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Saturday Night "Club ONT" December 13, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
JQ spiffy'd the place up a bit. [doggo says] Please note the proper white lights have been deployed.
2. Dancing animatronic Christmas dolls. The weirder, the better. One year we received a be-bopping fuzzball with ogling eyes and a beak that dances and sings to the tune of "Deck the Halls" in a jazz voice. 3. A selection of Christmas Carols on 8 track or cassette tape. 4. Self-help or promotional video tapes or audio cassettes from the 1970s.To kick off the White Elephant gift game, whoever has comment number 56, please collect the first gift (pictured below) - your very own Kamala Harris bobblehead, courtesy of the 3D's. You can keep it or select another gift from the table. (Don't mind that large present that suspiciously looks like a 39 foot dinosaur.)
Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies What is a vegan's favorite Christmas song? Soy to the World. What do you call a Christmas themed stripper? Holly Daze. ----- There was a man who worked for the Post Office whose job was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day, a letter came addressed in shaky handwriting to God with no address. He thought he should open it to see what it was about. The letter read: Dear God, I am an 83-year-old widow, living on a very small pension. Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had £100 in it, which was all the money I had until my next pension cheque. Next Sunday is Christmas, and I had invited two of my friends over for dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with. I have no family to turn to, and you are my only hope. Can you please help me? Sincerely, Edna. The postal worker was touched. He showed the letter to all the other workers. Each one dug into his or her wallet and came up with a few pounds. By the time he made the rounds, he had collected £96, which they put into an envelope and sent to the woman. For the rest of the day, all the workers felt a warm glow, thinking of Edna and the dinner she would be able to share with her friends. Christmas came and went. A few days later, another letter came from the same old lady to God. All the workers gathered around while the letter was opened. It read: Dear God, How can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me? Because of your gift of love, I was able to fix a glorious dinner for my friends. We had a very nice day and I told my friends of your wonderful gift. By the way, £ 4 was missing. I think it must have been those halfwits at the Post Office! -----
Drinks of the Night Tonight we proudly feature a big ol' cauldron of Jingle Juice!
Step 1----- For Our Patrons Who No Do Not Partake We also have a cauldron for you! How about some Sparkling Pear & Orange Champagne Punch?
Rub rims of glasses with lime wedges. Dip into sugar until coated. Step 2
In a punch bowl, combine Moscato, Prosecco, Cran-Apple juice, cranberries, vodka, mint, and lime rounds. Divide among prepared glasses.
Combine sparkling wine, pear nectar, and orange bitters in a punch bowl. Top with an ice ring (optional). Serve with strips of orange zest.
Ugly Sweaters Here's the one Disco is wearing tonight
----- A large animatronic TRex in a Christmas sweater? Of course! Those wacky Brits...
Club ONT Christmas Party Games Club Bingo. Take a drink any time one of the items on the grid is mentioned in the comments.
Club ONT Naughty List Is it really naughty? Or is it brilliance - regifting isn't tacky - it is efficient.
My Mom was given two adorable stuffed bears for her birthday in November by a co-worker. She thought they were cute, but she felt "silly being a 60 year old woman with stuffed animals" So they were put away and not seen again, until a year later when I opened my Xmas present. A beautiful gift basket and the basket were the bears. I almost died laughing, my reaction was "Mom?!?!? You’re a regifter????" to which she simply said, "why not, I would never have them out and I know you liked them and would display them somewhere.” She was right of course, but I was still floored, who knew Mom was a regifter? It simply wasn't possible. Not my Mom. I lost her 2 years later and those two little bears (one an Angel bear) now mean the world to me. I look at them every day and am so glad Mom was a regifter. I know that Angel bear in particular is my Mom watching over me and letting me know everything is ok. I was never a regifter, but I believe in it now.Fess up. Who has re-gifted a Christmas present?
Confession 6: “No idea what happened, but I woke up on a train in Edinburgh (from Birmingham).”
Confession 13. “I stole my boss’s desk plant. I still have it, I’ve just never had the guts to give it back. He’s sent angry emails around and everything.”
The energy and time I have for decorating for Christmas this year… pic.twitter.com/uTtoeZ5Nac
— SW 🇺🇸 (@sw_usa7476) December 3, 2025
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 13, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: mindful webworker - the original at December 13, 2025 10:00 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 13, 2025 10:01 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 13, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:03 PM (R256O)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:04 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 13, 2025 10:05 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 10:05 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2025 10:07 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:07 PM (R256O)
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Do you intend to overload the ER with alcohol-poisoned morons?
Posted by: clarence at December 13, 2025 10:07 PM (sdF4j)
Why not? You have three options: keep it and never use it and have the gifter ask where it is; throw it away unused, break it. Seems regifting is the superior option.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 10:08 PM (uQesX)
‘ Does anybody else think that the only proper pose for a Kamala Harris bobblehead is in her knees?’
It works. You just push down on her head and her mouth opens.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 10:09 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 10:10 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:11 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:12 PM (OWovX)
(Puts $1.73 in tip jar)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)
The Navaronne.
If your having WWII problems I feel sorry for you, son. I got 99 problems, but lack of Navaronne ain't one.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 10:14 PM (mFz+I)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 13, 2025 10:15 PM (y171U)
Yeah, even the Brits know that. L3wis, the Jolly boys, and Mr. and Mrs. H say it's nowhere near as good as American cooking.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 10:15 PM (uQesX)
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*side eye*
Who let him in?
/to herself
Posted by: Melissa Cutherbertson-Klein from Groton, CT at December 13, 2025 10:15 PM (OWovX)
That's okay...my sister already gave me a Hilary Clinton big-assed figurine for my birthday one year...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:07 PM (R256O)
Yes! And if it's made out of the right kind of plastic you could probably cut the feet off of the base, apply some heat to the knee region, bend the legs back to the appropriate angle, let it cool, then glue it back onto the base on it's knees. Maybe also modify the head bobble mechanism so it only bobbles forward and back.
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Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 10:16 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2025 10:16 PM (79pEw)
The place looks fabulous!
Par-tay!!!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (kB9dk)
Golf clubs. Got the cheapest Jr set in the world (Delta? Guess they don't just make faucets). I used the hell out of them and still had the putter until a decade ago. I was mid teens when I got them (15-16).
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (gbOdA)
Who knew you could spend an hour deciding how you want your backup time stamp formatted.
And now I am having some bourbon and sour patch gummies.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (rbKZ6)
It works. You just push down on her head and her mouth opens.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
The spring should really be mounted horizontally, not vertically.
Posted by: mikeski at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (nhCoE)
I think I’ve regifted only once. I generally only give gifts that the person has actually asked for or which I could imagine enjoying and using myself. A regift implies something I don’t want, and I’m not going to give something that I wouldn’t want.
I tend to feel the same way about potlucks. I won’t bring anything I wouldn’t enjoy. I always wonder at people who say, oh I can’t/won't eat that but I thought you guys might.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (gbOdA)
*spits out the Jingle Juice*
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 10:18 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:15 PM (ynpvh)
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When Obama was president, my husband got our friend's daughter to surreptitiously slip an Obama chia pet kit under the tree for him. Drove our friend crazy for weeks wondering who it was from until my husband finally confessed.
Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2025 10:19 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 13, 2025 10:19 PM (0nHVk)
My white elephant gift is a 3/8" socket that I've marked 10mm. We'll see if anyone notices.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM (QVmho)
Sneaks up to jukebox.
Plays "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."
Plays it again.
Then again.
Repeat 15 times.
Plays Lindsey Sterling's "Carol of the Bells"
Plays "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" five more times.
*I will not be offsetting anybody's costs for therapy.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM (R256O)
I still have that album!
“Christmas bells, oh Christmas bells, ringing through the land…”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM (79pEw)
What number gets the joey biden windup toy that just wanders around the tree?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)
It was the 80s but you young people probably think it was like Mad Men. It wasn't but we did have secretaries who typed our work.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:21 PM (OWovX)
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025 10:21 PM (QMAsf)
Happy Christmas party everyone. I wish I had some nog.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 10:21 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
My white elephant gift is a 3/8" socket that I've marked 10mm. We'll see if anyone notices.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM (QVmho)
My idea of Heaven is getting a full set of 10 mm
socket
deep
open
box
box rachet
and
impact
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 10:22 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM (R256O)
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As long as you don't play Christmas Shoes (shudder).
The late great Oregon Muse and I shared a great disdain for that awful thing. I miss OMuse but I'm certain that he will never have to hear that song again where he is now.
Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2025 10:22 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 10:23 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 13, 2025 10:23 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM (OWovX)
socket
deep
open
box
box rachet
and
impact
Posted by: rhennigantx
Hey, as long as you're gonna lose 'em, go for the whole magilla....
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM
***
By popular demand (mostly Ben Had demand), we're doing the same theme next week! The Hobby Thread email box is open for submissions...
Posted by: TRex - ornamental dino at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM (jvxGE)
Did I make it on time for the party?!
Ima gonna lurch over to that sofa and probably just lurk...
When I come up with some wittisisms, I will be sure to step back in🤪 'cause I know you all are waiting for THAT (sarc)...
Hi Horde!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM (5lbLe)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (gbOdA)
*spits out the Jingle Juice*
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Everybody Wang Chung tonight!
Everybody have fun tonight!
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 10:25 PM (XjTSo)
While trying to decide between watching Die Hard or a Krampus/Star Trek crossover, I was feeling a bit whelmed, for while I'm not done Christmas Shopping, and the wrapping is not done, the house is decorated with both white lights and colored lights. Earlier in the day, I was at Waffle House (or was it Buc-ee's), where the moose out front in the ugly sweater was hawking egg nog and Christmas cookies for $20 - same as in town.
Ho ho ho, and Merry Christmas!
Drink up.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 13, 2025 10:25 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:25 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December
I think they are adorable!
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:25 PM (rdVOm)
Happy Christmas party everyone. I wish I had some nog.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 10:21 PM (3uBP9)
Had to go to Costco earlier...made a left turn (two left turn lanes), guy in the lane next to me decided he really wanted to be in my lane. Fortunately I saw what he was doing, hit my brakes and honked the...Tim Walz.
No car-to-car contact.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 10:26 PM (3uBP9)
Did I make it on time for the party?!
Ima gonna lurch over to that sofa and probably just lurk...
When I come up with some wittisisms, I will be sure to step back in🤪 'cause I know you all are waiting for THAT (sarc)...
Hi Horde!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM (5lbLe)
Congrats on the Kumala doll...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:26 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM
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Excellent memory. Yes, 'tis me. Results will be published after the new year. There is yet more 2025 to run...
Posted by: TRex - kreskin dino at December 13, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 13, 2025 10:27 PM (Wj1DV)
Posted by: TRex - ornamental dino at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
Oh good! Because I have a submission I was too late to submit for today.
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)
Are you wearing those elf shoes with the curly toes? Unless they are saddle shoes or have curly toes, I probably won't even realize you have feet.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:27 PM (R256O)
Have fun.
Posted by: Don Black at December 13, 2025 10:27 PM (ZxPkt)
Did I make it on time for the party?!
Ima gonna lurch over to that sofa and probably just lurk...
When I come up with some wittisisms, I will be sure to step back in🤪 'cause I know you all are waiting for THAT (sarc)...
Hi Horde!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Dearie, your seat is reserved, stay away from the couch....JQ got her job on that couch.
(smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:28 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 10:28 PM (uQesX)
Have fun.
Posted by: Don Black at December 13, 2025 10:27 PM (ZxPkt)
Somehow that comment # and comment seem related...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:25 PM (rdVOm)
I even have the perfect spiced rum for it. With a picture of a jaunty pirate and everything.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 10:28 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 10:28 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 10:28 PM (h4uy9)
We have a launch in 2 hours.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 15-12
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 13, 2025 (PST)
Launch Time: 9:49 p.m. PST
https://youtu.be/cLpU4IDPvO8
Posted by: Joyenz at December 13, 2025 10:29 PM (2F0/Y)
I will check Pixy's thread in the morning to see if I am right.
Good night everyone! Have fun!
Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2025 10:29 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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DIY picture on picture. Probably a sports fanatic's house.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 10:28 PM (XjTSo)
My sister's dog loves wearing shirts, and gets pissed if one is not put on him...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh)
I started working at my last job around 1991, the computer department of a small private university. The department was of course even smaller, but we still had Christmas parties and there was still serious alcohol. By the time I retired those parties were much more sanitized.
I swear I was not to blame.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 10:29 PM (EXyHK)
McCain could have learned about "No wobbly shit" from Weasel when he jumped off that roof tied to a fire hose. (Good thing that table he hid under wasn't wobbly!) And I love the scene where he writes "Ho! Ho! Ho! Now I've got a machine gun" on that dead terrorist's ugly sweater. OK, it was a sweatshirt, but that's just a sweater with the fuzz on the inside. And all of the white lights and colored lights at that helipad on the roof. And that cop would have had a lot better stuff than Twinkies if they had Buc-ees in California.
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 10:30 PM (KC4YG)
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2025 10:30 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 10:30 PM (XjTSo)
My idea of Heaven is getting a full set of 10 mm
socket
deep
open
box
box rachet
and
impact
Posted by: rhennigantx
Before he passed, i was visiting Dad aand stolee all of his 3/8" sockets and wrenches (he had a Harley). I replaced them with equivalent 10mm tools just to fuck with him.
The next time i visited, i put them all out at his work place when he went to the bathroom. He just glared at me. I reminded him of all the times he had me hold the sparkplug so he could check the spark on the mower. He grunted and called me a little shit.
Really miss him. Miss our annual motorcycle rides across the country. But it's the little things, like stealing his tools that make me smile.
BTW, he got me again with the sparkplug wires by turning over his Harley while I was hooking it back up after gapping it for him. He was 82 and I was old enough to know better.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 10:31 PM (QVmho)
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Rat! You bastard! ***SLAP***
(you promised to never tell!)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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DIY picture on picture. Probably a sports fanatic's house.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
One TV with the VHF antenna, another with the UHF antenna?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:31 PM (R256O)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 10:17 PM (EXyHK)
Christmas photo is stereotypical 70's. Naugahyde recliner. Encyclopedias in the bookcase. Portable TV on top of console TV to pick up UHF stations. Huge rabbit ears for distant stations.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 13, 2025 10:31 PM (y171U)
one of the entrants in the ugly sweater contest at our office holiday all-hands yesterday was a "tree rex" sweater.
Posted by: anachronda at December 13, 2025 10:32 PM (edU/H)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 10:08 PM (uQesX)
"I'm standing right here"
-Thrift store in the next town over
Posted by: sal at December 13, 2025 10:32 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 10:33 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)
Gee! Nice shoes, Piper! I love the color-coordinated spikes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 10:33 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:33 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 10:34 PM (KC4YG)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 13, 2025 10:34 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:27 PM (R256O)
Ummm no, https://tinyurl.com/yrdrd2yz - here they are. 😀
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:35 PM (ZdaMQ)
Where are they?
Posted by: Hangry Hank at December 13, 2025 10:36 PM (oftw2)
four degrees out now ... I ventured out today when it was ten, and weather said my skin could freeze in a half hour. So I spent ten minutes wrapped up, clearing snow off 60% of my solar panels.
The Big Question is whether tomorrow's full sun at ten degrees max will be hot enough to melt off the rest of the snow. This is what I do for hermit excitement. Oh, and heating the house with my little woodstove is also an adventure. Makes me feel self reliant.
cheers
Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2025 10:36 PM (vbXSk)
I don't have anything new to offer as a present to y'all, so I've re-wrapped this, from Christmas 2016 ICYMI:
Mindful Webworkshop Episode #16 (the last one) - Christmas
Politically Incorrect and Culturally Inappropriate pop song parodies and original tunes sure to put coal in my stocking.
🎅There are Santa Clauses
🎅Rudolfo
🎅The Terrible Christmas Song
🎅Christmas Wrap
🎅Nutcracker
🎅The All-Purpose Greeting Card Song
Eleven minutes, so you may want to just bookmark it for after the party slows down. Or just re-gift it and go on with your preferred hard metal rock.
Posted by: mindful webworker - in jaunty Santa hat at December 13, 2025 10:36 PM (lbDMw)
Snowball cookies are amazing. I love them all but I found a recipe for macadamia nut ones in an old Hawaiian community cookbook a few years back that I love.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 10:36 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 13, 2025 10:34 PM (OGOaV)
Brother was converting 8mm into VHS for my Dad. All the movies were silent so he added a soundtrack...in one, my Dad was skiing in Lake of the Ozarks to the sound of "Final Countdown". Dad was not amused.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:36 PM (ynpvh)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - in jaunty Santa hat at December 13, 2025 10:36 PM (lbDMw)
Congrats on your new sweater. It's a beaut!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 13, 2025 10:27 PM (Wj1DV)
I'm guessing the big TV croaked, and they brought in the portable as backup. We tend to forget those old tube-type TV sets often developed problems that called for repair services.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 10:37 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: JQ
Sorry, but since it was in the newsletter I figured it was ok....sigh, places another $1.73 in tip jar.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:37 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: TRex - kreskin dino at December 13, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Well, I'm long the market and it hasn't collapsed, so there's that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:38 PM (OWovX)
Posted by: anachronda at December 13, 2025 10:38 PM (edU/H)
I feel certain my invitation to Berserkers Christmas Metal Extravaganza must've been lost in the mail, so it's lovey to be able to join you all this evening!
I was feeling fancy, hence the pearls and Norwegian Silver Fox coat. The pearls were a wedding gift, the fur was inherited. It is entirely too hot on top of my black velvet minidress, and thigh high leather boots, but one does one's poor best to carry on.
The fishnet stockings would've been appropriate for Betserkers event, but, alas....
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 10:38 PM (Vvh2V)
The bastard then bought the wax squares, which come in a plastic rectangle with slots for each square. He promptly removed the squares and melted them all down and proceeded to melt down some unscented candles he bought. With the unscented wax he made batches adding the most unpleasant scents you can imagine (Vinegar, Liniment, rotten eggs, spoiled milk). He shaped them using a mold. THEN, took the original scented squares and coated the outside. So, if you smelled them before they melted, it would seem A-OK. Then, he placed them back in the original containers. Wrapped the whole deal and put it under the tree for his wife.
This is an ongoing thing with those two. She was impressed with the effort, as were we all.
Posted by: Orson at December 13, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 10:39 PM (41CYW)
-Thrift store in the next town over
Posted by: sal at December 13, 2025 10:32 PM (f+FmA)
Too much work.
(tosses gift in garbage can)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 10:39 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 10:33 PM (3uBP9)
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My favorites are Russian tea cakes, which as best I can tell are flatter versions of snowball cookies.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 13, 2025 10:39 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:35 PM (ZdaMQ)
As far as I am concerned, you might as well not even have feet.
Quentin Tarintino or the Manolo might have a different opinion.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:39 PM (R256O)
cheers
Posted by: illiniwek at December
I hope you have cozy warm blankets!
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:40 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: TRex - kreskin dino at December 13, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
My list is still around here somewhere- looking forward to it.
And, DDD's? You have outdone yourselves.
Posted by: sal at December 13, 2025 10:40 PM (f+FmA)
Quentin Tarintino or the Manolo might have a different opinion.
Posted by: tankdemon at December
Well they are kind of small because I am height challenged.
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
I do remember the days when a TV repairman would work on that old thing.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 10:41 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: anachronda at December 13, 2025 10:38 PM (edU/H)
Nearly seems right...some clothing is fuzzier than others and contributes more lint...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:42 PM (ynpvh)
Just dropping in for a few seconds tho I wouldn't say no to a cold beer....
Will return later to read through all the comments.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 13, 2025 10:42 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Piper
1) Nice shoes!
B) A grand? Someone was on the "nice" list!
Posted by: mikeski at December 13, 2025 10:43 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
$995 for shoes??!!?? You must get paid too much for your Sunday ONT work!
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025 10:43 PM (QMAsf)
Quentin Tarintino or the Manolo might have a different opinion.
Posted by: tankdemon at December
Well they are kind of small because I am height challenged.
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
My wife was only 5'-0"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Tube works on the bottom one, sound works on the top one?
Posted by: mikeski at December 13, 2025 10:44 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:44 PM (R256O)
Posted by: sal
Truely, "God Bless us, each and everyone!"
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:44 PM (TfUTr)
I do remember the days when a TV repairman would work on that old thing.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 10:41 PM (6p0Jv)
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Growing up, my Dad was an all-around handyman. We never had repair people in the house - no plumbers, no electricians - and never took our cars into the shop. I do remember him having a collection of tubes in the garage.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 13, 2025 10:45 PM (OGOaV)
It doesn't go very fast, but on the other hand it doesn't leak oil so I figure I am winning.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 10:45 PM (rbvCR)
I put a couple of strings of these up over the jukebox *just for you*
https://tinyurl.com/mr7p2xkp
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)
120 Well they are kind of small because I am height challenged.
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
$995 for shoes??!!?? You must get paid too much for your Sunday ONT work!
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025
I just put them on your card. It’s fine.
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)
Why? Everyone knows that Yule Gibbons ate fruits, nuts, and flakes.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 10:47 PM (IG3/x)
In summary, the guy walked out, turned right, and has not been seen again. Nothing further at this point.
Five hours of clueless reporters, dumb ass politicians, cop officials desperate to be elsewhere, and constant unsupported about students delicate feelings, and a city changed forever.
Fascinating, hadn't watched local news in forever. It's changed, not for the better.
We at 56 yet?
Posted by: From about That Time at December 13, 2025 10:48 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 10:48 PM (Kt19C)
I remember the original intended disposition of that Kamala bobblehead from Corsicana ...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 13, 2025 10:49 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 10:49 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
ha, yes, I use an electric blanket for winter. And I still have the grid to depend on. But after my electric rates increased about 40% I started burning wood again. And I need the wood cutting exercise, so it's all good. Surprising that my little woodstove can heat the whole house, though back rooms stay around 60.
cheers to you Piper.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2025 10:50 PM (vbXSk)
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*takes swig of Kahlua from the bottle*
Well, here goes nothing!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:50 PM (OWovX)
Posted by: Hangry Hank. at December 13, 2025 10:50 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 10:47 PM (IG3/x)
Hah!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 10:51 PM (npFr7)
I won't go until I get some.
Posted by: Hangry Hank. at December 13, 2025 10:50 PM (oftw2)
Heh. We'll keep the figgy pudding, let the Brit's eat their spotted dick.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:51 PM (ynpvh)
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This is why I love my dogs more than I'll ever love any person.
People are asshoe.
Sorry, honey.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 13, 2025 10:51 PM (0yLoC)
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025
I just put them on your card. It’s fine.
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)
Haha! I better raise the price on those Club ONT coins.
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025 10:52 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 10:48 PM (Kt19C)
One Christmas I worked as a casual for the local USPS sorting office, and a box came through making noises. They evacuated the building and brought in the bomb squad, it was a toy that was shipped with the batteries in.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 10:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
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Those people must hate Christmas. And America.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:52 PM (OWovX)
*plops next to Rat, gives DDS and COMM smooches*
I’m pooped. Stayed up until after midnight yapping with an old college buddy who contacted me kind of out of the blue. Super fun.
My ugly Christmas sweatshirt won last year. It’s a kitty wearing a Santa hat riding a T. rex with tacos and pizza slices orbiting around.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2025 10:52 PM (mT+6a)
Out of respect for the sensibilities of overreaching choristers, whose number is legion, Caswell’s opening verse was altered for its second printing in 1852 from the line first published three years before: “Hark, an awful voice is sounding …”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 10:52 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 13, 2025 10:52 PM (3ZUWJ)
I've seen that setup a few times. Most likely one TV had a working picture tube and the other one had a working audio circuit. Tune 'em both to the same channel and call it good.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 13, 2025 10:53 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 10:49 PM (Vvh2V)
My calfskin 100s still look new, I have to take a deep breath and pray there will be seating if I wear them. 😂 85s are still nothing to sneeze at, ma’am! However, my 70s need new heel tips again, they are classic and my go to, I can run in that height!
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 10:53 PM (ZdaMQ)
What am I?! Chopped liver?!
Sheesh...all these years I generously shared my wobbly table...
Now I have to sit at the end of the bar on this wobbly bar stool, where it always smells like stale beer and cigs...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 13, 2025 10:53 PM (5lbLe)
Posted by: scampydog
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And your tardy excuse is ?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)
As a bonus I got to hear such golden oldies as 'you don't need your stupid GPS to go to the grocery store' and 'are you going to go where I tell you or where your stupid GPS tells you?'
Good times....good times....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 13, 2025 10:53 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 13, 2025 10:53 PM (R86kT)
I put a couple of strings of these up over the jukebox *just for you*
https://tinyurl.com/mr7p2xkp
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)
Thanks, JQ! You're awesome! Take a nice long break and go mingle.
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: TRex - fund raising dino at December 13, 2025 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 10:54 PM (rbvCR)
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That first news conference a few hours ago was very contentless. They won't say much until they catch the guy.
My guess is frustrated Chinese engineering student.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:55 PM (OWovX)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 13, 2025 10:55 PM (075ei)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Was measuring a certain cobs yard for a certain gift mentioned in the cintent.
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 10:55 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 10:57 PM (IQ6Gq)
I just used GPS to go to the grocery store yesterday. Didn’t need it, but sometimes I do. It knows the current traffic.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 10:57 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 13, 2025 10:49 PM (v23vE)
There may or may not still be plans like that for said bobblehead that may or may not be in my range bag in my basement.
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025 10:57 PM (QMAsf)
Sheesh...all these years I generously shared my wobbly table...
Now I have to sit at the end of the bar on this wobbly bar stool, where it always smells like stale beer and cigs...
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Sweetie! See #70!
Sheesh. Nurse, DDS, go fetch Marie.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:57 PM (TfUTr)
Thanks to everyone who put this party together!
We put up colored and white icicle lights on the porch this evening. We had quite a bit of snow but it has melted away. But still, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 13, 2025 10:58 PM (f7Gew)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Was measuring a certain cobs yard for a certain gift mentioned in the cintent.
Posted by: scampydog
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Like the dogs wouldn't notice you in the yard....remember, be nice - less than 2 weeks til the big day and the Big Guy is still keeping his Nice/Naughty list, and checking it twice!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 10:59 PM (rdVOm)
Please bring Doggo a new phone for Christmas. His current one has an awful keyboard.
Thank you,
TRex
Posted by: TRex - gift advocate dino at December 13, 2025 10:59 PM (IQ6Gq)
Gianvito Rossi is my go to for pumps now, or LK Bennet. Such is life at 62! 😁
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 10:59 PM (Vvh2V)
10 Does anybody else think that the only proper pose for a Kamala Harris bobblehead is in her knees?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:07 PM
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She has to walk to the toilet to spit.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2025 11:00 PM (L78T1)
Posted by: mikeski at December 13, 2025 11:00 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 11:01 PM (OWovX)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:01 PM (Vvh2V)
10 Does anybody else think that the only proper pose for a Kamala Harris bobblehead is in her knees?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 13, 2025 10:07 PM
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She has to walk to the toilet to spit.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2025 11:00 PM (L78T1)
So the saying "Mean people suck; nice people swallow" is true?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 11:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2025 11:03 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:03 PM (Vvh2V)
Please bring Doggo a new phone for Christmas. His current one has an awful keyboard.
Thank you,
TRex
Posted by: TRex - gift advocate dino
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Thank you!
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 11:04 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:01 PM (Vvh2V)
How many times will you use it? When my wife wanted to make a significant purchase, that was always my question.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 11:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: TRex - ornamental dino at December 13, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
Great! I had two more I couldn't find in time for today as we're just getting the tree decorated (drinkerated) today.
On a related note - Svengoolie is just coming on in my time zone. Dennis Hopper in 'Duel'. Apparently not a Christmas movie.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 13, 2025 11:07 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)
Musical interlude:
https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 13, 2025 11:08 PM (GvwDZ)
I will pass it along unwrapped with it's Origin Story in addition to my original gift if I think it's something they would enjoy.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:08 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Sorta like us buying a transmission jack.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 11:08 PM (TfUTr)
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Greetings, banana dream ... I just finished making 9 dozen of these to take to a cookie swap tomorrow ... Because of the many steps involved -- make dough, chill dough, portion dough, roll portions into ball shapes, bake cookies, coat baked cookies with 10X sugar while warm and, finally, recoat cookies with 10X sugar once they're completely cooled -- I usually perform the tasks over two days instead of one to ensure I can carefully monitor the cookies baking and now send some freshly-baked samples through the USB port for you to enjoy tonight!
Posted by: Kathy at December 13, 2025 11:09 PM (zuKcR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)
Night, Jim. May the surgery be uneventful, and successful.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 11:09 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 11:09 PM (Kt19C)
42 To kick off the White Elephant gift game, whoever has comment number 56, please collect the first gift (pictured below) - your very own Kamala Harris bobblehead
What number gets the joey biden windup toy that just wanders around the tree?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)
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I remember there was a model train sold in the 60s where you could put a pellet down the locomotive smokestack to make real smoke. Maybe a Biden model where you slip a pellet inside the back of its pants?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2025 11:10 PM (L78T1)
I'm soooo excited!
Dino has my address, so I expect this ASAP!
It's everything I wanted and hoped for😛!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 13, 2025 11:10 PM (5lbLe)
Gianvito Rossi is my go to for pumps now, or LK Bennet. Such is life at 62! 😁
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
Dress shoes for me are patent leather Birkenstocks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2025 11:11 PM (mT+6a)
We're gonna split up your stuff you know.
(I keed, keed)
Good luck.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
Dibs on the transmission jack.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 11:11 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)
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It is a good trait to be content with one's damned phone. Good for you!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 13, 2025 11:12 PM (GvwDZ)
Gianvito Rossi is my go to for pumps now, or LK Bennet. Such is life at 62! 😁
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
since your soles are unscuffed you could return them to the store
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:14 PM (4hlpI)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 13, 2025 10:55 PM (075ei)
I could only manage a 120 if they are a platform toe. 100 is my limit in a normal pump and even those I have to remind myself of the Louboutin quote- they are made to make your foot look good, not feel good!
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 11:15 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 11:15 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 13, 2025 11:11 PM (TfUTr)
You can't have the transmission. And don't call him Jack.
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025 11:15 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 11:02 PM (ynpvh)
You shouldn't swallow mouth wash
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 11:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:16 PM (4hlpI)
I did bring some chex party mix, extra Worcestershire sauce and butter. Enjoy!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 13, 2025 11:16 PM (f7Gew)
Spent a couple hours with Little to see if we could view some of the Geminid meteor shower. He saw three before the clouds rolled in..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 11:16 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:16 PM (4hlpI)
Sneaks up to jukebox.
Plays "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."
Plays it again.
Then again.
Repeat 15 times.
Plays Lindsey Sterling's "Carol of the Bells"
Plays "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" five more times.
Posted by: tankdemon
Whew. After that, we can get away with anything, right? I didn't think the jukebox would even have my kind of Christmas music, but.....
https://youtu.be/emQR5uPavic
Posted by: mikeski at December 13, 2025 11:17 PM (nhCoE)
Not a huge fan of punch, altho I own two punch bowls & ladles that I never use. Because you never know when you might need these things.
Once, on a college camping trip at the end of spring semester, SOMEONE (not me) must have put Everclear in the punch. Granted, I was there for whatever in the way of drinking (or smoking), but not much of a punch drinker, either, except at weddings where they were often non-alcoholic.
I prided myself in keeping it together drinking at parties. I was the last one standing & still cracking jokes. Not that night in the wilderness, bro. I suddenly felt harfy (which is rare), stood up,& l and almost face planted into the camp fire. Which would have been bad in any circumstance to land in a fire on your face, much less hours from a trauma center or hospital.
I lurched over a friend's truck, & for reasons unknown, went under his truck to puke.
Another friend found me there, as I guess he cared enough to look for me. I remember his face asking me why I was under the truck and I told him I had no idea.Eventually I got out from under the truck.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 11:19 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 11:19 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Wm. Peabody at December 13, 2025 11:20 PM (qUkBO)
That is exactly how I justify it. Some of the older bags from luxury houses were of such quality that they will likely be passed down to granddaughters. Cost per wear atvthat point will be pennies!
I'm glad I bought my bags when they quality was still there. Luxury is no longer worth the cost. Hermes is still very good quality, but I dont care for too many of their bags. I have a Kelly and a Picotin. Don't care for Birkins. I have heard very horrifying stories about how the obtain the skins for their bags, and had I heard them prior to buying mine, I would have researched more and definitely not bought them, if the rumors were true.
Not long before Covid, I was looking for another Chanel Boy bag, and could not believe the decline in quality. Strings hanging off, crooked stitching.... for the amount they charge ( more now!) that bag needs to be pristine!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:20 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 13, 2025 11:21 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
I have 1 pair of Gianvito Rossi pumps, but they are red so I don’t wear them often. I don’t wear any of them often anymore since I live in leggings and socks now. 😢
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 11:21 PM (ZdaMQ)
JQ, you have outdone yourself, the Santa suit was hung on a hook in the foyer to the restroom (so tastefully decorated), I notice that is missing, we need Santa to make an appearance soon.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 13, 2025 11:21 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 13, 2025 11:22 PM (f7Gew)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 11:22 PM (EXyHK)
Club ONT Management
Posted by: Whelmed by bountiful egg nog at December 13, 2025 11:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Can we take a selfie?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 11:23 PM (OWovX)
They are not unscuffed, Sir! I am not one to lie back and think of England. 😉😉😉
How have you been?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:23 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:24 PM (4hlpI)
How have you been?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
MissTammy! We are good, how are you and Thor?
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:25 PM (4hlpI)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
IKR? I mean, she drives a car, she uses tires all the time.
That should make a good gift, I'm thinking.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 13, 2025 11:25 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 11:26 PM (OWovX)
The hell-hound is staring at me like "get off the damned iPad and take me for a walk!"
Posted by: PabloD at December 13, 2025 11:26 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:27 PM (4hlpI)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 13, 2025 11:07 PM (QGaXH)
Correction - Dennis Weaver not Dennis Hopper.
I don't know what I was thinking.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 13, 2025 11:28 PM (QGaXH)
Club ONT Management
Posted by: Whelmed by bountiful egg nog at December 13, 2025 11:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
Aye aye, cap'n!
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 13, 2025 11:28 PM (RoO7G)
National Guard member Andrew Wolfe, who was shot near the White House in Washington, D.C. in late November, has been released from the hospital, NewsNation reported.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 13, 2025 11:28 PM (GvwDZ)
That should make a good gift, I'm thinking.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 13, 2025 11:25 PM (RoO7G)
Do not do this!
Your friend,
Piper
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 11:28 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: San
I mean physically , how does "we" do "self"
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:28 PM (4hlpI)
Posted by: Santa at December 13, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: TRex - art critic dino at December 13, 2025 11:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
But I don't wear them in the sticks. I ought to pass them on to someone who would get more use put of them, but it's kind of gross offering used shoes, even to family! 😂 And I swear, no one dresses much for work anymore. Unless you're in finance or law, I just don't see anyone dressing up.
Even at Boeing, when I worked at corporate level, unless you were VP or above, it was Business Casual.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:30 PM (Vvh2V)
Your friend,
Piper
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 11:28 PM (ZdaMQ)
So where were you for her last birthday?
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 13, 2025 11:30 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:28 PM (4hlpI
You are about to get coal, mister. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 11:31 PM (ZdaMQ)
Hiya Nurse R! Hiya DDS!
In fact, hiya all youz Morons! Great party! Thanks you crazy Ds!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 13, 2025 11:33 PM (5lbLe)
Mine is spicy. Not overly hot, just lots of good spices and I double those ( double the butter and Worcestershire, too!) and the nuts!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:34 PM (Vvh2V)
Thank you for sharing that, wonderful news, indeed!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:35 PM (Vvh2V)
The only Christmas party where things did go wonky was an ED party. The group of docs (about 10 of them) were known to throw these and be asked by the hotels on the beach not to return. Many had rooms there (with spouses or girlfriends). We lived on the island about 5min from this hotel. There was a DJ and dancing.
One doc was daring another doc to shots of peppermint schnapps. My husband observed me deciding to use my booze tickets (until then, champagne) to compete with my ED doc buddies. It was a sneaky deal on my system, and my husband said at one point I was dancing alone.
We decided to leave & I was feeling a bit off balance but fine. I WAS FINE I told people leaving as well. At home I collapsed into bed and he knew then I was pretty bombed. Got my make up off ( never sleep with it on as a supermodel), & changed. Asked him for a glass of milk as I was going to read for awhile.He slept in another room
Woke the next day with the lamp still on and the milk still there. With a massive headache. The last time I had a hangover.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 11:36 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 13, 2025 11:16 PM
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Thank you! Somehow that eluded our party planning list. Wouldn't be a proper Christmas party without it!
Posted by: TRex - breakfast cereal dino at December 13, 2025 11:36 PM (IQ6Gq)
Getting old. It's been a rough year. How are you and yours? Have you taken her back to Gotham yet?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:37 PM (Vvh2V)
In fact, hiya all youz Morons! Great party! Thanks you crazy Ds!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 13, 2025 11:33 PM (5lbLe)
Hey there, ladies!
*removes flask from ugly sweater pouch*
Who wants a swig?
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2025 11:38 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 13, 2025 11:38 PM (R86kT)
Getting old. It's been a rough year. How are you and yours? Have you taken her back to Gotham yet?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
We are there frequently, but not enough to get dinged for taxes. Mostly, we are in Houston now. Everything is good with us.
Not sure we are staying in Houston, it is nice but everything is too far from whereever you are
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:40 PM (4hlpI)
Was outside giving water, carrots & oats to the reindeer (and making sure they stayed away from our moose, LOL)
Hang on, got a tray of jalapeno poppers to bring out...
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 11:41 PM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/FvaL7M2JE4Y
This thing really does have all the Christmas songs.
Posted by: mikeski at December 13, 2025 11:42 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
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You know, I was just chatting with a friend this afternoon about 151 proof rum-- tastes too strong, the only thing it's really good for is floating on top of drinks and *lighting*
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 11:43 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
75% alcohol? It probably has uses in first aid, or as fuel.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 13, 2025 11:46 PM (nhCoE)
President Trump signed an executive order, and this is verbatim, called the "Assuring the Security of the State of Qatar." Quote: "Over the years, the United States and the State of Qatar have been bound together by close cooperation, shared interests, and the close relationship between our armed forces. The state of Qatar has hosted United States forces, enabled critical security operations, and stood as a steadfast ally in pursuit of peace, stability, and prosperity both in the Middle East and abroad, including as a mediator that has assisted the United States' attempts to resolve significant regional and global conflicts."
Listen to this: "In recognition of this history and in light of the continuing threats to the state of Qatar posed by foreign aggression, it is the policy of the U.S. to guarantee the security and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against external attack. The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory sovereignty or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States."
It's great have another close ally in the Middle East!
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 11:47 PM (2NGiN)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)
Does this count?
Baby,it's cold outside. But no snow to speak of...oh, sure, up in the mountains. But I need it in my yard, stat!
I am trying to make the best of it but I am super mad that states like Indiana have snow and we don't here in ski country. We need it for water next summer, so it is not simply because I am having a tantrum for a white Christmas.
My husband tells me that there's a chance. I think he's only saying this to keep me from flipping out.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 11:48 PM (WONhk)
It's great have another close ally in the Middle East!
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 11:47 PM (2NGiN)
First up for karaoke! ☝️
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 11:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
It's great have another close ally in the Middle East!
in other words he had to have an executive order to warn Israel off bombing them again.
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:49 PM (4hlpI)
This thing really does have all the Christmas songs.
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Pretty melody.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 13, 2025 11:50 PM (f7Gew)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 11:51 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2025 11:52 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 13, 2025 11:52 PM (f7Gew)
Posted by: mikeski at December 13, 2025 11:42 PM (nhCoE)
I'll just slip this into the carousel....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARX463itqf4
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 11:52 PM (nbLIj)
Nice party!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 13, 2025 11:52 PM (47diA)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 13, 2025 11:53 PM (f7Gew)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 11:53 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 13, 2025 11:52 PM
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Does the red truck ever double as Santa's sleigh?
Posted by: TRex - curious dino at December 13, 2025 11:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
{{{COMM}}} Merry Christmas friend.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 13, 2025 11:55 PM (0nHVk)
Anyone want to sing "We three kings" with me?...after a few more drinks...
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 13, 2025 11:56 PM (f7Gew)
Let me think about that . . . . . . nope! It could, if any of my grandkids would come around here for Christmas!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 13, 2025 11:56 PM (47diA)
Oh! Yum...I was hoping someone remembered those!
I love the chex mix, but I'm getting the side eye from folks because I've been stuffing my pie hole...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 13, 2025 11:57 PM (5lbLe)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:58 PM (4hlpI)
I think what you mean is, it's nice, but it's too fucking hot and humid! 😂😂😂
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 11:59 PM (Vvh2V)
Must one use actual Chex brand cereal? Or can one get away with store-brand imitation chex?
And, do you care to share a recipe? Mom used to make a mix she called "Nuts n Bolts" that had a several types of chex, pretzel sticks, spanish peanuts and cheerios... the recipe is gone, but I'm sure the seasonings included Worcestershire sauce & garlic powder + I don't know what else. It was great!
Thanks in advance!
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 14, 2025 12:01 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
I am good with that, I am a bit disappointed in what a bunch of wuses Houstonians are. When its 105 and humid I am driving around with my windows down, air off , but the Houstonians have air on , windows up. wth
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:01 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 14, 2025 12:02 AM (5lbLe)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:49 PM (4hlpI)
Or maybe . . . Just maybe, mind you . . . Trump is as antisemitic as I've been told Tucker Carlson is. [Taps chin, thoughtfully]
Posted by: Kindltot at December 14, 2025 12:02 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JQ at
buy a box, follow the directions.
Same as with chocolate chip cookies; buy a bag, follow directions.
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:03 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 14, 2025 12:03 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:58 PM (4hlpI)
He was my favorite character in LOTR
Posted by: Kindltot at December 14, 2025 12:03 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 14, 2025 12:03 AM (Vvh2V)
Thanks in advance!
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)
In my family, normal Chex mix included wash-your-sister-sauce (as we called it).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2025 12:04 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:04 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:04 AM (4hlpI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrn78V0AzEY
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 14, 2025 12:05 AM (nbLIj)
Dang. Late again. Any eggnog left?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2025 12:05 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 14, 2025 12:05 AM (f7Gew)
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:04 AM (4hlpI)
Well, sure. Anyone who doesn't kick Nick Fuentes in the balls after inviting him to travel cross country to his house to talk is clearly a Natzi.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 14, 2025 12:06 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kin
it is not even worth discussing , if youre not openly a nazi, youre a secret nazi
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:07 AM (4hlpI)
The house smells great, if not particularly Christmasy. I'll take half of it to a neighbor tomorrow so my diabetic ass isn't tempted to eat it all.
Has anyone ever tried soaking banana bread in rum? Something akin to a fruitcake?
I'll bet it would be good.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2025 12:07 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 14, 2025 12:08 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:09 AM (4hlpI)
I don't like the NRA, sport. You know why? Because they're far too conciliatory.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2025 12:09 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: TRex - bingo was his name-oh at December 14, 2025 12:09 AM (IQ6Gq)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrn78V0AzEY
Posted by: Joe Kidd
Uhgg.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 14, 2025 12:10 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:10 AM (4hlpI)
At our work holiday dinner I indulged in irish coffee with whipped cream
Baileycious!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 14, 2025 12:10 AM (dE3DB)
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Thanks. I can find plenty of recipes online and can experiment. Was just wondering if anyone had a favorite variation of the original.
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:11 AM (rdVOm)
Thanks. I can find plenty of recipes online and can experiment. Was just wondering if anyone had a favorite variation of the original.
Posted by: JQ
go with the box, it is the smart thing.
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:12 AM (4hlpI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrn78V0AzEY
Posted by: Joe Kidd
Let's sing!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 14, 2025 12:12 AM (f7Gew)
Posted by: zombie Andy Warhol is a nazi at December 14, 2025 12:12 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:14 AM (rdVOm)
Country Boy’s Mom’s Homemade Chex Mix, page 158.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 14, 2025 12:15 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Diogenes
youre gonna have to lick it off the strippers
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:09 AM (4hlpI)
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Huh?
Is that like pin the tail on the donkey?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2025 12:15 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: scampydog at December 14, 2025 12:16 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:11 AM (rdVOm)
Soak the whole thing in rum. Strain off the rum and reserve. Drink the rum. You no longer care what the chex mix tastes like.
Posted by: GWB at December 14, 2025 12:16 AM (KC4YG)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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Thank you! I will look it up. Why didn't I consult the DG? *shrugs*
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)
This is the recipe I use. I add more Worcestershire because I like to.
https://tinyurl.com/4vw2rmfp
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 14, 2025 12:17 AM (6p0Jv)
Of course the night is young, and the crazy people haven't even shown up yet...we'll, at least not all of them(us)🤪...
I think I have a buck or two. I'll try to remember to leave you a tip💕...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 14, 2025 12:17 AM (5lbLe)
210 Where can I find once ubiquitous fruitcake?
Next year in Corsicana!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 11:22 PM (EXyHK)
LOL! I wonder how many readers “get it”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2025 12:17 AM (k5cxK)
chex has more money, more research, more motivation to get the best recipe for chex mix
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:19 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:20 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:58 PM (4hlpI)
He was my favorite character in LOTR
Posted by: Kindltot at December 14, 2025 12:03 AM (rbvCR)
I admit I always thought Pergolas were pretty gay.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2025 12:22 AM (k5cxK)
3 C each: rice, corn, wheat chex, and pretzels.
1TBS worcestershire sauce
6 TBS melted butter
1TBS seasoned salt
1/2 tsp onion powder
2/3 tsp garlic powder
1/2 TBS Frank's hot sauce
200 degree oven. Bake 1 hour, shaking/stirring every 15-20 mins
Posted by: scampydog at December 14, 2025 12:22 AM (41CYW)
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THANK YOU!!!
*buys drink for Mary*
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
chex has more money, more research, more motivation to get the best recipe for chex mix
Posted by: n
Don't think outside the box. The box exists because it holds all the good answers that everyone else found.
Posted by: mikeski at December 14, 2025 12:24 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: m
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:24 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: scampydog at December 14, 2025 12:16 AM (41CYW)
Yup! The potato bowl! Woohoo.
And we have a new coach and I think he's going to do well.
Hey!!! There's extra nog in this eggnog!!!
Me likey!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2025 12:25 AM (2WIwB)
Thanks to you too, Doggo!
Hey, I found these lights for you. Felt bad that only Dino & Disco got their own...
https://tinyurl.com/tzbzk2sb
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m
it is chex mix, not woven square cereal made by dog food company mix, maybe they have some insight into this
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:26 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2025 12:27 AM (k5cxK)
https://tinyurl.com/tzbzk2sb
Posted by: JQ
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Heh, those lights are awesome! Thank you.
Posted by: scampydog at December 14, 2025 12:28 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Tom Se
janitors?
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:30 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Oh, I remember choking down a few swallows of same.. and then sniffing up the contents of a big black capsule.. and then going rollerskating. WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 14, 2025 12:12 AM (f7Gew)
The line about myrrh always gets me. It's a spice used for embalming and that part of the song is a reminder of grim mission ahead for Mary's baby. It's perfectly rendered by the singer here..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 14, 2025 12:36 AM (nbLIj)
Yeah baby! Let's dance!
*face plants on dance floor*
Woops....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 14, 2025 12:38 AM (5lbLe)
Free plays continue, for our lovely party!!
Posted by: JQ
https://youtu.be/wIQQDYaoWpc
Posted by: mikeski at December 14, 2025 12:38 AM (nhCoE)
Pour me a double, make it neat, bartender.
Going back to lurking.
Posted by: PartyCrasher at December 14, 2025 12:38 AM (4NeXw)
Posted by: mindful webworker - tis the season at December 14, 2025 12:41 AM (lbDMw)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
you have to wonder why it was necessary to have an eo now
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:47 AM (4hlpI)
https://youtu.be/qTx-sdR6Yzk
Posted by: mindful webworker - tis the season at December 14, 2025 12:41 AM (lbDMw)
A classic. I think we're ready for some El Vez,,,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irDjAMCAxqo
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 14, 2025 12:50 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: n at December 13, 2025 11:58 PM (4hlpI)
Wasn't Pergolas the Elf who invented composite flooring?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 12:54 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: n at December 14, 2025 12:55 AM (4hlpI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2025 12:17 AM (k5cxK)
A famous product of the Collin Street Bakery there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 12:59 AM (npFr7)
"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it." - Rodney Dangerfield
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 14, 2025 01:02 AM (5lbLe)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
Meh. Qatar isn't much bigger than a WalMart parking lot. It's all performative.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 01:03 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Archer at December 14, 2025 01:05 AM (YGRGv)
The line about myrrh always gets me. It's a spice used for embalming and that part of the song is a reminder of grim mission ahead for Mary's baby. It's perfectly rendered by the singer here..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 14, 2025 12:36
Yes, gold for a king, frankincense for a deity, and myrrh for a sacrifice. Almost the whole gospel story in one song.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 14, 2025 01:06 AM (f7Gew)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrn78V0AzEY
Posted by: Joe Kidd
I've heard worse versions. Music was good. Vocals nice.
Something about the guitar riff in that reminded me (& MiladyJo too) of something… racked my brain, finally came up with a line that let my search hit it: Sultans of Swing!
https://youtu.be/h0ffIJ7ZO4U
Posted by: mindful webworker - it ain't what they call rock n roll at December 14, 2025 01:06 AM (lbDMw)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2025 01:10 AM (lCxV1)
Posted by: Crazy Hakkim's House of Myrrh at December 14, 2025 01:13 AM (lCxV1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 14, 2025 01:15 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: mikeski at December 14, 2025 01:18 AM (nhCoE)
We've still got Jingle Juice punch, and extra-nog eggnog..
Or whatever you'd like to drink.
The crowd is thinning, though.
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 14, 2025 01:20 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 14, 2025 01:23 AM (sDNVV)
It was not that bad, although the stop and go traffic meant the mustang had a bit of traction issues.
Plus, Lexington could not be bothered to do any road treatment.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2025 01:24 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Cicero
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Hahaha, no... it's just gotten quiet for a bit.
Jukebox is in "Free Play" mode, why not punch in your selection?
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 14, 2025 01:28 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)
Has anyone else mentioned this is the wrong link?
Standards are really droppin' 'round here.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at December 14, 2025 01:38 AM (F/35S)
https://youtu.be/rgk1I-cVv7U
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - does Grok dream of breathing and bleeding? at December 14, 2025 01:41 AM (lbDMw)
Has anyone else mentioned this is the wrong link?
Standards are really droppin' 'round here.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so
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No, most of us just enjoyed the rest of the content and got on with the party, instead of insulting our hosts.
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:45 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 14, 2025 01:47 AM (zdQuL)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 01:49 AM (npFr7)
https://youtu.be/-XWTOKQE8bo
Posted by: JQ
Thanks, JQ. That was just the nightcap I needed.
G'nite again, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pour the Guiness gently, lads at December 14, 2025 01:49 AM (lbDMw)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 14, 2025 01:51 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm)
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 01:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so
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Fixed. LOL. Thanks for reading the content!
Posted by: scampydog at December 14, 2025 01:54 AM (41CYW)
I admit to not noticing... some content is more appealing to me than other. Am sure others also pick what interests them most.
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 02:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 14, 2025 02:02 AM (0nHVk)
Welcome back! Did you SEE that silver lame sheath that Ben Had wore? Wooh! She looked so good!
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 14, 2025 02:05 AM (rdVOm)
So good.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 14, 2025 02:06 AM (Vvh2V)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 12/13/2025
Promised but Never Delivered
Movie studios have been trying to build franchises out of almost every major special effects spectacle since the 80s. It's the Star Wars and Indiana Jones influence. One film's box office gold is supposed to lead to another and another until everything just runs out of gas. And so, Hollywood is littered with purported starts to franchises that failed to go past the first entry. The Rocketeer, Lost in Space, The Dark Tower, they all ended with promises of further adventures that never came to be.
However, there are two over the past roughly fifteen years that hold special places in my heart, a pair of films so different from each other that are both considered huge box office bombs (one, the largest ever for a time) that I still yearn for sequels to. Now, just to make this clear...I do not think these sequels will ever materialize. One may...have a 1% chance of happening if lightning strikes the same spot fifteen times in a row, but otherwise, no. I don’t think these sequels will ever get made. The franchises are dead, and they will probably never be resurrected.
Those are: John Carter and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Both were big, wildly expensive spectacles based on tales old before any of the creatives were born. The first, based on the first of the Barsoom novels, A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the second a mishmash (let's be honest, every telling of King Arthur is a mishmash) of Arthurian legends. And I just...jive with them. I kind of love the former, and I really like the latter, and I've seen far worse films get sequels.
Box Office Failure
Let's get this out of the way: the tale of two studios spending way too much money on movies that they shouldn’t have spent too much on.
John Carter was the first live action feature film directed by Andrew Stanton, the PIXAR director who made Finding Nemo and WALL-E. Disney wanted a franchise to compete with the likes of Star Wars, so they gave Stanton, trusted creative, carte blanche to make a wildly expensive sci-fi adventure based on the granddaddy of sci-fi adventures. But...everything went wrong.
Stanton, with no experience in live-action films, essentially filmed the movie twice, making the film wildly, wildly expensive when it should have just had one wildly, at most. Months before the release of the film, Disney acquired the Marvel rights and were already talking to George Lucas about buying Star Wars, so the need for a boys’ adventure sci-fi series died out (and then they put Kathleen Kennedy in charge, which is another thing altogether). Stanton was given control of the marketing, and he approved some of the worst trailers for the film, selling the movie as some sort of somber experience without any real build up within the trailers themselves. Taylor Kitsch's miscasting (I think he’s...fine in the role, but he doesn't have the easy charm John Carter probably should have) became a central reason for critics to crap all over the film. And then the film is based on the granddaddy of sci-fi pulp, the kind of old story that has DNA is most modern sci-fi and fantasy today, making it decidedly old fashioned and feeling derivative.
Honestly, it doesn't surprise me that it was a box office bomb, but I fought the idea for weeks after its release, hoping against hope that there would be some great resurgence of interest in the property several weeks after release and everyone knowing it was a giant failure. My hopes were not answered.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a contrasting tale of failure, though, starting with the fact that the trailers for the film are actually really good. I think they sell it well, making it look exciting and fun without any sort of misdirection towards the audience. Guy Ritchie, the director, had a history of bringing his hyperactive style to historically set films in his two Robert Downey Jr. starring Sherlock Holmes films, a connection which the trailers promote. And, it failed to make its production budget back, sources saying that Warner Bros. Lost $150 million on the movie. That's a lot of money, so the planned six film series was canceled after only one.
I think the explanation for King Arthur’s failure largely stems from the fact that mass audiences don't seem that interested in medieval fantasy films. There is one major exception in The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit), but medieval fantasy in general just doesn't seem to be a natural fit with mass audiences. They tend to eschew them rather them embrace them. The Chronicles of Narnia films, the first released right alongside The Lord of the Rings, steadily died out after three films. Eragon, based on a popular novel, was a huge bomb. Solomon Kane, based on the Robert E. Howard character, made no money. You can point back to the 80s and films like Excalibur, but that only made $35 million (a profit for the $11 million film, granted). The 80s were probably the height of the medieval fantasy genre's popularity across the board, and not even Conan the Barbarian hit $100 million (the modern telling, released in 2011, made about $60 million off of a $90 million budget).
I mean, I really like medieval fantasy. I jive with it. But mass audiences don't seem all that keen on it.
The Future that Never Was
So, what would have been? What if Disney hadn’t been buying Star Wars and had decided to back John Carter completely? What if Stanton had managed his set better and spent half as much money? What if audiences had just decided to give King Arthur a shot? What would we have seen?
Well, the easy one to answer is John Carter's supposed sequels. John Carter follows the basic plot of A Princess of Mars quite closely. There are additions, like the Therns gain a lot more prevalence in this early story than in Burroughs' series, and some specifics around transportation between Earth and Barsoom gets created, but in the larger plot points. It's A Princess of Mars. So, what would the second movie have been? Well, largely The Gods of Mars, the tale of what John Carter does when he returns to Barsoom ten years later. It would tell of the fight against Iss, the self-proclaimed goddess of Mars, the Black Pirates, the Therns, and Zondanga with Carter reconnecting with his friend Tars Tarkas, his wife Dejah Thoris, and meeting his son, Cathoris, as recklessly brave as his father. And then, the planned sequel would have seen the adaptation of The Warlord of Mars which sees John Carter becoming ruler of the entire planet.
I'm sure Stanton would have kept the basic narrative bones and rearranged a lot of details, but it's not hard to imagine where that series would have gone, and it would have entertained me greatly.
The more interesting question, though, is around King Arthur. As I said, any tale of King Arthur at this point is a mishmash of legend, Romance, and history, so there's no "true" telling of it. Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory disagrees in many details with Geoffrey of Monmouth's sketches in Historia Regum Britanniae. And it's a tale that’s been told by many, many people over more than a thousand years. Ritchie turning it into a cross between Conan the Barbarian and Ritchie's own low-level gangster movies was a definite creative choice to push Arthur in a new direction, but he also barely scratched the surface of the established tales while adding his own twists.
We only see Merlin once, in a flashback, and we don't even see his face. The character called Mage was originally written as Guinevere, but any mention of her being Arthur's future wife were scrubbed out of the edit and through ADR, so they could still re-introduce her. Morgan le Fay is never even mentioned. There is a character called Mordred in the beginning, killed in the prologue, but that doesn't preclude the introduction in a later edition of the traditional Mordred (Arthur’s son/nephew by way of Morgan le Fay). In terms of the Knights of the Round Table, we only get Bedivere, Percival, and Tristan. So, no Lancelot, no Gawain, and no Galahad (there are dozens more in the legends over the centuries). Really, sequels were wide open.
And the first sequel I would have liked to see might have gone something like this: Merlin and Morgan le Fay are in combat in the north, a war of mages far from Camelot. Lancelot comes from France to challenge the knights at a tourney (being a Guy Ritchie film, there would be bare-knuckle boxing). Lancelot is big, strong, and arrogant, and he is also the only man who could be Arthur’s equal in combat. They bond over beating each other up, but Lancelot has a secret that even he doesn’t know: he’s being manipulated by Morgan le Fay into acting as a distraction. Merlin sends Mage (not Guinevere) to ask for help. The second act is breaking Lancelot's spell. The third act is a big fight, ala Shadows of the Colossus where Arthur and Lancelot in particular have to climb a giant forest creature, his head and shoulders populated with trees since he's from the earth, to fight Morgan or some heavy at the top. One big, expensive action setpiece later, the knights have added a figure (maybe even Galahad in tow), and we're ready for movie #3.
Never Happening
Really, the two original films I just really enjoy watching. Patrick H. Willems described what he called "vibe movies", movies less about plot and more about just being in the world created by the filmmakers (his central film in his video was Christopher Nolan’s Tenet). And that's kind of how I feel about John Carter and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword in very different ways.
John Carter is a big, earnest, sometimes goofy, old-school adventure film. Its big heart it wearshu unironically on its sleeve as it tells the story of a rootless man finding something to fight for once more. It’s told with color and energy, and I just get on its wavelength and enjoy the somewhat silly ride.
King Arthur's Conan the Barbarian influences (its first shot is of a temple that resembles Thulsa Doom's temple in Milius' film alongside a tower that looks a lot like the Serpent's Tower in the same film, and there’s a lot of snake stuff overall, including a giant snake in the end) mixed with Ritchie's low-level gangster stuff is a weird mix, but it's something I really enjoy. The film is imperfect (the mix is sometimes not that great, a lot of the CGI is fun but feels wasteful and indulgent, and there's an emotional bit for Vortigern, the bad guy, late in the film that's just poorly established), but I still just find myself bobbing my head back and forth to Daniel Pemberton's soundtrack anyway. Structurally, it's actually surprisingly sound, even if Ritchie is throwing things in a blender within individual sequences.
And both movies, I feel, artistically deserved sequels. Mostly because, well, I liked them. And I'd rather have Hollywood spend money to entertain me than making another Fast and Furious movie.
But it was never meant to be. My tastes were always going to be more niche, and that's just the world I live in.
What movies that promised sequels that never materialized do you sometimes still yearn for?
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Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
Benedetta
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
Forever Amber (Rating 1.5/4) Full Review "This isn’t good. It’s mostly just kind of...dull." [YouTube]
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Rating 4/4) Full Review "I mean...finally, Preminger works from a script by Ben Hecht. It’s what he needed. " [Plex]
Angel Face (Rating 3/4) Full Review "I think it's solidly good, undone by some late stage choices that grind things to a halt. However, the line on characters, the production itself, and the noirish coat of paint all make Angel Face a compelling drama that Preminger manages well, even if Howard Hughes had hired him to torture Jean Simmons." [Library]
River of No Return (Rating 2.5/4) Full Review "The overall world feels deeply incomplete, and the story itself feels underserved but with some nice payoffs to things set up earlier. It's not good, but it's surprisingly interesting in the end." [Hoopla]
Carmen Jones (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "It's an odd duck that way, much like a good portion of Preminger's filmography. However, so much is so right that it stands near the top of his work." [Library]
The Man with the Golden Arm (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Adapting work from other mediums, Preminger is finding composed, solid success, although I feel a certain limitation on his ability to push the medium to its fullest potential." [Amazon Prime]
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Rating 1.5/4) Full Review "Preminger...frustrates me." [YouTube]
Saint Joan (Rating 1/4) Full Review "I...did not like this film." [YouTube]
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My next thread will be on 1/3 and it will discuss the directing career of Otto Preminger.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 13, 2025 07:31 PM (u73oe)
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Posted by: davidt at December 13, 2025 07:38 PM (Q+gd/)
Maybe they should just release the trailer then.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 07:40 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:41 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
I was just asking that as I here but a minute that the Lord know best how to answer.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 07:42 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 07:42 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 13, 2025 07:43 PM (u73oe)
Really think am getting something out of your videos as never looked at movies much more than Entertainment
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:44 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 13, 2025 07:44 PM (BXUnK)
I liked The Rocketeer, too; didn't know that one or more sequels originally had been contemplated.
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 07:45 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 13, 2025 07:45 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 07:45 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:45 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:46 PM (bXbFr)
I never figured out why the "critics" hated on this simple Movie.
DF1
Been Creepin' on Ace for 10 years, finally had to post.
Posted by: DFrosty1 at December 13, 2025 07:46 PM (1p2AI)
It's the Arthurian roots that make me reject this movie. I mean, it hardly has Merlin, it makes Arthur grow up around whores and pimps (such nobility and role models!) and it has Kung Fu George. Fucking Kung Fu George in Arthurian England.
*eyetwitch*
John Carter was silly when it should have been exciting and chaste when it should have been sexy. I never have managed to finish it, I just bounce off the first half hour every time. IMO, it's just too stupid to live.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 13, 2025 07:46 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (BXUnK)
Sorry, real bitter that Dragonriders has never been made into a movie!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (e/Osv)
Well, yeah. All of us Dungeons and Dragons playing teenagers liked that stuff.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (fd80v)
I didn't like the stupid trope of Carter having a wife who died in his arms. It's that "let's kill off someone for easy pathos and sympathy for the lead character" crap. And it wasn't in the book.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (bXbFr)
and twice the money
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 07:48 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 07:48 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 07:48 PM (i85MS)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 07:48 PM (Kt19C)
this zenomorphe is just right
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 07:48 PM (gbOdA)
Really think am getting something out of your videos as never looked at movies much more than Entertainment
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)
A lot, but not all, of those movies can found online. Either at Archive.org, or Ok.Ru.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 13, 2025 07:49 PM (xcxpd)
If you want to introduce this world to an unfamiliar audience would you do it this way
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:49 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 07:49 PM (kpS4V)
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Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:52 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 13, 2025 07:45 PM (u73oe
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Arrow is releasing a 4K in a few months.
Preordered.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 07:52 PM (GBKbO)
Said my main channel TCM it won't let me see without a subscription now. If I had normal channel I could. Still see one of the local.movie channels in non HD
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Really think am getting something out of your videos as never looked at movies much more than Entertainment
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)
A lot, but not all, of those movies can found online. Either at Archive.org, or Ok.Ru.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 13, 2025 07:49Pre-ordered.
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Google leads the way.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 07:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (BXUnK)
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Eh.
The original art leaned heavily towards Egyptian. Frazetta was decades later.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 07:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (e/Osv)
^^THIS^^
So many great books that could have been made into movies! Heck, Pern could have been a 10 year series, based on the number of books.
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 07:54 PM (i85MS)
I read the first two.
I enjoyed the film.
But Disney didn't know how to market it, and most of the population had never heard of John Carter or the Princess of Mars, and it looked like a cheesy alien kids movie in the trailers.
There was also that 'Mars Curse' on Disney as Mars Needs Moms had bombed badly not too long before.
I wish they'd made a sequel to the film as the basic story is pretty interesting and the way John Carter travels to Mars so mysteriously and then comes back to Earth just as mysteriously and with decades having passed.
It could have made a decent franchise if done right, or at least a TV series.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 07:55 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:55 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 07:49 PM (kpS4V)
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Funko is Doc Brown with the mind reader on his head. Junior's. A gift from a while ago.
Plate is OUTATIME, also from Back to the Future.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 07:55 PM (GBKbO)
So many great books that could have been made into movies! Heck, Pern could have been a 10 year series, based on the number of books.
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 07:54 PM (i85MS)
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Considering how Wheel of Time was butchered by Amazon, I don't trust ANY modern studio to give classic works a proper treatment on either the small or large screen.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 07:56 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 07:56 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 07:57 PM (L/fGl)
I wanted them, but the original film felt complete at the same time.
And I don't think any sequel would have matched it.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 07:57 PM (GBKbO)
I see shorts for these little Peacock and Netflix and Hulu series and in every one of them, people are screaming at each other or accusing each other of malfeasance or betrayal or infidelity. Dinners always feature some dark revelation or hatred for someone else. Nobody is polite or charitable or supportive or loving. The dialogue may be sardonic but never funny. What is it with the producers and writers of these things?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 07:58 PM (tgvbd)
'Yeah, there's a lot of flat-out nekkidness in the Barsoom stories, and that ain't happening onscreen.'
Yeah. All the college age men would hate that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 07:59 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 07:59 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 07:59 PM (kpS4V)
The flick I'd have liked to see become a franchise was Remo Williams. Fred Ward and Joel Grey were delightful in it.
McCaffrey's Pern? Would make a NICE series of films, but what would our current crop of enlightened filmmakers do to it on its way to the screen? One shudders to think.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 08:00 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 07:56 PM (ESVrU)
Perfessor, I hate to have to agree, but you are so, so, so sadly correct. In the 80's-90's I think I would have expected the studios to do a good job (or maybe a campy job -like several of the Fantastic 4's of the time), but now, sad to say, I don't trust Hollywood, AT ALL!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 08:01 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:01 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:02 PM (bXbFr)
Sorry I didn't see it on a big screen.
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 08:03 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:03 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 08:04 PM (s0JqF)
I wanted them, but the original film felt complete at the same time.
And I don't think any sequel would have matched it.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 07:57 PM (GBKbO)
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I agree. I love the books, but the film was meant to be an homage, and it worked wonderfully.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 13, 2025 08:04 PM (0aYVJ)
>> And I don't think any sequel would have matched it.
Well constructed films don’t need sequels.
Sequels are cash grabs in the main.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2025 08:05 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 08:05 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s)
Gets yoors befoor they be gone.
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 13, 2025 08:05 PM (ySHsh)
Sequels I didn't want: Rocky V, Star Wars 6, Jaws 2 and 3D.
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (PHmbR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (L/fGl)
The Miles Vorkosigan books from Lois McMaster Bujold. It's ... well, I can't describe it except to say he pulls a lot of shenanigans to solve problems. Pulling them off relies partly on his brains, people's tendency to mis-underestimate him, and some connection to power.
The Chanur novels of C.J. Cherryh. Her aliens are not just humans in rubber suits, but think differently. The Cuckoo's Egg could also be done, if it was done right. I doubt her Foreigner novels would translate well to film, though you might try them as animated movies.
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (nuE1e)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (k5cxK)
TJM is not a complete effette tool hipster when it comes to film.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s
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Am an asshole, though.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (GBKbO)
Like the movie though.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:07 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:07 PM (bXbFr)
Like the movie though.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:07 PM (zZu0s
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I'd recast Carter and eliminate the Barsoom prologue. The earth stuff i dig.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:08 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (k5cxK)
In this case, I cannot think of a gal who would fit Boris' vision who would have done better. The gal in the movie is a knock out. And plays it straight with no cheese or ham.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:08 PM (zZu0s)
So did anyone know there was a "Conan the Barbarian" movie released in 2011 starring Jason Mamoa?
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 08:09 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:09 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2025 08:10 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 08:10 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 08:10 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 08:10 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:08 PM (GBKbO)
Hmmm. Yeah, that could work too. Just tell it from Carter's POV? I like it. Would match the book.
But I still think even doing that that the earth stuff would drag. Cut the will part. Until the end. Reveal that the kid is reading Carters account.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:10 PM (zZu0s)
And Lynn Collins is hot!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 08:11 PM (rii+a)
So did anyone know there was a "Conan the Barbarian" movie released in 2011 starring Jason Mamoa?
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 08:09 PM (e/Osv)
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Even mentioned it in the content.
I saw it on theaters (the dollar theater, to be honest), and i own the 3D Blu-ray.
Its...okay.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:11 PM (GBKbO)
The Miles Vorkosigan books from Lois McMaster Bujold.
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LOVED the Miles books!!!!!!!!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 08:11 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 07:56 PM (ESVrU)
I never read Wheel Of Time, so I was baffled by the complaints many had. But I will absolutely agree with your assessment.
If someone wrote ME a very large check to make Pern (or Chanur, or Miles Vorkosigan) I would certainly do it justice. I'm a visual reader and have built the scenes in my mind for years.
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 08:11 PM (K1PX7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:11 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 08:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 08:12 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at December 13, 2025 08:13 PM (VoMie)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:14 PM (bXbFr)
And the mad scientist creating men from a vat of fleshy goo or doing brain transplants would be a laff riot.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 08:15 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: fd
For starting out as a second banana on Gunsmoke, Dennis Weaver did all right for himself.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 08:16 PM (L/fGl)
One of my favorite Preminger's is Anatomy of a Murder.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 08:10 PM (L/fGl)
Another good book ruined by Otto Preminger
Anatomy of a Murder: ruined
Advise and Consent: ruined
In Harm's Way: ruined
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:16 PM (tgvbd)
A while back it came up a suggested freebie in Amazon Prime Video. "What the hell... I can just turn it off when it starts to suck." (see: "The Rings of Power".. I rejected that one less than ten minutes in).
To my surprise, it didn't suck at all. I've seen far, far, worse F&SF movies. I completely agree that it's sequel-worthy (as you suggest, Burroughs wrote about a billion of those books, so it's not like there's a shortage of material).
In regard to Master and Commander, I think one reason it was failed to garner any awards was that it was up against the juggernaut of The Return of the King. That probably hurt it at the box office at least some, too,
A fine, fine film, which I need to watch again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:16 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at December 13, 2025 08:13 PM (VoMie)
Camp-y movies of the 80-90 period were FUN, as opposed to MANY movies these days. I greatly enjoyed Buckaroo.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 08:16 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)
I guess it was too far out there and didn't make enough money.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:17 PM (6ydKt)
In regard to Master and Commander, I think one reason it was failed to garner any awards was that it was up against the juggernaut of The Return of the King. That probably hurt it at the box office at least some, too,
A fine, fine film, which I need to watch again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:16 PM (IG3/x)
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Peter Weir is an artist, and timing killed his best chances at that Oscar.
M&C is a masterpiece. Love it so much.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 08:03 PM (yTvNw)
That's one of the other bits. John Carter is a BIG SCREEN flick. Or it should be. Something to make vast red deserts look really vast, and 4-armed Martians leaping out from the rocks look huge and terrifying.
Pern would have to be. It's about flying dragons in the sky and dogfighting with them. If you shot it to look right on a TV, it would suffer.
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 08:18 PM (K1PX7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:20 PM (bXbFr)
So would Lawrence Block's Matt Scudders -- two were done, one with Jeff Bridges and the other with Liam Neeson (the better of the two). But no series of films, darn it.
So would John D. MacDonald's Travis McGees -- two were done, one with Rod Taylor and one for television with Sam Elliott. No series of films, darn it. Taylor's, Darker Than Amber, is worth a watch just for the absolutely brutal fight sequence between Taylor and William Smith at the finish. No stunt doubles.
Quite a few films from Westlake's Parker novels, but they're all over the map.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 08:20 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (mlg/3)
Speaking of sequels. Did anyone watch the Spinal Tap sequel? I didn't even realized it had been made but saw something about it recently. I presume it doesn't work but maybe others differ?
Some good movies I've seen recently are TRAIN DREAMS, NOUVELLE VAGUE, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, IT WAS ONLY AN ACCIDENT, NO OTHER CHOICE and watching JAY KELLY now.
I think TRAIN DREAMS will be my #1 for the year, though there are dozens I haven't seen which I should.
Posted by: Lex at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (zZu0s)
I'm not surprised it didn't get many awards based on that alone.
The female Oscar voters watching it probably fell asleep half-way through.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (6ydKt)
Still have your Capra one to watch, so, yeah.
"The Rocketeer" is a perfect movie, and unless the sequels were also perfect, I'm glad it's a one-shot.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Very much so!
Posted by: mindful webworker - film flam at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (lbDMw)
I definitely put it in my top war movies
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (bXbFr)
I had trouble bringing an Otto Preminger movie to mind that I liked.
So, I checked out his filmography. Eh, i guess both "Anatomy of a Murder" and "Laura" were alright.
I guess Ol' Otsy didn't make the kind of movies I was interested in seeing.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2025 08:21 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:22 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Don Black at December 13, 2025 08:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Advice and consent was not easy to adapt
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:20 PM (bXbFr)
Allen Drury was so disgusted by what happened to his book that he refused to sell the film rights of any of his others.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:23 PM (tgvbd)
"And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure,
similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life. She did
not see me at first, but just as she was disappearing through the
portal of the building which was to be her prison she turned, and her
eyes met mine. Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her
every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and
lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair,
caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Her skin was of a
light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her
cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a
strangely enhancing effect.
She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied
her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely
naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect
and symmetrical figure."
-- A Princess of Mars
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:24 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:22 PM (KDPiq)
The one with Stallone or the one with Karl Urban?
I like them both.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:24 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:24 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Don Black at December 13, 2025 08:22 PM (ZxPkt)
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I thought we were an autonomous collective!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 08:24 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ILikeEmScurvy at December 13, 2025 08:25 PM (IMskL)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:25 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:22 PM (KDPiq)
I saw that movie twice at the theater, I like it so much. And at popular viewing times.
The first time during it's opening weekend, I was the only one in the theater.
The second time, there was one other person watching the movie.
There's no way that was ever going to get a sequel.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2025 08:25 PM (iJfKG)
Fixed it, on Anne McCaffery's behalf
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:25 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:25 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 13, 2025 08:26 PM (Mk6+b)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:26 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:26 PM (KDPiq
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Another one is being made, actually.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:27 PM (GBKbO)
Michael Kogge seems to be about to fill that need.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:27 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:28 PM (KDPiq)
Urban.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:25 PM (KDPiq)
The darker version.
It's good for that.
The campy Stallone version with Diane Lane isn't bad either.
A sequel to Demolition Man would've been nice.
But it seems we're living through it, instead.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:28 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 08:04 PM (s0JqF)
I’m surprised Hollywood even attempted it. I’m no Narnia fanboy but how they can make that series with such disdain for its Christian themes I can’t imagine. I think that is why they stopped where they did.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 08:28 PM (4786I)
I mean, it doesn't get much better than that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:25 PM (6ydKt)
Joe Johnston was the director. He also did the first Captain America movie. You can see it when you know it. Both are genuine and play it without irony or sarcasm. A rarity these days.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 13, 2025 08:28 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2025 08:28 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: davidt at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (Q+gd/)
Michael Kogge seems to be about to fill that need.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:27 PM (gKWVE)
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The earliest attempt to adapt it was in the 30s, and it would have been animated.
