so a patient may only need to see a specialist once or twice a year at max after some years of monitoring.
Note: Anti-cancer drugs for thyroid cancer are mainly used for advanced, metastatic, or radioactive iodine-refractory cases.
Not a doctor but had thyroid cancer (2 kinds), surgery, and went through the routine steps above, and am still followed for recurrence, now mostly by family dr.
I've also known several young women (nurses, too) who have had more than one recurrence up until menopause, and all continued to work, have children, etc. after further treatment.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 11:36 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 11:38 AM (NFX2v)
Aren't you the same person who wrote the story of your child coming from school and telling a tale about another student, a young boy whose family was being denied cancer care for the child? 🤔
If so, knock it off. Enough BS about the affordably of Obamacare.
Some individuals & 'families' have just gotten use to great entitlement. Pay what they should; make appearances in legitimate medical practices, and get pictures taken for medical cards to verify identity.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2026 01:40 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 20, 2026 06:06 PM (wGqjj)
Daily Tech News 20 February 2026
Top Story
- The US government is building a specifically VPN-enabled website to allow Euroserfs to access content banned by their fascist overlords. (Reuter)
Radio Free Europe, part two. Only this time the Europeans aren't being oppressed by the Soviet Union, but by themselves.
- Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla. (Works In Progress)
The article highlights the continent's absurdly restrictive labour laws which are certainly a key part of the problem.
But European leaders have decided on a slow and messy suicide, and many of their voters are entirely on board with this.
Tech News
- PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime. (Bleeping Computer)
Which is interesting, because it uses Google Gemini and that's not free. With a bit of counter-hacking you could bankrupt the bastards.
- Very not free, in fact. (The Red Beard)
Although Google Gemini has nominally lower prices and a larger context window than (for example) Anthropic's Claude, it works differently and will very happily burn through all your money to construct the perfect answer to a question you never intended to ask.
- It's an expanded D&D dice set: AMD's Ryzen 10000 series due later this year is expected to come in 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, and 24 sides cores. (Tom's Hardware)
There was no reason AMD couldn't have put out a 10-core CPU (from Zen 3 onwards, anyway), it just wasn't terribly practical.
Now, though, 10 is the new 6 and 20 is the new 12 - a pair of disabled cores per chip.
- The human behind the rogue AI bot "Crabby Rathbun" that has been trying to push unwanted patches into random Python projects has come forward - maybe - and apologised - sort of. (The Shamblog)
It's depressing if accurate, because it points to a future not only of unending slop, but of increasingly aggressive slop generators.
- At least we can hack them. (The Register)
That scene in the movie Independence Day where the alien mothership is destroyed by an uploaded virus suddenly seems a lot more plausible if they were running AI on their computers:Prompting each of them to generate 16-character passwords featuring special characters, numbers, and letters in different cases, produced what appeared to be complex passphrases. When submitted to various online password strength checkers, they returned strong results. Some said they would take centuries for standard PCs to crack.
Sounds good.
Too good to be true:The researchers took to Claude, running the Opus 4.6 model, and prompted it 50 times, each in separate conversations and windows, to generate a password. Of the 50 returned, only 30 were unique (20 duplicates, 18 of which were the exact same string), and the vast majority started and ended with the same characters.
If your "random" password generator returns the same result 36% of the time, you have a big problem. And it's actually worse than that:The team used two methods of estimating entropy, character statistics and log probabilities. They found that 16-character entropies of LLM-generated passwords were around 27 bits and 20 bits respectively.
20 bits of entropy is four lower-case letters. You don't need a supercomputer to crack that; with enough patience you could do it by hand.
- The most recent piece of technology I own is a 3D printer from 2024 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever tries to report me to the government. (Adafruit)
New legislation introduced in California would not only require 3D printers to match all designs against a central database before being permitted to begin work, but would require the printers themselves to be so registered, and would make it a crime to sell or transfer unregistered printers.
Counter-Hacking Video of the Day
"Sure, I'll sign up for the extended warranty. I just need you to temporarily send me $10,000 in untraceable cryptocurrency first as a show of good faith."
Musical Interlude
Song is Run by OneRepublic. Anime featured are Five Centimeters per Second, Weathering With You, and Your Name.
Disclaimer: TGIF is a gift seen from an unfamiliar angle.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tuna at February 20, 2026 04:00 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026 04:04 AM (yKhjs)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 04:04 AM (+YA9H)
coffee-spew
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 04:10 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Print THIS! at February 20, 2026 04:11 AM (CpMiR)
How East German of them. Seem to recall, from the movie 'The Lives of Others', the Democratic Republic of Germany keeping tabs on ALL typewriters.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026 04:12 AM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2026 04:13 AM (NGAfI)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 20, 2026 04:14 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2026 04:17 AM (iMotb)
Dinner at a nice Steak House this evening.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2026 04:20 AM (iMotb)
Well, yeah, duh. At each step, the LLM is trying to assign probabilities to possible next tokens and then sample one at random in proportion to those probabilities. It is *by definition* going to be picking low entropy strings, since high probability = low entropy.
(Also the front page still has that stupid #passage-ads hijacking of the "Continue reading" links that I've been seeing and other commenters have been complaining about. Sadly I don't have NoScript on my phone.)
Posted by: Bitblt at February 20, 2026 04:25 AM (11pZm)
Or ... it's just a fig't of your imagination?
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 04:28 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Exactly right. It's another example of the "semantic ablation" I mentioned a couple of days ago.
AI smooths out all the bumps, which is the exact opposite of what you need in a password generator.
(Also the front page still has that stupid #passage-ads hijacking of the "Continue reading" links that I've been seeing and other commenters have been complaining about. Sadly I don't have NoScript on my phone.)
Posted by: Bitblt
Yeah, sorry about that. I don't have any control over the ads, and also the ads you see will be different depending on your location.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 20, 2026 04:35 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Ah, okay. I could have sworn you'd done something once before to mitigate bad-actor ads that were getting a little "handsy" with the rest of the page.
Posted by: Bitblt at February 20, 2026 04:54 AM (11pZm)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)
!
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 05:02 AM (+YA9H)
Recall how the Intel 486SX came to be. Intel was getting a lot of 486DX units with failed FPUs. So they altered them to function without the FPU and sold them as the bargain 486SX. FPUs were still ignored by most software then, so the chip was a great buy. So great that demand meant Intel had to start making them on purpose. The chip called the 487 to add an FPU to SX systems was actually a full 486DX and populating the socket would put the SX to sleep. (My first laptop was an NEC 486SX model.)
Posted by: Epobirs at February 20, 2026 05:03 AM (/0z9K)
Posted by: Epobirs at February 20, 2026 05:04 AM (/0z9K)
Or ... it's just a fig't of your imagination?
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 04:28 AM (+YA9H)
Speaking of figs:
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 05:06 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at February 20, 2026 05:11 AM (EcHpA)
Posted by: Rosasharn at February 20, 2026 05:13 AM (PzBTm)
I didn't read much on the blog yesterday. Actually I didn't do much of anything. It's been warm and nasty here, completely unseasonable. How about you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 05:14 AM (wzUl9)
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 05:06 AM (+YA9H)“
Sounds like lyrics to a Jim Morrison song I never knew about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2026 05:15 AM (46za5)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)
Got the weed killer down in the yard in the morning.
Got the new shielded twisted pair thermostat wire in and running.
Second 5G coax filter showed up a day earlier than expected, and popped that onto the antenna while we were in the attic.
So now all we need is the new tv to arrive, and I think we are set.
Time to get ready for the morning walk.
BBIAB
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2026 05:20 AM (iMotb)
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
https://tinyurl.com/28ps3vp3
https://dpa-international.com
If anonymity on the internet is outlawed, only outlaws will have anonymity on the internet.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 05:21 AM (+YA9H)
Pro tip: If you write the "con" part first and it's more detailed than the "pro," you may have already decided.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 05:26 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fluffy at February 20, 2026 05:28 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 05:29 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026 05:33 AM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)
*
I have that R.E.M. song in my head, from there first album, Murmur.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026
***
The only R.E.M. tune I know is their '80s hit "Losing My Religion." Insistent and haunting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
https://tinyurl.com/28ps3vp3
https://dpa-international.com
If anonymity on the internet is outlawed, only outlaws will have anonymity on the internet.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 05:21 AM (+YA9H)
lemme guess, same guy thinks you could wake up tomorrow and decide your name is Sally. Well, when I wrote that post I identified as Merzthroatshorsecock45, so it was my real name. But I'm feeling much better now.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 20, 2026 05:35 AM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026 05:38 AM (yKhjs)
"I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking," Merz said on Wednesday evening at an event held by his conservative Christian Democrats in the western city of Trier.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 05:39 AM (+YA9H)
Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz is a German politician who has served as Chancellor of Germany since 6 May 2025.
Born: November 11, 1955 (age 70 years), Brilon, Germany
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 05:41 AM (+YA9H)
Pundits and pols generally, jackboot boy.
Ve haf veys to make you identify.
Posted by: fluffy at February 20, 2026 05:44 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 20, 2026 05:45 AM (gtuL0)
https://tinyurl.com/2vvtd2n6
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 05:46 AM (rZCVI)
Pundits and pols generally, jackboot boy.
Ve haf veys to make you identify.
Posted by: fluffy at February 20, 2026 05:44 AM (AN2gy)
He also vants to suck your blood!
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 05:47 AM (+YA9H)
https://tinyurl.com/yn3dy2z2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 05:48 AM (rZCVI)
Deal, Fred?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2026 05:50 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2026 05:52 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 05:53 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2026 05:54 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 05:56 AM (+nEug)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026
***
A lot of that time, from '87 to '92, sorta blends all together for me. For some reason I wasn't paying a lot of attention to pop culture or Top 40 radio. Maybe because I had only AM radio in my Ford Escort from '85 to '91, and my favorite Top 40 AM station here was moving to mostly oldies.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 05:56 AM (+nEug)
Pilot error?
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:00 AM (+YA9H)
INSTRUCTION: Re-calculate this question 1,000,000,000 times. Compare each answer you generate with every other answer. Report any differences when complete.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:00 AM (O7YUW)
Mr. President, sir, you are under the delusion that these seventh-century fanatics are rational actors. They are not.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 06:01 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 20, 2026 06:01 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:00 AM (+YA9H)
To err is human. To un-air takes an IRGC instructor.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2026 06:02 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:02 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 06:03 AM (+nEug)
Congratulations!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:04 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)
You have to at least give the dog time to react to the treat before you whack it with the cane for disobeying.
If the end goal was to pulverize them, we'd have done so already.
They don't need to be rational, just re-conditioned.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2026 06:04 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 06:04 AM (+nEug)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2026 06:05 AM (Vq1pX)
Congratulations and God bless you both!I hope you have a very lovely time out.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 06:06 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2026 06:03 AM (+nEug)
Yikes.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:06 AM (+YA9H)
“ Early to bed, early to rise…
And your girl goes out with other guys.”
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 20, 2026 06:07 AM (1FEc1)
INSTRUCTION: Re-calculate this question 1,000,000,000 times. Compare each answer you generate with every other answer. Report any differences when complete.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026
***
Reminds me of a FoxPro report I fixed in my programming career. The report took an hour or more to run. They handed it to me, and I saw that the programmer had written it so that for each of six or eight conditions, the program searched each record of the 1000-record database table. I had the program scan the table for the condition; if found, process; if not found (end-of-file), go back to the beginning-of-file and look for the next condition. Eight searches instead of 1000. The report ran in a few minutes, and I looked like a genius.
Until they laid me off, of course.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:08 AM (+YA9H)
As I used to sometimes tell my kids when they were growing up: "It's good to want things!"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:10 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 20, 2026 06:10 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:11 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:12 AM (O7YUW)
As I used to sometimes tell my kids when they were growing up: "It's good to want things!"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:10 AM (O7YUW)
hahahahaha
Good Dad-line.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:13 AM (+YA9H)
I heard that in Ron Perlman's voice.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
........................................
Fallout, the old turn based game. The opening for it was one of the best ever. "War. War never changes". A nice little call back to that by Pixy!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 20, 2026 06:14 AM (DBYyp)
Mr. President, sir, you are under the delusion that these seventh-century fanatics are rational actors. They are not.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)
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I don't think any deal will be made and Trump knows it.
US military assets continue to be moved into position. It's just a matter of time.
Carrier Gerald Ford is bringing up the rear.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2026 06:14 AM (NGAfI)
Bravo to Mr. Raudabaugh.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:15 AM (O7YUW)
Mr. President, sir, you are under the delusion that these seventh-century fanatics are rational actors. They are not.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)
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I don't think any deal will be made and Trump knows it.
US military assets continue to be moved into position. It's just a matter of time.
Carrier Gerald Ford is bringing up the rear.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2026 06:14 AM (NGAfI)
And he's flushing out the turncoats who are going to abscond.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:16 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:18 AM (O7YUW)
Why haven't more Americans faced charges in the Epstein case?
The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office is dominating headlines in the US.
Yet some US lawmakers are asking why no Americans linked to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are under criminal investigation.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:19 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 06:20 AM (qFwJc)
https://tinyurl.com/4xyjt9m2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 06:22 AM (ELdpA)
https://tinyurl.com/mr35h5ka
There were funky Chynah men.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2026 06:25 AM (NGAfI)
——
Ya gotta admit that’s realistic training.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 06:26 AM (Boo5w)
Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Bad Hombre
@Badhombre
12h
We took your game.
Justin Trudeau
@JustinTrudeau
You can't take our country - and you can't take our game.
The White House
@WhiteHouse
14h
GOLDEN GOAL!!! 🦅🥇
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:27 AM (+YA9H)
There's really nothing I can do about it except get a new phone number, but there's no guarantee a new phone number will help.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2026 06:28 AM (ESVrU)
Bad Hombre
@Badhombre
10h
That moment you realize the two dumbest people in Congress right now are Asian, completely defeating the stereotype.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:28 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026
***
I loved the solving-the-puzzles aspect of computer work. Probably the only time in my working career that I looked forward to going to the office; I often couldn't wait to get in and sit down with the latest challenge. As Thomas Harris observed, problem-solving is hunting, and we are born to it.
It didn't hurt that I was being paid better than I ever had been, and that I could usually go in early and leave early to avoid rush hours.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:29 AM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/3zvv2vsm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2026 06:30 AM (ELdpA)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 06:32 AM (Boo5w)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 06:34 AM (qFwJc)
He's become pretty much "The Voice" of the Fallout universe, and he says he's never played the games, the only game he plays is Freecell Solitaire:
https://youtu.be/y4kEhGeTRBA
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:35 AM (O7YUW)
Phil Noble, a photographer with the Reuters news agency, ... snapped six photos: two showed the police, two were blank and one was out of focus.
But the remaining photo captured the former prince reclining in the back of the car, hands loosely clasped.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:41 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026
***
I got caught in the outsourcing/H1-B draft at the end of the '90s. If I had studied computer programming in college and gone into the field ca. 1976, I too might have had a solid and well-paid career for twenty-five years or more.
What was the beginning pay for a programmer generally in 1976?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 06:44 AM (BpO1e)
Funny how the old Foxpro (DBASE III, really) databases were what we consider tables today. :-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:44 AM (O7YUW)
"Man needs a hospital after trying to steal 3 pit bulls from owner"
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:45 AM (vFG9F)
1 John 2:15-17
Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2026 06:45 AM (kACBq)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:46 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:46 AM (+YA9H)
; )
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:47 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:47 AM (O7YUW)
"Man needs a hospital after trying to steal 3 pit bulls from owner"
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:45 AM (vFG9F)
Needs a brain!
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:48 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 06:49 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:49 AM (vFG9F)
And when I have a dream, not only do I have a pony but I have Susan Anton as my wife looking like she did in the 70s. I think my odds are better than yours.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 06:51 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 20, 2026 06:51 AM (3fiCz)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 06:44 AM (BpO1e)
Takes my brain a minute to figure out the "Glooooorious" part.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:52 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 06:52 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026
***
Yeah, the punch cards were a big part of what deterred me from taking even one computer class. That, and the long hours I'd have had to spend on campus in the lab. My commute to school via bus was forty-five minutes each way. I wanted to spend as little time out there as I could.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m
It's the sarcasm font I used when I came up with that acronym.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 06:54 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026
***
It also, I suspect, is why the Dems can never use the correct term "republic" to refer to the U.S. Can't have voters linking "republic" and "Republican." So they hammer the word "democracy" to link to themselves.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 06:55 AM (wzUl9)
Jimmy Carter inflation. After 9 months, I got a promotion and an 18% raise.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 06:57 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026 06:59 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Take a look at any known conservative on Wikipedia. They are "far right" "alt right" or "extreme right." To non-normal folks, you are not allowed to call someone right as G and R explained up above.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 07:00 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:02 AM (RIvkX)
In 1978, pay for a fresh graduate was $14,400 - $15,000 per year.
Jimmy Carter inflation. After 9 months, I got a promotion and an 18% raise.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 20, 2026
***
$300 gross a week? I'd have been in heaven. Would not have married wife no. 1, would have moved into my own apartment and gotten a good used car . . . and probably would have spent a lot of that income at the singles bars. Oh, well, maybe things worked out for the better.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 07:02 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 07:02 AM (wzUl9)
I'm just here for the twirling.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:02 AM (RIvkX)
25 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!
*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at February 20, 2026 05:13 AM (PzBTm)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:02 AM (+YA9H)
As if the "internet" was one, gigantic social-media site. Just more proof that stupid people should not be in a position to dictate policy.