Theater owners convinced the producer to kill it, though. Told them people wouldn't accept something so fanciful.
It would have predated Snow White as the first feature length animated film.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (Mk6+b)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes
That book and movie is homophobic!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 08:20 PM (q3u5l)
We have the technology to pull those off now, but please let them not be made until the woke mania dies out.
I don't think I could handle a handicapped, retarded, transgendered Corwin of color.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:27 PM (GBKbO)
Lot of AI I imagine.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (KDPiq)
https://youtu.be/PHe4AMjkozs
Also watched, last week or so, Jules, a low-key SF, almost fantasy, movie. Ben Kingsley stars as a reclusive old man with slight onset of old-timer's. Satisfying. Don't read about it, don't watch a trailer, just cue it up and watch. YooToob has it to rent or buy, but somebody posted in for free:
https://youtu.be/-CfqCY9V4DQ
Posted by: mindful webworker - film flan at December 13, 2025 08:30 PM (lbDMw)
forget where/when I heard this, (perhaps a Mitchum docu?) but Otto had Mitchum slap Jean Simmons, and kept wanting him to do it, over and over. Well, after about 3rd or 4th take, Jean was crying and if IIRC, Otto wanted more takes. Mitchum said, no, no more, and if you keep pushing this, I will get you fired....that was that... I so respect Robert for doing that...
Posted by: zigggggy at December 13, 2025 08:30 PM (/Pwrg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:24 PM (zZu0s)
Hmmm, Robert E Howard's "Soloman Kane" deserves at least as much attention as his "Conan" books. Kull got a movie, but Soloman was deeper than Conan or Kull.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 08:30 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (gKWVE)
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Disney killed it. Terrible marketing and they didn't lean on critics.
They had bought Marvel and were buying Star Wars. John Carter wasn't necessary on a corporate level anymore.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:31 PM (GBKbO)
John Carter is a fun movie. Never saw that particular Arthurian movie, but anything in the he realm must be compared to Excalibur. Boorman was a very interesting director.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 08:31 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 13, 2025 08:31 PM (Mk6+b)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:33 PM (KDPiq)
I'll second that. And that's what we'd probably get from the current crop of geniuses at the studios.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 08:33 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 08:33 PM (Ia/+0)
It was filmed quite beautifully.
The story is timeless.
And a young-ish Patrick Stewart as a knight in one scene.
I think that's the only thing I've seen him in before ST:TNG.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2025 08:10 PM (XV/Pl)
They are not supposed to be.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 08:34 PM (4786I)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2025 08:34 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 13, 2025 08:34 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:35 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:35 PM (sDNVV)
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First time I ever heard Carl Orff's O Fortuna and I loved it
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 08:35 PM (L/fGl)
It had proably the best sound design this side of Ghost in The Darkness.
We used to use Pitch Black to demo 5.1 surround sound.
Speaking of sound design, whatever happened to sound design?
Now all we get is loud, louder and Nolan.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2025 08:35 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 08:35 PM (yTvNw)
Prior to the movie being made.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:36 PM (KDPiq)
If memory serves, it used to show up on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies in the 60s. Pretty sure that's where I first saw it.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 08:36 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:36 PM (bXbFr)
https://youtu.be/PHe4AMjkozs
Posted by: mindful webworker - film flan at December 13, 2025 08:30 PM (lbDMw)
Oh, indeed, good ol Capra! You can see a few pre- Its a Wonderful life ideas (at the bank, and some other banker saying, your friends won't save you) and a touch of Mr Deeds goes to Town (I believe Walter Huston gives up for a time)
Posted by: zigggggy at December 13, 2025 08:36 PM (/Pwrg)
Posted by: Lex at December 13, 2025 08:36 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:33 PM (6ydKt)
The first thing I saw him in was as Macro in I, Claudius back in the '70s (also the first time I saw boobs on TV... apparently the local PBS outlet decided it was British, therefore Art).
I didn't know who he was at the time, of course. I watched the series again years later and had a "I know that guy" moment. Then the penny dropped. Patrick Stewart! With hair!
The series holds up quite well, by the way. Just don't expect a lot of fancy special effects, just some first-rate acting and storytelling.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:37 PM (IG3/x)
Should have cut out the Christmas party dance scene. I call BS.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:37 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:38 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: gKWVE
Considering the source material pre-dates all of those, yes. Ironic.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 08:38 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 08:38 PM (WMHh6)
My Dad heard the name "Pubert" and he just about died laughing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 13, 2025 08:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 08:39 PM (4786I)
Really would like to see her some time. Maritime museum prices (like so much) are high, and I no longer have workarounds from military museum where I volunteered.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 13, 2025 08:39 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 08:40 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:40 PM (zZu0s)
That could be fun, and I'd bet TJM and the Perfessor could bring it off without even working hard.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 08:40 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 08:40 PM (D+mpw)
There ought to be a Bill Murray calendar. Watch Ghostbusters in October. Watch Scrooged in December. Watch Groundhog Day in February. Watch What About Bob in the Summer. What else?
Still debating whether we want to go to the theater on Christmas Day to see It's a Wonderful Life. Could be fun, even if we do have every frame and sound memorized. (One of my regular prayers, in plaintive Zuzu's voice: "Fix it, Daddy!")
At least the theater is clean, with comfy seats. Theaters could survive and thrive if they just showed old flicks. Anyway, I've thought so for years. Glad to encourage the practice.
Posted by: mindful webworker - flim flum at December 13, 2025 08:40 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 08:38 PM (WMHh6)
Two best book to movies IMO are The Great Santini and Captains Courageous ( even though they changed the ending)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:41 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 08:40 PM (kpS4V)
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Dolley and I went and saw it.
Neither of us liked it, but I liked it less.
I was just kind of miserable.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 08:41 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 08:33 PM (6ydKt)
Even younger in I, Claudius as Sejanus. Even has hair.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 08:38 PM (WMHh6)
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I bet TJM is much more amenable to shorty robes and togas in lieu of pants.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 08:39 PM (4786I)
I pretend that the movie Starship Troopers is a completely separate story that just by coincidence has the same name as a classic Heinlein novel.
They have precious little else in common.
Not even nude Denise Richards in her prime compensates for that steaming pile of shite.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:37 PM (bXbFr)
You know what pissed me of most (out of many choices) in Crystal Skull? Here we have this highly advanced inter dimensional alien race who have been collecting 12,000 years (we are told) of mankind’s greatest artifacts, from every culture, but at the end the aliens just say “aw fukkit we’re outta here” and they smash everything to bits and go home.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)
Yep, you're right. Sejanus, not Macro.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:42 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:43 PM (zZu0s)
Actually he played Sejanus. I think Macro was played by John Rhys Davies.
Posted by: Tuna at December 13, 2025 08:43 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:43 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 13, 2025 08:43 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Lex
At least his heart was in the right place.
OnlyFans model tells @outkick’s @JoeKinseyexp that [former Michigan coach] Sherrone Moore offered her season tickets for a foursome with two other only fans models, DM’ed her during halftime of games.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 08:43 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (k5cxK)
Just to be clear, do you mean more women exposing their boobs, or hot Martian women with more than two boobs?
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 08:44 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:44 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:44 PM (gKWVE)
Sorry, real bitter that Dragonriders has never been made into a movie!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (e/Osv)
Anne McCaffery was so against anyone touching her work that fan-sites wouldn't even host fanfiction, for fear of legal action. That annoyed me back when I was of an age when I would seek out fanfiction and fanart. But now....Not only do I understand her animosity, I fully support it.
Let Dragonriders of Pern remain as novels, unblemished by idiots trying to 'adapt' them to meet modern sensibilities and or preach today's beliefs...
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 13, 2025 08:44 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)
It would make a wonderful series.
I also think Bill Adams and Cecil Brooks' completely unknown Ethan Larkspur books, The Unwound Way and The End of Fame could make a blockbuster series, though it would pretty much take James Cameron's effects crew to do the denouement.
And of course, if there ever was a need for a Logan's Run type series with a happier ending, Tanith Lee's Don't Bite the Sun books would be excellent.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 08:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 08:45 PM (kpS4V)
Dear Lord, Duke, I saw that on TV in my misspent youth!
Posted by: Nazdar at December 13, 2025 08:46 PM (NcvvS)
TubiTV has The Last Train, with Jean Louis Trintignant and the merely cosmically lovely Romy Schneider. It's from Simenon's novel The Train, which I've not read in too long. Not a bad adaptation, from my memory of the book, but director/co-screenwriter Pierre Granier-Deferre blew the ending. His ending is probably more audience-pleasing than Simenon's darker finish, though. The flick is definitely worth a watch.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 08:46 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Tom Servo
They watched an episode about the Prime Directive and rearranged their whole society. Thermian out front shoulda toldja.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:46 PM (gKWVE)
Damn you reminded me of my most wanted sequel.
Allita : Battle Angel
My favorite girl power movie .
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:46 PM (KDPiq)
Because of course they're butthurt. Fucking ghouls.
https://tinyurl.com/ft4jvzpj
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:47 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 08:41 PM (X5Jzz)
TweakerShark. Because of all the fentanyl now in the Gulf of America waters. Have it blow into Venezuela and wreak havoc the the commies there.
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 08:47 PM (WMHh6)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
He was also Karla in the Alec Guinness "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy"
Posted by: Tuna at December 13, 2025 08:47 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2025 08:48 PM (gDlxJ)
As did Ian McKellen, in a traditional production.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:48 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 08:48 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:48 PM (bXbFr)
I guess it was too far out there and didn't make enough money.
I read that the rights to Buckaroo Banzai and any sequels had been sold multiple times, and these were the full rights, not options. Drugs may have been involved - at least that was my understanding.
The rights to the IP are completely tangled, and may never be resolved.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 08:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2025 08:44 PM (gKWVE)
The part 2 of the new Dune made me revert back to liking Lynch's Dune better.
Dune part 1 was fantastic though.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:49 PM (KDPiq)
Didn't Patrick Stewart play Lenin in "Fall of Eagles"? I could look it up, but I'm lazy.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 08:45 PM (kpS4V)
Yes
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:50 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 08:50 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 08:50 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: GWB at December 13, 2025 08:50 PM (K1PX7)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 08:51 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 08:37 PM (IG3/x)
I think it still rates as best TV miniseries ever made. The cast was incredible, a list all the way through.
The character that stands out the most to me - and I think to everyone who watches it - is John Hurt’s Caligula. This is when I first realized that Hurt was a truly great actor; several versions of Caligula have appeared over the years, but Hurt’s portrayal is do skilled, and so compelling that you can never think of that character any other way. He made it his own.
In a similar way, I think the same about Peter Ustinov’s Nero.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:51 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 08:50 PM (yTvNw)
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I suspect all hope has been given up for a third one.
A prequel series for Prime was announced in the last couple of weeks.
Downey Jr. Is just too expensive.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 08:51 PM (GBKbO)
You want to make a fantasy movie/tv show like that, fine. I've watched a few of them. (The Outpost was from that cloth, the Mythica movies were actually better than that cloth, and Curse of the Dragonslayer was better than anything else in the past decade) But for that, you have to sell your work on its own merits. Not by hijacking some other franchise that I already like.
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 13, 2025 08:51 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
Careful. Might put an eye out.
Posted by: Salman at December 13, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE)
On that note I also just watched Mr Baseball again with Tom Selleck. Held up great.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:55 PM (KDPiq)
And cumberbatchs sherlock is just a sociopath
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:55 PM (bXbFr)
A Star Is Born (Gaga/Cooper)
Apollo 13 (steelbook)
Bad Boys
Elizabeth/Elizabeth:The Golden Age
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Moana
Saving Mr. Banks
Thor: The Dark World
Rush Hour 2 (DVD)
The Hound Of The Baskervilles/Pursuit To Algiers (DVD)
Mind you, except for Apollo 13 and Bad Boys they're all used. $32 bucks for everything,
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 08:55 PM (1Yy3c)
Why has no one tried Mary Stewart's approach to the Arthurian legend? The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills are solid stories.
Posted by: Galt at December 13, 2025 08:55 PM (9UnaD)
Posted by: Lex at December 13, 2025 08:36 PM (y4H1r)
I don't know...Rebecca De Mornay 42 years later, might not look quite as hot now....
Posted by: zigggggy at December 13, 2025 08:56 PM (/Pwrg)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2025 08:56 PM (dE3DB)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:56 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:57 PM (KDPiq)
On that note I also just watched Mr Baseball again with Tom Selleck. Held up great.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:55 PM (KDPiq)
If you liked the remake you should watch the original. It's even better. The remake focuses more on the Japanese stuff but the original focuses mostly on the white guy. You won't feel like it's repetitious.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 08:57 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 13, 2025 08:29 PM (Mk6+b)
In the book it was noted to be part of a project to make watermelons unbreakable. It was never discussed why.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 08:57 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 13, 2025 08:57 PM (bXbFr)
[Never watched either the British or US TV series of the same name.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 13, 2025 08:58 PM (YmZuj)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 08:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:51 PM (k5cxK)
Oh, yeah. Definitely. To shine that brightly among THAT cast is a formidable challenge, and yet he pulled it off.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 09:00 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 08:59 PM (Ia/+0)
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Gohan kudesai.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 09:00 PM (GBKbO)
Also I loved your Christmas suit.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 09:00 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 09:00 PM (q3u5l)
Second, this movie miss a golden opportunity for some truly subversive messaging! The Green Martians have a messed up society that produces a lot of evil people. But there was one Martain who was genuinely good hearted; Sola. And what made her good? She had parents. Not even overly sentimental parents, just parents that acknowledged her and cared for her. And that was all it took to create empathy in a society of psychopaths. That....would have been a truly inspiring message...
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 13, 2025 09:00 PM (Lhaco)
Also I loved your Christmas suit.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 09:00 PMdudes ain't.
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I definitely need something. They just stop now.
I like the suit, too!
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 09:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 08:51 PM (Kt19C)
Coming to a theater near you : Monty Python's "Life of Achmed".
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 09:01 PM (X5Jzz)
Didn't Stewart have a minor part in Excalibur too?
Posted by: Lex at December 13, 2025 09:01 PM (y4H1r)
You know what I saw?
Tom Hanks coffee.
Let that sink in.
Tom Hanks coffee.
Start off your day with a strong cup of Tom Hanks in your mouth.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 09:02 PM (1Yy3c)
[Never watched either the British or US TV series of the same name.]
Posted by: ShainS
'The Office' and 'Office Space' were two different things. I'm not aware of a British version of the movie 'Office Space', which was a Mike Judge flick (and one of my favorites).
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 09:02 PM (rii+a)
Plus he's strong-willed enough that he regularly manages to get non-woke material past the Hollywood screechbots.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 09:03 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 13, 2025 09:00 PM (Lhaco)
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Yeah, I thought the same thing. Just adding "of Mars" would have added some important context to the title.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 09:04 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 09:02 PM (rii+a)
The new King of the Hill season was really good. Made me want a lot more. The story line is just how I imagined it .
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 09:04 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: the way I see it
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Interesting choices. For personal reasons, I'm not a fan of Conroy, but still a good choice.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2025 09:04 PM (XeU6L)
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Just adding "of Mars" would have added some important context to the title.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 09:04 PM (ESVrU
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Mars Needs Moms bombed, so Disney got scared of the Mars in the title, removing it, though the art is all JCM anyway, and it says John Carter of Mars at the end.
And adding the Mars would have done nothing for its box office.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 13, 2025 09:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 09:05 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 09:06 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2025 09:04 PM (XeU6L)
I chose those two because I read the books of course and the movies didn't piss me off with how they told the story and the casting.was great.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 09:07 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 09:07 PM (q3u5l)
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The IT Crowd Brit Com is quite funny
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2025 09:07 PM (dE3DB)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 09:00 PM (1Yy3c)
wow, somebody knows of her!!!! I feel shame for finding her kinda cute...cannot figure out her age...been doing videos for a decade or so....and her camera is like 20 years old...
Posted by: zigggggy at December 13, 2025 09:07 PM (/Pwrg)
Sheridan's one weakness (and it is a SERIOUS weakness) is that he just HAS to have an obnoxious blonde woman in every show. Sometimes more than one (e.g., Landman, an otherwise outstanding show).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 09:09 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 09:09 PM (rii+a)
I can only hope these follow-ons led folks to read the books.
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 09:10 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 09:11 PM (KDPiq)
TJM steps around a corner into view, dressed in a bathrobe. "Are you still here? The video's over. Go home."
Posted by: mindful webworker - TJM's Day Off at December 13, 2025 09:11 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2025 09:11 PM (gDlxJ)
Actually a mashup of all 3 would be great.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 13, 2025 09:12 PM (Mk6+b)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 09:13 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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I quite liked Wind River.
Reminds me of Longmire which then reminds me of Dark Winds.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2025 09:14 PM (gDlxJ)
Don't eat too much popcorn
And have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 09:15 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 09:15 PM (KDPiq)
I quit watching the Hobbit movies the moment I saw Doctor Who as Radagast, riding a sleigh drawn by giant bunnies. Nope nope noppeity nope.
Look for the Hobbit Tolkien Edit someone did. Much better.
Posted by: mindful webworker - in a hole in the ground there lived a sequel at December 13, 2025 09:15 PM (lbDMw)
I got it because I like jeff Bridges and Chris Pine, and I really like Ben Foster.
Great fucking movie.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 13, 2025 09:16 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: zigggggy at December 13, 2025 09:07 PM (/Pwrg)
You should feel deeply ashamed for finding her kinda cute. For starters, she's SUPER cute. Also..*doing his best seagull impression*...MINE!
Anywho, my guess is she's mid to late 30s. That gray streak in her hair makes her look...mmmmmmmmm...
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 09:18 PM (1Yy3c)
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
It was sooooooo bad, purely unnecessary, in the incorrect format, and did nothing to enhance the first film. It was sooooooo bad that there was talk that the Director and primary actor did it as a F*ck You to people who enjoyed the first one.
Posted by: Orson at December 13, 2025 09:18 PM (dIske)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 09:10 PM (yTvNw)
Long time Tolkien fan here, and I completely agree with you as to the quality of the various things that have been tried.
What killed “the Hobbit” for me was that idiotic elf dwarf romance. Gag.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 09:19 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 09:20 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2025 09:20 PM (ytIvj)
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This is the kind of thing one ought to see while tripping on pure Sandoz, not in a big-budget movie based on Tolkien.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 09:20 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 09:22 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 09:25 PM (D+mpw)
I didn't know about the new(er) movie. Will be watching.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 13, 2025 09:26 PM (E66lT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 09:26 PM (k5cxK)
"Now, the problem is, how to divide five Afghans from three mules and have two Englishmen left over."
Posted by: Peachy Carnehan at December 13, 2025 09:31 PM (R/m4+)
I would have really liked a Speed Racer sequel too.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 13, 2025 09:32 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 09:25 PM (D+mpw)
. . . and still bugshit crazy. Remember Rule #1.
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 09:33 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 09:33 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 09:34 PM (kpS4V)
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Yeah, I thought the same thing. Just adding "of Mars" would have added some important context to the title.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 09:04 PM (ESVrU)
Even though they removed 'of Mars' from the title, the movie's logo was still a (very stylized) JCM. Not only was it pig-headed executive interference, it was lazy and incomplete executive interference...
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 13, 2025 09:34 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Lex at December 13, 2025 09:35 PM (y4H1r)
Play polo withDravit's head?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 09:34 PM (kpS4V)
Oops...Yes. That's it. Thanks! Must have had King Arthur on the brain.
Posted by: Peachy Carnehan at December 13, 2025 09:36 PM (R/m4+)
It's a Miserable Afterlife by Tim Burton
Clarence didn't get his wings after all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the original at December 13, 2025 09:37 PM (lbDMw)
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One Million Years B.C. had a budget of approximately $1.2 million and grossed around $8 million at the box office. This significant return marked it as a financial success, yielding a profit that far exceeded its production costs.
Deathstalker (1983) made on a budget of $457,000, $11.9 million worldwide at the box offic
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Although, pre medeval the solution is obvious.
The problem with medieval fantasy films is too much development and not enough nekked.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 09:37 PM (ONKca)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 09:40 PM (ONKca)
Which would be funnier? The movie or the unending string of terrorist attacks which would follow it?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:42 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 09:20 PM (kpS4V)
LOL! Exactly right!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 09:43 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 13, 2025 09:46 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 09:47 PM (mFz+I)
‘ What killed “the Hobbit” for me was that idiotic elf dwarf romance. Gag.’
How did Tolkien ever write something like that?
I’m surprised he didn’t go to jail.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:48 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 09:49 PM (kpS4V)
Which would be funnier? The movie or the unending string of terrorist attacks which would follow it?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:42 PM (fd80v)
Spoiler: The unending string of terrorist attacks happen regardless.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 09:50 PM (1Yy3c)
Dude...Beth Dutton has a stupendous rack. Why are you paying attention to her character?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2025 09:50 PM (n9ltV)
‘Now, the problem is, how to divide five Afghans from three mules and have two Englishmen left over."
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I have heard that it’s difficult indeed to divide Afghans from mules.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:50 PM (fd80v)
‘ What killed “the Hobbit” for me was that idiotic elf dwarf romance. Gag.’
How did Tolkien ever write something like that?
I’m surprised he didn’t go to jail.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:48 PM (fd80v)
He didn't write that.
You can read the Hobbit in less time than it takes to watch the movie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 13, 2025 09:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:50 PM (fd80v)
Usually it's goats. I think mules qualify you as transgender under Afghan law.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 13, 2025 09:55 PM (IG3/x)
‘ What killed “the Hobbit” for me was that idiotic elf dwarf romance. Gag.’
How did Tolkien ever write something like that?
I’m surprised he didn’t go to jail.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:48 PM (fd80v)
He didn't write that.
You can read the Hobbit in less time than it takes to watch the movie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo
Yea, the book doesn't take long to read. Jackson could have just followed the book, for the most part, made one movie, and it would have worked fine, but nah.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 09:56 PM (rii+a)
‘ He didn't write that’
I figured it was some Hollywood bullcrap.
‘You can read the Hobbit in less time than it takes to watch the movie.’
I burnt up the better part of a flight back from Europe watching it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:56 PM (fd80v)
I’m surprised he didn’t go to jail.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 09:48 PM (fd80v)
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He. Did. NOT!!!
basically the story was bent over a pinball machine and sodomized by shit stains hellbent on wrecking all the things.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 13, 2025 09:58 PM (0aYVJ)
I still don't get why films like this fail, and Avatar makes a billion with every movie. It boggles my understanding. The only thing I can think of is James Cameron understands showmanship, and how to sell a story in buzz and marketing before it hits theaters.
Maybe if it had been titled "Princess of Mars," it would have sold it better in the marketing?
Treasure Planet is another one that was so brilliant in what it did, for boy's adventure and making a pirate story sci-if, but then bombed so bad.
Boys need adventure films, and action, and princesses to save in another castle, and heroes to emulate. Hopefully that vacuum gets filled with positive stories at some point. A new Star Wars, a new indie jones. The directors Spielberg and Lucas mentored never really took up that baton.
Posted by: LizLem at December 13, 2025 10:00 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (k5cxK)
Just to be clear, do you mean more women exposing their boobs, or hot Martian women with more than two boobs?
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 08:44 PM (X5Jzz)
yes
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 13, 2025 10:01 PM (xcxpd)
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=417643
Posted by: mindful webworker - in Santa hat at December 13, 2025 10:01 PM (lbDMw)
‘ How did Tolkien ever write something like that?
I’m surprised he didn’t go to jail.
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He. Did. NOT!!!
basically the story was bent over a pinball machine and sodomized by shit stains hellbent on wrecking all the things.’
This was the response I was expecting. LOL.
Tolkien had too much self respect to put something this ridiculous in his stories.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 10:02 PM (fd80v)
The Rock is a great movie.
Armageddon is a good, enjoyable movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:43 PM (zZu0s)
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He should've gotten an Oscar for direction for the first Transformers movie. That movie is extremely well paced and expertly handles multiple story threads, better than Peter Jackson did in LOTR. I'm not even a big Bay fanboy buy I'll give credit to where credit is due.
Both Bay produced TMNT movies are great too. The first better than the second, but the opening of the second is absolutely epic.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 13, 2025 10:04 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 09:56 PM (rii+a)
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It was a studio greed thing, they first required a two parter then doubled down on their greed and demanded a trilogy. Del Toro then quit and Jackson had to go back into the director's chair.
That is what I recall.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 13, 2025 10:07 PM (Vh9CX)
Unfortunately, THIS ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE FANFICTION! This is supposed to be an adaptation of The Hobbit! We only get these movies once in a generation, and you just ruined our generation's chance!
Yet another movie ruined by studio demands. If they had just waited a few years, and let Peter Jackson finish a script before filming, and not force the project into an unnecessary trilogy... There were good moments in those movies, but a lot of unnecessary nonsense, as well.
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 13, 2025 10:15 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Nemo at December 13, 2025 10:19 PM (4RPgu)
You know, that's an intriguing point. Stories from the Bible have been made and remade. Shakespeare and Austen have been redone so many ways; some of my faves where the teen romcoms I grew up on in the 90s.
Are there any beloved stories from the Quran that have blended into the fabric of literature? Been made into actual good films? Remade into a modern story? Or is the cult of Islam so strong that those stories can't be shared to the larger culture?
Posted by: LizLem at December 14, 2025 01:43 AM (gWBY1)
Hobby Thread - December 13, 2025 [Tannenbaum Rex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. As previewed, the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on Christmas Ornaments.
Last week, the call went out for Horde Christmas ornament submissions. Are you thinking "I'm a grinch that did not submit an ornament, but I am eager to see what others submitted. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.When I lived in Germany as a teenager, my parents would take us kids to the Christkindlmarkt in Bayreuth. They'd buy us each a Christmas ornament for the tree. I always wanted a giant nutcracker, but I had to make do with this little guy. He's standing on the box of the rest of my ornaments.
I foolishly forgot to put the Christmas ornament back in the box after I snapped a picture of it. This morning, I discovered that the ornament had been knocked off the box onto the floor of my dining area and had broken in two. Unfortunately, I can only find the top half. If I can ever find the bottom half, there's a good chance I can glue it back together. I'm afraid the bottom half has been batted around so much it's disappeared into the void (like the countless ping pong balls I have scattered in my house). This right here is why I don't ever have a Christmas tree.
Our neighbor has a laser-cutting device and made these 3 snowflake ornaments for us last year. Pretty cool! Just slide the pieces together for 3-D effect.
The wooden ones were a farm-store find. They looked handmade at first glance, but alas, I fear they were merely assembled by hand after mass-production of the parts. Probably printed on the thin wood and die-cut, then glued together. Still, they are so cute that I bought 2 of each plus extra cows and sheep.
The folded stars in the box were made by me in Cub Scouts around 1968. The Snoopy was re-purposed from a model kit about the same time and the glass clam shells and house are survivors from my parents collection and were old in 1968.
The two Hallmark "Beagle Scout" ornaments are near and dear to my heart as an Eagle Scout and Eagle Scout dad and former adult leader.
Mrs D purchased this when we were stationed in Germany (long ago) in Rothenburg au der Tauber. The store is called Katie Wolfharts. Known for their Christmas stuff. We have a bunch of their ornaments but this silly little thing just appeals to me.
We buy an ornament to commemorate every year. 2021 was the year Bravo and Charlie were born.
My grandmother, crocheted this tree skirt when I married in 1978. We’ve placed it under our tree every year since then. The wooden tree was made by a local woodworker; it's the newest addition to my Christmas tree forest and it's keeping the skirt on the table for its photo.
I made the ornaments from a pattern in McCall's Needlework magazine in the mid-1980s. They are the first ornaments hung on our tree each year.
The cat is is scampywife's ornament from 1975, from Santa. She has one from 1978 and 1981 also. Kind of fun.
Collage: Our tradition... kids/parents each get a new ornament every year. Often tied to what is going on in life. Kids events, sports, hobbies, new job, etc., will be the ornament theme. Ma and Pa, we get things that fit our personality quirks.
One of my favorite ornaments. Flintstones set from the 70s. We had a set of four. I have two and my sister has two.
The best Hallmark ornaments were from the 1980s. This is one of them (with two sides). They were simple, heartfelt and cherished every year I put them on the tree.
I made these to give as gifts to friends and family in 1996 - a "bell" made from a tiny terra cotta pot that I decorated. Got the idea from something I saw in a magazine that year.
This is a drum ornament that I made in second grade. It was a class project - each of us made one (using an empty wooden spool, some batting, a piece of fabric, and some glitter) to give to our parents to put on the tree that Christmas. My Mom put that on the tree every year, and when I set up my own house, she gave it to me to put on my Christmas tree. Our poor kids have had to hear that silly story every year when the tree gets put up.
I'm all-in on celebrating the semiquincentennial, having started in 2023 with a series of posts on bicentennial cookbooks, then centennial cookbooks in 2024, and, this year, starting the 250th early with Samuel Young's speech on the 42nd anniversary (the meaning of life!) of the Battle of Bennington. "All nations, from time immemorial, have had their days of commemoration. These days have marked the character of the nation itself. Among the Pagan nations they commemorate the birth day of some supposed God or Goddess. In Monarchies they commemorate the birthday of some favorite Prince or Princess. In Aristocracies they commemorate the birth day of some splendid Nobleman. But in the United States of America we commemorate the birth day of our Liberties." So when I saw the Melania Trump 250th collection, I decided to take a chance on the star, which looked very elegant in the site's photos. It just arrived a few weeks ago, and I'm very happy with it. But I was even more pleasantly surprised - though I probably shouldn't have been surprised - to see "Made in the USA" on the side.
My fav is the photo ornament with a picture of my son age 2-1/2 years in his Halloween costume as a tiger.
The other one is a gorgeous Alaska ornament from The Kobuk Shop which is a historical little treasure located in the oldest building in Anchorage, also known by its original name "Kimball's Dry Goods." Every ornament on my tree is distinct. Some would say it's chaotic.
The sound of Christmas in our house, a "Light and Magic" Hallmark ornament from 1989. Kringles Workshop. Plugs into your string of lights and the little elves saw and hammer, and the little gears whir and clack. We had that on our tree since I was 8. The original finally stopped working shortly before I married my wife, and damned if I didn't find another one for our first tree. And when that one gave up the ghost my wife bought another for me. I'm sure when this one goes we'll find another. Wouldn't be Christmas without this clacking in the background.
The following are the nice brass carburetor floats that I hang on our tree : 2 Carter (a WDG and WD-O) floats from Hudsons and a Rochester Q-Jet float from a old GM I can't recall. They're shiny brass.
I bought this Hallmark ornament two months ago but it's already my all-time favorite. I didn't even put it on the tree. It's on my nightstand so I can see it frequently, and it's staying there all year.
Coming straight out of the early 70s and my childhood is my treasured paper mache blue cow that was given to me by my mother. The "flower power" decoration provides the finishing touch. She always is prominently displayed at eye level.
The first year we were married my husband and I invited our parents over to our place for Thanksgiving. I made my first turkey; my MIL asked for the turkey carcass to take home, from which she made luscious turkey noodle soup. Come Christmas, she presented me with the intact wishbone from my first turkey, spray-painted gold, covered with green fuzz and tied up with red yarn to be used as a Christmas tree ornament. That was 45 years ago and one leg of the wishbone has broken off, but it's still my favorite!
These are two ornaments I made. They were inspired by ornaments I saw on Pinterest.
This fish is a very sentimental favorite, the poor thing is pretty time worn. It was on my grandmother's tree when she was a child, in the early 1900's. I suspect it's even older since her family was originally from Germany and might have either brought it or have it sent. It's about five inches from mouth to tail tip, made of blown glass. The original red coloring can just be seen, while the silver mesh over the body is barely there now. I still treasure it!
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 05:31 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)
My grandmother ( dad's mother) made probably thousands in her life with a hard foam base then completely covered with sequins and things
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 05:34 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 05:36 PM (vFG9F)
Should somehow weigh them.
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:38 PM (Ia/+0)
My grandmother ( dad's mother) made probably thousands in her life with a hard foam base then completely covered with sequins and things
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Somewhere deep in the boxes are a few handmades from school days of me and one of my bros. Wife likes new stuff, so all those and my grandparents 40s and 50s Shiny Brite ornaments are dust gathering in the garage.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 05:43 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 13, 2025 05:45 PM (ZfTMG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 05:46 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2025 05:47 PM (RQW+z)
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 13, 2025 05:45 PM (ZfTMG)
The only one I know is "Root Beer."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 05:47 PM (uQesX)
Haven't see such since.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 05:48 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 05:43 PM
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Sad trombone...
Posted by: TRex - dino is old too at December 13, 2025 05:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: fd
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Another fun Hallmark ornament from the '80s. Definitely not AI.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 05:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 05:54 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 05:54 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: TRex - dino is old too at December 13, 2025 05:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
A lot of them say West Germany.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 05:54 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 05:54 PM (h4uy9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 05:56 PM (Kt19C)
We had the standard ornaments when I was a kid at home. One thing we did have that was not a tree dangler was a Grumpy Santa -- a painted ceramic figure, about the size of a coin bank (and maybe he was one), that Mom had found in a downtown store like Woolworth's. She popped him atop the television -- or on a shelf after we had cats -- and she found him amusing.
I must have missed it among her things when I cleaned out her apartment after she passed. I have never seen another one, and a search for "grumpy Santa" on eBay produces zilch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 05:56 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: TRex - dino is old too at December 13, 2025 05:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
A lot of them say West Germany.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 05:54 PM (uQesX)
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I have one that's a silhouette of a nativity scene carved out of olive wood. It says it was made in Bethlehem, which I thought was pretty neat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 05:57 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 05:57 PM (ESVrU)
There used to be a group from Bethlehem who came around in the fall offering carved sets. Haven't seen or heard about them in years.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 05:59 PM (uQesX)
My grandmother had some of those glass clamshell ornaments and others like them. She also had a color wheel, which makes any beautiful Christmas tree more beautifuler.
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 05:59 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 05:54 PM (Kt19C)
I don't care as much about Grinch decor, as it is a Christmas story, although subtle. Don't understand why this gnome stuff is coming out, plus dogs, cats, penguins - well, I know how that came about - or other animals that aren't associated with Christmas or winter. But, eh, what can you do?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 06:01 PM (uQesX)
and my spring boxes are "push" (compression) and "pull" (extension).
Posted by: cmeat at December 13, 2025 06:01 PM (R11M+)
I wish some still existed. Perhaps I will make my
Own someday.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2025 06:02 PM (mT+6a)
So, way back in 1986, my parents got a set of wooden ornaments which have proven to be dog-proof (so long as they are kept out of the range of puppies).
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 06:02 PM (4786I)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 13, 2025 06:02 PM (31p00)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 05:57 PM
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Maybe sometime we'll do a nativity set theme. That could be quite interesting.
Posted by: TRex - dino is usually unfairly omitted from manger scenes at December 13, 2025 06:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9)
The Grinch is my homie. : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 06:05 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 06:06 PM (4786I)
Posted by: PabloD at December 13, 2025 06:08 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:08 PM (Ia/+0)
It was hysterical.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2025 06:10 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 05:54 PM (ESVrU)
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That sounds very Mary Lou Who of you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 13, 2025 06:11 PM (lCxV1)
It was hysterical.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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"the crap tree"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 06:12 PM (NwnyJ)
We didn’t have those. But I do miss my dad carefully going over the strands of those big incandescent bulbs to find out which ones were bad.
Pretty sure he doesn’t miss that.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 13, 2025 06:13 PM (EXyHK)
Of course homemade ornaments from loved ones climb up the sentimental value track much faster.
Posted by: HappyFun at December 13, 2025 06:14 PM (d2+05)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2025 06:14 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 06:06 PM (4786I)
They're available on Amazon. Not sure about vintage ones.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 06:14 PM (uQesX)
And there is absolutely nowhere to go to eat or have a drink.
Posted by: IrishEi
Walk into the Marriott. Bar and restaurant on the 1st floor on the right just past the entry.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 06:16 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Vendette at December 13, 2025 06:16 PM (pJK38)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 06:17 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 06:18 PM (LHPAg)
and my spring boxes are "push" (compression) and "pull" (extension).
Posted by: cmeat at December 13, 2025 06:01 PM (R11M+)
Heh. I have several bin boxes of both compression and tension springs. Need another for torsion and leaf springs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 06:18 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2025 06:20 PM (9iRTe)
You don't know a Rochester when you see one?
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 06:23 PM (q6tQZ)
I've looked everywhere but it's not there. I found the Oatmeal carton in which I stored it but only one one inch piece of glue was there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 06:23 PM (ONKca)
You don't know a Rochester when you see one?
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 06:23 PM
Comin' Boss!
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 06:24 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025
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I remember those big hot bulbs. They are the kind of thing that would be outdoor lights now, if those aren't LEDs too. We had a real tree every year when I lived at home, and so we never left the lights on at night or when there was not at least one person awake to watch. Never had a fire, thankfully.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:24 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 13, 2025 06:25 PM (lCxV1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
(Won't mention forever plastics)
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 06:26 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 06:23 PM
Comin' Boss!
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025
***
Armed robber: "Your money or your life!"
Jack Benny (after one of his classic pauses): "I'm thinking, I'm thinking!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:27 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)
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Further such oversights will require a personal meeting with the Dean of Commenters and the possible loss of your cardboard-level privileges.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 13, 2025 06:27 PM (lCxV1)
In addition to two boxes of springs I have another drawer with real little springs, and shelves of bigger springs. You'd be surprised how often I have to access my cache of springs, and how important springs really are to our modern way of life.
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 06:27 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 13, 2025 06:25 PM (lCxV1)
Toss over the side?
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 06:27 PM (LHPAg)
I've looked everywhere but it's not there. I found the Oatmeal carton in which I stored it but only one one inch piece of glue was there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 06:23 PM (ONKca)
Who else had access to to it?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 13, 2025 06:28 PM (Wj1DV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:30 PM (wzUl9)
I've looked everywhere but it's not there. I found the Oatmeal carton in which I stored it but only one one inch piece of glue was there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025
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Who else had access to to it?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 13, 2025
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And who had motive?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 13, 2025 06:31 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 06:23 PM
Comin' Boss!
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025
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Armed robber: "Your money or your life!"
Jack Benny (after one of his classic pauses): "I'm thinking, I'm thinking!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:27 PM (wzUl9)
Note for any young(er) person who might be on the page: Jack Benny was a famous comedian who died 51 years ago. He had a butler named Rodchester. Rochester was black and I am sure the whole thing would be racist now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 06:33 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 06:27 PM (vFG9F)
The Native Americans used every bit of the spring.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 06:34 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 06:35 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 06:36 PM (LHPAg)
(like most of us back then) used what they had and used wonderful imagination. They are wonderful for their own sake and for the memories.
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 06:36 PM (yTvNw)
You don't know a Rochester when you see one?
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 06:23 PM
Comin' Boss!
Not a Q-Jet... 50-50 shot now
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 13, 2025 06:37 PM (pDcsL)
Honestly, thinking about it, I cannot think of a comedian today that uses the pause.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)
And apparently a very nice man.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 06:38 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2025 06:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 06:34 PM
And the cabbage. The heart was reserved for Ten Bears and he gave me half it.
-Outlaw Josey Wales
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 06:39 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 06:39 PM (46ZIb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)
I can’t think of any comedians today, except for those from the 90’s that have mostly retired.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 06:39 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 06:39 PM (k5cxK)
Hmmm. Good point.
I am vaguely aware of Bill Burr and that he is a retard who sells out to Qatar.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 06:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd
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Another fun Hallmark ornament from the '80s. Definitely not AI.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
+++++
Reminds me of inprocessing at basic training....
Everybody! Get on that bench, sit like on a bike.
Get closer! Closer!
Dick-n-ass !!
Dick-n-ass !!
Looks around... Benches had plenty of room to sit normal
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 13, 2025 06:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: fd
Our new Chevy 1 ton has torsion bars for the front end. They have to be 2-2.5 inches thick. Our RV trailer also has torsion axles. Smooth as butter going down the road. Much better than a leaf spring suspension.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 13, 2025 06:45 PM (abIsI)
NAVY!!
⚓️
(this is a good sign,
Navy won in 2024, Trump won. 2026 is looking good. that's all.)
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2025 06:38 PM (g47mK)
The VF-84 Hornet themed uniform was a great touch last year. Maybe a Seabee D-8 dozer theme would have been good this year?
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 06:45 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 06:47 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 06:47 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 06:50 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 13, 2025 06:50 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Pains me to admit it, but yes...my mother for some unknown reason thought this would be a good idea...even came with that color wheel...offended me every single season....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 06:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: MkY
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I have a Stromberg 97 ceramic mug.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2025 06:52 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 06:52 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 06:50 PM (uQesX)
I saw one in a home movie at my grandparents (Dad side.) To a young kid, it looked cool as hell with the color wheel.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 06:55 PM (zZu0s)
Parents had those, when I was little. There were fancy replacement/upgrade bulbs too: snowmen, churches, trees. Mom kept the burned-out shaped ones, just 'cause they were pretty ornaments even without light.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 06:55 PM (rdVOm)
Thank you morons for sharing all those Christmas mementos
tcn's little boy is adorable.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 06:56 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 13, 2025 07:00 PM (H9K3b)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2025 07:00 PM (XeU6L)
And if your babies are at the age where they hang all the ornaments in tbe same place, so be it. I mean, adjust them if any are in danger of being damaged or broken, but is there anything more fun than walking into a home and being able to tell immediately that there are toddlers and wee girls and boys who helped decorate?!
You're not getting these years back, when they're so proud of thei little macaroni ornaments, and so thrilled to hang them all by themselves.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 07:01 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 07:01 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 13, 2025 07:01 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 07:05 PM (6p0Jv)
Great ornaments and two fantastic tree skirts!
Sharing the spirit of the season is a priceless gift.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 13, 2025 07:05 PM (kB9dk)
Just glad that were in Germany back when it was not infested with hajjis.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 13, 2025 07:08 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Only Murcans, ammiright?
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 07:11 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:12 PM (sDNVV)
You gawt-damned morons brought tears to my eyes with your stories. And tcn's little tiger! 🥰🥰🥰 and Viktor's kitties!
I hope you look at that ornament, and remember how cute he was, tcn...and that it helps you sane while he's doing his best to drive you insane right now!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 07:12 PM (Vvh2V)
Amy Schumer and her husband have decided to go their separate ways.
In an Instagram post shared on Friday, Dec. 12, the 44-year-old "Kinda Pregnant" star shared that she and her husband, chef Chris Fischer, have decided to split after seven years of marriage.
"Blah blah blah Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after 7 years. We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son. We would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time," she wrote in the caption.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 13, 2025 07:12 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 07:12 PM (ONKca)
Who knew you could spend an hour deciding how you want your backup time stamp formatted.
For moments like this, Gin helps immensely.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2025 07:13 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 13, 2025 07:14 PM (38587)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 13, 2025 07:15 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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Also, he was part of the Amon n' Andy company.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 07:15 PM (ONKca)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 13, 2025 07:16 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 07:16 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 07:17 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:12 PM
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So it is written, so it shall be done.
Second chance for those that missed this one. Go ahead and send your ornaments. To keep it lively, the Hobby Thread mailbox will accept other Christmas decorations, crafts, nativity scenes, etc.
Posted by: TRex - Christkindlmarkt Dino at December 13, 2025 07:18 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 13, 2025 07:18 PM (CWTWj)
We always had our three children hang the ornaments.
Who cares if things aren't symmetrical. It is family time, not little miss perfect time.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:19 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:19 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 07:20 PM (6p0Jv)
Last year we put up a little fake Charlie Brown tree, and only with non-breakable ornaments. It was up from before Thanksgiving through early February and the cat never knocked it over. A Christmas miracle :-)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 13, 2025 07:20 PM (UONii)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 13, 2025 06:31 PM (abIsI)
Please post a review if Santa comes through, that's something I'm thinking about getting. I usually stick to the larger SMT parts, 1206 or bigger, and do OK with a magnifier and lots of light, but a microscope would help my 29 year old eyes.
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 07:21 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 13, 2025 07:21 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 06:36 PM (LHPAg)
Please tell me you're not eating steak tonight because you're saving money to pay for the new microwave, and not because you can't cook them in the dead microwave.
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 07:24 PM (X5Jzz)
God bless you for that, fourseasons!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 07:24 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:25 PM (3ek7K)
The tree is up at Casa Sin Problemas, GOA. We retired the 15 Year-old tree that served us well in California. Picked up the current 4ft "spruce" from Facebook Marketplace earlier today from a local. 40 bucks and she threw in two 50-light strings and other assorted ornaments. Merry Christmas, Hoard!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 07:25 PM (nbLIj)
If you missed, please submit. If you submitted this week and have another ornament or Christmas decoration in mind, OK to send.
See y'all at the Club ONT Christmas party later!
Posted by: TRex - nativity shy dino at December 13, 2025 07:25 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: moki at December 13, 2025 07:28 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 07:28 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:30 PM (sDNVV)
Amy Schumer and her husband have decided to go their separate ways.
In an Instagram post shared on Friday, Dec. 12, the 44-year-old "Kinda Pregnant" star shared that she and her husband, chef Chris Fischer, have decided to split after seven years of marriage.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 13, 2025 07:12 PM (CWTWj)
So, he married her and put up with her when she was a fat pig, and now that she's a skinny pig, she dumps him. Nice. And lucky him, to be rid of her.
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 07:30 PM (X5Jzz)
It's good for the money but that old GE was nice.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 07:31 PM (ONKca)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:31 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 07:24 PM (X5Jzz)
Nobody cooks steaks in a microwave. We only use a hot skillet.
-Amos 'n Andy
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 07:32 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 07:38 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: a.moron at December 13, 2025 07:24 PM (X5Jzz)
A microwave is no place for a steak. Frozen White Castles, maybe...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 07:39 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 07:39 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:40 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2025 07:00 PM (XeU6L)
My Dad said it was carbon tetrachloride. Alcohol + heat might end badly. Seems to me there was a little hunk of granular stuff in the bottom to nucleate the bubbles, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7)
Ditto, and may our Dear Lord shower you with many blessings in this new year coming!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 07:42 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:42 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 13, 2025 07:42 PM (Vvh2V)
I found some bubble lights at an estate sale.
Estate sales are great for finding old, cool stuff.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:43 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ
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Mine too. I wondered if I had a mind gap.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 07:43 PM (ONKca)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:44 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 07:44 PM (nbLIj)
Most new stuff today is crap.
Hubby and I think the lockdown had a lot to do with things being crap.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:46 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 13, 2025 07:46 PM (pDcsL)
Anyway, left them on too long one afternoon and one of the bubbler thingys popped. Liquid got too hot? Stained the mini-blind with blue splatter, but no fire.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 07:47 PM (rdVOm)
Estate sales are great for finding old, cool stuff.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:43 PM (3ek7K)
Bubble lights are the best damn Christmas lights ever invented. Earliest Christmas memories included those. I think they only lasted a few years, but they made an umpression...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 07:48 PM (nbLIj)
Did a quick run to town for groceries, mail, etc. The white '99 Suburban started right up, not a moment's delay, despite having cold-soaked for several days in sub-zero weather. By the time I'd made the three miles to town, the heater was making its presence felt, and by the time I got home, it was nice and warm inside the beast. +5 F right now, and I saw what appears to be a Chinook arch in the far south, so it may warm up, as the forecast calls for.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 07:51 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:46 PM (sDNVV)
I'm always up for a nice waltz..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Ig33jctXs
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 07:52 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:52 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 07:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:54 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 07:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 13, 2025 07:46 PM (pDcsL)
I know a guy here in Alberta who is restoring a Hudson Hornet convertible with Twin-H power. Well, it's in the queue; a couple of other high-dollar cars precede it. Rick is a very skilled and meticulous restorer. It will be done right, when it gets done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fourseasons
*******
So, that's where the good temps went, cause they certainly aren't here...enjoy them!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 07:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
You will be heading to warm weather soon.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:52 PM (3ek7K)
Planning on it. Probably later this coming week.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 07:56 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:56 PM (sDNVV)
Grateful,
5 y/o granddaughter asked today if we are going to have a brown Christmas this year, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:56 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: fourseasons
Ha! I'm sure you assured her whatever the color, all Christmases are magical and good. What a great age, enjoy your time with her!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 07:58 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Ugh! I did that for many years....finally about 8-10 years ago I intentionally tried to take a photo of everything I made....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 08:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 08:01 PM (npFr7)
We had the four grandchildren, 3 to 11 y/o today so mom and dad could get everything wrapped and ready for Santa.
It was a wonderful day.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 08:02 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 13, 2025 08:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:04 PM (sDNVV)
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I go to self check out, cash machine with a pocket full of coins (best done at low traffic times). First thing, all the pocket coin goes into the machine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (ONKca)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 08:07 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 08:06 PM (ONKca)
Well, that's a way to avoid the Coinstar vigorish, I guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 08:08 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:09 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: The Neon Madman at December 13, 2025 08:15 PM (yNfcm)
I know that Hobby Lobby has pink trees, but not sure if they are aluminum, probably just plastic
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 08:17 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Would LOVE to see those!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 08:18 PM (IQ6Gq)
It was a wonderful day.
Posted by: fourseasons
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This just makes me SMILE!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 13, 2025 08:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
My favorite is a ceramic one of two boys carrying a tree. Which is similar to one of my favorite photos I took of our boys "helping" carry the tree my brother cut on our farm. It is framed and I keep it in our bedroom in the event of fire (which is weird as I will probably forget it).
I keep meaning to paint the scene and have Christmas cards printed but I never do.
Christmas does bring back good memories and sentiment of family past and present. I wish all good memories on you all.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 08:50 PM (WONhk)
The first Christmas of their marriage I gave them each bins of these ornaments for their tree with their brides.
Now I buy an ornament (with the year!!!) for them plus our grandchildren. Often with their names and ,of course, the year. Etsy has some great artists who make them.
I confess to being an Etsy addict.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 08:54 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 07:56 PM (3ek7K)
You, too?
I have been praying for snow. The Mountain West is getting ripped off so far.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 08:58 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 09:24 PM (npFr7)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 13
Foxes are beautiful animals that you may be surprised to see in your garden. But like many wildlife species, they’ve learned to live near us. "Foxes are more commonly observed now," Robert Pierce, PhD, associate professor and state extension fisheries and wildlife specialist at the University of Missouri. "You’ll see them in urban and suburban areas because they’ve adapted to the conditions." Most of the time, foxes are naturally shy and hide from us. "Generally, we don’t have negative interactions with them," says Sheldon Owen, PhD, wildlife extension specialist at West Virginia University. "They prefer to stay out of sight and are primarily nocturnal, although you will also see them during the day, especially if they’re hunting for their pups." The greatest risk to people and pets with foxes is that they can carry canine distemper, fleas, ticks, and the mites that can cause mange, says Owen. Like all mammals, foxes also can carry rabies, but it’s a small number, as compared to other wildlife species such as bats, raccoons and skunks. Typically, foxes are not a serious issue for homeowners. "Most often we get calls from people saying they have a fox family in their back yard," says Pierce. "We advise to give them their space and observe and enjoy the experience."More at the link. And this is interesting:
Last week, we learned that By-Tor had raccoons at his house again. They may be more of a problem sometimes.Foxes may use Earth’s magnetic field to hunt, judging both direction and distance.
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) December 6, 2025
When prey is hidden under snow, they tend to leap northeast and dive in a corkscrew motion.
This natural “augmented reality” helps them find unseen prey with precision
pic.twitter.com/Gn8EPSvw9B
— Why you should have a Raccoon (@ShouldHaveRacc) December 13, 2025
Or maybe not . . . . .
Conor Pup was diagnosed with lymphoma and started chemotherapy treatment at a canine oncologist in the mid-fall. It was not an easy path for either of us, but we endeavored to persevere but as you can see, he graduated at the top of his class. HrothgarHate to hear about Conor's big challenge. You both deserve to feel a sense of gratitude and pride.
Walking the girls around the thousands of Christmas lights downtown. They were good even though they are not very social (farm dogs). A friend made the noses for some muzzles we had. One gentleman asked how we kept the noses on until he got a closer look. Merry Christmas. S.Lynn, IdahoWhat a wonderful story! Merry Christmas, girls!
Howdy K.T., Wifey and I were privileged to attend the TX MoMe a couple months ago and she took the attached photo of the playful cute dog running around the property (presumably the pet of our hosts Rancher Bob and Cow Horse Queen); I think I asked around what its name was but none of the other attendees I inquired with knew. I think I'll just call him (or her?) "Ace" next time ... ;-) Cheers (and thanks for hosting the Pet Thread each weekend)!Howdy! Thanks for sending in a photo of such a great PetMoron!
-- ShainS and "Wifey of ShainS Prescott, AZ, USA
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spaces Pet Thread, December 6 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2025 03:46 PM (LjSYW)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 03:46 PM (tgvbd)
I had set a plate with a hamburger on it on the side tray of my lawn chair. Unfortunately, the plate wasn't very stable and fell off when I wasn't looking. Or it was helped. Not sure.
In any case, the dog was kind enough to clean up my mess.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 03:53 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 03:54 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 13, 2025 03:55 PM (yNJrI)
I did see foxes often in the Denver area, including ones dashing around the animal enclosures at he zoo. The staffers told me they no longer even tried to keep the foxes out; they slipped under the fences or slid between the rails. One morning in Red Rocks Park, I saw one coppery, bushy-tailed fellow on the opposite side of the road where I'd parked. He seemed totally unfazed by the presence of me or my car. I sat and watched him look around until he trotted away from the trail, intent on his own foxy pursuits.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 03:57 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 13, 2025 03:58 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 03:59 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 13, 2025 04:00 PM (9W1vH)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 13, 2025 04:02 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 13, 2025
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If Babymonster is a boy and Sakura is not spayed, you may have a joyful event coming. Precocious Stirling was only five months old, and Dagny the same, when he was already trying to get next to her and warm himself by her fire. We had to separate them until I could get first one and then the other docked.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 04:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 04:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 13, 2025 04:00 PM (9W1vH)
Here here! Conor is an extraordinary boy, to be sure, and deserves all the love, attention and care Sir Hrothgar lavishes on him!! Frankly, both are extraordinary souls!!!
Posted by: moki at December 13, 2025 04:07 PM (wLjpr)
When Miss Linda gets a look at the Christmas outfits on S. Lynn's girls, she's gonna want to devise something like it for my cats. She keeps saying, "They don't mind costumes." To which I reply, "How do you know?" She insists on putting a Santa suit on them every year and taking pictures. At that it's better than the princess cone-cap and cape she used to dress the late Marie-Antoinette in. True, Marie did not seem to mind; it meant more attention from her human servants, and that she loved.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 04:08 PM (wzUl9)
See them frequently enough around here to not be surprised when one passes through.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 04:10 PM (QVmho)
The next morning I threw it over the fence for the neighbor's chickens, and a while later I saw the youngest kitten batting it around and mock-hunting it. When she saw me watching she picked it up and trotted over to show me.
She got a treat too, and the sadly mangled mouse went in the compost heap, hopefully for good.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 04:11 PM (rbvCR)
So glad to hear you are earning their trust.
Hrothgar
So sorry your pup had to even go through that. I am glad he is doing well. We have lost several cats to lymphoma. Horrible disease.
Posted by: Joyenz at December 13, 2025 04:12 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2025 04:15 PM (DoBxX)
Maybe they are becoming "domestic-lite," as in perfectly happy to live in proximity to humans for the food and even the entertainment value. The way cats began to take up with us.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 04:16 PM (wzUl9)
We're fortunate that neither the cat, nor the dog, nor the four "cousin" dogs visiting yesterday, care about the tree inside the house.
Daisy, our dear, sweet and sensitive Malinois, did not care for this brief, creative version of Jingle Bells. Made her whine and cry, so I stopped it before the end.
https://youtu.be/fG90ZlnloAE
Posted by: mindful webworker - squeaky squeaky at December 13, 2025 04:20 PM (lbDMw)
A couple years ago, had a HUGE mole/vole problem. Backyard looked like varicose veins. Noticed that a pair of foxes (assuming M/F pair) started showing up in the backyard in the EARLY morning (I generally wake up around 4:30 and grab some coffee). Within 4-6 months NO MORE MOLES/VOLES!!!!
Ya think the two might be somehow linked?????
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 04:21 PM (e/Osv)
Maybe they are becoming "domestic-lite," as in perfectly happy to live in proximity to humans for the food and even the entertainment value. The way cats began to take up with us.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 04:16 PM (wzUl9)
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I think an animal has to have a distinct useful purpose to humans before it can truly be called "domesticated." Racoons don't serve any purpose other than to be a nuisance. Acclimated to human activity, but not in danger of being domesticated any time soon.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 04:22 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 13, 2025 04:23 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2025 04:23 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 04:22 PM (ESVrU)
I think "acclimated" to humans is the key here. I live in the suburbs next to a reservoir, so we get ALL sorts of critters in the neighborhood. This time of year, it's 6-10 deer in the yard eating acorns and crabapples.
I go outside to warm the truck, and they may glance at me, but they don't run. I swear I have been within 15 feet of a couple. Hmm, is this where I start considering "alternate" hunting methods???
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2025 04:28 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 13, 2025 04:31 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter
We hardly ever saw deer all summer and early fall. Funny thing, as soon as hunting season starts, we get many of them here in the living area.
They drive Daisy dog crazy, mad barking and running from window to window. But so do the feral cats down the driveway. Also, squirrels, blowing leaves, and hallucinations, as far as we can tell.
Posted by: mindful webworker - almost as if they knew at December 13, 2025 04:34 PM (lbDMw)
Its pretty easy. We're not trapping or shooting 'coons, or deer, or turkey anymore.
Let the grocery store shut down a couple weeks. Then you'll hear some bangs. And then all those cute critters won't come 'round anymore. They won't be extinct ... as a species.
And you'll see some skinny, miserable people. And some people that don't look at the end of starvation. The End.
Posted by: Howdy at December 13, 2025 04:34 PM (ivXYS)
Posted by: Vendette at December 13, 2025 04:34 PM (pJK38)
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 04:36 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 13, 2025 04:37 PM (f0sNM)
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This was actually a topic of discussion at a work meeting. Item 5: Raccoons: Are they self-domesticating. I'm not making this up.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 13, 2025 04:38 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 13, 2025
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In my limited experience (three so far), black cats are the most easygoing and adaptable, and possibly the smartest, of all the coat colors.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 04:40 PM (wzUl9)
Award of Merit, but not Best of Breed, for The Big Dummy at today's AKC National Championship show. Her Majesty said he was a hot and tired boy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 04:40 PM (tgvbd)
What should you do if you see a fox in your yard?
I have 11 choices.
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The fox doesn't need my approval, he needs the approval of Smoke the yard panther.
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 04:42 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025
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Last January we had a historic (for here) snowfall. Linda got the idea to see how little Dagny the Siberian would react to conditions in her "homeland." She toted Dagny out -- and the little cat, normally silent, let out a yowl you could have heard across the street. We brought her in quick.
Last month she tried exposing Dagny to warmer and calmer conditions. Dagny did not complain at all. So it was the cold or the snow hitting her fur that bothered her before, not the vista of the scary wide open outdoors.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 04:43 PM (wzUl9)
This is not a safe place for kitties. Too many cars and coyotes, owls, eagles and yes, fox. And she doesn’t seem particularly street smart. Ugh. Makes me horribly anxious and worried for the pretty pretty girl.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2025 04:43 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Maths at December 13, 2025 04:44 PM (taD4S)
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025
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At Christmas time in '89, we had another historic (for here) snowfall. When I got home, I decided to let Arizona the red-and-white tabby part-Coon out into the little fenced patio, to see how he'd react to "Maine" conditions. He padded around on the snow, sniffing at everything and holding his muzzle up to feel the snow on his nose. I got cold before he did and ushered him back inside.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 04:46 PM (wzUl9)
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Smoke the cat sort of joined me over the period of a couple of weeks. He was part of the beggars I feed for a while, but was a little different. He was less of a fraidy-cat & more confidant. Sometime in September he realized all the food came from inside our house, so he let himself in. He stayed longer each time, and by October he was staying for good. I'm sure he was previously owned, but put outside or abandoned right after he had atrained his full growth.
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 04:47 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 04:50 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at December 13, 2025 04:53 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 13, 2025 04:57 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 04:40 PM (wzUl9)
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I only have one sample (Penny) but she's very much like you describe.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 04:58 PM (ESVrU)
The fox walked up to me and cocked his head as though to say, Do I know you? As close as any dog. I just talked to him. He nodded and went off into the garden--between me and my house--checking back every few steps. You're still here? Then wandered away.
One of the workers was already on site. I said, Did you see that? He said, Never seen anything like it. So I have a witness.
Posted by: Wenda at December 13, 2025 05:02 PM (A65Zh)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2025 05:02 PM (+mUZM)
We christened the female "Adventure Fox" and her brother "Cautious Fox" based on their behavior. Mom fox came by to tend them frequently. We had a very entertaining spring watching them grow up but have only occasionally seen foxes in our yard since then.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 13, 2025 05:03 PM (FEVMW)
The day I moved into this house some friends came over with a bottle of champagne to celebrate. We were out on the patio having some bubbly and a fox came out of the conversation land, stopped in the yard and just watched us. He stood there for about 30 seconds and then turned and trotted through the yard. Cheeky little bugger.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 13, 2025 05:09 PM (viF8m)
I am up and about (I have always recovered fairly quickly from most surgeries that I have had), and I am giving the nursing staff kittens because I am an old lady with an old lady's bladder, and when I need to go, I NEED TO GO!!!!! I have asked them to turn off the floor alarm....(they are threatening to assign me a full-time "handler" if I don't comply with the floor alarm, because I am a "fall risk"🤣🤣🤣
It looks like the largest tumor is, for all intents and purposes, dead. However, the smaller tumors are still there, and it looks like at least 1 more has cropped up. Some lymph nodes were sent off to be biopsied to see if the cancer has spread beyond the liver, and tissue from a couple of the smaller tumors was also sent off to see if those cancer cells have mutated (a common occurrence).
Once the surgeon got into the abdominal area, it was obvious to him that there was more tumor involvement than either the CT scans or the MRIs had shown (also a common occurrence), so he made the decision - which we had talked about in advance - to leave the liver intact and install an HAI pump inside of the liver instead.
(Continued....)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 13, 2025 05:10 PM (fV+di)
I don’t know when they plan on starting the chemo through the pump, but it appears that I will not have to “sit through” weekly chemo sessions, as the medication is sort of time-released through the HAI pump – a couple of weeks of focused chemo, followed by a week or two off. I will also be able to continue oral chemo in addition to the concentrated internal chemo which will be given through the pump. Once we know more about potential mutations in the cancer cells, a decision will be made about what type of chemo I will need to be on going forward.
I don’t know what the side effects of the new chemo in the pump will be, nor do I know if they will be starting a different oral chemo – it’s going to depend on if they find a new mutation in the tumor tissues. If the combination of both of these treatments results in tumor shrinkage, the hope is to get me to a liver resection at some point in the near future.
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Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 13, 2025 05:11 PM (fV+di)
Jane and Zip are great dogs!! I need to bring my dog to see if they'll rub off on him. Buckley is a really great dog, just needs a few rough edges smoothed out. 🤗
Posted by: lin-duh at December 13, 2025 05:12 PM (VCgbV)
In the meantime, “Bucket List Year #2: Electric Boogaloo” plans continue apace. First on the list is our trip to Las Vegas in February, where we will be seeing Chicago (the band), Piff the Magic Dragon, Barry Manilow, The Wizard of Oz, The Eagles, and Penn and Teller, as well as taking a nighttime limo ride down the Strip and a helicopter tour over the Grand Canyon with a sojourn over the Skywalk.
In March we have tickets to see Jeff Dunham in concert in Reno combined with a visit with our oldest daughter’s family (well really, we’re going to see the grandbabies!), followed by a George Strait Concert in Lubbock in April, and then a trip down to Galveston in May to see Jeff Foxworthy and to spend some time with my BFF from high school and her family.
Last but not least, in July we have tickets to see “Hamilton” at Bass Hall in Fort Worth. We will be going with a large-ish group of friends to see that, preceded by dinner at The Cheesescake Factory (which is right across the street from Bass Hall).
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Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 13, 2025 05:13 PM (fV+di)
Well, that’s all for now – I would like to thank everyone for all of their prayers and well wishes, and thank goodness for the miracle of modern medicine!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 13, 2025 05:13 PM (fV+di)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 05:13 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 05:14 PM (k5cxK)
Continued prayers. Stay strong and faithful.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 05:16 PM (KDPiq)
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Foxes can make some goofy sounds at times. I've heard them yelling during the mating season, and it makes me wonder what that noise is. Even though I know it's foxes.
Posted by: exdem13 at December 13, 2025 05:16 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 13, 2025 05:16 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 05:17 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 13, 2025 05:22 PM (8NxQe)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 13, 2025 05:22 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: IrishEi on the phone at December 13, 2025 05:25 PM (0vGzG)
Trying to get some details but seeing mixed reports. It does sound pretty bad.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 13, 2025 05:28 PM (viF8m)
https://x.com/iris_seraphina/
status/1998456615314325674
Cat saving chicken from fox
🦊🐓🐈
Says it's ring cam. Looks like maybe AI to me, dunno.
Posted by: mindful webworker - everything is virtual at December 13, 2025 05:31 PM (lbDMw)
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Posted by: Archer at December 13, 2025 05:34 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2025 09:32 PM (t93WW)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Dec. 13
It's more winter than fall now, and there's little happening outside, or inside. However, a friend up the street has a little greenhouse in which the plants are quite active . . .Click on the link for a few more plants, including a Bird of Paradise. Don also posted some Romanian Folk Dances by Bartok. "Some easy Bartok. His music is not all grating dissonances." Moldova (see earlier thread) was once part of the Romanian principality, and they speak Romanian there. The Soviet era meant that most tomatoes grown there were developed as open-pollinated strains, not as hybrids. One of these is Glory of Moldova. It's a little orange saladette tomato that gets some great reviews. I love the name. "Glory of Moldova" is a little orange tomato! Thinking about next year's garden choices?
"Glory of Moldova" is probably in here somewhere. Romania is next door. But in addition to little orange and yellow tomatoes, big red oxhearts are prominently mentioned in the comments. Those are great, too.
More typical winter experiences coming up for many people:1504 varieties of Romanian tomatoes at the Brussels festival! ❤️🍅
— Popa Andrei (@Deaglesun) September 5, 2023
Source: Garden Dude pic.twitter.com/oGvZR7wqTu
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By Two batches of photos from Nan in AZ:
Summer was so hot, we didn't get much at all, but went out last week and found a nice collection of veggies and lettuce volunteering all over the place.NICE. Glad there are SOME of us getting some veggies!
Had to capture this last leaf on my weeping willow. The very top of the tree and pure defiance in the face of winter. DiogenesPure Defiance!
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden at g mail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)I do have some chard still alive out there. It's covered up for now and I'll see what it looks like when this cold spell clears. I want to see how long it can go.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2025 02:18 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 02:20 PM (W7XSX)
Soon, I will own the runner bean market.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 02:21 PM (8SdDq)
One thing I've noticed is a little more emphasis on heirloom varieties and certified organic seeds. It's a small part of their offerings but still there.
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 02:24 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 02:25 PM (LHPAg)
I like using grow bags. You can position them where you want.
I grew tomatoes in them one year and they grew very well.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 02:25 PM (3ek7K)
At least you got blossoms, right?
San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 02:21 PM
Posted by: KT at December 13, 2025 02:26 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 02:27 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 02:30 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2025 02:31 PM (+mUZM)
Might be leaving the leaves I didn't collect yet for warmer weather.
Did notice the Anaheim peppers in my mini greenhouse only were killed off by the frost not much more than a week ago. They certainly survived in there a few frosts.
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 02:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Eeyore
Then you drive on the roads with them and kind of understand why.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2025 02:36 PM (LjSYW)
The bugs got it right.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 02:36 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 02:37 PM (5UnvZ)
I raked up some leaves to finish a last leaf bag, Husband took 8 to the local drop-off, and that's it for raking - after this, he'll mow-mulch. The trash got the remaining Siberian Iris leaves.
I mixed up some of my birdseed mix - still have the supplies to make the same amount again. It's been so warm for this time of year, birds haven't been going through the seeds as fast as I expected.
We'll be cutting down our blue spruce Christmas tree out in the backyard, later today. (We planted a row at double density years ago - now we can start harvesting.)
Posted by: Pat* at December 13, 2025 02:37 PM (cA4Kb)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 02:42 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 02:43 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: JTB at December 13, 2025 02:46 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 02:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 02:57 PM (k5cxK)
All the leaves have turned, my Japanese maples are gorgeous, all orange, red, and burgundy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 03:01 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 03:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2025 02:18 PM (+mUZM)
In the end of 2020 I rigged a hoop low tunnel out of various stuff I had around and had swiss chard most of the winter. I had less luck the following year, but we didn't have an ice storm either. I have also used those big sterilite clear plastic totes I got for free since they were broken and useless for storing stuff.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 03:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 03:04 PM (rbvCR)
Beat Army!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2025 03:08 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 13, 2025 03:10 PM (Khmwc)
Posted by: DanMan at December 13, 2025 03:11 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 03:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: DanMan
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A term that will not be recognized by all. The bears here rely significantly on acorns. As an aside, Mast General Store, there are several in the area:
https://shorturl.at/pnc2j
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2025 03:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 03:28 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: The margins at December 13, 2025 03:29 PM (pcnhy)
Reds tend to be more predictable than whites (at least on my bit of earf) and I have no idea on the evergreen oaks.
When we have a good white oak year, it's usually good deer hunting.
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 03:30 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2025 03:41 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 03:41 PM (Ia/+0)
We're thinning the herd this month.
Archery only.
Posted by: MkY at December 13, 2025 03:41 PM (q6tQZ)
A 1943 MGM musical with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, Girl Crazy, is on Movies! now. Mickey, a bit of a hell-raiser, is sent out West to a town where "There hasn't been a woman since the Civil War," according to his stern tycoon father. No doubt complications with Judy will ensue.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 03:46 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 13, 2025 04:01 PM (Khmwc)
Thank you!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 13, 2025 05:23 PM (NFX2v)
Two U.S. Soldiers Killed By ISIS Islamist In Syria
2 US Army Soldiers, Civilian Interpreter Killed by ISIS Gunman in Syria
Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed, and three others were injured in an ambush by an ISIS gunman in Syria on Dec. 13, according to the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on social media that the attack occurred in the central Syrian town of Palmyra as U.S. forces were conducting a key leader engagement in support of ongoing counter-ISIS and counterterrorism operations.The new president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is supposedly against ISIS, but that is a tactical disagreement. Their overall goals are the same, so this attack, which will be condemned by Syria, is in furtherance of their shared goals of the creation of a worldwide caliphate and the destruction of the West. And we are in bed with this maniac.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 12:59 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 12:59 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 12:59 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 01:00 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 01:01 PM (nbLIj)
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That would probably make more sense if they were with Syrian forces, who also suffered high casualties. As it reads now it sounds like they are just getting ambushed by hostile locals.
IIRC those guys killed in Niger in Trump's first term were with Nigerian forces at the time. The Nigerian Army is pretty hopeless though. Even Wagner can't do much with them. Maybe the "new" Syrian Army is the same.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 01:02 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 01:08 PM (NwnyJ)
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Obama's decision, though Trump has quite obviously not reversed it.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 01:09 PM (UdiE9)
muldoon, the Knights are 6-5, Navy is 9-2. What is the Black Knights' secret weapon here?
Full disclosure - niece is USNA graduate currently serving.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 13, 2025 01:10 PM (NcvvS)
Your caliphate will be celebrated in the annals of fake history.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 01:11 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 01:12 PM (fd80v)
The reason they’re there is more complicated than anyone wants to go into.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 01:12 PM (k5cxK)
we’re bringing to Syria.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 01:13 PM (9iyS+)
'The reason they’re there is more complicated than anyone wants to go into.'
The only conceivable legitimate reason would be to keep ISIS from returning. And I don't think we're accomplishing that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 01:14 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Clown World at December 13, 2025 01:15 PM (R/m4+)
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Obama's decision, though Trump has quite obviously not reversed it.
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I think Trump was lauding the "new" Syrian president earlier in his term. This term, not his first.
A president with ties to the Taliban or some other Islamic terrorist outfit. But, not the "worst" of the terrorist outfits to chose from.
Still, a poor decision IMO.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 01:16 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 01:17 PM (2NGiN)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 13, 2025 01:18 PM (NcvvS)
We might be more engaged now with the new government than we were before, but in military terms this isn't a new deployment, just a re-tasking of an existing one.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 01:19 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 01:20 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 01:12 PM (fd80v)
Don't tune out just yet. I think the "entertainment" is going to last another thread.
Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber at December 13, 2025 01:20 PM (pcnhy)
Posted by: mot at December 13, 2025 01:22 PM (fIPNY)
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Give this man a prize. You are correct, sir.
But certain business ventures and foreign influencers have determined that Syria is of strategic value and no mere elected official,
even the highest one in the land can override their veto.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 01:22 PM (2NGiN)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 01:24 PM (D+mpw)
The only conceivable legitimate reason would be to keep ISIS from returning. And I don't think we're accomplishing that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Next step: why do we want to keep ISIS from returning? Because they'll execute an operation in the US?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 13, 2025 01:24 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 01:25 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 01:26 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2025 01:26 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 01:14 PM (fd80v
What I’ve been told by a couple guys who had worked over there is that their actual purpose is to protect Chevron’s oil concessions in Western Syria, and they were placed there after Assad’s government became too weak to do so. “Isis” is just a catch all phrase for the renegades, gangs, and clans that make much of Syria a Mad Maxistan right now. Trump is giving support to the new leader because as bad as he is, he’s still better than having the entire place become Libya 2.0
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 01:27 PM (k5cxK)
CEO: American soldiers are getting killed in Syria. ideas?
Lackey 1: We could kill everyone in Syria.
Lackey 2: We could install a different Muslim
Lackey 3: We could start a 20 year land war and spend $2 trillion more dollars
Based Employee: Couldn't we just leave?
*thrown out window*
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 01:27 PM (2NGiN)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 01:29 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: NCKate at December 13, 2025 01:29 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: PabloD at December 13, 2025 01:31 PM (Epuwl)
That business model doesn't make financial sense for Chevron.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 01:33 PM (2NGiN)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 01:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 01:35 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 01:36 PM (k5cxK)
Unfortunately, when a COB deletes a comment, all subsequent comment numbers get decremented. SO, if someone references the deleted comment, or a later one, by comment number, it won't be referencing the intended comment.
(There are perma-links to comments, but they're hidden in the comment-number links, and for tech reasons, often don't cue up if you try to use that URL.)
To be clear, it's usually best to quote-back some relevant bit of the comment to which you're replying, including the commenter nic-name. Tedious, but if you want to be sure, it's about the only way to do it.
Comments which are simply, like, "I agree" might be referencing any previous comment. It's often amusing but oftener confusing, as Li'l Abner might say.
Now, carry on however you wish, as Morons will.
Posted by: mindful webworker - next lecture-- how to link to YooToobs at December 13, 2025 01:36 PM (lbDMw)
The biggest player in Syria right now is Turkey.
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Exactly. I think it's reason #[insert big number here] why ending the Ukraine War is so critical. Erdogan gets leverage from the West by being (mostly) very pro-Ukraine. As a result, pressure isn't put on him that otherwise would be (like regarding 'migrants' to Europe or controlling his proxies in Damascus.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 01:37 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber
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I know, I know...! Let's engage in defensive ad hominem attacks!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2025 01:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 01:39 PM (k5cxK)
'What I’ve been told by a couple guys who had worked over there is that their actual purpose is to protect Chevron’s oil concessions in Western Syria,...'
Chevron isn't much of a rallying point for a military commitment. My understanding of the reason for killing ISIS was because it was destabilizing Iraq and was going to be a new Al Queda.
'Trump is giving support to the new leader because as bad as he is, he’s still better than having the entire place become Libya 2.0'
My memory of Libya was that they killed Qaddafi, temporarily became jihadist and let a flood of migrants through. Which of those are we afraid of with Syria?
They can't kill Qaddafi again.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 01:40 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2025 01:40 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 01:42 PM (UdiE9)
from the article:
U.S. Central Command said the casualties resulted from an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman, who was engaged by U.S. forces and killed.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 01:42 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 01:42 PM (k5cxK)
I agree.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 01:43 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 01:43 PM (RuTUS)
Now, carry on however you wish, as Morons will.
Posted by: mindful webworker - next lecture-- how to link to YooToobs
Posted by: mindful webworker - next lecture-- how to link to YooToob
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Theres them that do and them that don't.
Hard to get people to change there ways.
What gets it long running conversations about 'her' or 'him'. Huh?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 01:47 PM (w5Fg+)
I agree.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
😄 Just part of the price we pay for not having something awful like Diksuks comments.
Okay, so as one of the troublemaking COBs who create that confusion, how about instead of deleting comments, just blank out the text and nic? (And have Pixy adjust the autobanhammers to do the same.)
Now, carry on however you wish, as COBs will.
Posted by: mindful webworker - like if you disagree at December 13, 2025 01:48 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 01:51 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 01:51 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 01:53 PM (5UnvZ)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 01:54 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2025 01:54 PM (LjSYW)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Some might say, Erdogan calls that a plan.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 01:57 PM (w5Fg+)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 13, 2025 01:57 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 01:00 PM (3ek7K)
Either leave, or else turn the place into an explicit colony, and govern with an iron fist. Convert all the muzzies to Christianity at gunpoint, and if they refuse to convert, shoot them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 01:58 PM (npFr7)
At least they are getting along.
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 01:59 PM (5UnvZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 02:01 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 02:01 PM (5UnvZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 01:51 PM (D+mpw)
I agree! One of my criticisms of Netanyahu’s government is that they’ve treated this war like some great Bug Hunt where they keep taking out “bad guys, but they’ve refused to make any serious strategic moves that would make the long term situation better. Taking Mt Herman was great, but not really difficult after the official Syrian Army collapsed and everyone ran away from their posts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 02:01 PM (k5cxK)
Right now they can't fix the ice cream machine because the drum passcode won't work.
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 01:59 PM
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What does this mean?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2025 02:02 PM (azNOR)
muldoon, the Knights are 6-5, Navy is 9-2. What is the Black Knights' secret weapon here?
Full disclosure - niece is USNA graduate currently serving.
Posted by: Nazdar
The Knights no longer have defensive lineman cadet Wilhelm from the late 70s to 81.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 02:03 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 02:04 PM (L/fGl)
'Right now they can't fix the ice cream machine because the drum passcode won't work.
What does this mean?'
It means 'The dog barks at midnight. Await further transmission.'
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 02:05 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 01:59 PM
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What does this mean?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2025 02:02 PM (azNOR)
Thank for this question!
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 02:06 PM (RuTUS)
I agree.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2025 01:40 PM (n9ltV)
heh
Posted by: m
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I knew it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 02:06 PM (w5Fg+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 02:04 PM (L/fGl)
Bears, too.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 02:07 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2025 02:02 PM (azNOR)
The younger one is playing "codes" on my drum set while the older one is complaing that he's not doing the right code so he can fix the imaginary ice cream machine in their pretend cafe.
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 02:07 PM (5UnvZ)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 13, 2025 02:02 PM (azNOR)
The younger one is playing "codes" on my drum set while the older one is complaing that he's not doing the right code so he can fix the imaginary ice cream machine in their pretend cafe.
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 02:07 PM (5UnvZ)
Cool granddad.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 02:08 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 02:08 PM (RuTUS)
I get free imaginary hot chocolate.
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 02:09 PM (5UnvZ)
China Taxes Condoms to Spark a Baby Boom – Protection Now Comes at a Price
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I don't recall my father mentioning this in his birds and the bees talk.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 02:09 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 01:42 PM (UdiE9)
I did enjoy watching Gaddafi get sodomized with that stick after they pulled him out of that storm drain then killed him.
He seemed surprised they would do such a thing.
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 13, 2025 02:10 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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This could be a new Homeland for all the Islamists in America. It would be theirs to make great again.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 02:10 PM (w5Fg+)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 13, 2025 02:12 PM (R86kT)
If China makes abortion as universally available/subsidized as Russia does (and has done since Soviet times) this will just lead to women using abortion as birth control. I have no idea what China's healthcare system looks like though. I'm told that in spite of being "Communist" they have less of a social 'safety net' al la social security than pretty much anywhere outside of the Third World.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 02:12 PM (UdiE9)
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Hillary had him murdered.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 02:13 PM (w5Fg+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 02:17 PM (w5Fg+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 02:18 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 02:19 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 02:20 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 02:13 PM (w5Fg+)
Had to clear the way for Fiat to buy Dodge and get back into the American market.
And that murder was pretty horrible to watch. Hillary's comments afterward showed what she really is. Anyone who could watch that and say 'we got him' is benieth contempt.
Posted by: Reforger at December 13, 2025 02:21 PM (5UnvZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 02:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: the lower depths
Just assume TPTB are lying through their teeth, as usual. Maybe party members get good care. Everyone else - Fuck 'em.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2025 02:31 PM (LjSYW)
I didn't respond in time - yeah, I'm a pita - but I had received pics of young children (yes, one related to me) in a largely special needs Scout troop in GA who are helping place wreaths honoring veterans in a cemetery.
They couldn't be prouder they're now old enough to help, or more respectful in the opportunity to do so.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 13, 2025 03:24 PM (NFX2v)
The guy before him was an eye doctor. Western Educated. Wanted to Westernize Syria. Dressed Western. Talked Western.
But he may or may not have dropped Tear Gas on a riot. You know ... the same stuff I had to sniff during Boot Camp.
And for that - Trump dropped missiles on him during the first go 'round. While everyone here cheered because "Trump". Oh - and CNN gave you film of all the people choking to death while others weren't bothered at all nursing them.
Its a real mystery wrapped in an enigma why nobody in the Middle East trust the United States. A real puzzle.
Posted by: Howdy at December 13, 2025 03:32 PM (ivXYS)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 13, 2025 03:54 PM (/HDaX)
The guy before him was an eye doctor. Western Educated. Wanted to Westernize Syria. Dressed Western. Talked Western.
But he may or may not have dropped Tear Gas on a riot. You know ... the same stuff I had to sniff during Boot Camp.
And for that - Trump dropped missiles on him during the first go 'round. While everyone here cheered because "Trump". Oh - and CNN gave you film of all the people choking to death while others weren't bothered at all nursing them.
Its a real mystery wrapped in an enigma why nobody in the Middle East trust the United States. A real puzzle.
Posted by: Howdy at December 13, 2025 03:32 PM (ivXYS)
this was the main reason he was so weak and nothing could save him, including russia's intervention. it also made him a conduit for iran since he was in no position to refuse them.
his father massacared hundreds of thousands of islamists, but he couldn't do it because "international law" or something.
but i'm serious, there are millions of hardcore islamists in syria now, from all over the world but mainly syria itself. even if Julani reformed (fat chance) he would never be able to contain them.
the only way to contain them is to kill them all.
Posted by: juicer at December 13, 2025 05:29 PM (RDTzD)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 01:00 PM (3ek7K)
Either leave, or else turn the place into an explicit colony, and govern with an iron fist. Convert all the muzzies to Christianity at gunpoint, and if they refuse to convert, shoot them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Back after 9-11 that was a plausible course of action.
And would work because they Grok "convert or die".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 13, 2025 06:39 PM (/lPRQ)
What is an "influencer" these days?
Told you. Just another products of Influencer Studios Int'l.Colin Wright:
A new report from @ncri_io shows that Nick Fuentes's sudden mainstream visibility reflects a coordinated illusion instead of a grassroots surge. According to NCRI, Fuentes's rise was driven by synchronized amplification networks, anonymous booster accounts, foreign engagement farms, and a media ecosystem that mistook manufactured noise for genuine political momentum.Details below:
🚨BREAKING: A new report from @ncri_io shows that Nick Fuentes's sudden mainstream visibility reflects a coordinated illusion instead of a grassroots surge.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 8, 2025
According to NCRI, Fuentes's rise was driven by synchronized amplification networks, anonymous booster accounts, foreign… pic.twitter.com/eLCff8y1hG
Who are "influencers" mentioned in this conversation? Should we call them "influencers" or something else? I kind of hate that word. I imagine that a little money does go a long way in Moldova.My first instinct when I see a politically-motivated arrest in a country is to see if USAID has set up a "Rule of Law" program there to capture its judges and prosecutors, and so far my instinct has never been wrong https://t.co/ut24inPfv5 pic.twitter.com/ZnjReysynO
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) December 8, 2025
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Reviewed by Gary Saul Morson
A newly translated volume in Solzhenitsyn's Red Wheel series illustrates how revolutionaries seized control of Russia.
April 1917, Book 1, the seventh of eight novels in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s story of the Russian Revolution, entitled The Red Wheel, portrays three crucial weeks that show why Lenin, with only a handful of followers, triumphed over his rivals. As the novel opens, Tsar Nicholas II has abdicated, and a Provisional Government appointed by the Duma has assumed nominal power. Everything it does must be approved by the Executive Committee (EC) of the Petrograd Soviet (or Council), a group of self-appointed intellectual representatives of the lower classes who can summon intimidating mobs. Meanwhile, the Russian army, still at war with Imperial Germany, is disintegrating, in part because the Soviet has issued orders eliminating all discipline. Notwithstanding the impossibility of doing so, the Provisional Government, to honor Russia’s alliance with France and Britain, has promised an offensive. Solzhenitsyn portrays the Provisional Government ministers as hopelessly impractical poseurs, who rely on stirring words and dramatic gestures. He quotes a Russian proverb: “A fine gait won’t help a lame chicken.” Why is the Provisional Government so helpless? . . .Well, there is not one simple reason, but:
Reasoning that free people don’t require force, the Provisional Government, believe it or not, abolished the police! It also released criminals on condition that they promise to behave, and so initiated a wave of murders and robberies. “Some ask: How do you govern the country?, You don’t even have any police,” Minister of Justice Aleksandr Kerensky paraphrases the obvious question. “But, comrades, we have no need of police, because the people are with us!” With no means of enforcement, the Provisional Government had to implore people to pay their taxes. Nobody did. Solzhenitsyn quoted one appeal after another—soldiers, don’t desert! sailors, refrain from killing your officers! peasants, please do not seize land!—but the utter failure of rule by uplifting speeches and empty reports only leads to more speeches and more reports. “We have decided to take the most stringent measures,” one minister explains. “I shall appoint a committee of inquiry.” When the patriotic general Lavr Kornilov at last offers to put his loyal soldiers at the government’s disposal, it reacts with horror. Even while a mob was besieging the unprotected ministers, one of them proudly declares: “No! Even if armed men were to find their way into this room, we should not apply military force to defend ourselves!” Another finds still finer words: “We’d rather sacrifice our own lives than spill a single drop of others’ blood!” Most pathetic of all is the kindly Prime Minister, Prince Georgi Lvov, who attributes the prevailing chaos “to a single cause. The impossibility of meeting everyone personally, meeting their eyes with a kindly smile.” Using “the quietest of voices … and with one of his most bewitching smiles,” he asks: “Why the drama? Why make relations worse? … Everything will come right in the end.” When it becomes apparent that Lenin’s followers, who have already shot unarmed soldiers, plan to seize power by force, Lvov explains in “dulcet tones” to Minister of Defense Aleksandr Guchkov: “Where Lenin was concerned, the government should not precipitate events, for that might give rise to conflict.”Anybody find anything in the short segments above that reminds you of anything recent? There's much more at the link that might make some people feel uncomfortable if they were sensible.
Beyond Counter-Ideology Gary Saul Morson Dostoevsky understood that people who defined themselves by ideology were capable of a unique form of evil.Do today's Marxist college professors like being called "influencers"?
Republicans need to recognize that they will always start any election, contest or debate from behind the sticks. It will always be first and fifteen because Democrats have a built-in advantage in elections.
Their policies cater to the worst in human nature. They reward the short term, punish the prudent, and erode the cultural preconditions of a functioning republic: responsibility, restraint, and reciprocity. Policies that indulge negative traits may feel humane in the moment but generate long-term civic fragility—and while the consequences may not be immediate, they are unavoidable.
We can debate whether it is fair or foul to have a federal income tax—and one so steeply progressive that 47 percent of income-earning Americans carry no income-tax liability. But the consequences of such a system are no longer theoretical. When nearly half the population contributes nothing to the cost of federal activity, the incentives shift in ways economists have long understood. People behave differently when they bear no financial stake in the outcomes they support. This is moral hazard dressed up as compassionate governance. . . .
Progressive policy design increasingly caters to four deeply rooted but negative human tendencies: dependency, risk displacement, infantilization, and grievance incentives. These traits are not partisan inventions—they are part of human nature. The divide exists because one side has learned to weaponize them. Consider the latest fights over health-care subsidies. During COVID, Democrats enacted temporarily enhanced Obamacare subsidies, sold as emergency measures. But once installed, they immediately triggered predictable behavioral dynamics. What critics call “government generosity,” the public experiences as an upgrade in lifestyle. When the pre-COVID baseline was about to be restored, the reaction was not gratitude for the windfall but outrage at its removal. This is the cycle of hedonic adaptation—people normalize benefits almost instantly—and loss aversion, the principle that losses loom larger than equivalent gains. Withdraw something that was never permanent, and the emotional response is sharper than the pleasure felt when it arrived. These tendencies feed entitlement, the belief that a conditional benefit has become an irrevocable right. The envy that follows—resentment toward anyone perceived to have “more”—becomes political jet fuel.Of course, during the period of subsidies, health care costs also creep up, making the loss of subsidies scary for lots of folks.
But subsidies are only the surface expression of a deeper architecture of dependency. When government benefits become the central organizing principle of economic life, personal agency contracts. Systems designed to help people end up trapping them, not through malice but through structure: welfare cliffs that punish earnings, housing programs that penalize marriage, college-aid formulas that reward borrowing rather than saving. A constituency stabilized by reliance reliably votes to preserve the system that sustains it.Have the Repulicans got any better ideas?
Layered atop dependency is risk displacement. As the state assumes responsibility for ever more dimensions of life—health care, debt burdens, housing, childcare—individuals rationally outsource decision-making to government. . .
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 11:16 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 11:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 11:19 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 11:19 AM (3ek7K)
Paid shills works for me.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 11:20 AM (Y1sOo)
First, it is certainly true that Baby Boomers get blamed for things that happened because of other generations. The G.I. Generation, far from being 'great', was credulous and disinterested in cherishing the amazing position it had been gifted by our victory in WW2. Many people in that generation simply wanted to get more out of Social Security than they paid in, as they approached retirement. Many of the worst Congress Critters were and are Silent Gen, like Nancy Pelosi. My generation (Millennials) and Zoomers have lots of lost people who fall into weird traps and trends. Boomers aren't furries or trannies or "Queers for Palestine". Based on this blog, Gen Xers are mostly alright but enjoy bitching and whining too much. Younger people should remember that their generations have not reversed the trends they inherited, and show a little more leniency for older posters on this blog. We all fall short.
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Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 11:22 AM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)
However, there is a strong theme in the Bible that nations and generations are judged for their sins as individuals are. Prophets pray for the Lord to avert his anger at Israel as a nation, even though the prophet himself did not partake in the relevant sins. If Clarence Thomas posted here, I doubt he would sperg out if someone posted a complaint about black crime rates or single-parent families. The ladies here do not have conniption fits when someone (perhaps jokingly?) talks about repealing the 19th Amendment. They rightly note that they and many ladies they know are not AWFLs or karens, but they also admit the truth that if women voted the way men do, the Democrats would be a tiny minority party.
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Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 11:23 AM (UdiE9)
OT.
Got the sprinkler system winterized. Come spring time, I'll have to dig out the drain valve and replace it as the handle broke in half just as I made the last turn to open it. Now it's broken in the open position. Also need to dig out and replace a zone control valve as the pre-shutdown inspection exposed a cracked body that was leaking.
Now off to read K.T.'s content.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 11:23 AM (QVmho)
Those of us who are younger can see the photos of what America looked like when Boomers were in school. If we're a bit older as I am (I just miss the cut-off for Gen X) we remember G.I. Generation members who were founts of wisdom in old age, even if that generation was not what some make it out to be. Where are the calm and wise Silent and Boomer crowd? No doubt they exist, but even in my neighborhood, people in their 70s and 80s have no wisdom and act rather childish far too often. THIS is I think the root of the instinctive aversive many younger people have for "Boomers". If the person isn't just a troll (and they exist), younger people who feel like everything has gone to shit resent the geezers clinging on to what they have and offering nothing of value in return. For most of human history the elderly were revered, because they had wisdom to impart. I know wisdom exists. I often don't read through comments, but CTRL+F for commenters who impart what I regard as wisdom (Whig is my favorite commenter to follow). Understand that not all Boomer hate is coming from pure malice, and act as a black or female poster would on this blog.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 11:24 AM (UdiE9)
The problem a lot of people have today, with "influencers," is that those who influence are no longer concentrated among the Oligarchy of Corporate Media.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:24 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: Macedonian Content Farmer Alliance at December 13, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)
He's trolling you, and your kids love it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:25 AM (WF5qu)
The not lawabiding ones wanted to be gangsters. Had one go on a rampage, claiming that he owned our property. The guy with him noticed my gun and convinced his friend to leave. We mentioned this to the lawabiding guys, who sic'ed Mama on him. Never had any issue with them again. It was an interesting time and I hope the good guys are doing all right. I suspect they are.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2025 11:25 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: muldoon at December 13, 2025 11:26 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 11:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:27 AM (WF5qu)
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The first of the three isn't at all unique to them. You see outrage everywhere including here. While it's been common at all times, I do think it's rising, to late 60s levels.
I have no cure, at least, no secular one.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 11:27 AM (s0JqF)
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Operative question:
"Who pays the "influencers" these days?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:28 AM (NwnyJ)
One can test this theorem in person.
If you have 20 and 30-something males in your daily life, be it work, family or church, ask them who Nick Fuentes is. Then ask them who Joe Gruters is.
I think you'll find Nick's name recognition is astronomically higher, and that it isn't all bot farms.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 11:29 AM (2NGiN)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 13, 2025 11:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 11:29 AM (3ek7K)
This is the same group that freaked out about Covid “misinformation” and was all in on shutting up anyone who questioned the narrative. These are the people who see wHiTe sUpReMacY around every corner. It’s run out of NYU and Princeton and was founded in part by a RINO Denver Riggleman who, like Cheney was all in on the J6 “insurrection” bullshit.
But OK they’re totally trustworthy guyz!!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:29 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:28 AM (NwnyJ)
Your children do.
Well, you do, if you buy your kids' cell phones.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:29 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 11:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Dolores!!!
Posted by: muldoon
I met the real "Mulva" at a party in Duluth, Georgia 20 or so years ago. Seemed like a nice lady.
Posted by: Brush With Greatness at December 13, 2025 11:30 AM (oftw2)
Influencers began as young women "influencing" people to buy products. Now it's morphed into podcasters like Fuentes , Carlson and Owens. I preferred vacuous hot chicks myself
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 11:30 AM (D+mpw)
What really surprised me is how so much of it has clearly been mainstreamed and incorporated into the every day atrocities perpetrated on Americans today, the rhetoric and invective, public policy, the Narrative particularly academia and elementary public schools and of course the “news” was captured by the whack jobs long ago.
This country needs an Industrial Enema, stat
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 11:30 AM (eFKVH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 11:30 AM (D+mpw)
Ever heard of the Federalist Papers?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:32 AM (WF5qu)
I must have missed the prime time national address from the oval office.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 11:33 AM (eFKVH)
Posted by: Follow The Fleet at December 13, 2025 11:34 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 11:35 AM (3ek7K)
I have a FB friend who post emotional content from a site that proudly proclaims upfront that they are in "North Macedonia". Often exaggerations of content from other sites. For example, not only does a mother abandon her five year old twin daughters for the bright lights before returning for them when they are eighteen, she abandons them when they are blind newborns and their dad teaches them to sew award-winning costumes in their "own little world".
Posted by: KT at December 13, 2025 11:35 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2025 11:35 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 11:36 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:28 AM (NwnyJ)
Companies who buy ads to be placed on their videos. It’s no different than how tv works. They just cut out a lot of the middlemen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:36 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 11:36 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 11:37 AM (fHsz8)
The amazing thing about Saint Petersburg is that the historic parts of the city are almost completely unchanged, so you can walk around and see all the places where the key events in the Russian Revolution took place.
Sergey Larenkov came up with a technique (since copied by others) of using a World War II picture taken in Leningrad, taking a picture of modern-day Saint Petersburg from the same location, and combining the two.
The results are often quite moving.
Posted by: Blackadder! at December 13, 2025 11:37 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 11:38 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Totally not fair!
Posted by: Man Formerly In The Middle at December 13, 2025 11:38 AM (oftw2)
I must have missed the prime time national address from the oval office.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 11:33 AM (eFKVH)
Where don't we have troops?
But then I have to laugh at people getting all worked up about podcasters who talk to Nick Fuentes, when we had the Al Qaeda guy, who used to behead Americans, as a guest in the White House.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:38 AM (WF5qu)
Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:39 AM (9iyS+)
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Something about fighting them there not here. Or wait no it’s to do contain communism. Wait no it’s to spread freedom and democracy. Yeah that’s the one.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:40 AM (9iyS+)
It's amazing that Solzhenitsyn has been dead for seventeen years, and there are still major works of his that have not been translated into English.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 13, 2025 11:40 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 11:36 AM (D+mpw)
Me too, but the point being, influencers are not a new thing.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:40 AM (WF5qu)
1) Europe
2) GOPe
Posted by: Archimedes at December 13, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Vacuous hot chicks at December 13, 2025 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)
But then I have to laugh at people getting all worked up about podcasters who talk to Nick Fuentes, when we had the Al Qaeda guy, who used to behead Americans, as a guest in the White House.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:38 AM (WF5qu)
Ironically, had the US not poked its nose in every country’s business Nick Fuentes would not be a thing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:42 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 13, 2025 11:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:28 AM (NwnyJ)
Companies who buy ads to be placed on their videos. It’s no different than how tv works. They just cut out a lot of the middlemen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:36 AM (9iyS+)
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In the case of Tucker and his ilk, it's not companies, it's countries like Qatar. Sure, he gets money from endorsing certain products, but the bulk of his monies comes from Qatar.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:43 AM (NwnyJ)
Lots of people were harumphing at that, as it was an obvious attempt by them to poke fun at the idea of hot chicks influencing people to buy stuff.
My problem with it though, is I didn't believe for a second that chick ever ate a big fat Hardees cheeseburger before in her life.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:43 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:44 AM (9iyS+)
It is important to remember that the media amplifies the voices of those with whom they agree. Thus, you can turn on the "news" and see lots of desiccated boomers "protesting" something which, to the average person, makes no sense. Just as during Vietnam, these people are actually a much smaller part of the Boomer cohort than they might seem.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 13, 2025 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 13, 2025 11:43 AM (2Ez/1)
It’s in this post. The group that says Nick Fuentes is all astroturf.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:44 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 13, 2025 11:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Nambla Communists of Rhode Island?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:44 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: Relief Factor, Goldline and Food Insurance at December 13, 2025 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Hmm. There was a time when payola was a bad thing...
Guess that's over.
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 11:47 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:43 AM (NwnyJ)
I didn't think anyone really believed that. I thought it was just a dig at him, because he doesn't support wars in the Middle East.
He did a post the other day, where he was talking about how lovely Qatar is. Which, if you need it explained, was his way of giving the middle finger to all you people who claim he's a Tool of Qatar.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:48 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:48 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:50 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 11:50 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 13, 2025 11:43 AM (2Ez/1)
It's the same company that claims Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are also artificially inflated by foreign bot farms.
It's interesting, in itself, that these are the three individuals they chose to focus their study on.
Almost as if it was meant for public consumption to, ironically enough, influence people's perception of the topics that they are discussing.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 11:50 AM (2NGiN)
Yeah, that's why Tucker is buying a house in Qatar - because he likes the climate.
Qatar spends billions in the United States on a highly successful influence campaign.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 13, 2025 11:52 AM (xTIDn)
It's interesting, in itself, that these are the three individuals they chose to focus their study on.
Almost as if it was meant for public consumption to, ironically enough, influence people's perception of the topics that they are discussing.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 11:50 AM (2NGiN)
I'm not going to guess who "owns" this outfit called NCRI, which I never heard of before, but if someone wants to look into it, I bet it won't come as any surprise who's actually behind it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:52 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:53 AM (9iyS+)
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From their X account:
Network Contagion Research Institute
@ncri_io
NCRI is a neutral and independent organization whose mission is to identify and forecast cyber-social threats and report on them in a timely fashion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:53 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:52 AM (WF5qu)
I will say, I bet it's not Moldova.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:53 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 13, 2025 11:53 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:52 AM (WF5qu)
See my post 23.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:54 AM (9iyS+)
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They gifted the US President a fucking airplane.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:54 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 11:55 AM (D+mpw)
@ncri_io
NCRI is a neutral and independent organization whose mission is to identify and forecast cyber-social threats and report on them in a timely fashion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 11:53 AM (NwnyJ)
Sounds EXACTLY like the Biden Admin's attempt to set up a government agency to weed out misinformation and disinformation.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:55 AM (WF5qu)
Yeah, no boobs, music, movies... just "I'm right, no.... I'm right"
Tiresome.
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 11:55 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 13, 2025 11:55 AM (xT8gx)
But ok let’s believe what they say. lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:56 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:54 AM (9iyS+)
Lynn Cheney, eh?
Well yeah, she would have been on the list.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:57 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: It's like I don't even know you people anymore at December 13, 2025 11:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:54 AM (9iyS+)
Lynn Cheney, eh?
Well yeah, she would have been on the list.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:57 AM (WF5qu)
Oh, Lynne, not Liz.
Same rotten fruit from the same rotten tree.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:58 AM (WF5qu)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 11:58 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:59 AM (9iyS+)
"I am, however, tomorrow buying a place in Qatar. I like the city, I think it’s beautiful, but also to make a statement that I’m an American and a free man and I’ll be wherever I want to be. I have not taken any money from Qatar, but I have now given money to Qatar.”
He's mocking your Qatar, Qatar, Qatar! narrative.
After all, it's not as if they gave him a luxury jet.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 11:59 AM (2NGiN)
Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber at December 13, 2025 11:59 AM (pcnhy)
Posted by: Just the punchline at December 13, 2025 12:00 PM (2Ez/1)
Those "eastern European" areas always seemed to be quite tribal, with family/ tribe branches reaching back and forth across the "borders"... supporting these artificial nation states inevitably leads to further conflict...
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:00 PM (XuXeR)
I meant Liz.
Yes Liz Cheney is involved with ncri. You guys remember her right? Haha. Yes that’s who wrote this Nick Fuentes report. The group who has Liz Cheney working for them.
Ok really trustworthy source right?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:01 PM (9iyS+)
Yikes. But these people are of incredible influence. Or something.
Or not.
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:03 PM (XuXeR)
I meant Liz.
Yes Liz Cheney is involved with ncri. You guys remember her right? Haha. Yes that’s who wrote this Nick Fuentes report. The group who has Liz Cheney working for them.
Ok really trustworthy source right?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:01 PM (9iyS+)
Is Lynne the gay one? I don't remember. Might be the old coot's wife.
Regardless. The Cheney family is completely irrelevant these days. And good riddance.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 12:03 PM (WF5qu)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:04 PM (9iyS+)
They followed the Bush family lead...
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:05 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 12:05 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:06 PM (9iyS+)
Yeah, no boobs, music, movies... just "I'm right, no.... I'm right"
Tiresome.
Posted by: man
*sotto voce*
no wait, come back...
Posted by: Archimedes at December 13, 2025 12:06 PM (Riz8t)
I will say, I bet it's not Moldova.
The NCRI was founded in 2018 as a nonprofit organization by psychologist and neuroscientist Joel Finkelstein.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 12:07 PM (2NGiN)
no wait, come back...
Posted by: Archimedes at December 13, 2025 12:06 PM (Riz8t)
Where ya goin'? I was going to make espresso!
Posted by: Blind guy at December 13, 2025 12:09 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)
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starts in 2016 at Princeton University, where Finkelstein was pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience psychology. The son of a rabbi, he grew up in Tyler, Texas and was seeking a contemplative, respected career as a university professor immersed in the theoretical research of the human mind.
Then the world intervened.
Finkelstein started noticing that a growing number of his friends, from both ends of the political spectrum, “were going crazy,” as he put it. “Intelligent, reasonable people who I respected … were suddenly embracing hateful identity politics. They were becoming really exclusionary.”
It was not an isolated fluke, he thought, it was happening at a time when the sociopolitical climate in America and beyond was in dramatic upheaval. “I started thinking about it: Trump had just won the presidency. Brexit had just passed. Where did that come from?”
There was one common thread: “I had this hunch that social media had something to do with it,” he said.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:09 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 12:05 PM (D+mpw)
I was watching a vid the other day, didn't get too far into it, but the topic was that question: How did Nick F become Nick F?
And the gist of what I was seeing was that yes, he's a construct of some kind, propped up in some way by whomever. I sorta lost interest, so I guess I missed out on who or what it was that created Nick Fuentes, but the one thing I did see was how he did about a 180 turn from being an ardent MAGA Trump supporter, to becoming the Internet Troll he is today.
The irony though, as far as I'm concerned, is how so many enemies of the so-called right seem to get ALL this attention from the right, which just makes them bigger.
For example see: Crockett, Jasmine; Cortez, Sandy; and so on and so forth.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 12:10 PM (WF5qu)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:11 PM (XuXeR)
Dude should've started buc-ee's instead.
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:12 PM (XuXeR)
Real neutral stuff right? In no way biased.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:12 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:48 AM (WF5qu)
No! He Is ClEaRlY aN AnTiSeMiTe WhO oNlY lOvEs PuTiN aNd DiRtY aRaBs
--NeoConBoomerInc
I recently read a quip that there are very few actual thinkers who are influential in our culture, and they act to lead their own gangs of influencers to try to get enough air to sway opinion and overawe competition. Most of the noise we hear is tribalism, repeating and amplifying scripts that others have created for them.
There are different factions in the US government, and Tucker is one area, Fuentes is another and Levin is a third.
Tucker's kid is working for JD Vance, and Levin's kid is working for DeSantis IIRC.
Tucker is not playing by the accepted rules, but find me where he is not somewhere within the policy guidelines set out by Trump.
This makes me wonder a bit about DeSantis, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 12:12 PM (rbvCR)
https://tinyurl.com/4d8cut6d
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 12:13 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 13, 2025 12:13 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Gene Wilder at December 13, 2025 12:14 PM (2Ez/1)
You just described media/ journalism... save for the late 20th century when they claimed neutrality... but weren't
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:14 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:14 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2025 12:14 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 12:07 PM (2NGiN)
Let's look him up...
"Joel Finkelstein is a psychologist and neuroscientist known for his work in combating hate speech and extremism online."
Okie dokie then.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 12:15 PM (JHYx8)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:15 PM (XuXeR)
Which is why they get all the hate.
Posted by: Zombie Leonid Brezhnev, Sexy Eyebrows And All at December 13, 2025 12:15 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Terri Garr at December 13, 2025 12:16 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:16 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Another punchline at December 13, 2025 12:16 PM (2Ez/1)
https://tinyurl.com/4xm27mbx
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 12:16 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:17 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2025 12:14 PM
*influencer*.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2025 12:17 PM (0N4FZ)
...
Understand that not all Boomer hate is coming from pure malice, and act as a black or female poster would on this blog.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13,
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That is mostly OK, but my problem, as a Boomer who has often been denounced as "a traitor to my generation" is simply inaccuracy. The usual charges against the Boomers are simply things we were never responsible for. Unless you mean swallowing uncritically what our elders told us. THAT is a true charge.
The claim that the Boomers were "following a different drummer", or too nonconformist is 180 degrees from reality. Most were just sheep. And egotistic, greedy sheep. I figured this out fairly early, and in college took to wearing a coat and tie to class. It's fun being lectured for conformity while being the only one in the room dressed like that.
But really it is true that the bad ideas attributed to the Baby Boom were thought up by our elders. We just swallowed them whole.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 12:17 PM (s0JqF)
Both are far left organizations that target anyone who questions left wing orthodoxy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:17 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:17 PM (UdiE9)
Ok Boomer.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:18 PM (9iyS+)
https://tinyurl.com/4d8cut6d
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 12:13 PM (PFs9e)
Good catch, Fenelon!
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 12:18 PM (fHsz8)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 12:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Another punchline "
"Tiffany? I'm glad for your sake it wasn't Van Cleef and Arpel"
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:18 PM (XuXeR)
This makes me wonder a bit about DeSantis, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 12:12 PM (rbvCR)
Tucker saying, as he repeated again just this last week, that any Christian who supports Israel and who thinks of themselves as a zionist is Evil, is NOT within the guidelines of anything Trump has ever said or supported.
Tucker saying that Maduro deserves our support is not within the guidelines either, and neither is Tucker saying that it is illegal for the US to be taking out poor innocent fishermen on the high speed drug boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:18 PM (uWKK8)
Damn, busted.
I hope I don't get fired by my Qatari bot farm for blowing my cover.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 12:19 PM (2NGiN)
Posted by: Old Boomer at December 13, 2025 12:20 PM (5xuJ/)
Okie dokie then.
Posted by: BurtTC
Totally non-biased, neutral, non-partisan guy huh? 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:20 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 12:20 PM (Ia/+0)
He's trolling you, and your kids love it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:25 AM (WF5qu)
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Absolutely. I remember talking to friends in the 70s about this. We realized that, when we got old, youngsters would start praising Nazis and the Klan, because when you're young, "Let's shock Grandma" is the Prime Directive.
The question is when does it become serious. One thing is already serious: Who dares shock the Imam?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 12:20 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 12:19 PM (2NGiN)
Hey I have a question about my paycheck. Do you know who I should call? Is it Ahmed in HR or Mohammed in Operations?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:21 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:21 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Eeyore
"You're just giving in to 'The Man', man. . . "
Posted by: Tonypete at December 13, 2025 12:21 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:22 PM (XuXeR)
Got you, you SOB. I posted on this very topic earlier in this thread (quite extensively). If you actually read comments like a normal person on this blog, you'd know that I am not a Boomer and don't even think like one.
What shit hole country do you post from? You haven't mentioned sex, so I'm leaning against India. You're a bit too grammatical for Nigeria. Probably a Gulf State then.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:22 PM (UdiE9)
Boomers got told the world was screwed but they were going to be ok
GenX got told the world was doomed and they were screwed
Millennials got told they were screwed
GenZ got told that people are being brought in specifically to screw them
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 12:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:24 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: BurtTC
Sounds like something a Nigerian bot would say. 😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:24 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 11:36 AM (Ia/+0)
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Does that mean "influence" = "virtue"?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 12:24 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:21 PM (9iyS+)
I'd call Ahmed, but don't forget the memo they sent out last week.
They are still withholding our jizya the rest of this year. The new No Tax on Dhimmis rule doesn't take effect until January 1.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 12:25 PM (2NGiN)
Unlike Trump, though, Tucker doesn't have responsibility for any promise made or have the backlash if he decides to make a hard stop
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 12:25 PM (rbvCR)
Nuh huh. Die Hard IS a Christmas movie.
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:26 PM (XuXeR)
Fen ask your son to go to indeed and search for "Rutgers Laboratory Research Assistant".
There are also postings for other research assistant positions at Rutgers
Posted by: pawn at December 13, 2025 12:26 PM (EMg+d)
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No, but to have influence you have to at least fake virtue. Having your nudes and/or sexual activity all over the net makes it impossible for people to take you seriously.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:26 PM (UdiE9)
See for example ncri. All the evidence presented that shows it’s a far left wing group, but it doesn’t matter. NF is a bad guy therefore if ncri says he’s a bad guy and I think he’s a bad guy then ncri must be correct.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:27 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:18 PM (9iyS+)
Ok stoner.
Posted by: Old Boomer at December 13, 2025 12:20 PM (5xuJ/)
This is a textbook example of ‘divide and conquer’.
Boomer here with friends among every generation since 1949. Be better, people. America, civilization, and our lives are at stake here.
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 12:27 PM (fHsz8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 12:28 PM (PFs9e)
Hmm. So, people should take me very, very seriously then...
Or not.
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:29 PM (XuXeR)
But there are still international situations that are hugely corrosive to the world, and as the leading power in the world either the US addresses it or it continues to fester until it comes to our borders. Venezuela is a blight on the hemisphere that should have been taken care of 2 decades ago, but no one ever tried. Trump is not risking any soldiers, and any who understand what he's doing will understand why Maduro's government will soon fall, solving a host of bad situations simultaneously. Trump is not sending troops to war in Ukraine, and he is not sending them to war in the middle east. He has a far more rational and supportable policy than anything the US has done since Reagan was President.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:29 PM (uWKK8)
Careful, you'll give our beloved host a swelled head...
Oh. Thought you meant "here", as in... here.
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:30 PM (XuXeR)
Yours is a nic I've never seen before.
Who's paying you, asshole.
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I've posted on the same threads as you for quite some time. And the length of time you posted here isn't evidence of anything. No one is claiming that Tucker got paid by Qatar for his entire career. It is interesting that you and the other contrarians disappear for lots of threads and then all show up en masse to spam on this thread on a Saturday.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:31 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:33 PM (qTiDB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:18 PM (uWKK
and Levin calling for the death of all arabs is within the guidelines, or silencing of his competition is?
Be very careful that you don't start down the path of "everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi" because that is copyrighted by the Left, and you will have to pay them royalties.
And you will be proving that ass James Lindsay with his "woke right" jackassery to be right.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 12:33 PM (rbvCR)
Syria though? What the actual fuck. There is ZERO justification for American troops to be there. Less than zero in fact.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:33 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:34 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: JML at December 13, 2025 12:37 PM (ZAkHP)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:37 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:31 PM (UdiE9)
Interesting that you take the time to track who posts what and when. Get a life my dude.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:38 PM (9iyS+)
I have a job, you dimwit.
I work.
What's "interesting" to you is of no concern to anyone, including your mother.
Whose nudes are all over the internet.
And I banged her, champ.
Deal with it.
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Speaking of Boomerish behavior . . .
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:38 PM (UdiE9)
I get that he's been around. I first heard of him within the last couple months. And I'm no slouch to this sort of stuff.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 12:38 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:33 PM (9iyS+)
Fact check - America has had troops in Syria since 2014, supposedly to keep down ISIS but mainly to protect Chevron's oil concessions. (no one ever likes to talk about that part) In June of this year, Trump announced that his administration is going to cut the Syrian presence down from 8 US forward bases to just 1.
Yes, it should be zero but on this Trump is still better than any other President since Reagan.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:39 PM (uWKK8)
You noticed that too, eh? So did I. In fact, see my #80.
Happens during the week, too. Suddenly, "both" of them show up at once and soon start blowing each other, just as they have in this thread.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 12:39 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Oscar Wilde at December 13, 2025 12:39 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Oscar Wilde at December 13, 2025 12:39 PM (W7XSX)
Charming people seem to care about what you are interested in; tedious people care about what they are interested in.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 12:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 12:41 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 12:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Oscar Wilde at December 13, 2025 12:39 PM (W7XSX)
For some reason this reminded me of this: It takes far more muscles to frown than to smile, but it doesn't take any at all to just sit there with a stupid look on your face.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:42 PM (uWKK8)
It's possible they do it for free. Maybe they jack off to furry porn on the same Discord until they get summoned here.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:42 PM (UdiE9)
I never heard of him before a month ago and I have never read anything he said or wrote. I don't care about Tucker Carlson anymore either.
Tedious.
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 12:42 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 12:42 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 12:38 PM (NwnyJ)
The Groyper wars were several years ago. He’s been a thing for a while. He had a long public feud with Charlie Kirk for I want to say 2 years or so. He’s been out there. But his audience is actual 29 years olds, not the AoS 29 year olds.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:43 PM (9iyS+)
'Happens during the week, too. Suddenly, "both" of them show up at once and soon start blowing each other, just as they have in this thread.'
Counterpoint: I pop in only from time to time because of work. Burt and MooMoo are practically always here.
I do wish they'd stop blowing each other.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 13, 2025 12:43 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2025 12:44 PM (RQW+z)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 13, 2025 12:44 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 13, 2025 12:45 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at December 13, 2025 12:46 PM (JcXec)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 12:46 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 12:39 PM (Y1sOo)
Oh
My
God
Two people who share the same views post at the same time when the topic is interesting to both of them. Damn dude you got us. We’ve been exposed as Bangladeshi bots.
You’ve perfectly exemplified textbook Boomerism. Do you really not have the ability to accept that not everyone thinks like you? Holy fuck man.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:46 PM (9iyS+)
169
"I fucked your Mom!"
"I'm a fucking stud!"
This is good evidence for what I was (politely) alluding to earlier about older generations not imparting wisdom, but behaving childishly. I know 11 year olds used to talk like this on multiplayer servers, but the only other people I know who talk like this are older (and generally overweight) know-it-all guys at least 55 or older. It's off-putting in person and hilariously out of place on forums and comment threads.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:46 PM (UdiE9)
It's interesting that two individuals that have new nics that don't capitalize any of the words in their nics show up at the same time on the same thread calling BurtC who has been here 20 years a bot.
The other odd thing is that the only ones that seem to have been openly outed for paying people $7,000 k per post and that call meetings with Tim Poole and other influencers to discuss narratives aren't from Qatar, but from some other country over there in the Middle East.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 12:47 PM (2NGiN)
Prepare accordingly.
Posted by: muldoon at December 13, 2025 12:48 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 12:48 PM (tgvbd)
A preservation group is suing Trump over the White House Ballroom demolition. Unfreaking real.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 13, 2025 12:48 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 13, 2025 12:49 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 12:50 PM (3ek7K)
1. Young people have had it with Americans sending money to foreign countries and endless wars and NF is an outlet for that viewpoint.
2. It’s all bots and everyone actually loves endless wars and can’t wait to invade Iran and Venezuela.
Hmm which is more likely?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:50 PM (9iyS+)
I've been saying this ever since the right started losing its shit over this twerp. It's an op, and, as usual, the internet is fake and gay.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 12:51 PM (GvesS)
Of the four people I'd refer to as contrarians on this thread, you are literally the only one I have never seen before.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:51 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 12:52 PM (fHsz8)
I saw a headline a few days about an interview Fuentes did.
He said he's a virgin and some stuff about women.
I didn't read the article cause I don't care.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 13, 2025 12:53 PM (3ek7K)
https://tinyurl.com/4d8cut6d
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 12:13 PM (PFs9e)
Good catch, Fenelon!
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 12:18 PM (fHsz
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The flaw with that account is (as is common today) its assumption that the Roman Empire was a unity. It wasn't. In those days, Judea was a vassal state, while Egypt had been actually taken over. We tend to assume uniformity under a given rule. That hasn't been the historical norm.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 12:53 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 12:51 PM (GvesS)
El Rushbo was botted. This bot snottin’ is nothing nes.
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 12:55 PM (fHsz8)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 11:37 AM (fHsz
Absolutely this. I watched this vid on you tube last night about the harley twin cam engine. Its the biggest pile of shit lying off the wall misinformation I ever saw packaged as something serious. I worked on at least a 100 of these motors so I could see through the bullshit, but the average person wouldn't have a clue. It was a complete fantasy. They showed motors that weren't even harley, or actually harley engines they haven't made in 50 years. They claimed seal failures in areas that don't even have frigging seals, and never fail to start with, and on and on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5KBH7WwZk8
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:55 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:55 PM (9iyS+)
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Right, but if the Bible had wanted to make some sort of "all refugees welcome" point, then the Lord would have instructed Joseph to take the Holy Family to Parthia. As it is going from Judea to Egypt was like going from Bechuanaland to a directly ruled British colony, or from the Marshall Islands to Hawaii.
So I guess we should welcome in refugees from those tiny Pacific island nations we have Free Associated status with. Given that they collectively have 100k or so people, I don't think that will be a big deal.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:56 PM (UdiE9)
No dog in the fight but like to watch it
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 12:58 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 12:59 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 12:59 PM (Y1sOo)
See for example ncri. All the evidence presented that shows it’s a far left wing group, but it doesn’t matter. NF is a bad guy therefore if ncri says he’s a bad guy and I think he’s a bad guy then ncri must be correct.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 12:27 PM (9iyS+)
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Incoherent.
1. It makes "boomer" a useless term, whereas if used for a specific generation, it has a use.
2. The latter part is worse. It is in fact correct to say that, if Stalin says the sky is blue, then Stalin is correct, if only on this one point.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 01:00 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 01:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 01:00 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 13, 2025 01:00 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 01:00 PM (W7XSX)
Party conferences are wonderful things. All those drunken, vile, backbiting, hypocritical, sneering, self-interested, amoral creeps together in one heaving cesspit. And that's just the journalists. It's the one time every year when politicians confirm with their own eyes that the fourth estate, which so loves to expose their ghastly peccadillos, is just as ghastly as they are. My first conference was the Tories at Bournemouth in 1994. The News of the World, under
my new editorship, had recently exposed Alan Clark's affair with that judge's cover, and I arrived to find him haranguing
some of my executives in a disturbingly animated way. 'Alan,' I said firmly, 'I'm Piers. You can either punch me or buy me a pint.' He stared, bemused yet intrigued, for 20 seconds. 'Right, pint first, punch almost certainly later.' (cont)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 13, 2025 01:01 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 11:37 AM (fHsz
Absolutely this. I watched this vid on you tube last night about the harley twin cam engine. Its the biggest pile of shit lying off the wall misinformation I ever saw packaged as something serious. I worked on at least a 100 of these motors so I could see through the bullshit, but the average person wouldn't have a clue. It was a complete fantasy. They showed motors that weren't even harley, or actually harley engines they haven't made in 50 years. They claimed seal failures in areas that don't even have frigging seals, and never fail to start with, and on and on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5KBH7WwZk8
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:55 PM (snZF9)
Side bar ewe tutes are 100% lies. Especially .military-themed.
Posted by: Eromero at December 13, 2025 01:01 PM (fHsz8)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 01:01 PM (XuXeR)
Speaking of COVID...
DC_Draino @DC_Draino
They kicked combat veterans out of the military for refusing the Covid vax.
They fired nurses and firefighters, people who they called heroes just months before.
Families were ripped apart at the holidays.
And for what?
A drug that now has an FDA black box warning because it can kill you?
People need to go to jail.
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: FDA intends to put a ‘black box’ warning on Covid-19 vaccines, CNN reports
The ‘black box’ is the most serious type of warning, which highlights major risks such as serious side effects and restrictions.
X: https://bit.ly/4oThblh
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2025 01:01 PM (P5BPp)
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Right, but if the Bible had wanted to make some sort of "all refugees welcome" point, then the Lord would have instructed Joseph to take the Holy Family to Parthia. As it is going from Judea to Egypt was like going from Bechuanaland to a directly ruled British colony, or from the Marshall Islands to Hawaii.
So I guess we should welcome in refugees from those tiny Pacific island nations we have Free Associated status with. Given that they collectively have 100k or so people, I don't think that will be a big deal.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 12:56 PM (UdiE9)
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Despite the Nood, I have to point out that you seem to have a problem reading more into people's words than they actually say. Work on it.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 13, 2025 01:02 PM (s0JqF)
"Internet Carnie"?
There has to be a word more reflecting the low nature of the "job."
Posted by: LASue at December 13, 2025 01:03 PM (UwBs6)
Eight pints later, he'd decided on his legal settlement. 'For the distress you've caused my wife, 10,000. For the distress you've caused me, 10,000. And for the distress you've caused my sons, 20,000. I can't look them in the face after you said I flashed my knob at gay parties.' I considered my position. 'Well, that's a bit on the pricey side, Alan. I've got a better idea. You give me 50,000, and we won't disclose the other nine women who've told us they
had affairs with you.' Long pause. 'Nine women .. God .. what were their names?'
Posted by: Nazdar at December 13, 2025 01:03 PM (NcvvS)
Fuentes? Buying engagement? I'm shocked. Shocked!
Okay, not that shocked.
But 22year old college graduates aren't making high six figures in Fortune 500 companies and bedding down two new omen every night do that just proves we need to listen to that smarmy little faggot for...reasons.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 13, 2025 01:06 PM (jVp5w)
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The original linked article concluded that Jesus was not a refugee because he never left the Roman Empire.
You noted (correctly) that Judea and Egypt were not both states as the author's comparison assumed.
I noted that Jesus would have been a refugee in the way the word is used now only if he had moved into an entirely different country, like Parthia.
Now you are butthurt. I'm not sure what your issue is either. I guess I should just not respond to in the future, like Burt and his crowd.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 01:08 PM (UdiE9)
Full disclosure - niece is USNA graduate currently serving.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 13, 2025 01:10 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2025 01:11 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 01:11 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Thruway's closed, Man!
Posted by: Arlo Guthrie at December 13, 2025 01:15 PM (oftw2)
This is the same group that freaked out about Covid “misinformation” and was all in on shutting up anyone who questioned the narrative. These are the people who see wHiTe sUpReMacY around every corner. It’s run out of NYU and Princeton and was founded in part by a RINO Denver Riggleman who, like Cheney was all in on the J6 “insurrection” bullshit.
But OK they’re totally trustworthy guyz!!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:29 AM
They most certainly are. At least for those with Gell-Mann Amnesia.
Posted by: Michael Crichton at December 13, 2025 01:15 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 13, 2025 11:52 AM
Yep:
QIA ($557B fund) opened U.S. offices in New York (2015) and San Francisco.
Has poured billions into Manhattan skyscrapers, Uber, Snapchat, and Hollywood.
In May 2025, Qatar agreed to a $1.2 trillion economic exchange with the U.S.
Includes the largest Boeing widebody order in history and $500B+ in new AI and energy investment.
Americans are still blocked from owning Qatari media or strategic assets.
X: https://bit.ly/4iRO1l3
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2025 01:28 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:52 AM
Public records, tax filings, and reports indicate a diverse mix of funders, including:
Pro-Israel or Jewish community organizations → such as the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC) ($335,000 in 2021) and the Ruderman Family Foundation ($34,750 recently).
Hindu advocacy groups → such as CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America, $26,000 for research on Hinduphobia).
Tech/philanthropic foundations → such as the Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation ($125,000 recently).
Conservative-leaning sources → such as the Charles Koch Foundation/Stand Together Trust (announced support in 2020).
Other reported past support → from Open Society Foundations, philanthropist David Magerman, Rutgers University contributions, and anonymous donors.
Grok full answer: https://bit.ly/48TqBHG
Open Society Foundations = George Soros
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2025 01:34 PM (P5BPp)
Until the mindset of running to DC for every little unexpected expense - at the individual level and the civic level and the State level - until the reflex expectation of federal bucks for every unexpected expense is broken, everything which Trump is accomplishing will be undone and undone right quickly.
Trump can succeed wildly and beyond all expectations at every one of his goals, and even get them enacted legislatively, but unless the mindset of ever-expanding entitlements is broken, it will all very quickly come to naught.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 13, 2025 01:35 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Just the punchline at December 13, 2025 12:00 PM
Gipple?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2025 01:39 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2025 12:12 PM
Via Grok:
Yes, Tucker Carlson's son, Buckley Carlson, is currently working for Vice President JD Vance as his deputy press secretary. This was widely reported in January 2025 by outlets like ABC News, Newsweek, and The Hill, after Buckley transitioned from his prior role as deputy chief of staff to Rep. Jim Banks on Capitol Hill.
Regarding Mark Levin, it's not one of his biological children (he has a son, Chase, and a daughter, Lauren). However, his stepson, David Milstein, worked as a paid consultant for Ron DeSantis's 2022 gubernatorial reelection campaign and his 2024 presidential campaign, focusing on Jewish and pro-Israel outreach. This was reported in November 2023 by Semafor and others, noting that Levin had praised DeSantis extensively on air without disclosing the family tie. The DeSantis presidential campaign ended in early 2024, so Milstein is no longer actively working for him in that capacity.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2025 01:51 PM (P5BPp)
If I'm missing a point here, I'd appreciate correction.
Posted by: AB at December 13, 2025 01:59 PM (ArLSQ)
If I'm missing a point here, I'd appreciate correction.
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No, I don't think you're missing anything. I use libtard news sources to prove a point, when that point isn't pushing their usual narrative. Mind you, citing NYT that school closures were a disaster during Covid hasn't swayed any libtards so far, but I guess that's libtards for you.
One of the best pieces of evidence that the second (more famous) Gulf of Tonkin Incident was just spooked sailors seeing things on radar scopes was that Hanoi loved to play up its attacks on Americans, and did not take credit for that "night attack". Hanoi were dirty commies, but the incentive structure meant that I believe them if they said years later that they did not attack the Maddox and the Turner Joy.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 02:07 PM (UdiE9)
Left, right, queer, straight, single, tradcon, blogs, X, YouTube, Rumble, Twitchy, whatever. No one really believes in anything they are selling. They are simply picking a "hot topic" of the day and using it to make money.
Case in point is this expose of "right-wing e-girl drama". These "right-wing e-girls" promote themselves as tradcons, yet behind the scenes they are a bunch of immature bitches to one another.
YouTube (hoe_math): https://bit.ly/4rWlkaR
Some of the crap these people say to one another is disgusting. And if any of it is true, it confirms what I've suspected of these right-wing "conferences" (e.g. the stuff like the upcoming "AmFest") that are nothing more than social hook-ups.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2025 02:18 PM (P5BPp)
Political influencers are cancerous. Yes, I know some of them are on "our" side, but still dangerous AF.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 13, 2025 02:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 13, 2025 02:44 PM (UdiE9)
Either way, if you're going to ask me to choose between trusting Nick Fuentes, or Jewey McJewface, I'm on team Fuentes every time thanks.
Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 13, 2025 04:36 PM (YINx+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 04:48 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 13, 2025 04:36
You, like your hero, are a troll. A very hate-filled, bigoted one, at that.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 04:50 PM (4786I)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2025 11:38 AM (WF5qu)
Lots of places. But as nothing means shit to you, you don't want this country having a military at all.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 13, 2025 04:54 PM (4786I)
Joanie hates Chachi. Don't cry.
Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 13, 2025 07:22 PM (YINx+)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
[H/T Thomas Paine, as in give me caffeine or give me death fame.]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Medford) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. See if you are on somebody's list.
3) No. You may not run with sharp objects until the Food Thread comes around tomorrow.
4) Have a wonderful 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: 11/6 - D sent an update on his wife Susan, and her battle with cancer. He sent his thanks to everyone for the prayers. They are helping and much appreciated. Susan had an infection which is being treated, but her sodium levels are bad again. She will be sent home soon, but is on restrictive fluids until this is cleared up. The good news is that she has gained some weight back and her voice is much stronger now. Thank you, and please keep up the prayers. They appreciate everyone!
11/20 Update – Susan is out of the hospital, after 2 weeks. For the first time in months, she doesn’t have any drainage tubes. Chemo is on hold for the next 2 weeks, to give her time to rest, recover, and gain some weight back. Thank you, everyone, for your prayers – please continue them! 11/15 – Smell the Glove asked for prayers for an 81 year-old aunt who has colon cancer. She is stopping chemo, since it’s not working and it’s tiring her out. Doctors will determine if any other treatment is proper.
11/29 Update – Thank you all for the prayers. The good Lord had another plan and the aunt passed away. She had taught at a Catholic school for over 20 years, raised 3 daughters and had 8 grandchildren. She also babysat Smell the Glove the first couple of years of life. 11/15 – Sponge posted an update on the “First lady”. She is doing OK from the surgery pain-wise, however it appears her compromised immune system from chemo is susceptible to viruses. She has been spiking a fever all weekend. 11/20 - Bluebell sent an update on grammie winger - good news! At her appointment, the doctor said her bloodwork is nearly perfect and her cancer cell count is dropping. She is in minimal pain. The chemo is working, thanks be to God! She will go back in 3 weeks for another round of chemo and then they will do a CT scan to see if she can have surgery to clean out the rest of the tumors. She is convinced – CONVINCED – that this is due in no small part to the treasured prayers of friends and family! They gave her weeks, and now she is looking at possible remission. 11/22 – Duke Lowell posted an update. He said that he is gradually starting to feel normal again, two months after his surgery. The main problem is that the effects of anesthesia are still suppressing his appetite. 11/22 – Commissar Hrothgar posted prayers for President Trump, to keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught. 11/22 – Oddbob requested prayers. He found out that his job is going away the end of December. They are a one-income family. He also requested prayers for another co-worker, who is in the same situation. 11/22 – Cosda sent an update on his wife’s condition. She started a year of immunotherapy in June for cancer. She is doing well with her treatments every three weeks, but her follow up dermatology scan found another mole with melanoma and 2 other abnormal and suspicious spots. She will be having more tissue removed from those areas for lab tests. Prayers are appreciated. 11/22 – The Walking Dude sent an update. We prayed for his mom in August, when she fell and broke her hip. She is 90 years old. She is still in the hospital but has been transferred to a better rehab run by the Masons. They are unsure if she will ever get out. Please pray for her recovery and return home. 11/24 – Bulg requested prayers for a neighbor who has cancer, and also prayers for his son and two of his friends, who are moving into a rental house in Arlington, VA on 11/28. Prayers for the 3 of them, that they may live together contentedly, and prayers for Bulg and his wife as they adjust to their son’s absence.
11/26 Update – The neighbor passed away on 11/24. Prayers are needed for the neighbor’s husband, Steve, as he grieves. They had no children. 11/29 – From about That Time asked for prayers after a lymphoma diagnosis. From about That Time has already begun chemo, and the kids and granddaughter had fun cutting off a ponytail and shaving hair in preparation. 12/1 – P received news that her 24 year old daughter has changed her name to a male name and had “top surgery”. P needs wisdom as to how to speak to her, and also how to speak with P’s other children, in a loving but honest way. Also, that God will use this to turn all their hearts back to Him. 12/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She had an MRI on 12/3, and will meet with the oncologist on 12/4, the surgeon on 12/8, and the surgery on 12/11. This is a good thing, because it looks like more tumors are starting to crop up in her liver. It doesn’t appear to have spread beyond there yet, thank goodness.
12/8 Update – The surgery is still planned for 12/11. Teresa will be in the hospital for 5-7 days. With doctor’s approval, they plan to travel to see family on 12/20. Thanks to everyone for their prayers!
12/11 Update – Today’s surgery to remove part of her liver is scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm (Central) and take about 3 hours. The surgeon will also be using heat ablation on the remnants of the other small tumors. 12/4 – E asked for prayers as she will be having surgery in two weeks. She is nervous, but everyone she has spoken with has nothing but good things to say about the surgeon, and she is looking forward to being on the other side of it. Please pray that all will go according to God’s will and that His name will be glorified. 12/6 – M requested prayers for Ron and Sherri. Ron has late stage Parkinson’s/dementia, and he recently fell and shattered his hip. He also requested prayers for Al, who fell through a railing and then down 12 feet, and broke seven ribs. He also punctured his lung. He is home now, recovering. 12/6 – Comrade Flounder asked for prayers for his FIL, who went to the hospital for AFIB, congestive heart, and received two stents. FIL is home now, still short of breath, and has a long road ahead. He is a kind-hearted man and a loving father. Comrade Flounder’s wife lost her mother a few years back to brain cancer, so having this go on is even more difficult during the holidays. 12/6 – neverenoughcaffeine asked for prayers for Tim, an acquaintance through church. He has prostate cancer and begins 28 days straight of radiation. 12/6 – pawn asked for prayes for a dear friend named Julia, who was told by her doctors that she has very little time to live. Julia has an incredible mind and drive. She was a Naval officer, a college professor, a competitive sailor, and a mother. She went to the hospital with pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and left with a terminal illness diagnosis. Please pray to God to give her the strength she needs in these last few days, and the peace that comes from acceptance. 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: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (IXZGh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (IXZGh)
A mug of Folgers Classic Roast and a stale English muffin, but made better with ham, cheese and an egg on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 08:10 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: dantesed at December 13, 2025 08:10 AM (Oy/m2)
You're wonderful and I appreciate your efforts. She feels ALL of your prayers and we are eternally grateful for your generosity. We are truly humbled.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:10 AM (IXZGh)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 08:12 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: dantesed at December 13, 2025 08:13 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 08:13 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 13, 2025 08:15 AM (31p00)
Posted by: dantesed at December 13, 2025 08:13 AM (Oy/m2)
She's doing well. She's still on restrictions after her surgery last month, but things are progressing nicely. As for the cancer, the last mammogram showed clean and a meet with the surgeon this week said she likely needs to change her bra type to assist in the healing of skin around the radiation irritation.
Other than that, everything is going very well.
We are grateful to all who have been praying for her. She feels the love and support every day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:16 AM (IXZGh)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 08:18 AM (h7ZuX)
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You are free to run around pantsless until the Sunday Morning Book Thread, however.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 08:19 AM (ESVrU)
First week of chemo like buttah, entire 2nd week in hospital dealing with side effects both major and minor. All major to me.
I say to myself, Fatt old boy, just deal with it.
I think I have, should go home today.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 13, 2025 08:20 AM (V88yL)
I'm geeked up.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 13, 2025 08:22 AM (XqFM2)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 08:23 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:23 AM (IXZGh)
Posted by: JSpicy at December 13, 2025 08:24 AM (pZoON)
I say to myself, Fatt old boy, just deal with it.
I think I have, should go home today.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 13, 2025 08:20 AM (V88yL)
Godspeed, sir. I hope the chemo does as expected. They've gotten pretty good with offsetting as much of the side effects as they can with steroids and Benadryl, so hopefully your discomfort is minimal.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:24 AM (IXZGh)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 13, 2025 08:25 AM (/tk5+)
Posted by: Caffiend at December 13, 2025 08:25 AM (oftw2)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
St. Lucy, virgin, martyr, and patroness of the blind, pray for us.
I have prayed Rosaries for the intentions - both stated and unstated - of the Horde.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 13, 2025 08:25 AM (pJWtt)
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Polish American rabbi and teacher-died 1972
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 08:27 AM (vHIwP)
Sorry about the side effects. Will keep you in prayer.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 08:28 AM (vHIwP)
On a more mundane note, why do smoke detectors decide to announce that their batteries need replacing in the middle of the night? I'm too old to make it on 2 hours of sleep, never did fall back to sleep after the chirping.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 13, 2025 08:29 AM (2NHgQ)
Praise reports for {grammie} and {TiFW} this week
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:29 AM (A0sqA)
Maybe I'll charge to the liquor store, and to grab supplies for a nice winter stew and/or casserole.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 08:29 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 08:30 AM (Y1sOo)
But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 08:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:32 AM (A0sqA)
We live such hectic lives; sometimes I like to stop, and pull my focus in to something natural nearby and be amazed at its intricate design and place in the universe. Just stop and have a close look at tree bark, for instance.
God's creation is wondrous.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 08:32 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 08:34 AM (h7ZuX)
God is good! Great to hear Grammie's prognosis is promising. Sponge's First Lady is healing up. And hopefully Teresa came through surgery well. I'm 6 weeks past cancer treatment with my hair and beard back. Prognosis looking good here as well. Believe in prayer. Believe in miracles, they exist even in this broken world.
I would ask for prayers for a dear friend's 3 week old granddaughter who is battling meningitis. Waiting on results for results on MRI.
Another friend's wife is having kidney issues. Only one kidney and it isn't functioning well.
Thank you.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 13, 2025 08:34 AM (7v6oI)
Posted by: Dash my
Thanks Dash, looking forward to it.
Still don't have the energy to capitalize the last two Ts in my nick.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 13, 2025 08:34 AM (V88yL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:35 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 08:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Wonderful thoughts. Thanks, Dash!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 08:36 AM (a2Pv6)
Other than that, everything is going very well.
We are grateful to all who have been praying for her. She feels the love and support every day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
FreeTime the ta-tas!! Bra- less is the best choice!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 13, 2025 08:37 AM (2J/Lj)
I say one thing for the Wolfus man, his morning routine is rock solid.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025
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And dull as hell. Except for getting dressed for work, and the time at which I do it all, it hasn't changed much since, I dunno, 2006?
The cats like the clock-steady routine, though, so there's that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 08:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 08:38 AM (wzUl9)
But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 08:30 AM (gbOdA)
This seems to me to be rather ill-chosen. Are you denigrating public prayer? Or, are you denigrating people requesting prayer?
Some more context seems to be in order.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 13, 2025 08:38 AM (pJWtt)
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: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)
She literally hobbles in the door. So I ask, "Why didn't you call me to pick you up?"
"I took the bus," she says.
????
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:38 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"
Not me.I got new thermal underwears.
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 08:38 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 08:39 AM (ZOv7s)
Stay strong. It's a tough haul through chemo but keep telling yourself 2 things:
1) it's going to take more than this to bring the bear (you) down.
2) Cancer - you hit like a witch.
You can do this. You are stronger than you know.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 13, 2025 08:39 AM (7v6oI)
She literally hobbles in the door. So I ask, "Why didn't you call me to pick you up?"
"I took the bus," she says.
????
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025
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Darned if that doesn't sound like something Miss Linda would do. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 08:40 AM (wzUl9)
Remembering daily all the Horde, especially those on the Prayer List, in my Rosary intentions and dedicating a decade to their needs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:40 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 08:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:41 AM (A0sqA)
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: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Two very simple yet powerful prayers. My favorites.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 13, 2025 08:41 AM (7v6oI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 08:41 AM (wzUl9)
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Army - Navy today . Always a great spectacle for our country.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 08:43 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 13, 2025 08:44 AM (g8Ew8)
Not hard to find people proud of their humility!
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 13, 2025 08:45 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 08:40 AM (wzUl9)
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That's cray cray am I right?
She knew I was sitting at home.
And here's the cherry on top. She complained to me that the Muni removed a stop recently so she had to hobble 2 extra blocks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:45 AM (A0sqA)
She'll be back tomorrow. I'll be doing what little Christmas decorations we have while she's gone, so she'll return to some holiday cheer at home as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:45 AM (20K3i)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 08:39 AM (ZOv7s)
I do too, it shows a different side of that person's nature. I think is demonstrates the fallacy of discounting the spiritual.
If humans are merely "meat robots" and such a thing as the soul does not exist, why do we see such disparate reactions to the same stimuli?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 13, 2025 08:46 AM (pJWtt)
Good morning again everyone. Today is winterize the sprinkler system day. Should be fun.
1) open the drain valve
2) close the supply valve
3) let the controller run each zone to allow everything to drain to the lowest zone where the the drain valve is
4) close the drain valve
Every so happy I learned how to service the system as a twenty something augmenting my Army pretend pay by installing them when we lived in El Paso. Rent a ditchwith on a Saturday morning for 24 hours. Rental company is closed on Sunday, so got it for 48 hours. Dig out three or four yards. Install three or four systems during the week after work.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 08:46 AM (QVmho)
They still insist on being let out at some ungodly hour of the morning... like 4 or 5am... but they are quiet the remainder of the night.
It's supposed to be bitterly cold tomorrow - Tuesday, so their routine will be abbreviated.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 08:46 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 13, 2025 08:47 AM (/tk5+)
Father God
We give you the praise and the glory. Thank you for this life, this love, the family, the friends, the health, and the happiness with which you have blessed us. Help us to be healthy and safe so that we may enjoy these blessings for many years to come. Help us to be considered and wise in our decisions. In our beloved Savior name, amen.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 13, 2025 08:47 AM (2J/Lj)
Some more context seems to be in order.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 13, 2025 08:38 AM (pJWtt)
It is James 4 15 and 16
Verse 14 put it more in context
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 08:47 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 13, 2025 08:37 AM (2J/Lj)
I am fine with this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:48 AM (20K3i)
FreeTime the ta-tas!! Bra- less is the best choice!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
You know the rules. Pics.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 08:49 AM (QVmho)
"I took the bus," she says.
????
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:38 AM (A0sqA)
Bless her. Prayers for a quick recovery!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 08:49 AM (h7ZuX)
Not hard to find people proud of their humility!
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 13, 2025 08:45 AM (zdLoL)
Just ask them. They'll tell you they're the most humble people one will ever meet.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 13, 2025 08:49 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:50 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 13, 2025 08:50 AM (u73oe)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 08:52 AM (vHIwP)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
Not enough to notice until Groundhog Day.
Posted by: Bill Murray at December 13, 2025 08:52 AM (oftw2)
Day 1 of the AKC National Championship in Orlando and The Big Dummy is getting shown today.
Unfortunately, we have had an unpleasant dispute with our regular handler this week and we're parting ways. Dummy's co-owner was sitting at ringside during the Hound Group on Wednesday and overheard him saying to someone outside the ring that TBD was OK but was never going to be Number 1. That's not the sort of thing you want to hear from someone who should be promoting your dog.
That's kind of the culmination of other grievances Her Majesty has had. Neither he nor his crew are very friendly. As in, won't even say good morning to you. And they regard any kind of suggestion about how to present TBD with distain.
I know that shows can be hectic and I know that some clients can be a pain in the ass, but we've always brought him good dogs, impeccably groomed, and we pay for services rendered at the end of the show. So I, for one, don't see a reason why we should put up with that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:52 AM (tgvbd)
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You know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 13, 2025 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Why, it's a Christmas Miracle.
We can change any thread to a Boob Thread!
("according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself")
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 13, 2025 08:53 AM (zdLoL)
A mug of Folgers Classic Roast and a stale English muffin, but made better with ham, cheese and an egg on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 08:10 AM (NwnyJ)
You wouldn’t have posted that if you read last night’s ONT.😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Whether Man at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (Y1sOo)
I know that shows can be hectic and I know that some clients can be a pain in the ass, but we've always brought him good dogs, impeccably groomed, and we pay for services rendered at the end of the show. So I, for one, don't see a reason why we should put up with that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:52 AM (tgvbd)
See, these are the stories I want to hear. I still think you should coordinate with one of the COBs to write a thread on your experiences in this world.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (20K3i)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:55 AM (20K3i)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:55 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Whether Man at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (oftw2)
The results of turning news and weather into entertainment.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:56 AM (20K3i)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
My favorite day of the year. It's also the birthday of my only neice. Hubbymayhem goofs on me about this.
Tomorrow is his birthday. It's also the 16th anniversary of the day Mamamayhem passed. Yeh, that sucked for Hubbymayhem.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 13, 2025 08:57 AM (2J/Lj)
You wouldn’t have posted that if you read last night’s ONT.😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (KDPiq)
That Folgers ad was ........ disturbing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:57 AM (20K3i)
Verse 14 put it more in context
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2025 08:47 AM (gbOdA)
You're not really answering my question.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 13, 2025 08:57 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:52 AM (tgvbd)
Is he from Indonesia? They like their dogs fat and quiet. Makes 'em more tender.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 13, 2025 08:58 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:58 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 13, 2025 08:57 AM (2J/Lj)
Happy Birthday to him. I also have a birthday this week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:58 AM (20K3i)
Posted by: Case at December 13, 2025 08:59 AM (G1OIb)
And life is too short to put up with assholes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:55 AM (20K3i)
It's not your ordinary customer experience. It's more like you have to keep them happy, not the other way around. They like to think they know everything and you're just some tiresome intruder. But Her Majesty knows her dog and was, before her knees gave out, among the best owner-handlers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 08:59 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Sorry for the upheaval, but I have fired employees, workmen, even doctors for that kind of mess and never regretted it. Don't make me pay for bad attitude, because I won't.
Posted by: Whether Man at December 13, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 13, 2025 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 13, 2025 08:59 AM (pJWtt)
The family is getting together for his burial.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 13, 2025 09:00 AM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 13, 2025 08:41 AM (7v6oI)
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I used to just post the Glory Be, but I realized that it went so well with the Fatima prayer that they should be kept together.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 09:00 AM (ZeH0U)
Professional handlers can be asshoe.
I benched a professional handler at a show in Indianapolis for waving bait in front on my dog's face during a tight, line-abreast group stack that the judge called for.
By her reaction, you'd have thought I had accused her of murder. She denied the waving of the bait thing, but unfortunately for her, I had video of it on my phone.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 09:01 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 13, 2025 08:47 AM (/tk5+)
Yes it is! We’ve finally gotten to where all the leaves are turning. I have 3 Japanese Maples in the backyard, and they are resplendent in gorgeous hues of orange, red, and burgundy. And the two pears on the side are golden from top to bottom.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 09:02 AM (k5cxK)
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Here in KY too. It's been overcast and cold most of November and now into December. Supposed to be near zero tomorrow night with wind chills around -10F.
The house isn't insulated for that kind of cold.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 09:03 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Modern technology is amazing. What nic does it post under?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 13, 2025 09:03 AM (0U5gm)
High temp on Sunday will be 9°. Yes I said high temperature for the day will be 9 degrees. It's snowing right now. Temp is hovering around 30°.
Winter is just one very, very long Monday.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 13, 2025 09:04 AM (2J/Lj)
Professional handlers can be asshoe.
Some can be but most aren't. Or at least they manage to hide it. I doubt he's quite that distant with his top client.
The person we'd really like to have, who understands hounds and is friendly even to me, unfortunately moved to Ohio.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 09:05 AM (tgvbd)
I didn't mention this at the time because frankly I was tired of thinking, talking and dealing with it. When something bad is going on, and you tell everyone, yes, you get some sympathy and prayers, but then people will ask how it is going, which forces you to think about it when you'd rather just move on to happier topics.
This is what happened when CPS was tormenting us. I only told a few people and never mentioned it here until long after it was over. I notified my Guard unit's security manager because I had to, but emphasized that it was absolutely confidential because I liked coming to drill and talking about other stuff. This request was honored.
Anyway, I've been dealing with elevated blood pressure for a year, and then in September learned that I had Type II diabetes and my blood sugar levels were really bad. My doctor at the time was a condescending pill-pusher so I fired him and got a new one who was made to understand that I call the shots, which she agreed. I had hitherto been in excellent overall health, rarely getting sick and I only got a primary doctor because I was over 29 and my wife insisted. (cont)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 13, 2025 09:08 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (KDPiq)
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I missed it last night, but I watched it this morning.
It's hilarious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 09:09 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (20K3i)”
I’m curious to know how close they are to “Best in Show.”
Well worth watching btw, if only to see Fred Willard as the Best Event Announcer Ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 09:11 AM (k5cxK)
evelynbobbie.com
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 09:11 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: the way I see it at
Yes, meaning a sharp sudden drop in temperature accompanied by high winds from the north or northwest.
A short term drastic change, not a calamity.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 13, 2025 09:12 AM (V88yL)
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No no no …. They got it all wrong.
You are a soul. You have a body.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 09:14 AM (kBA/i)
I therefore went through everything I ate, cut out all the sugar I could identify, slashed carbs and did the apple cider vinegar thing while kicking up my exercise.
Just as importantly, I received the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Because my BP was scary high, I accepted a low dose of meds, and that worked. But I wanted to first see what would happen if I just cut off the sugar.
This week I met with the doctor, went over the labs and the results were spectacular. Cut the A1C by almost 50 percent to controlled levels in 90s days. Doc was impressed. The temptation is to attribute this to my efforts, but we all know that God has the final say. God be praised!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 13, 2025 09:16 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Kathy at December 13, 2025 09:17 AM (zuKcR)
Much of it was ad-libbed by him, too.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 09:17 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 09:18 AM (k5cxK)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 09:18 AM (Y1sOo)
We can change any thread to a Boob Thread!