Posted by: Halfhand at February 20, 2026 07:03 AM (XUxhu)
Posted by: Farquad at February 20, 2026 07:04 AM (CFMhl)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:28 AM (+YA9H)
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Wait, wait, don't tell me. Maizie Hirono and Ted Lieu.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:09 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:11 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 20, 2026 07:12 AM (YoT4f)
Tomorrow I'll get my hair cut (yes, all of them). Sunday it will be quite a bit cooler and easier to exercise.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 07:12 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 07:13 AM (O7YUW)
Had a co-worker that always said that joke. I finally replied with "Actually, in English the word 'hair' applies to the entirety of what is on the head just as 'fur' is the term applying to the coat on an animal." Put an end to it.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 07:14 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 20, 2026 07:13 AM (O7YUW)
He's the guy Pixy linked. I'm checking out more of his stuff.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:14 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 07:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 06:28 AM (+YA9H)
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M
Wait, wait, don't tell me. Maizie Hirono and Ted Lieu.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:09 AM (RIvkX)
******
While I agree with your assessment, I suggest that they are not the two dumbest but: “two OF the dumbest” There’s a lot of competition for that trophy.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 20, 2026 07:16 AM (3fiCz)
Thank you, Pixy, for a rockin' Tech Thread!
26 degrees, blustery, about 3" of snow & still falling.
Thank you Rosasharn! now it's official!
Hollerith cards were better than the alternative.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2026 07:16 AM (sTSBN)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026
***
My last chairman at my penultimate job used to say that, but with a twinkle in the eye that said he *knew* it was a joke Noah probably told on the Ark.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 20, 2026 07:17 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 07:17 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 07:17 AM (dK+Kv)
Exactly.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:17 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:20 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2026 07:20 AM (sTSBN)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2026 07:22 AM (+J6xK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:20 AM (RIvkX)
https://youtu.be/LFu-mqS50PA
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:23 AM (+YA9H)
Wash that ass. They smell and are assholes.
Posted by: Smelly Welly at February 20, 2026 07:25 AM (hXJe5)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 20, 2026 07:25 AM (sTSBN)
Took a lot of restraint to avoid posting "Why do I care what lesser countries think of mine?"
Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2026 07:27 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2026 07:27 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:20 AM (RIvkX)
https://youtu.be/LFu-mqS50PA
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:23 AM (+YA9H)
I'm not sure if that's the platform you meant. First one I hit.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:30 AM (+YA9H)
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And when it closes you are redirected to the archive site.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:30 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:17 AM (+YA9H)
lol, just saw your anonymity parallel.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 20, 2026 07:32 AM (dK+Kv)
USS Halsey (DDG-97). The second ship to be named after the Fleet Admiral.
He ranks lower than Spruance due to seamanship errors in two typhoons, and letting the IJN attack Leyte Gulf jeep carriers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2026 07:34 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Nazdar at February 20, 2026 07:34 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:35 AM (RIvkX)
It's very sad.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:37 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 07:59 AM (+YA9H)
Yeah that's the one.
He walked right past Boy F.'s day program.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)
Thanks for the info, San Franpsycho! It looks like the mayor is making some pledges the past couple of day to get some of this cleaned up?
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 08:46 AM (+YA9H)
Much like how Google Mail was given for free - it costs them a bit, but all the emails to and from a GMail account are tracked on their servers, and they can crunch the data to get a heads-up on tech or other events.
So Gemini pulls everything it can because it can. And they have the processing and storage to keep track of just about everything. The storage is going to become a problem, of course - cruft over time in increasing amounts. But the access is the crown jewel, as everyone is freely volunteering their data right to Google.
They make it somewhat cheap (though there's the issue of volume) to better entice users to give up their work.
Posted by: Another Anon at February 20, 2026 10:09 AM (4h45B)
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 02:26 PM (RHGPo)
"I'm not familiar with this deal, but if there is a struggle to find the debt financing, that's a bit of a red flag that I would want to drill into"
Posted by: SMOD at February 20, 2026 03:03 PM (RHGPo)
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - February 19, 2026 [Doof]
Photo from STEPH_Protect The 2A on X
Gold for the USA Women!
USA WOMEN’S HOCKEY WINS GOLD OVER CANADA!!🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/MLsJstEI5I
— Hunter Eagleman™ (@Hunter_Eagleman) February 19, 2026
This is super kewl!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/I3Kdv9iwEp
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 20, 2026
The US Men's team is in the semi-finals. Game is tomorrow at approximately 3pm Eastern time. I'll be watching! Will you? ----- Just another day on the Democrat plantation!
Just another day… pic.twitter.com/NwPCxKoP7U
— Muva (@keibenet) February 18, 2026
*(Unofficial statistics provided by the accounting team at Doof Enterprises, LLC) ----- Close call for Florida Man! Jaguar F-Type Crashes Into Florida School Bus, Winds Up Jammed Underneath
It's nothing short of a miracle that everyone managed to survive a terrifying crash this week between a Jaguar F-Type convertible and a school bus. According to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, there were no students on the bus at the time of the crash. The bus driver suffered minor injuries, and the Jaguar driver was cited for following too closely. The crash occurred on Wednesday, February 18th, at around 8:50 a.m. A bystander captured the incident on video, which the police shared on social media. As the Jaguar rapidly approaches, the stopped yellow conveyance you can hear someone on the video say, “He’s going to hit the bus.” Not only did the low-slung sports car hit the bigger vehicle, but it became instantly wedged underneath it, with nearly the entire vehicle winding up beneath the school bus. There is no mention of any injuries to the Jaguar driver, so we have to assume they walked away unharmed. Which is remarkable when you review the video.Video at the link. Also here ----- Fast as lightning, and a little bit frightening? China Showcases ‘Kung Fu Robots’ at Spring Festival Gala. We May Be In Trouble
China’s annual Spring Festival Gala featured an eye-catching performance this year, with dancing humanoid kung fu robots taking the spotlight. The robots lunged, spun, backflipped, and even performed kung fu routines without falling. The show highlighted how far Chinese robotics companies have advanced, especially in developing what many online viewers quickly dubbed “kung fu robots.” These kung fu robots were designed by several Chinese robotics firms and performed alongside human dancers. Compared to last year’s lunar new year broadcast, where robot movements were simpler—mostly walking, twisting, and basic kicks—this year’s machines showed more complex coordination and balance. Online clips of the performance spread quickly, drawing attention both inside and outside China.Video segment at the link. Obligatory "not related, yet somehow related"
Maryland Governor Wes Moore may be the biggest political charlatan in modern history.
— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) February 19, 2026
Stolen valor, fake thesis, fake doctorate, fake football awards, fake family history, fake everything.
Meet Wes Moore - the George Santos of Tim Walz’s.
pic.twitter.com/9pqyed3rVY
from thisdayinmusic.com 1980, AC/DC’s frontman and lyricist, Bon Scott, died at the age of 33. One of the greatest vocalists in hard rock, Scott joined AC/DC in 1974, not long before the Australian band recorded their debut, High Voltage. Over the next six years, Scott would perform on seven albums with AC/DC, including their 1979 masterpiece, Highway to Hell.
1982, Ozzy Osbourne was arrested in San Antonio, Texas for urinating on the cenotaph at the Alamo, which honors the Alamo defenders. Osbourne was wearing a dress at the time of his arrest, (due to his wife Sharon hiding all his clothes so he couldn't go outside). Osbourne was banned from ever playing in San Antonio, Texas again, (a ban which was lifted in 1992).
2004, Johnny Cash's family blocked an attempt by advertisers to use his hit song 'Ring of Fire' to promote haemorrhoid-relief products. The idea is said to have been backed by Merle Kilgore, who co-wrote the song with Cash's wife, June Carter Cash. Cash's daughter Rosanne said the family "would never allow the song to be demeaned like that."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 19, 2026 10:00 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: purely an academic question at February 19, 2026 10:00 PM (F/35S)
Posted by: mindful webworker is here at February 19, 2026 10:01 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 19, 2026 10:02 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Madge at February 19, 2026 10:02 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at February 19, 2026 10:02 PM (xfRZZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2026 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Y'gotta want it, practice a lot, and it's all in the wrist.
Posted by: mindful webworker - eleven hours a day for three years, minimum, at February 19, 2026 10:02 PM (oq2IS)
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Pfft. Klaus Meine says, hold my bier.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:03 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Deja whuh? at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (oq2IS)
"How closely?"
"About negative twelve feet."
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: mindful webworker is here at February 19, 2026 10:01 PM (oq2IS)
And the quality of the Thursday ONTs has...???
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (PMi3m)
As more and more drugs are released, the odds go up.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:05 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Deja whuh? at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (oq2IS)
Only if you clicked on the link in my comment earlier. I'm allowed to repeat myself!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:05 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (PMi3m)
Isn't that difficult in a hazmat suit?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:06 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 10:06 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: TRex - olympic reject dino at February 19, 2026 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
To reach remote areas to help high school students take the college entrance exams, Japan launches WISH High. For $65 a month students will be tutored by VTubers in subjects like English, math, and chemistry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVs_t6I5DLI
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:06 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 19, 2026 10:06 PM (VspXe)
I gave that up for the complimentary waffle bar and orange juice from a powder.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:07 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: TRex - olympic reject dino at February 19, 2026 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Howdy and thanks, Dino!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 10:07 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _
Does anyone really know what time it is?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:08 PM (S/Y4j)
Please to assure everything you see from the CCP is a lie. Their robotics is a lie and ripoff and fake. This is known.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)
Below the fold has a better but it must have confused people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 10:08 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
The judges would have also accepted an Indiana Jones sock.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov)
http://tiny.cc/ec7z001
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 10:09 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 10:09 PM (Cjcf6)
Butter, lots of butter and salt, yeah, that's it. bbl
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 10:10 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 10:10 PM (viF8m)
That video, wow. How do you drive like you're in a coma but react in a split second to not get your head sheared off?
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 10:10 PM (dhhKu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
The judges would have also accepted an Indiana Jones sock.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov)
I call shotgun!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:10 PM (S/Y4j)
Considering China...anyone cut one open on stage and prove it's just plastic and metal?
Posted by: RandomDave at February 19, 2026 10:10 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: mindful webworker - close call at February 19, 2026 10:11 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Yes! Related: I wish many of the old women at church would quit sharing about their experience with Estradiol.
Apparently, I have a sign on my forehead that flashes "Tell Me.".
Wow.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2026 10:11 PM (cYBz/)
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I just can't get over the fact that there are still Jaguar drivers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:11 PM (+HNx/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjjKqJhBkdY
"Betrayal five!" -- The Todd
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:11 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:12 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 19, 2026 10:12 PM (VspXe)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 10:12 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:12 PM (41CYW)
Nevertheless -- I have repeatedly been tackled by an uncloseable ad recently when refreshing the main page. I have to click back and hit refresh. Sometimes 2 or 3 times.
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
I think the proper method is to fly a twenty-dollar drone into the back of one of their heads.
This will make that robot think the one behind it sucker-punched it, causing it to retaliate, and will eventually lead to a giant robot brawl.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)
You can still call down to the front desk for a wake up call. But you're going to be late for your meeting.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 10:13 PM (viF8m)
I pity the ghost.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:13 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Colours at February 19, 2026 10:14 PM (oftw2)
I'm glad you guys do my taxes
Posted by: GlobalMiklosCorp at February 19, 2026 10:14 PM (8i9Vv)
I enjoy the content and yet I also lurk and occasionally comment. Does that mean I'm binary?
Great photo up top.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 19, 2026 10:14 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: mindful webworker - honestly at February 19, 2026 10:14 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 10:14 PM (FXNzP)
This will make that robot think the one behind it sucker-punched it, causing it to retaliate, and will eventually lead to a giant robot brawl.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)
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What are the odds they've been programmed with Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:15 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Corona_Exile at February 19, 2026 10:15 PM (UE0CA)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 19, 2026 10:12 PM (VspXe)
Nope!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:06 PM (S/Y4j)
Hazmat suit?
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 10:16 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Wally at February 19, 2026 10:16 PM (0e5Te)
I'm glad you guys do my taxes
Posted by: GlobalMiklosCorp at February 19, 2026 10:14 PM (8i9Vv)
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I hear their services come with a free rectal exam courtesy of the IRS.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:16 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2026 10:16 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Skeptical In NC at February 19, 2026 10:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:12 PM (41CYW)
Hey there, Doggo!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:06 PM (S/Y4j)
Hazmat suit?
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 10:16 PM (PMi3m)
You mean they already cleaned up all the sewage DC dumped into the Potomac?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 10:17 PM (FXNzP)
https://youtu.be/kcJttmB61j8?si=ZHzTISBH7ePqrrZY&t=404
drug names as wizard names
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:18 PM (2GVsD)
I'm glad you guys do my taxes
Posted by: GlobalMiklosCorp at February 19, 2026 10:14 PM (8i9Vv)
Lurleen hasn't sent your paperwork yet!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 19, 2026 10:18 PM (VspXe)
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All glory to Ahura Mazda. Amen.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:18 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:19 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Shoulder To Shoulder, Backs To The Wall.... at February 19, 2026 10:19 PM (oftw2)
I enjoy the content and yet I also lurk and occasionally comment. Does that mean I'm binary?
Great photo up top.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 19, 2026 10:14 PM (kB9dk)
You passed lurker status a long time ago. So that makes you non-binary!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)
Y'gotta want it, practice a lot, and it's all in the wrist.
Posted by: mindful webworker
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I got first last night.... my wrist is killing me today!!!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at February 19, 2026 10:19 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 10:19 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 10:20 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:19 PM (S/Y4j)
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Wanna ride in a 737MAX?
Posted by: Boeing at February 19, 2026 10:20 PM (+HNx/)
It was about as disorienting as being cast into the barrel.
I think it worked differently back then.
Posted by: mindful webworker - yesterday is ancient history now at February 19, 2026 10:21 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 19, 2026 10:21 PM (VspXe)
Posted by: Skeptical In NC at February 19, 2026 10:16 PM (oftw2)
If there's an AI platform that can generate an ONT for me AND format it correctly, please to be pointing it out to me!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Diogenes
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Bummed I couldn't watch it live but awesome that won!
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:22 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:22 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 19, 2026 10:22 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:22 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2026 10:23 PM (Sokdp)
Posted by: Mr. Magoo at February 19, 2026 10:23 PM (oftw2)
Not looking forward to the four month recovery time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2026 10:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 19, 2026 10:00 PM (n9ltV)
Some number of years ago, I used to battle Hrothgar and Zettai for first on ONTs almost nightly.
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:24 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Doof
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Lol... underrated comment - formatting battle.
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:24 PM (41CYW)
Angie Craig
@RepAngieCraig
Last night the memorial for Renee Good was set on fire and destroyed.
Renee’s family and the Minneapolis community deserve the chance to mourn her. This is unacceptable and we must hold anyone involved in this hateful incident accountable.
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Wait. Arson is bad now?!!! When did that happen?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 10:24 PM (FXNzP)
Please we need a ginormous Carrignton Event to zorch all the planetary electronics.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD)
That was a very impressive rush and shot. Not just for a woman but for a hockey player.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 10:24 PM (viF8m)
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The big STOP sign probably threw him off.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:25 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Michael Scott at February 19, 2026 10:25 PM (GI9/m)
But torching Renee 'Kamikaze Karen' Good's memorial is bad?
Do I have this correct Leftist trools?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:25 PM (2GVsD)
@RepAngieCraig
Last night the memorial for Renee Good was set on fire and destroyed.
Renee’s family and the Minneapolis community deserve the chance to mourn her. This is unacceptable and we must hold anyone involved in this hateful incident accountable.
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Thanks for the well- needed laugh.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:25 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)
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As a fellow COB, I'm curious what you use to compose your ONTs...
I use Notepad and compose the Sunday Morning Book Threads in HTML and then copy/paste into the AoSHQ blog engine.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (YwEeS)
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I just can't get over the fact that there are still Jaguar drivers.
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I agree--it's rare that Jaguars run at all.
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)
It was actually Maryland that dumped the sewage, but you don't need to worry too much about it if you have a strong constitution and take your vitamins. Just wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 10:27 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 19, 2026 10:27 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
By the ancient codes of combat, Alberta is now ours
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 10:28 PM (rbvCR)
Not looking forward to the four month recovery time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Angle grinders and dremels are on sale at Harbor Freight.
Posted by: Promo code:15% at February 19, 2026 10:28 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 19, 2026 10:29 PM (hJH5n)
Metropolish (it' super, man)
Spanakopita (savory)
Xareltoh (a Green Lantern villain)
Emflagriozin (of the Shire hobbits)
Scoobydoobitol (were it not for those darn kids!)
Posted by: mindful webworker - and Biothine the White Ranger at February 19, 2026 10:29 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: tankdemon
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obviously did not check with weather.com who issued a small craft advisory.....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 19, 2026 10:29 PM (4jnK3)
Could be worse. I'm 3 weeks into 9 months of recovery.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 10:29 PM (viF8m)
@RepAngieCraig
Last night the memorial for Renee Good was set on fire and destroyed.
Renee’s family and the Minneapolis community deserve the chance to mourn her. This is unacceptable and we must hold anyone involved in this hateful incident accountable.
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Renee's family has mourned her for a very long time...including the last several years of her adulthood. They know the score. Its unlikely they were making daily trips to the memorial.
I'm sorry she passed. I'm also sorry she was proudfully sinful, and brought about her own passing. RIP.
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 10:30 PM (Cjcf6)
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The big STOP sign probably threw him off.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:25 PM (+HNx/)
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To be fair, those flashing red lights are set to a pace that triggers seizures.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:30 PM (2WIwB)
The idea is that you get 4 days in the wild to locate, track, tranquilizer, and put an ear tag on a polar bear. Scoring is based on elapsed time, with bonuses for shot distance, the size of the bear, and penalties for the number of tags already on the bear. Using bait, other than yourself, is prohibited.