("according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself")
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 13, 2025 08:53 AM (zdLoL)
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Free the sweater puppies! Let them frolic and play!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)
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Dude! That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
Posted by: I Owe A Lot To Iowa Pot at December 13, 2025 09:19 AM (kBA/i)
8 Finally, all of you, be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another, compassionate, humble. 9 Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 13, 2025 09:20 AM (kOluj)
High temp on Sunday will be 9°. Yes I said high temperature for the day will be 9 degrees. It's snowing right now. Temp is hovering around 30°.
Winter is just one very, very long Monday.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
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You must be on the other side of the Ohio River from us, here in KY. We're south-southwest of Louisville.
It's 29 here. Yesterday wasn't too bad... had some sun for the first time in what seems like months. Going to be bitterly cold tomorrow - Tuesday.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 09:20 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)
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This
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 09:21 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 08:54 AM (Y1sOo)
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It's good that this is a slow time of year for work because a bunch of folks in my office (including me) are Spartan grads and spent most of Thursday and Friday following the scandal on various media and giving regular updates on what we found.
Best response: "Killing yourself with a butter knife? Why not go all in and use a spoon?"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)
"Free the sweater puppies! Let them frolic and play!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd"
Is this about me?
Posted by: Sue Ellen Mischke at December 13, 2025 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Going deep. Out.
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*fistbump* I recently shared that passage with a friend who is battling cancer.
Great Plains greetings to you from a former/3-year resident of the Greenville-Spartanburg area.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 13, 2025 09:27 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: AnniesStew at December 13, 2025 09:27 AM (VEsJT)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 09:20 AM (NwnyJ)
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It's 17 here. Low will be 4 overnight. Looks like late next week we get a thaw before the next round.
That's nice. Gives a chance for the first potholes of the season to open up.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)
Winter is just one very, very long Monday.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
Just think. The coldest part of the year (last two weeks of Jan - first two weeks of Feb) isn't even here yet.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 13, 2025 09:30 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 13, 2025 09:31 AM (2NHgQ)
one month with the boys! very excited!
chili and steaks are waiting for him
VERY READY for Christmas!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 13, 2025 09:31 AM (emBoF)
evelynbobbie.com
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 09:11 AM (h7ZuX)
I will pass that along. Thanks!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 13, 2025 09:33 AM (20K3i)
Posted by: AnniesStew at December 13, 2025 09:27 AM (VEsJT)
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My stepmother was put into a facility earlier this year, and she went a long time without talking to anyone, but not long ago, she started talking a little, much to the surprise of my father. He goes every day to ensure she eats at least one meal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:33 AM (ZOv7s)
They and their coach were shocked when they were arrested and then told “nope this is Florida, not Philadelphia, and laws get enforced around here.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 09:35 AM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:19 AM
Right after I retire, if you promise to link the video.
Posted by: Nancy P. (D-CA) at December 13, 2025 09:35 AM (0sNs1)
It's never "my body, my choice," but always "You WILL offer sacrifice to the devil!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)
If someone invented the "Chili-Steak," it would make billions.
You know, a steak made out of Chili.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 13, 2025 09:37 AM (zlW+y)
Sounds like you're somewhat close to the Western Kentucky Parkway. I think Elizabethtown west? Been over 40 years.
One of the prettiest drives I've ever taken. Early April. On the way to Kentucky Lake. There had been an early morning rain but mid-morning and the sun had come out. The redbuds and dogwoods were blooming on the hillsides.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 13, 2025 09:38 AM (jMlHD)
evelynbobbie.com
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 09:11 AM
Do they come in the Pantone 2026 Color of the Year, Cloud Dancer?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Nancy P. (D-CA) at December 13, 2025 09:38 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 13, 2025 09:40 AM (zlW+y)
Has your son checked for openings at Rutgers Agricultural Extension Service? I see jobs there on indeed.
Some entry level openings at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
Posted by: pawn at December 13, 2025 09:42 AM (EMg+d)
Memory care community or neighborhood sounds so much better.
/word policing function off
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 09:49 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 13, 2025 09:40 AM (zlW+y)
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During the field exercise at the end of Basic Training, I was on guard and struggling to keep my eyes open. My solution was to tear open the coffee packet and a sugar packet and just eat it, washing it down with some water. Zing! Kept me up for the rest of my shift.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
Thanks very much . I think he's been sending out resumes to everything that comes up, but I will tell him. I appreciate your input.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 09:51 AM (a2Pv6)
And Jesus said to him, You lack one thing: Go, close all of your tabs, and you will have treasure in heaven.
But his face fell, and he went away sad, for hep had a great many open tabs.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 13, 2025 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2025 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)
“My soul glorifies the Lord
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me—
holy is his name.”
Luke 1: 46-49
Posted by: Marcus T at December 13, 2025 09:53 AM (i14TE)
And Jesus said to him, You lack one thing: Go, close all of your tabs, and you will have treasure in heaven.
But his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had a great many open tabs.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 13, 2025 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
---Charlie Kirk
Posted by: Candace at December 13, 2025 09:55 AM (2NGiN)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 09:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 13, 2025 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
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This is about Ace, isn't it?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)
There’s a good example of that in Texas, in the entertaining race for the dem nomination to run for Senator, which has now attracted national attention. No, not Jasmine Crockett, although I find that part quite amusing because I’ve been telling people for months that she was going to be the Dem nominee, and until this week all the “smart people” said that idea was crazy.
But Texas dems have decided to make it a contest between the two most absolutely loathsome candidates they could find. Her opponent, the sad white twink Talerico, who pretends to be some kind of minister, decided to bolster his cred with Democrats by saying that it would have been OK if Mary would have aborted Jesus.
I know that sounds to monstrously ridiculous for anyone to even think - but that’s true “progressive “ dogma right now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 10:01 AM (k5cxK)
Hope Teresa in Ft Worth's 12/11 surgery was a success, and the recovery is going smoothly.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2025 10:04 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 13, 2025 10:05 AM (UONii)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 13, 2025 10:05 AM (g8Ew8)
That wasn’t those hoodlums first rodeo either, that had that shit down to a science. Works real good in Philly, not so great in Florida.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 10:05 AM (kmhyd)
Prayers up for all of God's children this holiday season.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 13, 2025 10:06 AM (kB9dk)
I know that sounds to monstrously ridiculous for anyone to even think - but that’s true “progressive “ dogma right now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 10:01 AM (k5cxK)
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The Party of Death. They want dead babies, sterile teenagers and dead grannies.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Hope you all are doing okay. Any word about Teresa's surgery?
Today's plan is to ferry all the Hannukah gifts to my son's house in advance of the party tomorrow. Is it wrong that I am not the least bit unhappy that my fight with my sister that kept me from having to buy gifts for kids I hardly know has made my holiday way less stressful?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 13, 2025 10:07 AM (t/2Uw)
OK to have aborted God's son, our savior?
There is no adequate response to such and assertion, it is that amazingly horrifying.
Abortion corrupts everything, absolutely everything -- there is nothing some people will not do or say to protect the ability to kill babies.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2025 10:08 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 13, 2025 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
LOL! And btw you are an incredibly lucky poster - you had to give up a great hash, but you got another great one in return! Most of us never even got one that’s worth remembering.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 10:08 AM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2025 10:11 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 13, 2025 10:11 AM (UONii)
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Hold our beer.
-San Francisco Democratic Party Central Committee
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:12 AM (To7on)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 10:13 AM (Ia/+0)
Sorry to spoil the boob thread.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 13, 2025 10:14 AM (v23vE)
Prayers up for all of God's children this holiday season.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Yeah, buddy!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 10:14 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:14 AM (To7on)
"I'm awake, but they just gave me a Tylenol and an oxycodone, so I may not be conscious too much longer 🤣🤣🤣 Will be seeing the surgical resident first, then Dr. Yopp will be by to see me around 8 or 9.
Apparently my liver is still intact, but I will be going home with an HAI pump. I will have to come up with a fun name for him - maybe call him "Fred". The medicine they will be putting in the pump is called FUDR - you KNOW we are going to be having fun with that acronym....
And now we get to start playing whack-a-mole with all of these pesky little tumors that didn't show up on the CT Scan or the MRI (we were told that it is not uncommon to find that once they go in).
The good news is that the pump is even MORE targeted than anything I have had before, and they can use much more medication without the worry of killing "healthy" tissue in the process.
I think the oxycodone may be kicking in now - see you guys on the other side...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 12, 2025 07:25 AM (U5cTn)"
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 13, 2025 10:14 AM (UONii)
There is no adequate response to such and assertion, it is that amazingly horrifying.
Abortion corrupts everything, absolutely everything -- there is nothing some people will not do or say to protect the ability to kill babies.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2025 10:08 AM (NuV6c)
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It started out as feel-good "nice" Christianity where there really is no hell, just devils we haven't made friends with yet, and since Jesus died for our sins, we can sin as much as we want. In fact, I've seen people argue that we *should* sin, otherwise that grace would just be wasted.
It may seem that the rabbit hole is pretty deep, but it's actually just about denying sin and coming up with excuses to do what you want.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2025 10:16 AM (NuV6c)
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A prayer for complete and speedy healing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 10:16 AM (To7on)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 13, 2025 10:14 AM (v23vE)
Absolutely. Prayers up now, and she's in my rotation.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 10:17 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Skip
Made some snowballs the other day when we had an inch of snow-now in freezer. Santa will get a surprise when he comes around on the pumper this year. They do it after dark here because the trucks are lit. I'm sure Santa is lit, too. IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Penguin Pete at December 13, 2025 10:17 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 10:17 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 13, 2025 10:18 AM (UONii)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 10:17 AM (h7ZuX)
I can't remember if y'all talked, but she was in Corsicana with me, and helped me jealously guard the sourdough starter all the way home! I need to try making that today.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 13, 2025 10:18 AM (v23vE)
Yikes. Wouldn't want people to try to be better, huh?
As my minister will say, people who reinterpret the scripture to validate/support modern culture think they are better than God - he is so judge-y and mean!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2025 10:19 AM (NuV6c)
I know how difficult this is. My thoughts are with you. Sending hugs and much love.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 13, 2025 10:20 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: LASue at December 13, 2025 10:21 AM (UwBs6)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 13, 2025 10:22 AM (t/2Uw)
I know that sounds to monstrously ridiculous for anyone to even think - but that’s true “progressive “ dogma right now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 10:01 AM (k5cxK)
He sounds nice.
Posted by: LASue at December 13, 2025 10:24 AM (UwBs6)
As my minister will say, people who reinterpret the scripture to validate/support modern culture think they are better than God - he is so judge-y and mean!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2025 10:19 AM (NuV6c)
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I think very few people bother to actually read Milton's Paradise Lost, but much of it has been internalized by our society in terms of making the devil a sympathetic character whose lieutenants still have some virtues.
Tolkien had a much clearer grasp of the totality of evil, and how it gradually corrupts one completely, to the point where good intentions cannot even be imagined.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)
It may seem that the rabbit hole is pretty deep, but it's actually just about denying sin and coming up with excuses to do what you want.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)
And people today think they’re coming up with “new ideas” and yet all of those go back to many of the gnostic heresies that began almost as soon as Christianity itself did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 10:24 AM (k5cxK)
You can't reason with people that fucking stupid.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2025 10:26 AM (LjSYW)
That horse has already left the barn.
Evangelicalism, in the past fifty years has done nothing but syncretize with the worst of pop culture.
Everything from changing a few words in secular music and rolling that through the so-called "Praise & Worship Team", to the "Come As You Are" (stay as you came) "Seeker Sensitive" pop psychology as a substitute for sanctification foolishness.
Do a honest comparison of the ancient faiths (e.g. Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox) which heavily relies on spirituality vs the highly materialistic American Religion (Free Will Dispensationalism) and you will witness how far Christianity has collapsed due to secularization.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 10:27 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at December 13, 2025 10:27 AM (4b7CV)
It may seem that the rabbit hole is pretty deep, but it's actually just about denying sin and coming up with excuses to do what you want.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)
And people today think they’re coming up with “new ideas” and yet all of those go back to many of the gnostic heresies that began almost as soon as Christianity itself did.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:1-4)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 13, 2025 10:28 AM (UONii)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 10:28 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 10:24 AM (k5cxK)
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It's really quite edifying to go back. Pelagianism is really a going thing these days, which goes back to the time of St. Augustine.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 13, 2025 10:14 AM (v23vE)
You got it
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2025 10:29 AM (LjSYW)
Hmm, opportunity to skim cash? Muhuhaha.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 13, 2025 10:29 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 10:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 10:31 AM (D+mpw)
It seems the low IQ Somalians in Ohio are smart enough to scam a bunch of money from DeWine's favorite money giveaway programs.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2025 10:32 AM (oAg81)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 13, 2025 10:18 AM (v23vE)
We did talk, so I am happy to have her image in my mind when I pray for her. Hope your bread does well!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 13, 2025 10:32 AM (h7ZuX)
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction
https://tinyurl.com/5n8e8skp
Europe is facing demographic collapse due to low birth rates, you see, so Europe needs mass immigration, and it's racist to question where those immigrants are coming from.
After all, British roast beef originally comes from the Middle East, and everything in European civilization comes from somewhere else, so there is no reason to object to turning much of England into a province of Pakistan.
Weirdly, Monbiot is Jewish, but importing millions of people who want to kill him apparently isn't a problem.
Posted by: Blackadder! at December 13, 2025 10:34 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 10:27 AM (a4flb)
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I disagree. There was an effort to bend the popular culture in a Christian direction and it was somewhat successful, but it was undermined by Evangelical leaders who started pushing people to withdraw from "the world" and stop contesting the popular culture.
Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option" is the Catholic/Orthodox version of this: quit the battle, go hide, hope things turn around later.
And evil responded with a massive offensive on every front. It has been beaten back but is still seething and quite powerful. I'm pleased to see more young people flocking to Christ and more orthodox Christians taking firm stands. "Nice" Christianity is dead.
And we've also identified those who betrayed their flocks with bad advice, whether intentionally or not.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2025 10:31 AM (D+mpw)
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Just like the great Peter Green who played for The Bluesbreakers and early Fleetwood Mac.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2025 10:35 AM (oAg81)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 13, 2025 10:36 AM (t/2Uw)
Those young men are the product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with them, I can prove it.
Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 13, 2025 10:39 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:39 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 13, 2025 10:39 AM (pd4dZ)
Not to be confused with the Peter Steele of Type O Negative who also died young.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 13, 2025 10:39 AM (qwx/I)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 10:40 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 13, 2025 10:40 AM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
You have inspired me within the past few months to more deeply explore the ancient faiths (RC and EO in particular). Along that path one can't help but look at these State Religions and see that core to their implementation and success that they must reject or minimalize Election and more from the individual to The Church, such where a Mafioso can kill a competitor while on his way to Mass and there be no conflict.
Get Baptized into the Church, leverage Means of Grace to an ultimate destination of Theosis. This is all pretty spiritual and treats sin and grace as individual barter transactions - do some sins, confess for forgiveness, do some penance, do some Purgatory, wash rinse repeat.
Faith + Works.
The Reformed view is much more different in that Sin can only be canceled by Grace through Faith.
Evangelicals, OTOH, view Sin as a Mistake, a goof, accident - IOW, they have traded in Absolute Truth for Relative Truth.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 10:41 AM (a4flb)
I'm sure the AWFL community will commit to finding the assailant.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 13, 2025 10:41 AM (qwx/I)
30°F and clear blue skies in western CO.
And if it hasn't been said yet:
Go Army! Beat Navy!
Posted by: muldoon at December 13, 2025 10:42 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2025 10:44 AM (dct30)
And we've also identified those who betrayed their flocks with bad advice, whether intentionally or not.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)
I think much of the drama swirling around TPUSA has been a well organized and well financed attempt by demonic forces to stage a takeover of the movement after the murder if one of thei greatest enemies, Charlie Kirk.
But as an example of how some good can still result from evil - a whole lot of false prophets have dropped their masks and exposed themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 10:45 AM (k5cxK)
We need a new rule: Whenever a lawsuit is filed the lawyers should disclose who pays them.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2025 10:46 AM (dct30)
Sssssssssss Boom! Ah!
USMA rah rah!
USMA rah rah!
Hoo rah Hoo rah
ArmaY rah!
Team! Team! Team!
(NOTE: USMA in this instance pronounced "You-Smay")
Posted by: muldoon at December 13, 2025 10:48 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 13, 2025 10:50 AM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2025 10:50 AM (dct30)
That example is such a tiny slice of Evangelicalism, it may not even be Evangelicalism.
Lets be clear, while the definition of Evangelicalism is rather amorphous and not homogenous, its core characteristic is Prescient Election (which in itself is heresy). To get there, you need a certain God Is My Co-Pilot sentiment.
Take a look at pretty much any commentary on Galatians 5:22 (Fruit of the Spirit) Evangelicals have Orwelled each and every term into its secular equivalent and have totally abandoned any of the spiritual meaning (which is ironic as it is a spiritual gift).
For example, their definition of "Joy" is indistinguishable from Euphoria. "Patience" is the ability to deal with jerk drivers or someone who is dawdling. Broadly speaking its vibes that can be regulated through psychotropic pharmaceuticals.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 10:50 AM (a4flb)
I'm not sure I completely agree with that assessment.
Evangelism has a a fundamental flaw in its assessment of success. It may perhaps be akin to the western mindset that growth is numerical in nature. And while this can be true, it can also be misleading. We are called to go into the world and make disciples, not converts.
So a church that brings 1 parishioner into an ardent walk with Christ has more successfully Evangelized than 100 mega churches that have 1 million members, of which none live out their faith.
The big tent model of the western evangelical church focused more on boutique ecclesiology which reached out to non-Christian lifestyles, often sacrificing the truth in its quest for numbers (and I'm sure in some instances, land holdings and income).
It would be difficult to look at crusades like the Billy Graham ministry and say it had "withdrawn from the world".....
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 10:51 AM (2NGiN)
Sounds like you're somewhat close to the Western Kentucky Parkway. I think Elizabethtown west? Been over 40 years.
One of the prettiest drives I've ever taken. Early April. On the way to Kentucky Lake. There had been an early morning rain but mid-morning and the sun had come out. The redbuds and dogwoods were blooming on the hillsides.
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We have property and a home in WV and take the Martha Lane Pkwy east to get there. It's a beautiful drive in the spring. Sometimes in the fall too. Absolutely sucks during winter tho'.
And, yea... we're not far from E-town. Hate that place.
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Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 10:53 AM (NwnyJ)
No disagreement here.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 10:53 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 10:53 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 10:41 AM (a4flb)
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This is abjectly false. It is true that people pervert teachings to make a false peace with their sins, but there is nothing unique to any particular faith in that respect.
Nor is the use of the Sacraments a wash/rinse/repeat cycle, but instead an iterative path to salvation, inching along by recognizing and removing sin from one's life.
Repeatedly sinning obviates the grace of Reconciliation. Where it works is that you are forced to recognize that you are not using your free will when you sin, but becoming a slave to it, confessing the same things over and over again. Finally, you break the chain, and there is great joy in being free of that compulsion.
There is a 'corporate' aspect to faith because we are not atomized individuals but part of a larger community and our sins affect that community.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Well said. Nothing to add there.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 10:55 AM (a4flb)
The natural entailment then is to merge popular culture into ever-increasing bastardization of the church. And so we get Christian rap, lesbian pastors, pro-choice congregations and the like.
The evangelical church is often a million members wide, but only an inch of faith deep.
Having participated in many a discussion of "outreach programs" in church board meetings, rarely is it suggested that we "live more piously", but rather most suggestions are hinged on ideas that seem to be more modern or more entertaining.
I'd argue that rather than withdraw itself from society, the western evangelical church movement has sought to adopt and insert itself into society, but not in ways which confirm the church, but rather weaken its principles.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 10:57 AM (2NGiN)
That is a broadside attack of Billy Sunday and Charles Finney.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 10:57 AM (a4flb)
The Church has a richness and depth and knowledge that even now, 19 years after my conversion, I am still struck by the repository of wisdom She contains.
I am also humbled by the examples of John Henry Newman, G.K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh and countless others who - often against their will - were drawn to the Church.
I was one of them. A Catholic-insulting jackass, raised to hold the Church in contempt and the last thing anyone ever expected was what actually happened. The people who knew me thought I was faking, or playing a prank or working an angle. Even my grandparents wondered what the "real" story was. Well, except for my mother's mother, who was Catholic, patiently taught me prayers, enforced the requirement on her wayward children and grandchildren that Christmas Mass was mandatory. She knew it would happen and had a very knowing smile when I told her.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless)
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I've got a batch in process today. Sadly, since Halloween my starter has been sluggish if not downright moribund. I think it looked outside and saw the early winter sky and leafless trees and decided to hibernate. This go round I took some steps to goose it and it got a good vigorous feed. Hope yours turns out well!
Posted by: muldoon at December 13, 2025 11:02 AM (/iMjX)
Seconded. Spring thru there can be just lovely... but winter, from Nashville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, off to central WV? Yikes. Have done that twice, glad to have BS Badlands...
Posted by: man at December 13, 2025 11:03 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Mick at December 13, 2025 11:03 AM (HFx9z)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2025 11:04 AM (XeU6L)
This gets a little weird, but I'm OK with that. As a confirmed believer in the Doctrines of Grace, unlike Finney, no one can manipulate someone's emotions into "Accepting Jesus" - that work is purely by the Paraclete.
So as for the false piety in the American Religion (aka Evangelicalism) I'm OK with that because the LORD will call out his own, and other than many Evangelicals actively hostile at "Calvinists", they are particularly ignorant of Scripture but accepting of the concept of Jesus (even though they engage in the blasphemous What Would Jesus Do vanity virtue theater).
In other words they eschew sound doctrine under the premise of "A Child Like Faith" as being an endorsement of almost total ignorance of doctrines and creeds.
I'm OK with it, because unlike the Left, they aren't trying to kill me and they pretend to be nice and "Christ like" which is a plus for civility and a high trust society.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 11:04 AM (a4flb)
He then praises himself for soldiering on in the face of such immense difficulty.
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Maybe change it to 60 Seconds although, in fairness, I still wouldn't watch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 13, 2025 10:51 AM (2NGiN)
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I was speaking of the early 2000s and teens.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 11:06 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2025 11:08 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 11:09 AM (Ia/+0)
This is absolute Gold and is what is missing in our post-modern materialistic world view. What I am greatly appreciating in the ancient faiths is the orientation towards Theosis rather than obtaining the Get Out Of Hell card.
I have a better understanding now of praying to departed Saints and how that is even possible, and the core of that is the assuming, not the essence, but the energy of God which would include Love, which too has been bastardized by Western ethics.
I'm developing on this topic as I exorcise more of the materialistic programming that has been a part of my Church history and tradition.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 11:10 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I'd love to use a ball peen hammer on that stopwatch!
Posted by: Bang! Ding! Ow! at December 13, 2025 11:14 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Oh, come on. Exercise your free will!
😀
Posted by: muldoon at December 13, 2025 11:15 AM (/iMjX)
"How about we all don’t have any kind of agendas? How about our agenda is take care of each other? I know [socialism] doesn’t work perfectly, or that people understand what the word actually means. For me, it’s taking care of each other. If I have more money, I can spend more money on other people.”
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Well, you're the 1% of the 1% now. Why don't you redistribute some of your wealth this way?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)
Let's go Mets!
No?
Posted by: man
Im picking the Expos to win by 3 goals.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2025 11:17 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 11:17 AM (W7XSX)
Try to come from the perspective of Election, which is very individualistic - the Book of Life is not a hotel registry where you can walk up and write your name. Abram didn't approach God on his own volition and demand to have the Adamic covenant go through him and his seed.
But a State Religion can not survive in an Election soteriology, so it comes up with an alternative soteriology. You happen to agree with the State Religion version and there is a lot of wisdom in that view particularly in the areas where it intersects with Election.
What I am sensing is that the Reformed faith has departed too far from what you are saying so that there is less and less doctrinal overlap and commonality.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 11:17 AM (a4flb)
The canvas I am working on takes First Century church doctrines, sees the implementation at scale through ancient faiths, sees what happened up to the Great Schism then watch as East and West refine and syncretize the doctrines to fit in with the Greater Culture.
The nailing of the 95 Thesis to the Wittenburg door was not THE inflection point, for reformation of Rome was going on years before this event. It was inevitable. So I am trying to winnow out the chaff and restore that which has been lost independent of modern and post modern influences and traditions.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 11:24 AM (a4flb)
You read Jonathan Edward's? That's great. The only people on here who know of Jonathan Edwards at least from what they have said only know "Sinners in the Hand of Angry God" which they read in high school or college as the example of a terrible Puritan. Since he was the most prolific religious writer of his time period, it's probably not to judge him just on that. He is one of those historical figures whom I have crush on.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 11:54 AM (PFs9e)
It seems the low IQ Somalians in Ohio are smart enough to scam a bunch of money from DeWine's favorite money giveaway programs.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2025 10:32 AM (oAg81)
DeWine also imported thousands of Haitians and dumped them on the hard-luck city of Springfield: somewhere around 20,000 dumped on a city of 60,000.
No way that's going to distort housing and social costs, and cost Americans jobs. /s
The Haitians promptly ate the ducks at the public parks; residents were complaining that household pets were also eaten. There were at least two deaths (a child on a school bus, and an old lady taking a trash can to the curb) due Haitians driving like maniacs.
DeWine is one of those Christians that seems to have more compassion for the poor if they were born in a foreign country, rather than born in the U.S.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 13, 2025 01:54 PM (pJWtt)
Daily Tech News 13 December 2025
Top Story
- In April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple had wilfully violated her 2021 order to open up the App Store.
Apple appealed.
The Ninth Circuit just upheld the decision, ruling that Apple has been acting in bad faith, as everyone paying attention already knew. (Ars Technica)
"But we're only worth $4 trillion! We need that 30% cut of transactions that don't even take place on the App Store!"
Tech News
- Can the Steam Machine really run games at 4k 60Hz as Valve claims?
In many cases, yes. (Hot Hardware)
The Steam Machine isn't out yet, but the specs are public and they're very close to an existing AMD CPU and GPU so it is possible to build an equivalent system and test performance right now.
On indie titles like Hollow Knight: Silksong it delivers 4k at 120Hz, or close to it. That's not a particularly demanding title so it's not a huge surprise.
On big-budget titles like Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, and Monster Hunter Wilds you can expect 60Hz at 1440p, but at 4k only two of these titles achieved a consistent 60Hz.
And this is with graphical settings and upscaling tweaked appropriately, not with everything simply set to maximum quality. But this is not a high-end system, and isn't expected to have a high-end price. It's supposed to just work.
Will I buy one when it comes out? Maybe. Depends on the price. I just picked up that mini-PC with a faster CPU (though a slower GPU) and a lot more memory for around $600, so it would have to compare well with that.
Edit: Now that I compare those benchmark scores, the SteamDeckMachine doesn't offer me that much. The processor on my new mini-PC is 39% faster and the graphics 36% slower than the Steam Machine, and it has 64GB of shared memory rather than 16GB plus 8GB of DRAM. Since I also have a full desktop system and an Xbox (gathering dust) I think I'm good.
- Framework has increased memory prices by 50% on its DIY laptops. (Framework)
That doesn't seem too bad given that retail prices have increased by around 300% in the past couple of months.
Pre-built laptops and the Framework Desktop which comes with up to 128GB of RAM have not increased in price, nor have prices changed for existing pre-orders.
- Russian hackers have deployed new ransomware that encrypts all of your files - with an interesting twist. (The Register)
The twist is that the decryption key is hardcoded into the ransomware so you can just decrypt all your files youself.
- Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come on and join the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands. (Reclaim the Net)
Berlin's regional government has brought back the Stasi.
- I planted my plants. I had 16 native shrubs of various sorts sitting in pots waiting - several different bottlebrushes and grevilleas, a westringia, a boronia, and a babingtonia, plus a few kangaroo paws in various colours.
All but the kangaroo paws got planted today.
Needed to wait for it to rain to break up the ground where I planned this - it had been dry for a while and the soil was rock hard - and then wait for it to stop raining to get some supplies delivered. Then it rained again and that ground got covered in weeds.
So today I pulled out all those weeds, dug out some regular grass which I didn't want growing into this area, dug out some patches of native tussock-grass which is not technically a weed but which I also didn't want there, dug in some gypsum to help break up the soil and some potting mix tailored for native plants to improve it, and then dug eleven holes (hitting rocks several times and on two occasions large metal staples left behind by the builders), filled those holes with more potting mix, and planted everything but those kangaroo paws, which will go in another part of the garden.
Which will all look great in a year or so as it grows in but right now, ouch.
Need to go back and cover it with bark chips, but that will definitely be another day.
Turns out that bacon-flavoured apples taste bad. Who knew?
Musical Interlude
Song is King by Kanaria, covered by Hololive's Mori Calliope and Gawr Gura. Gura wasn't the most technically skilled vocalist in Hololive (she now streams independently but still as a fish, having found her niche there) but she has a way of putting her emotions into a song that makes her stand out.
Disclaimer: Sameko Saba? Literally shark-girl mackerel?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:04 AM (BLOW1)
And it "knew" my comment was there, because I'm still FIRST.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:07 AM (RuTUS)
Pixy, if you have a moment to spare, I'm told Miklos has inadvertently gotten himself banned impersonating the troll raimondo again.
Miklos's hash is (N7hqt), if that helps.
Thanks for anything you can do.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 04:07 AM (z5QST)
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Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:12 AM (RuTUS)
Especially when you can use power tools. And chemicals.
Good morning horde.
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 13, 2025 04:15 AM (EU9xD)
Pixy, if you have a moment to spare, I'm told Miklos has inadvertently gotten himself banned impersonating the troll raimondo again.
Miklos's hash is (N7hqt), if that helps.
Thanks for anything you can do.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
I can't see a ban against Miklos's most recent IP address, so I'm not sure what happened there.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:21 AM (BLOW1)
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It happened after he socked as 'raimondo on tap'
Do we still have the "TB3K" (of olden times) here?
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 04:25 AM (rdVOm)
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Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2025 04:30 AM (zlW+y)
Incidentally, in Australia, he's known as Dyke Von Dick, because everything is backwards there.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Amusing International Facts at December 13, 2025 04:32 AM (zlW+y)
Round them up at night, fly them to Somalia and leave. Let the judges argue in court why they should come back. One at a time.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 04:38 AM (OfmEX)
lolnvidia: "To put a number on it, the rumor mill is pointing towards the RTX 6090 having at least a 40% uplift in performance over the RTX 5090, along with the watts being pumped through it going up again in excess of 600W."
Sure. I believe the watts parts.
So all the rumor-mongers have been wrong about the 50-eries "super" models, and now they'll be wrong about the 60-series, which we probably won't see, (my guess), for another 2 years, October '27.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Amusing International Facts at December 13, 2025 04:40 AM (zlW+y)
Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy
What is your favorite opening line of a book?
THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS
1.1. INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:43 AM (RuTUS)
https://tinyurl.com/2bw2he6p
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 04:45 AM (PFs9e)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 13, 2025 04:47 AM (tljrc)
If I didn't stay up a hour later I would have been on time
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 04:48 AM (Ia/+0)
Skip, I don't know how you do it. Getting up in the middle of the night on days you don't have to.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Amusing International Facts at December 13, 2025 04:50 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 04:52 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 04:55 AM (OfmEX)
Mr. Coffee machine killed the Percolator.
And that marked the beginning of the downfall of the USA...
Clearly a plot devised by the Kremlin, Mr. Coffee debuted in 1972 and quickly became a huge hit. Here is former Baseball player Joe Dimaggio, obviously a Soviet agent, in a TV ad for the commie coffee maker in 1974:
https://is.gd/Q3Ydzy
Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 13, 2025 05:00 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 05:01 AM (OfmEX)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)
@bonchieredstate
He's got a top research team checking everything before it gets posted, is my guess.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 05:13 AM (RuTUS)
https://tinyurl.com/5n8paum8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 05:14 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 05:17 AM (tgvbd)
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:43 AM (RuTUS)
_________
I studied Stat Thermo for my P Chem course and I frequently wanted to kill myself. Because I'm no mathematician.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 05:21 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 05:28 AM (ESVrU)
One problem with the Mr. Coffee style, with the water reservoir is hard water will build up scale and sediment over time. This very gradually lowers the water temperature that can be achieved and the coffee isn’t very good. The manufacturers recommend running vinegar through periodically but I could never see any results with that. A pour through does make a tastier cup.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 05:35 AM (ebWKH)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2025 05:44 AM (3Ope8)
still using my 40 year old Melitta cone for coffee; in fact I should do so immediately!
We use strong citric acid solutions for lime scale removal, seems to work better than vinegar (typically 5% acetic acid)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 05:44 AM (Cjt/F)
The Democrats war room
How they get their talking points out fast and universal
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:50 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 05:50 AM (ebWKH)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 05:53 AM (xG4kz)
These next-gen mad scientists are dabbling in the black arts.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 05:54 AM (1zOXE)
Miss LInda is getting over her cold, I think. I haven't caught anything -- yet. I'm awake, partly, drinking my coffee, and trying to shift the furry thugs' feeding time down the line a bit so Stirling won't be inclined to wake me at four am.
Whassup?
("Kangaroo paws"? Got to follow Pixy's link)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 13, 2025 06:03 AM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025
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I do the vinegar run-through when my Braun coffeemaker turns on the "Clean" light. A half-pot of white vinegar, then two full pots of fresh water. I like being able to set the whole thing up the night before. Then I get up, turn the coffee on, stumble back to the head, and when I return the coffee is ready to pour.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:21 AM (BLOW1
Thanks for checking. Sorry for the goose chase.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 06:04 AM (+n72I)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that, if the apple tastes bad, it doesn't taste like bacon.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2025 06:04 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:05 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2025 04:30 AM (zlW+y)
https://youtu.be/Crif5E67ar0
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2025 06:06 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 13, 2025 06:08 AM (yNJrI)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 13, 2025 06:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:09 AM (Ia/+0)
AG retweeted
@aghamilton29
Blue Georgia
@BlueATLGeorgia
Nov 8
Bill Maher: "Tucker Carlson was like the old-school country-club Republican. Then he became the world’s oldest Groyper — having on Holocaust deniers and asking, 'Who do you think were the good guys in World War II?' So now he had on this Nick Fuentes guy, and never challenged him."
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 06:10 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 06:16 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 06:22 AM (ebWKH)
also this, via Sarah Hoyt over @ Insty:
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/a-new-christmas-fable
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 06:23 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Apple, Inc. at December 13, 2025 06:24 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:27 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 06:29 AM (ebWKH)
The word is out there Marxists want the country flooded with 3rd world people.
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:27 AM (Ia/+0)
I sometimes wonder if it was an act of actual malevolence (we want to replace our native population) or just another left-wing cock-up. I mean, you could, if you were so inclined, think the Left took that "all cultures are equal" stuff seriously, combined with a total lack of understanding of the existing culture in this country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 06:32 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2025 06:33 AM (3Ope8)
I loved both Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, up to a point. As both were an integral part of a year-long Physical Chemistry course, they were integral parts of the virtual threshing machine that separated those who could hack it and those who could not.
Our class was almost all Chemistry majors and Chemical Engineering majors. The ChemE majors dreaded this class, so much so that I came to believe that the "duh duh duhhhh!" sound effect ought to be a mandatory teaching "aid" for the curriculum:
https://youtu.be/_zrMykBnidM
As for the instructor, Dr. Leslie Leifer, he was a curmudgeonly legend in his own right. Perhaps my favorite moment in the year happened right near the start. We were taking our first exam. During it, Dr. Leifer, who rocked a pair of coke bottle bottom eyeglasses, stopped at the desk of my roommate and asked him, "Are you in this class?" As if someone would simply drop in to have a go at a P Chem exam for shits and grins! I still laugh at the absurdity of that question.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:36 AM (xG4kz)
Please. They are Frankenapples.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:40 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Epobirs at December 13, 2025 06:41 AM (/0z9K)
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Don’t. They have explained themselves for decades, what they wanted to do, what they were going to do, and why. Malice aforethought.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 06:41 AM (ebWKH)
The word is out there Marxists want the country flooded with 3rd world people.
Posted by: Skip
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I sometimes wonder if it was an act of actual malevolence (we want to replace our native population) or just another left-wing cock-up. I mean, you could, if you were so inclined, think the Left took that "all cultures are equal" stuff seriously, combined with a total lack of understanding of the existing culture in this country.
Posted by: Hadrian
It's easy to look at them as though they are ignorami. I belive they honesty are stupid enough, but the hatred and evil inside them and loathing of America as founded are what cause them to do what they do.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 06:43 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 06:44 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:49 AM (Ia/+0)
"I am Professor Harris. I work with systems where the number of particles is..." ( writes this on the chalkboard ) "... zero or one. If you want to work with systems to two or more particles, go sign up for Professor Miller's course."
-- actual "welcome to this class" statement from the UC Berkeley Chemistry graduate program in the autumn of 1976. It was a world apart.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:49 AM (xG4kz)
Every time I hear his voice in this film, I think, "What is George Costanza doing in a 1933 musical . . .?"
I only know Raymond from his guest turn on a Man From U.N.C.L.E. years later.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)
It's in the 20s but still Air now
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:50 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 06:52 AM (9ipOP)
I sometimes wonder if it was an act of actual malevolence (we want to replace our native population) or just another left-wing cock-up.
There is a substantial component of mental illness involved, else why would white people wander about and curse the existence of white people? Self-awareness approaching "zero", right there!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:53 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at December 13, 2025 06:53 AM (R/m4+)
Gwyneth Paltrow Apples
"You got apple in my pussy!"
"You got pussy in my apple!"
The irony here is that G does, indeed, have a daughter named Apple.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:57 AM (xG4kz)
Tastes like cooter!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:57 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 06:58 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 06:58 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 07:01 AM (luNjk)
Tucker has reverted to being the smarmy kid in grade school whose face was badly in need of a fist. His girlish glee at Ted Cruz not knowing the population of Iran was evidence enough for me to drop him to the bottom of my "listen to this" list.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 07:04 AM (xG4kz)
I'll run out today to feed the car, have my hair cut (all of them) and give my barber his Xmas present, pay my Internet bill, and maybe visit the library. Linda never says anything, but I'd like to think she's amazed at how I fast I can move and get errands done in a morning. It's easy out in the western suburbs, though, a big street grid. I'd hate to deal with it all in the city proper.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Plants love it. at December 13, 2025 07:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Tucker has reverted to being the smarmy kid in grade school whose face was badly in need of a fist. His girlish glee at Ted Cruz not knowing the population of Iran was evidence enough for me to drop him to the bottom of my "listen to this" list.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 07:04 AM (xG4kz)
I'll go find that Ted Cruz thing. Meanwhile: A long-ago friend told a story about going to a kind of early speech-masters talk, live, where the speaker got really haughty and said, I think there's probably not anything you could ask me that I couldn't answer. And the guy I knew shot off, "What's the square root of [some random number]?"
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 07:09 AM (luNjk)
Posted by: Guy who always says at December 13, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Guy who always says "mornin yall" at December 13, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025
***
My morning chow included two mini-croissants, oven-toasted for a bit, with some butter and honey, along with two scrambled seasoned eggs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 07:10 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:11 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:11 AM (A0sqA)
Yay!
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: As any chef can tell you at December 13, 2025 07:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Jun 18, 2025 — "I don't sit around memorising population tables," said Cruz. "They have 92 million people," Carlson responded.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 07:13 AM (luNjk)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 07:13 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: As any chef can tell you at December 13, 2025 07:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Coming soon...Lizzo Apples.
About Damn Time!
Posted by: Lizzo at December 13, 2025 07:14 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Tucker Carlson clashes with Ted Cruz over Iran | REUTERS
https://youtu.be/e06RZnNfUVY
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:15 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 07:19 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Thanks!
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:20 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 07:21 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Guy who always says at December 13, 2025 07:09 AM"
+++
Ok, I was wondering if this was some sort of Yiddish greeting so I naturally decided to ask Al Gore's Amazing Internet.
Turns out to be some flavor of female in trouble with the local constabulary:
https://tinyurl.com/mr25ts7h
Posted by: Person unafraid to ask Al Gore's Amazing Internet at December 13, 2025 07:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: one hour sober
>Silly. As if Cruz is the General spearheading the operation. Cruz is a legislator approving or not approving action. Roles, people. Know your fucking role.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 07:23 AM (1zOXE)
29F this morning. Supposed to drop to 7F tonight and only get into the low teens tomorrow. Monday morning will be bitterly cold. Just above, or below 0F.
Add in the wind Sunday and it will "feel like" below zero.
And it's not even winter yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 07:24 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)
I just like saying "Poormoghaddam".
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:26 AM (RuTUS)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:27 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 07:29 AM (d6jY2)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 13, 2025 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage"" at December 13, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Person who never watches Fox News at December 13, 2025 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 13, 2025 07:33 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:34 AM (A0sqA)
I studied Stat Thermo for my P Chem course and I frequently wanted to run away and join the US Navy. Because I'm no mathematician.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 07:35 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
She was cut from "The Silmarillion" her third DUI.
Posted by: Guy who always says at December 13, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 07:35 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 07:36 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)
What have you kids been doing overnight?
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 07:38 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez"
That is intolerable. I would have to go into a drunken hibernation.
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2025 07:40 AM (OTdqV)
Kills chiggers and other bad insects, so I'll take that trade,
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)
And then you ran away and joined the US Navy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)
Smartest move I ever made, except for my marriage proposal.
Blessings on you and yours.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Chiggers and other bad insects at December 13, 2025 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 07:47 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)
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We are dogsitting our cousin's cavapoo who is a major cuddler so there's that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:47 AM (A0sqA)
I studied Stat Thermo for my P Chem course and I frequently wanted to run away and join the US Navy. Because I'm no mathematician.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)
I went to a small college. My second semester of P Chem, where we had Stat Thermo, I was one of two people in the class. And if the other guy didn't show up, I got the full lecture anyway.
The other guy was your basic C student who graduated without any great distinction. But the professor wasn't hard on him, he was hard on me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 07:47 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:49 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:50 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:54 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:54 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:56 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:56 AM (sDNVV)
Anyone have a recommended method for cleaning DVD that start skipping?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:54 AM (sDNVV)
Spray some alcohol on a soft cloth or paper. Wipe the disc straight from the center to the edge, not in a circle. That's how I did it with CDs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 07:58 AM (tgvbd)
Nothing can be done to repair it.
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 07:59 AM (W7XSX)
The name cavapoo makes me laugh. FenSpouse makes up pretend names for mixed breed dogs and insists we go out and get one.
Cavapoo is obviously real . Is a cavalier spaniel and what else?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 07:59 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 08:00 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Nanook at December 13, 2025 08:01 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:02 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:05 AM (sDNVV)
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She obviously doesn't own a mirror. I can't say I blame her because I've seen a recent picture of her extolling her happiness at her 4th? facelift. She looked appalling. Not that she was ever the least bit attractive, because she's never been. But she looked so, so terrible. Like an alien freak. Perhaps that's why she's always such an angry lunatic. If I looked like that, maybe I would be too...if I didn't jump out of a 10-story window beforehand just to make that mirror reflection go away.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 13, 2025 08:05 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Deer munching On Expensive Shrubbery at December 13, 2025 08:05 AM (oftw2)
I can believe that.
Ted Cruz doesn't represent Texas, he represents the best interests of Ted Cruz. If Quatar would outbid AIPAC, then Cruz and Carlson would be friends.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)
Let it dry for a while longer to the air, and (if it was just smudges) then you should be fine.
If it's scratches, you need a CD/DVD resurfacer.
Lastly, if it's the reflective layer that's starting to break up, there's no fixing that.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2025 08:09 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 08:10 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Lady in Black
>Full confession: I've never seen the back side of Carrot Top's nutsack, but I imagine that Kathy Griffin's face resembles a gooch and testicle pouch deprived of decades of sunlight.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 08:12 AM (1zOXE)
"There is also many a bold spirit among the Aarab, of men and women, that being hurt, snatching a brand from the hearth, will sear his wounded flesh, till the fire be quenched in the suffering fibre : and they can endure pain (necessitous persons, whose livelihood is as a long punishment,) with constant fortitude"
Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:16 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:11 AM (A0sqA)
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I love your sense of humor. I hope your son has a wonderful time at the party.
Today is a big cookie baking day for me, with maybe a bit of gift wrapping thrown in. I'm looking forward to it.
Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2025 08:18 AM (79pEw)
Nothing can be done to repair it.
Posted by: no one
Maybe Debbie just wants out of Dallas.
Posted by: Film-Flam at December 13, 2025 08:19 AM (oftw2)
She is really stupid.
Posted by: Case at December 13, 2025 08:21 AM (G1OIb)
The aluminium substrate suffered “pinholes” and these strange looking squiggly line voids, almost like a type of critter that eats metal. Edison cylinders and vinyl LP will still be rockin’ after the last CD has rotted away.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 08:22 AM (d6jY2)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)
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That gives new depth of meaning to "cynicism"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:23 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:25 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM
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You mean like with a cloth?
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 13, 2025 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:27 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)
I don't see that on thenewneo.com, Skip.
I'll keep looking!
Her three-part essay on Tucker is worth reading, from this list:
108 here's a listing of newneo entries on Tucker:
https://thenewneo.com/?s=tucker
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:26 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 11:20 AM (RuTUS)
AAA sucks ass at optimizing things and has gotten lazy, assuming hardware will handle it. If they have a benchmark to design to it will help. I think Valve will eventually succeed here even if they have a headwind dealing with the console players that are basically incapable of dealing with system settings and will just run whatever out of the box.
For me - I can't guarantee hitting 60hz at 4k with my carefully built $3500 gaming rig, at least on max settings, so people will have some things to figure out to make this work.
Posted by: heya at December 13, 2025 02:10 PM (gbaE1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 13, 2025 04:58 PM (R11M+)
Thanks For The Memories
Welcome to Friday, Morons. Let's start with some good advice:
Feline Friday: Scardy cat
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Historical dad joke
A better time
In case you were wondering about bee semen
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Swan
Why I think God loves the USA
The best part of waking up
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Season's greetings
Dramatic pose
Burrrrrp!
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The US has stolen Canada's beloved Franklin, and the Canoeheads are hopping mad about it
Tonight's game
Load Sabot!
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Can con
Wingman
This family does these skits on TikTok and they're hilarious
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Bon mot
Better just make it fellas
Christmas meme
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Will the mass importation of Indians lead to Canadian rapprochement?
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How's your car warranty? Our records show that it's about to expire.
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Partner: Naw, got a real one
Money is tempting, but I question the genie's definitions - maybe I _only_ get enough to sit and bask in the sun.
Health works and can be shared. I'll take it.
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Posted by: County Corker at December 12, 2025 10:17 PM (oftw2)
They were on their way home from a peacekeeping mission in the Sinai peninsula. Their families were gathered together for a welcome home reception at Ft. Campbell when they got the tragic news.
Memorial ceremony at Ft. Campbell today:
https://tinyurl.com/3c7csdpt
Here's a link to the investigation:
https://tinyurl.com/2jp6jn6u
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 10:18 PM (22p5n)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 10:18 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: USA #1! at December 12, 2025 10:19 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:09 PM (ynpvh)
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How's your car warranty? Our records show that it's about to expire.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 10:11 PM (dyewR)
Hah, your records are dead wrong; they expired a Looong time ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Heavy Meta
Hopefully, just birth certificates, passports, and cash money.
Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side at December 12, 2025 10:21 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: USA #1! at December 12, 2025 10:19 PM (oftw2)
Say friend, feeling sad? Have you considered medically assisted suicide? It's free!
Your friends at the NIH.
Posted by: Canuckistan Health Service at December 12, 2025 10:21 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: mindful webworker - well, that was unexpected at December 12, 2025 10:22 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 10:22 PM (GPiBi)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 12, 2025 10:16 PM (CDX35)
It is better than scurvy.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 10:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 10:23 PM (snZF9)
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 10:08 PM (zZu0s)
If my wife were still alive I might go for Health so I could spend the next century with her...then again, when I die I might, but in a different context.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mindful webworker - well, that was unexpected at December 12, 2025 10:22 PM (lbDMw)
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Can I interest you in 500 videos of porch pirates getting their just desserts?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 10:24 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side at December 12, 2025 10:21 PM (oftw2)
Nothing I don't have digitized copies for. She was very proud of herself.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 10:24 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 12, 2025 10:16 PM (CDX35)
It is better than scurvy.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 10:23 PM (rbvCR)
I knew somebody who said, "Eat an apple, make a turd." Maybe not as poetic...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Nicholas Angel at December 12, 2025 10:25 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 12, 2025 10:25 PM (CDX35)
Mmmmmm!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Nicholas Angel at December 12, 2025 10:25 PM (mlg/3)
If you took money to let the swan it, would you have taken a swan dive? Would it end up being your swan song?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:26 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Nicholas Angel at December 12, 2025 10:27 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 10:18 PM (22p5n)
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I remember this vividly. I was living with my grandparents when it happened, and they watched the news while eating dinner. As soon as the story broke, my grandfather got up and walked right up to the TV. I was about to say something, but my grandmother gave me a death stare and I froze.
My grandfather sat back down and said that he flew out of Gander during the war, and there were times when landings were very difficult. Very quiet meal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 12, 2025 10:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Ma'am, would you like a tissuuuueee...ewwww.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sniffle at December 12, 2025 10:29 PM (lbDMw)
Mmmmmm!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)
Holy shit, you just reminded me that I still have an unopened bag of them from the texas mome return trip. Out of sight out of mind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 10:29 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 10:29 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 12, 2025 10:30 PM (dhHpw)
Posted by: USA #1! at December 12, 2025 10:19 PM (oftw2)
Well, not for.16,000 of them this year.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:30 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Sad Anniversary, RIP at December 12, 2025 10:30 PM (oftw2)
So Time Travel obviously.
Posted by: Nicholas Angel at December 12, 2025 10:30 PM (mlg/3)
I do. Send me an email(my nic at gee, mail!) and I'd be happy to help.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 12, 2025 10:31 PM (df/te)
Mmmmmm!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)
Holy shit, you just reminded me that I still have an unopened bag of them from the texas mome return trip. Out of sight out of mind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 10:29 PM (snZF9)
***
I stand in awe of your self control.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:31 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 12, 2025 10:31 PM (sYWfT)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 12, 2025 10:32 PM (gKWVE)
First thing the bastard did was shove one of those damned camera things down my nose and into my throat. It was one of the most horrible experiences in my life. No pain. Just constant unavoidable gagging. Gagging like you wouldn't believe. And then my stomach started playing along trying to wretch with whole body convulsive spasms. Never felt so weak and inhuman. I wanted to punch that f'er when it was over.
2 things,
That woman in the video has some very specific, unique talents.
It's good I'm straight because there is absolutely no friggan way I could be gay. Right out.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 10:32 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 10:33 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 10:33 PM (p/70E)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 10:33 PM (dyewR)
Given the general desire for inflation, I don't believe the fourth option can be calibrated. Due to related instability, another 75 years isn't appealling. And Wikipedia is worthless woke shit these days (and I don't terribly want to go through the covid insanity again).
Posted by: Methos at December 12, 2025 10:34 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 10:34 PM (GPiBi)
Great to hear from you.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 10:35 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 10:35 PM (snZF9)
Half Chicken
Half Mushrooms
Half Onions
Half Olives
Just how are those four halves supposed to be distributed? Quarter chicken and mushrooms, quarter chicken and onions, quarter onions and olives, quarter olives and chicken? What if that's not how she wanted it? You'd think it would have been specified.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sniffle at December 12, 2025 10:36 PM (lbDMw)
The Montana State BobKittuhs are beating Stephen F Austin Lumberjacks, 17-8!. GO BOBKITTUHS!! No rooting interest actually, I just like bobcats. I'm disappointed that MSU doesn't have actual bobcats playing.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 12, 2025 10:36 PM (+YRf1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 12, 2025 10:27 PM (ZOv7s)
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I flew out of there coming home from Iraq.
Don't remember much about the flight.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 10:36 PM (22p5n)
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 10:34 PM (GPiBi)
That's Jack Karlson, an Australian dude who became a meme for resisting arrest while talking back to the people arresting him. He died recently.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 10:37 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: TRex - Friday night dino at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 10:34 PM (GPiBi)
it is the "gentlemen this is democracy manifest" bit redone.
The original was supposedly a dine and dash expert being arrested, back when that was important enough thing in England to be arrested for.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (0iZzW)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Liked The Prop Plane, Though at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (oftw2)
There is a company around Schulenberg, Texas that makes the most amazing corn nuggets candy. I can only find it at one gas station in Junction, which is on my way to San Diego.
Oma’s Choice. They also make a pretty good single serving buttermilk pie. Good road food. And German pumpkin butter, which is not good road food but amazing. The latter somehow ended up in a gas station a half hour north of me.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (EXyHK)
Come on Santa. Don't fail me now.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:39 PM (2WIwB)
https://youtu.be/r3uHylZHp5A
Posted by: mindful webworker - good til they at last drop at December 12, 2025 10:39 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: Good To The Last Drop at December 12, 2025 10:40 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Here's what I used to do. I bought a red container of Folger's. Gagged it down until it was used up. Then I went back to buying the good bagged coffee grounds and stored it in the handy Folger's container. Now I have a nice wide mouthed glass jar for my coffee grounds. So I don't have to explain to people that I don't really drink Folger's.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 12, 2025 10:40 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: USA #1! at December 12, 2025 10:19 PM (oftw2)
Most of us are too damned comfortable, which means we put up with the evil shit our government does. California, q.v.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 10:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: nerdygirl
I buy a bag of expensive stuff and mix it with the store brand. Satisfices, as the economists say.
Posted by: Nicholas Angel at December 12, 2025 10:42 PM (mlg/3)
I'll have you know that if you find yourself in the bathroom of the down stairs Bier Garten in Munich's Hoff Brau Haus, you will witness a still working Speibecken (or Kotzbecken to you fellow heathens).
THIS is the famous PUKE BASIN.
Incidentally, I asked one of my German friends if anyone every uses it since it appeared spotless. His answer surprised me. Depends if there are any Italians or French in town. They're delicate flowers when if comes to good beer.
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 10:44 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (0iZzW)
Sheesh you rich folks with your shovels.
i had to clear the walkway with nothing but broken spatula.
In the dark!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)
Oma’s Choice. They also make a pretty good single serving buttermilk pie. Good road food. And German pumpkin butter, which is not good road food but amazing. The latter somehow ended up in a gas station a half hour north of me.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (EXyHK)
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If you are in Junction and are hungry, the Junction Burger Company is most excellent. A locals kind of place. It is a gutbomb meal, but will sustain you for hours, or a day.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 10:44 PM (6p0Jv)
Use the email in my nic for submissions.
Posted by: TRex - Hobby Thread MC at December 12, 2025 10:45 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: And She Was Mountain Grown at December 12, 2025 10:46 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 12, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)
I get it. when my wife was preggers with our first-born, her favorite food was Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ice cream floats with Sprite, and french fries.
Second son: Whole milk. Lots and lots of whole milk. But we were in Germany and we had access to high quality milk.
Women be weird, yo!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)
I do. Send me an email(my nic at gee, mail!) and I'd be happy to help.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 12, 2025 10:31 PM (df/te)
Thanks WD; email sent.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: gKWVE
What does identifying as a woman have to do with being pregnant?!?¿°
Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at December 12, 2025 10:49 PM (ycI94)
Thanks, I’ll remember that. On the way out I’m usually there pretty early and have filled up on kolaches from Gudes in Burnet and fritters from Mason Donuts. On the way back though, it’s all gas station food.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 12, 2025 10:50 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 10:44 PM (dIske)
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Spartan Stadium has them. They line the male restroom walls, and are very efficient. I recall Michigan Stadium had gone with just peeing against the walls, which had a thin sheen of water running down them.
Presumably their fan base peed against the walls by habit, and the university adapted to it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 12, 2025 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: nerdygirl
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I buy a bag of expensive stuff and mix it with the store brand. Satisfices, as the economists say.
Posted by: Nicholas Angel at December 12, 2025 10:42 PM (mlg/3)
That's like 'Let's take this here filet mignon, grind it up, mix it with hamburger and make chili'.
My theory is enjoy the good things once in a while for what they are -- good. Life's too short.
Posted by: RickZ at December 12, 2025 10:51 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 12, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)
I had the laryngoscope put up my nose and down my throat a couple of times. Was irritating, but not horrible. More of a burning sensation than a gagging one. The doc was a pro, and a very good communicator.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 10:51 PM (npFr7)
I get it. when my wife was preggers with our first-born, her favorite food was Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ice cream floats with Sprite, and french fries.
Second son: Whole milk. Lots and lots of whole milk. But we were in Germany and we had access to high quality milk.
Women be weird, yo!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)
Mom craved Chinese food when she was carrying me; she was concerned, as she heard that every 3rd person was Chinese and thought I might come out as one. LOL.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025
Yup. True. The wine sippers can't hang when great bier is on the table.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:52 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 12, 2025 10:52 PM (31p00)
Hope you'll be able to attend the Club ONT Christmas party tomorrow night...everyone has been wondering how you are doing.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 12, 2025 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 12, 2025 10:52 PM (31p00)
Even if you could travel back, I'd guess that fighting against the inertia of history might be difficult; small things might be adjustable, but large ones probably not. The again, a small change, given enough time, can result in a large result, like trying to move an asteroid...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025
Yup. True. The wine sippers can't hang when great bier is on the table.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:52 PM (2WIwB)
I asked a German friend if he knew what the square root of 81 was. He didn't know...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)
heh!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 10:33 PM (p/70E)
You are correct.
She grew up in Cleveland and went to an private all girls school in Shaker Heights, called Hathaway Brown.
Posted by: browndog had a thing for the Laurel girls at December 12, 2025 10:58 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 10:58 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Good To The Last Drop at December 12, 2025 10:40 PM (oftw2)
Yup, and Jane Withers was the Comet lady (Rosie?)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 12, 2025 10:59 PM (y171U)
Posted by: PA Dutchman
I've visited Fredericksburg Battlefield a few years ago. That 'high ground' was steep, almost a cliff, yet Burnside made that call anyway. Burnside should have been court martialed for that. WTF?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 12, 2025 11:00 PM (+YRf1)
i had to clear the walkway with nothing but broken spatula.
In the dark!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)
We just waited 'till spring.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
i had to clear the walkway with nothing but broken spatula.
In the dark!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)
We just waited 'till spring.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
You had a spatula?...
You had a walkway?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:01 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 12, 2025 11:02 PM (+YRf1)
Posted by: SkinnerVic at December 12, 2025 11:02 PM (JIGPW)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 11:02 PM (rQwsY)
My husband dreamed HE had a c-section for triplet boys and one was blond, the other two Mexican. We did have a Navajo/Mexican college friend who came for dinner that night, so John may be the reason. His dream got two parts correct: the blond single boy and a c-section due to a large head as well as the rest of him.
I don't think I was scary, but when I was hungry, do not get in my way.
So gigantic (not from the back) that people let me in the front of the lines in stores. Got stuck in a turnstile at the airport picking up my mother (who said she got tears in her eyes seeing me).
I got tears in my eyes when frat boys mooed at me in the crosswalk near our house. They were in a convertible and I wanted to jump in and beat them but I was too big. Instead I sobbed and scared my husband until the mooing part when he laughed and then I laughed. Frat bastids.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 11:03 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 11:03 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 11:04 PM (yEo1J)
Posted by: SkinnerVic at December 12, 2025 11:02 PM (JIGPW)
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Be sure to stop by my booth. I'm demonstrating cutting edge bee-milking techniques.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 11:06 PM (dyewR)
My grandfather sat back down and said that he flew out of Gander during the war, and there were times when landings were very difficult. Very quiet meal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 12, 2025 10:27 PM (ZOv7s)
I do too. I was at a DYA Center afterschool in Germany, playing pool. Announced at 1600 CET on AFN Radio as near as I could tell..
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 11:07 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 11:03 PM (WONhk)
Well, if it were my fraternity, we'd of sung The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi to you.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:07 PM (2WIwB)
Health
There's no substitute for it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 11:04 PM (yEo1J)
Yes but weirdly the 100 years put me off.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 11:08 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Or, Tortured, Shot, And Sent To The Russian Front at December 12, 2025 11:08 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 12, 2025 10:02 PM (POaKN)
I hope your doing well.
Now, for the serious question. Which topping on the cheesecake? Strawberry, raspberry, cherry, or something else?
I think raspberry is best, but I know not everyone will agree with me.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 12, 2025 11:08 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:10 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 11:06 PM (dyewR)
Boobies ?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 11:10 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 11:02 PM (rQwsY)
SMH posted some links up-thread. I went to the "investigation" link, but did not want to watch a 45 minute video. Aircraft was a DC8, and it crashed shortly after take-off. Engine failure? De-icing not done, or done poorly? Pilot error?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 11:11 PM (npFr7)
The original was supposedly a dine and dash expert being arrested, back when that was important enough thing in England to be arrested for.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (rbvCR)
Aha. Thank you.
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 11:11 PM (GPiBi)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 12, 2025 11:12 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 11:06 PM
That's a HARD pass. Did you learn those techniques at Amherst College per chance?
Posted by: SkinnerVic at December 12, 2025 11:12 PM (JIGPW)
Health
There's no substitute for it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 11:04 PM (yEo1J)
Depends if you have a good reason to be around for another century. If everybody you ever loved is gone, would that truly be the best option? Maybe go back in time a decade to spend some quality time with some of your loved ones while they were still around? 10 years isn't much, but those 10 years might be worth more than a century to you.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 11:06 PM (dyewR)
Boobies ?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 11:10 PM (KDPiq)
Boobees
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:15 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 11:17 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:17 PM (k5cxK)
16 scares 'em. And for God's sake avoid 36.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 11:18 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: mot at December 12, 2025 11:18 PM (fIPNY)
Posted by: Or, Tortured, Shot, And Sent To The Russian Front at December 12, 2025 11:08 PM (oftw2)
Eh, they got theirs from the hex I put on them. Little twits. I should have climbed into the car just to see what they'd do.
My husband usually walked the park with me but was puny or something and I did it alone. In labor, to attempt to speed it up, we walked it twice. That kid was not coming normally, and I am thankful for the c-section or it would have been bad for him.Back then no sonograms were done unless medically necessary.
By the time my OB mentioned a section I did not care if he came out of my ear. The epidural was great!
Scheduled section for #2 due to the big head deal from their Daddy.Far less exciting and all was well once again.All done, altho I wanted one more and hubby talked me out of it. We know it would have been another boy.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 11:20 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 11:21 PM (mT+6a)
16 scares 'em. And for God's sake avoid 36.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 11:18 PM (zdLoL)
I verbally offered him a gift, but he refused for some reason.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 11:24 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 12, 2025 11:25 PM (+YRf1)
He SCORES!
2-2 Kraken v elephants
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Is that soccer? You know this isn't a gay website, right?
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 11:25 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:27 PM (9iyS+)
16 scares 'em. And for God's sake avoid 36.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 11:18 PM (zdLoL)
I verbally offered him a gift, but he refused for some reason.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
I told him I made the gift especially for him, and that made him nervous...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:27 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 12, 2025 11:28 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 11:29 PM (6p0Jv)
As a RN I used to put tubes into nostrils to stomachs, and was pretty good at this or shoving things into people. No longer done, but I did it when people were bleeding with ulcers and iced saline lavage. Fun times for us all!
I was in my 20's but looked 16 and somehow convinced patients I knew what I was doing (I did, but do wonder what they thought as I have always looked younger). Had my RN cap on to prove I was not a candy striper wandering in. No one died on my watch who wasn't supposed to when I was charge nurse.
I was very good at starting IV's and liked that.Could still start an IV on anything. I see forehead veins (like Markle's) and want to give it a try. I don't have a forehead vein that bulges like hers, and think it's pretty weird.
Nurses are weird this way to size up your veins in public when bored. Or, I am. I also want to advise people to get moles checked. I really should not be loose in public.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 11:30 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:38 PM (0iZzW)
Shit man, did you have to clear a forest with a herring too? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 11:33 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:27 PM (9iyS+)
Since 2016 I've lost my parents, my wife, her parents, a couple of her uncles, several of my uncles, an aunt, and at least one cousin. I could get to see them all again, even if it's just for a short time...and warn my brother not to marry wife #3...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:33 PM (ynpvh)
I think your husband did way more drugs than I did.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 11:29 PM (6p0Jv)
Yes, but wouldn't work on those that have already passed (unless it did, and that would be even worse)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
The Butterfly Effect.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (zdQuL)
I'd rather go back in time, BUT-- 2015 was during the obastard years, so no thanks.
Thought I'd pretty much already had the "yellow pill" until hubby got sick. Mediocrity is *safe* and I'm not really an extrovert or thrill-seeker; it suits me.
Don't want to live another 100 years, even if healthy. Can barely stand "society" NOW. Heh.
F it all Friday, Horde! WOOT!
Thanks for the ONT, weirddave!
Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 12, 2025 11:36 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 11:37 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (rbvCR)
For me last year, they had to bring out the vein-finder after I had fluid infiltration at least 3 times (which means they couldn't get a good line three times on a single IV, three times), and they had resorted to poking veins on the back of my hands. In the end, they shoved a line in my open arm into a large blood vessel.
I rate this the worst vacation I've ever had.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:37 PM (ynpvh)
Those poor Canucks look so sad in that meme. Is it really that bleak?
Posted by: USA #1! at December 12, 2025 10:19 PM (oftw2)
__________
Are you kidding? Millions of leftists dream of emigrating to Canada to make their fortune.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 11:38 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 12, 2025 11:28 PM (R86kT)
It’s the Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod problem.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:38 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 11:38 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
Pet Cemetery
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:39 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
Pet Cemetery
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:39 PM (k5cxK)
More like stuck in their coffins, buried 6ft under, not able to get out...horrible way to go. Well, wouldn't be problem for Mom as she was cremated...no idea where she is.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:40 PM (ynpvh)
I think your husband did way more drugs than I did.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (viF8m)
I think he was just freaked out at how things were going. To make it more fun, the baby was 10dys late and I cried every morning he was late. He's still late for many things. I rarely cry.
The doc did not want to alarm me the way things were going, but did say the next day he was thankful the kid refused to go further as things would not have turned out so well for the King of the Baby Nursery.
My BIL, when he saw me, suddenly had pity he did not have prior. Said, "Wow, it was like you carried a 10lb of potatoes." Indeed. Women are amazing.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 11:41 PM (WONhk)
Oh and a great Monday too as long as I'm at it.
Love you all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 12, 2025 11:42 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
Pet Cemetery
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:39 PM (k5cxK)
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Pet Cemetery is disturbing. And there was a whole season of Buffy the Vampire Season dealing with the notion.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 11:42 PM (6p0Jv)
He SCORES!
2-2 Kraken v elephants
Posted by: nur
everything around has gotten so fuckd some of my happiest times are when you get here. WTF man.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 11:42 PM (V0RQu)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 11:42 PM (mT+6a)
I think your husband did way more drugs than I did.
Posted by: JackS
or he had some weekends in tijuana he never mentioned to you
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 11:43 PM (V0RQu)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 11:44 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: 496 at December 12, 2025 11:44 PM (oOhQ4)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 11:44 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 11:44 PM (V0RQu)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 11:44 PM (OfmEX)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 11:45 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 12, 2025 11:45 PM (47diA)
Probably not quite that bleak, but they appear to be further down the slope than we are. The only Canadian (who still lives there, at least) I follow is Laura Rosen Cohen. Look for Laura’s Links on SteynOnline.com.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 12, 2025 11:45 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: nur
we would have been fast friends fast save for that thing
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 11:45 PM (V0RQu)
You are fortunate to have so many kind and supportive men in your life.
Where did the Mexicans enter this situation?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 11:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:34 PM (rbvCR)
For me last year, they had to bring out the vein-finder after I had fluid infiltration at least 3 times (which means they couldn't get a good line three times on a single IV, three times), and they had resorted to poking veins on the back of my hands. In the end, they shoved a line in my open arm into a large blood vessel.
I rate this the worst vacation I've ever had.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:37 PM (ynpvh)
Sounds like they should always bring out the vein finder. Jeez. My favorite vein is the one below your wrist (on the inside: cephalic). Most people have good pipes there and can still use their hands. In the ED they just do it in your inner elbow. We were taught to start in the lower arm to free that one for emergencies.
In my 7yrs in the newborn nursery and step down NICU I had to start tiny IV's in baby's scalps. I hated that but did it when I had to.
How are you doing? I think you were in the hospital last summer?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 11:47 PM (WONhk)
Empty net never works.
So fucking stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 11:42 PM (mT+6a)
_________
Historically, a 6 on 5 works 10-15% of the time.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 11:48 PM (tgvbd)
The nursing ethics board that oversees the licensure of Oregon nurses has decided to take no action against the infamous nurse Camesha Hart, of Beaverton Oregon, who sent messages to Jews calling them “vermin” and “dogs” and saying she doesn’t treat animals.
In fact, they allowed her to renew her RN license for another two years, we found out last week.
Camesha Lynn Hart — a nurse of 22 years in Beaverton Oregon — found herself in an imbroglio of antisemitic proportions when she popped off a number of anti-Jew comments earlier this year in February and March 2025 on her Instagram page.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 11:49 PM (Cjcf6)
(Why was there a hole in the wall? The older two- five and three- had drilled a hole in the wallboard with a geometry compass and my pinking shears. Just because they wanted to see what was back there.)
Posted by: sal at December 12, 2025 11:51 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 11:45 PM (viF8m)
The only supportive one was my husband, who feared my wrath as he got me this way.
Our college friend we'd had to dinner (tacos) is half Navajo and half Mexican. So I am pretty sure he had something to do with the dream that night, as well as me declaring I could eat Mexican food every day.
I am used to telling the men in my family what I think. We drove cross country to a new job in FL when the baby was 6wks old. Stopped on my farm in MS and my brother stuck his head in the car and asked, "Is this your milking stall?" I told him to shut up and get out of my way.
And, yes, that baby had a growth spurt and ate a lot as we drove 8hrs/day for 3dys. The truckers probably liked me as we decided we could not stop every 1.5hrs and took our chances with him briefly out of his carseat.
This was in a Sentra with the toddler in his carseat in the front passenger seat (no airbags during the Civil War times). He did get in hot water trying to mess with the gear shift going over the Rocky Mountains. It was a fun time.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 11:55 PM (WONhk)
I think your husband did way more drugs than I did.
Posted by: JackS
or he had some weekends in tijuana he never mentioned to you
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 11:43 PM (V0RQu)
Years ago I heard a comedian talking about dreams. He said one second you're falling down a mine shaft, the next you're in a parade. My dreams are that way. Its like being in front of a TV for hours watching different episodes of different TV series. One second I'm in a post apocalyptic hellscape trying to find a place to pee, the next I'm on a road trip with no clue where I'm going on a motorcycle I don't recognize, and the next I'm in a lumber mill, and then I'll finish off on an intergalactic cruise ship from the 5th element. WTF...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 11:55 PM (snZF9)
Well, 41-28 now.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 12, 2025 11:57 PM (+YRf1)
It was kind of a Britney Spears thing, I think.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:57 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 11:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: sal at December 12, 2025 11:51 PM (f+FmA)
Boys? Mine once melted a block of cheddar cheese on a lightbulb (their lamp) when I let them make a tent in their room on a rainy FL day. I smelled something burning and that's what I found with them quite pleased, as they were camping.
The toddler youngest also gave the fish in their bathroom tank a fluoride treatment once. No one wondered why they died later. One side of the tank was smeared with toothpaste.
I refer to this as the chimp era of life with boys. My husband traveled a lot and I nearly went insane at times, but managed to raise them to be responsible adults. I never was admitted to the psych unit. I did call my husband during the chickenpox quarantine to come home. The only time I did this.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 12:01 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:01 AM (k5cxK)
Cheers, mate!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 11:38 PM (mT+6a)
yeah, I miss him too. He used to make me laugh. I guess he used to shuttle people back and forth from the airport. Every time he picked up some rock/metal musician from the east coast he would text me and asked if I knew them, or sometimes he asked if they knew me. One time they actually did, and I actually knew his brother, lol. Damn I miss him.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:02 AM (snZF9)
https://tinyurl.com/bzmfjwj4
Posted by: Braenyard
Cool. Suppressed subsonic .22 LR can actually do that.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 13, 2025 12:08 AM (xceqr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:01 AM (k5cxK)
Can't say I ever had that one. I usually can tell If I'm dreaming. If it starts to get too bizarre something in my brain pulls me out and I hear myself saying yeah, this isn't real. I would know that my teeth don't actually come out and the dream would end right there. Of course the next second I would be sorting bolts in a hardware store or some shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:08 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:01 AM (k5cxK)
This means you're feeling powerless.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 13, 2025 12:11 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 13, 2025 12:13 AM (pIfcn)
So, does your conscience allow you to ignore each and every one of them? Some of them? None of them? Do you want to feel responsible for doing nothing to prevent that poor Ukrainian girl from being stabbed on the train?
Where do you draw the line? And, when are you going to have any free time to benefit yourself.
That one is a trap.
Posted by: Orson at December 13, 2025 12:13 AM (dIske)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 11:47 PM (WONhk)
It's been a year for me. Son had to go in back in summer (being incredibly stupid, even required an ambulance ride).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:13 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 11:49 PM (Cjcf6)
Gaza is looking for nurses and doctors just like her...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:14 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:01 AM (k5cxK)
Yeah, I've been having a similar dream. Except that I'm sitting at the dining room table with several people, and they all take their teeth out, and can't get them back in, but I've still got mine. Then Mrs. Paco brings in a platter of steaks. "Well, if nobody else is going to eat these..."
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 12:17 AM (2L+MU)
It was kind of a Britney Spears thing, I think.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:57 PM (k5cxK)
Bless her. The heat got to her. Our house was over a century old and he had to get a window unit for our bedroom. The only time I was happy that summer was in a pool. It was hideous.
My ancient car broke down one day that summer and I just left it in the street. Some men saw me leave it and pushed it out of the way. I didn't even care that I left it, but did thank them and called from somewhere to the man who supported me (I have blocked this part out). It was the old car he courted me in and proof I did not marry him for his money. His car was a stick shift and I did not learn how to drive it til we moved to FL.
It always freaked me out, when he was teaching me in the mountains, to feel the car roll a tiny bit backwards as I shifted into first gear. So I learned in FL.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 12:17 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 12:18 AM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 12:17 AM (2L+MU)
It means you're a gavone. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:19 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:13 AM (ynpvh)
Hoping next year will be better for you and everyone but Dims, trannies and anti-semites. I could probably think of others but I need to go to bed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 12:19 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 12:18 AM (6p0Jv)
I had dreams like that, but I wasn't any of the specific characters. I had a cool jaffa weapon though.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:21 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 12:18 AM (6p0Jv)
I have often found myself in class, or in college, having missed most of the semester without the ability to withdraw. I used to run around trying to fix as much of it as I could, but the last few years when those dreams come up, I go, "Well, too late to do anything. I'll go off somewhere else and do something not so stressful." I still do occasionally have dreams where I have to do math, although it's been a couple of years since I had to do some calculus in my dreams (find the volume of a sphere with a hole drilled from one point through the center to the other side...had to wake up to finish that one).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:21 AM (ynpvh)
We're getting another stupid arctic air blast moving in Sunday, with forecast lows early Monday morning of 18F.
It's been a cold Dec. so far, avg. temp here about 40F compared to normal value for the month so far of about 46F (it's 45F for the whole month of Dec).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 13, 2025 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:23 AM (snZF9)
Most often it’s my wife who’s more of a night person who wants to keep on talking , and she’ll asked me something she thinks is serious and I’ll do something like point at the dresser and say “yeah but we’ve got to take care of the cantaloupe patch here first”. So shell just say “okay put your head down you’re dreaming again.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:23 AM (k5cxK)
Another win for the Trump Administration.