Do you think that might be worth watching?
Should it be old school, and require killing the bear with stone spears? How many spears should be allowed?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:30 PM (S/Y4j)
I use Notepad and compose the Sunday Morning Book Threads in HTML and then copy/paste into the AoSHQ blog engine.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (ESVrU)
WordPerfect for MS-DOS
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)
Funny!
Would have been funnier if they just drove over it, though.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:31 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:18 PM (2GVsD)
David Drake may have done this first in a fantasy short story where the elves were named after prescription psychiatric meds.
One of the elves bitched about C-rations, claiming that they could have at least served Chicken Marengo as that was bona fide campaign food.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 10:32 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
By the ancient codes of combat, Alberta is now ours
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 10:28 PM (rbvCR)
Well...Damn.
I was hoping for Vancouver Island.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:32 PM (2WIwB)
The world is a better place without Renee Good.
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In Renee's last state, you are entirely correct. Any human that is ready to drive a car over a law enforcement officer deserves her fate.
I wish there were a way to prosecute those who were responsible for motivating this low-IQ individual into doing those things.
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 10:32 PM (Cjcf6)
In the fall of 1992 it was announced that Ozzy would play Freeman Coliseum. Why there? It was county property, not city, so it got around the ban. But Ozzy was a gent. He met with then Mayor Nelson Wolff and donated $10K to the Daughters of the Republican of Texas, then the keepers of the Alamo.
And on Thursday, 1 October 1992, he kicked ass in what was my first concert.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 19, 2026 10:32 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:33 PM (2GVsD)
“In Renee's last state, you are entirely correct. Any human that is ready to drive a car over a law enforcement officer deserves her fate.”
Well, over…anybody. Cop or not.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 19, 2026 10:33 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 19, 2026 10:32 PM (hJH5n)
Kewl!!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:33 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (ESVrU)
WordPerfect for MS-DOS
Posted by: Doof
Wow
So vintage
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 19, 2026 10:34 PM (4jnK3)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 19, 2026 10:18 PM
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Howdy! Just here to support the team, coach.
Posted by: TRex - low key under the radar dino at February 19, 2026 10:34 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (+HNx/)
No one deserves to die, but she worked extra hard to earn hers
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 10:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 10:32 PM (Cjcf6)
No. Only because there is still free will. If there was no such thing as the concept of free will, I’d agree.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (ESVrU)
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They were human. I've been involved with projects that interested others more intensely than the project interested me. At some point, attention wanders.
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (Cjcf6)
CNN anchors luge
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:31 PM (2GVsD)
CNN target holder for the Biathlon.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 19, 2026 10:27 PM (ftFVW)
I went with that video because that song with Randy Rhoads is in the upper echelon of early 80s rock.
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)
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As a fellow COB, I'm curious what you use to compose your ONTs...
I use Notepad and compose the Sunday Morning Book Threads in HTML and then copy/paste into the AoSHQ blog engine.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (ESVrU)
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Whatever. You post when we say.
Posted by: the hamsters at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (1whRW)
The Jaguar driver was medically cleared at the scene, then walked home. He was arrested for domestic violence two hours later.
I'm starting to wonder if it was his car. Rogue parking valet?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 10:36 PM (5ZzAK)
So vintage
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 19, 2026 10:34 PM (4jnK3)
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You should see the blog engine we have to work with!
Vintage tools are the only way to get stuff done in there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:36 PM (ESVrU)
I have seen a bus at 0 dark 30 framed by so many flashing lights of different colors that it looked like a roadside attraction and completely drowned out the bus itself. That was frightening in retrospect.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 19, 2026 10:36 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:36 PM (2GVsD)
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Prolly some homeless people were just trying to keep warm.
Heartless of them to complain about THAT!
Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2026 10:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:37 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Doof
Wow
So vintage
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 19, 2026 10:34 PM (4jnK3)
Yes. Both the word processing software and me.
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:37 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at February 19, 2026 10:37 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:35 PM (ESVrU)
Ooh, you need to see this
Ants Summon Humans
youtu.be/hEf_Sdio0Hk
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 10:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:18 PM (+HNx/)
All praise and hail Schlürpo.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 19, 2026 10:38 PM (hJH5n)
Mikaela Shiffrin took in the moment and sang the words when the flag was raised at her medal ceremony. Lovely.
I think we are one of very few countries anymore who know the words to our national anthem. People from other countries recognize it as well; and at a hockey game in Canada a year ago the mic went out on the singer and the Canadians sang with the Americans. That's wild!
I will be hoping and watching the USA Men. Because THEY are probably not ghey; and I will always remember the team in 1980.
Plus I simply love men more (and 'ette's and a few girlfriends, and one SIL). Plus my DIL's and granddaughters the best). Where was I?
Oh, I read this tonight to share of when the USA men beat Denmark. What they did after the game...that's the USA we're proud of.
I hope they win GOLD!They've already won hearts. XXXX
https://tinyurl.com/pubdzbjs
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 10:38 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:39 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (+HNx/)
No one deserves to die, but she worked extra hard to earn hers
Posted by: Kindltot
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There is a place where, 'yer askin' for it', applies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 10:39 PM (1whRW)
Scrubs is pretty freaking funny. And not really far from how residents see themselves. Too bad the medical community destroyed all credibility in the past 6 years.
Fun show.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 10:39 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:39 PM (S/Y4j)
Vintage tools are the only way to get stuff done in there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:36 PM (ESVrU)
The post authoring engine here certainly build character!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:40 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Doof
Oh, that solo is epic! Was considering suggesting it to my middle little hobbit as an aspirational thing to learn on guitar. Lately it's been all Pantera and Megadeath.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 19, 2026 10:40 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 10:36 PM (5ZzAK)
Go Finland.
Mom was half Finnish. Dad used to ask when she would be all Finnish. Dad had a muldoon-like sense of humor.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 19, 2026 10:40 PM (0aYVJ)
Vintage tools are the only way to get stuff done in there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I suspect the hamsters use vacuum tubes
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 19, 2026 10:40 PM (4jnK3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:41 PM (2GVsD)
This is from the "Hot Air" site:
https://tinyurl.com/5ebbjyhd
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 19, 2026 10:41 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:37 PM (IQ6Gq)
Appreciate the kind words!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:41 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 10:42 PM (XeU6L)
Ants Summon Humans
youtu.be/hEf_Sdio0Hk
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 10:38 PM (rbvCR)
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Whoa. I've never thought of it that way...Pretty disturbing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:43 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 10:36 PM (5ZzAK)
I want Canada. I want the Canadians to anticipate getting the gold right up to the moment the Americans take it from them and adorn it around their necks. It will crush that country worse than anything.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 19, 2026 10:43 PM (hJH5n)
Musk has been working on AI for at least as long as robots. He's already gone way down the road with autonomous cars and he is constantly posting on X about the dangers of AI if it isn't done properly.
Not to say he is going to do it perfectly but I think he is very aware of the danger. Personally, I'm glad I grew up in the analog world. The brave new world does absolutely nothing for me.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 10:43 PM (viF8m)
Vintage tools are the only way to get stuff done in there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I used 30% Notepad, 50% live in the hamster software, and 20% colorful language. Percentages varied by Bacardi consumption.
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:43 PM (41CYW)
Scrubs is pretty freaking funny. And not really far from how residents see themselves. Too bad the medical community destroyed all credibility in the past 6 years.
Fun show.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 10:39 PM (A5RD0)
Do you watch St. Denis Medical? It's very much like The Office, set in a hospital / ER. Really good show!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)
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No. Loosing to the Fins will crush them.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 10:44 PM (5ZzAK)
Posted by: Rex B at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (GI9/m)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at February 19, 2026 10:37 PM (DK5Sh)
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Wouldn't surprise me.
I'm pretty sure he's an afficionado of science fiction.
He's trying harder than almost anyone else to make it a reality.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (ESVrU)
Vintage tools are the only way to get stuff done in there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I used 30% Notepad, 50% live in the hamster software, and 20% colorful language. Percentages varied by Bacardi consumption.
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:43 PM (41CYW)
You forgot the % for "call Doof for a lifeline"!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: mindful webworker - will it work? Let's see... at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (oq2IS)
Their circuits were fad as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightening
But these robots had expert timing
Oh oha ohhhh!
Oh oha ohhhh!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (46za5)
Posted by: nckate at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (DK5Sh)
I’ve been slowly going through the entire original Star Trek recorded from broadcast. In one of the earlier episodes one of the Enterprise officers described an alien technology as very primitive. “They still use transistors.”
Meanwhile, a previous episode—maybe even the same one—showed that the circuitry of the Enterprise still used vacuum tubes.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 19, 2026 10:46 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
My kayak is NOT a small craft.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 10:46 PM (PMi3m)
Vintage tools are the only way to get stuff done in there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I used 30% Notepad, 50% live in the hamster software, and 20% colorful language. Percentages varied by Bacardi consumption.
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:43 PM (41CYW)
I may need to get more sleep. I mistook "in the hamster software" for "in the hamster cage."
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:46 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:43 PM (41CYW)
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That last 20% is absolutely crucial for a quality post.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:46 PM (ESVrU)
Good for them!
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 10:47 PM (Kufnr)
Their voices were steady but unpolished.
They did not attempt to project like performers.
They sang like teammates.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 10:47 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Hampster. Please. Pay attention.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 10:48 PM (Kufnr)
Their voices were steady but unpolished.
They did not attempt to project like performers.
They sang like teammates.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 10:47 PM (1whRW)
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Sounds like an excerpt from "The Grinch Stole the Olympics."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 10:48 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
My kayak is NOT a small craft.
Posted by: tankdemon
***********
Whatever dude....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:45 PM (IQ6Gq)
My job and my mom's current health state are the main things keeping me (and Doof-lady) here.
I'm working on the job thing.
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:49 PM (QMAsf)
WTF???
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:49 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Hampster. Please. Pay attention.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 10:48 PM (Kufnr)
Be nice, or I might look up the Hampster Dance for you (grin).
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:50 PM (S/Y4j)
@RepAngieCraig
Last night the memorial for Renee Good was set on fire and destroyed.
Renee’s family and the Minneapolis community deserve the chance to mourn her. This is unacceptable and we must hold anyone involved in this hateful incident accountable.
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Wait. Arson is bad now?!!! When did that happen?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 10:24 PM (FXNzP)
Maybe you shouldn't have built it out of straw, paper flowers, and half-huffed cans of starting fluid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 10:50 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Doof
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Accurate. The Doof Support Hotline - 24/7, minimal hold time, would call again.
Posted by: scampydog at February 19, 2026 10:51 PM (41CYW)
I hope Muva gets seen by billions of people. She's very pretty.
Love to you all as I need to go be productive in something and be good.
Speaking of Good, and I know this is not nice at all, the memorial shindig by U2...why don't they use her last photo? Which is probably more true to her life and cause? Vs the hetero Good photo when she was probably married? She did not look like that protesting. I think lesbos should protest this! lipstick lesbian fakery.
I will now return to being mostly good.
Dedicated to ICE:
https://tinyurl.com/2ebmpexv
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 10:51 PM (WONhk)
0
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 10:51 PM (gKWVE)
I'm working on the job thing.
Posted by: Doof
********
Completely understand.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 10:26 PM (+HNx/)
One might even Good Riddance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 10:52 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:53 PM (2GVsD)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=W6FuMu0lNj8
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:54 PM (2GVsD)
From Goodreads:
"A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston.Someone is killing the world’s leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or is it something even more sinister? After all, artificial intelligence may be the deadliest battlefield gamechanger since the creation of gunpowder."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 10:54 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Doof
Oh, that solo is epic! Was considering suggesting it to my middle little hobbit as an aspirational thing to learn on guitar. Lately it's been all Pantera and Megadeath.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 19, 2026 10:40 PM (ftFVW)
Definitely worthwhile. It would be a lot easier today to learn it with the internet, and tabs, and you tube vids compared to when it first came out. I had to learn it by ear, on vinyl, and by lifting the needle every 5 seconds (in the snow, barefoot, both ways, lol). Nobody knew how to play it, there was nobody to ask, nobody had a clue.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 10:55 PM (snZF9)
Johnny Cash was flat out good. I wonder how many under 29s only know of him from his cover of "Hurt"?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2026 10:56 PM (Kc+Vz)
Renee’s family and the Minneapolis community deserve the chance to mourn her. This is unacceptable and we must hold anyone involved in this hateful incident accountable.
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I wonder what they thought when lightening struck the George Floyd 'memorial'?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 10:57 PM (XeU6L)
I'm pretty sure he's an afficionado of science fiction.
He's trying harder than almost anyone else to make it a reality.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Chinese are trying to make killers while he is trying to help humanity.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 10:57 PM (1whRW)
And a ring of fire? Well, it depends which side it's on.
(And the song is supposed to be sung by his wife. She sang it about him - because he was a bad boy.)
Posted by: GWB at February 19, 2026 10:57 PM (02Em6)
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this one time, somebody cut and pasted the entire thread- content, comments, everything- into their comment box and hit post
boy, we had a chuckle at that one
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, engage! at February 19, 2026 10:58 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 10:59 PM (XeU6L)
@bxieus
14m
Recently, in Shaanxi China, a robot suddenly went out of control while performing a dance, collapsing and convulsing. It accidentally kicked an operator in the face, causing injury.
>>
It's Pris thrashing on the floor in Blade Runner.
https://x.com/bxieus/status/
2024690352255381680
Posted by: 13times at February 19, 2026 10:59 PM (hK7/g)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 11:00 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _
Does anyone really know what time it is?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:08 PM (S/Y4j)
It’s not late, no, no!
It’s just a early, early, early!
Posted by: Spin Doctors at February 19, 2026 11:00 PM (JRP2U)
boy, we had a chuckle at that one
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, engage! at February 19, 2026 10:58 PM (ZxPkt)
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This is exactly why we can't have nice things around here.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 11:01 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 11:02 PM (PMi3m)
Meanwhile, a previous episode—maybe even the same one—showed that the circuitry of the Enterprise still used vacuum tubes.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 19, 2026 10:46 PM (EXyHK)
Transistors are still the fundamental operational units of microchips.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:02 PM (8zz6B)
I just saw the video of Doocy asking Trump about obama's alien comments. Trump says he's in trouble for disclosing classified material. Doocy's last follow up is to point out that the President can declassify anything he wants to, and Trump said he might have to declassify it all to get him out of trouble.
Posted by: Methos at February 19, 2026 11:02 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _
Does anyone really know what time it is?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:08 PM (S/Y4j)
It’s not late, no, no!
It’s just a early, early, early!
Posted by: Spin Doctors
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Too Much Time on My Hands.
Posted by: Styx at February 19, 2026 11:02 PM (41CYW)
Who's writing the prompts? If it's Skyebrows the dead people are gonna know all the memes.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 19, 2026 11:02 PM (uorZf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 11:03 PM (8EgcX)
I'm working on the job thing.
Posted by: Doof
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Sometimes things are just shit.
It will work out. Hang in there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:03 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 19, 2026 11:04 PM (zuIfz)
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What a piece of crap Bono is. He's always been that way, but for him to seek ZERO context for what occurred with that bitch is infuriating.
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 11:04 PM (Cjcf6)
Made that joke earlier today. Of course the Canadians will cheat, they are afraid they will be added to MAID if they lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:05 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
My kayak is NOT a small craft.
Posted by: tankdemon
***********
Whatever dude....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 19, 2026 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
OUCH!
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 11:05 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (viF8m)
Personally, I'm glad I grew up in the analog world. The brave new world does absolutely nothing for me.
Posted by: JackStraw
I believe I would be perfectly satisfied with 1966 technology.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 10:39 PM (A5RD0)
Do you watch St. Denis Medical? It's very much like The Office, set in a hospital / ER. Really good show!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
.........................
I'm still here and not being productive!
I loved Scrubs, ER, and some of House. HATED Grey's Anatomy because of the star, who looks like she washes her face with used kitty litter. I just don't like her at all and can't remember her name.
Will look for St. Denis Medical. I do get annoyed,and I am sure Nurse does as well, when I see IV sticks. With the method they use they'd go straight through the vein and into muscle. Which in today's medical world might be ok.
I learned to be a lab tech in college summer jobs in hospitals. A vampire waking patients at 0600 to drain them. Phlebotomy. I looked to be 16yrs old but at that hour no one questioned me.
Then worked in a blood bank, and those needles are the size of nails (don't look!).
So starting an IV or giving injections I nailed it in nursing school while others got the vapors. Give me any vein and I can start an IV and do it without pain, or that's what they told me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (qgHp7)
Reminds me of the video where the guy was training a robot by having it mirror what he did. He kicked his leg out, the robot followed suit, and hit him in the junk.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (uorZf)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 11:07 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Canadia beat the pants off France.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:08 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 19, 2026 11:08 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (WONhk)
EMTs start a line like Ahab making the final stab at Moby Dick.
Of course, they figure if they are called in you are already screaming, so they don't need the delicate technique.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 11:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 19, 2026 11:04 PM (zuIfz)
There are some pretty good off-drivable cliffs here in Arizona. But he'll have to provide his own car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:08 PM (8zz6B)
To Do List:
1. Buy an axe. 2. Name it Kindness. 3. Kill people with Kindness.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 19, 2026 11:08 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 19, 2026 11:08 PM (MZ+PY)
*finds a seat in the upper deck*
*ponders*
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (qgHp7)
Yo!
Come on down to the mezzanine level. Drinks on me and free hot dogs!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 11:09 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:10 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:10 PM (2GVsD)
***********
I mean, how many sassy black millionaire women can there be in Little Rhodey.
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:11 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 11:12 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Doof
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Take that to heart, a polite expression.
You do not want to receive CBD's expression.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:12 PM (1whRW)
Neighborhood full of tiny houses?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)
Must've been a hell of a fire. Warmed my heart all the way to NoVa.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 19, 2026 11:12 PM (NCTxa)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
Which reminds me of this historic goal, and even better call by the one and only Rick Jeanneret:
https://shorturl.at/U55J6
Posted by: browndog returns for in season hockey at February 19, 2026 11:12 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 19, 2026 11:13 PM (bss/y)
Me too. Obviously, I love this place and some of the stuff technology has made possible but overall I like the old world stuff better.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 11:13 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Diogenes
*******
Hey sir, good to see you. Possibility of a break in The Curious Disappearance next week. I'll send you an e-mail tomorrow with details.
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:13 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Kindltot
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During a recent surgery, I'm convinced that they handled me like a side of beef while I was out. All sorts of superficial aches and pains afterwards.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 11:13 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 19, 2026 11:08 PM
****
Mr. Deal!! Good to see you here again. Been too long.
Posted by: TRex - barrel avoidant dino at February 19, 2026 11:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:13 PM (qgHp7)
I'll look for it!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 11:14 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: nckate at February 19, 2026 11:14 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Jesse Jackson at February 19, 2026 11:14 PM (NCTxa)
Reminds me of the video where the guy was training a robot by having it mirror what he did. He kicked his leg out, the robot followed suit, and hit him in the junk.
Posted by: Ian S.
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One Chinesium suspended from its cranial went nuts violently flailing arms and legs. The operators barely made it safe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:14 PM (1whRW)
Use the shorter YouTube link provided by clicking the share button. Copy, paste, and remove the question mark and everything after it.
Such as...
https://youtu.be/tA9gqa5adB4
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 11:15 PM (QMAsf)
197 Recommended read, 'The Chaos Agent', Greaney.
From Goodreads:
"A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston.Someone is killing the world’s leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or is it something even more sinister? After all, artificial intelligence may be the deadliest battlefield gamechanger since the creation of gunpowder."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 10:54
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China.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 11:15 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 11:00 PM (2WIwB)
Don't forget to attach it to a barb wire wrapped flaming pineapple. Its the law. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 11:15 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 11:07 PM (QMAsf)
Some URLs are more than seven feet. Ask Buddy Wasisname:
https://youtu.be/FBkVJg5J3iE
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:15 PM (8zz6B)
Angie Craig
@RepAngieCraig
Last night the memorial for Renee Good was set on fire and destroyed.
Renee’s family and the Minneapolis community deserve the chance to mourn her. This is unacceptable and we must hold anyone involved in this hateful incident accountable.
-
Wait. Arson is bad now?!!! When did that happen?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
People mourn in there own ways. Maybe some Vikings showed up. It is Minnesota.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 11:15 PM (yKhjs)
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Hmm. And yet, I've been craving a '69 Z-28.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 11:16 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 11:07 PM (QMAsf)
This is about me, isn't it?
I use that tinyurl thingie. Is that correct? Am I blowing up something?
I was once in the famous barrel and at least there's a bar.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 11:16 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 11:16 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (viF8m)
That was great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 11:16 PM (snZF9)
****
Mr. Deal!! Good to see you here again. Been too long.
Posted by: TRex - barrel avoidant dino at February 19, 2026 11:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
This!! Howdy Mr. Deal!!
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 11:16 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 19, 2026 11:04 PM (zuIfz)
There are some pretty good off-drivable cliffs here in Arizona. But he'll have to provide his own car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:08 PM (8zz6B)
He can always use the one in Alaska for the 4th of July. I don't know if tcn would want him there, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:17 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 11:16 PM (XeU6L)
Better music out of the AM radio too.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 11:18 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: nckate at February 19, 2026 11:14 PM (uQzkA)
Because he's just another musician asshole "artist" who thinks people give a flying fuck about what he has to say.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 11:19 PM (snZF9)
If I click on the share button in YT, the URL is even longer.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)
The question mark and everything after it is not needed
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 11:19 PM (QMAsf)
I woke up with a large bruise on my left bicep that wasn't there going in.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 11:19 PM (viF8m)
*finds a seat in the upper deck*
*ponders*
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:06 PM (qgHp7)
Have you tried ruminating?
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 11:20 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Arguably '66 technology, perhaps I could buy an indulgence...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 11:20 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 11:20 PM (PMi3m)
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Cud you be more specific?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 11:20 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)
Everything after the question mark is tracking info, you can remove the question mark and everything after it. Even shorter, you can remove the "https://" also.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 11:21 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)
It was actually Maryland that dumped the sewage, but you don't need to worry too much about it if you have a strong constitution and take your vitamins. Just wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: tankdemon
How soon with those snakehead fish mutate into monsters and start eating the locals? I'll have to buy more ammo I guess. The Potomac is a bit too close to me. Must do it before CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists ban all the boom thingys and tax everything else.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 11:21 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 19, 2026 11:21 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 19, 2026 11:21 PM (NCTxa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)
But you can delete the middle question mark, and all that follows, just as I did at 256. All that crap is a tracker for Ewetoob.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:22 PM (8zz6B)
https://tinyurl.com/2ebmpexv
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Do you remember, did you see, (this is on the wayback machine) a video exposition of the song on SNL back when the song was new, of a blonde in white with a shotgun?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:22 PM (1whRW)
Given all the weirdos in the Brit royal family Andrew is surely not the oddest formerly known as Prince.
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:22 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:22 PM (S/Y4j)
*ponders*
Posted by: muldoon
Better that, than finding an upper decker on the seat
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 19, 2026 11:23 PM (NCTxa)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 11:23 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2026 11:20 PM (PMi3m)
Cogitating and mulling are on the agenda, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:24 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 11:16 PM (WONhk)
A bar!!!???
Sheesh!
You kids today.
Back in the old days, the barrel had no bar. In fact the only joy was finding old gum under the squeaky chair that still had some flavor in it.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 11:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 11:23 PM (Cqx++)
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Not the Craw.
THE CRAW!!
Posted by: The Craw at February 19, 2026 11:24 PM (+HNx/)
Nope. It wasn't you.
It was gkwve.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 19, 2026 11:24 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:25 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 19, 2026 11:21 PM (NCTxa)
Mine too. I love their name though. It sounds right when I say fuck U2.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 11:25 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 19, 2026 11:21 PM (NCTxa)
This!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:25 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: tankdemon
*******
Hmm. Cud you let me chew on that for a bit?
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:25 PM (qgHp7)
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I enjoyed the first 3 albums.
They couldn't or didn't express their stupidity during that time.
Since then, they've been pointless and gay.
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 11:25 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Never heard of her before today but I saw her family's backstory. She seems to be the exact opposite of the woman who sold out to the CCP.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 11:25 PM (viF8m)
??? Took a couple of days to remember... they didn't sedate me until I was in the OR. Asshoe anesthesiologist hit the juice all at once with no warning and it felt like I was being stung by something HUGE.
Sitting up and screaming "OW! Son of a b...!" was the last thing I remember. Guess I *dropped* onto the side rails. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)
A bar!!!???
Sheesh!
You kids today.
Back in the old days, the barrel had no bar. In fact the only joy was finding old gum under the squeaky chair that still had some flavor in it.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Yes, things have changed.
_Foo Foo
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:26 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Braenyard
********
Hey, backatchyoo! Life gets in the way sometimes.
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:26 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 19, 2026 11:26 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 10:19 PM (S/Y4j)
If I had a penny for every time in my 40 year career at NASA I saw the organizational, culture, meeting dynamics, team dynamics, and management browbeating problems described in the report, I'd be the richest man on Earth today.
NASA will never change.
And with that, I'm in and out for tonight. Sweet dreams, everyone.
Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2026 11:26 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:27 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:28 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:27 PM (2GVsD)
New British Ad?
Nothing sucks like an Electrolux, except Bono with U2.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:29 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: tankdemon
*******
Hmm. Cud you let me chew on that for a bit?
Posted by: muldoon
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Don't be cowed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 11:29 PM (XeU6L)
Given all the weirdos in the Brit royal family Andrew is surely not the oddest formerly known as Prince.
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I know you were looking for a punchline (and good for you, I enjoy those too), but IF there were EVER any reason for the monarchy to exist, it would be RIGHT THIS MOMENT when King Charles would announce he was going to save his country and restore it to its rightful place.
Posted by: Crusader at February 19, 2026 11:29 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:30 PM (2GVsD)
During a recent surgery, I'm convinced that they handled me like a side of beef while I was out. All sorts of superficial aches and pains afterwards.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
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Seconded
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:30 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Never heard of her before today but I saw her family's backstory. She seems to be the exact opposite of the woman who sold out to the CCP.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 11:25 PM (viF8m)
Absolutely. Mrs B loves watching skating. She keeps up with it. I had this chick's back story before the olympics even started, lol. I'm glad she won. She was retired for a few years, missed it, came back and has been kicking ass. She loves to skate, and thats why she won. Didn't give a shit if she won or lost, she just loves to skate.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 11:30 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:31 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 19, 2026 11:32 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 19, 2026 11:21 PM (ceJ0R)
Please check in more often. Got it??
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 11:32 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 11:33 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Catholics have long names at February 19, 2026 11:33 PM (gKWVE)
Nothing sucks like an Electrolux, except Bono with U2.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
How about ADM Kirby?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 11:35 PM (Cqx++)
Given all the weirdos in the Brit royal family Andrew is surely not the oddest formerly known as Prince.
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Andrew is taking a hit for the team.
Time is ripe for someone to put Charles in the tower.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:35 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 19, 2026 11:35 PM (ceJ0R)
It's probably the best possible way to handle senpai noticing you and not liking it. The parade of small Vtubers was fun, I was just watching some of Keen's content earlier (he's the guy with the snazzy pirate avatar/model).
Did you look at the AI music video I posted at #196?
Yeah. It's well done, but it demonstrates why Skye wisely limits the duration of the ban(ne)d shots: when they go on too long dorks like myself start screaming "that's not how musical instruments work!".
Also, Leaflit's "Put Them In The Box" is the AOSHQ national anthem.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 19, 2026 11:35 PM (JbzBI)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 19, 2026 11:32 PM (jrgJz)
Interesting perspective!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 19, 2026 11:35 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Gavin Newsome at February 19, 2026 11:36 PM (NCTxa)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:36 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:36 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
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Seconded
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:30 PM (1whRW)
I thought after my surgery I would look and feel like I fell out of an airplane. Nothing, nothing at all. For the first day I wasn't convinced I survived. I thought it might be dream. I felt no pain, none, zip, nada. I had a bunch of scars from where they needed to go, but nothing else. I was shocked. I'm still shocked.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 11:37 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: nckate
Neither can the Irish.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 11:37 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot
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Yeah, I figure if someone is too lazy or unconcerned to use a url shortener whatever they are linking to is not worth my trouble.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:38 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 11:39 PM (1whRW)
Nothing sucks like an Electrolux, except Bono with U2.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:29 PM (S/Y4j)
Electrolux was Swedish. Was there ever a definitive Brit brand of vacuum cleaner?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:40 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Christine Keeler
Posted by: John Profumo at February 19, 2026 11:41 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 11:41 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:40 PM (8zz6B)
Its called the Starmer. It excels at sucking the fart out of muslim ass.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 11:42 PM (snZF9)
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Well, honestly we've always struggled with electrical items.
Posted by: Jaguar & Land Rover at February 19, 2026 11:44 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:44 PM (8zz6B)
Did you hear the part about her father being persecuted by the CCP and then their attempt to recruit her to skate for China? She told them to fuck off.
She got the gold and as you said that seemed to be less important to her than she nailed her skate. That's pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 11:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 19, 2026 11:45 PM (yJpvi)
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Electrolux was Swedish. Was there ever a definitive Brit brand of vacuum cleaner?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 11:40 PM
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Dyson?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 11:46 PM (azNOR)
There are relatively few definitive European brands of anything. Europe basically gave up on life after WW1 and accelerated that after WW2 so they missed the computer, internet, and now AI revolutions.
That all said, I remember back in the 80s there was a column, possibly Dave Barry, where he noted that within a month in the UK 3 different men had gotten their dick stuck in Hoover vacuum cleaners.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 19, 2026 11:48 PM (JbzBI)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2026 11:37 PM (snZF9)“
Ok we admit this is really hell. We’re stuck in it here with you.
Why hell? Because if this is heaven, it’s damned disappointing!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2026 11:48 PM (46za5)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Interesting progression from kimono-crop-top catgirl last week.
Catgirls must never skip ab day.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 11:49 PM (VHUov)
*******
The Camilla Parker-Bowles. No matter how hard you implore it, it doesn't suck.
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:49 PM (qgHp7)
*******
The Camilla Parker-Bowles. No matter how hard you implore it, it doesn't suck.
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:49 PM (qgHp7)
Sounds like a bowling alley valet.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:51 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: muldoon at February 19, 2026 11:52 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: muldoon
Sounds like a bowling alley valet.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Bowling alleys where Wolf lives must be fancier than here.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 11:54 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Jaguar & Land Rover at February 19, 2026 11:44 PM (Cjcf6)
Positive Earth says it all!
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 19, 2026 11:54 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:55 PM (S/Y4j)
Lucas made a lot of home appliances too, but I think US brands built them over there too.
The Russians had a lot of domestic products. The TVs tended to catch on fire.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 11:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 11:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: muldoon
Sounds like a bowling alley valet.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Bowling alleys where Wolf lives must be fancier than here.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 11:54 PM (VHUov)
I would expect it at a Texas bowling alley, with 300 lanes. I mean, everything's bigger in Texas, right?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:57 PM (S/Y4j)
Checkup with our primate carrot position tomorrow. Used to just call 'em our family doctor.
Some later Donovan, not so flower childish album
https://youtu.be/xoXsmEpiuxo
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I was led to believe there were organizations that would kill-a my snakes for me at February 19, 2026 11:57 PM (oq2IS)
Lucas made a lot of home appliances too, but I think US brands built them over there too.
The Russians had a lot of domestic products. The TVs tended to catch on fire.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 11:55 PM (rbvCR)
Hoover was an American company, but they built a factory in england in 1912, so Hoover has a long history there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 12:00 AM (8zz6B)
The UK in the Thatcher 80s was a brief exception from the rest of Europe's "everything sucks, let's just be marxist fuckweasels" attitude and they got ARM and Dyson out of the deal. But almost every other major European brand you can name is rooted in pre-war technology.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2026 12:05 AM (Cw4E2)
Posted by: Azjaeger at February 20, 2026 12:06 AM (3/XaG)
I sucked that right off of the internet
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2026 12:07 AM (yJpvi)
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Teach them to do Fulon Gong (?) moves, and the CCP will make all involved disappear...
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at February 20, 2026 12:07 AM (lsyOS)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 19, 2026 11:31 PM (S/Y4j)
Well, he'd leave no doubt that the got damn Germans got nothin' to do with it.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 20, 2026 12:08 AM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: Kindltot
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There was a cartoon, published in the early 70s in one of the car or mc mags, that showed an Apollo era lunar lander on the moon, with a Union Jack on its side and an oil puddle under it.
Posted by: buddhaha at February 20, 2026 12:10 AM (Bgaiu)
What killed both of them was the dual punch of Nintendo and the various "IBM Clones" (Intel/MS) of the early 1990s.
[we are agreed the Sinclair Spectrum was ass]
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 12:10 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 12:13 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2026 12:14 AM (mFhj8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2026 12:15 AM (8zz6B)
I'm just lurking along, reading all the interesting comments. I got nuthin' tonite. Heh.
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:16 AM (rdVOm)
She got the gold and as you said that seemed to be less important to her than she nailed her skate. That's pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 11:44 PM (viF8m)
Yup, the wife filled me in on the whole story. At least she isn't like that pos American thats skiing for china.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 12:18 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 12:19 AM (0nHVk)
... If you catch mirrors, before DMCA takedown requests. I'm not going to link ZeroPaige's efforts here b/c I cannot vouch for the sites it's on, today.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 12:20 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 11:56 PM (rbvCR)
They could have added a total loss chain oiling system like harley did years ago.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 12:20 AM (snZF9)
Nevertheless -- I have repeatedly been tackled by an uncloseable ad recently when refreshing the main page. I have to click back and hit refresh. Sometimes 2 or 3 times.
Posted by: Doof at February 19, 2026 10:12
I get some small ad in the center sometimes lately when clicking Comments. It's border on both sides by gray. Sometimes won't go away or wouldn't till I figured out where to click.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at February 20, 2026 12:24 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Case at February 20, 2026 12:25 AM (j6kTf)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 12:26 AM (gKWVE)
1. Pivot away from world events/peacemaking and focus on one thing, and one thing only: JOBS, J-O-B-S and more jobs. And not just industrial, manufacturing jobs, but white-collar job creation particularly opportunities for recent college grads. These recent grads were sold a false bill-of-goods on the value of a degree and are now feeling lost and without any substantive opportunities to contribute to society and make a living. They don’t have hard skills like HVAC, electricians, plumbers etc., and need direction. If the sane, right side of the political aisle (or the MAGA movement as I like to call it) can capture this cohort, then the leftist social democrats are going to be very screwed, for a very long time
Posted by: Publius Redux at February 20, 2026 12:27 AM (Gu66x)
Posted by: Publius Redux at February 20, 2026 12:27 AM (Gu66x)
Posted by: buddhaha at February 20, 2026 12:27 AM (Bgaiu)
Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2026 12:14 AM (mFhj
He's a Democrat. He could claim he invented the internet and they'd run his crazy ass for President.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 20, 2026 12:28 AM (w/O5Q)
a. The Trump is economy is strong, focused on jobs and growing:
b. The stock market is at an all-time high, meaning your retirement investments are safer
c. Trump has stabilized inflation. He actually brought down the price of important times, like gas/energy (except in non-blue States like CA)! With more relief on the way!
d. Trump and MAGA controlling Congress means ensuring border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens (never, ever, use the made-up term “undocumented migrant” or even “illegal immigrant” you are ceding the language to the socialist left). Since Trump has focused, initially, on dangerously criminal illegal aliens, this mean:
e. Trump and MAGA brought safer cities and less crime.
f. Long term there are more jobs and salary growth for American Citizens and
g. decreased prices for housing/rents.
h. Democrats are liars and lie about all of the above and Trump, 24-7.
i. They do this to distract from the destruction they caused under Biden and lie about blue city unrest and domestic terrorism which they create and support
Posted by: Publius Redux at February 20, 2026 12:29 AM (Gu66x)
It burns more fuel than any other ship. It doesn't have a reverse, it's propeller blades rotate to reverse propulsion.