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned Judge Talwani’s (already halted) orders blocking Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill provision that barred funding for Planned Parenthood.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Judge Talwani’s July orders granting preliminary injunctions blocking the provision.
The three-judge panel unanimously overturned Judge Talwani’s orders.
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2025 12:23 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:13 AM (ynpvh)
Hoping next year will be better for you and everyone but Dims, trannies and anti-semites. I could probably think of others but I need to go to bed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 13, 2025 12:19 AM (WONhk)
That would be nice. 2025 started with the death of an uncle. I now have one uncle and one aunt left (Mom's older sister--the eldest, and her younger brother--the youngest). Still have lots of cousins, siblings, nieces and nephews, and my kids.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:24 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2025 12:26 AM (XV/Pl)
We're getting another stupid arctic air blast moving in Sunday, with forecast lows early Monday morning of 18F.
It's been a cold Dec. so far, avg. temp here about 40F compared to normal value for the month so far of about 46F (it's 45F for the whole month of Dec).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 13, 2025 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
It's started getting cold here again...highs have dropped into the low 70's, but should be back in the mid 70's in a few days. Lows have been in the low 50's...brrr!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:26 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:21 AM (ynpvh)
Occasionally I do dream I'm back in high school, and it's always the same. I can't remember where my locker is, no clue what classes I should be in, teachers bitching at me for being late, and again, since I know when I'm dreaming I find myself saying in the dream "hey, I graduated, they can kiss my ass, not a damn thing they can do to me. lol
One time though, I was actually back in present day and spent the whole dream wandering around and looking at all the changes.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:27 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 12:27 AM (6p0Jv)
Most often it’s my wife who’s more of a night person who wants to keep on talking , and she’ll asked me something she thinks is serious and I’ll do something like point at the dresser and say “yeah but we’ve got to take care of the cantaloupe patch here first”. So shell just say “okay put your head down you’re dreaming again.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:23 AM (k5cxK)
Wife, God rest her soul, would have more trouble than I would falling asleep. I could fall asleep in less than 30 seconds. So my wife would sometimes ask, "Honey, are you awake?", and I'd respond, "I am now."...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:28 AM (ynpvh)
Nah, I'm just a, whaddayacall, a conoyzer of good food.
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 12:29 AM (2L+MU)
Another win for the Trump Administration.
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned Judge Talwani’s (already halted) orders blocking Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill provision that barred funding for Planned Parenthood.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Judge Talwani’s July orders granting preliminary injunctions blocking the provision.
The three-judge panel unanimously overturned Judge Talwani’s orders.
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2025 12:23 AM (Cjcf6)
So judges AREN'T allowed to preempt laws passed by Congress and signed by the President on a personal whim? Who would have thunk it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:29 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:27 AM (snZF9)
Feels weird when that happens...I'm way too old to be around, worried that teachers will call the police on me, so I sneak out of my HS as quickly and quietly as I can...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:31 AM (ynpvh)
A federal appeals court on Friday afternoon temporarily halted Judge Boasberg’s contempt hearings in the Alien Enemies Act deportations case scheduled for next week.
Earlier Friday, Judge James Boasberg made it clear that he was not backing off from his planned contempt hearings and threatened to pierce through attorney-client privilege in his order denying the government’s motion to reconsider.
Later Friday, a three-judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily halted Boasberg’s contempt hearings.
Judges Rao (Trump), Walker (Trump) granted an administrative stay pending further order of the court.
--minimu
Its about time Boasberg is removed from office. At the minimum, its time he was brought up on "conflict of interest" charges so that he can no longer sit on cases that involve the Trump Administration. Trump clearly lives inside Boasberg's head, and if Boasberg were *ethical* he would have already withdrawn from sitting on cases involving the current Administration.
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2025 12:33 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2025 12:23 AM (k5cxK)
Thats how it starts with me. I'm in the dream before I'm totally asleep. I'm in the dream yet hear anything going on around me, or if I'm not in the right position and still trying to get settled. Weirder is if I happen to get up to pee I can go right back to the dream.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:33 AM (snZF9)
Now, in all truth, that is a dream I still have fairly frequently, usually involving my graduate school days, even though I graduated 32 years ago.
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 12:34 AM (2L+MU)
Nah, I'm just a, whaddayacall, a conoyzer of good food.
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 12:29 AM (2L+MU)
Food in my dreams often tastes BETTER than in real life. The corn I ate was fantastic! Buttery, intense corn flavor. Tropical fruits were excellent, beyond measure. I even ate a fruit that had a flavor I'd never encountered before.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:35 AM (ynpvh)
I manage to see an ISS pass yesterday morning around here at 6:35AM. And there's another one, a little bit more south and not quite as high due around 5:45AM this morning.
These are almost perfect, getting high overhead, taking a long arc from the SW to the NE. It was a cool thing to see, and I'm gonna catch the one this morning for sure.
What surprised me was how far away I could see it. When it first popped up over the horizon this morning, the thing was just coming off Mexico into the Gulf a little north of the Yucatan. That seems a long way considering how low the ISS is, but the math works out. Maximum line of sight distance can be ~1400 miles for ISS orbital height.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 13, 2025 12:35 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2025 12:33 AM (Cjcf6)
That fucker needs to be reduced to washing car windows at traffic lights in NYC, or treading lava in a fucking volcano.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 12:35 AM (snZF9)
Now, in all truth, that is a dream I still have fairly frequently, usually involving my graduate school days, even though I graduated 32 years ago.
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 12:34 AM (2L+MU)
We must be close to the same age...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:36 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2025 12:33 AM (Cjcf6)
Yeah, that's the problem with all leftist judges, isn't it? They have no sense of shame, hypocrisy, or ethics.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:38 AM (ynpvh)
Trump should just pardon everyone for the contempt "offenses" and moot everything. Suck it, Boasberg.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 13, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:41 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 13, 2025 12:43 AM (0nHVk)
I'm guessing you're probably considerably younger. Desperation to find a better job finally drove me to go to graduate school, and I was older than most of my colleagues. I will remove all mystery by pleading to having turned 70 in June of this year.
Btw, I attended the American Graduate School of International Management, better known as Thunderbird, located in Glendale, AZ. It was a great school, and did, indeed, help me get out of the dreary profession of mid-level commercial banking. Sadly, Thunderbird ran into financial problems a decade or so after I graduated, and was ultimately take over by the ASU system.
Posted by: Paco at December 13, 2025 12:49 AM (2L+MU)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 12:18 AM (6p0Jv)
Do you have any funny rocks in your possession?
Posted by: Methos at December 13, 2025 12:56 AM (vSvIl)
Closing with a short seasonal ditty of my own devising
The Terrible Christmas Song (video 40sec)
On a radar screen, a blip...
http://bit.ly/terrible-christmas-song
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - seriously not at December 13, 2025 12:58 AM (lbDMw)
Indeed, you are. You have a bit more than a decade over me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 12:59 AM (ynpvh)
Speaking of removing judges:
https://is.gd/hkgyfU
A Louisiana state judge was removed from office. She lied about her military service, and looks like some insurance fraud as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 13, 2025 01:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 13, 2025 12:18 AM (6p0Jv)
Do you have any funny rocks in your possession?
Posted by: Methos at December 13, 2025 12:56 AM (vSvIl)
My dad used to have a collection of radioactive ores...does that count? I'd sometimes play with them...I'm sure it didn't harm me THAT much, right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 01:01 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 13, 2025 01:01 AM (ynpvh)
Bers, I want you to take some pictures of your tree and show them to me at the next MoMe.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 13, 2025 01:05 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 13, 2025 01:07 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 01:16 AM (41CYW)
https://is.gd/hkgyf
A Louisiana state judge was removed from office. She lied about her military service, and looks like some insurance fraud as well.
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Good news indeed! Now let's apply it to Congress and remove, prosecute, and extradite that stupid and illegal idiot from Minnesota.
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2025 01:24 AM (Cjcf6)
Good. Now let's get a few dozen Federal Judges removed from office. We know who the assholes are.
Posted by: Case at December 13, 2025 01:38 AM (G1OIb)
I won't fuck with sleep burning the candle at both and along all the middle and get it all.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 13, 2025 01:42 AM (/lPRQ)
We all know Ilhan Omar is an illegal alien. We all know that she has no business being in our country, much less a House rep.
But why? WHO/WHAT was behind that stupid bint coming here? WHO/WHAT greased her way to political power? WHO/WHAT said "Hey, its no problem--we'll just have her marry her brother?"
Is the Republican party just brain-dead?
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2025 01:46 AM (Cjcf6)
But why? WHO/WHAT was behind that stupid bint coming here? WHO/WHAT greased her way to political power? WHO/WHAT said "Hey, its no problem--we'll just have her marry her brother?"
Is the Republican party just brain-dead?
Posted by: Crusader
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I don't know which part of the onion this is, but I suspect the brusband was her/the family's own idea, just to get him out of the gay London scene and into college in America. In fact, all that happened before she got into politics.
How/why that happened is a bit mysterious. I've seen quite a few Somali politicians on social media since this came out, all of them of course bitching about this racist hellhole and a promise to elevate Somali concerns above all others. I don't know how they all figured out that getting into office is the way to go in America, but it seems to me like they did. Ilhan did hold a lesser office before she made it into Congress.
As for how (the method), there's evidence that she sent thugs around and threatened Somali householders to vote for her or get beaten up, robbed, whatever.
to be continued...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 13, 2025 01:54 AM (1N/bM)
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Last memorable dream I had, was me pushing hubby in his wheelchair down a long slope. There were humps in the path (it was paved) and it was rather steep... Wheee!
I controlled our speed, and we rode down the slope like it was a rollercoaster. We were laughing and having fun, and then suddenly saw the end of the slope-- needed to stop, so I dug-in my feet and sent us into a long, slow, circular slide! Round and round, stopping at the 'landing' which was a level area, on the way to this large old-fashioned building which was our destination. (We were always so goofy like that...)
But there was some time left, so I asked hubby if he wanted to "do it again" down the bumpy slope? The look on his face, said yes-- but then he said "no, we better just go on to the appointment.
A bus was coming through, so I moved us to the side-- and then the ground began crumbling from under us. I screamed for help as I held his wheelchair in one hand and grasped at the edge with the other, to keep us from falling. *****UGH!!!*****
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 13, 2025 01:05 AM (0nHVk)
I take pictures every year. Its the only way I know how to put it back up the next year. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 13, 2025 01:55 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Crusader
[no]
No, sir! We have our eyes on the prize!!
(Eats paste, makes poop sculptures, cowers under stairwell)
Posted by: Ohio GoPE at December 13, 2025 01:58 AM (+YRf1)
So I don't know if this was some outside campaign of Dems who figured "Hey, let's get some Black Muslim actual African America-haters to run for office! All white liberals know that if you don't vote for them, you're racist!" I think somehow Somalis figured it out.
As for Republicans being brain-dead, well, just look at the results. Who was eyeballing these enclaves as they were forming? Who was concerned about these low-achieving, poor, non-English-speaking refugees who weren't improving over time? Who was asking why a bunch of desert dwellers were showing up in Minnesota? Who was paying attention to their unvarying refrain of America-hatred, their blatant statements that they're more Somali than American, their preference for Sharia law if they could have it, the evidence of FGM going on in Somalia?
Well, ordinary people were, but politicians? lolol
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 13, 2025 02:01 AM (1N/bM)
More about Republicans being brain-dead, we all know of how AOC was recruited by the Justice Democrats. Now that is a smart organization that apparently went around quietly and ferreted out talkative, (wrongly) opinionated, charismatic people and used some expertise to get them into office. Changes are excellent that Justice Democrats got your tax dollars and mine to do their work while GOPers sat by calling for collegiality.
It's astonishing how far the Dems can push this shyte before (minimal and late) opposition from Republican lawmakers and policy makers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 13, 2025 02:06 AM (1N/bM)
JQ, wow, that sounds like one meaningful dream. How is hubby these days?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 13, 2025 02:07 AM (1N/bM)
Just started watching "Beowolf", Netfux, 20 minutes... I did not realize early England was ethnically diverse so as to resemble a circus side show.... delete...
Someone should make a Shaka Zulu, five minutes is enough, with a diverse group of warriors...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 13, 2025 02:12 AM (/lPRQ)
It's been a cold Dec. so far, avg. temp here about 40F compared to normal value for the month so far of about 46F (it's 45F for the whole month of Dec).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 13, 2025 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
About 4 or 5 below here right now. May warm up a little tomorrow, better still on Sunday and Monday, according to the forecast.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 02:13 AM (npFr7)
Yeah, that dream had me crying for a few days.
Hubby still knows who/where he is (and hates it) and who I am... even though he refers to me/calls me by his XW's name. He cannot recognize unsafe situations.
I need to win the lottery, so I can hire enough help to bring him home.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Had a big Lotto win today! Got a free ticket on the next draw.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 02:25 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2025 02:31 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
JQ, I am picking up the Santa suit in the morning, I will get here as early as I can for the party tonight.
Hubs didn't know my name for the last two years of his life, but he knew that I was special to him. Sometimes you just cling to that raft.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 13, 2025 02:35 AM (0nHVk)
He's just a shadow now, of the man he used to be. I miss him, though he's still 'here'
ClubONT is my escape. Sorry if some commenters consider it "threadjacking" but I *need* some sanity and this is the only place.
Fk. Sorry.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)
See you tomorrow in ClubONT!!! Thanks for picking up the suit!
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:40 AM (rdVOm)
JQ, no such thing as jacking the ONT. My heart aches for you, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 13, 2025 02:44 AM (1N/bM)
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You're not threadjacking in The Club, JQ. Keep being you!
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 02:44 AM (wclU6)
I saw some daywalkers complaining the other day-- they were too passive-aggressive to specify, but I wondered whether they were referring to the whole Club concept or something else?
I'm not a trouble-maker, really, and don't wish to piss anyone off. If I pop up as "bartender" in some thread, does that harm anyone?
Anyway, not sleepy so I'm here whether anyone likes it, LOL!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:52 AM (rdVOm)
Thread jacking a open thread? Interesting concept. Has anyone notified ace of this?
Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber at December 13, 2025 02:52 AM (pcnhy)
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 02:54 AM (wclU6)
Need to email TRex about the jukebox thing...
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 02:58 AM (rdVOm)
Aim center mass
Posted by: Fen at December 13, 2025 02:59 AM (2S1MH)
Posted by: scampydog at December 13, 2025 03:00 AM (wclU6)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 03:02 AM (z5QST)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:02 AM (rdVOm)
I'd suggest that nobody put rai...do in their "Name" box, in any form, ever.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:05 AM (rdVOm)
I'd suggest that nobody put rai...do in their "Name" box, in any form, ever.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:05 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah, that's happened to me too.
I imagine Chuck will be along to let him out of gaol soon enough.
If anyone know's Miklos's hash, I'll mention it in the tech thread. I'm apparently not going to be asleep.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 03:09 AM (z5QST)
He spamming the HQ about goulash again?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 03:02 AM (z5QST)
IIRC, he was sock puppeting Rainman-do, and Pixy's AutoAttack hamsters caught him and tore him into bloody gobbets.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 13, 2025 03:10 AM (xceqr)
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)
I can't handle the Whole Horde all by meself!
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 03:15 AM (z5QST)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
When she was pregnant with my older brother my mother had the cravings for hot dogs with everything.
She had it bad, real bad.
One day towards the end of the pregnancy she and my father were going out of town.
As the story goes she had my father stop at nearly every place they sold hot dogs on the way to wherever they were going.
She got two hit dogs at every stop.
By the end of the trip she’d reached a dozen hot dogs.
I’m guessing the lucky dozen satiated her but it had an unintended side effect, she got sick, real sick, ended up vomiting them all up, while swearing to herself she’d never eat another hot dog for the rest of her life. A promise she kept until her dying day.
In fact, she was so determined to keep that promise that it landed on my brother, who would not (and still won’t) eat a hot dog, or bologna, or Vienna sausages, or anything that remotely resembles tasting like a hot dog. The closest he”ll get is a sausage dog/bratwurst.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 03:25 AM (6ydKt)
I may not be here for Tech Thread.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:26 AM (rdVOm)
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LOL! After watching my younger siblings (as toddlers) squish vienna sausages in their tiny fists... I just can't even eat those anymore. Dad used to snack on those & kept a stash of tins in the highest cupboard. Yeeesh.
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:30 AM (rdVOm)
It's dark, quiet, and not too cold outside, so I will go out to the deck with Cat & give him some rubbys before sleepytime.
It's quite foggy, yet pleasant enough, out there...
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 03:43 AM (RuTUS)
My father loved them, he was still eating them when could up until, he passed.
I’m not as thrilled with them as I used to be as kid, though.
Dad liked eating sardines, too.
He swears I used to love eating them with him sitting on his lap as a kid, but I don’t remember that far back and I certainly don’t eat them now.
Mom ate neither and always acted like she was gagging when she’d open a can of either of them for him.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 13, 2025 03:51 AM (6ydKt)
But I would buy them, and he would share them with our cat. She liked the ones in tomato sauce best. LOL
Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 03:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Friday Night Cafe
Llanddwyn Island (Angelsea),
by Gareth Mon Jones
Australian sheep dog asks random park-goers to play Dog Biathalon, which seems to be part fetch, part hide-and-seek. Living in a low-trust society. Cat waves bye-bye. Hanging out. Golden retriever is very protective of the new kitten. Sneaking kisses. Steve Inman: Beatdown in Brazil. Internet "prankster" attempts to provoke strong men, succeeds beyond his expectations. "Man" shows he is very capable of beating the shit out of a woman. Against an actual man -- or against six other dudes who joined in -- not so much. Bringing a knife to a fistfight. He brought a steel rod to a carfight. The first two clips of motorcycle mayhem are worth the watch, because the iniquitous get some rough justice. But most of the other clips are just guys wiping out, and I can't really get into that. Attempting stunts may be stupid, but it's not immoral. I don't want to see guys get wiped just for being dopey guys. Do watch the first couple, though. Pro wrestling heel disrespects the wrong dad's kid. Ratchet bitch starts a fight with a woman while she has a confederate film it for TikTok. Unfortunately, she brought a nothing to a fist fight.
Rudolph is ready for Christmas.. 😅
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 12, 2025
Sound onpic.twitter.com/Q3i8BPuCTG
Touching the spot the cat just cleaned..🐈🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/CybwFK0OTN
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 12, 2025
This cat was stuck in the snow, so the dog made a path for her..🐕🐾🐈😍 pic.twitter.com/LyN7d9M7E6
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 11, 2025
Happy oink.. Friday vibes..🐷😅 pic.twitter.com/srv5kfoyJu
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 12, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
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Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:19 PM (WDjG6)
That said, I saw Mephitic Spheniscidae open for Flock of Seagulls at the Odeon back in '86.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 12, 2025 07:19 PM (LxER7)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 12, 2025 07:19 PM (xceqr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:19 PM (zZu0s)
Did you run far away?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 07:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:20 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 07:21 PM (1Yy3c)
Look up Bonnie Blue. Stupid blonde Aussie version of Kamala 'suck the garden hose' Harris who is now facing 15 years in Indonesia
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 07:21 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:16 PM (WDjG6)
This. This!
Just film it once and edit it into the end of every video.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 07:22 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 07:22 PM (RoO7G)
whig is such a great asset to AOS. I learn so much by reading his comments.
Have a great night whig.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:23 PM (3ek7K)
That is not urine, you retard, they will notice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:23 PM (zZu0s)
Rudolph the red-nosed alky.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 07:19 PM (2GVsD)
_________
Rudolph the white-nosed reindeer
Had a very runny nose
And if you ever saw him
You would even say he blows.
While all the other reindeer
Bought Ferraris with their loot
Rudolph the white-nosed reindeer
Spent all of his cash on toot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:23 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: bluebell at December 12, 2025 07:24 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:24 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:24 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 07:24 PM (RoO7G)
i didn't think there was much to comment on with that story. To be honest, I really should have folded it into The Week In Woke, but I needed another post.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 07:25 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 07:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 07:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 07:27 PM (2L+MU)
g'early evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 07:27 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)
The chick in the red shirt looks like she might have been cute before the swelling and contusions.
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 07:28 PM (RoO7G)
Yeah, but as I said before that seems to be more for her kinks than her search for clicks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:29 PM (zZu0s)
Quasi-willowed
There was a story of a guy at my university who did the oral defense of his thesis. In the customary ballet, he was excused after he finished and told to wait for the committee's decision.
An hour later he was still waiting and having a breakdown. Turns out his committee spent 20 seconds agreeing it was fine, then spent an hour discussing who would be the next president of the university.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:29 PM (tgvbd)
hugs right back, Ben Had
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 07:30 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: steevy at December 12, 2025 07:31 PM (YwEeS)
So funny. He pretends he's doing a business rescue show where he, someone who took a handful of business classes at a mediocre college and got Bs and C's, offers "business advice" to business owners, but it's always these ludicrous scams and legal loophole plays and sometimes just absurd stunts.
Like in one he has an electronic store advertise a sale for 50 inch tvs for $20, but the fine print says you must be on line at a specific time, you must be wearing formal wear (tuxedos and gowns), and you can only reach the tvs by going through a hallway in which he has placed a real live alligator.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 07:34 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 07:34 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:35 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 07:36 PM (KDPiq)
That is not urine, you retard, they will notice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:23 PM (zZu0s)
That's a good way for her to earn a beating.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 07:36 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:36 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 12, 2025 07:37 PM (vFG9F)
https://youtu.be/wUY_i5Tco68?si=i72u9xfyHALqb3Gj
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 07:37 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 07:37 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:35 PM (sDNVV)
Just the smell could fill you up.
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 07:37 PM (UwBs6)
Posted by: ace
I fucking hate embarrassment humor. It's like cancer with clown makeup.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 07:38 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 07:34 PM (1wjle)
What do you mean scams? That is totally legit!
Posted by: SXM Cancellation Department at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 07:38 PM (mlg/3)
How do I know you aren’t a fan of The Office?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (KDPiq)
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Even Wikipedia (which is far-left) has a laundry list of controversies associated with him.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 07:40 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 07:40 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 07:40 PM (EIQMg)
Posted by: bluebell
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of course
with names like Dasher Dancer Prancer and Vixen, they are required to strut
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 07:41 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 07:41 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: the way I see i
I tried watching the Brit original. My downstairs neighbor almost got a free, slightly damaged monitor.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 07:42 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)
Better than cold Taco Bell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 07:43 PM (EIQMg)
Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:43 PM (vFG9F)
How good is Arby's delivered?
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)
What recourse do the Door Dash customers have in a case like that?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 07:44 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:16 PM
Or better yet, just do "That's all I have for today. Go away now!" in a sarcastic sneer!
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 12, 2025 07:44 PM (xceqr)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 07:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 07:44 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)
Start with how good is Arby's?
Work backward from there.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 07:45 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Alb
have you read about door dacs girl
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 07:45 PM (EIQMg)
Posted by: ace
I fucking hate embarrassment humor. It's like cancer with clown makeup.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 07:38 PM (mlg/3)
I got about 1:17 in, but the desire to punch, not just those two douchebags, but anyone who finds that funny overwhelmed me.
I'm trying to be a nice guy.
That doesn't help.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2025 07:45 PM (meunJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:45 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:46 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:45 PM (sDNVV)
Is that some kind of code?
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 07:46 PM (RoO7G)
He should be beaten just for being stupid.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 07:46 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:47 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)
Better than cold Taco Bell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:43 PM (zZu0s)
Arbys is delivered before you eat it.
Taco Bell is delivered AFTER you eat it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2025 07:47 PM (meunJ)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 07:48 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 07:49 PM (EIQMg)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 07:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:47 PM (vFG9F)
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Rudolph the brown-nosed reindeer.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:49 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:50 PM (sDNVV)
In 1990, the Soviets had a Miss KGB contest.
https://tinyurl.com/4uhr62z7
This occurred not long before the collapse of the Soviet Union, so Ms. Mayorova soon found herself without a job; however, she succeeded in landing a position with Penguin Facts, where she served as principal liaison with left-wing billionaire Geetus L. Mazuma, the so-called Pizza King. As previously noted, Mazuma has been donating huge sums of money to Penguin Facts for years in furtherance of his plan to corner the market on anchovies by destroying his main competitors, i.e., the entire penguin race. (The fact that people who order pizza with anchovies are also the sort of people who put cheese on their apple pie is a side issue which need not detain us from considering the more important issue of Spheniscidacide.)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 07:51 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:49 PM (25a1J)
Speaking of, anyone who has not seen Robbie the Reindeer, it's made by the same folks who made Wallace and Gromit.
Robbie is Rudolph's son, and he must try to live up to his dad's legacy.
There's enough adult level humor to make it fun, and nothing is objectionable enough to keep kids from watching.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2025 07:52 PM (VOfD/)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:16 PM
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Dolly in a bikini bringing him a pipe and slippers FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:52 PM (25a1J)
Hmm. With names like that, one would think they'd be more likely to, er, sashay, so, yes, strutting is mandatory.
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 07:53 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 07:54 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 07:43 PM (EIQMg)
Nancing is.
Mincing is right out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 07:55 PM (snZF9)
In 1990, the Soviets had a Miss KGB contest.
https://tinyurl.com/4uhr62z7
This occurred not long before the collapse of the Soviet Union, so Ms. Mayorova soon found herself without a job; however, she succeeded in landing a position with Penguin Facts, where she served as principal liaison with left-wing billionaire Geetus L. Mazuma, the so-called Pizza King. As previously noted, Mazuma has been donating huge sums of money to Penguin Facts for years in furtherance of his plan to corner the market on anchovies by destroying his main competitors, i.e., the entire penguin race. (The fact that people who order pizza with anchovies are also the sort of people who put cheese on their apple pie is a side issue which need not detain us from considering the more important issue of Spheniscidacide.)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 07:51 PM (2L+MU)
She can bug my embassy anytime she wants!
IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2025 07:55 PM (VOfD/)
He had steak on his birthday. Tomorrow he gets his favorite type chew bone. Yea, he's spoiled. Sue me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 07:55 PM (viF8m)
He should be beaten just for being stupid.
Posted by: the way I see it
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I have a bumper sticker, 'Too Bad That Ignorance Isn't Painful'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 07:56 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:56 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:58 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 07:59 PM (snZF9)
I go occasionally, and I'll usually get the French dip sandwich but I've had their cheeseburger and it's not terrible. They also have a limited time hoagie-type sandwich around Thanksgiving made with deep-fried turkey that's tasty.
I used to love just getting a couple of beef & cheddars when I was a kid, but they're nowhere near as big now unless you get a double or triple.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 07:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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Sometimes, that first fuckup is really instructive.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 08:00 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 08:01 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: JTB at December 12, 2025 08:02 PM (yTvNw)
I go occasionally, and I'll usually get the French dip sandwich but I've had their cheeseburger and it's not terrible. They also have a limited time hoagie-type sandwich around Thanksgiving made with deep-fried turkey that's tasty.
I used to love just getting a couple of beef & cheddars when I was a kid, but they're nowhere near as big now unless you get a double or triple.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 07:59 PM (6ydKt)
The Big Montana. A big pile of delicious meat on a bun with nothing else but a bit of horsey sauce. My once-a-year treat.
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 08:03 PM (UwBs6)
Will Rogers (yes i'm 29 dammit) used to say "I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat!"
I guess we have swiped it.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 08:03 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:05 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 08:03 PM (UwBs6)
I remember the name but never got to try one.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 08:06 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 08:07 PM (V0RQu)
I have never cared for Arby's roast beef. I make a roast beef sandwich with thick slices from a chuckroast, not paper thin piles.
Their gyro is not bad though, if you tell them to put extra sauce on it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 08:08 PM (V0RQu)
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She'll pull out your fingernails with a smile on her face.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:08 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 08:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 08:10 PM (+mUZM)
1. The first batch of snow globe cookies are a fail. They stuck to the cheap parchment paper. Lesson learned.
2. I am having to restore my iPad from this ridiculous Liquid Glass update that killed it even though it’s the latest gen Air. The autocorrect on this is crazy. It keeps going back to the word it thinks you should use. Not the one you want.
3. My Mac is telling me this will take 7 hours. Screaming.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 08:10 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:07 PM (jc0TO)
I've been spoiled by a local deli's gyros.
I tried Arby's once, and was "WTF is this?"
Never tried it again.
I like thin roast beef or thicker roast beef on sandwiches.
I'm easy to please on the sandwich front as long as the word 'pastrami' doesn't enter the discussion.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:11 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 08:06 PM
You may beat our team, but you'll never beat our meats!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:11 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:11 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 08:10 PM (ZdaMQ)
I've never tried to restore a previous update but that sounds about right for an Apple procedure over a USB cable.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:12 PM (6ydKt)
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Apparently they are not fond of "human stink." So they clean the spot all over again to remove your scent.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:12 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:11 PM
Actual University of South Carolina tee-shirt: You Can't Lick Our Cocks.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM (zZu0s)
Lightning and Thunder.
Don't mess with bad-ass Nazi reindeer with droning capabilities.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM (DsA2n)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:12 PM (ESVrU)
I hear the Japanese have the same problem with us dairy-loving white people.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM
Our Hardees closed. It's been replaced by some kind of chicken place but it is still in a bad location.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:14 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 08:14 PM (ynpvh)
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Inspire owns
Arby's
Buffalo Wild Wings
Sonic Drive-In
Dunkin'
Baskin-Robbins
Jimmy John's
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 08:15 PM (imZqa)
Many are marching with a sign that reads "Don't cross our picket line".
Easy peasy. Not even an inconvenience.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM
I would be shunned like a leper then.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:15 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:29 PM (tgvbd)
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Sounds about right for academia.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:16 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM (zZu0s)
Hardees was unusual for having Hot Ham & Cheese, and Big cookies.
That was my goto order at about two in the morning with the munchies after a night out in the 90s.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:16 PM (6ydKt)
Penguin Facts will point out that what was considered "Left wing" in 1990 would be quite mainstream nowadays. Shifting attitudes about the vermin currently trying to claim the moniker that actually belongs to an extinct species of sea fowl have led to a greater awareness of the mephitic menace.
Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 08:17 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:13 PM (jc0TO)
Fan poster from USC (South Carolina) v USC (Southern Cal) game - NO TROJANS CAN HOLD OUR COCKS!!
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 12, 2025 08:18 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 08:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:18 PM (Wu2hV)
Posted by: Theodore Sturgeon at December 12, 2025 08:18 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 12, 2025 08:18 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:12 PM
Wait until they encounter penguin excreta.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:19 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 08:19 PM (LHPAg)
I owe you a coke, good Sir ...
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 12, 2025 08:20 PM (3ZUWJ)
Last time I had it I got sick the next day.
Which sucks, because I liked their Mexican pizzas until about 2015.
I think everything they have is shipped in and microwaved now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: n
Sturgeon's Law ...
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic
Words to live by.
Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage"" at December 12, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)
https://tinyurl.com/bd9rktr8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 08:20 PM (imZqa)
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Jack In The Crack located at Tillicum, WA had those righteous curly fries. A bacon burger rounded out the kingly repast. Right as rain, good as new by morning. Mostly
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:20 PM (Wu2hV)
@nypost
Meet the socialist LA leader making $240K to reign over drug-infested park as it crumbles
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Well, she's doing every bit as good a job as Big Mouf Bass.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:20 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:18 PM (Wu2hV)
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I made tacos this past week using Taco Bell seasoning mix. They tasted very close to the real deal. Although the meat was pricey, the rest of the ingredients are pretty cheap ($0.85 for the seasoning--for 10 tacos).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:21 PM (ESVrU)
https://tinyurl.com/bd9rktr8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 08:20 PM (imZqa)
Any day of the week ending in "y"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 08:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: IrishEi at December 12, 2025 08:21 PM (3ImbR)
The proper name of the game is hide-and-go-seek. Only Commies say it the other way.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM (syz1S)
Many are marching with a sign that reads "Don't cross our picket line".
Easy peasy. Not even an inconvenience.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
_________
The only thing I enjoy from SBUX is their Strawberry and Crème Frappucino.
When I want coffee, I want some ordinary joe, not blended half-caff latte soy whip. And their ordinary joe is awful and overpriced. Better stuff at Buc-ee's at half the price.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 08:19 PM (LHPAg)
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I dunno...I think of them as furry hot water bottles when they sit on my lap or curl up with me at night.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 08:23 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 08:19 PM (LHPAg)
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I dunno...I think of them as furry hot water bottles when they sit on my lap or curl up with me at night.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM (ESVrU)
Depends how long they're trapped in the fridge or freezer...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 08:24 PM (ynpvh)
Tough to find good spices In quantity. McCormick ain’t it.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:25 PM (Wu2hV)
Just saw some footage of Trump honoring the Miracle on Ice hockey team for 1980.
I love these shots of him in the Oval Office. He always sits in the chair, with everyone else standing around him. This is a power move. He's Captain Kirk in The Chair. That the bridge of the USS United States. He's the captain. In the chair. The boss. The big cheese. The Big Kahuna.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 08:25 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM
What do they think of you?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Common Tater
I just made 6 burritos with leftover pot roast today. In the freezer ready for a quick lunch.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 08:26 PM (mlg/3)
The boss. The big cheese. The Big Kahuna.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 08:25 PM (w6EFb)
________
The Don
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 08:26 PM (tgvbd)
Tough to find good spices In quantity. McCormick ain’t it.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:25 PM
His (I believe) sister runs the apolitical The Spice House. There's also Savory Spice. I use both.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:26 PM (0sNs1)
Pizza Hut
KFC
Long John Silver's
The Habit Burger Grill
A&W
WingStreet
Pizzeria Uno
They have made moves to enhance their portfolio with newer, trendy concepts, such as ghost kitchens and delivery-focused brands.
Yum! Brands continuously seeks opportunities in the fast-food market, focusing on international growth and diverse dining options.
_DDG AI
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 08:27 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM
What do they think of you?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:25 PM (0sNs1)
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An ice pack?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:27 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 08:28 PM (Ia/+0)
That's what I don't get about Five Guys. The foods ok but the prices are regular restaurant not fast food and there are way too many restaurants around here with better food for similar pricing.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 08:28 PM (viF8m)
They have made moves to enhance their portfolio with newer, trendy concepts, such as ghost kitchens and delivery-focused brands.
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They might try improving the quality of the food.
I know, stop laughing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 08:28 PM (tgvbd)
My cats think of me as furniture.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 08:28 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:29 PM (Wu2hV)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 08:28 PM (viF8m)
But where else are you going to get a 5 pound bag of fries with a pound of grease on the bottom?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:29 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 08:30 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM
What do they think of you?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
same thing only bigger?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 12, 2025 08:31 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 08:31 PM (uQzkA)
Cloud Dancer also lands in a year when our built environment is drifting toward aesthetic sterilization, complete with more white and less friction. (The Development/Courtesy Pantone)
But Cloud Dancer’s ascent doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It lands in a moment when America’s political architecture is staging its own whitening. From the East Wing teardown to a planned paint-over of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the federal palette has converged on one directive: Make America White Again.
_https://www.archpaper.com
/2025/12/ pantone-2026- color-of-the-year-
cloud-dancer/
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 08:32 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 08:31 PM (uQzkA)
That's why I've used Uber or Door Dash maybe five times.
I can order stuff on my phone and drive the 1 to 5 miles to get it myself.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:34 PM (L/fGl)
Now that we have around here.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 08:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Days Gone By at December 12, 2025 08:34 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:35 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 08:32 PM
Until the 'ettes add this to their list of fashion colors, it doesn't mean much.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 08:36 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Tom Servo
They are very easy to grow, plant a row and get a hundred pounds of them. Also store pretty well, save the seeds and plant them next spring.
Posted by: Squash Racket at December 12, 2025 08:39 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM
Only British poofters say hide-and-go-seek. ie 'After we eat our spotted dick, let's play hide-and-go-seek.'
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:39 PM (jc0TO)
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Apparently they are not fond of "human stink." So they clean the spot all over again to remove your scent.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I don't think it's the smell, I think it is idea that we are "marking" them. Cats mark us as part of their territory or clan. If we then rub against them the feel dissed, thinking we are marking them. But I don't know, I don't have a cat sense of smell. Maybe they can tell but if that's the case, why would they want to live in our houses. Our whole world must smell worse than our fingers.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 08:40 PM (uxVjF)
I’m Russian. Here’s How Corruption Really Works.
https://youtu.be/0B8AyBhwasI
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 12, 2025 08:41 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Squash Racketeer at December 12, 2025 08:45 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 08:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:48 PM (k5cxK)
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Coffee is good for that, caffeine helps stimulate the bowels
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:52 PM (Wu2hV)
Now that we have around here.
Posted by: JackStraw
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There is one seafood restaurant in town.
I left it on the table.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 08:55 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:56 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: skywch at December 12, 2025 08:58 PM (uqhmb)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:59 PM (Wu2hV)
Some of those had the people petting in the wrong direction. That'll piss a cat off no matter if they just cleaned it or not.
Pretty funny watching the cats get annoyed by the "dirty" touch.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2025 08:59 PM (syz1S)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 09:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Many are marching with a sign that reads "Don't cross our picket line".
Not even a "please?" F that. I'd probably go in and buy a coffee even if I didn't want one.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 09:00 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 09:02 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 09:03 PM (k5cxK)
You mean there's such a thing as real, all-natural cheeze whiz? Eww.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 09:03 PM (3nLb4)
19 year old college students can eat a lot of fried fish.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 09:03 PM (jc0TO)
would also love one of those cherry pies about now.Posted by: skywch at December 12, 2025 09:05 PM (uqhmb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 09:09 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 09:09 PM (jc0TO)
But according to a review of its tax filings by the Washington Examiner, it has also become part of a web of astroturf groups shilling for the corporate interests of PhRMA, the massive drugmaker trade association that operates in Washington, DC, which donated close to $1 million to it just last year.
Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2025 09:10 PM (GITLP)
Every so often out here, MacDs puts out blueberry pies. Damn this things are like luscious little packages of crack!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 09:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: n
Does that mean that 90% of the remains 10% is also garbage? And that 90% of the still remaining 1% is garbage? Et cetera…
Posted by: Insensitive Clod at December 12, 2025 09:11 PM (hA9kl)
I left it on the table.
Nature of the beast. I live in the middle of some of the best seafood fishing in the northeast. Seafood restaurants are everywhere.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)
Now that we have around here.
Posted by: JackStraw
Best halibut 'n chips is at the golf course where I play with the geezers. Best in all of the South Puget Sound.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 09:13 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 09:13 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 09:14 PM (3uBP9)
Breaking News: The Austin, Texas baristas have joined the strike against Starbucks.
Many are marching with a sign that reads "Don't cross our picket line".
Not even a "please?" F that. I'd probably go in and buy a coffee even if I didn't want one.
Posted by: Oddbob
*spits*
*crosses picket line*
*purchases cup of burnt brown piss*
*crosses picket line again*
*pours it out at their feet*
"Fuck you lefty progtard faggots, your nasty assed piss water coffee, and especially your lame assed pussy strike".
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 09:14 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 09:15 PM (k5cxK)
Posted by: lin-duh
urinate?
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yep, I have 2 stents in and I'm still urinating lots of blood. But no more kidney stones for now.
Posted by: lin-duh at December 12, 2025 09:18 PM (VCgbV)
I was trying to make some extra money for a few months before I moved to PR so I took an overnight job cleaning a McDonalds. Just me and one other guy and he was an ex-con, drug addict. A little twitchy but a pretty good guy. They let us eat whatever we wanted. He did, I couldn't even look at the stuff.
Turns out when you clean a McDonalds you don't want to eat McDonalds.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 09:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 09:03 PM (k5cxK)
Those pies were good. Back in the 80's we had a McDonalds, a white castle, and a jack in the box all within pissing distance of each other. We would go to white castle and grab some burgers, then hit the McDonalds drive though next door for fries, a strawberry shake, and a few of those apple or cherry pies, and then feast on all of it in the parking lot. Many times we would just hit McDonalds and grab the shake, fries, and cherry pies. Its the shit that happened when you cruised around all night getting roasted. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 09:19 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Wenda at December 12, 2025 09:19 PM (A65Zh)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2025 08:22 PM
Only British poofters say hide-and-go-seek. ie 'After we eat our spotted dick, let's play hide-and-go-seek.'
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 12, 2025 08:39 PM (jc0TO)
They eat their faggots, too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 09:14 PM (QVmho)
Now damn it Bif. Don't hold it in. Talk to us. Let it out. Tell us how you really feel.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 09:22 PM (2WIwB)
Best lobster roll in the area is at a food truck at Southeast Lighthouse on Block Island. It's really good. Views pretty good, too.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 09:23 PM (viF8m)
Some of those had the people petting in the wrong direction. That'll piss a cat off no matter if they just cleaned it or not.
Pretty funny watching the cats get annoyed by the "dirty" touch.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2025 08:59 PM (syz1S)
For some measures of "clean". I see my cats lick their a**holes and later lick their bodies...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 09:15 PM (k5cxK)
Their apple pie is kinda lame, but I still buy it.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 09:25 PM (2WIwB)
Some of those had the people petting in the wrong direction. That'll piss a cat off no matter if they just cleaned it or not.
Pretty funny watching the cats get annoyed by the "dirty" touch.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2025 08:59 PM (syz1S)
The multiplier effect in reverse...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:25 PM (ynpvh)
Yep, I have 2 stents in and I'm still urinating lots of blood. But no more kidney stones for now.
Posted by: lin-duh
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Wow! Had no idea. You sound positive. Is everything OK - going as expected?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 09:25 PM (OfmEX)
And it's always sad when serious or hearty discussions are seasoned with the griping gripers who gripe. Glad I don't have to be the thread police.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's all relatives at December 12, 2025 09:25 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 09:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 09:28 PM (zZu0s)
Yep, I have 2 stents in and I'm still urinating lots of blood. But no more kidney stones for now.
Posted by: lin-duh
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Wow! Had no idea. You sound positive. Is everything OK - going as expected?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 09:25 PM (OfmEX)
Oof. Hope you feel better, Lin-duh. I've
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 09:03 PM (k5cxK)
Back when McD's pies retained the heat of a dying star and taking the first bite required courage.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 09:29 PM (GvesS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 09:28 PM (zZu0s)
Did 'ee get 'is 5 quid?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 09:31 PM (0aYVJ)
When I was in Alaska I got some great halibut. But, since then, the best halibut fish and chips was in Bandon, Oregon.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 09:31 PM (0aYVJ)
_________
Where can I get schrod?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:32 PM (tgvbd)
Settling Thais that the Cambodian roadside bomb killing Thai civilians was an accident.
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It appears that Cambodians are odd man out in the region. Or as others would put it - Cambodia is asshoe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 09:34 PM (OfmEX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 09:13 PM (k5cxK)
The cherry pie and the McDonaldland cookies. does anyone know why they stopped selling them? It seems like a lot of people remember them fondly.
Posted by: moki at December 12, 2025 09:35 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2025 09:36 PM (LjSYW)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 09:13 PM (k5cxK)
The cherry pie and the McDonaldland cookies. does anyone know why they stopped selling them? It seems like a lot of people remember them fondly.
Posted by: moki at December 12, 2025 09:35 PM (wLjpr)
Jolli-Bee (a Filipino fried chicken place) has mango pies that they sell; they're pretty good.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:36 PM (ynpvh)
Many are marching with a sign that reads "Don't cross our picket line".
Posted by: Oddbob
For the press. Was in Center City Philadelphia today & saw no Starbuck's picketing on Walnut Street, South Broad, yada yada, and business was brisk.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 12, 2025 09:36 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2025 09:36 PM (LjSYW)
I jokingly called it "Gag in the Bag", but that would upset my wife (she worked at J in the B as a teen)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:32 PM
In before Wesley Crusher admires your usage of the past pluperfect.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 09:38 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 09:38 PM (3GGcJ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2025 09:38 PM (LjSYW)
When I was in Alaska I got some great halibut. But, since then, the best halibut fish and chips was in Bandon, Oregon.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 09:31 PM (0aYVJ)
_________
Where can I get schrod?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:32 PM (tgvbd)
Gonna make some lutefisk?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:38 PM (ynpvh)
Jolli-Bee (a Filipino fried chicken place) has mango pies that they sell; they're pretty good.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:36 PM (ynpvh)
That sounds really good! I was in Thailand for a conference and the McDonald there fried their fries in coconut oil, and had fried pineapple pies - oh my goodness!!!!
Posted by: moki at December 12, 2025 09:39 PM (wLjpr)
Jolli-Bee (a Filipino fried chicken place) has mango pies that they sell; they're pretty good.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:36 PM (ynpvh)
That sounds really good! I was in Thailand for a conference and the McDonald there fried their fries in coconut oil, and had fried pineapple pies - oh my goodness!!!!
Posted by: moki at December 12, 2025 09:39 PM (wLjpr)
McD's and Jolli-Bee's pies are best when heated up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:40 PM (ynpvh)
Now damn it Bif. Don't hold it in. Talk to us. Let it out. Tell us how you really feel.
Posted by: Diogenes
Yes, sir. I'll just go down to the motor poll and fuck with the motor warrant. You mind if I take Delta battery's BC's blazer out joy rinding? I promise to park it fucked up, with mud dripping off it at the front of the Delta battery line of vehicles where the SGM can see it when he strolls in at 1600 on Friday afternoon. I know that rat bastard did you dirty at staff call and he needs a come uppence.
#don't mess with chief's bC
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 09:41 PM (QVmho)
The cherry pie and the McDonaldland cookies. does anyone know why they stopped selling them? It seems like a lot of people remember them fondly.
Posted by: moki
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Fast Burger, here, sells a chocolate chip cookie for $2 and a brownie for $4.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 09:41 PM (OfmEX)
Posted by: moki at December 12, 2025 09:35 PM (wLjpr)
Jolli-Bee (a Filipino fried chicken place) has mango pies that they sell; they're pretty good.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:36 PM (ynpvh)
My Local McD's still sells cookies. It is up to the franchise.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 12, 2025 09:41 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:32 PM
In before Wesley Crusher admires your usage of the past pluperfect.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 09:38 PM (0sNs1)
Eh, it's no pluperfect passive progressive.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 09:44 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 09:24 PM (ynpvh)
and they still wind up smelling like clean laundry and happiness.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 09:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 09:46 PM (3GGcJ)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 09:46 PM (3GGcJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 09:46 PM (OfmEX)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 09:47 PM (3GGcJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 09:45 PM (rbvCR)
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As opposed to dogs finding a pile of deer shit and rolling in it.
I'm sure they smell like angels and pumpkin spice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 12, 2025 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 12, 2025 09:49 PM (NFX2v)
I'm sure they smell like angels and pumpkin spice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 12, 2025 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)
My niece still has the carpet in her living room tore up to the floorboards from when her beloved dog went "up the woods out back" and ate half a dead and putrefying deer, and came home to puke it up in the living room.
She may be waiting for carpet to come on sale again, or she might just like having the memory of that dog, who has since passed.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 09:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 09:54 PM (OfmEX)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 09:45 PM (rbvCR)
Well, I guess what we know what to rub on kindl when he passes out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 09:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2025 09:57 PM (LjSYW)
Jeff Konczak of Alpena, Michigan, along with Gun Lake Investments of Grand Rapids, Michigan, bought the rights to Hot 'n Now in October 2024. Through a partnership known as HNN Holdings, Konczak announced plans to open new Hot 'n Now locations in Alpena and Grand Rapids in 2025. The first such location was announced for opening in Wayland, Michigan in October 2025. Wayland, Michigan's location opened for business on October 13, 2025.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 10:02 PM (pkeXY)
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=417687
Posted by: mindful webworker - come one come all at December 12, 2025 10:02 PM (lbDMw)
Surprise! Maryland Governor and Candidate for Democrat Nominee for President Wes Moore Has Long History of Lying About His War Record and Academic Record
This is no disqualifier for a Democrat politician. Indeed, it's essentially a prerequisite.
Moore has a long history of Biden-like and "Danang Dick" like embellishment of his academic record and war record.
Maryland governor Wes Moore, now considered a serious prospect for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, got his big break in 2006. Fresh off a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, President George W. Bush awarded Moore, then 27, a White House fellowship, a prestigious, year-long internship during which he served as a special assistant to then-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. It put Moore on the path to ultimately becoming Maryland's governor, and he won the fellowship--in the turbulent years after 9/11--claiming to be a "foremost expert" on radical Islam thanks to his academic work at Oxford University. "As a Rhodes Scholar, I took advantage of the opportunity and examined radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere," Moore wrote in his application to serve as a White House fellow, indicating that he had graduated from Oxford in 2003 with a Master of Letters, or MLitt, in international relations. "I completed my degree with honors and my research has led me to be touted as one of the foremost experts on the threat." The White House parroted the claim in a press release announcing the 2006 fellowship class, borrowing from Moore's application to note that his Oxford thesis, which it said was titled The Rise and Ramifications of Radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere, had "earned him praise as one of the foremost experts on the topic." That a 27-year-old could claim to be a "foremost expert" on the Islamic threat based on a year at an American military base in Afghanistan and two years at Oxford could be excused away as an ambitious young man's puffery. But on close examination, Moore's claims of expertise and of being a serious scholar completely unravel, as do his claims, also on his White House fellowship application, that he was working toward an Oxford doctorate. The problems start with confusion--which neither Moore's staff nor Oxford's registrars were willing or able to clear up--about when Moore completed his studies, when he received his degree, whether he submitted his thesis, and what the title of the work was. In his White House fellowship application--which is public record--Moore wrote that he graduated from Oxford in 2003. But in the résumé attached to that application, Moore reported a different graduation date: June 2004. Asked to reconcile the two dates, a spokesman for the governor didn't provide a photograph of Moore's degree, but rather, a "degree confirmation," generated last week by Oxford's registrar's office, indicating Moore completed his graduate studies as a full-time student and "has been awarded the degree," but has not yet been issued a formal certificate. The "degree confirmation" generated by Oxford gives another contradictory date, showing that Moore completed his full-time graduate studies in November of 2005, a full four years after he began his Oxford studies, though a master's degree typically takes two years to earn. According to Moore, by November 2005, the month when Oxford now says Moore completed his master's studies, he was serving in the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan. He also says he began working as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank in London in March 2004. ... The story does fit a narrative, Moussa is right about that. But it is one that is likely to be problematic for Moore, just as it was for Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) when he stepped onto the national stage. The narrative, backed now by well-established matters of fact, is that when you scratch the surface of many of Moore's braggadocious claims, there is something off, something a little untruthful about them. Moore claims to have been a doctoral candidate after he received his master's degree, for example, but he and Oxford declined to provide the name of his academic adviser or any evidence he was enrolled as such. ... The mystery surrounding the title of and content of Moore's thesis could be resolved with a cursory review of the document. But that, too, poses a problem for Moore. His office could not produce a copy of the document since we began requesting it in early November. And good luck finding it at Oxford's legendary Bodleian Library, which archives all MLitt theses from the university's graduate students. A senior librarian told the Free Beacon she couldn't find "any trace" of Moore's paper, because he never submitted it. .... The confusion about when and where Moore was when he was doing his graduate studies--along with the convenient change in the title and subject matter of his missing thesis--is part of a pattern of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, and not entirely true claims that have persistently dogged, yet heretofore not tripped up, the ambitious Democrat.
And of course he claims to be from the 'hood but he's really the son of a comfortable middle class family. If this Black Walter Mitty is a world-renowned expert on Islamic terrorism, why have no other terrorism experts ever heard of him?
>b?Moore claimed on his 2006 White House fellowship application, for example, to have been inducted into the Maryland College Football Hall of Fame, an organization that doesn't exist; that he received a Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan, which he had not; and that he was born in Baltimore, which he was not.
The questions and discrepancies surrounding Moore's missing graduate thesis notwithstanding, his claim to be a "foremost expert" on the threat of radical Islam is ridiculous. "I have never come across Gov. Moore's name in the course of my academic life," said the French political scientist Gilles Kepel, described by the New York Times as "France's most famous scholar of Islam." Several other prominent academics in the field, including Lorenzo Vidino, the director of the Program of Extremism at George Washington University, said they've never heard of Moore in the context of any scholarly work. "I have been studying political Islam in the West for the last 25 years and Moore's name has never popped up on my radar," Vidino told the Free Beacon. "It's a small, niche field, I'd know." Former CIA case officer Reuel Marc Gerecht, now a scholar of Islamic terrorism at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said he's never heard of Moore in the context of his expertise in Islamic terrorism. "If there was an up-and-coming scholar in radical Islam, if he had written something novel, then yes, I would certainly have heard of it," Gerecht said. "This is news to me."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (77rzZ)
* mumble mumble * Pete Hegseth!! * mumble mumble *
Posted by: Democrat Defense at December 12, 2025 06:36 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM (sDNVV)
And never, never bother debating with them. Dims are like Commies. They never 'lose' debates because they just reinvent terminology.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM
OK, which one of you Morons crossed the streams?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:39 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alabama Hayseed Voter at December 12, 2025 06:40 PM (R/m4+)
I'll just have to remember to tell others that its racist.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:40 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM
OK, which one of you Morons crossed the streams?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:39 PM (jdPY0)
Well, he ain't no 100 ft-tall StayPuff Marshmallow Man...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:40 PM (ynpvh)
Joseph Goebbles
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM
I invented the tilde.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:40 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:41 PM (77rzZ)
I'll just have to remember to tell others that its racist.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:40 PM (krQz2)
"White Christmas"...obviously racist and Islamophobic.
"Silent Night"...disses the deaf
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:42 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Dick Blumenthal at December 12, 2025 06:42 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM
OK, which one of you Morons crossed the streams?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:39 PM (jdPY0)
Well, he ain't no 100 ft-tall StayPuff Marshmallow Man...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:40 PM (ynpvh)
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Now we just need to find equally large graham crackers and a bar of chocolate...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 06:42 PM (ESVrU)
No doubt that Moore is Democrat Presidential nominee material, then.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:42 PM (6ydKt)
Joseph Goebbles
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM
I invented the tilde.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:40 PM (jdPY0)
That was my parents.
Posted by: Tilda Swinton at December 12, 2025 06:43 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:41 PM (77rzZ)
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Albert Brooks >> Alsobrooks.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:43 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 06:42 PM
Assume a spherical marshmallow of radius R...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:43 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:44 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: davidt at December 12, 2025 06:44 PM (Q+gd/)
None of this will matter. Walz looks like a frog, he could be questioned about his lies. Wes Moore is handsome. Calling him out will not be allowed.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 06:44 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:44 PM
{{{Ben Had}}}
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:44 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Wes moore at December 12, 2025 06:45 PM (XeU6L)
Wes Moore was elected with 6
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 12, 2025 06:43 PM (0Ph0e)
Six fingers?
Six beers?
Six wives?
Six Medal of Honors?
Six Degrees in International Relations?
Six inches?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:45 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:45 PM (6ydKt)
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That's what I was thinking was ASS's criteria.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:45 PM (krQz2)
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Echoes of Barky's birth certificate, and SS registration.
Posted by: Wes moore at December 12, 2025 06:46 PM (XeU6L)
I think I am offended by this!
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 06:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:45 PM (6ydKt)
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That's what I was thinking was ASS's criteria.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:45 PM (krQz2)
Well, honestly, six fingers might apply as well...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh)
Pfft. I have TWO inventions to my name.
— Guy who invented the diaeresis AND the umlaut
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (77rzZ)
Probably the latter. Might as well; Pacos been fightin' on the losin' side since the Civil War.
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:43 PM
May we assume a STP density of 0.461 kg/m^^3?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (0sNs1)
-Gavin Newsom
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 06:48 PM (9ipOP)
— Guy who invented the diaeresis AND the umlaut
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM
I couldn't have gone with the question mark. We'd be up to our eyes in Dr. Evil's Father socks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:48 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh
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Of Scotch?!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:49 PM (krQz2)
"We should move on."
Delivered in an almost-sad way, as if whoever is still challenging him on these long-settled issues of years gone by is a pathetic fanatic who should get a nice injection of thorazine.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 06:49 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:48 PM (jdPY0)
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You have to ask yourself what would we do without the question mark
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:49 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM
It's time to change that, and realize that Big Penguin is only using you.
Depart the misguided and mephitic Spheniscidae. For once, fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Come to the light side. We have brisket and Southern biscuits!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 06:51 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:51 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: steevy at December 12, 2025 06:51 PM (YwEeS)
Did they at least have DO4? paperwork, did Moore even actually serve in Afghanistan or was he still at Oxford?
Posted by: PaleRider at December 12, 2025 06:51 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:51 PM (77rzZ)
Moore won with 65% of the vote. Dems are only 50% of the vote
Independents voted for him
Most GOP considered him a trump fanatic'
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Aliassmithsmith Johnson is right!
/that is some authentic frontier gibberish right there
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 06:52 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2025 06:52 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Dem Follies at December 12, 2025 06:52 PM (oftw2)
Stolen Valor, Stolen Curriculum Vitae
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Really raises the bar for Dem politicians. Next guy's going to have to do a quadruple toe-loop.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 06:52 PM (1N/bM)
https://is.gd/4H9qcM
Posted by: No Name Today at December 12, 2025 06:53 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: steevy
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I still repect their comma.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 06:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:55 PM (sDNVV)
https://is.gd/4H9qcM
Posted by: No Name Today at December 12, 2025 06:53 PM (8mulE)
Lipstick?
Posted by: davidt at December 12, 2025 06:55 PM (Q+gd/)
Pshaw! I know for a fact it's just Bisquick! And I bet your green beans are crunchy, like in them ooh-la-la places CBD frequents.
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 06:56 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Dem Follies at December 12, 2025 06:52 PM (oftw2)
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While I was reading your post, Beau Biden died again.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (vbXSk)
Not one of them said "oh he's a Rhodes Scholar that is why I am voting for him."
They wanted to hear how much he would lie to Republicans. And he's not going to retract or apologize.
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (QVmho)
The answer's obvious: The other terrorism experts are the frauds.
I can't believe Ace is stooping to a racist attack on a Person of Color just because he's a DEI clown who's incompetent and lies all the time.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 06:56 PM (2L+MU)
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Where CBD was radicalized against syrup!!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:59 PM (sDNVV)
Wes Moore is handsome. Calling him out will not be allowed.
Posted by: Piper
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DEIQ
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 06:59 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 06:56 PM
No, we have true Southern biscuits. The ones that use the #1 ingredient required for true, fluffy Southern biscuits.
White Lily flour. Made from winter wheat. Accept no substitutes, unless you live in New York City, where picante sauce is not properly appreciated.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 07:00 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 06:56 PM (2L+MU)
Just Bisquick?
And I suppose your mother was just a mother.
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 07:00 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:00 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:00 PM (tgvbd)
Pshaw! I know for a fact it's just Bisquick! And I bet your green beans are crunchy, like in them ooh-la-la places CBD frequents.
Posted by: Paco
Ooooo. Oooooo. Bisquick!
Smash has a sausage, shreeded cheese, and bisquick recipe dhe wants to try. Baked sausage balls. I'm already calling it scheutty balls.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 07:01 PM (QVmho)
Just watched TJM's latest video.
First, I'm really enjoying these videos. Like when I read his blog, I feel smarter afterwards.
Also, that SUIT!
But TJM needs a sign off. For example, Jerome Weiselberry waves and does a squeaky high pitched "bye!" At the end of her reviews. TJM needs something like that, but manlier.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 07:01 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:02 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:59 PM
There is iron in Ben Had's words of life for all Morons and true Americans to see.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 07:02 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 07:02 PM (1Yy3c)
Really? Dang! Time to start insisting on loyalty oaths around here.
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 07:02 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 07:02 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Understandable at December 12, 2025 07:02 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 07:00 PM (0sNs1)
The King Biscuit Flour Hour has entered the chat.
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Schweady at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 07:01 PM
So, jazz hands and/or uptwinkles are out?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (0sNs1)
Where CBD was radicalized against syrup!!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (krQz2)
__________
He was molested by Mrs. Butterworth.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
Imagine how he'd have no chance at all if he'd said that he fantasized about murdering the wife -- and their children in her arms -- of his political opponent.
Wait, wut?
Indeed, it's essentially a prerequisite.
Both men are now on the VP short-list for the Dem nomination in 2028 ... resume enhancers!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 07:04 PM (mlg/3)
How do all of these Obamaesque people get away with no transcripts?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 07:04 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 07:04 PM (sDNVV)
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Wes Moore is the Jasmine Ratchet of Kamala Harrises?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:05 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: the lower depths
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This is absolutely true. My favorites hits of Dem debate style is whataboutism, goal post shifting, and motte and Bailey among others.
When all else fails, pull the emergency cord for to use accusations of racism, sexism, ableism, or some other worthless rhetorical slur designed to insult and make the opposing debater into a inhuman monster.
Aristotle taught you well in argumentation lower depths.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:05 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 07:05 PM (RoO7G)
Link goes to 9gag. Very vietnam.
https://9gag.com/gag/amoOZGj
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (QVmho)
Holy hell, I'm dying here! LOL!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 07:05 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at December 12, 2025 07:05 PM (0sNs1)
Not even if you serve apple pie. I mean, if you have apple pie. You, er, don't, do you?
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 07:06 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:07 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 07:06 PM
Are you a straight-up apple pie man, or do you prefer a nice slice of sharp cheddar, or a scoop of Blue Bell vanilla to accompany?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Al Gore at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (CSQvy)
How do all of these Obamaesque people get away with no transcripts?
Posted by: rhennigantx
Because they are sociopathic liars even among themselves as everything is struggle to elevate their perceived group status from teh common people.
I have copies of my thesis on disk, printed copy, one in my department's library and my dissertation is available likewise except the dissertation is stowed in the library and on abstract databases.
Have personal and electronic copies of those as well. I even have old typed papers from college if they were important to me.
So, the answer is they lie so frequently that the heuristic is just figure the Democrat (like their auxiliary Main Stream Media) is lying when their lips move.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (rZCVI)
About 1998 my wife wrote her thesis and we spent about $2000 to publish 4 or 6 copies to make it legal.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (gbOdA)
I have a Ph.D in Green Beret SEAL Ranger Recon. Got the Distinguished Service Cross for it too!
Posted by: Hadrian
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Hadrian, we hardly know ye!!!
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:10 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (0sNs1)
psst - the Blue Bell reference is a hint.
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 07:10 PM (RoO7G)
2 R judge to 1.
But I'm sure they will rule for him after briefing
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 07:11 PM (G6PFE)
———-
The predicate here, is that Americans will just continue to put up with ever more and increasing levels of outrageous bullshit in perpetuity.
Is that a safe bet? Maybe. May be “Not”.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 07:11 PM (SH3As)
Where CBD was radicalized against syrup!!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (krQz2)
__________
He was molested by Mrs. Butterworth.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
Damn it, you guys! LOL!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 07:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: John Kerry at December 12, 2025 07:12 PM (CSQvy)
Posted by: Martin "Les" Luther Moore at December 12, 2025 07:12 PM (oftw2)
/that is some authentic frontier gibberish right there
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Hard for him to type with his mouth full and occupied.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:12 PM (WDjG6)
Depart the misguided and mephitic Spheniscidae. For once, fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Come to the light side. We have brisket and Southern biscuits!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 06:51 PM (0sNs1)
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Do Adélie Penguins eat Andouille Sausage -- and if so, does that make them cannibals?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:12 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 07:13 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Martin "Les" Luther Moore at December 12, 2025 07:12 PM (oftw2)
Woulda been aliassmith if he thought of it first...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 07:13 PM (ynpvh)
Is that a safe bet? Maybe. May be “Not”.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 07:11 PM (SH3As)
I live in Virginia and I can almost see Maryland from here.
I am astonished at the appetite for bullshit.
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 07:14 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: steevy at December 12, 2025 06:51 PM (YwEeS)
I'm sure they hand out mercy degrees to any student that International Globohomo asks them to favor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 07:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 07:14 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Robert
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Mooning the audience? Juggling chainsaws? Sword swallowing? or maybe just blowing fire at the camera?
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:14 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (0sNs1)
This seems heavy for a marshmallow
Fuck. Now I have to look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s)
I'm a purist. Why, if I had ever put cheese on a piece of apple pie, the family would have accused me of puttin' on airs. And no ice cream; as good as that sounds, it's like jammin' a cork in your aorta.
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 07:15 PM (2L+MU)
Dear heavens, my dissertation was a tribute to how little you can accomplish and I still get through. And this guy had to make it up out of the whole cloth?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:15 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:16 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
You people are weird!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 07:16 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)
Per Bings copilot.
I'd have to get out the pad and paper to do the conversion factor to kg/cubic meter
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Martin "Les" Luther Moore at December 12, 2025 07:12 PM (oftw2)
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Didn't you play running back at Syracuse University ahead of Jim Brown (who won the Heisman that year) and against Joe Biden when he was playing flanker back ahead of Roger Staubach (who later won the Heisman as a quarterback)?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:17 PM (25a1J)
Dear heavens, my dissertation was a tribute to how little you can accomplish and I still get through. And this guy had to make it up out of the whole cloth?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Sort of like no one remembers Obama at Columbia, few at Occidental, and he did nothing while 'president' of Harvard Law Review.
Constitutional scholar, my ass.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 07:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 07:04 PM (gbOdA)
Well, you see, when my mom, a whore, met my dad, a drunken philanderer and ne'er-do-well, well, I was born. I pretended to be this when I was that and that when I was this. No need to look to closely at my birth certificate either. Hope and change baby! Hope and change! Let me be clear...you can keep your doctor.
Posted by: Barack Obama, Let Me Be Clear at December 12, 2025 07:18 PM (R/m4+)
When all else fails, pull the emergency cord for to use accusations of racism, sexism, ableism, or some other worthless rhetorical slur designed to insult and make the opposing debater into a inhuman monster.
"Debate" American Style: Our Top Orators in Action
https://youtu.be/fmO-ziHU_D8
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 07:19 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (0sNs1)
I have read about people...deeply disturbed people...who put cheddar on their apple pie.
But I prefer to believe in the innate goodness of people, and choose to think that all people understand the rightness of vanilla ice cream on apple pie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 07:19 PM (n9ltV)
got it
Maryland is like Illinois with its governors
they go to jail, get indicted, what have you
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 07:19 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (0sNs1)
This seems heavy for a marshmallow
Fuck. Now I have to look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s)
Depends on whose number you use for density.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 07:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 07:08 PM (0sNs1)
Slice of sharp Cheddar on top, then 30 seconds in the nuker to warm the pie, and melt the cheese. Perfection!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 07:20 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 07:21 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (0sNs1)
This seems heavy for a marshmallow
Fuck. Now I have to look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s)
Depends on whose number you use for density.
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Perhaps the marshmallows could be explained by migration?
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 07:21 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)
It should be x 10^6.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 07:21 PM (n9ltV)
'Also I have blood plasma today and it came out looking like super cloudy coconut water.'
That means you're probably going to die.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 07:25 PM (fd80v)
Except the military part, of course. Nobody would buy that one.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 07:38 PM (ittVa)
Where CBD was radicalized against syrup!!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:58 PM (krQz2)
__________
He was molested by Mrs. Butterworth.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
In a Log Cabin with Aunt Jemima filming it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 07:38 PM (6ydKt)
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First it was Big Penguin who infiltrated the blog (I suspect Feds) and now Big Walrus (Feds on "AI").
Where will it end, with Big Octopi (Hydra by any other name) ...
This explains the origins of the "Octopi Wall Street" movement.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:42 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 07:53 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Occasional Commenter at December 12, 2025 08:04 PM (MV++E)
Posted by: kelly at December 13, 2025 12:24 AM (GxGGi)
The Week in Woke
Joy Reid retweeted -- "amplified," as they say -- a race-grifter claiming "Jingle Bells" is, get this, racist. Remember, you are the ones engaging in "racial grievance" when you say you're sick to death of being endlessly scapegoated for black failure.
A new report finds that injecting people with superphysiological levels of artificial hormones increases their all-cause mortality. Wow, I did not see that coming. I mean, yes I knew this would kill people, I just didn't think that anyone in "The Science (TM)" would dare to do any actual science about trans mutilations.
Joy Reid is spending December amplifying a claim that "Jingle Bells" is racist, reposting a video to her 1.3 million followers that tries -- and fails -- to turn one of America's most familiar Christmas songs into a racial flashpoint. The clip she chose to boost offers no proof, only speculation and academic flair that collapse the moment you examine the song's history or even read the lyrics. The video leans on the fact that composer James Lord Pierpont served in the Confederacy and had written minstrel tunes earlier in his life. But none of that makes "Jingle Bells" itself racist, and the video never demonstrates otherwise. Background isn't evidence, and Reid's repost doesn't provide any. It also highlights a Boston plaque claiming Pierpont wrote the song "to make fun of black people," and cites an assertion that its first public performance -- then titled "The One Horse Open Sleigh" -- may have taken place in blackface in 1857. Even if that performance involved blackface, that reflects the entertainers, not the content of the song. And the content is indisputable. The original lyrics -- widely available -- aren't about race, caricature, or anything remotely tied to minstrelsy. They're about sleigh rides, winter spills, young flirtation, and the carefree joy of youth.
Biology in Medicine
@biologyinmed It is not only the HHS report warning of the irreversible long term risks of Oestrogen used as a cross sex hormone.. A new study reports: Known risks
- cardiovascular disease
-infertility
-pulmonary embolism
-stroke
Emerging 'warning signals' of increased risk
-early mortality
- pancreatitis
-testicular, thyroid and breast cancer
-autoimmune disease Prescribing of cross sex hormones in children and young adults must be stopped.
The paper is here. Remember that alleged study that proves we need DEI? The one cited by Justice Ketangi D-EI when arguing for DEI forever? The study claimed that white doctors kill black babies. That turns out to be bunk -- fake science -- but what is even more interesting is that the same study found that the death rates of white babies increased when attended by black doctors. In other words, following the logic of the "study" -- we need black doctors for black patients, but also, white patients must also not have black doctors. White patients need white doctors. You might be thinking, Wow, I never heard anyone cite that part of the study. That's because the "scientists" who did this study omitted that part of their findings from their published paper, because they didn't want to "undermine" the "narrative" they were trying to establish.
Hank Johnson, the forefather of the field of Buoyant Tectonic Plate Theory -- that Guam may "tip over" if too many people immigrate there --- declares that America is, just as radical Iranian hate-mullahs say, "the Great Satan."
The August 2020 study in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) concluded that the gap in mortality rates between black newborns and white newborns declines by 58% if the black newborns are under the care of black physicians. A possible driver of the phenomenon could include a "spontaneous bias" by white physicians toward the babies, the researchers wrote. The paper's most high-profile booster was Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who cited it as evidence for the benefits of affirmative action in her dissent in the 2023 Supreme Court ruling Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which found that universities that considered the race of college applicants had violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. "For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician is tantamount to a miracle drug: it more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live," reads an amicus brief filed by the Association of American Medical Colleges. "Yet due to the enduring and significant underrepresentation of minorities in the health professions, many minority patients will not receive care from a racially diverse team or from providers who were trained in a diverse environment."But the study's methods have been called into question. A September 2024 replication effort concluded that the original study authors did not statistically control for very low birth weight newborns at the highest risk of dying. Applying that control zeroed out any statistically significant effect of racial concordance on infant mortality. Now, evidence has emerged that the paper's lead author buried information in order to tell a tidier story than the one his methods and data originally illustrated. A key data point was edited out of the body of the paper, apparently because it muddled the downstream policy implications of the study, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the nonprofit Do No Harm, which opposes identity politics in medical research and clinical practice.
CNN
@CNN Black newborn babies in the US are more likely to survive childbirth if they are cared for by Black doctors, but three times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors, a study finds. https://cnn.it/347NlE1 Aug 18, 2020
The study originally asserted that white babies died less frequently with white doctors. "White newborns experience 80 deaths per 100,000 births more with a black physician than a white physician, implying a 22% fatality reduction from racial concordance," an unpublished draft reads. But the study's lead author Brad N. Greenwood wrote in the margin: "I'd rather not focus on this. If we're telling the story from the perspective of saving black infants this undermines the narrative." "That's not how scientists speak," Ian Kingsbury, director of research at Do No Harm, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "It's not a smoking gun, but it's certainly suggestive they were pushing one narrative or another." The data point was axed.
"Concordance appears to bring little benefit for White newborns," the paper reads.
While omitted in the paper's body, the data point can be found in the appendix as part of a logistic model. Unlike the linear regression highlighted in the paper, a logistic model is more appropriate for binary questions like whether a newborn survives or dies, according to Ted Frank, a senior attorney with the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, which filed an amicus brief in favor of Students for Fair Admissions.
Greenwood, the Maximus Corporate Partner Professor of Business at George Mason University, wrote another note to his coauthors that may indicate he had a predetermined desired conclusion, a strong correlation between physician race and clinical outcomes, the FOIA documents suggest.
... The study has been cited 507 times in the scientific literature. But the study has made a big impact outside of academia too. Published in August 2020 amid the Black Lives Matter protests, the study has generated more public discussion in the laypress and on social media than 99% of scientific studies published in the last five years, according to Altmetric. The study has received coverage in 340 outlets including CNN, USA Today, and the Washington Post.
There it is: Democrat Georgia Rep Hank Johnson parrots Arab talking point saying America is “The Great Satan”
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 9, 2025
"America is indeed...the great hand of Satan — The Great Satan."
This phrase is widely used in Islamic theology. Our Government is infiltrated
pic.twitter.com/vcwRSpNdnz
SICK: Rep. Julie Johnson says National Guard members were shot in the head in a terror attack "because people are frustrated and they are channeling that frustration." pic.twitter.com/ayw1K3R9tf
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 11, 2025
“Actually, DEI was designed to benefit white men” is a headline that would never make it through the editorial process at any halfway-honest paper. Embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/dmN0aSVOUy
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) December 5, 2025
Macron under fire after green lighting a $3 million project to replace the famous stained glass windows at Notre Dame in Paris with windows depicting people of non-European decent pic.twitter.com/Zy8g5Hie15
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) December 12, 2025
ABC BREAKING NEWS: doctors save a baby’s life. The shocking, vile story at 11! https://t.co/yOrXNmvdMt
— Kira (@Kiradavis) December 12, 2025
Gavin Newscum gushes about how he wants to see the gender mutilation of children.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 10, 2025
NEWSOM: “I want to see trans kids… There’s no governor that’s done more pro trans legislation than I have.” pic.twitter.com/KqL0dED1s2
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: GF at December 12, 2025 05:29 PM (iVUs+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 05:32 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 05:32 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 12, 2025 05:34 PM (5IH8V)
Just another stupid thing for the leftists to hate on.
So why do we keep losing to these retards?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 05:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Newscum attacked Elon over his "trans daughter" as well, telling Elon his "daughter" hates him. Elon, responded something like he has several actual daughters who love him, but has a mentally ill son, warped by the mind virus you ghouls push...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 05:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 05:35 PM (PFs9e)
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Well, it is about snow. And until recently, only wypipo really had snow.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 05:36 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2025 05:36 PM (2ap+5)
That's because the "scientists" who did this study omitted that part of their findings from their published paper, because they didn't want to "undermine" the "narrative" they were trying to establish.
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But hey guys--Trust the science!
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 05:36 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:36 PM (h4uy9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 05:36 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:37 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:37 PM (u82oZ)
Just another stupid thing for the leftists to hate on.
So why do we keep losing to these retards?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 05:34 PM (0aYVJ)
They control the media. And they fight.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)
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I bet you do, Gavin. Why don't you show us your internet search history?
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 05:37 PM (TN0g+)
?
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Hence: Jingle Bells is most definitely racist.
Posted by: Ralph at December 12, 2025 05:38 PM (8WZD4)
Yes, it was stupid of Europeans to ever start the term "white".
Jesus is WS, because his job is to wash you “white as snow[!!!]”[/u[
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:38 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:39 PM (h4uy9)
Seems you could have quite a career as an academic going on the internet and hearing all these "fringe" medical theories we've been discussing forever.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 05:39 PM (ittVa)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:37 PM (u82oZ)
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Maybe we're outnumbered by them and the Apathetic.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:40 PM (krQz2)
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While I know this is a harsh thing to say about anyone, I must assume there are some lawyers among the horde. What I want to know is where are the tort actions for this crap? It's got to be a gold mine, so how come the shysters - excuse me, lawyers - aren't swarming like sharks around a wounded swimmer?