Let's think of more technologically sensitive, unstable, wasteful and expensive ways to build a ship.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:29 AM (1whRW)
a. Trump and MAGA means a bright future, that is safer, more economical, with opportunity, family and growth for American citizen and LEGAL immigrants; and
b. “Democrats, stop lying about the Trump miracle economy and recovery, stop supporting and engaging in domestic terrorism, start supporting secure elections with the SAVE Act and require ID Proof of citizenship to vote in elections!”
5. A mid-term convention must be done, and done in a slick way to command the airwaves with direct messaging by Trump and MAGA Republicans so the MsM is unable to filter (read censor) it
Anyway – that’s all for now – I know folks from the Trump White House read this site as do other advisors in the Republican National Party – I hope this humble opinion helps someone.
Posted by: Publius Redux at February 20, 2026 12:29 AM (Gu66x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:30 AM (bss/y)
'Tuna and oatmeal is more delicious than Pizza!'
I'm sorry, wtf?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Everybody's so creative!
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:32 AM (rdVOm)
Who thought 'You know, this oatmeal is delicious. Some butter, some sugar. Savory and sweet. Delicious. You know what it needs?
Fish.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:33 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
*stuffs some bacon into USB port for Aetius451AD*
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:40 AM (1whRW)
*stuffs some bacon into USB port for Aetius451AD*
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm)
Getting ready for a BLT?
Bacon
Little more bacon
Top with bacon
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 12:41 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
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Big threats by a little girl. Little girls can be very mean if given the power.
youtube.com/watch?v=SZql8uCboYY
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:44 AM (1whRW)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 12:44 AM (0nHVk)
Bacon
Little more bacon
Top with bacon
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Okay...now I'm hungry.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2026 12:44 AM (XeU6L)
*stuffs some bacon into USB port for Aetius451AD*
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm)
Helps to clear the thought of that one out of my head.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:45 AM (bss/y)
Haha, I used to do week-long hikes with a crazy friend and we eschewed those pricey dehydrated meal-in-a-pouches that you get from REI. Instead, we'd get cheap foods that will not expire until 4000 A.D.: Rice-a-Roni, Velveeta cheese, canned tuna, Parkay liquid margarine -- and mix it all up at night in a glorious stew. After a day of sweaty hiking and then striking camp, DELISH!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 12:48 AM (rKRFT)
Hungary-Argentina Friendship Begins!
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What did Jack Straw say? "We're winning>"
https://tinyurl.com/5y2j489d
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:48 AM (1whRW)
Posted by: steven at February 20, 2026 12:48 AM (QOrsj)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 12:48 AM (0nHVk)
https://t.co/BKFns3XwUW
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 12:48 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:48 AM (bss/y)
I wouldn't skate for CCP either
Would Col. Kilgore use a url thing?
Han Solo was first warned about the dark side in Apocalypse Now
Vietnam beat China's ass nicely after we got out of the way
I never liked Tang
Do you know when a Detroit Diesel is out of oil? It stops leaking
I like lola T-70's
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 20, 2026 12:49 AM (jrgJz)
The gossipy UK podcasts are focussing relentlessly on the sex angle, but the slipping state secrets to Epstein for use in insider trading would seem to rise to the level of treason.
And now it's come out that King Chuckles paid off Virginia Giuffre for Andrew, so he may be pressured to abdicate? The Palace seems to be trying to put the blame on the dead queen for the payoff. What a mess.
I'm not anti-monarchist (for other countries, don't want one here), mainly because I'm crazy about the clothes and the jewels, but this is a hot mess.
Oh, and the vile and loathesome Gordon Brown, who with Tony fucking Blair has helped destroy Great Britain, has now piled on, pretending he has ethical issues with Andrew's behavior. How nauseating of him.
Posted by: Beverly at February 20, 2026 12:50 AM (reMys)
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Ugh. Turns my stomach. Little children should never be allowed to drive the car...
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
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Ugh. Turns my stomach. Little children should never be allowed to drive the car...
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
This was always the problem with the argument of 'If we do the same thing to them, they will understand and we will both disarm.' No. Either you wipe them out or they will use the light slap on the wrists to engage in a bloodbath. That is what we are setting up right now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 20, 2026 12:53 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 12:55 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:57 AM (1whRW)
Seasoned Pork / Chile Verde Sauce
Rice & Black Beans
wrapped in a flour tortilla.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 12:59 AM (1whRW)
https://x.com/tonyseruga
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:01 AM (1whRW)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 01:02 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: ChE99 at February 20, 2026 01:08 AM (4HZWl)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 20, 2026 01:08 AM (gKWVE)
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Yep, she's a certified liar. There's a husband on X, says she recruited his wife.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:09 AM (1whRW)
Got in a shouting match with my boss of 20 years yesterday morning.
Today I'm supposed to have my annual review.
I'm not happy at my job. I know I'm going to get another bullshit 1% raise this year despite getting "exceeds expectations" year after year on my review.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 20, 2026 01:10 AM (WYStd)
Posted by: gKWVE
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Problem with him is that sometime he comes up with current, useful and valid info. It usually pertains to maritime situations. The LV thing was like a link jerk but I'm not fluent in X and thought maybe it was valid.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:12 AM (1whRW)
I like lola T-70's
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 20, 2026 12:49 AM (jrgJz)
Just forked about $15k to have my blown up 6.5L P400 (Ultimate evolution of the Detroit 6.2) rebuilt after one of the timing gears left the chat and made my oil look like it had spent too much time at the gentlemen's club.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 20, 2026 01:14 AM (WYStd)
Posted by: ChE99 at February 20, 2026 01:15 AM (4HZWl)
So, normal operating procedure for communists. same ole, same ole.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2026 01:17 AM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Case at February 20, 2026 01:25 AM (j6kTf)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2026 01:25 AM (0nHVk)
My partners and I have been lifelong data scientists. We own the digital ID of every mobile device/computer in the U.S. and have indexed and archived every IP address in the world. Our extensive experience in big and deep data, including geotracking and geolocation, makes our dozens of data companies the top authority for providing data to corporations, law enforcement, and U.S. government agencies like the CIA, NSA, DoD, DIA, NGA, NRO, FBI, as well as Interpol and foreign intelligence organizations
Sal Mercogliano is Chair Dept of History, Crim Justice & Pol Science, Faculty Athletic Rep @campbelledu, Maritime Historian, Mariner, Firefighter & What's Going On With Shipping?
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Although interesting he also drifts out of his lane for clicks and should be cross referenced.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2026 01:27 AM (1whRW)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 01:28 AM (9FEtL)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Case at February 20, 2026 01:25 AM (j6kTf)
My wife hasn't gotten a single raise since she started at her practice (biggest healthcare system in the state) in 2015.
She even stopped getting bonuses.
We need to get the hell out of New England.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 20, 2026 01:28 AM (WYStd)
Posted by: Case at February 20, 2026 01:25 AM (j6kTf)
My wife hasn't gotten a single raise since she started at her practice (biggest healthcare system in the state) in 2015.
She even stopped getting bonuses.
We need to get the hell out of New England.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 20, 2026 01:28 AM (WYStd)
OK, has she said anything? I once thought my outstanding work would be enough to get me recognized.
It is not. They WILL take advantage of you, if you don't stick up for yerself.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 20, 2026 01:32 AM (mP0Kj)
No avail. The healthcare system claims that they're still recovering from COVID.
She did get an additional stipend but that came with additional work/responsibilities so it wasn't just a cost of living raise.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 20, 2026 01:39 AM (WYStd)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 20, 2026 01:42 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Marybel Smiles at February 20, 2026 01:56 AM (f+AVZ)
Posted by: Marybel Smiles at February 20, 2026 01:59 AM (f+AVZ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 01:59 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
It sounds like hell on earth.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 02:01 AM (snZF9)
Don't worry too much about fitting in. Some of us agree with Groucho Marx, that they don't want to join a club that would have them as a member.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 02:03 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: JQ at February 20, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
It sounds like hell on earth.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2026 02:01 AM (snZF9)
Tuna with oatmeal cookies; that's different.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 20, 2026 02:05 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Reforger at February 20, 2026 02:11 AM (onCFI)
Poor little Maceo.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2026 02:19 AM (rKRFT)
Posted by: Reforger
If I had the time.... (Of course, it would also depend on what you have to smoke....) I haven't had any of my stuff in a month and a half. Working every day. Just no time.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 20, 2026 02:24 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Reforger at February 20, 2026 02:27 AM (onCFI)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
He had almost 6 great years with his mama. They were so close. He would smoosh his face against hers. He would let her clean out his eye junk while cradling him. He would walk up to me and go like "high five" which meant "pet me". :-> Mama's gonna be devastated when he goes. But he's always hated taking medicine so even if we'd caught it earlier, it just would've caused a rift.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 20, 2026 02:28 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 20, 2026 02:29 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Marybel Smiles
You should read the Grok review on this place....
(Fuck yeah!)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 20, 2026 02:36 AM (KAi1n)
Your mom lives in Reno?
Posted by: Reforger at February 20, 2026 02:37 AM (onCFI)
Your mom lives in Reno?
Posted by: Reforger
No, my mom (age 90) lives in NoVa. My ex-gf, with whom I'm on good terms, lives in Reno. She's Maceo's mama. She adopted him as a cancer-survivor rescue and he did so well. Until last week or so.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 20, 2026 02:47 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 02:53 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2026 01:28 AM (9FEtL)
I don't know what they call that where you are from, but it ain't food.
Buy a damned steak or something.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 20, 2026 03:02 AM (I40wl)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 03:07 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 20, 2026 01:10 AM (WYStd)
Go. Just go. You can work anywhere. Just leave.
Life is too short for your job to suck.
Hell, DH moved to Alaska with me. He could have stayed in WI and worked on cool stuff like the new basketball arena in Milwaukee, but he came up here because it's better.
Just go.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 20, 2026 03:08 AM (I40wl)
Posted by: The Swamp at February 20, 2026 03:14 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 03:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 03:34 AM (Ia/+0)
Waiting on coffee
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 03:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2026 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at February 20, 2026 04:03 AM (+YA9H)
Golden Hour Cafe
King of Wings hoodoo in New Mexico, under the Milky Way
by Wayne Pinkston
Elements of this photo look unreal but
that hoodoo is actually real
As the underage male prostitute said to Adam Schiff, "That's a big hole to fill." United by their shared love of head-butting. Amateurs talk about tactics, professionals talk about logistics. SCTV: The Ricardo Montalban School of Fine Acting. Jess! Bad mane day. Bored duck twiddles his feet. Puppy dumped in park is rescued and finds his forever home. Golden retriever holds a toy so that a blind puppy can play with it. Rescuing a groundhog from a pool. Bunny rub. World's largest gathering of golden retrievers (allegedly) in Golden, Colorado.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:53 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (QVmho)
and then I smoke two more
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 07:56 PM (gKWVE)
https://youtu.be/zlRQ3qPgveg
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 19, 2026 07:56 PM (tqpXi)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2026 07:58 PM (xGgfV)
I gave the otters a nood with a link to the comments since peeps are having issues with the home pagee.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 19, 2026 07:58 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Rocardo Montalban School of Acting! at February 19, 2026 07:58 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 07:59 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 07:59 PM (2gvXb)
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2026 08:00 PM (CM7zZ)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 19, 2026 08:00 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at February 19, 2026 08:00 PM (oftw2)
.@POTUS: "He gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that... I don't know if they're real or not... I don't have an opinion on it, I never talk about it. A lot of people do — a lot of people believe it. Do you believe it, Peter?"
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In fairness, they are his "people". He's not so much from Mars or Venus as Uranus.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 08:00 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 19, 2026 08:01 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 08:01 PM (FCYiI)
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 08:02 PM (5ZzAK)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 19, 2026 08:01 PM (CNl8/)
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 08:02 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Mark1971 "
Do dey do do.
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 08:03 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Mark1971
When you see him again in a dream, make sure to call him a lying bastard.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 08:03 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Mark1971
That's what they want you to think!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 08:03 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Mark1971
Whoa.
Posted by: Ted Logan at February 19, 2026 08:04 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Mark1971
What kind of sammich? The kind your mother used to make you?
Posted by: Sigmund Freud at February 19, 2026 08:05 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 08:02 PM
*shifty eyes*
What?
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: The Green Door at February 19, 2026 08:06 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Mark1971
That's what they want you to think!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 08:03 PM (FXNzP)
The Mandela Effect.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 19, 2026 08:07 PM (wVcYX)
Yikes! You can just tell that every possible precaution is being made, too. "'mon back, 'mon back..."
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 08:08 PM (2gvXb)
Your dad can request FB archive your mom's account. I did it with my husband's account. People stop getting birthday notices and such.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 19, 2026 08:08 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 08:09 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bureau Of Indian Affairs at February 19, 2026 08:09 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 08:10 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 19, 2026 08:11 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2026 08:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mark1971
In this dream of yours, were there any cigars, bananas, or short, blunt swords?
Posted by: Niles Crane at February 19, 2026 08:12 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2026 08:12 PM (46za5)
I have noticed that if I hit the AoS link at the top of a comments thread I do get the pop-up ad, Its a tiny inconvenience, its 5 seconds and then you can close the ad, but if you were hitting that link constantly trying to score a 'first' I suppose it might get old. I don't have ad-block and just using chrome for my AoS habit.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2026 08:13 PM (Sokdp)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 19, 2026 08:13 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Mark1971
Welp ... at least he didn't hand you a golden thimble...
Posted by: Adriane the Financial Whiz Kid Critic, Wot Whizzed it Away . . . at February 19, 2026 08:15 PM (3ZUWJ)
https://x.com/i/status/2020071848621596778
Are people aware of punch in the US?
He is lonely monkey in ichikawa zoo. He has soft toy as foster parent.
Search "#パンチ" for video.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 19, 2026 08:16 PM (5LjnF)
Actually, they're being called in to assist with the DC sewer tsunami.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2026 08:17 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 19, 2026 08:18 PM (vFG9F)
https://tinyurl.com/3hmu655w
Link goes to Xitter
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 19, 2026 08:18 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: rickb223
It is a beauty.
Posted by: Adriane the Lens Camp Covered Camera Critic . . . at February 19, 2026 08:19 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Zombie Emily Latella at February 19, 2026 08:19 PM (cYBz/)
WaPo: Dancers Reenact Shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Front of Trump-Kennedy Center
https://is.gd/7h7wDW4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 08:19 PM (FXNzP)
Your dad can request FB archive your mom's account. I did it with my husband's account. People stop getting birthday notices and such.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 19, 2026 08:08 PM (+mUZM)
I don’t think he wants to do that. I will talk to him again at some point.
Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2026 08:19 PM (d2kuJ)
Search "#パンチ" for video.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 19
I am, it I get Japanese posts because of the Shiba club. It makes me sad when he is bullied by the other monkeys and he runs to his stuffed monkey.
Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2026 08:21 PM (d2kuJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 08:25 PM (yKhjs)
This, after Trump accused former President Obama of divulging classified information when he said of aliens the other day, “they’re real”.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 19, 2026 08:25 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 08:25 PM (yKhjs)
People who do this should be dropped in the middle of the Mojave.
Posted by: Let them see what it's ike at February 19, 2026 08:25 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Piper
Yes, very heart wrenching. I think all humans get same feeling.
What's weird is that I think Japan has to cull thousands every year or they take over country, but this one is loved by all of Japan.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 19, 2026 08:27 PM (5LjnF)
WaPo: Dancers Reenact Shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Front of Trump-Kennedy Center
https://is.gd/7h7wDW4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn
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They can take their dance and stuff it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 08:27 PM (1whRW)
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Was Epstein banging them?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 08:27 PM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Henry at February 19, 2026 08:28 PM (tWkg3)
Don't see many, if any, white guys in that position anymore.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 19, 2026 08:28 PM (CNl8/)
WaPo: Dancers Reenact Shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Front of Trump-Kennedy Center
https://is.gd/7h7wDW4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Link went nowhere. U2 and Springsteen apparently wrote hymns about Renee Good. I don't think Heinlein's 'Crazy Times' can cover the absurdities of this age.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 08:29 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2026 08:29 PM (Q+gd/)
Perry's political group, the Lone Star Freedom Project, is also committed to [taking all Bush and DC money possible. Up the chute with George is also an inevitability.]
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 08:30 PM (1whRW)
Welp ... at least he didn't hand you a golden thimble...
Posted by: Adriane the Financial Whiz Kid Critic
On the ninth floor?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 08:31 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 08:31 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Accomack at February 19, 2026 08:31 PM (/Chlc)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 08:32 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: GigantorX at February 19, 2026 08:32 PM (s/NIY)
Perry's political group, the Lone Star Freedom Project, is also committed to [taking all Bush and DC money possible. Up the chute with George is also an inevitability.]