I keep waiting.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 05:41 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 05:41 PM (q2Q7i)
"White Christmas is racist. Did you know Bing Crosby was involved with the KKK when he wrote that song?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 05:41 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:41 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)
The insanity is strong in those folks.
Or demonic possession. Never discount it my friends.
Whenever an exorcist is called in, there must be a comprehensive psychological evaluation. But when the patient is levitating four feet above the bed, send the doctors away. Get busy with the Hail Marys.
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:42 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 05:42 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 05:42 PM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 05:43 PM (s0JqF)
Maturity sometimes leads to wisdom. Good for her. And also for her stance on the genocide of Christians in Africa.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 05:43 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)
I loved the twist with Betty Garrett and Red Skelton.
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:44 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 12, 2025 05:44 PM (osKUJ)
Next do sociology
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 12, 2025 05:44 PM (nJthq)
Anything to ding Trumpno matter how absurd, what lie needs to be put out there , is fine in service to the Narrative.
The one that drives me crazy is the piggy meme. The reporter's name is Peggy. Trump,obviously said Peggy. There are still Democrats claiming this is vile Trump speech. They know it is not true but they say it over and over again.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2025 05:44 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 05:44 PM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 05:44 PM (s0JqF)
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That's risk I'm willing to take.
Deal?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 05:45 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 05:42 PM (q2Q7i)
It's great in eggnog....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 05:45 PM (VE6XX)
When doing biometric enrollments in Afghanistan, the people there don't indicate ethnicity as "white" they use "wheat".
And "white"/"wheat"/"snow"/whatever is stupid to characterize ethnicity anyway. Ethnos is the Greek term for nations. Nations traditionally has been the collection of a Family, as in the Table of Nations in the Scriptures post Babel.
Babel was a separation of a whole unit of people into distinct families that acquired a new language and in the days of Peleg dispersed around the globe.
With enough Somalian (or Appalachian) styled match-making and child bearing, Mendel's Genetics pretty much explains the so-called "racial characteristics" of these resulting nations/ethnicities.
I hope this helps explain why I tire of this sophomoric nonsense of "races".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:45 PM (WCaCG)
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I thought the “we should be tolerant only of that which does not further intolerance” came from Marcuse and his idea that tolerating conservatism was “repressive” but suffocating it was “liberating tolerance.”
Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 12, 2025 05:33 PM (7kSOl)
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Well, this can still be the case, since Popper's "contribution" was mainly, AIUI, two footnotes.
But, I believe Marcuse cites Popper, who had some cache as the recognized eminent theorist of SCIENCE!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 12, 2025 05:45 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 05:45 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 05:42 PM (q2Q7i)
Its a good movie. Fun.
Now Holiday Inn, otoh. It's not bad because of the blackface. Its not a good movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:46 PM (zZu0s)
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I don't. When you watch (as just one example) those videos where the abolitionist guy (abortion abolitionist) sets up his sign on a college campus and 19-year old and 22-year old girls walk buy him and sling profanity while *bragging* about the abortions they've had, I find myself wondering what kind of influence they're under. Because the college girls of my day *might* have had an abortion, but they sure weren't *proud* of it, and certainly weren't shouting about it in the public square.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 05:46 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 05:46 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 05:47 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Shonkin Sag at December 12, 2025 05:47 PM (1gRc6)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 05:47 PM (g47mK)
ah. an axlotl tank. we approve.
Posted by: bene tleilax at December 12, 2025 05:47 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:47 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Skip
Perfect definition.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2025 05:47 PM (t/2Uw)
Just another stupid thing for the leftists to hate on.
So why do we keep losing to these retards?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 12, 2025 05:34 PM
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We are being led by Indiana Republicans.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 05:47 PM (s0JqF)
Those that do know history are doomed to repeat it by the shear weight of those that don't.
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 12, 2025 05:48 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 05:48 PM (PFs9e)
sadly, we just can't achieve the rich tone that comes from making your jingle bells out of vibranium.
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:48 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:48 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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we're out-manned
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 05:48 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 05:45 PM (s0JqF)
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You're going to make Tim Walz jealous.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:48 PM (krQz2)
Cause I think they are one of the roadblocks to the path of progress.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:48 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 12, 2025 05:49 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 05:49 PM (viF8m)
What? Is this a character on Mister Rodgers or Pee Wee's Playhouse?
Is Lawyer Andy going to sue Cowboy Curtis the next time he butchers some MF Cows?
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 05:49 PM (dIske)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:50 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 05:48 PM (PFs9e)
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It also appears in Camptown Races song, a notoriously minstrel-associated song.
Double-plus ungood.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2)
My answer: nothing.
Go to Canada and claim terminal illness.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:50 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 05:47 PM (g47mK)
They seem to be taking the day off.
Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber at December 12, 2025 05:50 PM (pcnhy)
Posted by: Joy Reid at December 12, 2025 05:50 PM (PFs9e)
The claim was that they'd put these outrageous harness-looking thing on slaves that were prone to run away.
So that they ... could hear them if they ran?
Or some stupid shit.
And it has some silly cartoon drawing that's all Ken Burnsy faded brown paper (that's how you know it's old and authentic, see?) with this ridiculous contraption strapped to some bare-chested black.
Proof!
And not the lyrics--not the snow, not the sleigh, and certainly not the "bells on bobtails" of the horses.
Nope, nope, nope! All about slavery!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 05:51 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:51 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 05:51 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 05:49 PM (viF8m)
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You mean kinda-sorta.
I believe, it was over the transing children issue.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:51 PM (krQz2)
The euphemism treadmill is something to see. "Retarded" came into use because the previous terms like "moron" an "imbecile" had become pejorative and not nice. So "retard" was the new nice word.
And then, because any word describing something bad or undesirable, it became an insult as well. Go figure. Just stick with the original terms.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 05:52 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:52 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:52 PM (u82oZ)
you mean like the hazeltine 1500, which used tilde instead of escape?
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:52 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 05:53 PM (s0JqF)
Racial Maddow says what?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 05:53 PM (jdPY0)
She also praised Trump publicly for his support for Christians in Nigeria.
She's got a lot of fans. I welcome converts.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 05:53 PM (viF8m)
"neurodivergent"
what if my neurons are non-binary?
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:53 PM (v3pYe)
And not the lyrics--not the snow, not the sleigh, and certainly not the "bells on bobtails" of the horses.
Nope, nope, nope! All about slavery!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 05:51 PM (HXT0k
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Are the horseback Border Patrol riders still whipping illegal aliens?
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Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 05:53 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:54 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Joy Reid at December 12, 2025 05:54 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 12, 2025 05:54 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:36 PM (h4uy9)
Before you see Prometheus you need to slap a hot iron on your longbow which will cost twenty dollars same as downtown and beware of your hampster's fartclam.
Posted by: Robo Commenter at December 12, 2025 05:54 PM (CSQvy)
Dashing (black appropriation)
through the snow (white people)
in a one (supremacy)
horse (white animal slavery)
open (appropriation)
slay (what white people do)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:55 PM (krQz2)
Who paid for this narrative?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 05:55 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:36 PM (h4uy9)
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I'd prefer Robo-Chuy.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:55 PM (krQz2)
Sure wish the GOPe gave me a reason to vote for them. I left them, because they are losers that fail to attract my vote.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:56 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Joy Reid at December 12, 2025 05:56 PM (PFs9e)
"neurodivergent"
what if my neurons are non-binary?
Then they will make you the Prime Minister
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:56 PM (NzX/y)
=
Qatar is a great place! I love it , so clean, safe, orderly ! you can slap your help around and no one would say a word!
Posted by: T. Fvcker Qatarlson at December 12, 2025 05:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 05:56 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Robo Commenter at December 12, 2025 05:54 PM (CSQvy)
No mention of boobs.
Fake AND Gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:57 PM (zZu0s)
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Are they claiming that there will less slutty women in college after they eliminate DEI? There are still plenty of majors women can choose to get their MRS degree.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 12, 2025 05:57 PM (nJthq)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 05:57 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:57 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Robo Commenter at December 12, 2025 05:57 PM (CSQvy)
Maybe he has a life outside of Twitter and the blog. Maybe it's his turn to change the diapers of the triplets.
He has good OPSEC, so I give him that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:57 PM (u82oZ)
"Iran reportedly violently arrests 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi at a memorial, her supporters say."
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 05:58 PM (g47mK)
We still have a fighting chance. But the idiots have to be sent to insane asylums for us to have that chance.
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:58 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:55 PM (krQz2)
You want that authentic, Taco Bell Hispanic flair, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:58 PM (zZu0s)
Democrats never seem to believe that 'frustration' can be channeled their way.
They aren't going to like it when they find out they're not bullet proof.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 05:58 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
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As she is a politician, I would suspect there is a backing tendency to self-promotion.
Perhaps she got flustered/confused by DC, and simply fell-back into self-promotion, which is kinda akin to grifting.
Essentially it doesn't matter, because I have no more use for her, by what she is currently doing.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:58 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & the Gender Dysphorants at December 12, 2025 05:59 PM (Vngxz)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:59 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Joy Reid at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (wGerL)
So, that's all it takes to excuse murdering someone? Hmmm.
I'm frustrated. Maybe I could use some channeling, too.
Is that really where you want to go?
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (pE12i)
After a few hours of getting dragged in his comments about the trans-Saharan slave trade, he deleted his post.
But he really thought he was making legitimate, historically accurate commentary.
But not even actual history penetrates his bubble:
He's completely oblivious that, just within the last 30 days, Muslims raided a Christian school in Nigeria for ... slaves.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Axeman
See also, Prince Andrew; who fought bravely in the Falklands. Currently all he does is diddle kids.
Thanks for saving those fellow countrymen from the Argentine dictatorship, seriously; but we still don't like the kid fiddling.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (gKWVE)
A new report finds that injecting people with superphysiological levels of artificial hormones increases their all-cause mortality.
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Just wait 'til Fauci and his Butt-Monkeys begin employing "prenatal gene editing" in human embryos ex utero and fetuses in utero.
Maybe throw in one of Musk's Neuralink chips while you're at it ... what could go wrong?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:58 PM (krQz2)
Granted. But if she is such a drifting nut bar, why stand up for the J6 guys when they were literally hunting and arresting people they thought to be in connection to it? Note the other fuckjng fearless jackasses like eyepatch fucking stayed silent or spoke against them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (t/2Uw)
During the week off, does that mean we get AI ace?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:57 PM (NzX/y)
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He's diverting hampster power to his AI ace project.
Right now, he's at the stage where every Ace AI prompt is answered "Fuck off."
2026 may likely see the Dawn of AI-Ace.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)
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FUBAR
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (ZxPkt)
Many years ago, Google Fiber was supposed to hit Austin and because the city is built upon limestone, buried cable was a No Go, so Google requested shared space on utility poles.
The city agree, only if Google would provide free internet to ALL of the schools, government buildings, and the list kept expanding as different special interest groups got wind of the feeding frenzy and their lobbyists were dropping out of the ceiling with demands for free hook-ups and service.
Google, after looking at the long and growing list of freeloaders dropped plans to do Fiber.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:01 PM (xE0sV)
"neurodivergent"
what if my neurons are non-binary?
Then they will make you the Prime Minister
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:56 PM (NzX/y)\
That would be retarded.
As we used to say (daily!), don't be a retard.
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 06:01 PM (UwBs6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 06:01 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 05:57 PM
I won't use Google Fiber because I grow my own natural fiber in my garden plus good diet and exercise should prevent you from needing extra fiber in the first place.
Posted by: Robo Commenter at December 12, 2025 06:01 PM (CSQvy)
But hey, at least they said 'woman' instead of 'pregnant person'.
Progress.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:02 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
sometimes the runaway hormones work out in your favor, sometimes they don't.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 06:02 PM (uWKK8)
Did Howard Zinn write a history of the world?
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:02 PM (W7XSX)
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In order to save "The Science" we had to destroy "The Science."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 06:03 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (t/2Uw)
That man has more joy of life and wide-ranging insterests and knowledge than any one I've ever met.
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 06:03 PM (UwBs6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 06:03 PM (u82oZ)
I keep waiting.
Posted by: Eeyore
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Retired law academic but,
A) most trial lawyers and judges are not well versed in statistics and juries are damn near innumerate even college educated folks.
B) most law schools are of the left just like colleges and likewise their graduates have been indoctrinated to the key tenets of leftist religion.
C) you have two types of trial lawyers--those that use threat of a trial to negotiate but almost always settle and then you have the ball busters ultra type A sorts. It takes the ball buster ultra type A sort to ignore political and community pressure in discovery motions for some really seamy relevations about the practice of medicine
D) relative likelihood of payoff. Truck accidents involving cars are boring but trucking firms have better insurance than many individuals and juries like companies less than individuals. So steady sure payoff, low risk. Challenging troonism is akin to spitting in the eye of the elites and the uncertainty of payoff means high risk in investing scarce firm time.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 06:03 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:00 PM (zZu0s)
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Perhaps because "Standing alone for J6 prisoners" seemed a good way to push her brand?
I'm not saying that it was just that. It's just now, I'm having a hard time seeing the serious side of her.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:03 PM (krQz2)
Seems a bunch of Somalis went to the mall.
And started filming this gal.
The clip the posted was just the part where she blew up and called them the (accurate) N-word.
So she got fired.
Full clip?
They were harassing her and berating her for not covering her skin, wearing a burka like them; insulting and mocking her.
And even after the full clip is known?
The left is still going after the white girl ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 06:04 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: 28 Year Old American Monster Child at December 12, 2025 06:04 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: runner at December 12
The code pink photo op should have been enough.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 06:05 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:05 PM (6ydKt)
And he sleeps with a supermodel.
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:05 PM (W7XSX)
The dam will break on lawsuits once AGs pave the way like tobacco or painkillers with massive lawsuits. Then you can piggyback off of their discovery information for your own trials. And society elites will have the shit smeared over their faces about what they have done.
Same logic, I think, regarding the big Covid malpractice ball of wax. Red state governments have to start first. Then you get the trial lawyer feeding frenzy until a massive settlement occurs.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 06:05 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:03 PM (krQz2)
Co sideline how we have seen the sausage is made, seeing someone leaving congress is not crazy seeming.
Ooh, she is going on the View the next day.
She's a nut bar, but she stood up for something that needed standing up for, once.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:06 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 06:06 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 06:06 PM (TN0g+)
Is her rack natural or "enhanced?" I know black women tend to be pretty large in the bust department, for the most part.
It's certainly a more serious discussion than whether Jingle Bells is racist!
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 12, 2025 06:06 PM (0Aoc4)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:06 PM (W7XSX)
"Iran reportedly violently arrests 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi at a memorial, her supporters say."
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 05:58 PM (g47mK)
The regime is running real scared right now, and is in the "execute all of our critics!" phase. Iran is a whole lot weaker than even we think - the government really is on the edge of collapse - but they're going to kill as many unarmed citizens as they can on their way down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:05 PM (zZu0s)
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There you go. I agree.
It's just her nutbar side won out.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 06:01 PM (pkeXY)
The trillion dollar, non-existent, high-speed train from shithole Merced to shithole Bakersfield is more real and reliable than the trans=train.
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (UwBs6)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (eVkP+)
2.) One horse open sleigh - it was a white tradition to replace all but the lead horse with barefoot black slaves for twelve days, so they'd get horse poop in their frostbite.
3.) Laughing all the way - the whites would laugh at the slaves and call them "poopfoot."
4.) Sleighing song tonight - originally "slaying song," this is a reference to the annual holiday rendition of "Dixie" whites would sing at their Christmas Eve Lynchings.
Posted by: Joy Reid, Music Historienne at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (BI5O2)
Is her rack natural or "enhanced?" I know black women tend to be pretty large in the bust department, for the most part.
It's certainly a more serious discussion than whether Jingle Bells is racist!
Posted by: S
yeah however, she' hot is a scary psycho sort of way
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:08 PM (eVkP+)
Not really related to the main point, but why the fuck do the Brits insist on keeping extraneous characters in words?
"Oestrogen". "Foetus". "Colour".
For the love of God, limeys, you're speaking English, not Latin, Greek, or even French. Act like it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 12, 2025 06:08 PM (qpyNK)
Google, after looking at the long and growing list of freeloaders dropped plans to do Fiber.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Not true! I live in Austin and was one of the earliest areas with Google Fiber. It's is all under ground in my area. It has been great. No issues, high speeds, maybe 2 outages in almost 10 years. Google fiber is everywhere in Austin.
Posted by: lin-duh at December 12, 2025 06:08 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 06:06 PM (TN0g+)
An order to read the Bible and truly contemplate eternity?.
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 06:08 PM (UwBs6)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (eVkP+)
N, you ignorant, retarded, antagonistic, troll baiting slut.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)
I think this thread is hilarious. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 06:09 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:09 PM (W7XSX)
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I wanna live with a Cinnabon girl.
I could be happy for the rest of my life
With a Cinnabon girl.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:09 PM (krQz2)
Are you channeling Rachel Jeantel, infamous Trayvon Martin GF who couldn't read cursive?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:09 PM (/TiS1)
Cheers!
*drinks*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:09 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (eVkP+)
N, you ignorant, retarded, antagonistic, troll baiting slut.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)
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Somebody needs to stop him before he mentions Prometheus!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Crusader at December
Remember when everyone was rightly disgusted by Dr. Kevorkian no matter your political affiliation?
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 06:10 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 12, 2025 06:10 PM (0Aoc4)
Was not even acknowledged that the housekeeper had share interest / profit sharing in the inn.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:10 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2025 06:11 PM (t/2Uw)
When did Nikki Minaj join our team?
Posted by: JackStraw
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She was born in the Caribbean and her mother was a gospel singer (father is a drunken abuser). Raised by her grandmother for a while. So she could be one of those hard-core Black people who's far from woke on gender idiocy, which is mostly a white liberal concoction anyway. Other than that, she might be a lefty loon, I have no idea.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 06:11 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 06:11 PM (iZlnx)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (eVkP+)
N, you ignorant, retarded, antagonistic, troll baiting slut.
Posted by: Aetius
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:11 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 06:11 PM (q2Q7i)
TBH, I laughed at the rendition "Deck the Halls" in "A Christmas Story"...it must be racist too.
https://youtu.be/sE154vtGZms
♪ Deck the Hars with Bawrs of Whorry, Fa ra ra ra ra, Ra ra ra ra...♫
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:11 PM (ynpvh)
Bells on bobtail ring -- "Bobtail" was an ethnic slur of the time, and the bells in question were attached to an iron collar riveted around the slave's neck, so a fugitive could be tracked by the sound.
The entire sleigh ride is a thinly-veiled narrative about loading up a sleigh with shotgun-toting rednecks to pursue and gun down fugitive blacks.
Posted by: Communist Historian, PhD at December 12, 2025 06:12 PM (qpyNK)
They must have relented then. Because I remember the KLBJ PM drive time host (at that time), Jeff Ward, bitching and moaning about the whole thing.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:12 PM (/TiS1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 06:12 PM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 12, 2025 06:13 PM (XMwZJ)
- cardiovascular disease
-infertility
-pulmonary embolism
-stroke
Emerging 'warning signals' of increased risk
-early mortality
- pancreatitis
-testicular, thyroid and breast cancer
-autoimmune disease
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But ALL that has to be weighed against the Scientific fact that they FEEL PRETTY!!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:13 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:13 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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Politicians are opportunists as a class and by being the odd woman out after Jan 6 and a newcomer, it raised her relevance (and donations) ensuring her reelection in 2022. She latched back on to McCarthy's bandwagon to get more relevance but her outspoken defense there meant she took an L when Johnson was picked. Her actions during Johnson's speakership so far made her toxic to the GOP House leaders by trumpeting shit like Epstein at key voting times on bills like the shutdown, the BBB, etc. And she sided with Massie on issues like Iran, etc. plus her prior comments about Jews over the last several years have in fact painted a target on her back for being primaried. Atlanta has a very prominent old and Jewish business community and they were not amused by her antics and in turn that meant the state GOP was not amused.
Then she started in on Trump and after all this was amazed that he didn't support her run for gov or Senate and that the polling data did not look good
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 06:13 PM (WDjG6)
Hell, even Danny Kaye i like better in the role as sidekick to Bing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:13 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:12 PM (/TiS1)
They do nothing but bitch and moan- I think it's required in their contract.
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 06:13 PM (UwBs6)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:13 PM (eVkP+)
Which one sang the song about swiping your nose like a credit card?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:14 PM (ynpvh)
Was not even acknowledged that the housekeeper had share interest / profit sharing in the inn.
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Yeah, well Uncle Remus was a very sympathetic character in Song of the South and yet we can't even buy a copy of that one.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 06:14 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 06:01 PM (pkeXY)
The trillion dollar, non-existent, high-speed train from shithole Merced to shithole Bakersfield is more real and reliable than the trans=train.
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 06:07 PM (UwBs6)
I keep thinking Newsome can't possibly be their nominee, but then I look at Jasmine Crockett running for the Senate and think, what other choice do Dem's have in 2028? It sure ain't gonna be Shapiro, who has the Harvey Korman problem. ("Too Jewish")
They tried to popularize Mark Kelly, and he comes off as a snarly idiot in every public statement - too straight to please the left, too left to please anybody else. It sure ain't gonna be Kamala or Walz or Bootiegieg or any of those other idiots.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 06:14 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:15 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 06:15 PM (22p5n)
I think that post above indicates that scholarship thing didn't take with Joy Reid.
You woulda thought some of the idea of proving your claims would have rubbed off on Reid with the time she spend in academia.
But you'd be wrong, it seems.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:15 PM (krQz2)
I remember when gay marriage got shut down at the polls in California a decade or two ago. There was a lot of screeching about Evil White Religious Men yadda-yadda-yadda, until someone looked into the matter and figured out that the deciding difference was...black church groups. These often vote for lefty causes, but not always. Gay marriage was a bridge too far.
Oddly, the screeching shut down almost as soon as this was pointed out.
Posted by: Communist Historian, PhD at December 12, 2025 06:15 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:15 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025
Cardi B is hysterical. Maybe not bright, but she made her money. And she tried to stay married to her babies father, bless her. Except the last baby but what can you do.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Guilt rides heavy on their shoulders.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (sDNVV)
Vanessa Blue is hard-core and Nikki Minaj is soft-core?
Posted by: gKWVE shouldn't have said that at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (gKWVE)
My point being we 'one of the few good ones.' I am not sure there are any, just those who are more open about their antagonism or better at hiding it. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, whoever just sat on their hands.
While everyone contends 'she just did it for clout' then my immediate response is 'then why didnt anyone do it for principle?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (22p5n)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (eVkP+)
Who gave the drugs to my autocucumber?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:15 PM (6ydKt)
Cardi B. knows how to handle an autocucumber, or so I hear...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 06:11 PM (q2Q7i)
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Yeah? So?!!
Posted by: Don LeMon at December 12, 2025 06:17 PM (krQz2)
Vanessa Blue is hard-core and Nikki Minaj is soft-core?
Posted by: gKWVE shouldn't have said that at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (gKWVE)
I take it I shoulda been more careful before I goggled the first?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:18 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gKWVE shouldn't have said that at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (gKWVE)
Damn.
Although I think Minaj did a sextape.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:18 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Piper
yeah, aside from the prostitution, hyper vulgar lyrics and giving guys rufies to steal watches. She's nothing but somebody's invention.
minaj has talents
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:18 PM (eVkP+)
She forgot loyalty as to who brung ya (constituents and Trump) to the dance and wanted to dance around the room with other partners like Massie, McCarthy, lefties. And her constituents/Trump/Johnson noticed that despite bringing her to the dance, she wanted to dance with the loonies.
Now she is trying to get someone to take her home to Griftsville whether they be left, right, Islamic, or polka dot.
If you notice, Mace never went after Trump directly nor did she piss off Johnson much. Boebert, having her scandal, has kept a lower profile and voted with her caucus.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 06:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 06:18 PM (w6EFb)
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WRONG
Prescribing of cross sex hormones must be stopped.
Period.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 06:19 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 06:19 PM (22p5n)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:19 PM (sDNVV)
Recall, Noam and other DOJ wagged their asses at him and dared him to proceed with contempt by saying "we followed advice of counsel" when he demanded they tell him why they didn't turn the planes around.
What's amusing is, the language they've used is not at all deferential and barely conceals their contempt.
Bonerburger and the radical left that's encouraging him are too dull to realize the DOJ wouldn't write that if they didn't already know they were going to win.
He can't support a criminal contempt case on "followed advise of counsel."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 06:19 PM (HXT0k)
dunno
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM (eVkP+)
I found it. Was Cardi B.
Song is WAP ("Wet a** P****")
I wouldn't say the lyrics are exactly poetry...starts with
"Whores in this house
There's some whores in this house
There's some whores in this house
There's some whores in this house (Hol' up)
..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:19 PM (ynpvh)
dunno
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:16 PM
It bothers me that I remember this, but Cardi B.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (77rzZ)
Fking Cultural Marxists are mentally unstable
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (Ia/+0)
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WRONG
Prescribing of cross sex hormones must be stopped.
Period.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 06:19 PM (imZqa)
Only use the happy ones.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (ynpvh)
This is terrible. Turrible, turrible, turrible. My wallet tore up, just ripped apart at the seams, and I had to get a new one. It's all different, can't find anything the same.
I've had that wallet for 30 years, if not more. And I can't stand the change.
Why they can't make a wallet that will last 100 years, I don't know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 06:11 PM (q2Q7i)
I didn't see Don in anything I would deem gay apparel, but hey, I haven't seen that much of him, I guess.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (6Bc88)
Leftists apparently have this weird notion that it isn’t likely to have two-way shooting ranges. Maybe this is a faulty assumption.
The manner in which they cavalierly dismiss atrocities perpetrated in the name of progressive nonsense over the last 50 years or so makes it inevitable things are going to get unspeakably bad. It’s baked in the cake at this point.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (iZlnx)
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She plays the "got your nose" trick?
What adult falls for that?!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (krQz2)
Whig, you are avoiding the question after I conceded your point: why didnt anyone besides the grifter speak up for the J6 guys?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: n
I agree. Holiday Inn is my favorite Christmas movie. Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Can't beat that combo.
Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 06:21 PM (22p5n)
you hear the singer saying "m neck, my back" but they do not get to pussy and my crack,
bundh of fatties dancing to the sng
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:21 PM (eVkP+)
"neurodivergent"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:52 PM (NzX/y)
______________________________
Saliva based window cleaner.
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM (dIske)
And I think he misses the point of capitalism. If anybody WANTED a gender studies major working at their company, they would have hired one. Capitalism is funny that way.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM (6Bc88)
I agree. Holiday Inn is my favorite Christmas movie. Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Can't beat that combo.
Posted by: Tun
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Why they can't make a wallet that will last 100 years, I don't know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)
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Hobo skins are kind of worn out to start with...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 12, 2025 06:10 PM (0Aoc4)
Blacks are a lot more 'phobic' about LGBTQ craziness than whites are.
She's just keeping it real where she's from.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Piper
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And what are they doing with her fucking taxes?
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bulg
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Not doing much right now.
Prolly won't do much until the spring.
Besides, some of these folks on Zillow must be smoking crack, with what they're asking for.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (22p5n)
Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (lJ0H4)
You're just encouraging him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (eVkP+)
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For like $125, you can go see the actual van in Zac Baggins museum in Las Vegas
It is sorta creepy, seeing it
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (HXT0k)
Deranged lunatic, she is. When I saw she went, get this, flat-earth "curious" a while back, I realized she was gone.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM
Sherwin Williams taste tester.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:24 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:24 PM (zZu0s)
Fking Cultural Marxists are mentally unstable
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM (Ia/+0)
I think liberal arts majors and leftists have a thing for chains, slavery, and sexualization.
Had a lit prof tell me she did her thesis on the feminism and sexual inuendo of the novel "Frankenstein"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:24 PM (ynpvh)
The more bald faced the liar, the more they love them.
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2025 06:22 PM (RoO7G)
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The left wants to "transcend reality", and if not in reality, then lie about it.
That's really their baseline. "To keep the dream alive".
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:24 PM (krQz2)
I think I got all of my venting done below about Candyass Owens. But you never know. Something else might pop into my head.
What an evil woman. I hope her babies are being raised somewhat normally, by a nanny or a dog. Maybe her husband is/was normal and lends a hand.
I can only imagine the anger and bitterness seeping from Candace and spilling over to her babies. I read she popped out the last two quickly , but don't know and won't read about it.
I do feel badly for Mrs. Kirk having to deal with this insanity after losing her husband so violently. One does not expect this from former "friends." One does not expect this from a "conservative," or if she claims to be Christian, our Candace. No clue.
I am calling it here: she is evil and starting tonight I will pray against her and her ragged band of followers. Miserable wretch who was tossed aside by her own "true love," is how I see her. Pathetic, jealous, paranoid schizophrenic, reduced to slander.
The pain of rejection.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 06:24 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2025 06:25 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:24 PM (ynpvh)
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Robert Mapplethorpe had a use for a bullwhip.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM
Not around here, yet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:25 PM (jdPY0)
Was their a drug referred to as 'window pane' or was he trying to refer to someone as stupid? He said something like 'high on window pane.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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And now you have mastered politics of DC. The primary motivation (and this has been empirically tested btw) is to run and win reelection. A guy named Anthony Downs came up with the essential guide to two party systems. Activists are on the left or right of a bimodal distribution of voters. Activists pull candidates to the right (GOP-donors to the left now) or left (Dem donors+activists) in primaries and then candidates race toward the district, state, or even country's median voter in the general.
They view elections pragmatically as to what guarantees your reelection. What you might want to know about MTG's district is that is has a lot of old Larry McDonald's, Newt Gingriches, etc. voters and they dislike Washington as it runs with a passion. So supporting the Jan 6 played well with voters in her district, played well with Trump, and given her very junior status, helped her win a primary for reelection in 2022 after redistricting.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 06:26 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM
Not around here, yet.
Posted by: R
Depends, whether you talking about absolute market bottom or before spring.
who knows when we're going to hit market bottom or where geographically.
however , now is always the best time to be a buyer, desperate sellers, no buyers.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (eVkP+)
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Here in Michigan, I do not remember that.
There are plenty of people I can remember who bit into the "Right to Die".
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)
Why? what is the most popular song of all time...
WHITE CHRISTMAS!!! See!!!! PROOF!
And Santa Claus? Not only WHITE, but also exploiting the labor of those Poor Elves!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2)
Wait, they tax fucking?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (6Bc88)
Beautiful lady.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (77rzZ)
Didn't "Hardcore Pawn" reject that thing?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (Kt19C)
25-year-old Kamalpreet Singh killed a 29-year-old man on the morning of December 11 after he crushed the victim’s vehicle between two trucks while driving northbound on SR 167.
Singh likely obtained his CDL in Democrat hellhole of California, since he resided there. He is facing a vehicular homicide charge.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 12, 2025 06:28 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 06:26 PM (WDjG6)
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Damn, you can learn something with every Whig post.
Thanks.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2)
Period.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 06:19 PM (imZqa)
If I remember right, there are a few (VERY few) legitimate medical uses. Some types of prostate cancer are testosterone sensitive, so blocking testosterone and/or increasing estrogen (or "oestrogen") is a valid treatment.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 12, 2025 06:29 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:25 PM (zZu0s)
Well, window pane used to refer to some kinds of acid, as in LSD. I assume that's what he meant. But I didn't hear the joke.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 06:29 PM (6Bc88)
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"My name is Maximus Decimus Corporatus, Commander of the Trannies of the North, General of the Faggot Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Barrackus Obamanus. Father to an aborted son, husband to a wife and her bull. And I will have My Science, in this life or in hell!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 06:29 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 06:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at December
Look at their mama!
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 06:29 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 06:30 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2)
Wait, they tax fucking?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (6Bc8
They do, if you do it professionally...ask Nevada. Uncle Sam is more than happy to go after those who have not declared their earnings from the sex trade...does that make Uncle Sam a pimp?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 06:30 PM (ynpvh)
Why they can't make a wallet that will last 100 years, I don't know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 06:20 PM
I sympathize with you. When my cheap twenty-year old wallet finally disintegrated, I had to buy three new ones before I found one I could live with.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 12, 2025 06:30 PM (CSQvy)
I'm depressed I just found out that Oliver Sacks just made up his case files.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 12, 2025 06:31 PM (VmB4Z)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2)
Wait, they tax fucking?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 06:27 PM (6Bc8
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https://youtu.be/Oieu8d6jgJc?t=54
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:32 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 12, 2025 06:30 PM
The struggle is real.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 06:32 PM (jdPY0)
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What, "Some people did some things" wasn't available?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 06:32 PM (25a1J)
A popular mohel started saving and tanning all the foreskins. He did this for years, until he finally had enough to sew into a wallet.
Best part: when you rub it, it turns into a trunk.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 12, 2025 06:32 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 12, 2025 06:30 PM
first world problem!
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 06:32 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Be hot time to see a raft of hot black celebrities come out against Islam.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 06:32 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 06:32 PM (3uBP9)
Then we'd go downtown and sing "Joy to the World" while beating hobos....
... what goes on in some peoples heads....
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 12, 2025 06:33 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 12, 2025 06:33 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 06:33 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 06:33 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Long and the short of it. It played well in her district when she was primaried in 2022 by a GA GOPe type. And if you see above, not avoiding but simply cannot type that fast.
New representatives are the most like a weathervane and unpredictable. See George Santos (predictable on Cong voting but not on scandal), Lauren Boebert (a bit of scandal), Mace (toxic past relationship and past sex abuse issues), etc. Some, like the squad, were birds of a feather using their new shiny donor network (smurfed ActBlue very possible here from foreign sources), some plan to run for higher office from teh beginning, and some plan to advance in the House leadership (Stefanik for example until the gov. opportunity popped up along with a UN nomination to raise her status).
Those that take sudden u turns often have the people around them (staff etc. change) and family can also affect issues (reportedly in MTG's case but dunno if accurate). Some, like Justin Amash, have business interest that Orangeman bad threatened (tool import biz).
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 06:33 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 06:33 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Then we'd go downtown and sing "Joy to the World" while beating hobos....
... what goes on in some peoples heads....
Posted by: Itin
easily has to be among the most vile, disgusting things ever written here or anywhere, you and every generation of your family, especially your grandmother, should feel deep and abiding shame, forever, for reffering to that poor man as an "it", shame
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (eVkP+)
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 06:36 PM (v0R5T)
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Did he use the Google "AI" ChatBot Gemini to create those images?
Next you'll be telling me that the U.S. Founding Fathers were strictly black individuals and
Wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Axeman
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FWIW, Larry MacDonald died on KAL 007 when the Russkis shot it down and was a very staunch anti communist Democrat.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 06:37 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (Ia/+0)
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That key part came from Owen, not Marx.
Posted by: Democrat Defense at December 12, 2025 06:38 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 06:36 PM (v0R5T)
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Please tell me it's one of those empty Cosco Freight Containers.
Lie to me if you must ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 06:43 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Matthew Beard at December 12, 2025 06:45 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:37 PM (u82oZ)
Because it takes longer to build or rebuild than to break.
I was thinking about this fact when listening to nutcase Somalians who think somehow they're destined to be rich inheritors of the US. (I'm sure Ace covered it, but a particularly ridiculous claim is that Minnesota was promised to them in a 3000-year-old prophecy!)
They don't know how civilization works. They don't realize that when you steal money and blow it on a good time, the money doesn't keep coming. But it's going to cost a lot of time and money to fix what they damaged. The stupid bastards.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 12, 2025 06:45 PM (Io7m1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 06:32 PM (imZqa)
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Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:47 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:37 PM (u82oZ)
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Regression to the mean?
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 06:48 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 05:37 PM (u82oZ)
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Because too many of the just-trying-to-live-day-to-day types have normalcy bias, believe human beings are basically good, and are too naively kind and trusting to believe that half this insanity we talk about is even really happening?
Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 12, 2025 06:55 PM (7kSOl)
Fast forward lots of years, and Google decides to start with Google Fiber. Problem is, they don't know yet how to run a company, nor do they have the equipment. So they went looking for help.
My city said, "we've got a fiber network you can buy and run! We'll charge you a dollar to buy it! Only 1 teeny, tiny problem: we lost track of where all the fiber actually is, so we have no idea where the actual lines are!"
Google took it, and thus my old college town was one of the very first Google fiber cities. Took everyone by surprise, because Provo, Utah does not sound like a place Google would be "first"
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 12, 2025 06:56 PM (0Aoc4)
25-year-old Kamalpreet Singh killed a 29-year-old man on the morning of December 11 after he crushed the victim’s vehicle between two trucks while driving northbound on SR 167.
Singh likely obtained his CDL in Democrat hellhole of California, since he resided there. He is facing a vehicular homicide charge.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 20
The local news has absolutely no information about the driver of the semi. SHOCK!!!
Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2025 07:04 PM (nKjbR)
Posted by: NJRob at December 12, 2025 08:18 PM (bT8+D)
Those people at that College I went to lied to me !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 12, 2025 08:58 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Black JEM at December 13, 2025 12:26 AM (UVyKP)
Posted by: David Davies at December 13, 2025 12:48 PM (1p2zM)
Four Years Too Late, The New York Times Admits That Biden Pursued a Reckless Policy of Unlimited Illegal Immigration -- But Only In Service of New Narrative That Only Biden Favored Open Borders While the Rest of the Democrat Party Opposed It
Big Brother is rewriting history and deleting old files and airbrushing old photos as we watch them do it. Kind of a pattern with the propaganda media, isn't it? Admitting the Democrats were wrong -- lied, actually -- about covid and Biden's cognitive fitness and now open borders. And then creating a new narrative absolving all Democrats of those lies going forward.See, his "top advisors" -- who can be taken to represent the real Democrat Party -- warned him not to throw open the borders and plunge the country into "chaos," but Biden -- and only Biden -- was determined to impose an open borders policy on the Democrats who heroically resisted this folly.
How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans' Faith in Immigration
The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
In the weeks after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastrous. Mr. Biden had pledged to treat unauthorized immigrants more humanely than President Donald J. Trump, who generated widespread backlash by separating migrant children from their parents. But Mr. Biden was now president-elect, and his positions threatened to drastically increase border crossings, experts advising his transition team warned in a Zoom briefing in the final weeks of 2020, according to people with direct knowledge of that briefing. That jump, they said, could provoke a political crisis. "Chaos" was the word the advisers had used in a memo during the campaign. They offered a range of options to avert that crisis, by better deterring migrants. Mr. Biden seemed to grasp the risk. But he and his top aides failed to act on those recommendations. The warnings came true, and then some. After Mr. Biden became president, migrant encounters at the southern border quickly doubled, then kept rising. New arrivals overwhelmed border stations, then border towns, and eventually major cities like New York and Denver. Anger over illegal migration helped return Mr. Trump to the presidency, and he has enacted even more aggressive policies than those Mr. Biden first campaigned against. Mr. Trump has drawn outrage from Democrats by sending masked agents to target immigrants, often aided by National Guard soldiers.
Biden did All the Bad Things, you guys, single-handedly. Biden was the only thing wrong with the Democrat Party. Now that he's out, the Democrat Party is Perfect Again (TM).
Walter Kirn summed this effort up as the Democrats "trying to establish a new encyclopedia entry" on this chapter of political history so that future voters will only be able to read this version of events.
... But a New York Times examination of Mr. Biden's record found that he and his closest advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster, and eased what became a potent issue for Mr. Trump as he sought to return to the White House and justify the aggressive tactics roiling American cities today. Former Biden administration officials told The Times that Mr. Biden and his circle of close confidants -- including Ron Klain, who was chief of staff during the president's first two years, Mike Donilon, Jennifer O'Malley Dillon and Anita Dunn -- made two crucial errors. First, they underestimated the scale of migration that was coming. Second, they failed to appreciate the political reaction to that migration -- believing that stronger enforcement would alienate Latino and progressive voters, and also that a border surge would not be an important issue to most voters. Those calculations would later prove to be mistaken, with many voters, including Latinos, citing immigration as a reason for supporting Mr. Trump in 2024. "Everybody was reacting to the excesses of the Trump administration," said Cecilia Muñoz, who helped shape immigration policy in the Obama administration and oversaw domestic and economic policy for the Biden transition team.Of course -- it wasn't the Democrats' fault, it was Trump's. Biden only embraced open borders Because Trump. This wasn't the Democrat Party position or anything. Except... that in the Democrat primary presidential debate of 2016, scheduled by Hillary Clinton for Christmas Eve so that no one could see it, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (formerly in favor of border control) vowed that no illegal aliens -- not one -- would be deported under their would-be presidencies.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:28 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Too many sheeple at December 12, 2025 04:30 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (hhkIi)
—Ace
Gavin Newsome tried. He really, REALLY tried to make Biden see reason, but gosh darn it, he just couldn't make Biden do what everyone could see needed doing. It's tragic, really.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (Riz8t)
It's almost like they have a messaging problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)
The Same Old Corrupt Dem Party
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (vbXSk)
The uninformed middle will fall for the Democrats lies again and again.
That's why they keep doing it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 12, 2025 04:32 PM (cuae1)
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"She was just trying to get elected! We shouldn't believe anything she says!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:33 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: The Left at December 12, 2025 04:33 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 04:33 PM (z5QST)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: JackStraw at
Shhhhhhhhhhh
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 12, 2025 04:35 PM (CSQvy)
I'm taking the rest of the week off.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (1wjle)
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Get back here and refile all your TPS reports with the new covers!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at December 12, 2025 04:36 PM (jZ3ZM)
WHO BUILT THE CAGES, JOE?!
Posted by: pookysgirl, quoting your favorite President at December 12, 2025 04:37 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 12, 2025 04:37 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 04:37 PM (GHIyr)
Finally. Someone explains why the Democrats are so determined to prevent Trump from dealing with the illegals. They're just so gosh darn dug in on opposing a President who wants to flood the country with illegals that they haven't noticed that an election happened.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 04:37 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:37 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 04:37 PM (ExV1e)
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They've only thought to the step of clearing other Dems.
Now comes the media demanding you to not be so petty as to expect to make sense out of the rest of it.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (iJfKG)
If Trump continues to make 2.5 million illegals self deport every year he has left as president that means that he would be on the extreme low end of getting rid of what joe biden let into the country illegally.
That math ain't mathin because there were 20+ million illegals already in the country.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (0N4FZ)
I'm taking the rest of the week off.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (1wjle)
We'll miss you.
Have some bourbon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (xcxpd)
I'm taking the rest of the week off.
Posted by: ace
Have a great weekend, Ace.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)
329 I accepted the role of paranormal guide for multiple reasons. As a Mechanical Engineer, I found I was able to use my skillset in tactical as well as creative ways. I was able to design, build and test new equipment for reaching the great beyond, as well as repair and understand current technology with an eye toward improvements. I was also able to work on listening comprehension as Ghosts may communicate quietly or using non traditional methods. I challenged myself to be open to new ideas, and not discount even improbable possibilities.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
1999478136745132095
@BlueBoxDave
“I went to Minnesota expecting to find anger over billions of dollars stolen from kids, but I can only find what I find, and what I found was an attitude that graft, by the right people, is almost viewed as an acceptable form of reparations.”
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (ZxPkt)
*checks purse*
All I've got is Silly String.
Posted by: pookysgirl, apparently underequipped at December 12, 2025 04:40 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (ZxPkt)
Only a matter of time before Zippy the Pinhead sharts all over this thread too.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 04:40 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Don Black
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It helps here if you have selective blindness.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:40 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:40 PM (h4uy9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 04:40 PM (+mUZM)
If Trump continues to make 2.5 million illegals self deport every year he has left as president that means that he would be on the extreme low end of getting rid of what joe biden let into the country illegally.
That math ain't mathin because there were 20+ million illegals already in the country.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (0N4FZ)
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That 2.5 million is only 9 months, through the end of October, and ICE increased funding takes effect in January.
Per year, it's going to be over 3 million for the first year, and ICE is going to have more feet on the ground to push more out for the final three years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)
I've been saying this for years. There is an idea in some minority communities that they're entitled to rob and beat up white people as a form of what I call "Street reparations." Not official reparations, but reparations taken by people through "self-help."
There are BLM figures who explicitly say that blacks are entitled to commit violence against whites.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:41 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Coki at December 12, 2025 04:41 PM (Wkrcf)
There are BLM figures who explicitly say that blacks are entitled to commit violence against whites.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:41 PM (1wjle)
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The attitude wasn't from black people.
It was from the white residents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:41 PM (1wjle)
That's common communist kant at least since Lenin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:42 PM (h4uy9)
Who supports this clown? WTF?
How did he escape from his rocking chair on the back porch?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 04:42 PM (1zOXE)
Saw today Tim Watz wants more Somalians, to suck up more fraud probably
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:32 PM (Ia/+0)
SOMALIANS
The Cat's Head Biscuits For Sopping Up Tim Walz' Brown Eye Gravy of Fraud and Corruption
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 04:42 PM (iJfKG)
There was a Southern Strategy you guise!
One whole Dixiecrat switched sides, you guise!
Posted by: bonhomme at December 12, 2025 04:43 PM (Yp6az)
It was from the white residents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
Don't call the cops if they break into your house. They deserve your stuff.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:43 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 04:43 PM (tOcjL)
It was from the white residents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)
Minnysoda stupid trumps Minnysoda nice.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 04:44 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: fb at December 12, 2025 04:44 PM (D/cuw)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)
“I went to Minnesota expecting to find anger over billions of dollars stolen from kids, but I can only find what I find, and what I found was an attitude that graft, by the right people, is almost viewed as an acceptable form of reparations.”
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Easy enough to change that--frame clawing back that stolen taxpayer money from the thieves as a treasure hunt for people that report it and find the miscreants. And put on the posters of the wanted thieves--Dead or Alive reward paid.
It is also enough to consider that we apply culturally appropriate punishments to these thieves. Lopping off arms will make them easier to identify in a crowd and yet be culturally sensitive to our differences. Somalis get to pick, either adopt our ways or we treat you like you were back home in Somalia.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:44 PM (WDjG6)
i dunno. in order to debase yourself, you gotta be based to start with.
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 04:45 PM (v3pYe)
ah yeah. I want these people forced to wear badges declaring that they grant permission to be beaten and robbed on the street. They defend this, they should mark themselves publicly as the designated victims of street violence. And the rest of us who don't consent should be left alone.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:45 PM (1wjle)
The leftists in all of the western countries have been doing two interrelated things for several years, if not decades.
1. Trying their hardest to emasculate men, decrying toxic masculinity, deriding those who want to serve their country (unless they are a cross dresser), insisting that women are girl bosses and that men are irrelevant, and doping boys to prevent them from behaving like boys.
2. Importing as fast as they are able a large population of military age men from countries where women are seen as property and free for the taking, and using police powers to ensure that these men are not punished for whatever they do.
I think it is pretty obvious what their plan is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 04:45 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: fb at December 12, 2025 04:44 PM (D/cuw)
In a way they did both. They praised the murder, but said he was one of ours. Its kind of funny when you think about it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:45 PM (h4uy9)
Posted by: fb
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Eh, they are hardened and unrepentant lies, as the good book says, there is no truth in them.
Troon furry lover was very probably the very type to moby conservative websites. Ditto for Mangione the dickless.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:46 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:45 PM (1wjle)
Narrator, "You won't be left alone."
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 04:46 PM (GTqXr)
I'm taking the rest of the week off.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (1wjle)
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Get back here and refile all your TPS reports with the new covers!
And have you finished the WENUS?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 04:48 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (1wjle)
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You'll have to leave some for the rest of us.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)
I don't know if this means the Navy, AF, et al are going to have bomber and A-10 practice areas on the border, but it would be fun. Throw up some muliti lingual signs "danger, bombing and strafing practice area" and have at it.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 12, 2025 04:49 PM (hhkIi)
“I went to Minnesota expecting to find anger over billions of dollars stolen from kids, but I can only find what I find, and what I found was an attitude that graft, by the right people, is almost viewed as an acceptable form of reparations.”
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Normal Person: We fed the Somalians and they killed our troops, then brought them over here because we felt so bad for them. Why do we need to pay them reparations?
Average Minnesotan Genius: They're black, pay them.
Normal Person: All blacks look alike to you?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 04:49 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
I thought that was Chandler Bing who was all concerned with the WENUS…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 04:49 PM (xT8gx)
I can hardly wait to read the NYT's revisionism w/r/t the Demonic Party's love affair with keeping illegal aliens, terrorists, murderers, child sex traffickers, drug cartels free and roaming the American streets.
And how shooting cops and assassinating conservatives is Pro American.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 04:49 PM (pawvM)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 04:45 PM (1wjle)
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"That's not how any of this works." - Cultural Consensus
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:50 PM (krQz2)
Don't call the cops if they break into your house.
Posted by: BruceWayne
The fuck if they do. Bif wishes a motherfucker would.
In other news, made it home from Orlando. Their traffic engineers need to be hauled out and put into stock so normies can fling poo at them for the fuckery they inflict on Orlando.
Did the Big Dummy ask for a smoke after his 'collection'?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 04:50 PM (QVmho)
All while Gavin Newsom's own X account is bragging that Newsom got free healthcare for illegals.
It's almost like they have a messaging problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That video of him from earlier is ... "Gavinesque" is the only word I can come up with. "It's really bad that Biden let in all those illegals, whom I am proudly supporting with free healthcare." Like, if it's bad to let them in, isn't it also kind of bad to keep them in?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 04:50 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Unfortunately for us earthlings it's dangerously retarded.
Posted by: ballistic at December 12, 2025 04:50 PM (3BwY8)
10% for the big prancer guy?
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
I thought that was Chandler Bing who was all concerned with the WENUS…
The WENUS is universal.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 04:51 PM (Riz8t)
It is run through the state,white collar, blue collar, everybody.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:51 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 04:52 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:53 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
A pretty sad video is out on X where a couple of local thugs are roughing up and attempting to steal from a woman tourist, one has a knife. The male tourist (husband or boyfriend) is seen in the background looking like he wants to intervene but is obviously to scared and seen stepping forward then back, completely ineffectual. A couple of local men eventually intervene and fight off the attackers.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 04:54 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2025 04:54 PM (2ap+5)
What do you think about this idea I've been mulling over:
The "Positivist fallacy".
I think Positivism, both of Comte and Vienna School, has met enough dead-ends--and really formalistic self-reference problems--that it should be able to be dispensed with unless the writer can produce a new wrinkle.
Otherwise, we must only restrict ourselves to the objective traits of objective entities, which leaves Science little to offer as well.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:54 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 04:54 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Shouldn't be too hard. Get the Narrative around, like C19 Narratives that Trump and the War Criminal Hegseth have made a biological weapon that targets Trump's enemies.
The secret antidote/vax is massive amounts of colloidal silver.
Massive.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 04:54 PM (pawvM)
Some days I wish I was born 50 years earlier. Like today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
You'd still be here, one of us. Only 29er-er.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 04:55 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I'm confused. Today isn't 50 years ago.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 04:55 PM (0U5gm)
Some people did some things.
Mistakes may have been made in the enthusiasm of the moment.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Old news.
Time to move on.
Posted by: MSM at December 12, 2025 04:55 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)
I don’t honestly know but there’s a scene in the old sitcom Friends where Chandler is at work he’s some kind of boss in a number crunching observation and he yells at his staff that he’s not happy with the WENUS….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 04:56 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:56 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 04:56 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
I thought that was Chandler Bing who was all concerned with the WENUS…
The WENUS is universal.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 04:51 PM (Riz8t)
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Pete Bootyjudge is very concerned about the allocation of the WENUS.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:56 PM (krQz2)
Thst some misery to see
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:56 PM (Ia/+0)
There's clips of congress/senate folks saying to pass Biden's recommendations to fix the border.
Save those. They're going to disappear.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 12, 2025 04:56 PM (ItWcy)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Ah. So, like "TPS Reports" then.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 04:57 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2025 04:57 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 04:58 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)
It was a way that Friends could make penis double entendres.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:58 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:53 PM
It was just a gag on the show "Friends" where they had Chandler working in an "Office Space" situation. WENUS and TPS Cover Sheets are interchangeable.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 12, 2025 04:58 PM (CSQvy)
Posted by: No
boomers have ruined everything
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:58 PM (V0RQu)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2025 04:57 PM (wtvvX)
This times one billion
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 04:59 PM (xT8gx)
Nothing would be lost.
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 12, 2025 04:59 PM (PHmbR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 04:58 PM (+mUZM)
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Yup. That's how we have a society that can argue these things, is that we all got here by carefully-considered Pro/Con lists.
* rolls eyes *
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:59 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2025 04:57 PM (wtvvX)
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That is a unfounded slander!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:00 PM (krQz2)
What debate?! Did the Dems have a debate with somebody? Not with Americans! No, they tried to foist a bunch of aliens on America for extra votes, and media scum like you at the NYT did their best to help them!
I gotcher debate right here, assholes!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 12, 2025 05:00 PM (FpP3s)
Posted by: No
boomers have ruined everything
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:58 PM (V0RQu
Take them to a good church.
-a boomer
Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 05:00 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:00 PM (+mUZM)
I'm halfway through the article and it's stamped all over with "political." A political crisis, a political disaster, political chaos. Political opposition was the danger.
Nowhere (yet) does the Times consider the actual danger and damage done to the country by a massive population of illegal aliens, many of whom were violent criminals with criminal intent when they crashed the border.
Nowhere do they consider whether getting rid of them now is a good idea.
Still reading...
At least in the excerpt, but I can scarcely believe I'll find this stuff if I read the whole article.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 05:00 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Notsot
that is not the fault of young uns, that is the fault of boomers, literally
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:01 PM (V0RQu)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:00 PM (+mUZM)
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White supremacy hasn't been all that it was hyped to be.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:02 PM (krQz2)
*checks purse*
All I've got is Silly String.
Posted by: pookysgirl
Are you going to be on Let's Make a Deal?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (+mUZM)
I like the retards here who think "boomer" is the term for illegal aliens.
Replace "boomer" with "illegal aliens" or "Democrats" and it makes a whole lot more sense.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (9s47C)
Wow, that article is chock-full of signs of the civil war between the new radical socialists and the establishment Dems. “They were a little too sensitive to criticisms from the left,” Ms. Muñoz said [of advisers who wanted to deter migrants].
Heh-heh, meet your babies: the Red Guard. Good luck passing your purity tests, because these people don't care about your time-earned "wisdom" and "experience."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (9ipOP)
Otherwise, we must only restrict ourselves to the objective traits of objective entities, which leaves Science little to offer as well.
Posted by: Axeman
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Eh, I am frankly rusty on epistemology as I haven't taught methods course in a long while. But positivism is closely aligned with the age of Reason and materialism and subject to the same limits. Our reasoning ability is always less than perfect because we are meat puppets and we will never have omniscience. That goes for AI as it is a human tool, not sentient so far, and thus subject to the limits of its makers in reasoning and knowledge.
That being said, I was always a pragmatist and probabilistic type of empiricist. Same as the old paradox of Q: Who shaved the Spanish Barber--A: follow him around and find out.
There are always propositions not amenable to empirical analysis (and thus positivist tests) due to bad data, impossible to prove or disprove, etc. But some are to a degree.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (WDjG6)
And that is why I no longer care if young people can find jobs or buy houses. Enjoy being a minority in your own country.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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White supremacy hasn't been all that it was hyped to be.
Posted by: Axeman
I'd truly like my share of the white colonialist privledge.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 04:56 PM (D+mpw)
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One thing you can say about the Democrat-media complex, they keep trying to make the Memory-hole happen.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:04 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: ace
That’s why So many of us carry. They will NOT leave us alone. So.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 05:04 PM (W2Pud)
Replace "boomer" with "illegal aliens" or "Democrats" and it makes a whole lot more sense.
It is gratuitous fun to smack boomers around, mostly because they are so snowflaky about it, but we would not have them thar illegals here but for boomer voters.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:05 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:05 PM (WDjG6)
Dems shoot themselves in the foot way too often. Why do democrats continue to think that soft on immigration approach is necessary to keep Latino support?
It was literally trump and Republicans who stopped a border security bill. Democrats want to fix immigration. Punishing employers of undocumented immigrants (while granting the right amount of temporary visas) would be the best route.
Also stopping mega corporations like Blackstone from mass house buying, and reasonable limit to properties owned by smaller landlords or a higher tax of some sort would help keep housing costs reasonable.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 12, 2025 05:05 PM (JCZqz)
that is not the fault of young uns, that is the fault of
- or even more accurately -
that is not the fault of young uns, that is the fault of
Its the retards who are taking the Democrats off the hook and deflecting their crimes towards the Generation that voted for Reagan once they came of age.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:06 PM (9s47C)
so socialism?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (fHLjf)
Nowhere (yet) does the Times consider the actual danger and damage done to the country by a massive population of illegal aliens, many of whom were violent criminals with criminal intent when they crashed the border.
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That is the case with every Democrat stance. Their actions are driven by socio-political self-interest, rather than the well-being of the country. True locally as it is nationally.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (+mUZM)
The same New York Times that STILL hasn't returned the Pulitzer Prize they earned for Walter Duranty's utterly false reporting from Russia that his the Holodomor, the intentional famine that murdered 5 million Ukrainians, from the world?
Yeah, fuck those fucking fuckers.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:53 PM
It was just a gag on the show "Friends" where they had Chandler working in an "Office Space" situation. WENUS and TPS Cover Sheets are interchangeable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpUxn0tpLes
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (Riz8t)
Maybe not 1915, like 1925 would be good
Posted by: San Franpsycho
1903 would be good. Too young for woodrow wilson's great war. But old enough to buy at&t at its lowest during the crash. I could sell off union pacific in 1939, and purchase general electric in 1947
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (WDjG6)
Sounds like you might agree with Karl Popper, Whig. I like him myself
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (HXT0k)
I wonder what Dr. Jill thinks of all this -- the dotard she tried to push into a second term is now deemed the reason why Trump won.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 05:08 PM (1N/bM)
Its the retards who are taking the Democrats off the hook and deflecting their crimes towards the Generation that voted for Reagan once they came of age.
as fond of Reagan as I am he was the guy who was giving amnesty to millions of illegals, he was voted in by boomers
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:08 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: The Cemetery Sexton at December 12, 2025 05:08 PM (oftw2)
My big tom killed a mouse last night before I brought him in, so I let him in and gave him a treat for being brave, and left the mouse out back.
This morning I picked it up and tossed it over the fence for the neighbor's chickens. This afternoon, the youngest kitten (6 months?) found it and played haki-mouse with it, and then when she saw me watching came trotting back with it proud as can be.
So she got a good treat for being a good huntress and I tossed the remains into the compost heap.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 05:08 PM (rbvCR)
Bwahahaha, ha ha ha, I can't breathe, bwahahahaha
Higher taxes always bring your rent costs down, bwahahahaha
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 12, 2025 05:09 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:03 PM (WDjG6)
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Well, it's taken as typical that Karl Popper, the synthesizer of the falsification demarcation of Science fell out of favor with and eventually debunked Carnap-ian positivism. (As Rudolph Carnap fathered the Vienna School).
After all, "Turing Machines" can never be instantiated if, by definition they have "unlimited tape". (Or no defined upper-bound, as I prefer).
So, how can Turing talk about machines that can't exist, right?
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:09 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Skip
I already have high blood pressure so I simply ignore the 'news' and prefer alternative sources. If you use something like RT, Hindustan Times, and some others that probably put people on a government shit list somewhere plus X, and a few blogs, you can reasonably be knowledgeable nowadays.
I know how to find stuff, it is just I no longer want to unless it is relevant to conversations here. YMMV.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:09 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 12, 2025 05:09 PM (/6GbT)
Otherwise, we must only restrict ourselves to the objective traits of objective entities, which leaves Science little to offer as well.
Posted by: Axeman
__________
You cannot derive an objective moral code from Positivism or Science. All roads lead to nihilism.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 05:10 PM (XvL8K)
-- Democrats
It's almost plausible.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
That would be a fun bumpersticker.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (/RHNq)
All I've got is Silly String.
Posted by: pookysgirl
Good, you can go on point, looking for trip-wires.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (fHLjf)
Ever been to Yuma, Az? I pulled to the side of the road to watch the A-10s doing strafing runs. Could hear the BBBRRFFFZZT real good!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (FpP3s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpUxn0tpLes
Posted by: Archimedes at
WENUS-week ending net usage statistics
ANUS-annual net usage statistics
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (xT8gx)
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I like Popper, too. Except that he instigated this whole "Open society" concept that Soros has advanced.
Popper was an early friend of the Vienna Circle.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)
I see, you are a Carter and Mondale fan.
Explain to me when X came of Age they voted for Clinton, and that is OK, or when Mills came of Age they kept voting for Obama and Biden.
But no, blame the Generation that kept voting the least damaging branch of the Uniparty.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (nCgQz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Think of all the state and local government jobs we created to assist migrants to steal from the taxpayers!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 05:12 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: JackS
we have no obligations to anybody
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:12 PM (fHLjf)
It was literally trump and Republicans who stopped a border security bill. Democrats want to fix immigration. Punishing employers of undocumented immigrants (while granting the right amount of temporary visas) would be the best route.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
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Democrats want to fix immigration = Democrats want universal amnesty.
employers of undocumented immigrants = the evil corporations [hence Dems' call for "punishment"]
the right amount of temporary visas = 99% of applicants
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 05:12 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2025 04:57 PM
To paraphrase Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday. Yup...I hate 'em.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 05:12 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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I regret not buying red diaper futures back when Clinton was elected.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 05:12 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 05:13 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: JackStraw
All blacks look alike to Minnesota DFLers. See @65
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 05:13 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:13 PM (+mUZM)
Explain to me when X came of Age they voted for Clinton, and that is OK, or when Mills came of Age they kept voting for Obama and Biden.
But no, blame the Generation that kept voting the least damaging branch of the Uniparty.
and, does not mean they did not vote him in and it happened before younger gens? why is this hard?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:13 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: JackStraw
Haven't they suffered enough!?! They're Black, they're poor, they're oppressed, and it's all because we colonized their country and destroyed it with our slave trade!!! I bet all the mining we did left lead in their water, which is why they're all neurodivergent.
Posted by: Lefty riddled with white guilt at December 12, 2025 05:14 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: No
boomers voted for obama who brought the somalis here
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:14 PM (fHLjf)
Librarian: We are confused again here today. This is embarrassing. It's embarrassing to misplace things.
Jonathan E.: Misplaced some data?
Librarian: Hmmm.
[looks at a computer punch card]
Librarian: The whole of the 13th century. Misplaced the computers, several conventional computers. We can't find them. We're always moving things around, getting organized, my assistants and I. This - this is Zero's fault - Zero, he's the world's file cabinet. Pity, poor old 13th century.
[pause]
Librarian: Well, come along now, you want to get started, don't you?
Jonathan E.: Yes, sir.
Librarian: [takes Jonathan's coat and hat and puts them aside before they go to the room with Zero in it] This way! Now, we've lost those computers with all of the 13th century in them. Not much in the century, just Dante and a few corrupt Popes, but it's so distracting and annoying!
Posted by: Rollerball (1975) That's 50 years ago for those of you in Rio Linda at December 12, 2025 05:14 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Axeman
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At some point, as an empiricist, you have to turn away from edge cases. Interesting from a philosophical viewpoint like whether we are in a simulated universe or inside a black hole but I have enough to chew on day to day without worrying about the infinite.
Popper was an interesting case as he was a bridge from the older Age of Reason cult to the newer problems that came from areas of study that rely upon really bad data--sociology, history, political science, and even economics. Never was particularly relevant in theology, cosmology, or other fields, perhaps even quantum mechanics, where we simply cannot positively prove or disprove our theories. The observational equivalence problem also appears as you would find in studies of relativity. Simply put, our frame of reference determines our reality.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:14 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (xT8gx)
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I like Popper, too. Except that he instigated this whole "Open society" concept that Soros has advanced.
Popper was an early friend of the Vienna Circle.
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I think Popper originated the whole "we must be intolerant of intolerance" crap that the left all believes now. I understand where he was coming from, being a Jew who fled the Nazis and also feared Communism, but that idea smells like rancid milk now.
I've toyed with Paul Feyerabend's ideas on science, mostly because my teaching assignment includes AP Psychology (which is mostly a joke 'science'), and I like to shock people by saying that falsification doesn't matter if everyone is testing stupid questions (and almost all social science is retarded at this point).
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 05:15 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 12, 2025 05:09 PM (/6GbT)
I like it when I grate a carrot into it. It adds sweetness that can offset some of the faint bitterness of the peas.
Upper level pea soup is when you mix in both green and yellow peas, and don't try to blend it smooth
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 05:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 05:10 PM (XvL8K)
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That's because you cannot derive a moral code from the particulars of instances of moralizing behavior.
Moralizing behavior is inherent in men who wants to control what he or she cannot outside their own physical enforcement. I must enlist societal "norms".
Western Civilization introduces the idea that societal norms should not necessarily be just what they are, but have a higher standard to comply with.
This is mostly alien to the pre-WC (Christian) civilization.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:15 PM (krQz2)
Popper was an early friend of the Vienna Circle.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (krQz2)
I did not know that… but his falsification ideas do make a lot of sense to me
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 05:15 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:07 PM (+mUZM)
But it will never be Gen X's fault because we are fucking incredible. Unlike all you other rake-stepping slap-dick monkeyschtuppers.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 05:15 PM (Kv5Mj)
Posted by: JackStraw
I am willing to consider the claim for reparations, however then they are going to have to first be slaves.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:16 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (fHLjf)
Had a ham bone, so thought I would see if I could replicate moms - not optimistic, but hopefully something edible
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 12, 2025 05:16 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 12, 2025 05:09 PM (/6GbT)
I like it when I grate a carrot into it. It adds sweetness that can offset some of the faint bitterness of the peas.
Upper level pea soup is when you mix in both green and yellow peas, and don't try to blend it smooth
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 05:15 PM (rbvCR)
There must be ham. Or bacon.
Posted by: A pork product of some kind at December 12, 2025 05:16 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 05:16 PM (25a1J)
“I went to Minnesota expecting to find anger over billions of dollars stolen from kids, but I can only find what I find, and what I found was an attitude that graft, by the right people, is almost viewed as an acceptable form of reparations.”
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Sharks still follow the slave trade route from Somalia, past India, through the Straits of Malacca, across the Pacific, to Los Angeles.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 12, 2025 05:16 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: JackStraw
Haven't they suffered enough!?! They're Black, they're poor, they're oppressed, and it's all because we colonized their country and destroyed it with our slave trade!!! I bet all the mining we did left lead in their water, which is why they're all neurodivergent.
Posted by: Lefty riddled with white guilt at December 12, 2025 05:14 PM (JCZqz)
Plus. the whole lightbulb head shape thing, the poor dears.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2025 05:16 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 05:17 PM (pkeXY)
The mean and median age in Congress is 53 years old. That means the Mills and X greatly outnumber Boomers.
Explain to me why you are shilling for the Democrats by taking their sins and placing it on an age group of people who voted R more than D?
Its the younger generation that is infatuated with socialism - Boomers ended the F'ing Cold War. The Younguns are surrendering to the Savages, Terrorists and Communists.
Why is that too hard for you to see?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:17 PM (nCgQz)
now it is all intermodal
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:17 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 05:17 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 05:18 PM (Kv5Mj)
Its the younger generation that is infatuated with socialism - Boomers ended the F'ing Cold War. The Younguns are surrendering to the Savages, Terrorists and Communists.
Why is that too hard for you to see?
Posted by: Unknown
I guess you're here because somebody told you there would be no math?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:18 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
I don't dislike him personally but his view is bounded as well to his materialistic viewpoint.
The position I take is that is useful for some ways to observe and make sense of reality, but not enough to explain or even predict all of it.
In Hamlet, Shakespeare gives us the counter argument, "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 05:13 PM
Rust, like the evil of Democrats, never sleeps.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 05:18 PM (jdPY0)
There are BLM figures who explicitly say that blacks are entitled to commit violence against whites." Posted by: ace
The American blacks might believe in such "reparations", but Somalis (and others) just know theft as a way of life. If someone opens a door, you walk through and take all you can. Any lies along the way (taqiyya?) are acceptable, even praiseworthy.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2025 05:18 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 12, 2025 05:18 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:11 PM (fHLjf)
Had a ham bone, so thought I would see if I could replicate moms - not optimistic, but hopefully something edible
Posted by: A dude in MI
I found a recipe to make pea soup in an instant pot, and it is fantastic, the best split pea soup I have ever had.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 05:18 PM (0U5gm)
now it is all intermodal
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:17 PM (fHLjf)
Ro-Ro-'nado!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2025 05:19 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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More like you wanna popper, then you take a popper. Take enough and your heart goes boom.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:19 PM (WDjG6)
it was the boomers that brough in the savages and started indocrinating the young uns. those you are complaining about are what boomers made
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:19 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 05:15 PM (UdiE9)
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I actually found out, via a scholar on Popper, that Popper himself cannot be totally blamed for this. "Popper's" writing on intolerant tolerance apparently consists of TWO footnotes in his writing.
Thus it is mainly people taking crude notions of Popper and running with it.
Definitely either Popper did not foresee (or he simply can be ignored) people moving the "intolerance" goalposts to being increasingly intolerant of viewpoints on the basis of arguing that some other viewpoint is "intolerant". Thus bootstrapping the intolerance of actually more tolerant viewpoints.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:19 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: PaleRider
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This^^^
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 05:20 PM (22p5n)
Posted by: A dude
best of luck
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:20 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 05:20 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 05:10 PM (XvL8K)
You can argue that morality is the formal setting out of tactics within a society that improve the possibility of success and continuation of the society, and the success of the individual within the society; though none of the moral precepts can be generated through logic, analysis of them can provide the basis of ethics, which can help leverage morality to provide greater success - hopefully providing enough understanding of the situation to determine if it is a good idea to change anything.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 05:21 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Vote GOP! at December 12, 2025 05:21 PM (qAgpq)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 12, 2025 05:16 PM
I did that the other day. Still have about a quart. Damn that's good on a cold day.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (jdPY0)
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American History students in a couple generations will be taught by the AI Bot Agent ZinnGPT™ that Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election and gave America it's greatest economy in history ... until achieving an even greater economy during her third term from 2025-2029.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: PaleRider
Shit stirring. But as a result, people have become so attached to muh generation that it is just a label, a heuristic that is useful in some analyses but worthless in a lot of others. I used to use demographics a lot for control variables simply because they worked and had predictive power. As well as for replicability of the study. Same for other groupings like traditionalistic, individualistic, and moralistic or religion.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (WDjG6)
Still reading the article here, you slackers. Nowhere does it consider just who was running the country, and what role sheer dementia played in Biden's acts.
"Why Mr. Biden waited so long to effectively seal the border has become one of the defining questions of his presidency." lol, the great enigma!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2025 04:57 PM
To paraphrase Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday. Yup...I hate 'em.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Gen. Sherman
“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 05:23 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:23 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: PaleRider
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This^^^
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 05:20 PM
*plants Gen X flag*
SMH Johnson is right!
Posted by: RMBS Johnson at December 12, 2025 05:24 PM (jdPY0)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (2ap+5)
Vietnam was a big slap, since some of the had to be drafted or go to college (or run like cowards).
But they were also babied, catered to, and fussed over prior to 1965 like no other generation before.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 05:24 PM (xcxpd)
https://tinyurl.com/cewe2sm8
Posted by: Nots
it is done then, internet says so
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:24 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 12, 2025 05:24 PM (22p5n)
That's not an answer, that is a surrender.
its OK to admit you are wrong even though your generation is fully incapable of doing it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:25 PM (pawvM)
Next-to-last sentence in the article: “The American people deserve a federal government that puts their interests first,” read Mr. Trump’s executive order [upending Biden's border policy on his first day back in office].
Gee, I wonder if he has a point there.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 05:25 PM (1N/bM)
somebody must've spilled some bubble-up in the fluidics.
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:25 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: A dude in MI
As with all chilis, stews, or soups, carrots are the key to success.
Posted by: The Green Grocer at December 12, 2025 05:25 PM (oftw2)
This is mostly alien to the pre-WC (Christian) civilization.
Posted by: Axeman
These higher standards that seem like oppression to minorities and immigrants are also known as White Supremacy(TM)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 05:25 PM (Dv3i1)
https://tinyurl.com/cewe2sm8
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:23 PM (+mUZM)
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I, for one, welcome the new internet overlords!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (2ap+5)
No, it was sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2025 05:26 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: PaleRider
Shit stirring. But as a result, people have become so attached to muh generation that it is just a label, a heuristic that is useful in some analyses but worthless in a lot of others. I used to use demographics a lot for control variables simply because they worked and had predictive power. As well as for replicability of the study. Same for other groupings like traditionalistic, individualistic, and moralistic or religion.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (WDjG6)
Also known as 'Shamba lamaba ding dong' Litmus Testing
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 05:26 PM (xcxpd)
so it once again comes down to the perfidy of the french?
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:26 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (2ap+5)
No, it was sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2025 05:26 PM (wVcYX)
That also helped
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 05:26 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Unknown
I am gen x , what is more, never ever have any difficulty admitting I am wrong, indeed , I am constantly considering if I am wrong about things. You should give it a whirl
Willing to be persuaded by logic and the force of reason, ever and always
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:27 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:27 PM (+mUZM)
he was probably still playing with the knobs on the autopen.
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:28 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at
December 12, 2025 05:26 PM (xcxpd)
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How does your light shine in the Halls of Shambalamba-ding-dong?!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:28 PM (krQz2)
Why is that too hard for you to see?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 05:17 PM (nCgQz)
Boomers got told "the world is messed up but you are going to be OK"
GenX got told "the world is messed up and you are screwed"
Millenials got told "you are screwed"
GenZ is being told, "we are importing people to screw you"
Before you start slinging crap, keep this in mind.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 05:28 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 05:22 PM (1N/bM)
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Journalists always make it sound like the president is doing everything alone. He is setting policy, investigating crimes, patrolling the borders, setting Fed policy, doing the masonry work on the new ballroom, ...
But since Biden's brain has been eaten by worms, I guess we will never know why they kept the border open.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2025 05:28 PM (2ap+5)
It means the NEED for a Leader to follow is a weakness to overcome. There is only on thing that shapes history just as it shapes the course of each Individual's lives -- the power of IDEAS.
That good ones replace the bad ones, and those at the root of it be held to pay the ultimate prices.
That any compromise between food and poison can result in nought but death.
That the only thing necessary for Evil to prosper is for good men to do absolutely nothing. Why? Because the truely evil are abetted by the Venal and the WEAK. period.
LIBS believe they can fake History and Reality just as they would fake reality (and factually did) of IceKingJOE.
Remember who did this:
"to leave now we would send a message to terrorists ...." -- Bill Clinton '93 just before he pulled out of Somalia.
To abandon this area now -- and to rely only on efforts against alQaeda from a distance ... -- OBAMA'09
What is the vital national interest? -- JoeBiden on Retreat from Afghanistan.
Starring Agent Orange in the MissilesOfVenezuela remake during Jeffmas? What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 12, 2025 05:28 PM (l657C)
Posted by: Unknown
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I am tail-end-boomer, and I have never had a problem admitting how much they fucked things up.
That does not mean that any successive generation hasn't fallen further, though.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)
ha .... "neuraodivergent".
Perhaps "we" need to come up with our own New Vocabulary, like the left does constantly. Neurodivergent ... well that is not precise enough.
But "gender dysphoric"? Need more "marketable" terms for "anti-American", and "godless atheist", "trust fund liberal", and "DEI incompetent".
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2025 05:29 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:27 PM (+mUZM)
I have a story . . .
Posted by: Linda Blair as Regan at December 12, 2025 05:29 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:29 PM (+mUZM)
your mom was katie porter?
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:30 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Waste of good soup. Throw boiling water or lye.