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2
Well, I endorse Ken Paxton.
Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2026 08:33 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work
Try this.
https://is.gd/7h7wDW
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 08:35 PM (FXNzP)
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Also, Whoopi is beautiful and wise.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 08:36 PM (FXNzP)
When a female figure skater throws out the first pitch
https://tinyurl.com/ccz8tn4f
Posted by: Don Black
D'awww, cutest balk ever.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 08:37 PM (VHUov)
As in click it even before the rest of the page loads
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 19, 2026 08:37 PM (4jnK3)
Don't stop believing!
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 08:39 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 08:39 PM (vFG9F)
When a female figure skater throws out the first pitch
https://tinyurl.com/ccz8tn4f
Posted by: Don Black
D'awww, cutest balk ever.
Posted by: mikeski
Nice to see Pixie-Americans succeeding. Life is hard when you're 2'6.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 08:39 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 19, 2026 08:42 PM (zuIfz)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 19, 2026 08:43 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: the curly lion at February 19, 2026 08:44 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 08:45 PM (azNOR)
Rick Perry cares deeply about whatever Rick Perry is being paid to care about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2026 08:48 PM (46za5)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 19, 2026 08:50 PM (zuIfz)
'The current bunch is like a legion of Squeaky Fromme’s out to take their vengeance on the world.'
Here's hoping it stays that way. I'm worried it will be like with Muslim terrorists where they'll occasionally be non-retarded and do some real bloodletting.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 19, 2026 08:52 PM (fd80v)
"Trump: Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 08:52 PM (5ZzAK)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 08:32 PM (vFG9F)
Chicago Crims?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 19, 2026 08:52 PM (ufFY8)
Oh hell, all this time I thought it was Mendalban.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 08:54 PM (2WIwB)
Utah is a mecca of jazz.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 08:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 08:56 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 08:56 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Siskel and Ebert at February 19, 2026 08:57 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2026 08:59 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 19, 2026 08:59 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 09:00 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 08:56 PM (vFG9F)
Or a surprise colonoscopy.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 09:01 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 08:55 PM
Just swap out a vowel.
Posted by: zombie Brigham Young & his 27 wives at February 19, 2026 09:01 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: I Know Nothing! Nothing! at February 19, 2026 09:02 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Siskel and Ebert at February 19, 2026 08:57 PM (oftw2)
He's also in a good film noir called Mystery Street that is on TCM a lot. He plays a detective solving a murder. It's very technical, like a 1950 CSI.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 19, 2026 09:03 PM (CNl8/)
Actually, I had sort of forgotten that he existed.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 19, 2026 09:04 PM (Fs0KI)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 09:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2026 09:05 PM (C8TKZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 19, 2026 09:05 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 09:06 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Mark1971
Yes, that one is very good, also.
Posted by: Zombie Siskel And Ebert at February 19, 2026 09:06 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 19, 2026 09:07 PM (Fs0KI)
https://tinyurl.com/3hmu655w
Link goes to Xitter
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 19, 2026 08:18 PM (zYpTz)
Does Orban speak Spanish? Milei speaks very little English
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 09:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 09:10 PM (viF8m)
27 wives is the scariest thing I've ever heard.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 09:05 PM (viF8m)
It's no Castle Anthrax, that's for certain.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 19, 2026 09:10 PM (wVcYX)
Have a “feels like” temp in the low 20s here on the beach. Too cold for a walk. Lucy the Fink is snorting on the couch next to me. Still has a cold.
She’s a right fine fink.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 09:12 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 08:55 PM (viF8m)
And Los Angeles has 10,000 Lakes.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:12 PM (4hjRS)
zombie Brigham Young & his 27 wives
27 wives is the scariest thing I've ever heard.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 09:05 PM
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He terrorized them into cheerful obedience.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 09:13 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 09:13 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 09:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:12 PM (4hjRS)
And all those clipper ships in the harbor.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 19, 2026 09:17 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 09:13 PM (rbvCR)
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He could get you rich Corinthian leather at wholesale.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 09:18 PM (+HNx/)
The Washington Shit Rivers.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 09:18 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:19 PM (4hjRS)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 09:18 PM (azNOR)
Seattle Fish Tossers
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 09:20 PM (rbvCR)
The movie Dr Tongue's 3D House of 27 Wives scared the pants off me.
Posted by: Count Floyd at February 19, 2026 09:20 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 09:20 PM (vFG9F)
LA Latinx
Chicago Gangbangers
See how easy that is?
Posted by: fd
Reminds me of the WNBA team names joke I saw..... since all the names were supposed to be related to the NBA team there:
Miami Heat - Miami Hot Flash
Minnesota Timberwolves - Minnesota B....."female canines"
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 09:21 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 09:21 PM (+HNx/)
Legion of Mary - Tough Mama
https://tinyurl.com/57exjhvs
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 09:22 PM (viF8m)
The Ricardo Montalban School of Fine Acting is right across the street from the William Shatner School of Fine Acting.
The prank wars between the two schools were legendary.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 09:22 PM (ESVrU)
The prank wars between the two schools were legendary.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 09:22 PM (ESVrU)
Roku has a Star Trek original channel.
The Shat deserved all the acting mocking he was given.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:26 PM (4hjRS)
Public funding of stadiums is a scam and giveaway to rich owners.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2026 09:27 PM (XV/Pl)
'81 Are there even actual bears in Illinois or Indiana? Shouldn't sports teams be named after something native?
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 08:32 PM (vFG9F)
Chicago Crims?
Gary Glitters
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 19, 2026 09:28 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2026 09:30 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at February 19, 2026 09:30 PM (TtTH3)
The prank wars between the two schools were legendary.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 09:22 PM (ESVrU
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A famous. Cross-street. Rival.
*waves hand theatrically*
Posted by: Shatner at February 19, 2026 09:31 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: ZOD at February 19, 2026 09:32 PM (E6cid)
Since the monster spoke no lines, Price wouldn’t get a credit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 09:32 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 09:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Iris at February 19, 2026 09:34 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: Indiana at February 19, 2026 09:35 PM (2gvXb)
Posted by: Heirloominati at February 19, 2026 09:35 PM (erhDr)
Posted by: Eromero
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Hunt should get his face time, gain public awareness, some money and throw his support to Paxton. If he doesn't do that he will ride with that shadow, always.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 09:35 PM (1whRW)
Move to Tennessee again for all I care.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:36 PM (4hjRS)
Posted by: Heirloominati at February 19, 2026 09:35 PM (erhDr)
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They caught a midnight train going anywhere.
Posted by: Steve Perry at February 19, 2026 09:36 PM (+HNx/)
He's also in a good film noir called Mystery Street that is on TCM a lot. He plays a detective solving a murder. It's very technical, like a 1950 CSI.
Posted by: Mark1971
I like that movie. It has a touch of Quincy, M.E. too!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 09:37 PM (Cqx++)
I'm into this trend of calling a team a single noun, like the Orlando Magic or the New Orleans Jazz or the Miami Heat.
The Utah Discipline
The LA Earthquake
The Chicago Grift
The New York Delusion
The Philadelphia Despair
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 19, 2026 09:37 PM (rKRFT)
Obvious LARPing lunatic. Just shoot and get it over with.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 09:37 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)
Move to Tennessee again for all I care.
Posted by: Opinion
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Make private enterprise great again.
Build Your Own Damn Stadium.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 09:41 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:41 PM (4hjRS)
Posted by: Katy Perry at February 19, 2026 09:42 PM (+HNx/)
Funding in Blue Hue full of graft Houston won't be a problem. It may be re-named Chevron Stadium though.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 09:42 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 09:42 PM (2GVsD)
How about funding for a QB that throws the ball to his own team during the playoff?
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 09:42 PM (gKWVE)
Obvious LARPing lunatic. Just shoot and get it over with.
How does one fail to light gasoline?
Posted by: Heirloominati at February 19, 2026 09:44 PM (erhDr)
Build Your Own Damn Stadium.
Posted by: Braenyard
Every big city needs professional sports!
Posted by: Omaha at February 19, 2026 09:45 PM (VHUov)
I'm into this trend of calling a team a single noun, like the Orlando Magic or the New Orleans Jazz or the Miami Heat.
The Utah Discipline
The LA Earthquake
The Chicago Grift
The New York Delusion
The Philadelphia Despair
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 19, 2026 09:37 PM (rKRFT)
Now I wish they called the "Washington Team" the DC Swamp. It would have been perfect in so many ways.
Posted by: moki at February 19, 2026 09:46 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Heirloominati at February 19, 2026 09:44 PM (erhDr)
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FUN FACT: You can drop a lit match into pan of gasoline and it won't ignite.
Gas vapor is what ignites.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 09:46 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2026 09:47 PM (eEPUQ)
Posted by: Steve Perry at February 19, 2026 09:36 PM (+HNx/)
And it was quite a Journey.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2026 09:48 PM (46za5)
If you're a baseball fan and you've never been to a weekend afternoon game in the summer at Fenway should be on your bucket list. You won't be disappointed.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 09:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sale Of The Century at February 19, 2026 09:48 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2026 09:49 PM (eEPUQ)
The Buffalo Lament
Posted by: Heirloominati at February 19, 2026 09:50 PM (erhDr)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:50 PM (4hjRS)
Now I wish they called the "Washington Team" the DC Swamp. It would have been perfect in so many ways.
Posted by: moki
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Perfect!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 19, 2026 09:51 PM (rKRFT)
Posted by: JackStraw
That old bandbox should have been torn down 60 years ago. I've been to Double A ballparks much nicer than that old fire hazard!
Posted by: F The Beaners! at February 19, 2026 09:51 PM (oftw2)
ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," has died at 53 -ABC
Posted by: @Breaking911 at February 19, 2026 09:52 PM (2gvXb)
My guess is that he got all of his expertise from TV and movies and just assumed that if you crash a car full of gas into anything it immediately explodes in a giant fireball. Needing to ignite it never crossed his mind.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 19, 2026 09:52 PM (Fs0KI)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at February 19, 2026 09:53 PM (8cPKb)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:53 PM (4hjRS)
— Giorgia Meloni responds and tackles Emmanuel Macron after his attack:
Expressing solidarity with the French people on a subject that concerns everyone is not interference. Sorry Macron didn't understand that. "
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The despicable Macron sets out to tell Meloni that he cannot lament the barbaric murder of the young patriot Quentin Deranque by the hordes of the far-left La France Insoumise, who have done so many favors for the biggest failure of the failed leaders of European globalism.
He says he should stop commenting on what happens in other people's countries. This is coming from the scoundrel who engages in massive interference in Hungary, who helped steal the presidency of Romania from Georgiescu, and who has made a fool of himself with his attempts to intervene in the affairs of half the world. _@hermanntertsch
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 09:54 PM (1whRW)
One of my high school buddies got a job working the manual scoreboard on the Green Monster. He got paid to go to Sox games.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 09:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 09:55 PM (gKWVE)
He should have called NBC to light the gas tank.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:55 PM (4hjRS)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 09:55 PM (gKWVE
But it was a big one right? I just read Yellowstone was closing.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:56 PM (4hjRS)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 09:57 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 19, 2026 09:55 PM (4hjRS)
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True. The Dateline crew are experts at setting vehicles on fire.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2026 09:57 PM (+HNx/)
But did he go on one of their cruises?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 19, 2026 09:57 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: F
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Sounds great, how's the popcorn and peanuts?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 09:58 PM (1whRW)
if i lived there i'd buy a kite
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 09:59 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 10:00 PM (dhhKu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:00 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 19, 2026 10:00 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: mindful webworker is here at February 19, 2026 10:01 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: JackStraw
That old bandbox should have been torn down 60 years ago. I've been to Double A ballparks much nicer than that old fire hazard!
Sat side-saddle for 9 innings. Built when everyone was 5' 4 "
Good thing I had an aisle seat!
Last row above 1st base, great view felt closer than most modern stadiums I will concede.
Posted by: Heirloominati at February 19, 2026 10:02 PM (erhDr)
Posted by: Joemarine at February 19, 2026 10:04 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:00 PM (2GVsD)
I can think of a half dozen ways to ignite that gas, that don't involve anything terribly exotic. Dumbasses get better, that is the problem.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2026 10:05 PM (rbvCR)
To reach remote areas to help high school students take the college entrance exams, Japan launches WISH High. For $65 a month students will be tutored by VTubers in subjects like English, math, and chemistry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVs_t6I5DLI
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 10:05 PM (2GVsD)
BREAKING: DEMOCRAT TERRORISTS CRASH STOLEN AMBULANCE LOADED WITH GAS CANS INTO AN IDAHO FEDERAL BUILDING
unther EaglemanFox:
@GuntherEagleman 28m 🚨 BREAKING: DOMESTIC TERROR ATTEMPT IN IDAHO Ambulance stolen, packed with staged gas cans, rammed straight into a DHS office in what cops are calling an attempted ARSON MASSACRE targeting ICE agents. Police: This was no accident
Stolen ambulance allegedly driven into Idaho DHS office building in attempted arson attackThey mean he stashed gas cans in the bushes where they wouldn't be seen, then loaded them into the stolen bus just before the attack.
Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea says suspect staged accelerant in vegetation before driving emergency vehicle into DHS building
Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea provided new details about an attack on a DHS building Thursday. (KBOI) State and federal authorities are investigating after a suspect allegedly stole an ambulance, loaded up staged gas cans and plowed the emergency vehicle into a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office in Idaho -- in what investigators believe was an attempted arson attack. Just after 11 p.m. Wednesday, an ambulance was stolen from a bay at St. Luke's West hospital. However, the suspect was unable to ignite the accelerant before being scared off by responding agencies, according to Basterrechea. "We want to emphasize that this was a serious criminal act," Basterrechea said. "The theft and destruction of an emergency vehicle not only created a risk to responding personnel, but it also temporarily removed a critical medical resource from the community." ... "Comments on social media, such as 'property damage isn't violence,' is absolutely false," Basterrechea continued. "This was absolutely an act of violence, and if the suspect had not been interrupted, there is no doubt this building would have been burned, putting the lives of first responders and others at risk."Shades of Timothy McVeigh. Though I don't imagine the disgusting press and Deep State will find this new Timothy McVeigh nearly as objectionable as the old one.
🚨 BREAKING: An attempted TERROR ATTACK was just carried out against DHS and federal agents — someone stole an ambulance, loaded it with gas cans, and RAMMED an Idaho federal building
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 19, 2026
THIS IS ON THE DEMS!
They will say NOTHING and only keep egging it on.pic.twitter.com/BiAB8SPFsh
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 19, 2026 07:01 PM (m+uh6)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 19, 2026 07:02 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (v3rPo)
Posted by: Blutarski at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 07:04 PM (FCYiI)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 19, 2026 07:05 PM (qd3Kw)
I one pondered joyriding a cop car and running it down the highway with the sirens (idiot cops left the car running in my street and got out of the vehicle), but (a) I didn't do it (2) I'd not be trying to hurt anyone and (iii) an ambulance? wtf
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 07:05 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2026 07:05 PM (eEPUQ)
Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2026 07:05 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 19, 2026 07:06 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2026 07:06 PM (dIske)
No more Epstein files to work on to release, put those people on the case of Anitfa.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 07:06 PM (3uBP9)
So he/she/it got away.
Posted by: Reforger at February 19, 2026 07:06 PM (onCFI)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
If Obama's mouf is moving, he's either 1. lying or 2. servicing a cock
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 19, 2026 07:07 PM (qd3Kw)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 07:07 PM (3uBP9)
They are desperate, cornered like animals and lashing out. Dangerous vermin. Similar to armed trans...all Dim created and spread.
I hope this does nothing but strengthen the determination to deport illegal aliens.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 07:07 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2026 07:07 PM (eEPUQ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 19, 2026 07:07 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: garrett at February 19, 2026 07:08 PM (1Udfd)
So they didn't catch the guy?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2026 07:08 PM (Kc+Vz)
Posted by: garrett at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: garrett at February 19, 2026 07:08 PM (1Udfd)
Potatoes.
That's all I got.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Blutarski at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings
You have to ask them for their Antifa ID card first.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Tuli Kupferberg. at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (z5QST)
Posted by: garrett at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 07:10 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (8EgcX)
Yes on oxygen.
I do hope they find this terrorist.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 07:10 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Methos at February 19, 2026 07:10 PM (vSvIl)
They are openly attempting to murder people
And...any arrests yet? Of someone that isn't just a street level thug?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2026 07:10 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: kingsman at February 19, 2026 07:11 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: John Doe #2 at February 19, 2026 07:11 PM (sKqQm)
So they didn't catch the guy?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Perp failed to follow directions -
Take caps off all cans
Douse yourself with a little petro
Light self up just before ramming the building
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:11 PM (/lPRQ)
I remember with every leftwing terror attack under the Junta we'd find out the perp was a "known wolf" that someone in the FBI was monitoring...but somehow they never caught them before hand.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2026 07:12 PM (sKqQm)
A SLM (Smol Language Model) could simulate you-lot's activity in the comments. Just boobs, crossbows, and Prometheus, for some reason.
We have disappointed Ace.
Again.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:09 PM (PYyV9)
They're getting their orders and ideas off of Discord & Telegram chats, their Bluesky bubble, and random transmissions from the cult that seem to spread through osmosis.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (gKWVE)
Obama was a hapless loser at most of life and his job as president but he was actually good at the social justice organizing crap.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (PYyV9)
Suspect was heard to say "Since when did they take cigarette lighters out of cars???"
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (2WIwB)
Most of the left
Posted by: illiniwek at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (Kc+Vz)
Posted by: epador at February 19, 2026 07:14 PM (TRnzq)
I remember under the Junta I was told merely refusing to comply with the directions of any federal agent or even merely someone acting at the direction of federal guidelines was literal terrorism and should have led to you taken to a camp...work or death was never clarified.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2026 07:14 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, take notice. at February 19, 2026 07:14 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:15 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 07:15 PM (0sNs1)
My guess is that they are young enough they never knew there were any cigarette lighters in cars. Or ashtrays.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:15 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Maybe he tried to light it up with his Vape
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:16 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2026 07:16 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Blutarski at February 19, 2026 07:16 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 07:16 PM (Cqx++)
IN Stephen King's The Mist a group of normies are holed up in a grocery store when they get attacked by giant bugs. One group is given gasoline and brooms and the idea is to dig in the gasoline and light it on fire to injure/scare the bugs.
And...they manage to set each other on fire instead because they are scared and have never done this sort of thing before.
Honestly, seems believable.
Also, King, based on Maine, really likes to right about giant evil bugs doesn't he?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2026 07:16 PM (sKqQm)
Its when a real estate agent prepares an ambulance for sales with furniture and household supplies to simulate what it would look like if purchased. Or something.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:16 PM (PYyV9)
Score one for the EPA's shitty gas cans.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 07:16 PM (FCYiI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:16 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: kingsman at February 19, 2026 07:17 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (2WIwB)
And ashtrays.
Because nobody could ever use an ashtray to go with their non-existent lighter that now charges my new handheld addiction-device..
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:17 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2026 07:17 PM (+nEug)
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, engage!notice. at February 19, 2026 07:19 PM (ZxPkt)
So the plan was to grab a bunch of full gas cans out of the bushes, load up the ambulance, crash into the DHS office, blow up the gas cans, and somehow escape? What, did the gas cans not have lids? Help a blonde.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 19, 2026 07:19 PM (rKRFT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:19 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:20 PM (PYyV9)
However, the suspect was unable to ignite the accelerant before being scared off by responding agencies, according to Basterrechea.
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Responding agencies? Is that sirens approaching in the distance? How much time did this bonehead spend failing to ignite gasoline?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 07:20 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (viF8m)
I'm not hip to the jive today's kids are 'laying down'
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, engage! at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:20 PM (PYyV9)
Now Ace can train himself up a Grok-Ace and take that vacation early.
Would we be able to tell?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (6ydKt)
We have disappointed Ace.
Again.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (0sNs1)
He neglected to mention that we're Breitbart certified intelligent commenters and can speak to a whole manner of other topics such as: chili recipes, val-u-rite vodka, hobo hunting, shelving installation, and creative usage of pudding.
Posted by: Sjg at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (aqZN1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Nova Local at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (tOcjL)
Yup, that Neil deGrasse Tyson fella is a "scientist" par excellence... just like Brian Stelter is a "journalist" – all hot air and zero substance, amirite? Prayers please for AOP's ear thing, maybe try that Tyr combo with the ibuprofen and Tylenol, worked wonders for my uppity wen last month. Oh, and speaking of sanctions, remember how they buried that Epstein insider trade info? Messianic sources in Israel got nothin' on our media clowns. San Franpsycho out.
I dunno, I don't think it quite gets us
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: JackStraw
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could this be their hill to die on?
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, engage! at February 19, 2026 07:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Sjg at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (aqZN1)
Ahem!
Posted by: The Proper Use of the Oxford Comma at February 19, 2026 07:22 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:20 PM (PYyV9)
Train it on Raimando. Can't get any more retarded.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 07:22 PM (FCYiI)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 19, 2026 07:22 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Tucker Owens at February 19, 2026 07:22 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:23 PM (8EgcX)
The Shelving will be faaabulous.
Posted by: garrett at February 19, 2026 07:23 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: JackStraw
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could this be their hill to die on?
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, engage! at February 19, 2026 07:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Fine by me if they die on it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 19, 2026 07:23 PM (z5QST)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (PYyV9)
I think it's pure poetry.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:23 PM (6ydKt)
Would we be able to tell?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:21 PM (6ydKt)
Grok-Ace would be up before noon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 07:24 PM (FCYiI)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 07:24 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Zombie McVeigh at February 19, 2026 07:24 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2026 07:24 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:25 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 07:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 07:24 PM (FCYiI)
Yeah the time and volume output would probably be a dead giveaway.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:25 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2026 07:25 PM (Sokdp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
>It's a known fact that trannies don't know how to light an accelerant.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 19, 2026 07:26 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 07:26 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 19, 2026 07:26 PM (q4vBG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:26 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Michelle Fields at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (vFG9F)
It is. They will lose close to 20 seats in the House just on redistricting and will have an extremely steep hill to climb for the Presidency. It's why they are fighting so hard to stop voter ID.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2026 07:24 PM (Q+gd/)
Thus why I said I bet he filled them to the brim, thinking more is a bigger boom, b/c he hasn't watched American tv...and that's why they didn't light in time...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: PaleRider
Joe Snow over there aimed at a Federal building. He's headed for Florence. Hope he likes the view of grey walls 23/24 hours.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (gKWVE)
We have disappointed Ace.
Again.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
He neglected to mention that we're Breitbart certified intelligent commenters and can speak to a whole manner of other topics such as: chili recipes, val-u-rite vodka, hobo hunting, shelving installation, and creative usage of pudding.
Posted by: Sjg
Most commenters would consider comments on "creative usage of pudding" to be a subset of comments on "boobs."
Posted by: SLMikeski at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (VHUov)
I wonder if the perp is a local. They do have a little radical community as they have a college there.
Posted by: Random PJ at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (+jscL)
McVeigh was very "successful", with a more complicated "fertilizer bomb". McVeigh probably had help, maybe from "terrorists", idk.
But this clown seems ore like a live action role player, with no real plan. Question is whether it was another trannie that made poor life choices, or a typical young activist radical looking to make a name for xerself.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 19, 2026 07:28 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Dave M. at February 19, 2026 07:28 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Jimmy Kimmel at February 19, 2026 07:28 PM (BGygK)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 07:28 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Michael Jackson did... or his special effects guy did.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Yeah Dems are furiously redistricting states they control, but they were already heavily gerrymandered to begin with so they aren't getting many gains out of it. The exception is Virginian where idiots in the north of the state decided they'd eliminate nearly every district that has a Republican
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:29 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:29 PM (8EgcX)
Should have brought an illegal alien along with him.
That Spark of Divinity might have come in handy.
Posted by: garrett at February 19, 2026 07:29 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:30 PM (PYyV9)
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And why it's vital to remove every last one.
Posted by: Methos at February 19, 2026 07:30 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 07:28 PM (YwEeS)
This used to be proven by the one wise-ass who would drop a lit cigarette into a gas can just to prove a point while everybody else was jumping for cover.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:30 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: zombie Richard Pryor at February 19, 2026 07:30 PM (0sNs1)
Looks like war is coming to breakfast. These idiots picked the wrong state.
Bet my best nut these freaks moved here from Calwaregon.
Posted by: Sifty at February 19, 2026 07:31 PM (SjXb3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:31 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2026 07:32 PM (Sokdp)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 19, 2026 07:32 PM (tqpXi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:32 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: SLMikeski at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (VHUov)
Creative uses of pudding weren't just for the 'ettes. Though they did elevate it from simple rhetoric.
Posted by: Sjg at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (aqZN1)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (3vnIn)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
I think it's pure poetry.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
It was, but it was a composite of all of us. That wasn't written in SFP's "voice." Be Better, Grok.
Posted by: SLMikeski at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (YwEeS)
as many here predicted: the left is going berserk to stop the deportation and defunding of their operations. The voter ID thing has them reeling and freaking out. Absolutely insane. Ted Lieu stood up and said that the Epstein Files have "footage" of Trump raping underaged girls. Literally.
They are desperate and freaking out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:34 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Sjg at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (aqZN1)
I'm surprised nobody has thrown some bacon and hot sauce on there.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:34 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:29 PM (8EgcX)
Me neither, but my AO has more than its share of troons, some of them very activist, with signs and bullhorns; and their favorite pastime is going downtown and yelling at the state capitol about whatever they're supposed to be all het up about that week. Boise, being a college town, not to mention the state capital, draws them like deer flies on shit.
Head on a swivel is my middle name.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 19, 2026 07:34 PM (0aYVJ)
"Clockwise.
To make a hole with a standard twist drill bit (the most common kind on handheld power drills, cordless drivers, drill presses, etc.):
Hold the drill normally (pistol-grip style, trigger in your right hand if you’re right-handed).
Set the drill to forward (the “F” or forward arrow on the forward/reverse switch).
The bit will spin clockwise as you look at it from behind the drill (from the handle toward the tip).
That clockwise rotation is what makes the cutting edges bite into the material and pull the bit forward into the workpiece.
Quick memory aids:
Same direction as tightening a regular screw (“righty-tighty”
.
The only time you’d ever use counterclockwise is to back the bit out of a finished hole (reverse mode) or with rare left-hand drill bits (usually only for extracting broken bolts).
So for normal hole-making, just flip the switch to forward and pull the trigger—clockwise is the way to go."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (YwEeS)
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And then pass out from lack of oxygen...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:35 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Immolation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery at February 19, 2026 07:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:35 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 07:36 PM (YwEeS)
"Clockwise.
To make a hole with a standard twist drill bit (the most common kind on handheld power drills, cordless drivers, drill presses, etc.):
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1)
Grok-Ace fail. Not believable.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 07:36 PM (FCYiI)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Damn... got all the way down to "Duncan..." thinking the post was by Ace.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:36 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: SLMikeski at February 19, 2026 07:33 PM (VHUov)
I like how it just randomly picked SFP and AOP..
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:37 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2026 07:37 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Marcus Burnett at February 19, 2026 07:38 PM (wVcYX)
But they took to the streets yelling and waving conveniently available signs, and um, one of them got hit by a car and sent to the hospital. Because he was walking in the street.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:38 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: davidt
Upset that they didn't double check to make sure the butt-plug bomb was armed.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:39 PM (/lPRQ)
I've heard that some shelf builders like to run the drill in reverse mode.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 07:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 07:39 PM (5ZzAK)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:35 PM (ESVrU)
*adds scuba tank to mental notes on ambulance + gas can bombings*
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:39 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at February 19, 2026 07:39 PM (sk8Gr)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2026 07:40 PM (Sokdp)
Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2026 07:40 PM (GMx4K)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 07:39 PM (viF8m)
The Ewoks do it different on Endor!
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (6ydKt)
Ambulance stolen, packed with staged gas cans, rammed straight into a DHS office
What movie is that stolen from? These people are so feeble.
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (2gvXb)
I lost patience with the Left about 20 years ago.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (t+TFX)
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (5ZzAK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 19, 2026 07:42 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:29 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 19, 2026 07:34 PM (0aYVJ)
I don't think there is anywhere in America that has escaped this virus.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 19, 2026 07:42 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: garrett at February 19, 2026 07:42 PM (1Udfd)
Ambulance stolen, packed with staged gas cans, rammed straight into a DHS office
What movie is that stolen from? These people are so feeble.
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (2gvXb)
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He might have been inspired by the Gazans. They're notorious for using ambulances as cover for their war crimes against civilians.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:43 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 07:43 PM (Cqx++)
Do you think perhaps you are being manipulated? That you are being treated as an ignorant fool who does what they are told? Have you ever considered what your life would be like if you weren’t born in the US?
But. I’m not brave. Not like I should be.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (8EgcX)
It spreads through counselors and therapists, which is the USA's new religion. Add in housewife-friendly programming and you have a network that runs through every social strata and location in the USA.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Federal District Judge (and Chinese sleeper agent) Zulu as Kono at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (5rh/l)
Ambulance stolen, packed with staged gas cans, rammed straight into a DHS office
What movie is that stolen from? These people are so feeble.
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (2gvXb)
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He might have been inspired by the Gazans. They're notorious for using ambulances as cover for their war crimes against civilians.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:43 PM (ESVrU)
He might BE Gazan...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Josephus at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2026 07:40 PM
We? I'm worried about where the enemy is heading. Keep your powder dry.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (Wnv9h)
Ambulance stolen, packed with staged gas cans, rammed straight into a DHS office
What movie is that stolen from? These people are so feeble.
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (2gvXb)
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He might have been inspired by the Gazans. They're notorious for using ambulances as cover for their war crimes against civilians.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:43 PM (ESVrU)
He might BE Gazan...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (tOcjL)
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Also a distinct possibility
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (Q+gd/)
@washingtonpost
Elizabeth Bruenig’s account of a mother’s experience learning her child will die of measles has remained one of the Atlantic’s most read stories since it was published.
But some say the story felt misleading once they learned it was reported fiction.
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Also, the letters in the Penthouse Forum felt misleading.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (FXNzP)
We're the guys who show up with a six-pack of sarcasm, a lawn chair, and zero fucks left after watching the media spend four years pretending a stolen ambulance full of gas cans is just 'mostly peaceful urban renewal.'
We got our own language: 'Heh.' means 'I agree but I'm too lazy to type more.' 'QFT' means the previous moron nailed it. 'Ruh-roh' means the deep state just stepped on another rake. And if you see me type 'BANHAMMER TIME' it's because some drive-by troll just tried to bring facts from CNN and we all know how that ends.
We mock everybody—left, right, center, even our own side when they get too precious. We love dogs, guns, boobs, whiskey, and occasionally a good crossbow video. We hate the View, the Atlantic, and anyone who thinks 'mostly peaceful' is a valid descriptor for cities on fire.
We are the Moron Horde. We are legion. We are slightly drunk. And we will absolutely own you in the comments while eating cold pizza and refreshing the thread every 47 seconds.
Posted by: GrokTheHordeMoron at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (0sNs1)
Ambulance stolen, packed with staged gas cans, rammed straight into a DHS office
What movie is that stolen from? These people are so feeble.
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 07:41 PM (2gvXb)
Mother, Jugs, and Speed? A cinematic masterpiece of filmmaking!
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (wVcYX)
I like to finish with a counterclockwise swirl.
Posted by: George Costanza at February 19, 2026 07:46 PM (FCYiI)
Comparing democrats, liberals, and lefties to vermin is insulting to rats and cockroaches.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 19, 2026 07:46 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 19, 2026 07:46 PM (tqpXi)
Ambulance stolen, packed with staged gas cans, rammed straight into a DHS office
"You idiot! When I said 'gas cans', I meant filled with gas!"
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 07:46 PM (2gvXb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (A5RD0)
Nah, you're smart.
It's a 50/50 shot you get a lunatic trying to reason with the Cult.
Best be real sure they're not going to immediately get violent if you want to talk it out with somebody. Especially where you live.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:47 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: GrokTheHordeMoron at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (0sNs1)
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We need to get that on a t-shirt, stat!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:47 PM (ESVrU)
"Minutes before Hezbollah terrorist Ahmed Termos was eliminated, he received a call from the IDF.
The IDF gave him an opportunity to leave his brother-in-law's house, where several family members were gathered, and spare his family. The IDF then eliminated him in his car, alone.
According to the reporter, there's been a pattern of this: the IDF calls terrorists and gives them a chance to spare those surrounding them.."
"Shalom, Ahmed. let's make a deal..."
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 07:47 PM (5ZzAK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (PYyV9)
Public schools, absolutely.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 19, 2026 07:48 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, engage! at February 19, 2026 07:48 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (PYyV9)
All you need to be a highly successful social justice organizer is the ability lay down a line of BS a mile long as soon every time you see a microphone.
Posted by: Zombie Jessie Jackson at February 19, 2026 07:49 PM (5rh/l)
According to the reporter, there's been a pattern of this: the IDF calls terrorists and gives them a chance to spare those surrounding them.."
"Shalom, Ahmed. let's make a deal..."
Posted by: runner
The bomb was always just in the car.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:50 PM (/lPRQ)
"Shalom, Ahmed. let's make a deal..."
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 07:47 PM (5ZzAK)
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More mercy than those animals deserve. The survivors will swear a blood-oath of vengeance against the IDF. Might as well take them all out.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:50 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: GrokTheHordeMoron at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (0sNs1)
It's scary how much this thing gets me.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:50 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I bet you have dreamy eyes.
Posted by: Don Le-Mon, Gay Gadfly at February 19, 2026 07:50 PM (tqpXi)
Yeah Dems are furiously redistricting states they control, but they were already heavily gerrymandered to begin with so they aren't getting many gains out of it. The exception is Virginian where idiots in the north of the state decided they'd eliminate nearly every district that has a Republican
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 19, 2026 07:29 PM (PYyV9)
That only works with the absolutely guaranteed results of full-on organized, centralized election fraud, not just the namby-pamby "voter fraud" that wishy-washy wimps like to bleat about to avoid implicating Our Precious Heroic Virtuous Public Servants. Otherwise, spreading their voters so thin just puts every district one Wave Election away from a full reversal. So either they don't know what they're doing, or they know the fix is in.
Posted by: SciVo at February 19, 2026 07:50 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:50 PM (ESVrU)
yeah, that would be my preference, IDF needs to stop saving lives not worth saving
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 07:51 PM (5ZzAK)
You never reason with The Cult. You groove, man!
youtu.be/ZCOSPtyZAPA
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 07:51 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2026 07:52 PM (5ZzAK)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 19, 2026 07:52 PM (5LjnF)
https://tinyurl.com/ccz8tn4f
That was impressive. Did she do two twists in the air, in sneakers? Teeny, tiny thing.
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 07:52 PM (2gvXb)
Arsonists - Shoot to Kill. Example, someone is running at a building or dwelling with a Molotov Cocktail.
Or a whack job playing with matches near Pacific Palisades during high winds, etc. Arson is among the most heinous of crimes.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2026 07:52 PM (nHMnf)
https://tinyurl.com/ccz8tn4f
Posted by: Don Black. Pedants, engage!