Posted by: Ghetto Lobstuh at December 12, 2025 05:30 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: The Green Grocer at December 12, 2025 05:25 PM (oftw2)
Just put carrots and potatoes in. Supposed to be cooold next 2 days. Bowl of pea soup and buttered slab of sourdough...mmmmm
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 12, 2025 05:30 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at
December 12, 2025 05:26 PM (xcxpd)
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How does your light shine in the Halls of Shambalamba-ding-dong?!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:28 PM (krQz2)
Those studies were inconclusive
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 05:30 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (viF8m)
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Cognitive dissonance is the Dems' best feature. They can hold as many contradictory thoughts as it takes. They have wiped out logic from their universe.
Posted by: Decaf at December 12, 2025 05:31 PM (1RAfh)
ha .... "neuraodivergent".
Perhaps "we" need to come up with our own New Vocabulary, like the left does constantly. Neurodivergent ... well that is not precise enough.
ah. i got it for you. "I bet all the mining we did left lead in their water, which is why they're all 6-7".
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:31 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I'm still trying to figure out what I have done that is so heinous. I suppose that I ought to simply accept the wisdom, experience, and insight of those 50 years younger than myself.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 05:31 PM (XeU6L)
Our number two problem is treasonous, greedy, and quisling politicians masquerading as patriotic Americans. That's always going to be a problem because they swarm around money and power like horseflies on cow flop.
Posted by: Beverly at December 12, 2025 05:31 PM (reMys)
it is fun to watch though
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:31 PM (fHLjf)
nike air?
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 05:31 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Decaf
DoubleThink. It's essential to a smooth running EngSoc.
Posted by: 1984 at December 12, 2025 05:32 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Light in Loafers at December 12, 2025 05:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 05:32 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Ace at 04:28 PM
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Same rationale for reversing the Evil Hitlerian Trump's "Drill Baby Drill 1.0" which gave us much cheaper energy and increased individual freedoms ... The Horror, The Horror!
[Recall:] On Day one of his "Presidency," Vegetable Puppet F. Joe Mugabe revoked approval for the Keystone XL pipeline and imposed a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters (about 25% of U.S. production comes from federal areas).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 05:32 PM (25a1J)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:33 PM (krQz2)
it was the boomers that brough in the savages and started indocrinating the young uns. those you are complaining about are what boomers made
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I'm going to withhold comment until someone explains Axl Roses's part in this mess.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 05:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2025 05:33 PM (wVcYX)
Our number two problem is treasonous, greedy, and quisling politicians masquerading as patriotic Americans. That's always going to be a problem because they swarm around money and power like horseflies on cow flop.
Posted by: Bev
it is not media, it does not matter to anybody younger than boomers, it is the lazy that do not bother to read other, varied sources.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 05:33 PM (fHLjf)
Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 12, 2025 05:33 PM (7kSOl)
Posted by: Decaf
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“We choose truth over facts!” Joe Biden
That is to say, what they hold as 'truth'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 05:34 PM (XeU6L)
If the rest of the Democrat Party didn't support open borders why are they now fighting so hard to keep illegals in the country?
Posted by: JackStraw
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That's one of the questions Gavin Newsom didn't address in that Ezra Klein interview (what we saw of it -- and I'm not going to watch a moment more).
It's also one of the questions the NY Times didn't raise.
Newsom better brace himself, because no amount of sanctimonious deflection will keep JD Vance's bullets of logic from piercing him.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 05:34 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 05:38 PM (m2lIk)
>>@jsolomonReports
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3m
>>Illinois Gov. Pritzker signs bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 05:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 05:39 PM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 12, 2025 05:41 PM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 05:42 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 12, 2025 05:33 PM (7kSOl)
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Well, this can still be the case, since Popper's "contribution" was mainly, AIUI, two footnotes.
But, I believe Marcuse cites Popper, who had some cache as the premier theorist of SCIENCE!
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 05:44 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 12, 2025 05:58 PM (7kSOl)
Posted by: Bang-a-gong at December 12, 2025 06:01 PM (SRiFu)
Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 12, 2025 06:03 PM (7kSOl)
Actually only about 1000 to 2000 degrees are given NATIONALY EACH YEAR I in the entire USA
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 12, 2025 06:17 PM (Vip4H)
This is one of the things that only the hard right wingers bieve, like when Trump says "we inherited the highest inflation in history" no he didn't the inflation at the end of Bidens term was
3% about what it is right now
Trump constantly lies.
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 12, 2025 06:26 PM (Vip4H)
Snow-White and Rose-Red: Two peasant sisters, a grumpy dwarf, a bear (cursed prince), no evil stepmother, published in the Grimms' 1812/1815 collection.
Snow White, published 1812, evil stepmother, lots of good dwarfs, a poison apple & glass coffin.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 12, 2025 06:49 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: TJ Jackson at December 12, 2025 08:52 PM (bXvrr)
Plus they WANT to believe it, because they don't want to believe the open-borders policy eagerly pushed by EVERY Democrat pol caused virtually every problem we're suffering with today.
Posted by: sf at December 13, 2025 11:48 AM (hohh4)
Indiana Cucks Refuse to Redraw Congressional Map Even As Democrats Attempt to Impeach Trump Again (and Will Impeach Him Once They Retake the House)
Fuck these people. Primary them all.
They fiddle as Rome burns and call themselves just for doing so.Republicans have a majority in the state senate, but only a minority of them voted in favor of the map. They weren't betrayed by a few rogue members -- the majority of them joined the Democrats to get Trump impeached in January 2026. The Democrats are not hiding their plans.
The Republican-controlled Indiana state Senate voted Thursday to reject the redrawn redistricting map that could have potentially meant an increase of two GOP U.S. House members in the 2026 midterm elections. The defeat of the map represents a setback to President Donald Trump who had strongly advocated for its passage by the state Senate. Also, there have been multiple visits from Vice President JD Vance and calls from Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (La.), attempting to persuade enough members of the Senate to pass the redrawn map. Though the GOP-controlled state House had approved the map last week, according to NBC News, it failed in the state Senate by a vote of 31-19.
The House voted on Thursday to table a motion to impeach President Donald Trump. The so-called privileged motion to force the House to act was introduced by Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green, according to The Hill. A Republican motion to table the resolution passed by a vote of 237-140, with 47 Democrats voting present and 23 voting with the Republicans to table it. Tabling means to set it aside indefinitely without further debate. Green has repeatedly introduced resolutions to impeach President Trump, both during his first term in office and now three times this year, since Trump's return to office. His latest resolution has two impeachment articles. The first article is for "Abuse of Presidential Power by Calling for the Execution of Members of Congress." That was in reference to Trump's response last month to the video made by six Democrats telling members of the military that they don't have to follow unlawful orders.Many Democrats voted for the impeachment. Some voted present and some voted to table it. But the latter Democrats only ducked the impeachment vote because they don't want the public thinking they are revenge-minded crazies before they're in a position to actually achieve their revenge-crazy impeachment. See, they are doing what they do every two or four years, tamping down on their more extreme elements to make themselves look good for a critical election. They want to win. We don't. Our own "representatives" are scheming with the Democrats to bring Trump down.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: RI Red at December 12, 2025 03:24 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:25 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:25 PM (/+FOE)
we must be the good guys so we can get good write ups in the ny times
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 03:25 PM (CWTWj)
Rep. Becky Cash, R-Zionsville (District 25)
Rep. Michael Karickhoff, R-Kokomo (District 30)
Rep. Danny Lopez, R-Carmel (District 39)
Rep. Greg Steuerwald, R-Avon (District 40)
Rep. Mark Genda, R-Frankfort (District 41)
Rep. Tim Yocum, R-Clinton (District 42)
Rep. Peggy Mayfield, R-Martinsville (District 60)
Rep. Dave Hall, R-Norman (District 62)
Rep. Edward Clere, R-New Albany (District 72)
Rep. Jennifer Meltzer, R-Shelbyville (District 73)
Rep. Stephen Bartels, R-Eckerty (District 74)
Rep. Matthew Lehman, R-Berne (District 79)
Posted by: Attn: Fellow Hoosiers at December 12, 2025 03:26 PM (JCLJi)
Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 03:27 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 12, 2025 03:27 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 03:28 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:28 PM (zZu0s)
If they don't want to Make America Great Again they are the enemy as much as the Democrats are.
Posted by: Minuteman at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (1SDXk)
Hence why I'm very nervous about 2026. I don't believe all the doomsaying and leftwing ops about the economy or "affordability" or whatever stupid fake buzzword they pulled out of some fag's ass. I think Trump is doing a great job, and the country is clearly improving across the board.
But I'm worried that we just don't want this badly enough. We just don't. I see no indications that we are as fired up to vote as Democraps. It's not even close. 2026 will be 100% about turnout. Whoever shows up will win. The Democraps will surely show up. Will we?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
That explains why they elected a Senator named Birch Bayh.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw)
For the Republicans it's Every Man For Himself, so they all try to profit as much as possible and get reelected. There is no team.
I don't know how to fix this, but while it happens we are losing our civilization.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:28 PM (zZu0s)
More anger for me...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:30 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)
To counteract the doom and despair.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:30 PM (zZu0s)
Trump needs to go Al Capone on them.
Enthusiasms.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:31 PM (viF8m)
I’m taking a moment to just bask in the system working as it should. The fact that our voices made a difference.
"The system working as it should" would have never comsidered such a measure. And, as always, Fuck Trump.
This isn't a principled stand. It's just self interested opportunism. They're worried about accidentally gerrymandering themselves out of a job in the event of blue wave.
I deliberately didn’t follow this today because I feared/assumed the worst. Boy, was I wrong, and am I happy about that!!!
Lmaooooo get fucked Donald. Props to all the senate republicans that stood up to the pressure campaign. We may not always see eye to eye on the issues but I salute your courage on this.
they only did this because they're afraid of getting screwed if diluted districts trend to the left next year, which is absolutely going to happen. I wouldn't be surprised if the No votes were in those more purple proposed districts. And absolutely fuck Donald.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 12, 2025 03:31 PM (JCZqz)
Second... Trump voters suck. They really do. If he's not on the ballot they stay home. So they can all suck their thumbs when he's impeached for the 3rd, 4th, 5th time. They're the reason we had no red wave in 2022. They're the reason the Dems are sweeping the off-year elections.
Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (112XX)
It's not that they refuse to believe it. They're just on the other side.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (z5QST)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Ezra at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 12, 2025 03:33 PM (/lPRQ)
I don't believe it. Prove me wrong. Please.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 03:33 PM (3nLb4)
//v/f/v/v/v/v/v//v
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 12, 2025 03:33 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 12, 2025 03:33 PM (GD2xa)
About 40% of the population votes R
0 Seats though
Because it is 100% gerrymandered
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:33 PM (sKqQm)
...have you looked at what they're being asked to vote for? Of course they stay home. I suspect they have a more realistic assessment of the situation than most.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 12, 2025 03:33 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw)
Don't forget the insider trading and after office sinecures in USAID NGO's
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (XfKE0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (ix8EF)
Second... Trump voters suck. They really do. If he's not on the ballot they stay home.
Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (112XX)
You nailed the exact opposite of reality. Good job.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (/+FOE)
Seriously, with Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky neighboring, they don't stand a chance.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: pookysgirl
He on the football team yet?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:35 PM (77rzZ)
Our failures are self-reinforcing.
Trump's winning is the counter to that. He has restored some vitality to the country but still many do not see our civilization as the winning team.
Over at Insty there is a post about a Chinese Spy/Professor who felt he would "always return to China" after spending life working/spying in USA.
Many Chinese immigrants in West see us as a losing civilization. They will never assimilate because, why switch to losing side?
Same with muzzies. Same with Somalians. Same with Mexicans.
You see the problem? I am saying that even Americans often see our side as ultimate losers. We have to fix that.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 03:35 PM (uxVjF)
They haven't quite swept them but there is an obvious pattern.
In areas with poor voter security the Dems are getting normal offyear election numbers and the Rs are getting a fraction of that.
In areas with stronger vote security both sides are getting a fraction of their off year results.
So there problem is two fold:
Conservative voters are not showing up
Leftists are printing ballots with impunity
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Minuteman at December 12, 2025 03:35 PM (1SDXk)
I've been noting this as well, and it should be pointed out we have emails from them to each other saying this is what they are doing.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:36 PM (sKqQm)
Have noticed that Democrats hardly mention Epstein at all lately?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:36 PM (viF8m)
Fen, how's your son doing? Any luck with the job search?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)
Yep. Quite pretty on the outside though - and was in a really odd webseries called "Dad Feels"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 12, 2025 03:31 PM (JCZqz)
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They really think it's going to be D+15 next year.
It might be D+4. Maybe.
And the amount of redistricting since 2020, including this year (and FL next year) is going to make a D+4 environment barely enough for a majority, maybe even not enough.
Jeffries might end up with a majority of like 3-5.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 12, 2025 03:31 PM (JCZqz)
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I think DU is right about this, and I've said so repeatedly. None of these slapcock dickies wanted to risk diluting their districts by even the slightest margins. That, and they're pussyfags too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:36 PM (viF8m)
They released a photo today of Trump at a party with Epstein.. Of course Bill Clinton was in the picture too...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 03:38 PM (ZxPkt)
I think DU is right about this, and I've said so repeatedly. None of these slapcock dickies wanted to risk diluting their districts by even the slightest margins. That, and they're pussyfags too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
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None of the new districts would have been less than R+13.
IN state senators are not freaking out because hypothetical Republicans running for the House next year might get swept up in a wave larger than 2018.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)
Earlier this year they were arguing their were no Epstein clients outside of Epstein himself, Maxwell, and Prince Andrew and anyone that claimed otherwise was a racist conspiracy theorist.
Then the change in narrative went out and suddenly of course Trump was an Epstein client!
And as so more evidence comes out and it doesn't point to Trump but does point to various leftwing celebs and pols they'll go back to arguing it was all fake.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)
Thanks for asking. He was supposed to hear today about the last interview. The fact that he didn't probably means he didn't get it. Oh, well, he is applying through his university job portal for another position.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:39 PM (ix8EF)
Nothing to do with the fact that the GOP are spineless, dickless, traitorous skunks who have done virtually nothing that we asked them to do.
Genius!
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:39 PM (/+FOE)
It might be D+4. Maybe.
And the amount of redistricting since 2020, including this year (and FL next year) is going to make a D+4 environment barely enough for a majority, maybe even not enough.
Jeffries might end up with a majority of like 3-5.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
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It doesn't matter what the Democrap majority is, though. If we lose the house, they'll have full control. If they have even one more seat than us, it's game over. It'll be 2018-2020 all over again.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:40 PM (iFTx/)
That's how all this stuff works as this sort of bribery is for all intents legal now
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:40 PM (sKqQm)
Nothing to do with the fact that the GOP are spineless, dickless, traitorous skunks who have done virtually nothing that we asked them to do.
Genius!
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:39 PM (/+FOE)
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We're losing special elections because 25% turnout advantages the hyper engaged, and that's Democrats now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:40 PM (iFTx/)
I'm afraid you're right
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:40 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ckmeat at December 12, 2025 03:40 PM (icpM8)
They've moved on to Trump is a war criminal for killing terrorists too meanly.
That too will fade away soon. Most of them don't believe the crap they rant about. They just want to keep it in the news cycle for a while and then move on to the next lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2025 03:41 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:40 PM (iFTx/)
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Seriously...whatever.
They ran some hearings and did some pointless impeachments that didn't actually matter.
This time, though, Trump has a fully funded ICE through 2028.
Also, the vast majority of oldest House members are Democrats.
I want Democrats to win a majority of 1 on election day. And then an old House member dies before voting on the Speaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)
Jeffries might end up with a majority of like 3-5.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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A majority of 1 is all it takes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 03:41 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:35 PM (77rzZ)
I think he's going to be a wrestler, given how his diaper changes go. Today I joked that we should have named him "Jacob."
Posted by: pookysgirl, part of a two-man team at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I really, really hate it when I interview with someone and then they just drop me. Just tell me if you don't want me. I'm a big boy, I can take it. But just ghosting interviewees seems to be the default practice these days.
Tell him to keep his chin up and hang in there.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (77rzZ)
Jeffries might end up with a majority of like 3-5.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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A majority of 1 is all it takes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 03:41 PM (1N/bM)
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Oh, no...
Impeachment hearings that the Senate will not convict on.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (Kt19C)
TBH I really don't think that's it. In my blue area turnout is and political activity is normal.
I think we are seeing the fraud infrastructure the dems have built where a bunch of votes are coming in from people they know aren't going to vote either because they are dead, phantoms that never existed, or illegals.
But practically the problem is the same if R leaning voters don't turn out this is enough in special elections and potentially off-year ones as well
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Brother Tim
Problem though in a single member district, first past the post election, you will only get two main political parties (see Duverget's Law). Nigel is trying to pull off Reform as killing off the Conservative party but if you notice, Labor is in charge there with a massive majority despite only getting 34 percent of the total vote. Conservatives and Reform together got 38 percent. Labor got 412 Seats, Conservative 121, Reform got 5.
So Labor is sitting on a 100 seat cushion and can do anything it wants for the next four years including flood the country with ringers, jail the opposition for social media posts, etc.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Words to Laugh By at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
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None of the new districts would have been less than R+13.
IN state senators are not freaking out because hypothetical Republicans running for the House next year might get swept up in a wave larger than 2018.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)
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I guarantee you the state senators got lots of pressure from the current federal house reps to keep things exactly as they are. Nobody wants to lose even one point of "R+"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (z5QST)
Sort of.
It's not so much that they are Democrats in Good Standing (the actual Democrats still hate them and would kill them in a second if they could get away with it... and they're pretty damn close to being able to get away with it), but that they are the kept pets currently allowed to pick at the Democrats table scraps.
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (UnA8+)
TBH I really don't think that's it. In my blue area turnout is and political activity is normal.
I think we are seeing the fraud infrastructure the dems have built where a bunch of votes are coming in from people they know aren't going to vote either because they are dead, phantoms that never existed, or illegals.
But practically the problem is the same if R leaning voters don't turn out this is enough in special elections and potentially off-year ones as well
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (sKqQm)
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No...it's massively reduced turnout.
Look at the numbers.
Miami was 100,000 fewer votes than last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Fen
nobody ever gets a job that way, he has to network , same for college students
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:44 PM (Nmj5t)
One excuse that the Indiana Republicans put out for not redistricting is that Trump urging them to do so offended them, and so they stubbornly dug in their heels.
It's a lie. Trump was on their case because they'd already decided not to do it for their own selfish reasons. He couldn't talk them out of it.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2025 03:44 PM (HLgI3)
Yes; That is hard, isn't it? I am sorry that has happened to you and to others. I will tell him to keep his chin up, and you do as well!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:44 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (W2Pud)
Trump committed to that victory. He pledged his Life, Fortune, and our sacred Honor.
So don't see these R legislators as quislings or traitors, they are just not committed to the fight and we need to figure out how to change that. We need a win. Many states use war in such a situation. Just a warning/thought.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (van9r)
I guarantee you the state senators got lots of pressure from the current federal house reps to keep things exactly as they are. Nobody wants to lose even one point of "R+"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (iFTx/)
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And yet, TX, MO, and NC did it. And FL's gonna do it.
No, that's not it.
They just decided to thumb their noses at Trump because they're big, because they actually dislike Trump and don't want the NYT to say mean things about them.
These are the same people that applauded Pence when he folded on religious freedom.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
this is why they talk shit but never follow thru
the papers might print mean things about them
and this could hurt re-election chances
Re-election in perpetuity is Job One
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (Nmj5t)
Is she your booty call?
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (JCLJi)
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And tax the pubs out of existence so there is no place for rural working class whites to publicly gather and talk politics.
Posted by: Words to Laugh By at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)
Which means we do not feel sorry that she joined onlyfans and can enjoy her fun bags with a clear conscience.
My logic, assail it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (zZu0s)
Well, if a person is not much of a networker it's a skill they have to learn.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (ix8EF)
... to have a coup. Which usually involves killing the rightful leader.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (/lPRQ)
I suspect if you had a protest with say 1000 GOP voters pledging to vote for and fund their opponents in the coming primaries in the state house they might...reassess...their decision.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (sKqQm)
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And tax the pubs out of existence so there is no place for rural working class whites to publicly gather and talk politics.
Posted by: Words to Laugh By at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (qUkBO)
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Remember, Labour was the restrictionist party on immigration until, like, last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (zZu0s)
Actually worse because we know the Demonic Party is Hell bent on destroying Western Civilization while plundering the treasury the whole way and we can vote against them.
When the feckless GOP politician proves to be a Demonic Party member dressed as GOP we don't have a choice. (at least one that doesn't involve rooftops)
TBF, Indiana is semi-open primary and Demons can vote in the GOP primary - so we can't blame the drunken slobs that by miracle show up on election day.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (+4Cf6)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (Nmj5t)
Is she your booty call?
Posted by: Doe
You have no idea who Peaches is?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: ckmeat
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Some of those guys are going to lose their primaries soon. And y'all need to dump the Pence family as cucks and traitors plus scamsters (go back to the family oil business collapse for a look).
Indiana Senate could have always done an 8-1 map in response as the Northwest district is only D+1 anyway and surrounded by R double digit districts. They could have gotten rid of that one and left Carson alone in Indianapolis.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (zZu0s)
We shouldn't be judging them by the State they live in...
I hope you all don't blame me for California
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (iFTx/)
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And yet, TX, MO, and NC did it. And FL's gonna do it.
No, that's not it.
They just decided to thumb their noses at Trump because they're big, because they actually dislike Trump and don't want the NYT to say mean things about them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
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Nah, that ain't it
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Fen
It is what it is, he should get started now.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:48 PM (Nmj5t)
I lived in Lafayette, IN, when I was a kid. Fuck 'em up the ass with Mike Pence riding SMoD.
Posted by: Marooned at December 12, 2025 03:48 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:48 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Don't you live there, or were raised there? I seem to recall you have some connection to the Ft. Wayne area.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:48 PM (77rzZ)
Actually worse because we know the Demonic Party is Hell bent on destroying Western Civilization while plundering the treasury the whole way and we can vote against them.
When the feckless GOP politician proves to be a Demonic Party member dressed as GOP we don't have a choice. (at least one that doesn't involve rooftops)
TBF, Indiana is semi-open primary and Demons can vote in the GOP primary - so we can't blame the drunken slobs that by miracle show up on election day.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (+4Cf6)
Yeah, that sucks. Just like jungle primaries. And Ballot collection stations. And voter rolls so filled with dead and illegal voters that the % of registered voters in those rolls exceed 100%...AND...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 03:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (VE6XX)
Well I *didnt*.....
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:49 PM (/+FOE)
But we *are* your representatives!
Sort of like a sales rep. We don't represent you, of course. That would be silly. We represent the company, have a territory, and work on commission.
Posted by: GOPe at December 12, 2025 03:49 PM (ittVa)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:49 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Fen
I gave you the best ever advice, does not bother me should you not embrace the advice
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (/lPRQ)
If it weren't for the Democrats being so flamboyantly rotten, I'd have given up voting many years ago. But with very rare exceptions, I don't vote FOR Republicans, just against Democrats. Which is like picking the Mensheviks.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (zZu0s)
We shouldn't be judging them by the State they live in...
I hope you all don't blame me for California
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (VE6XX)
Me neither. I vote against all the BS stuff every time my right to vote is not abridged.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: It's me donna
Well, not you alone. CaliGirl and Jim (in Kalifornia) get blamed, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)
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90% of turnout is self-actuated. It's not GOTV of any kind, it's just people deciding to vote.
10%, the margins in most cases, is GOTV.
How do you fix the 90% when it gets too low? Obama's team had no idea, which is why they lost midterms.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
Groovy. Bye.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (ix8EF)
Fen ignore "it"
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:51 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Bulg
What you thinking?
Big ol floppy knockers or a pair of teacups?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 12, 2025 03:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Boob backwards is booB...
Boobytrap backwards is partybooB...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 03:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Fen
you're so smart that you're going to ignore good advice even to the detriment of family?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:51 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 03:51 PM (van9r)
Posted by: Jetto at December 12, 2025 03:51 PM (ZjOmf)
Posted by: It's me donna
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and don't blame me for Colorado
Like Superman, I live among them, but I am not one of them.
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Fritzy at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (2GIh1)
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)
Exactly
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (VE6XX)
How come Republicans redistricting in those states isn't a good omen but Indiana not going along portends doom?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (z5QST)
Posted by: It's
yeah have you got some good advice for her? or is it more you're brave, strong, beautiful girlish talking
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:53 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ
Sorry; it didn't do a thing for me😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:34 PM (ix8EF)
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Well, you can go to a gender clinic and get rid of them.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 03:53 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 03:54 PM (van9r)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I am not saying that Conservatives did not have it coming but it takes about 7-10 years for a new party to become competitive for control. Canada is another example when the Progressive Conservative Party of Mulroney went belly up in the 1993 elections and did not regain even minority control of government until Harper in 2011. It was a long slog to get even over a hundred seats for Conservatives.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 03:51 PM (van9r)
Lol, I'll shoulder the blame.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 03:54 PM (XfKE0)
Posted by: bear w
Thats why you get internships, that something is hard does not mean it is wrong.
nobody gets hired for good jobs, in meaningful # through college offices
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:54 PM (Nmj5t)
I mean the mention of them didn't raise my spirits . I have no desire to get rid of my boobs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:54 PM (Nx5jP)
How come Republicans redistricting in those states isn't a good omen but Indiana not going along portends doom?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (viF8m)
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People are letting special elections (which are not predictive) drive them to fear.
I actually wonder if overperformance in specials now is a unique phenomenon that actually indicates D ceilings. I'm not sure how to work it out mathematically, but the specials from 2023 and 2024 indicated huge overperformance for D's in 2024.
But D's lost.
Is it that their coalition are becoming only the super voters? That their leaners have abandoned them in the aggregate? I don't know...not enough data to really even start an analysis.
But it's an interesting idea.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:25 PM (VE6XX)
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Pence finally gets his revenge on the American people for not making him a president.
Posted by: Decaf at December 12, 2025 03:55 PM (1RAfh)
How come Republicans redistricting in those states isn't a good omen but Indiana not going along portends doom?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:52 PM (viF8m)
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It is a good omen. It's that we had another two seats in the bag -- and we might need them -- but the Hoosier fags hosed out.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:55 PM (iFTx/)
Dude, chill the eff out. You gave your advice, fine. People are not mandated to follow your advice. Jeepers, go have a beer or something.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Fen
you're so smart that you're going to ignore good advice even to the detriment of family?
>>>>>Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:51 PM (Nmj5t)
She is too busy hunting trolls and being the blog nanny to take good advice for family.
Posted by: Same Old at December 12, 2025 03:55 PM (4dp/4)
Posted by: It's me donna
of course not. mrs. chronda reliably informs me that everything bad that happens is *my* fault.
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 03:55 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2025 03:55 PM (mWO2o)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (van9r)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
Dems have a 1 vote majority they implement Obamacare and the Green New Deal. We have a supposed majority we can’t even get a fucking retarded govt worker fired.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (9iyS+)
Dude, chill the eff out. You gave your advice, fine. People are not mandated to follow your advice. Jeepers, go have a beer or something.
Posted by: Bulg
shhh,nobody cares
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Same Old at December 12, 2025 03:55 PM (4dp/4)
Pretty nasty and uncalled for
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
FenSpouse will be glad to hear that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (77rzZ)
But the overriding statistic is when communists take control of government, whatever their label, it takes shooting, not elections to get out of it.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 03:55 PM (v3pYe)
That can't be right. Per my ex everything was MY fault.
Posted by: Like whoa, deja fu man at December 12, 2025 03:57 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: S
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:57 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
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Cemetery voters.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 03:58 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (van9r)
No worries.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 03:58 PM (XfKE0)
>>>>>Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (VE6XX)
Nope. She got good advice, and her response was "whatever." That's smug and rude.
Posted by: Same Old at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (/R1DT)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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SantaCon is tomorrow, bruh.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
That cannot go on forever.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (s0JqF)
The TN special election was interesting. The narrative for weeks was midwest AOC was going to rock TN and flip a red seat. She lost by 9 in a R+10 district. In other words, she performed to the expected loss.
Special election have never been an indicator of anything other than a snapshot in time. Democrats are a little more motivated because they are angry and watching their power and world slip away thanks to Orange Satan.
What matters is the environment next November. If the economy starts roaring as is predicted it will be a completely different ballgame.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Same Old
Project much?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (van9r)
No worries.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 03:58 PM (XfKE0)
Yeah, we can't blame CBD for NJ; his FWPs are another matter, as is his restrictions on maple syrup usage...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (bucPA)
You'll settle for: voter ID for Federal elections at least and maybe a few less H1bs?
You'll get: millions of more tax dollars to Ukraine
Posted by: Vote GOP! at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (aiq/s)
Maybe he's been doing that.
And I just love posters who change their handles to insult me. Weenies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Needs working LEDs so it literally lights up like a Christmas tree.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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SantaCon is tomorrow, bruh.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
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SantaCon is every day in your heart if you believe in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Needs working LEDs so it literally lights up like a Christmas tree.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (ESVrU)
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It does. I just didn't turn them on.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
But D's lost.
Is it that their coalition are becoming only the super voters? That their leaners have abandoned them in the aggregate? I don't know...not enough data to really even start an analysis.
But it's an interesting idea.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Get a Cook's Report guide or alternatively the Almanac of American politics now published by Oxford Press. Use the normal vote statistic as well as turnout statistics to determine a 'swing' in the special elections. Small n problem and you would have to deal with redistricting affecting normal vote totals in a few districts so you could do a time series study.
Don't be surprised if you get two different models--one for GOP and one for Democrats though.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:01 PM (WDjG6)
And don't blame me for Colorado. Like Superman, I live among them, but I am not one of them. Posted by: Don Black
I am in New Mexico so I can report on what the Santa Fe communists are doing. That and the green chiles.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 12, 2025 04:01 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December
Oh man that's a drunken floozy shit show.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:01 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 04:01 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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SantaCon is tomorrow, bruh.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
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SantaCon is every day in your heart if you believe in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
He's too fat to fit in the shrine with the Easter Bunny.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
Your outfit totally rocks!
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (XfKE0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December
Oh man that's a drunken floozy shit show.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:01 PM (MGB5H)
Just make sure they're not dyslexic Satanists...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (lQzuA)
Posted by: bear
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1000%
Other than one exception every job I’ve had, be it full time or consulting, has been through a connection. This includes my very first part time job in HS which I got because my neighbor knew the manager of the store where I worked. First summer internship in college was at a friend’s dad’s company.
Then once my career was established it was former co-workers, former managers or former clients that hooked me up.
And I did as well. It’s a 2 way street. Scratch people’s backs they’ll catch yours as well.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (9iyS+)
>>>>>Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)
Project that I am...what? A blog busybody and wannabe moderator and scold? YES! You nailed it! So perceptive.
Posted by: Same Old at December 12, 2025 04:03 PM (/R1DT)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 04:03 PM (bucPA)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 04:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:03 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:25 PM (VE6XX)
We shouldn't be judging them by the State they live in...
I hope you all don't blame me for California
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (VE6XX)
So which is it?
Posted by: You're Right, a Nap is Actually a Bettter Use of My Time at December 12, 2025 04:04 PM (JCLJi)
Fake Beard
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 04:04 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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SantaCon is tomorrow, bruh.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
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SantaCon is every day in your heart if you believe in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
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Hope not. SC has become a grundle of drunken and belligerent tourists and bridge & tunnel locusts causing havoc in Manhattan.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 04:04 PM (VE6XX)
Here's a question - how are the R voters in IN reacting to this?
They're watching the Colts and the Pacers.
But not the Fever.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 04:04 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December
Oh man that's a drunken floozy shit show.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:01 PM (MGB5H)
Just make sure they're not dyslexic Satanists...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (lQzuA)
And avoid the cereal convention...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 04:04 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (VE6XX)
I noticed they didn't say the year - because it's common knowledge that Trump knew him socially until he threw him out of Mar a Lago in 2004.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 04:05 PM (uWKK8)
Why? The margin was almost exactly the R+10 makeup of the electorate.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 04:05 PM (viF8m)
The problem isn't Dem ascendency. It is lack of Republican energy without Trump.
Posted by: Same Old at December 12, 2025 04:05 PM (/R1DT)
Posted by: Fen
You're going to be able to sit at home with your kid and troll hunt if you do not take everybody's advice
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:06 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 04:06 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:25 PM (VE6XX)
We shouldn't be judging them by the State they live in...
I hope you all don't blame me for California
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:47 PM (VE6XX)
So which is it?
The State not the Moron/ettes who converse here
Posted by: You're Right, a Nap is Actually a Bettter Use of My Time at December 12, 2025 04:04 PM (JCLJi)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 04:06 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December
Oh man that's a drunken floozy shit show.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:01 PM (MGB5H)
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Was fun back in the day, but now it's all drunken tourist retards and angry B&T bros and creeps. Real New Yorkers stay far away.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:06 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 03:46 PM (ix8EF)
So you endorse being a fraud and have a very dim view of friendship. Not to mention you applaud corruption and sneer at merit.
Well done.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 04:06 PM (rQwsY)
Math, dude. Put down the bowl and look at that district, then do a relative comparison.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (bucPA)
Posted by: Same Old
Dude, not everybody is cut out for networking. I know I'm not. With the exception of one summer job when I was in college (which was basically a lucky fluke), I've never networked to find a job.
Like I said above, go have a beer and chill out. Stop being a prick.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)
Hardly a disaster - saw the background that the losing candidate had sued the city to force elections to take place a year earlier than they wanted to, and the mess of that made a lot of people dislike him. It was just a case of a bad candidate.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 04:06 PM (vd6bO)
Well, this IS a Smart™(ass) Blog...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (ynpvh)
1. Get your resume done professionally
2. Get connected with a recruiter and make them love you. They are the ones with connections until you make your own.
3. Look into rolls that sort of fit.
4. You should have a pretty solid understanding of what you will be asked in an interview- write your answers down and practice them. Have a situation, a response and the outcome ready.
5. Don’t say your weakness is being too kind/ smart/ hard working. Be genuine and say how you plan to counter it. Give real examples.
6. Never, ever, ever bash your old job, employer, or give any indication you may be a high touch employee.
7. Apply for everything. Not one job at a time . Work with your recruiter here.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (ZdaMQ)
>>>>>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:03 PM (Nx5jP)
You are entirely ignorant of who I am. That you are confident in your wrongness speaks volumes about you.
Posted by: Same Old at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (/R1DT)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 03:37 PM (VE6XX)
I wonder how Bill feels about the chance he is going to be thrown under the bus to attack Trump?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at
Every fun thing for locals anywhere gets ruined by the locusts co opting it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:08 PM (Nx5jP)
What is a SantaCon?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (Nx5jP)
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Annual pub crawl where everyone is in Santa costumes. The biggest and most famous (or infamous) is in lower Manhattan.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:08 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg
Sorry; it didn't do a thing for me😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
PECS!
* flexes *
Posted by: Paolo at December 12, 2025 04:08 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)
The kids today say it's so Ohio for some reason...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 04:08 PM (ynpvh)
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Like this place!
tell me I'm wrong
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 04:09 PM (ZxPkt)
What part of it's a R+10 district and the R won by 9 do you find difficult to understand? Is that too much math for you?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 04:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 04:09 PM (VE6XX)
1. Get your resume done professionally
2. Get connected with a recruiter and make them love you. They are the ones with connections until you make your own.
3. Look into rolls that sort of fit.
4. You should have a pretty solid understanding of what you will be asked in an interview- write your answers down and practice them. Have a situation, a response and the outcome ready.
5. Don’t say your weakness is being too kind/ smart/ hard working. Be genuine and say how you plan to counter it. Give real examples.
6. Never, ever, ever bash your old job, employer, or give any indication you may be a high touch employee.
7. Apply for everything. Not one job at a time . Work with your recruiter here.
Posted by: Piper
youre not entirely wrong, however, it is often a detriment to have a job that is too far afield from the field you desire. There are lots of guys that get hired into the field right out of college, having to explain why youre clinging coffee instead of your desired job is harder
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:09 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 04:06 PM (vd6bO)
Well, this IS a Smart™(ass) Blog...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (ynpvh)
...and occasionally very very vulgar.
Posted by: Elizabeth Scalia at December 12, 2025 04:10 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:11 PM (Nmj5t)
Thanks. The last job interview he had was through a recruiter. His resume is professionally done. He has been in touch with the supervisor at his last place he worked which ended end of August.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:11 PM (Nx5jP)
Groovy. Bye.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Why be a dismissive bitch? He’s actually giving very good advice. It isn’t about your resume or your qualifications, it’s about who you know.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 04:11 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)
January 2006. In May 2011 the Conservatives had an outright majority.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 04:11 PM (rQwsY)
It's a target rich environment for reforming the Federal government. Have they even submitted a bill to eliminate the Department of Education?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 12, 2025 04:12 PM (Vh9CX)
Fen is like Trump, she pisses off all the right people.
Fen, I am always in your corner. Well, unless you go out and drown puppies or something. But other than that, I'm here for you.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: nur
spits coffee and scotch over keyboard, desk, handgun
brb
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:12 PM (Nmj5t)
Indiana Republicans are GOPe to the core because the Dems are, statewide, on the outside looking in. Astonished that Braun got in as governor.
Lived in Indiana for almost 20 years. madamemayhem & Bertram Cabot may disagree.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 12, 2025 04:12 PM (NcvvS)
Last election was a 22 point margin and the Democrats over-performed this time by 12+ points.
But you go girl.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 04:12 PM (bucPA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:02 PM (Nx5jP)
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Annual pub crawl where everyone is in Santa costumes. The biggest and most famous (or infamous) is in lower Manhattan.
_-_
But like an engineer, the Blade eventually delivers.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 04:12 PM (vd6bO)
Fen is like Trump, she pisses off all the right people.
Fen, I am always in your corner. Well, unless you go out and drown puppies or something. But other than that, I'm here for you.
Posted by: Bulg a
ecause she scolds everybody about everything?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:13 PM (Nmj5t)
Thanks. Have a good rest of the day. I need to go get dinner ready.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:13 PM (Nx5jP)
But you go girl.
Last election was when Trump was running, dumbass.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 04:13 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 04:14 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:08 PM (Nx5jP)
That previous reply to you was one of the strangest non-sequitur replies I've seen for a while here. I try not to respond to any intentional flame posts, but that one made no sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 04:14 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:14 PM (iFTx/)
What matters is the environment next November. If the economy starts roaring as is predicted it will be a completely different ballgame.
Posted by: JackStraw
Watch for GOP House retirements (they are always higher than Dems because of cmte chair term limits) and in swing Senate states, haven't bothered to look at 2026 map. Figure in new district effects.
Then you apply the macro economics and it will be tricky to use pres approval for analysis as Trump polls bad like Clinton did but that is as much personal approval instead of political.
The joker in the deck are terror attacks during the holidays--lots of plots busted up recently but the terrorists only need one breakdown. And then Venezuela.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:15 PM (WDjG6)
Like I said above, go have a beer and chill out. Stop being a prick.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)
If I wanted to network and make strategic friends to find a job, I’d go into sales or be a politician.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 04:15 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:59 PM (viF8m)
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But it could also work against MAGA, if things are good people could get complacent and not bother voting.
Posted by: Decaf at December 12, 2025 04:16 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: n at December 12
Friend, I was the VP of Labor and Employee Relations for a very, very big corporation and VP of HR for an equally large company. J is a CHRO. There comes a point where people wonder why no one has hired you. Most people hired into their fields had a job offer prior to graduation from campus recruiting and internships. For Fen’s son. I would be as adjacent as I could to the roll I want. Lab tech anywhere and build my soft skills.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 04:16 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:15 PM (zZu0s)
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You'd be amazed how much better you feel after liking and subscribing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: n
She's never scolded me. Yes, she comments, sometimes snarkily, on the Mannix girls, but that's her shtick and it's part of the fun. And often she'll post counter pictures of fully covered women that are equal to or superior to Mannix'.
Maybe, if she scolds you, you deserve scolding.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:16 PM (77rzZ)
Big ol floppy knockers or a pair of teacups?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
>I'm thinking about a nicely formed wine glass with a fully robust bouquet.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 04:16 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Could be a disrupt type troll.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (WDjG6)
Wouldn't surprise me if we have one or two issues pop up between now and next November that have an impact we can't even consider right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (viF8m)
The GOP is a bleached white by the sun, hair encrusted, dry and cracked pile of dog squeeze.
Posted by: You Shall Know Them By The Squeeze at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:14 PM (iFTx/)
I am looking at working straight through until Christmas eve and yet I seem to be a in a better mood than most.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
It's not happy hour here yet.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (MGB5H)
Like I said above, go have a beer and chill out. Stop being a prick.
Posted by: Bulg
that somebody does not enjoy something does not mean it is not necessary, it is a bit sad suggesting he not do wht is necessary to get what he wants before his first job
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:14 PM (iFTx/)
I am looking at working straight through until Christmas eve and yet I seem to be a in a better mood than most.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (zZu0s)
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I filmed two videos and feel kind of exhausted.
The ranking videos are super simple to edit, but they are a bitch to film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I did and I became positively edified. YMMV.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 04:16 PM (1zOXE)
So you are thinking Amanda Peet in Whole Nine Yards.
Excellent choice, sir.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I did and I became positively edified. YMMV.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (WDjG6)
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See?!?!?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (IaZ7c)
Take another hit, straw dick. It was 21.9 prior election and before that above 40.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (z0cWr)
Excellent choice, sir.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (zZu0s)
Surprise boobs are sometimes the best boobs.
Posted by: Nice when expected too at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (TbWk/)
Take another hit, straw dick. It was 21.9 prior election and before that above 40.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (z0cWr)
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The 2020 election was a different congressional map.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (GBKbO)
They & theirs build wealth, contacts, practical governmental knowledge, and so on. They're not going to provide a "living wage," all forms of insurance from birth- to-death, worthless (keep busy) education and so on to the masses. We are. (They and theirs will stand to the side out of the fray, like ghosts, or mouth off inexplicably like MTG.)
They all want Trump to repair some of the visible Biden damage. That's all, no deeper. And then the giveaways begin again.
BTW, my local county: (Write what you know)
"According to the Court Financial Services department, the total amount of unpaid criminal fines in Delaware County from January 1, 2022 to January 1, 2024 was $20,598,484.36."
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Delco residents prepare for a 19% property tax hike - the second double-digit increase they face in two years. (The 2025 Budget increased taxes by 23%.)
We have 50501 rallies; a potential for an HRC Ordinance that allows a panel to decide fines, punishment; a prison crisis (now operated by the county vs GEO); outrageous county legal expenses; a huge, unneeded Health Department, The Family Village, etc.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (NFX2v)
Maybe, if she scolds you, you deserve scolding.
Posted by: Bulg
yore something of a scold /scoldette pariring, scolding is her thing, she decides to come here, bitch about vulgarity , sex talk, why?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
It's just a couple of lobopodians.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:15 PM (zZu0s)
It's Festivus. The Airing of Grievances.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (z5QST)
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Remember:
Almost no elected Republicans or their staff read or watch news outside the mainstream.
It's not just that they refuse to believe, they trust the media more than they trust their voters.
So even if you showed them the truth, they'd still dismiss it.
I mean, Trump nearly assainated, Kirk killed and ... Trumps intemperate tone is the real problem in America today, they'd scold.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (aQ+cU)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:14 PM (iFTx/)
I am looking at working straight through until Christmas eve and yet I seem to be a in a better mood than most.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (zZu0s)
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I filmed two videos and feel kind of exhausted.
The ranking videos are super simple to edit, but they are a bitch to film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)
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"How do you think we feel after shooting our vids?"
-- OF Girls
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Hour before happy hour is unhappy hour.
That is the hour of the day that the delirium tremens start. Can't take medicine until 5 for it.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
It's just a couple of lobopodians.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)
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[Golf clap]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:18 PM (zZu0s)
Especially the decanting and letting them breathe.
Posted by: Fresh air is what they need and deserve at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:15 PM (WDjG6)
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Always have to watch those Pubs.
Seat-fillers.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)
"How do you think we feel after shooting our vids?"
-- OF Girls
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (iFTx/)
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I love Operatic Fundamentals videos, but they're probably really hard on the throat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)
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You'd be amazed what Google searches can turn up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:21 PM (GBKbO)
Indiana Republicans are GOPe to the core because the Dems are, statewide, on the outside looking in. Astonished that Braun got in as governor.
Lived in Indiana for almost 20 years. madamemayhem & Bertram Cabot may disagree.
Posted by: Nazdar
No disagreement here!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 04:21 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Fresh air is what they need and deserve at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (TbWk/)
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"How can they breathe under that sweater?!"
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 04:21 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 12, 2025 04:21 PM (LxER7)
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3h
Incompetent scumbag Tim Walz says it's a "pretty hard reach" to expect the Somali community to not engage in the massive theft of tax dollars, criticizes @POTUS
for calling them out:
"Each community's got this... Donald Trump brought this to the attention... very dangerous."
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 04:21 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Aetius
who wants a job opening a bra and giving the contents to somebody else to lick and sniff and otherwise enjoy?
that is what you get without networking, simpery
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:22 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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You forgot it is soon Festivus. People are practicing reciting grievances.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:22 PM (WDjG6)
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4h
BREAKING: Trump is sued by preservationists who are seeking architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project.
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 04:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)
That's what she said.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
>I'm with you. Let's go with your top 10 selections this evening.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 04:23 PM (1zOXE)
David French.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 12, 2025 04:23 PM (z5QST)
My senator voted the right way. So much for my plan to punish with my vote.
Anyway, I don’t think the GOPe screwed us because they don’t understand or care about the threat the’Rats pose.
I think they’re all too aware of the threat and voted this way because they’re afraid of the ‘Rats.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 04:23 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
>I'm with you. Let's go with your top 10 selections this evening.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 04:23 PM (1zOXE)
Topless 10
Posted by: Amiright or amiright? at December 12, 2025 04:23 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
Is that the one with Jar Jar Binks in it? I hate that character.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)
David French.
Posted by: bear w
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:23 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 04:24 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Cooldawg at December 12, 2025 04:24 PM (W5L9o)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)
Wait, I thought he was that Cylon spy?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 12, 2025 04:24 PM (LxER7)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 04:17 PM (MGB5H)
The fuck it isn't!
I am going to pour a bourbon, come back, and pull this blog over if people don't shut the fuck up.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 04:25 PM (n9ltV)
Wikipedia sez "Phenoxyethanol is a vaccine preservative and potential allergen, which may result in a nodular reaction at the site of injection. Possible symptoms include rashes, eczema, and possible death."
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 04:25 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
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Do you have internet hooked up to your tv? Several ways to do that either with a smart tv, roku box, or even some bluray players do it.
Lots of free oldish movies and old tv series on streaming channels albeit with ads and perhaps annoying time compression and editing for length.
Ditto for urban areas where you have a lot of digital subchannels with an antenna you can receive.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:25 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 04:24 PM (ZdaMQ)
That is scary good corpo HR slop and I mean that in the best way possible. They talk like space aliens trying to be human.
Posted by: Leveraging core competencies in customer facing roles at December 12, 2025 04:26 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Piper
friend, I was hired out of college straight to the top Wall Street firm and have been in top tier finance ever since. I am right.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:26 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: gp
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Well, we have to kill the patients in order to save the patients.
Posted by: public health service at December 12, 2025 04:26 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 04:27 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 04:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 12, 2025 04:27 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 12, 2025 04:27 PM (8AONa)
make mine a kaiser roll, please.
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 04:27 PM (v3pYe)
Cinnamon. Fresh out of the oven.
Posted by: Mmmm...Cinnabon at December 12, 2025 04:27 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: n
You just shot any credibility you may have had by telling us that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:28 PM (77rzZ)
‘ The voters are conservative but the party is infested with boomer idiots.’
The boomer problem will sort itself out with Father Time’s help. I hope we last that long.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 04:28 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Bulg
are you getting ready for another apology thread now?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:29 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 04:25 PM (n9ltV)
But Officer CBD, isn't that contra to the raison detre of a comment section?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 04:29 PM (zZu0s)
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Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 04:29 PM (n9ltV)
OK, first of all, the use of 'Possible' at the beginning of the sentence applies to the whole sentence. So, factoring out the dundancy:
"Possible symptoms include rashes, eczema, and death."
And then B, I conject that whatever preservative you put in there, you're going to die, whether you get injections or not.
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 04:29 PM (GHIyr)
Have to see how to get TCM back, lost it getting all HD TV
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:29 PM (Ia/+0)
"why were you a Paranomal Guide ?"
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 04
Last time we played this game I think I ended up writing everyone’s self assessment! It also spawned a corporate speak competition which I believe I won and someone accused me of cheating because I played at that level. Was I proud? No! It was vomit inducing non-speak! And I am on my phone because my iPad has a black screen of death so the typos would be even more hysterical.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (ZdaMQ)
Old and busted: Big Mercury.
New Hotness: Big Phenoxyethanol.
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: n
For what, Mr. Master of the Universe?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: sidney at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (Uy/WF)
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (GHIyr)
Bertram, here's an Illinois escapee, living in a tiny town, in a county with fewer people than the city of my third to twenty-second years. Home at last, and loving it. Cripes, Todd Young was my congressman. Been watching the pols take their turns, moving up the ladder.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 12, 2025 04:31 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Bulg
same as yesterday, go nuts, have everybody beg you to be quiet, write a half dozen apology comments.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:32 PM (Nmj5t)
NSFW
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Very nice, thanks. Do we know her name?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:33 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:26 PM (Nmj5t)
Not all degrees work the same, nor are all industries the same. Finance/accounting and the big 5/big Wall Street works by hiring all the brightest college kids, working them like dogs, and having 90% self-select and quit within 4 years.
That's not how other fields work. Piper is right. Fen's son needs to get a job and then while working that job (no matter what it is), work back towards his more ideal job. My graduate this year took a PT job that got her licensed, and parlayed that into a FT job after 2 months on the PT job (and then quit that). For a new college grad, it's WAY easier to get a job if you have a job (I mean, my kid needed 4 professional references for her FT job (and they all got contacted)- where would she have gotten them without her PT job, b/c she only had 2 jobs in college b/c they were multi-year, so only 2 there)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 04:33 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at December 12, 2025 04:33 PM (dFG8E)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: No
you have not read everything, it is best if he goes straight to his field,
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (Nmj5t)
that is what you get without networking, simpery
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:22 PM (Nmj5t)
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You do realize that sommeliers taste and sample all of the wines before they serve them, right?
Posted by: ballistic at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (3BwY8)
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Greetings, Fen ... Lately, I've noticed a lot of advertisements for hydroponic systems ... If growing vegetables without soil is something that interests your son, maybe he could find a business in your area which sells them and chat them up about either a job or an internship.
Posted by: Kathy at December 12, 2025 04:35 PM (zuKcR)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
It's 10am in Russia, which amounts to the same thing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 04:35 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: ba
yeah, who wants that, its basically cuckery to warm up a great set of boobs and hand them off to somebody else
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:36 PM (Nmj5t)
Seat-fillers.
Posted by: Axeman
Modern GOP, like Tories, is simply not a governing party. They are basically when in power, negotiators with the Dems for a scrap of pizza crust.
Trump bewildered them in his first term because he actually meant to govern and govern well. GOP toads like McConnell, Ryan, and McCain were confused as they assumed the role of the GOP was to be a doormat to the Democrats but collect some swell grifting in consequence.
In his second term, they are grimly trying to wait him out. Same thing going on with the Eurotrash, the supposedly conservative parties are trying to wait out the popular parties and back stab them on a regular basis for muh EU, muh WEF, and muh Ukraine. Vile and evil in general (lawful evil) but cowards. Leftists are batshit crazy evil (chaotic evil).
If the Democrats were not chaotic evil and Communist and that we likely would have the last free and fair election if they win control: then I wouldn't piss on an average GOP critter in office if they were on fire.
Posted by: public health service at December 12, 2025 04:36 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 04:36 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: n
I did that because I started arguing theology with the Catholics here, and decided that that was inappropriate and wanted to bury the hatchet with them.
I've got nothing to apologize to you for, Dickweed.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kathy at December 12, 2025 04:35 PM (zuKcR)
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Failing a bumper crop of tomatoes he could also grow some really dank weed.
Posted by: ballistic at December 12, 2025 04:37 PM (3BwY8)
I've got nothing to apologize to you for, Dickweed.
Posted by: Bulg
it is in the thread smart guy, everybody saw what you did, why you had your apology tour.
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:37 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (ZdaMQ)
Delco residents prepare for a 19% property tax hike - the second double-digit increase they face in two years. (The 2025 Budget increased taxes by 23%.)
We have 50501 rallies; a potential for an HRC Ordinance that allows a panel to decide fines, punishment; a prison crisis (now operated by the county vs GEO); outrageous county legal expenses; a huge, unneeded Health Department, The Family Village, etc.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (NFX2v)
Bulgaria's government is collapsing over riots about lower taxes than that. It may impede their entry into the EU
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 04:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Piper
are you really a paranormal guide?
mechanical to paranormal very interesting not sure if it is totally logical or illogical, it is interesting
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: ballistic at December 12, 2025 04:39 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:19 PM (Nmj5t)
Well, you are famous about bitching that people aren't getting into enough flame wars, so fair is fair.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 04:40 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindl
yeah, however, flame wars about boobs and sex is not the same as bitching and moaning about the hq. Think of it as arguing over who the hottest whore in whorehouse, vs standing outside trying to close the whorehouse
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:41 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 04:25 PM (GHIyr)
IT IS FOR THE CHILDREN, H8R!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 04:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:26 PM (Nmj5t)
Your name is Geoffrey Epstein?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 04:48 PM (rbvCR)
Oh.
Never mind.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 04:49 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 04:34 PM (Nmj5t)
Could be, but then again he could show that he learned something outside of his field that would put him ahead of other people who have the same credentials. Like business management, customer service, equipment maintenance, or even "showing up on time every day instead of most of them" which is a big thing for new hires in starting positions.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 04:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kathy at December 12, 2025 05:12 PM (zuKcR)
Look at the numbers.
Miami was 100,000 fewer votes than last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:44 PM
Miami is also being taken over by Muslims and Saudi Arabia.
A Foreign Islamic Government Just Opened an Investment Command Center in Miami – And No One Asked the People of Florida
In February, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez proudly announced something no one in Florida voted for:
“The Saudi Investment Promotion Authority is opening its first-ever Invest Saudi office right here in Miami.”
He said this on stage at the FII Priority Summit — the Saudi state-backed investment conference often called “Davos in the Desert.”
This year, it was held on American soil - in Miami - with Donald Trump and major global power brokers applauding.
And in the middle of the ceremony, something unprecedented happened:
Saudi Arabia officially planted its first sovereign investment office in Florida – and only its second in the United States.
X: https://bit.ly/4iRO1l3
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 05:59 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: hurricane567 at December 12, 2025 06:38 PM (1V/nS)
Posted by: Augusto Perez at December 12, 2025 08:20 PM (a5gr2)
'republicans' in Indiana OWN 4/5's of their legislature and couldn't do this?
Paymasters.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 13, 2025 08:19 PM (iXm17)
BLM Grifter Indicted for, Get This, BLM Grifting
Criminals gonna crime.
A federal grand jury in Oklahoma City has delivered sweeping charges against a longtime Black Lives Matter figure, accusing her of siphoning donor money into a personal slush fund that allegedly financed Caribbean vacations, luxury shopping, and a string of real-estate purchases. According to reporting from Breitbart News, prosecutors say the case exposes how parts of the BLM movement operated far from the charitable mission donors were led to believe they were supporting. Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that 52-year-old Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson -- the executive director of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City since 2016 -- now faces 25 felony counts, including twenty charges of wire fraud and five more of money laundering. U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester confirmed the indictment, which carries maximum penalties adding up to 450 years in prison and millions in fines. Senior Justice Department officials, speaking exclusively to Breitbart, framed the case as a test of their commitment to rooting out corruption inside organizations that have raised enormous sums under the banner of racial justice. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the prosecution shows "how some in the group's leadership allegedly used donor money to bankroll their own lifestyles," adding that the department has "zero tolerance for any kind of fraud perpetrated against the American people." FBI Director Kash Patel echoed that message, telling Breitbart his agents are "following the money" wherever it leads.In totally, completely, 100% unrelated news: "Tax the Rich" Socialist Socialite Alexandria Donkey-Chompers dropped $50,000 of donor money on luxury hotels and restaurants during her "vacations" from her "job." All over a three month period!
... Between June 2020 and October 2025, she allegedly deposited more than $2.35 million in returned bail checks directly into her own accounts. The DOJ says that money then financed: Trips to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for Dickerson and associates
"Tens of thousands" in retail shopping
Over $50,000 in food and grocery deliveries
A personal vehicle
Six Oklahoma City properties, purchased either in her name or through an entity she controlled Prosecutors also accuse Dickerson of filing falsified annual reports with AFGJ that concealed the personal spending and claimed all funds were used for permissible charitable purposes. ... If convicted on all counts, Dickerson could face one of the most severe fraud-related sentences in recent memory -- a dramatic fall for a figure who helped lead one of the state's most visible activist organizations during the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped almost $50,000 on hotels and meals in Puerto Rico in the third quarter of this year -- as well as renting a San Juan venue where she was caught on tape grooving at an August Bad Bunny concert. AOC's principal campaign committee shelled out $680.52 on July 28 to stay at the lavish Hotel Palacio Provincial, along with another $1,507.26 on Aug. 29 and a whopping $9,440,79 on Sept. 29, according to third quarter federal campaign finance filings -- even as the "Squad" rep on her social media accounts denounced gentrification that was taking place on the island. The "first-class," "adults only" Palacio Provincial boasts of being "situated within an historic early 19th century building" with "transcendent hints of the structure's grand colonial past." On Aug. 25, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress also paid $3,861.20 to Hotel El Convento, another 19th century property touting its "old world charm and elegance," the Federal Election Commission filings show.
In all, the campaign forked over $15,489.77 for lodging in Puerto Rico between July 1 and Sept. 30. At least $10,743.13 was spent on meals and catering services on Aug. 25 and Sept. 29, per the FEC filings for that period. ... Ocasio-Cortez's campaign spent more than $23,000 on "venue rental" at the same location, the Coliseo De Puerto Rico, on June 24 and Aug. 25. It's unclear whether the expenses were related to the Bad Bunny shows. ... Fox News first reported on the filings, and a campaign manager for the congresswoman, Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben, responded in a statement to the outlet that Ocasio-Cortez "regularly travels to Puerto Rico to support local causes and host events that require both staff and security." "She is deeply proud of her investment in grassroots organizing and will continue to be active in advocating for both people on the island and the millions of Puerto Ricans in the diaspora," Hidalgo-Wohlleben added.
Throughout the third quarter, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign spent thousands of dollars more on various "boutique" hotel stays and expensive food vendors on the US mainland -- including as part of her "Fighting Oligarchy" tour with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Those outlays included $6,600 for stays at the Hotel Vermont in Burlington. Ocasio-Cortez's campaign coffers also were used for $2,000 lodging at the Thompson Central Park Hotel in Manhattan -- and a $3,000 stay at the Arlo Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
Other expenses included $6,300 for a meal at Italian restaurant Ama in the capitol's Navy Yard neighborhood. Another $11,500 was shelled out for dining in DC, Vermont, the Bronx and Latham, NY, ice cream company Mr. Ding-a-ling.
🚨 An executive director with Black Lives Matter allegedly used her position to steal donor money and enrich herself. She has now been charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Thanks to @FBIOklahomaCity @TheJusticeDept and local partners for their work on this case. pic.twitter.com/sEtR5QZ7d7
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 11, 2025
CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST: Campaign filings show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent tens of thousands of dollars in Puerto Rico over the summer, forking over checks to cover:
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 11, 2025
—luxury hotel costs
—pricey meals and catering services
—a "venue rental" where music superstar Bad Bunny… pic.twitter.com/Mrd9wuC52q
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:22 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:24 PM (CWTWj)
It should be a surprise then that leftwing activists take any opportunity they get
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 02:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: huerfano at December 12, 2025 02:25 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:25 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: huerfano
Embrace the power of 'and'.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 02:25 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (5IH8V)
Posted by: Cheesecake and a Tab at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Cheesecake and a Tab
It's Braums round these parts.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (MGB5H)
That's not what Jasmine Crockett says!
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (uTeza)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (3/kEz)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
It gets better. Her sisters are named Layonda I Just Called To Say I Love You Dickerson and Shaquonda You Are The Sunshine of My Life Dickerson.
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:28 PM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 02:28 PM (uWKK8)
Because of...wait for it...Racism!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 12, 2025 02:28 PM (F4p3X)
Posted by: huerfano at December 12, 2025 02:28 PM (98kQX)
Just getting her reparations you know
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:28 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (uxVjF)
It gets better. Her sisters are named Layonda I Just Called To Say I Love You Dickerson and Shaquonda You Are The Sunshine of My Life Dickerson.
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:28 PM (xNHSX)
She's had more than enough pizza pie, that much is apparent.
Posted by: That's no moon...or maybe sorta is at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
I get it now!! Just like "Lion of the Senate, Man of the People (Woman really, drowning in the back of his car.)"
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (Riz8t)
Just getting her reparations you know
Posted by: Skip at December
Federal
Court in OK. That ain't left.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (MGB5H)
They are downright "aquiline"
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (uxVjF)
I was thinking "equine."
Posted by: To each their own at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 02:31 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Major Award at December 12, 2025 02:31 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 12, 2025 02:31 PM (URO9T)
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LMAO...there was a black kid I grew up with who used to laugh at the bizarre names some black parents chose. His name was Henry (preferred Hank). I hadn't heard from him in years, and then last year I got an email with an article attached where the black girl's name was "Methadone".
I knew right away who had sent it to me. Hank the Tank (good football player).
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 02:31 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 02:31 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 12, 2025 02:31 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:32 PM (/+FOE)
Because of...wait for it...Racism!
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She's in Oklahoma. She's going to do time.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: TANK ABRAMS at December 12, 2025 02:32 PM (IUmF8)
Posted by: Dave's not here at December 12, 2025 02:33 PM (kp5iD)
Posted by: Major Award
Jazzmine. Cause she does all those different accents. Like Meryl Streep.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)
blinding wit
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 02:33 PM (1wjle)
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When that BLM grifter sits around the house, she sits *around* the house!
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 02:33 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 02:33 PM (Riz8t)
She's been engaged for over 3.5 years.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 02:33 PM (NpAcC)
Equine?
Posted by: Archimedes
An aquiline nose is beaked, like an eagles. (not curved, but the Roman nose that has the sharp bend.)
Her gums reminded me of an eagle's beak. Bent in the middle and sticking out.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:34 PM (uxVjF)
My Cheri Amore, pretty little one that I adore, your the only my heart longs for....Stevie Wonder never saw this one.
$50K large for food and groceries...LOL!
Posted by: Cheri at December 12, 2025 02:34 PM (oiNtH)
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When that BLM grifter sits around the house, she sits *around* the house!
Posted by: Crusader at Decem
When you have sex with her you have to slap her thigh and ride the wave in.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:34 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 02:35 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 02:35 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 12, 2025 02:35 PM (s/0Zp)
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 02:35 PM (C24tU)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 02:35 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:35 PM (CWTWj)
Because of...wait for it...Racism!
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She's in Oklahoma. She's going to do time.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)
Are you telling me that Judge Boasberg doesn't have jurisdiction there???!!! Well, if he doesn't, somebody on the left will figure out how to give it to him.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 12, 2025 02:35 PM (F4p3X)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)
No. NO!!! Please!!! Anything but that!!
Posted by: Time at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Paco at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (2L+MU)
When i worked for government, I was limited to a flat hotel and meal rate. Anything beyond that was out of my pocket.
I truly despise these people.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (2WIwB)
She's been engaged for over 3.5 years.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Speculation is because if she does, then her new husband would have to fill out congressional financial disclosure forms. Engaged, not so. So he can inside trade, accept payments from assholes for lobbying, etc. all without much if any disclosure.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (I7V7v)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox
They get swindled the swindlers go to prison. Best of both worlds.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (MGB5H)
There isn’t a single thing this dunce can claim she’s done for her alleged constituents. Not one.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (PM/iv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: El Mariachi
I LOVE the breakfast buffets at Hampton Inns.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Paco
Given reelection rates, they figure that they can spend all that they can take in because that money will keep rolling in over their career. Plus, some is probably squirrelled away in number accounts abroad or in relatives names, trusts, etc.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:37 PM (WDjG6)
When i worked for government, I was limited to a flat hotel and meal rate. Anything beyond that was out of my pocket.
I truly despise these people.
Haven't you heard? Anyone who works for the government is a rotten, lazy burden on the taxpayers, living in luxury and lighting cigars with $100 bills.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 02:38 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 02:38 PM (1Nv0l)
I truly despise these people.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (2WIwB)
Some per diems are more purdy than others.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:38 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 12, 2025 02:38 PM (RQ8Pa)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Maybe not, but Oklahoma City is the Minneapolis of Democatia.
Posted by: mindful webworker - in my opinionated opinion at December 12, 2025 02:38 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber at December 12, 2025 02:38 PM (pcnhy)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
Is Golden Corral still around? I thought Covid did it in.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 02:39 PM (PFs9e)
As El Rushbo always said, feminism is a mechanism to funnel unattractive women into the mainstream of society.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:39 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:39 PM (/+FOE)
Assuming she actually bought those like every million dollars criminal
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:39 PM (Ia/+0)
I truly despise these people.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (2WIwB)
And it has to be a low average level for the area. And the per diem is the absolute max, you're not getting but a fraction of that.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 02:39 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 02:39 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 02:40 PM (PM/iv)
Posted by: Bulg
Don't you get tired of the adults wearing their PJs down there? Nothing worse than the asshole soccer teams kicking their balls around at breakfast time too. They actually expect me to give them back.
Fools!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 02:40 PM (cYBz/)
Odds that this fat farm animal walks? High.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)
You been heah foah...weeks! You go now!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 02:40 PM (Riz8t)
- flagging her own foot
That's two out of four right there.
Someone get started on engraving her Darwin Award trophy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:40 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2025 02:40 PM (pkeXY)
When i worked for government, I was limited to a flat hotel and meal rate. Anything beyond that was out of my pocket.
I truly despise these people.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Your previous job does not make you electable in the PNW. When you move to FL or TX it will be a bonus.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:41 PM (lQBYU)
But we'll see.
Posted by: Axeman
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Snort!
Threadwinner.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:41 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
Moons Over My Hammy. Yummmmmmm
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:41 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:41 PM (2ocoG)
So for four years, this was all done on Joey Shitbrains' watch, and nobody did anything about it? Odd, I tells ya!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)
But we'll see.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 02:39 PM (krQz2)
I feel sorry for the tree that this low-hanging fruit is hanging from.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 12, 2025 02:41 PM (F4p3X)
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:42 PM (xNHSX)
I truly despise these people.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (2WIwB)
well, congratulations, it is still coming out of your pocket.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 02:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 02:42 PM (PM/iv)
Lobopodians! More obscure critter references from Elric!
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 02:42 PM (rbvCR)
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When that BLM grifter sits around the house, she sits *around* the house!
Posted by: Crusader at Decem
When you have sex with her you have to slap her thigh and ride the wave in.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:34 PM (MGB5H)
Afterward you roll over three times and you're still on top of her.
Posted by: Belt Size: Equator at December 12, 2025 02:43 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:43 PM (2ocoG)
How many pounds of spaghetti can that porker pack away?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 12, 2025 02:43 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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That judge that let the Somalians go, was that in Oklahoma?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:43 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:42 PM (xNHSX)
Haha
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 02:43 PM (I7V7v)
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:42 PM (xNHSX)
*adjusts monocle*
*smooths lapels*
*opera clap*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:44 PM (Vq1pX)
How many pounds of spaghetti can that porker pack away?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 12, 2025 02:43 PM (Yp6az)
This makes me suspect she thinks she's a wine connoisseur.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 02:44 PM (I7V7v)
Your mama's so fat, during a full moon she turns into a wear-house.
Your mama's so fat. she goes out dancing in heels and comes home in flip-flops.
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:44 PM (xNHSX)
I bet you could stand 10 yards away and (a) she couldn't hit you, (b) she probably couldn't hold her arm up for more than one shot without being winded, and (c) she sure as hell can't run after you.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:44 PM (uxVjF)
Dan Crenshaw
I mentioned it yesterday: Youtuber Shawn Ryan is in feud the one-eyed TX Representative.
It all started when Shawn Ryan criticized Crenshaw for extravagant spending, namely hiring some ridiculously high-priced DJ.
Crenshaw made the Big Mistake of hiring a lawyer to send a STFU letter to Ryan. Now a small feud is a national story.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 02:45 PM (0FkWM)
Lobopodians! More obscure critter references from Elric!
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)
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The Blade, he has time on his hands ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 02:45 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:45 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Maybe not, but Oklahoma City is the Minneapolis of Democatia.
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You're thinking of Tulsa, not Oklahoma City. If that lardass lived in Tulsa she'd not only be a "reverend" and a BLM grifter but she'd also be mayor and head of her HOA.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:45 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:46 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)
Mamdani said, "We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about."
i think one problem he wants to solve is ending the homeless crisis by making homelessness legal. tents for all
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:46 PM (CWTWj)
I mentioned it yesterday: Youtuber Shawn Ryan is in feud the one-eyed TX Representative.
It all started when Shawn Ryan criticized Crenshaw for extravagant spending, namely hiring some ridiculously high-priced DJ.
Crenshaw made the Big Mistake of hiring a lawyer to send a STFU letter to Ryan. Now a small feud is a national story.
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Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:46 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (WDjG6)
*******
Reminds me of women that won't marry their baby-daddy so they can collect welfare even though they're living together as a couple. Vaccines.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 02:47 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:47 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 02:45 PM (0FkWM)
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Dan Crenshaw is a faggot.
Thanks for your service in the SEALs, now kindly fuck off and STFU.
Posted by: Howard Johnson at December 12, 2025 02:47 PM (3BwY8)
You know why I think Crenshaw is fucking dumb?
Not because he stupidly said, on camera, on microphone, he'd "fucking kill" Tucker Carlson. That's not so bad because it leaves room for Reasonable Doubt.
But this Stupid Texas Shithead, right after, says, get this, "I'm not joking."
Noooooo. You fucking idiot. You literally said The Thing You're Never Supposed To Say.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 02:47 PM (0FkWM)
i think one problem he wants to solve is ending the homeless crisis by making homelessness legal. tents for all
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:46 PM (CWTWj)
The difference between tragedy and comedy is not so much time as it is proximity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:47 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 02:47 PM (HXT0k)
How many pounds of spaghetti can that porker pack away?
Posted by: bonhomme
Hideously entitled folks di shit like this all the time. They'll order two or three of everything and may or may not take even one bite. They don't care about being wasteful - why should they? It's not their money.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 02:47 PM (cYBz/)
I just made that one up
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:48 PM (/+FOE)
I bet you could stand 10 yards away and (a) she couldn't hit you, (b) she probably couldn't hold her arm up for more than one shot without being winded, and (c) she sure as hell can't run after you.
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ABC thinks she'd be perfect as an enforcer in a show called "The Equalizer".
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:48 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 02:48 PM (PM/iv)
Thanks for your service in the SEALs, now kindly fuck off and STFU.
Posted by: Howard Johnson
To be honest, his military record is kinda patchy.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 02:49 PM (1Nv0l)
Crenshaw is really, really dumb. This was already known, but it's always good for it to become more known.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:49 PM (77rzZ)
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ISWYDT
Posted by: Howard Johnson at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Soothsayer
I am not privy to any of the facts surrounding this but, if my sense of human nature is accurate, I'd guess that Crenshaw is monumentally jealous of Ryan and his wild successful podcast.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (cYBz/)
Fucking everyone's a SEAL. Hold your breath in a pool for a bit and go on a shitty camping trip for a few days and they're slapping a Roman numeral on your arm FFS.
Half of BUDS is probably just learning how to set the lighting right so your green screen looks good.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (PM/iv)
I'm torn here because I kinda think anyone giving money to BLM deserves to be swindled.
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox
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Same. If I had all the money in the world, I'd take out full-page ads or billboard ads in the corporate headquarters cities of those companies that donated millions. Maybe a split screen of their donation and the fraud it actually purchased.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (1N/bM)
How is this possible?
Wait, looking at her picture.......
She hasn't pushed herself away from the table too many times.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (N39Ws)
How many pounds of spaghetti can that porker pack away?
Posted by: bonhomme
Hideously entitled folks di shit like this all the time. They'll order two or three of everything and may or may not take even one bite. They don't care about being wasteful - why should they? It's not their money.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 02:47 PM (cYBz/)
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Probably a lot of people at that dinner. It's part of the reason these cocksuckers are mostly untouchable. There's dozens if not 100s of remoras floating in their orbit that will do anything to keep it that way.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (iFTx/)
Dan Crenshaw
I mentioned it yesterday: Youtuber Shawn Ryan is in feud the one-eyed TX Representative.
It all started when Shawn Ryan criticized Crenshaw for extravagant spending, namely hiring some ridiculously high-priced DJ.
Crenshaw made the Big Mistake of hiring a lawyer to send a STFU letter to Ryan. Now a small feud is a national story.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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He's got an election coming up. Very good.
Hope he's got a decent opponent.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (lQBYU)
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Eyepatch McCain is under a lot of stress lately since he has had his district lines re-drawn.
Might have been made easier for an actual conservative to win the primary.
IDK, but I kinda think he may be soon to retire ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (HXT0k)
Dan Crenshaw
I mentioned it yesterday: Youtuber Shawn Ryan is in feud the one-eyed TX Representative.
It all started when Shawn Ryan criticized Crenshaw for extravagant spending, namely hiring some ridiculously high-priced DJ.
Crenshaw made the Big Mistake of hiring a lawyer to send a STFU letter to Ryan. Now a small feud is a national story.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Crenshaw must be burning down mentally. He recently got banned from foreign junkets by GOP leadership due to drunken behavior on one of them. Now he picks a fight with a joe with 5.3 million followers and the increase in wealth for Crenshaw is public record that Sean is citing.
Mebbe too much grifting ends up driving some people nuts when they realize that everyone is laughing and pointing at them. The guilty flee when no man pursueth.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Nope. Nor will they acknowledge that without black gun violence, the US is pretty indistinguishable from Europe in terms of gun crime stats.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (2ocoG)
Someone the other day said he was a Seal. You'd think a certain amount of common sense would be required.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Crusader
Tulsa certainly has its shortcomings, but OKC is worse. State capitol, big(ger) city, lefty academic surroundings. The one Dem or at least RINO congresscritter from Oklahoma is always the OKC area rep.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (wBaIH)
There's eight of them hiding inside.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 02:52 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (1N/bM)
The split screens would be super funny since several of the Large Mansions bought with BLM donations burned down in the LA fires earlier this year.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:52 PM (2ocoG)
Nah. They're pussycats if they don't get paid to get angry.
Posted by: Tashella at December 12, 2025 02:52 PM (Q7yzj)
Fucking everyone's a SEAL. Hold your breath in a pool for a bit and go on a shitty camping trip for a few days and they're slapping a Roman numeral on your arm FFS.
Half of BUDS is probably just learning how to set the lighting right so your green screen looks good.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (Vq1pX)
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How do you know if there's a Navy SEAL at your party?
Don't worry, he'll tell you.
Posted by: Howard Johnson at December 12, 2025 02:52 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:52 PM (zZu0s)
Thought might have to work tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Vasco de Gamasutra at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (qXqZm)
The above mentioned STFU letter, of course, prompted Shawn Ryan to share DM's.