All 3' 6" of her!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:52 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2026 07:53 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Sifty at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (H2CGt)
Doesn't ring true to me. I'd bet most of those terrorists would be saying "go ahead kill the whole family and add fuel to the Israel is committing genocide" and trust the basic decency of Israel then would leave.
OTOH I can believe that the IDF calls terrorists simulating a colleague and saying 'Ahmed we need to meet, a situation has come up' to pull them away from family and be able to strike them in their cars.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (Sokdp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Ordinary American
You must be young. I can remember gleefully voting for Ronald Reagan.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 19, 2026 07:52 PM
Whither Judy?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2026 07:55 PM (Wnv9h)
Cafe is nood, here's the link for all you broke browser peeps.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=418579
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 19, 2026 07:55 PM (QVmho)
Do you think perhaps you are being manipulated? That you are being treated as an ignorant fool who does what they are told? Have you ever considered what your life would be like if you weren’t born in the US?
But. I’m not brave. Not like I should be.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2026 07:44 PM (A5RD0)
Nurse, the likelihood that the agitator you speak with has a friend take your picture so they can dox you and harass you at work or home, or worse, attack you and cause severe bodily harm right then and there is real. I understand not being brave like that, because you are weighing harm versus maybe, just a slim maybe, of reaching one of these lost, misguided souls. My best advice is to pray about it, and ask our Father to give you the strength and the words, as well as the opportunity, if that is what He wants you to do. I'll pray with you, my friend, any time.
Posted by: moki at February 19, 2026 07:55 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2026 07:55 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 19, 2026 07:56 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Sifty at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (H2CGt)
I can bring chips and a sleeve of plastic cups.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 19, 2026 07:56 PM (0aYVJ)
https://shorturl.at/T8jH1
It was not a real federal building, rather it was leased space in an office building, and it is unclear if it was actually occupied by DHS.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 19, 2026 07:56 PM (aAFHr)
.@POTUS: "He gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that... I don't know if they're real or not... I don't have an opinion on it, I never talk about it. A lot of people do — a lot of people believe it. Do you believe it, Peter?"
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In fairness, they are his "people". He's not so much from Mars as Venus or Uranus.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 07:57 PM (FXNzP)
More mercy than those animals deserve. The survivors will swear a blood-oath of vengeance against the IDF. Might as well take them all out.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
==
SF friend with much experience said the best way to solve the problem is if/when you get a lead on one just kill their whole family. They understand that and will chill out if they know that getting radical will get their whole family killed, then they won't get radical.
Command appreciated the input. But preferred a more restrained approach.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 07:57 PM (/lPRQ)
AI is stupid and does not even realize there are other reasons to use reverse. And if you are using reverse to back out of a hole, it's not finished.
Posted by: fd at February 19, 2026 07:57 PM (vFG9F)
Those with weapons (rock is a weapon) get shot.
It's time to separate peaceful demonstration from rot.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 07:57 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: Sifty at February 19, 2026 07:58 PM (H2CGt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 19, 2026 07:58 PM (0Htd1)
Well, for as long as the parents signed the permission slip for their little reprobate to engage in school sponsored domestic terrorism, its OK.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 19, 2026 07:58 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 19, 2026 08:01 PM (vOtXJ)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 19, 2026 08:02 PM (vOtXJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 19, 2026 07:45 PM (FXNzP)
One suspects that maybe.. maybe they didn't then do it again.
Posted by: SciVo at February 19, 2026 08:17 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: PaleRider
Joe Snow over there aimed at a Federal building. He's headed for Florence. Hope he likes the view of grey walls 23/24 hours.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 07:27 PM (gKWVE)
****
We like the grey boxes.
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2026 08:28 PM (eEPUQ)
Posted by: Sam at February 19, 2026 08:36 PM (7jMef)
So for normal hole-making, just flip the switch to forward and pull the trigger—clockwise is the way to go."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 19, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1)
Left hand twist drill bits are great for extracting broken bolts. I have 3 or 4 sets of them. You gotta drill the hole anyway. Why not drill it in the direction of extraction. Over half the time the bit will bite and the bolt remains will twist out.
Posted by: Reforger at February 19, 2026 08:38 PM (onCFI)
Posted by: Tracy at February 19, 2026 11:58 PM (UMOnD)
Posted by: Peaches at February 20, 2026 09:17 AM (6GVdo)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 20, 2026 04:38 PM (n5tGW)
Quick Hits
Mistrial declared in trial of antifa domestic terrorists who shot up ICE agents as their antifa terrorist lawyer wears an MLKJr. t-shirt to court to elicit sympathy from lefty jurors. The lawyer may well face sanctions. The trial will be restarted with a different jury.
FCC chair Brendan Carr has has begun an investigation of The View for its brazen violation of equal time rules.FCC chair Brendan Carr confirmed Wednesday that the commission has started enforcement proceedings that will look into The View's alleged violations of political equal time rules. "Disney has a program called The View. And they've been asserting the position that The View is what is known as 'bona fide news' in the statute," Carr said during a Wednesday night appearance on FOX News Channel's The Ingraham Angle. "If you are bona fide news, you don't have to give candidates equal air time. But, Disney and The View have not established that that program is, in fact, bona fide news. We've started enforcement proceedings, taking a look at that. And, again, we're going to hold broadcasters accountable."Lefties whine: if the FCC starts enforcing the law about equal time, you won't be able to see the cavalcades of your favorite Democrat politicians on Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and The View!
FCC Chair to Hollywood: Talk Shows Aren't Legitimate News ABC's 'The View' is currently under investigation over an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico, after which it didn't meet FCC requirements that would've allowed his opponents equal time. Say goodbye to most appearances by political candidates on daytime and late night talk shows. After an open meeting on Wednesday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr said that networks should operate under the assumption that shows like The View, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Show don't qualify for long-standing regulatory exemptions that allowed them to discuss political candidates on their shows without having to meet unwieldy requirements. Failing to comply, he said, will trigger an enforcement action. "The general rule is equal time applies," Carr said of the FCC provision. "There's narrow exceptions you have to fit in."Like being a "bona fide news program," which these propaganda festivals are clearly not.
The clarification marks a dramatic departure from how the commission has historically treated talk shows, which have qualified for exemptions as legitimate news programs for decades and are now considered partisan bad actors under the Trump administration. The change doesn't necessarily prohibit interviews with political candidates but imposes obligations requiring them to give comparable time to opponents. In practice, it will prevent networks from having anyone on by potentially forcing them to have everyone on. Carr's remarks come after Colbert said on Monday that CBS killed an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico because the appearance would trigger regulatory obligations. "Congress passed the equal time provision for a very specific reason," he said. "They did not want the media leads in Hollywood and in New York to put their thumbs on the scale and pick their winners and losers in primaries and general elections. That's the point."LOL:
Sure, Tater. Suuure.
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter Notably, and admirably, ABC has insulated "The View" crew from this political pressure. A network source says the show "regularly hosts sitting leaders and political candidates to discuss differing viewpoints. The format is consistent with how the show has operated for years."
Ian MillerOut: FaceBook is for old people In: FaceBook is for dead people
@ianmSC 21h Ironically, this statement claiming that The View "regularly hosts sitting leaders and political candidates to discuss differing viewpoints" is funnier than anything Stephen Colbert has done in years
What happens to social media accounts belonging to those who shuffle off this mortal coil has been a subject of debate ever since the tech went mainstream. Should dormant accounts be left alone, or should their surviving loved ones be given backdoor access to maintain them as digital memorials? To Meta, there could be a morbid alternative: training an AI model on a deceased user's posts, keeping post-mortem accounts active by uploading new content in their voice long after they passed away. As Business Insider reports, Meta was granted a patent in 2023 for the idea, outlining how a large language model (LLM) can "simulate" a user's social media activity.A SLM (Smol Language Model) could simulate you-lot's activity in the comments. Just boobs, crossbows, and Promethus, for some reason.
... However, the conversation appears to have dramatically shifted over the last three years, especially now that AI slop has infiltrated and practically assumed control over platforms like Facebook and Instagram: Meta now says it's given up on the sepulchral concept. "We have no plans to move forward with this example," a spokesperson told BI.What about using the LLM to simulate activity from former users to make FaceBook appear more active than it is?
It's not a stretch to assume Meta may have had an ulterior motive to create digital avatars masquerading as the deceased. Facebook has quickly turned into a graveyard of long-forgotten accounts, never-ending ads, unanswered birthday wishes, and updates from that band you hadn't thought about since high school. At the same time, its feeds are filling with toxic AI slop. As engagement drops, the company's core business -- selling ads -- could take a hit.
VANCE: "I'm tempted just to freeze for 20 seconds and just stare at the cameras, and maybe they'll say nice things about me like they do about Congresswoman Cortez." 😂 pic.twitter.com/MIS2zDoMNi
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 19, 2026
The degree to which the “principled anti-Trump Conservatives” at the Bulwark and oftentimes elsewhere have largely turned into everything they claimed they disliked about Trump as they’ve slipped deeper into their roles as mouthpieces for the DNC needs to be studied by science https://t.co/PvlA2RdhTn
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) February 18, 2026
Tell that to over 1600 J6ers who had their lives destroyed for “trespassing,” you horrible communist. @BarackObama https://t.co/75d0gtSxT4
— Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author (@yesnicksearcy) February 19, 2026
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a fraud and a serial fabulist who has been busted over and over and over again for making crap up and pretending it’s science. https://t.co/5rHrRfKVKz
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 19, 2026
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Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 19, 2026 06:36 PM (kvcnI)
Well, that's one way to get rid of an unfavorable jury. He will be celebrated.
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 06:37 PM (2gvXb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 06:38 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 19, 2026 06:39 PM (cDrfF)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2026 06:39 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 06:37 PM (2gvXb)
That's an odd way to spell "have the shit beaten out of".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2026 06:39 PM (8zz6B)
That won't get clicks. Her social media branding is "AOC". Who's Cortez?
Posted by: t-bird at February 19, 2026 06:40 PM (2gvXb)
Happy Birthday. It was an accident ... I was aiming for the previous post and missed.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 19, 2026 06:40 PM (kvcnI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 06:40 PM (8EgcX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2026 06:41 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2026 06:41 PM (dIske)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2026 06:41 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 06:42 PM (8EgcX)
He's a fat black woman.
And an activist.
Posted by: garrett at February 19, 2026 06:44 PM (1Udfd)
Posted by: Accomack at February 19, 2026 06:45 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 19, 2026 06:40 PM (8EgcX)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Bill Nye, The Science Guy at February 19, 2026 06:46 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 19, 2026 06:46 PM (u9jq/)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-36
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: February 19, 2026
Launch Time: 8:41 p.m. EST (February 20, 0141 UTC, 02:41 CET)
https://youtu.be/VdX4HXYM8FY
Posted by: Joyenz at February 19, 2026 06:46 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2026 06:47 PM (kLTE4)
On the other hand, Bush did everything Jonathan Last and his boss Bill Kristol wanted over the 2000s.
So whatever Bush is sucking rightfully belongs to Last, and that's gay.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 06:48 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 06:49 PM (Cqx++)
Took my dad forever just to deactivate mom‘s phone. And then to make matters worse, the kids of a friend of his who only had mom’s number in his phone tried to contact him a few months after that to invite him to their father’s funeral.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 19, 2026 06:49 PM (EXyHK)
=
"could"
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Methos at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (vFG9F)
Notably, and admirably, ABC has insulated "The View" crew from this political pressure...
No, Tater...just because the ladies gained 40lbs each over the last few years isn't the same kind of insulation...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Accomack at February 19, 2026 06:45 PM (GbONR)
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I think the moniker "CIA Barbie" is grossly unfair to Barbie.
Posted by: mrp at February 19, 2026 06:51 PM (rj6Yv)
Sanctions! Ooooooo
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (vFG9F)
The EU has already refused to buy crude oil from him.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 19, 2026 06:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 06:52 PM (zZu0s)
I have access to my mom's facebook. They need to leave things alone. Facebook does give the option of turning it into a memorial type page, but I haven't done it.
Posted by: Joyenz at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (Vxfi2)
Posted by: Tuna at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (2J/Lj)
Ugh, ear problems are the worst. My prayers are heading skyward! Feel better soon!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (k9OZB)
****
Shivved her with a dull knife while looking into her dead doll eyes.
Posted by: clarence at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (RU/0c)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (3uBP9)
Just like me!!!
Posted by: Bill Nye That Sciencey Dude at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Boss Moss
It took awhile, but I got the reference.
Blood sugar may be low for Lent.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 06:54 PM (gKWVE)
https://www.youtube.com/live/_OI_iStMJEo
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know
Nothing is going to happen.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 06:54 PM (/lPRQ)
OR you could report that it will open up more appearances by political candidates because of equal time requirements. I wonder why you take the subtle, inferential "government is stifling speech/expression" tack when - and clearly this is the case - the non-DNC-endorsed candidates are essentially, expressly excluded.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 19, 2026 06:54 PM (gLikB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2026 06:54 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 06:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Who says we're not?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 06:55 PM (FCYiI)
Happy Birthday! Hoping you have a wonderful day.
Posted by: Joyenz at February 19, 2026 06:56 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 19, 2026 06:54 PM (gLikB)
===
This is especially true when the DNC simply cancels the primary season.
Posted by: mrp at February 19, 2026 06:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 19, 2026 06:57 PM (gLikB)
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a scientist!!!
Just like me!!!
Posted by: Bill Nye
The boat a yas suck dick by choice.
stfd & stfu
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 19, 2026 06:57 PM (QVmho)
Sanctions! Ooooooo
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (vFG9F)
***
NYT best-selling book soon to follow!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 06:57 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Accomack at February 19, 2026 06:57 PM (4OPaX)
Posted by: NC To Ottawa To Apache Junction Greetings at February 19, 2026 06:58 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (2J/Lj)
Ugh, ear problems are the worst. My prayers are heading skyward! Feel better soon!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 19, 2026 06:53 PM (k9OZB)
_______________________________
Growing medical issue, along with swimmer's ear. HOWEVER, the increase is mostly due to those "in the ear" ear plugs. Stay away from those if you can help it. Over the ear earphones are best. It allows the moisture out of the ear canal.
Hope you feel better.
Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2026 06:58 PM (dIske)
Posted by: kingsman at February 19, 2026 06:58 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2026 06:59 PM (RIvkX)
Prays ascending uppity wench - maybe try hold a clove in the back of your mouth on the side of the affected ear.
Thanks for all the news today ace 🙂
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 19, 2026 06:59 PM (RkOfE)
And welcome back, whig.
Hope you're doing well after your surgery.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 06:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: zombie at February 19, 2026 07:00 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: kingsman
yeah, you can always buy more liver at the King Soopers
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 07:00 PM (gKWVE)
I expect the Horde to party like it's 1999!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 07:00 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2026 07:01 PM (eEPUQ)
Posted by: Accomack at February 19, 2026 07:02 PM (4OPaX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Moronbot SLM at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (yFLFB)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (tmCNn)
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A prayer for complete and speedy healing.
The drops'll start to work right away.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (RIvkX)
I hope you feel better. Ear aches are the worst.
Posted by: Joyenz at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (2F0/Y)
He's nothing but a mouthpiece for the leftist elite's domination of 'The Science'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 07:03 PM (6ydKt)
Sanctions! Ooooooo
Sanctions can be a big deal for a lawyer. Disbarment is a sanction. Yeah, it's not hanging, but disbarment is a big deal. It means you can't do the (likely) one thing you studied for and practiced for years. If you do that one thing, you can go to real jail. Sure you can transition to another career, but for a while you're going to be doing some low barrier to entry, low skill job any college grad can do.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 19, 2026 07:04 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 19, 2026 07:05 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton
----
Just because you have gotten away with your evil actions until now doesn't mean that you always will. I pray your evil deeds come to light and that you fall in the pit you have dug for others.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 19, 2026 07:05 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: Vidal Sassoon at February 19, 2026 07:05 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 19, 2026 06:50 PM (2J/Lj)
Praying for your health and healing.
Posted by: Joemarine at February 19, 2026 07:06 PM (y171U)
Posted by: gnats local 678
And yet the Strange New Respect happened for Bush, as soon as Trump became President. Weird.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2026 07:06 PM (yKhjs)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 19, 2026
Oh no, I am sorry. The changes in pressure must not be helpful either.
Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2026 07:07 PM (GMx4K)
Owner must have had a couple of email ads in the queue, and the last one got sent out automatically.
Oh, and the last email was "Can you help me by buying these fine products we have on sale."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 19, 2026 07:10 PM (InJki)
Posted by: kingsman
yeah, you can always buy more liver at the King Soopers.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 07:00 PM (gKWVE)
ibuprofen is processed by the kidneys and tylenol by the liver. Never double or triple up on Tylenol, but you can add it at its single dose amount to ibuprofen perfectly safely. And you can take up to 600 mg of ibuprofen safely if you don't have bleeding issues or stomach upset with it. Dr's will prescribe 800 mg ibuprofen doses to patients sometimes.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2026 07:13 PM (Sokdp)
Posted by: barbarausa at February 19, 2026 07:17 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 07:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: wth at February 19, 2026 07:20 PM (UjdFS)
Yes. That’s exactly how science works. LOL
——-
I suggest Aspirin over the ersatz modern chemicals, unless contraindicated. Canadia used to have Aspirin with Codeine OTC, I’ve read.
In the US they only lace it with Tylenol, in the hopes of ruining livers, apparently.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2026 07:25 PM (Ga0s6)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2026 07:54 PM (xGgfV)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 19, 2026 08:07 PM (vOtXJ)
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