Crenshaw told [implied] Ryan his "buddies from 6" will take care of him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (0FkWM)
Posted by: Soon at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Jazzy Crockpot said so.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (MGB5H)
Someone the other day said he was a Seal. You'd think a certain amount of common sense would be required.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (zZu0s)
I'm a tight seal!!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 12, 2025 02:54 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 02:54 PM (oAqqA)
Posted by: Soon at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (qUkBO)
Not close to skeletal enough.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: nraendowment at December 12, 2025 02:54 PM (ig2DD)
Posted by: Vegans and Crossfitters at December 12, 2025 02:54 PM (IaZ7c)
Posted by: Kamala at December 12, 2025 02:55 PM (/+FOE)
Crenshaw told [implied] Ryan his "buddies from 6" will take care of him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (0FkWM)
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Crenshaw's willingness to make overt or thinly-veiled threats on record should stand as proof that he's a complete retard.
Posted by: ballistic at December 12, 2025 02:55 PM (3BwY8)
They blamed them on fracking, but I suspect it was just a coverup of this person tripping and falling down.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 02:55 PM (0Aoc4)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Link goes to X (Ryan's account)
https://tinyurl.com/y2bfvkae
Includes Crenshaw's cringe text to Ryan about his friendz at 6 notifying him that Ryan mentioned (not even by name) that Crenshaw was hiring a $150k DJ for his two 40th Birthday swank parties.
That is what started the ball rolling.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:55 PM (WDjG6)
Crenshaw told [implied] Ryan his "buddies from 6" will take care of him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 02:53 PM (0FkWM)
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Motel 6? Six Flags? The fags at his gay 69 orgies?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:56 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:56 PM (/+FOE)
Do you which SEAL I hate the most?
Don Shipley. I hate that old queer weirdo, who spends his entire life pestering old sad sacks for "stolen valor" bullshit. Yes, I said bullshit.
Most of the guys Shitley harasses & harangues did actually serve...honorably and whatnot. But Shitley doesn't like it if they embellish a little bit at the bar or wherever. Fuck You, Donk Shitley.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 02:56 PM (0FkWM)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:56 PM (CWTWj)
Either way, she should....
nevermind
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:57 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 02:35 PM (C24tU)
I expect a lot of the stolen money was taxpayer dollars to begin with. USAID?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 02:57 PM (npFr7)
I would prefer to be sent to a white prison, if you would be so kind...
Posted by: Tashella Magilla at December 12, 2025 02:57 PM (ittVa)
Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 02:57 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2025 02:57 PM (ZaZ9u)
Was he using his own money or taxpayer money? If it was his own money he was spending, what the f**k business is it of anyone else?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:58 PM (zZu0s)
Referring to devgru as "six" to threaten a guy who was actually in devgru.
What a fucking poltroon.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:58 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 02:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gnats local 678
I think that you may have hit upon why he is so miserable (see the drunken junket ban by House leaders plus the own goal with Sean Ryan fight).
Asshole probably was told like MTG that they had no chance to win statewide. That means all that is left for Crenshaw as he has his generational wealth is a long time sniffing backsides of House leadership.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:58 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 02:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:58 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 02:59 PM (g47mK)
That is why staying in office is everything.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2025 02:59 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)
Should MAID be made equivalent to murder on a nationwide scale we will all watch aghast when the discovery comes out.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 02:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gnats local
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I mean, everyone has a right to die. Not just a right, but an obligation.
If the law is involved it must mean medically assisted. So sounds like MAID. (Medical Assistance in Dying)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 03:00 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 03:00 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Link goes to X (Ryan's account)
https://tinyurl.com/y2bfvkae
Includes Crenshaw's cringe text to Ryan about his friendz at 6 notifying him that Ryan mentioned (not even by name) that Crenshaw was hiring a $150k DJ for his two 40th Birthday swank parties.
That is what started the ball rolling.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:55 PM (WDjG6)
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The cringiest thing about this is that hyper-cringe poster "promo" from Crenshaw announcing the party. Holy shit. Flaming hands, exploding background, ridiculous pose and expression. Holy shit.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:00 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 03:00 PM (0U5gm)
Well, Bulg, I'll explain it you.
You see, it's like this: Crenshaw did spend his *own* money. But the problem, ol' chap, is HOW Crenshaw has amassed his quick fortune -- which is enough to blow $$ like he Didn't Earn It.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 03:00 PM (0FkWM)
Looks like a Steve Toth, current TX House Rep out of Montgomery Co. is the strongest to run against him, esp. since the new map includes less of Harris/Houston.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 03:01 PM (HXT0k)
Hey, Sharon. How are you?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg
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Posters and fliers were distributed. Fair game just like AOC. Our elected scum think they are nobility and above all laws and criticism.
Sean explains, ". . . he had questioned how Crenshaw was able to throw an "extremely expensive party" and asked how someone "making $174,000 a year can afford that kind of a lifestyle."
And all of what Sean says is public record as to Crenshaw's amazing trading success in stocks making him a multimillionaire (IIRC in the tens of millions of bucks) all while being a full time congress critter.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 02:40 PM (PM/iv)
Don't sleep on the top bunk
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2025 03:02 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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A one eyed man only sees one side of things.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:02 PM (WDjG6)
They blamed them on fracking, but I suspect it was just a coverup of this person tripping and falling down.
Posted by: SimoHayek
Heh.
There are Okla quakes that have nothing to do with fracking, but, yeah, there were some that were, quite educational, and they quit doing that which caused quakes. So they said.
One quake years ago had me practically still asleep, bolting toward the front door to see why there was a rumbling semi-truck out front. More like a locomotive. That was a good 'n.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Madrid moved West at December 12, 2025 03:03 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 02:58 PM (g47mK)
Former "operators" on social media are the wettest bunch of whiny drama queens out there. Like a bunch of perimenopausal women sniping and bitching all day every day but they all have to share the same hair salon because it's the only one in town.
I swear half of them were probably never even in the military and the other half were remfs.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 03:03 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:04 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 03:04 PM (6so/y)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Madrid
I'll go to the gym or wherever and everyone is like did you feel that quake last night or this morning. And everytime I'm like nope.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 03:04 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 12, 2025 03:05 PM (R/m4+)
The amount could be...all of it. Every freaking dime we send, plus what they print.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 03:05 PM (ittVa)
They blamed them on fracking, but I suspect it was just a coverup of this person tripping and falling down.
Posted by: SimoHayek
Earthquakes generally begin about 7 miles beneath the surface, while fracs are done just hundreds of feet down.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 03:06 PM (0U5gm)
That is why staying in office is everything.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Yep. That sort of thing way back when was kept more subdued but Congress critters today are all like YOLO. They figure, like criminals, that doggone it, they worked hard to get their wealth by grifting (crime in the case of criminals).
Judge Joe Brown on his TV show had a memorable episode where the theft victim was allowed to get restitution from the thief. The thief was obviously pissed when his shit was being taken. I watched some junk tv in grad school--sue me.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:06 PM (WDjG6)
Can't seem to find it, but after the "guy who shot Bin Laden" disgraced himself with his tawdry publicity efforts, the commander and command master chief of Nav Special Warfare released an open letter to the force. It was a very well crafted 10-megaton smackdown on how publicity was the opposite of wise practices and tradition.
Good friend from jr. high days did 25+ years in the teams, talk with him all the time, you'll never know his background unless you ask or someone tells you. He still hasn't shared almost anything specific about what he did. Young current SEALs at the range always have to be asked if they're on the teams, in my experience, and they're sheepish when answering - but there are clues and I've always been right when I asked.
Carry on.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 03:06 PM (U/Byj)
In my first post, I was gonna tag Crenshaw as the Myopic Mariner, but I figured that was too flowery for this crowd.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 03:06 PM (z39dS)
-- Shih Tzu
Posted by: Soothsayer
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A one eyed man who is cross eyed sees things at a slant.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:06 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 12, 2025 03:07 PM (n5tGW)
The media/Dems were trying to claim the double-tapped drug runners were "shipwrecked mariners" so there are definitely some jokes to be made along those lines.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 03:07 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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So you're saying it was global warming?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (uxVjF)
Carry on.
Posted by: rhomboid
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You rarely if ever see mentions or media sightings of Delta Force veterans nor AF pararescue.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (WDjG6)
You need to be elected before you can legally swindle.
Posted by: pawn at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at December 12, 2025 02:51 PM (lbDMw)
Every university in the nation is lefty. It doesn't mean the population is. OKC has a conservative mayor and definitely helped getting a conservative governor and legislature elected. The only reason Lankford won a senate seat is that he ran as a hardcore conservative. Doubt he'll be re-elected.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (EyfuW)
Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson.
Looks like she's carrying 60 lbs of blubber per name.
Lucky she didn't stick a "Ms" in front of her name. She'd have an instant heart attack.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (iJfKG)
Asshole probably was told like MTG that they had no chance to win statewide. That means all that is left for Crenshaw as he has his generational wealth is a long time sniffing backsides of House leadership.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:58 PM (WDjG6)
Then Crenshaw really is a cretin, because if he wants the power and position as much as he wanted that insignia he needs to put in the time, effort and planning.
Temper tantrums don't win. They earn you time outs.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 03:09 PM (rbvCR)
Where did Fake News come up with "double tap?"
I know what the phrase means.
But why is Fake News using it? Is it a term used at the Pentagon?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 03:09 PM (z39dS)
Or the coolest sounding Special Forces title, Combat Controllers.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 03:09 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 03:06 PM (U/Byj)
It's because i know that is the truth that the carnival barkers and valor theives (or worse, the valor tarnishers) amongst them piss me off so much.
And I'm just a pussy-ass civilian. I can't imagine what those quiet professionals must think about it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 03:10 PM (Vq1pX)
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While that may be true, strangely enough the earthquakes in Oklahoma stopped shortly after cracking down on certain fracking practices. The quakes were a thing...and then one day they weren't, just like an on and off switch.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
They have something called "Hell Week" where you have to stay awake for the whole week. The upside is that they feed you five times a day.
Sorry, not interested.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)
People forget, the early stories of teachers going full trans with kids were from rural Texas. Education majors all come from leftist universities, and are usually among the farthest left to come from them.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Ian S.
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Those guys too. Navy has better PR for its special forces but I think Army wants its guys in the shadows and has the Green Berets as a face for their spec ops. Pararescue and Combat Controllers are in a service run by fighter jocks.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:12 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:12 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (WDjG6)
"Yeah, i was just a medic. Nothing fancy."
- typical PJ
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 03:12 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 03:12 PM (MeJZi)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 03:06 PM (0U5gm)
That's OK, I am also afraid of the electrical fluid leaking out of the sockets in the wall, and killing me by shocks.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 03:12 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: w
it is stupid , having any of your specials doing anything publicly, exposes way too much information
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:13 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
That's the Nolan one, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)
Sorry, not interested.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)
Hell week? That just sounds like regular grad school with less booze.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 03:13 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 03:13 PM (z39dS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
That's the Nolan one, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)
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Affirmative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)
Temper tantrums don't win. They earn you time outs.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Mid life crisis when you are stuck climbing the greasy pole of power in politics. Crenshaw always struck me, even way back at the start of his career, as a person on the make. His nasty responses to any critics, now recently highlighted have probably put paid on rising further either in House leadership or for higher office.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:14 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 03:14 PM (gm9Sb)
Or the coolest sounding Special Forces title, Combat Controllers.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 03:09 PM (2ocoG)
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Commando Ninjas
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (TN0g+)
The comment above is pure horseshit.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 12, 2025 03:14 PM (g8Ew8)
-Anna Puma
I read up to here and thought this should be good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:15 PM (Nmj5t)
Eminent Monsterdom, each jocking to become the 'it' of the moment as Jeffmass sweeps the world and forWAR'd and it's consequences break down your door in a 3am raid.
Last chance.
It's Now or Never.
Save the World or Save your Self.
https://tinyurl.com/TULSI-ArmyOfONE
https://tinyurl.com/HEGSETH-PickelRICK
Doing the Right thing now, country before party will propel her to be one of the best president's since Eisenhower.
People could look back at this era of forWAR'd and wonder -- how stoopid were you to believe and do that?
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhoRtheTargets
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-ctHARRIS19takedown
Not One Battle after Another; One LIB after Another.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-futPrezGabbardStepsUp
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 12, 2025 03:15 PM (l657C)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2025 03:15 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (TN0g+)
The comment above is pure horseshit.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
There were earthquakes in OK long before fracking existed.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 03:15 PM (MGB5H)
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Mine, or the post above mine?
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 03:16 PM (TN0g+)
Temper tantrums don't win. They earn you time outs.
Posted by: Kin
shawn ryan has 5 something million yt subscribers, crenshaw got 200,000 or so votes for his seat, is that a smart fight to go with
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:16 PM (Nmj5t)
I'd say he nailed his foot in place by his comments and inaction on the J6 guys for the past five years. All of these fuckers have dropped into the toilet in my eyes. And I already had no heroes or illusions.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:16 PM (zZu0s)
One time a colleague texted "Jones is mad!" - we all thought someone had been killed, as literally nothing would cause Jones to show any concern or emotion. Turned out to be something else thankfully.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 03:16 PM (U/Byj)
U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester confirmed the indictment, which carries maximum penalties adding up to 450 years in prison and millions in fines.
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With good behavior, she can cut that sentence in half.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2025 03:17 PM (HLgI3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 03:17 PM (zZu0s)
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But not in the numerical cluster that seemed to have showed up around...2010...and ended roughly around...2016?
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 03:17 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 03:14 PM (gm9Sb)
Take I-240 instead. It's on the map.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 12, 2025 03:18 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 03:18 PM (wzUl9)
- typical PJ
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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I knew of a few guys that went pararescue and you are correct. Only one combat controller though who was changing fields to civil engineering (moi) due to some physical issues. Same with a former AF mechanic that wanted a post closer to family home with no jet mechanic positions available in his field at my base.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 03:19 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (TN0g+)
I don't think those quakes were caused by fracking. More likely deep-well injection of wastewater at very high pressure, which may have lubricated stuck faults and allowed them to move. Actual fracking is done usually at lesser depths (depends upon depth of the target formation, of course), and it deliberately causes thousands of tiny "earthquakes" that can only be detected by sensitive seismometers, which can be used to track the progress of the frac job. Once the frac job is complete, there should be no further "quakes".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 03:19 PM (npFr7)
I don't know who said to be nice to people on your way up, because you will surely meet them on your way back down, though I have always honored that point of view.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 03:19 PM (rbvCR)
I think the PC term is "Casino-Americans".
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 03:19 PM (2ocoG)
Conservatively, he has somewhere around 1B.
Not bad.
Posted by: MJ at December 12, 2025 03:20 PM (XOmY9)
And BLM took in hundreds of millions
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Don't think the erosion in standards on publicity related to that. More a generational thing, and perfectly parallel to decline in all institutions.
Where's the idiot commenter, incredibly misinformed and driven mad by some daddy complex, who always comes and barfs up perfectly inverted generational nonsense? Well here's a potentially great example of how backwards he's got it.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 03:20 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: bi
even if they do not believe in gravity, gravity believes in them, so
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:20 PM (Nmj5t)
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Well put! Once you posted it I remember seeing words to that effect in the papers years ago.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 03:20 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 03:16 PM (TN0g+)
You need to look at it again.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 12, 2025 03:21 PM (g8Ew8)
There were earthquakes in OK long before fracking existed.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025
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According to my mother, there was one in Tulsa when I was very small. We were in our apartment -- I was less than a year old -- and Mom got out of bed for something, carrying me, and the quake hit and the ceiling collapsed right onto the bed. Would have killed me if I'd still been in the bed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 03:22 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Crusader
Theoretically, but not completely proven, the cracks and proppant left in the zone could be providing a type of lubrication that would make earthquakes felt more easily.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 12, 2025 03:22 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Dayum! That's crazy.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 03:22 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:20 PM (Nmj5t)
Gravity doesn't believe in Tashella so much as it's been indoctrinated
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 03:22 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Wow. That's an amazing story.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 03:22 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (CWTWj)
Don't think the erosion in standards on publicity related to that. More a generational thing, and perfectly parallel to decline in all institutions.
Where's the idiot commenter, incredibly misinformed and driven mad by some daddy complex, who always comes and barfs up perfectly inverted generational nonsense? Well here's a potentially great example of how backwards he's got it.
Posted by: r
why would that not be a factor, its a significant difference between Army and navy sf, even seals say its a thing
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (xcxpd)
And BLM took in hundreds of millions
BLM never stated what the money was for, so what exactly did the donors think it was going to?
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (2ocoG)
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About the same as us blue-eyed devils.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 03:24 PM (POnfk)
One time a colleague texted "Jones is mad!" - we all thought someone had been killed, as literally nothing would cause Jones to show any concern or emotion. Turned out to be something else thankfully.
Posted by: rhomboid
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Close knit community. Plus OPSEC for obvious reasons even when retired.
About the same as intel op types--they never truly 'retire' and often do jobs long after their official retirement.
You can talk to one and never know what they did in the past and frankly I want it that way. Not a big one for war stories. Heard enough from several Vietnam vets as a kid that served under my father or later worked for him as he hired vets on occasion.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:24 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 12, 2025 03:25 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
From what I see on YooToob clips, Lankford still usually talks a good talk. The walk, not so much.
He would not be missed. Unless someone worse took his place. But he has the power of Incumbency on his side.
Article of mine from 2014 on Lankford v Shannon primary contest:
https://bit.ly/mw-ok-sen-2014
Posted by: mindful webworker - Once a Senator, forever a Senator at December 12, 2025 03:26 PM (lbDMw)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Ah, the many nics of Scoggie Doggie. Have to ask Fenelon for whatever his current one is.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:26 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 03:26 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: w
is he needing scolding or something?
Posted by: n at December 12, 2025 03:28 PM (Nmj5t)
Posted by: Ian S.
Protection money from public shakedowns. Jesse Jackson and later Al Sharpton among others developed this sort of protection racket long ago as a means of generational wealth by grifting.
Mafia in prison for such activities can only look on these guys with awe as they did the same thing but got charged and convicted for it.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=417673
Posted by: mindful webworker - noo noo noodling at December 12, 2025 03:30 PM (lbDMw)
Whoa Black Betty, BLM-a-lam
Black Betty had a fund, BLM-a-lam
That she used for fun, BLM-a-lam
Really didn't mind, BLM-a-lam
Robbin' suckers blind, BLM-a-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, BLM-a-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, BLM-a-lam
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2025 03:30 PM (wtvvX)
He would not be missed. Unless someone worse took his place. But he has the power of Incumbency on his side.
Article of mine from 2014 on Lankford v Shannon primary contest:
https://bit.ly/mw-ok-sen-2014
Posted by: mindful webworker
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Depends if the old camp for children scandal involving Lankford as manager comes to light again. You can do a pretty good hit ad with what Lankford said in depositions regarding the lawsuit over children being molested at that camp. And then follow with his vacant idiotic remarks on the last big bipartisan push for amnesty under Biden as McConnell's meat puppet.
But it would take a fair chunk of change to try to take out a sitting senator.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (vqA1l)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
Wouldn't have good behavior right from the start resulted in no jail time at all?
I know - crazy talk.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (cYBz/)
Melting pot of cultures has large chunks.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
Wouldn't have good behavior right from the start resulted in no jail time at all?
I know - crazy talk.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 03:32 PM (cYBz/)
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We live in strange times when a valid point -> "crazy talk".
But these are Crazy Times.
Posted by: Axeman at December 12, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)
Negroids gonna 'rhoid.
Posted by: Marooned at December 12, 2025 03:49 PM (kt8QE)
Former "operators" on social media are the wettest bunch of whiny drama queens out there. Like a bunch of perimenopausal women sniping and bitching all day every day but they all have to share the same hair salon because it's the only one in town.
I swear half of them were probably never even in the military and the other half were remfs.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 03:03 PM (Vq1pX)
There's this 'roided out douchebag on yootoob who goes by Valhalla PMS or some shit like that. It seems like the ONLY thing he posts is shitting all over every spec ops name he can look up in Wikipedia, whether they're online or not. Spare me the obvious tactical douchecanoes with their HGH/Planet Fitness muscles, tattoos, perfectly styled gay lumberjack beards and 5.11 wardrobe.
Fact is, the scariest, most deadly Delta trooper ever to serve (Mike Vining) looked like a high school Rubik's Cube champion who played trombone in the marching band.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2025 04:20 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at December 12, 2025 04:35 PM (dFG8E)
Tyler Robinson Smirks and Swaggers in Court, Showing No Remorse for Murdering Charlie Kirk
It's almost as if he likes his chances at trial.
Tyler Robinson, accused in Charlie Kirk killing, smirks and chuckles during first in-person court appearance, with family in tow ... Thursday's hearing was the first time Robinson was physically present and seen in court. Prior hearings were virtual. Robinson looked unfazed by the grim charges he faces -- which accused him of brutally shooting the 31-year-old Kirk on Sept. 10 during a Turning Point USA talk at Utah Valley University in front of a crowd of thousands.Why is this man smiling? Because he knows he won't be convicted. He has leftist supporters who want to reward him for murdering Charlie Kirk, and he has members of the pseudoright -- Candace Owens acolytes -- who think he was framed by the Deep State to cover up Erika Kirk's murder of her husband. So get ready for the acquittal. It's coming, and Tyler Robinson knows it. And don't think "At least the acquittal will finally convince Candace Owens to stop with her insane grifting practices." No, it won't. She's smile, she'll laugh, and she'll say, "You see, I was right! The acquittal proves it was Israel and Egyptian Planes who killed Charlie Kirk!"
🚨: JUST IN: Charlie Kirk’s assassin Tyler Robinson strolls into court SMIRKING like a man who didn’t just destroy a family, steal a father from precious children, and attack an entire movement.
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) December 11, 2025
First time seeing him in person… and he’s proud of it.
No remorse. No humanity.… pic.twitter.com/GhFxPYkhuX
The cruelty that has been heaped on Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika, since his assassination three months ago has been unrelenting. First it was leftist ghouls cheering on his cold-blooded murder, in front of a crowd of 3,000 people at the first stop of his Turning Point USA "American Comeback Tour" outdoors on the campus of Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. The ghouls gloried in the death of the young father of two, mimicked the instant the bullet hit his throat, created T-shirts with his image and gushes of blood to celebrate the moment his voice was silenced. ... But what has been far worse than the leftist haters are right-wing-adjacent grifters and nuts pushing wicked conspiracy theories about Charlie's murder, pointing the finger at his colleagues, friends and even Erika herself. These fantasies have been peddled primarily by former prominent TPUSA luminary Candace Owens on her hit podcast, which gets more than 40 million views for her wildest rants. She has claimed Israeli Mossad agents, men in maroon shirts, the US military, Egyptian planes, Jewish donors and the French government are somehow complicit.She also claimed some kind of Mormon cult centered around... bee worship might have had a hand in it.
See, if there's no exit wound, that means that one of Charlie Kirk's own staffers must have shot him from the stage using a lower-powered pistol bullet.
She endlessly plays videos of that awful day and theorizes about the "exit wound" or lack thereof.
Just asking questions? Worst of all, she torments Charlie's widow by suggesting in a disingenuous "just asking questions" way that Charlie was "betrayed" by the people who loved him most.Do you know this next part? Her "proof" that Charlie Kirk was "betrayed" by those closest to him is... a dream. She claims that Charlie Kirk cane to her in a dream and told her to smear her friends and wife as conspiracists in his murder.
Her proof? A dream. "I had a very vivid dream whereupon Charlie told me that he had been betrayed." She has thrown suspicion on Charlie's pastor, his chief of staff, his chief operating officer, his spokesman, the camera guy, you name it.Finally, Erika Kirk broke her self-imposed silence -- trying to let Candace Owens' hatred, jealousy, and narcissism just burn itself out naturally, only to realize it would never burn out because the money is too good -- to tell Owens to stop. She didn't name Owens, but it's clear who she's talking about. (Owens herself says it's clear that Erika is calling Owens out.)
She plays clips of their reactions the moment Charlie was shot and claims they looked guilty. She is suspicious that TPUSA supposedly won't give her their footage of Charlie's murder that she laughably claims she needs so she can "debunk all these internet conspiracies." "Everything about this is wrong," she said. "I helped to build that organization, so I am almost the perfect person to discern what is normal and what is abnormal." She also claims: "I've chosen to be on the side of goodness and truth no matter what the cost is." Her daily tantalizing drip feed of absurdities cashing in on her former friend's death has made her millions of dollars.
Remember, she patiently allowed Candace Owens to defame her for months to let her burn it out of her, and now that silence is taken as an admission she was in on it.
Finally, on Wednesday, Erika Kirk erupted in a controlled demolition of Owens and all who amplify her toxicity. "This is righteous anger, because this is not OK. It's not healthy. This is a mind virus," she told Harris Faulkner on Fox News' "Outnumbered" program in an appearance to promote the publication of her husband's final book, "Stop, in the Name of God." "I want justice for my husband, for myself, for my family, more than anyone else out there. But here's my breaking point on that. Come after me, call me names, I don't care. "Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever." "But when you go after ... the people that I love, and you're making hundreds and thousands of dollars, every single episode going after the people that I love [saying] because somehow they're in on this? No." With courage and graceful intensity, she explained why she so far has remained silent in the face of ever more cruel clickbait: "My silence does not mean that somehow, Turning Point USA, and all of the handpicked staff that loved my husband -- and my husband loved them -- is somehow in on it."
At one point, Erika turned to the camera and pointedly addressed the conspiracy theorists: "Just know that your words are very powerful, and we are human. My team are not machines, and they're not robots. We have more death threats on our team and our side than I have ever seen ... What are we supposed to do? Relive that trauma all over again?" The best part was that Erika never mentioned the name of the woman who TPUSA insiders say is afflicted by "first wife" syndrome. They say Owens is consumed by jealousy that Erika has been appointed CEO of TPUSA, following Charlie's express wishes to the board and colleagues and captured on video. "She is a woman scorned," one TPUSA insider said of Owens. "She was iced out of TPUSA ... She was not close to Charlie -- he kept her at arm's length. He knew the best tack on her was to keep her on ice ... She was not invited to Charlie's wedding."
Owens has repeatedly claimed she wants to meet with TPUSA staffers to get to the "truth" and claimed she would go anywhere and debate anyone to prove her dream of Charlie Kirk is accurate. TPUSA agreed to a public debate -- and then Owens made excuses and said that date wouldn't work for her. And nor would any other date.
You might think that Erika Kirk telling her to stop might make her stop. Why would you think that? Well, because Candace Owens said she would stop if and when Erika Kirk told her to stop. You see, for months, when people told Candace Owens that it was rotten to smear a widow as culpable in her husband's murder, she claimed that only two people could make her stop spinning her conspiracy theories about Erika Kirk -- her husband (or "husband," as other conspiracy theories posit), or Erika Kirk herself. So... because Candace Owens is truthful and honorable and not motivated by insane levels of narcissism, entitlement, and belief that Erika Kirk should have put Candace Owens in charge of Charlie Kirk's organization, she immediately honored her promise and agreed to no longer spread conspiracy theories about Erika Kirk being an accomplice in her husband's murder. Just kidding!
... At first, Charlie's family and colleagues decided to ignore the bile. But last week, his inner team, who have been running his podcast since he died, finally invited Owens to come on the show and clear the air. They have spent all week negotiating with her but say she keeps making excuses for why she can't go to their studio in Phoenix, including that there is a local "cartel" that wants to assassinate her. She has also claimed that French President Emmanuel Macron -- who is suing her for defamation over her prolonged claims that his wife, Brigitte, is really a man -- has ordered her assassination. Of course, she claims there's an Israeli in the assassin squad.
Erika Kirk did not say “please stop lying” in this clip. She said “please STOP” as in, shut the fuck up Candace. You’re literally beating on a widow because you can’t fucking STOP.
— The Misfit Patriot (@misfitpatriot_) December 12, 2025
It takes a special kind of evil to do this. pic.twitter.com/oBsfoOLaqa
Often-incoherent podcaster Candace Owens fired back at Erika Kirk as the widow finally addressed the conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk's death and Turning Point USA, claiming the widow "missed the mark" and accused her of using "the exact same emotional strategy deployed by BLM." "It is a positively ABSURD notion that you cannot critique a 150 million dollar organization because the CEO says they are like a family, and are grieving," Owens railed on X. "It is the exact same emotional strategy deployed by BLM in the wake of George Floyd's death, when I called out their shady financial dealings." Erika Kirk has been publicly pushing back for the first time on rampant conspiracy theories flying around the internet by conservative activists about her husband's assassination -- among them Owens, a once close friend of Charlie's. ... She's repeatedly gone after Erika, who was named CEO of Turning Point USA -- the massive conservative activist organization founded by Charlie. Owens later attacked Erika on her podcast for not addressing the rumors publicly as the new CEO of the company, but as a mourning widow. "It completely missed the mark for me. I am sorry. It just has. But the good news is that she is now un-murking the water in terms of her intentions with this massive political organization," Owens said on her podcast after Kirk's TV appearance.What she means is that Erika Kirk, by telling Owens to stop defaming her, has confirmed that TPUSA was in on the murder plot all along. This is why I have been so vitriolic about conspiracy theorists and their maniacal belief that anyone pushing back against the conspiracy theory is just further proof of the conspiracy theory being right. Every time I've railed against conspiracy theorists lately, I have been thinking of this ugly Low-IQ grifter whore. I guess i should have said so. When confronted by one of her own lunatic supporters about her promise to "stop" if Erika asked her to, Candace Owens, get this, prevaricates. She claims that Erika didn't tell her to stop, but to stop lying, and because she's not lying (she claims), she'll keep on doing what she does. Except she lied right there, didn't she? Not only is Candace Owens refusing to "stop" as she promised she would do if asked, but she's doubling down and attacking Erika Kirk more, accusing her of showing "no passion" in talking about the murder of her husband -- wink, wink -- and giving "ChatGPT answers" when accused of murder. Another of Candace Owens' conspiracy theories is that Erika Kirk is hiding his body by not publicizing the location of his grave. Which she assumes would be immediately vandalized and desecreated by the left, forever. But no, this is further proof she is hiding the body to cover up her own involvement in his murder. She says she is building a beautiful memorial for Charlie Kirk, which will be public. But she seems to, understandably I think, want to keep the location of his actual grave private. Erika Kirk says she is in fact scared that the jury has been "tainted" by both left-wing support of left-wing killers and conspiracy theorists claiming that she is the Real Killer of her husband. Erika Kirk and TPUSA haven't sued Candace Owens for defamation and intentional infliction of extreme emotional distress... yet. Owens should remember that when Alex Jones accused parents of children killed in a school shooting of pretending their kids had been killed, a jury absolutely destroyed him with a multi-billion dollar judgment. That is way too much, but Owens should keep in mind that when you accuse people who are the victims of a tragedy of being complicit in that tragedy, a jury can decide that your lies are worth billions of dollars.
Remember, Candace Owens is just "anti-Zionist" not anti-Jew you guys.
Allie Beth Stuckey
@conservmillen Candace commented on my Instagram post saying I only disagree with her baselessly implicating Charlie's friends in his murder because my great-grandfather whom I never met was Jewish. Okay. Also, apparently, she was Charlie's only true friend. I have been extremely, explicitly clear that Charlie and I had a strong friendship that was completely professional. I'm grateful to be one of many that he shared stages and wisdom with over the years. Charlie's inner circle -- his friends, his coworkers, his WIFE -- are the only ones who loved and knew him best and they are the ones we can trust to seek true justice on their behalf.
This woman had a great grandfather she never met who was Jewish so Candace Owens -- not antisemitic, mind you, just "anti-Zionist" -- accuses her of being "tribal." Tucker Carlson decided to weigh in on the Jews Killed Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theory, of course. The grifting potential is just too tempting. He does his usual cowardly signalling that he likes the conspiracy theory without having the guts to sign his name to it. He says he supports Candace Owens in her search for "truth," and says that she is acting in good faith when she accuses Erika Kirk of arranging her husband's murder. Then he says he does not trust the FBI, thereby discarding the evidence against Tyler Robinson.
Tucker here doesn’t mention anything about the fact that Tyler Robinson was seen at the crime scene, left his DNA on the towel covering the rifle and the trigger, CONFESSED to the murder and outlined his motive to his trans lover, and was IDENTIFIED BY HIS OWN FAMILY.
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) December 11, 2025
This is… https://t.co/d4G2EqcLkG
I used to say "No, Tucker isn't just doing this for the money, he's a Nepo Baby and heiress (yes, I said heiress) to the Swanson frozen food fortune. He doesn't need the money." Now I'm not so sure. It can't be a coincidence that Tucker Carlson always goes where the clicks are. And it can't be a coincidence that the guests he keeps having on to spread propaganda just happen to be paid foreign agents.
Tucker's anti-Christian and pro-Islamist positions are becoming more and more apparent. https://t.co/lJhBDDo3p1
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 11, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 12, 2025 01:18 PM (5IH8V)
@disclosetv 2m
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Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 01:18 PM (mlg/3)
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She did directly - in the upcoming CBS Townhall. I saw the clip !
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Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (0sNs1)
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (xcxpd)
oh cool. I forgot that was coming.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (77rzZ)
That trial was a farce and railroad. This trial was the trial run for railroading political opponents. AJ was an easy target, sure. But of course it didn't stop there.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (SwyyQ)
Utah -> Mormons -> Beehive State. It's all right there in front of you, sheeple!
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (3nLb4)
And then there are psychopaths on the so-called right like Candace swearing that he's innocent because it was really the French Foreign Legion what done it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Their stupidity and mendacity is exceeded only by their supporters.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:24 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (/HDaX)
I just heard that. " " " Buying " " " a house, right. He will be taking possession of it, let's leave it at that.
Another foreign government bribe for Mr. America First.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Bulg
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They offered him an acorn to turn state's witness.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (1Nv0l)
Gotta say, the idea that we have secret bee worship section is a new one.
Certainly the bee is one of the many symbols we use, but worship it? Um, no. And the bee symbol itself is mostly tied to Utah and pioneer history; as the Church goes worldwide the bee is fading as far as any sort of relevance goes.
That said, the word "Deseret" is translated as honeybee, so if you see Deseret, it is associated with the bee.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (0Aoc4)
Frankly unless she's being spit-roasted wearing high heels and stockings and nothing else, I don't care about her or anything she says or does.
She's a con artist, a greedy grifter and very probably mentally ill. Which means the spit roasting scene is probably also fetish porn and not just regular porn.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Dr. Whatsamatta at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: four seasons at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (3ek7K)
I thought it was Jew Space Lasers? I can't keep these things straight.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (qIS88)
Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: huerfano at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (98kQX)
she was always like this. She made herself some big controversy in high school and at the age of 18 or whatever gave a TED talk about her victimization. Her thirst for attention is Saharan.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (1wjle)
...but meeting someone going by "Jack Ruby" will change his expression.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (T7fic)
Tucker has also lied about his father's role in the CIA and also about being in a plane crash in Pakistan.
The nice way to put it, he's a serial fabulist.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (VnsnO)
Why not? He doesn't think he did anything wrong. He thinks he's a hero, and incredibly tens of millions of Americans agree.
My prediction: This fudgepack beats the rap. I don't think it will even be close.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Piper
Qatar.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: brak at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (0Aoc4)
Yes of course you're right, Ace.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (7BRdR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (/+FOE)
He *may* dodge the death penalty.
Killing someone for their beliefs ain't gonna go down well in Mormonland.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Guy who think this shit is crazy at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Piper
Qatar.
Posted by: Bulg at December
Even better. Insert eye roll.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (oraVG)
It started out like that but the mood all changed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ace
Wasn't she somehow involved in the Gamergate thing, and that's what put her on the map?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 01:29 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:29 PM (0Aoc4)
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It can be found in the Mormon Quarter of Jerusalem.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:29 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (0Aoc4)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (xcxpd)
He's talking out of both sides of his mouth like Gavin Newsom.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (NpAcC)
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It can be found in the Mormon Quarter of Jerusalem.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:29 PM (9ipOP)
Ok, I laughed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (dfIr7)
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Heh, Rookie mistake.
-Zombie OJ Simpson, author of 'IF I did it'
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:31 PM (Dv3i1)
Yes of course you're right, Ace.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day
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That's standard stuff. I believe SCOTUS weighed in on this at one point. Can't prejudice the jury.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:31 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (0Aoc4)
Interesting. I always took the beehive symbol to be emblematic of industriousness...git 'er done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 01:31 PM (npFr7)
I don't think so. She claimed she had been doxxed or defamed or something (irony!) so she wanted to create a site called "Social Autopsy" where poeple could dox the doxxers. Two left-wing women -- one of them, IIRC, the left-wing gamergate whore Zoe Quinn -- told her that was a terrible idea, because if you create a site where people can post unvetted defamatory material about internet "harassers," of course the harassers will just use the site to dox more victims.
That was 100% right. But Owens is a low-IQ narcissist who thinks that every stupid idea she has is brilliant, so she began spiraling out claiming these left-wing women were trying to trick her into abandoning her brilliant idea.
She was a left-winger then. She says she became "right wing" because these left-wing women tried to "trick" here.
She has never been right wing. She has always been a left-wing narcissist looking for attention and fame.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:32 PM (1wjle)
Like with Fani Willis, it depends WHERE the trial is being held...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:32 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:32 PM (g47mK)
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Done with Megyn's version of dissembling too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (9ipOP)
she's always been a lunatic. See post 62.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (0Aoc4)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Oh ffs this has been addressed over and over.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
Depends, are you just asking questions?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (D+mpw)
That said, the word "Deseret" is translated as honeybee, so if you see Deseret, it is associated with the bee.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (0Aoc4)
I always liked the Beehive Highway signs.
who knew that they were signposts to secret rendevous points?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Oh ffs this has been addressed over and over.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (1Nv0l)
Go on. It's on topic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)
Even have one or two around here, and an apologist or two. Can't win 'em all.
Posted by: Hopefully they're seen for what the really are at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)
*******
This^
Thank you ace!
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (cS1cw)
Thanks. So Candace was not involved in Gamergate, but the Gamergate woman was one of her "harassers." I knew there was some connection to Gamergate.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (0Aoc4)
Time to make wood chipper the default, then.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (npFr7)
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Talk about a divisive message!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (L/fGl)
Both worked for FNC well past the point of knowing exactly what it was.
I pointed this out sometime ago and it was generally rarely enjoyed. But there are always clues, and sometimes they don't need Sherlock Holmes.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (C24tU)
Posted by: runner
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Some nics just like pulling people's chains here. That is an old AOS schtick and a tiresome one.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (WDjG6)
I think he's just an evil son of a whore
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (emBoF)
It's deeper. He fancies himself a daring iconoclast, someone with experience and history inside the Great Beast but who cut loose and has the guts and wherewithal to expose it. I surmise that no small part of his psychology is the fact he's an ex-alcoholic and needs the alternate "dry-drunk" fix or high supplied by his platform and rabble-rousing claims.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (VnsnO)
I haven't seen much of her speaking, not even at Charlie's memorial but how would you act if you knew someone was micro-analyzing every word and movement you made looking for something, anything, to attack you over?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (3nLb4)
Now I'm not so sure. It can't be a coincidence that Tucker Carlson always goes where the clicks are.
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You mean Doha?
Oh sorry, I thought you said where the "bucks" are.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (9ipOP)
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The "Republican" governor of Utah asserted that the Democrat Josh Shapiro would make a fine president.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (TN0g+)
Very strange, I tells ya!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: The Tinman at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: pawn at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (EMg+d)
who knew that they were signposts to secret rendevous points?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (uWKK
Oh honey...
Posted by: Sticky situation ahead, 12 miles at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)
As such, the word Deseret entered the greater Utah cultural area... and the original name for the territory that wanted to become a state was the territory of Deseret. Congress changed it to "Utah." And chopped down the boundaries. The beehive was the state symbol back then and still is now. The "University of Deseret" became the University of Utah, but the Deseret News is still one of the two leading newspapers in the state.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (0Aoc4)
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Does Dutch media know anything about Dutch prisons?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (Dv3i1)
https://tinyurl.com/bdfv9pae
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:37 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 12, 2025 01:37 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:38 PM (/+FOE)
Candace was so outraged and insulted that she decided that not only did she hate that Jew Ben Shapiro, she hated ALL Jews for All time, and she hated them so much that she decided that the "Final Solution" had actually been a pretty darn good idea. And she wanted to see it carried out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:38 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Tell me more.
-- Pete Buttigieg
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)
If his demeanor shouts out, "Yeah, I did it. Watcha gonna do about it?" then his chances may not be as good as his cockiness would suggest.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (ESVrU)
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This is why the Brits would draw and quarter people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (C24tU)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,
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The bullet ricocheted off one of his top vertebrae and deflected down his spine, eventually smashing C4 or C5 or thereabouts.
He was dead on impact from his neck being torn out, but even without that he would have bee dead from the spinal injury.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: American Barf Association at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Oh ffs this has been addressed over and over.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (1Nv0l)
Indeed. Ricochet off his body armor at the edge, up into his neck. It was plain to see in the vids that very day.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (ynpvh)
If the conservatives wish to survive and flourish, they must impose their moral vision or perish.
The time for talk is over, obviously.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (XV/Pl)
...did y'all know that his sister has ginormous breasts?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)
I read that in Tucker's serious voice, then I added his goofy laugh at the end.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (Dv3i1)
I haven't seen much of her speaking, not even at Charlie's memorial but how would you act if you knew someone was micro-analyzing every word and movement you made looking for something, anything, to attack you over?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (3nLb4)
She's naturally going to be very cautious and measured considering the circumstances, and add in she's probably being constantly coached by attorneys, PR people and crisis communication consultants for obvious reasons. So it's not going to be like a freewheeling conversation at the pub on a Friday night.
Posted by: Considering the circumstances she's doing fine at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: His Therapist (you know he has one) at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (T7fic)
One more and we could have a pretty watchable tag team mud wrestling event.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (g47mK)
- he shouldn't have gotten away with it.
- leftists shouldn't be assassinating their opponents.
- leftists shouldn't be targeting their opponents for assassination
- leftists shouldn't be cheering the assassination of their opponents
- leftist's opponents should be free to engage in whatever debate they wish whenever and without fear of violence
But, instead, we will be glad that as we are all hunted down, one by one, and the entirety of the media cheer on their dogs, there is at least a chance a leftist somewhere will be prosecuted for it.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (3uBP9)
...did y'all know that his sister has ginormous breasts?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)
She does?
Posted by: Kingdom of the Khazars at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (ynpvh)
I could be totally wrong, of course... I haven't followed this particular conspiracy theory except I know that leftists use it, when they aren't gloating about Kirk being murdered.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (0Aoc4)
Posted by: American Barf Associatio
I wonder what she looks like in her furry costume.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (Dv3i1)
Don't bother, we know what you really mean and also you're a pussy without the courage of your convictions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (uQzkA)
Her Cup Foameth Over.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (IaZ7c)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (TN0g+)
I saw that and he also chastised Trump
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (VE6XX)
i keep making the "dry drunk" point. I learned about that from Dan Riehl. I think it refers to an alcoholic who stopped drinking but who still has the quick temper his brain learned to have from being pickled for years at a time. Someone else told me it's when an alcoholic gives up the sauce but never addresses the problems that led to the alcoholism in the first place.
Remember when Andrew Sullivan went from being sexually rapt by George W. Bush to despising him? There is a type of political junkie for whom the only thing that matters is believing in some quasi-religious political ideology with a zealot's fury. It doesn't matter what is believed, just that the Believer Believes. Thus, Andrew Sullivan can go from writing "Mash Notes to Bush" on Monday to denouncing him as Satan by Saturday.
Same with Tucker Qatarlson, as Mark Levin calls him.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (1wjle)
Me? I would probably just take the antibiotics and keep quiet.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (WDjG6)
and get people in trouble, then claim to be a victim, like we say yesterday
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (g47mK)
"Has Charlie's murder changed how you do things or were you already locked down pretty well before that?"
Musk:
"It certainly reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake, and you're dead, and it only takes one mistake."
youtu.be/bz5Hjk40FD4?t=758
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: American Barf Association at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (qUkBO)
Even Richard "The Nightstalker" Ramirez had groupies.
Posted by: Wimminz can be strange at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (G1OIb)
She has claimed Israeli Mossad agents, men in maroon shirts, the US military, Egyptian planes, Jewish donors and the French government are somehow complicit.
__________
She forgot the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, the Bilderbergers and the Elks.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (tgvbd)
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Vincent Di Maio was America's leading gunshot pathologist and wrote the literal book on gunshot wounds used a key legal treatise on the matter. Mas and Jim Cirrillo (now deceased for about ten years) were good friends with Vincent.
Basically, high powered bullets depending on construction can do all sorts of seemingly weird twists and turns when they hit obstructions. The old Mark VII bullet from the Brits in 303 was a battlefield killer beyond its modest ballistics as is the 5.56 55 gr fmj. That is because when they hit any solid obstruction, bone, metal, even drywall in the case of 5.56, they become tumbling ass over teakettle aka keyholing--can happen internally shredding a body or by making truly large exit wounds. All depends on angle, force remaining in the bullet, force expended by entry, obstacles, etc. and meeting the requirement for enough ft pds to exit the human skin.
That is just for full metal jackets. Hunting bullets are often specifically designed to stay in teh body but cause immediate death because in and out means a long chase of a wounded animal. Considered inhumane.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (WDjG6)
Shapiro is utterly useless
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (IaZ7c)
I just uttered a profanity I had sworn off. What the fuck is wrong with some of you?
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (bNf8H)
Yes. At some point, the emoting needs to stop. You can be the grieving widow but not the CEO of a major organization at the same time. And calling for critics or Owens to "stop" was never going to work in Owens case nor pass muster in a free speech society. It only feeds the beast. In my view, she needs to assemble her team and calmly, impersonally, rationally expose Owens' lies and Owens herself (and how she reflects sicknesses in the culture). Also, to enunciate the qualities and virtues of her husband and by extension the value of Turning Point.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (VnsnO)
Her Cup Foameth Over.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (IaZ7c)
Snizz Fizz
Posted by: That's super gross at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (0Aoc4)
Thank you. I knew there is a Mormon connection to the word "Deseret". You see it all over Utah on various signs, and I see "Deseret Industries" on some buildings in AZ, too. I had assumed it was some antique variant of "desert", which was wrong.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (npFr7)
Being silent until now is exactly what lawyers would have recommended if that was the plan. Perhaps it is.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (C24tU)
For now, she keeps upping the lies and hate to our side b/c it's working to get us to respond. Our only response should be "Candace is a known grifter. She represents no one but her payers' interests."
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (tOcjL)
-Zombie OJ Simpson, author of 'IF I did it'
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:31 PM (Dv3i1)
Remember the father of the young man who was kilt alongside Nicole won a yuuge civil judgement against OJ and was able to take the rights to the book and changed the title to:
if I DID IT
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (QGaXH)
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yeah, when you see the list of websites and projects she's started---she is a serial grifter; wherever a dollar falls on the ground, Candace can be found.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: four seasons at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (3ek7K)
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Well, maybe he watched too much Tele Tubbies as a kid?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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His bodyguard said it ricocheted of his upper vertebrae and smashed into a lower one. Not off his vest.
It looks that way too. His paralysis pose after impact isn't something you would get from the neck wound alone. It suggested spinal damage.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (VE6XX)
Yeah I will never believe that anyone won't do stuff for money just because they have money. Like Rockefeller said to the question how much is enough: "more."
But it doesn't have to be money, it could be ego, desire for connections and access, fame, etc. But the man has no principles and I think he's crazy too. That lunatic giggle during a funeral... dude.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (/+FOE)
I'm betting Tucker has slipped back into Pharma usage.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (IaZ7c)
I am officially, and completely, retired.
I feel pretty good about that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
_________
Did they tear your epaulets off and break your Ticonderoga #2 pencil over their knee?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (tgvbd)
someone just told me about this! Apparently she's always suing people or being sued by people.
except now that she married a rich homosexual I guess she's not suing people as much. (Allegedly. Though I should say it is alleged an awful lot.)
Her gay beard (allegedly) husband should probably make sure that their finances are 100% separate or else Erika Kirk will take all of his money away too.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (1wjle)
I just uttered a profanity I had sworn off. What the fuck is wrong with some of you?
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (1wjle)
Ace, some posters here are also paid to demoralize us...ignore them, too.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (tOcjL)
I feel pretty good about that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Congrats! What bar will you be buying us drinks at?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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His bodyguard said it ricocheted of his upper vertebrae and smashed into a lower one. Not off his vest.
It looks that way too. His paralysis pose after impact isn't something you would get from the neck wound alone. It suggested spinal damage.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (1Nv0l)
However it happened, he was assassinated by a lefty trans-loving furry.
Posted by: Kingdom of the Khazars at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Deep State at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (D+mpw)
I feel pretty good about that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Congrats!
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (HXT0k)
Thanks, Bulg, this thread is now boob-adjacent.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (tgvbd)
After the tearful goodbye, I tried to turn in my access badge but the office was closed so the receptionist just deactivated it and gave it back. Then I drove home, logged into linkedin, and changed my status to retired.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: pawn at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (EMg+d)
Thanks, Bulg, this thread is now boob-adjacent.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (NcvvS)
So this thread has been side-boobed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (D+mpw)
Correction: He likes FURRY cock.
Please make a note of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 01:48 PM (h4uy9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:48 PM (uWKK8)
A lot of people are listening to military types discussing terminal ballistics which is an issue. FMJ required by the Hague conventions is a different critter than hunting bullets (which are forbidden btw). Second, because most of the military bullets are designed for long range potential, you don't see the destabilizing effects (other than the original M193 55g BT) of keyholing from a bullet ballistic instability caused in part by the center of gravity as well as being boat tailed. The Mark VII got its rep from "the forward third of the bullet's interior was filled with a lighter material" with a cupro nickel and otherwise lead core. That made it unstable when it hit even skin.
Continued.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:48 PM (WDjG6)
ignoring isn't working. Her stupid videos -- she's the world's first Fake Crime podcaster -- get 40 million views.
It's time to take this cunt out.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:48 PM (1wjle)
Were I Emperor of the USA, I would decree that persons I declare to be assholes will be put in public stocks for 72 hours. A goodly supply of rotten foods shall be provided nearby, so anyone who wants can throw these at the head of the asshole. Further, an outhouse will be set-up above the head of the asshole, so anyone who wants can climb a ladder to piss and sh!t on the assholes head. And there will be more! Baseball-sized stones shall be randomly included in some of the buckets of rotten food.
Survivors of the stocks shall be locked in solitary for five to twenty years, given only bread and water, that they may think long and well about the consequences of being an asshole.
Too harsh? Not harsh enough?
Posted by: Gref at December 12, 2025 01:48 PM (5rh/l)
Thanks, Bulg, this thread is now boob-adjacent.
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They are spectacular.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:48 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (77rzZ)
Can you make it to Cheap Charlies Hangout Bar in Olongapo?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:49 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 01:49 PM (cS1cw)
It's time to take this cunt out.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:48 PM (1wjle)
hear, hear
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:49 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (1wjle)
Are you saying she has a slack snapper, Mr 'Wok?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 01:49 PM (h4uy9)
Posted by: ace
CBD already favored us with the nekkid lardass on the ottoman this morning. He must have known what was coming and punished us pre-emptively.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Avi at December 12, 2025 01:50 PM (ieodf)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (tgvbd)
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And Methodists!
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 12, 2025 01:50 PM (yNJrI)
By "women," I mean the Candice, the heiress, Megyn, MTG,...
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:50 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (ExV1e)
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Mazel.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life or something.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:50 PM (9ipOP)
I feel pretty good about that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM
Congratulations! Relax hard.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 01:50 PM (kgE5c)
and get people in trouble, then claim to be a victim, like we say yesterday
Posted by: runner
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It takes a perverse brain to enjoy that. And possibly a danger IRL.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:51 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (tgvbd)
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And Methodists!
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 12, 2025 01:50 PM (yNJrI)
It's the Lutherans and their jello molds...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: garrett
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That would explain it.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:51 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 01:51 PM (h4uy9)
One more and we could have a pretty watchable tag team mud wrestling event.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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I think maybe this Allie Beth girl would work. If not, then that Shapiro sister. I hear she has ginormous tits.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:51 PM (uxVjF)
ignoring isn't working. Her stupid videos -- she's the world's first Fake Crime podcaster -- get 40 million views.
It's time to take this cunt out.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:48 PM (1wjle)
They are fake bot views...she is irrelevant to us, and thus continue to state "she represents solely her foreign payers' interests."
Just like Drudge went from #1 by a mile to what did I say last month, 256 and irrelevance, that's the way you send Candace the same way. Start the same campaign of "ignore" - make that public - unlike, unlink, unfriend, and effectively make unimportant the feed...get Data Republican to then follow up with how few of Candace's views come from America...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 01:52 PM (tOcjL)
When I retired last Spring, the last time I had seen a colleague in person was 2019. Hadn't had a working access badge to company offices since 2009. WFH & Customer-site travel FTW!
Posted by: Nazdar at December 12, 2025 01:52 PM (NcvvS)
if I DID IT
Punctuation matters.
"If? I did it."
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 01:52 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:52 PM (/+FOE)
I feel pretty good about that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM
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Good show. What's your new hobby?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:52 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 12, 2025 01:53 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 01:53 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (tgvbd)
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And Methodists!
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Never forget the Kiwanis. They sell Christmas Trees. I know.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:53 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:52 PM (lQBYU)
I'm going to start by purging all traces of Microsoft from my domicile.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:53 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: garrett
He always stunk of fraud. Did make some funny faces though.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:53 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:53 PM (D+mpw)
Please make a note of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Beaver, furry cock: they're all hairy animals.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:53 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:54 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (0Aoc4)
You seem quite knowledgeable about all things Utah.
On a recent road trip on I-15 we observed several places off the side of the road where it seemed the residents had dug fairly large pits and pushed their old cars into them. Can you enlighten us as to what that is all about?
Some secret Mormon ritual?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 12, 2025 01:54 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The Templars.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:54 PM (77rzZ)
I tend to think this too.
Lots of inorganic astroturf, ops, and mobies out there. The Internet seems especially susceptible to this. Probably because it is a series of tubes.
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:55 PM (C24tU)
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something scuzzy about that one
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:55 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM (H0l69)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM (C24tU)
Posted by: runner
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I was a bit of a fan of Megyn for a while. Can't remember what she did exactly, but I realized at some point she was all-in on the grift.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM (1Nv0l)
Step 1 - Have an affair with your hottie underling
Step 2 - Give her a raise with school money
Step 3 - Deny the relationship Fall 2024
Step 4 - Have her break up with you b/c you're married and she can do better
Step 5 - Fail to handle that break up and stalk her for months
Step 6 - Fire her b/c she still won't go out with you
Step 7 - Have her show the school evidence of the affair and get you fired
Step 8 - Go to her house, break in, and threaten her and yourself with a knife (and possibly also assault her) before bailing to a Church to get arrested
AKA, not a bright guy
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: runner
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It takes a perverse brain to enjoy that. And possibly a danger IRL.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:51 PM (lQBYU)
Common tactic among leftists and abusers. For which there is heavy overlap.
Posted by: Checks the Venn diagram at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM (C24tU)
They probably have Fez dispensers at their temples...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM (77rzZ)
Something about Humus
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Not to mention the Illuminati!
Posted by: Nazdar at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (NcvvS)
Whether or not the government convicts him or not, some low level leftist activist murdered one of the most effective leaders on the right.
The left traded a pawn for a knight. And they have millions of pawns.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)
To know terminal ballistics, a ballistician figures type of game, bullet weight, bullet design with that weight, cost, and the needed velocity to generate optimal terminal effect. Military throws in fmj (or equivalent) as another limiting factor.
So you can get odd bounces there confounding internet experts.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (WDjG6)
I think many drunks have an overwhelming pain when they think of something in their lives, usually some failure of some kind, and they drink to ease that pain.
So I guess a dry drunk would take extreme bullying steps to show how they are superior and not failures.
(I know this because my older brother is a drunk. He spends his spare time destroying anything I do, and calling up me and my family and harassing us. He is obsessed with how inferior he is, and of course I have tried to understand what is going on.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: ...
She thinks the moon landing was faked.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:58 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 01:58 PM (uQzkA)
Lunatics have strange priorities. That was his.
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 01:58 PM (dIske)
Instead we aren't even getting a serious investigation of squirrel boy.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
The moon landing is a man! -- CandyO
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:58 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Piper
Well said, Piper.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)
ignoring isn't working. Her stupid videos -- she's the world's first Fake Crime podcaster -- get 40 million views.
It's time to take this cunt out.
Posted by: ace
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wtf?? The less sense she makes, the more views she gets. Her viewership must have morphed over to some bizarre bloc of people wandering in our midst with a single deformed finger or something.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 01:59 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:59 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 01:58 PM (uQzkA)
We'll be able to watch it as TJM's attitude on issues starts to change.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:00 PM (uxVjF)
Why would it be that much harder to spend someone to the moon and back then to send someone to orbit for months and back?
The moon isn't far by astronomical standards.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 02:00 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Nova Local
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My sentiment: She is repulsive vomit, she is NSFW; don't know which is the better way.
But there should be a way to know how many clicks are bots and how many are real. That would help make the decision.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:01 PM (lQBYU)
@disclosetv 2m
JUST IN - U.S. removes sanctions imposed on Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes — Bloomberg
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 02:01 PM (mlg/3)
@LeadingReport 5m
BREAKING: Trump administration is sending $900 bonuses to 18,000 Amtrak workers this Christmas season.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (mlg/3)
TBH I think the plan of the google oligarch that took over Drudge was just to make the site useless not really make it a tool for the left
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (D+mpw)
Is this real? How?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Qatar bots?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (lQBYU)
"So it's about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power.
And he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people. And they hate it. And they just go bonkers. They hate it. And they become obsessed with making him stop. This guy's got to stop talking.
We've got to shut this guy up. And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamplit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us. We must make him stop talking!
And there's always one guy with the bright idea, and I can just hear him say, I've got an idea, why don't we just kill him?"
Posted by: Not exactly subtle at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (TbWk/)
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Brigitte Macron Sparks Backlash For Slamming Feminist Protesters As ‘Stupid Bitches’
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (3uBP9)
That's what they want you to think.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
Orson I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 02:03 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 02:03 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 02:03 PM (L/fGl)
Are those 40 million views really just Chinese cell phone farms?
You remember they found one on East Coast, I imagine they have them all over the country and with them, they could easily get 40million views to something as corrosive and destructive to the West as Candice.
And I bet a lot of people (including our own politicians) would pay good money for that.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:04 PM (uxVjF)
Brigitte Macron Sparks Backlash For Slamming Feminist Protesters As ‘Stupid Bitches’
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (3uBP9)
Exactly what you'd expect a man to say. -- CandyO
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 02:04 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 02:04 PM (g47mK)
Ouch. (takes calming breath)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 02:04 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
On a recent road trip on I-15 we observed several places off the side of the road where it seemed the residents had dug fairly large pits and pushed their old cars into them. Can you enlighten us as to what that is all about?
Some secret Mormon ritual?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 12, 2025 01:54 PM (QGaXH)
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Well, Back in the day that's what we used to do with the cars that the vietnam war protestors we caught were driving..... The protestors were recycled and used for our new protein ration bars for the 72 hour kits.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 02:04 PM (0Aoc4)
That's curious. de Moraes was the point man in the CIA's soft color revolution against Bolsonaro.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:05 PM (NztoB)
@LeadingReport 5m
BREAKING: Trump administration is sending $900 bonuses to 18,000 Amtrak workers this Christmas season.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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One time, Trump should try to book a trip on Amtrak.
They don't have a fucking schedule. It's a guessing game to pick when they are going or coming.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:05 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: Jetto at December 12, 2025 02:05 PM (HA9nr)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 02:05 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 02:05 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:05 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 12, 2025 02:06 PM (QGaXH)
I'm just asking questions.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 02:03 PM (L/fGl)
No. Their machine only affects weather, not space.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 02:06 PM (ynpvh)
Gay men hating women is nothing new.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:06 PM (NztoB)
Step 1 - Have an affair with your hottie underling
Step 2 - Give her a raise with school money
Step 3 - Deny the relationship Fall 2024
Step 4 - Have her break up with you b/c you're married and she can do better
Step 5 - Fail to handle that break up and stalk her for months
Step 6 - Fire her b/c she still won't go out with you
Step 7 - Have her show the school evidence of the affair and get you fired
Step 8 - Go to her house, break in, and threaten her and yourself with a knife (and possibly also assault her) before bailing to a Church to get arrested
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That's got to be a 15 yard penalty.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 02:03 PM (L/fGl)
There are no dinosaurs.
Fossils are a Mossad op.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:07 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: runner
My wife speculated at the time that she and Trump had had an affair that she was butthurt about.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
I had a dream that a large hippopotamus attacked Candace Owens, and-
chewed her like a piece of bubble gum, then
spit her out and shat on the remains.
Now, I have no idea if that's going to come true or not, but fingers crossed!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 02:07 PM (iJfKG)
Asteroid, Hebroid what's the difference
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 02:08 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: runner
My wife speculated at the time that she and Trump had had an affair that she was butthurt about.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
OrangeManBad does anal?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 02:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 02:08 PM (/+FOE)
Assigning a pretty young blonde woman to be an assistant to the football team feels like an unforced error on the university's part, but yes, the coach is also a piece of work.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:08 PM (NztoB)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: runner
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Meghan Kelly is a true bitch.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:08 PM (lQBYU)
https://www.youtube.com/@Boondockballistician
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 02:03 PM
Hmmm...I need to watch more of this channel to make up my mind.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 02:08 PM (kgE5c)
So you can get odd bounces there confounding internet experts.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:57 PM (WDjG6)
Along with the work of ballisticians, terminal effect experts perform tests of bullet designs on representative targets made of ballistic gelatin covered with animal hide, human clothing, etc., as needed. Bones, real or artificial, including spinal columns and skulls, will be included in or outside the ballistic gel. I do not know if animal carcasses are still used for such tests. They used to be the standard terminal effects targets.
Posted by: Gref at December 12, 2025 02:08 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:53 PM (ExV1e)
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 02:09 PM (ESVrU)
If I was in power (China, Quatar, CAIR, Russians, Democrats,....) and this technology existed, I would use it.
- We know the technology exists. 100k phones in one location (IIRC) and you have to think there are many more of these farms.
- We know someone is using them.
So it is safe to assume our enemies are using the tech to undermine our civilization.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:09 PM (uxVjF)
Which is amazing.
He has now been judicially granted immunity from all immigration law!
This clown judge has completely discarded any semblance of judicial restraint.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 02:09 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:09 PM (Ia/+0)
No. The Dinosaurs were an Op.
You fell for it.
Like a stupid Goy.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 02:09 PM (IaZ7c)
Congratulations and welcome to the club.
I just came across a possibly useful book:
How To Survive Retirement by Steven D Price
I'm not all the way thru it yet but you might want to check it out.
Best Wishes to you
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM (QGaXH)
.......
Katy Perry has been in space since the age of 12.
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM (TN0g+)
I just uttered a profanity I had sworn off. What the fuck is wrong with some of you?
Posted by: ace
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Society moving from high trust to low trust exhibits all kinds of costs. So basically everyone is making up lists of what sources they trust and what they don't and this allows all sorts of lunacy based on pure reasoning without evidence. And thus even the lack of evidence somehow becomes transformed into positive evidence based on nothing more than feelz (and in carny influencer shill types, money behind it).
Eurotrash want MAGA split as does Uniparty, Big corporations, China, Russia, WEF, etc.
And these evil bastards are willing to pay out the ass for influencers to "just ask questions" and shill disunity on the netz whether it is Epstein, Ham Ass/Qatar, or Charlie Kirk's killing. Just as they did regarding anything where billions and trillions of bucks are on the line.
You can tell what teh big boys want by who is being silenced officially by law, not by societal disgust.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
Over the top, he could do so much better, and Trump's type is well known!
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM (g47mK)
No. The Mossad was training the dinosaurs to spy on Iran, so it was a big loss when they all died.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM (NztoB)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Crusader
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Candace Ovens has become a liability by making her strings apparent is my guess. Tucker too.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
Alex Jones, like Trump in the "bank fraud" case, didn't even get a trial. The entire court proceeding was the penalty phase. The court was not trying to determine if he had done anything wrong, but to figure out how much the the thing the judge had already decided he was guilty if was going to cost him. (BTW, I think Jones is an asshole and is best left ignored, and what he said about Sandy Hook was horrendous, but he was absolutely and undeservedly railroaded in that case.)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (0iZzW)
No. The Mossad was training the dinosaurs to spy on Iran, so it was a big loss when they all died.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM (NztoB)
snort
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Jetto at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (HA9nr)
Asteroid, Hebroid what's the difference"
Are there any Jewish joke books, a la 1000 Polish jokes with 1000 Italian jokes on the opposite page? You read it by flipping it over etc. We had one in my Polish household growing up. Jew on one side, muslim on the other could be my ticket out. Or fatwa.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (cS1cw)
I don't think Burt's paid, just a curmudgeon. IGTD I have doubts about though.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (NztoB)
Candace Owens developed a fake social skin suit as she grew to adulthood. She's no more what she appears to be than a hunting decoy or a fishing lure.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)
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Yes, it really is. And the 2 songs that end side one are Shoo Be Doo and Candy O and they were made to be played consecutively with no pause. They're epic.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:13 PM (TN0g+)
You know how hard it is to circumsize a T-Rex?
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:14 PM (NztoB)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
It really has nothing to do with how Mrs. Kirk acts.
When a vengeful woman has decided you must be destroyed - as it appears Owens has decided Erika Kirk must be destroyed - she will use anything and everything against you.
Since she's not publicly breaking down in tears, the attack line is "She's in on it and not mourning at all"
If she were publicly breaking down in tears the attack line would be any thing from "She's crying from guilt" to "she's faking it for sympathy" to "She too emotionally unstable to lead TPUSA".
Literally any stick is good enough to beat the target with, for a vengeful woman.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 12, 2025 02:14 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 02:14 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 12, 2025 02:06 PM (QGaXH)
Nope! It's him. The IP address resolves to Endor.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 02:15 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 02:15 PM (IaZ7c)
Brigitte Macron Sparks Backlash For Slamming Feminist Protesters As ‘Stupid Bitches’
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 02:02 PM (3uBP9)
Exactly what you'd expect a man to say. -- CandyO
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 02:04 PM (ExV1e)
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Candace wants to be Brigitte's gynecologist.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 02:15 PM (NpAcC)
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When I was in elementary school I had a book "1001 Pickle Jokes" and my sister and I thought it was the funniest book ever written.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:15 PM (TN0g+)
Why TF should I care about Candace Owens?
Anybody who follows her BS is beyond help and will not be persuaded otherwise.
Give this chick a rest.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 12, 2025 02:15 PM (ItWcy)
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 01:58 PM (dIske)
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I agree that he's giddy over all the support he's gotten, which shows you how delusional he is right there. He might actually mistake large numbers of lunatics for the 12 jurors who will make the decision that counts.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 02:15 PM (1N/bM)
It's not quite the worst Cars LP...but it is close.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 02:15 PM (IaZ7c)
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Dat album cover doh ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 02:16 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 02:16 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 02:16 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM
That was kind of oddly specific.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 02:17 PM (kgE5c)
Oh, hell yeah. Cover Art is fantastic.
But it is actually my least favorite Cars LP.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 02:17 PM (IaZ7c)
Posted by: Bert G at December 12, 2025 02:18 PM (VARTN)
I was surprised when Ol' Megs went nuts.
I suppose that I shouldn't have been, but I was.
Everyone everywhere is publicly revealing their true selves.
It's like some kind of SF end of the world scenario.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 02:18 PM (iJfKG)
Dangerous Type, Double Life, Night Spots, that great Shoo-be-Doo/Candy-O side 1 closer. The debut is great but I probably like Candy-O a little bit more.
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:18 PM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Gref
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Every hunter in the field does testing by experience as well. Live animal testing and using autopsy results from humans being shot is a pretty morbid subject involving close up pictures of damage, a knowledge of ballistics, and also of biology.
Way back in 1904, the infamous Thompson–LaGarde Tests used cattle in 1904 and some human cadavers for such testing. And we have used goats, pigs, etc. for trauma testing and training for battlefield meds for a long while.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:15 PM
Hmm...I wonder if I still have "101 Uses for a Dead Cat" somewhere.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 02:19 PM (kgE5c)
I swore off using the Lord's name as an expletive, but the post that "Erika Kirk just doesn't seem to be as smooth a public speaker as the attention whore Candace Owens, so I trust Candace" posts made me say the name as a profanity.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 02:19 PM (1wjle)
Assigning a pretty young blonde woman to be an assistant to the football team feels like an unforced error on the university's part, but yes, the coach is also a piece of work.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12
Wait -did you mean this? So a married man, a father, cannot be trusted to adhere to his vows? Executive Assistants from heretofore shall only be ugly girls? No. This guy stepped out on his wife. He, and only he, is to blame for that.
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 02:20 PM (ZdaMQ)
https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/
status/1997694357567062306
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 02:20 PM (uxVjF)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 02:20 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Same asshole type like Luigi Mangione enjoying the limelight as the twisted narcissistic assholes that they are. Simply another indicator that a lot of people calling themselves Americans are not inside. BAMN lets them off the hook in their holy church of leftism.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:20 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:10 PM
That was kind of oddly specific.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 02:17 PM (kgE5c)
Humor 101: It's the absurdity of of the specific detail that makes the joke funny.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 02:20 PM (iJfKG)
It's like some kind of SF end of the world scenario.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 02:18 PM (iJfKG)
That's' Trump's Superpower. The power of unmasking.
In his presence, everyone near him feels irresistibly compelled to show their true face.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 02:21 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:21 PM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 02:21 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ace
That's good, Ace, thank you. I try not to use it that way, too, but sometimes old habits die hard.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:21 PM (77rzZ)
Via Insty:
David M. McIntosh
@DavidMMcintosh
A former TSA Agent blows the whistle on what she saw:
Somalian immigrants flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport carrying suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars and passports.
The level of fraud goes deeper and deeper.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:21 PM (TN0g+)
She substituted the anonymous public at arm's length for real human interaction. Of course, it isn't as satisfying, so she ups the ante every chance she gets.
She really needs a dose of reality and probably years of therapy, and some good drugs.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:22 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: ace
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I think that sort of thing does warrant smiting and damning. Says well for you that you are not smiting someone casually.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:22 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (D+mpw)
Correction: He likes FURRY cock.
Please make a note of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
And in NYC, Luigi Mangione is actually posing for the cameras inside the courtroom making all the girls swoon as they just love assassins and think that he should walk free
Posted by: Cheri at December 12, 2025 02:22 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 02:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ace
That's good, Ace, thank you. I try not to use it that way, too, but sometimes old habits die hard.
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The *best* version of me doesn't cuss, or make derisive references to Obama's sexual preferences. Sometimes I slip.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Piper at December
He's a massive POS. He was DMing an OF "model" at halftime of the scUM/Suckeyes game.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Jerry Carroll at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (RRQTN)
She substituted the anonymous public at arm's length for real human interaction. Of course, it isn't as satisfying, so she ups the ante every chance she gets.
She really needs a dose of reality and probably years of therapy, and some good drugs.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:22 PM (6Bc8
I would say it's more like watching an angry chimpanzee flinging it's own poo.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Delurker at December 12, 2025 02:21 PM
Point of order...he only said he had it in elementary school, not that it was suitable for him to have.
I can't speak to the size of the universe of pickle jokes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (kgE5c)
They all think they can fix his broken dick.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (IaZ7c)
Posted by: Piper at December
He's a massive POS. He was DMing an OF "model" at halftime of the scUM/Suckeyes game.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (MGB5H)
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Dude is mentally ill
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 02:24 PM (iFTx/)
Probably not.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 12, 2025 02:24 PM (F4p3X)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 02:24 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:06 PM (NztoB)
Which is hilarious considering how many women went through the gay best friend thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 12, 2025 02:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 12, 2025 02:24 PM (3/kEz)
But this you know.
The follow up line was not on the album track, but was sang in some live performances.
Second best ad lib to Lemmey's
I don't want to live forever
But apparently I am.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 12, 2025 02:25 PM (wBaIH)
I don't get how just having supporters like Kirk-haters, Tuqatar Carlton, and Candy O is going to lead to acquittal.
If this guy did it, he should be put away for life, and that life should be very short. See him smirk that off.
Posted by: mindful webworker - in my opinionated opinion at December 12, 2025 02:25 PM (lbDMw)
There is something seriously, seriously wrong going on in this country. Seriously fucking wrong.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (F4p3X)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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I dipped my toe in local politics. I dipped out again just as fast. Turns out to be dominated by peri-and-post-menopausal women whose whole motivation is exacting revenge on each other for perceived slights that have been tallied from antiquity.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
I can't have enough pickle jokes. I never get my dill of them.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 02:26 PM (o2ZRX)
Well that's Tucker's entire method of attack. He pulls people in with a line he know most agree with, like "Don't Trust the FBI!" Yeah, you didn't have to tell us that, we already know.
But then he follows up with something like "and you know why? Because our entire government is run by THE JEWS!!!!" And with that he tries to get weak minded listeners to slide right along his vicious path with him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (uWKK8)
When Abraham Lincoln's body was brought and buried in Springfield, Illinois, it was originally in a ground-level tomb. But, after threats and conspiracies to dig the body up and desecrate it, a new tomb was built (which I have been in) and his body was buried 16 feet below it and encased in a thick concrete vault to prevent that.
I wouldn't be surprised if the left was not satisfied with desecrating the grave but would actually dig up the body.
Posted by: RonF at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (NAyZt)
I said he's a POS. I also think it's a terrible idea to put women into mens' locker rooms. Zeke Mowatt tried to warn everyone.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: tcn in AK
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I don't think she is ill, she enjoys it as a sociopath. That sort of person is evil, not mentally ill and in particular this response to Erika comes from Candace being fired from any connection with Kirk's Turning Point movement back in 2019 and her slyly intimating about wanting to get back in a position running it after Charlie was murdered.
Encylopedia Brittanica, "Candace Owens resigned from Turning Point USA in 2019 after a controversy over comments she had made about Adolf Hitler."
She's evil and vile.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (WDjG6)
Candace Owens developed a fake social skin suit as she grew to adulthood. She's no more what she appears to be than a hunting decoy or a fishing lure.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Spot on.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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We called them "fag hags" in my day.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 02:20 PM (ZdaMQ)
Hear hear.
Sick of all these motherfuckers given fifteen figure salaries to do bullshit and then thinking the rules of the world don't apply to them.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:28 PM (Vq1pX)
New York reload.
Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (Kt19C)
I exactly what someone fronting for Big Lizard would say.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (Riz8t)
I'm just asking questions.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 02:03 PM (L/fGl)
Of course not.
Posted by: Noah at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (6RyaQ)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 02:27 PM (1Nv0l)
The ultimate "I Can Fix Him" challenge.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:29 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 02:20 PM (ZdaMQ)
Bullshit. She was hot and wore short skirts, and was probably a plant from OSU!
It was her fault...not his!
Posted by: UM Fans Everywhere at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: RonF
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Actually went as far as doing graverobbing but the group had a Secret Service informant and a trap was laid:
"On the night of the attempt (Election Day evening 1876), law enforcement surrounded the tomb and waited.
The robbers broke in, sawed off the padlock, pried open the marble sarcophagus, and moved the wooden coffin about 15 inches before being interrupted.
An accidental gunshot from a detective’s weapon caused confusion, and the thieves fled the scene before they could fully remove the body.
They escaped out the east gate of the cemetery but were captured in Chicago ten days later."
Brave AI summary.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 02:30 PM (WDjG6)
PLEASE GOD, NO!
Can we add this to the Prayer List?
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 12, 2025 02:31 PM (Wt5PA)
https://tinyurl.com/295dh6e7
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 02:34 PM (0iZzW)
It doesn't matter what the content or target of the troll is. All that matters is the troll.
Find the Make Angry button. Mash it like it's the only way to open your parachute and you just crossed five hundred feet. Bathe yourself in the fury that gets thrown at you. Cry Victim, and let slip the dogs of Just Asking Questions. Digest the adulation of your supporters.
Repeat until satisfied.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 02:34 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 02:36 PM (PFs9e)
Kinda like Al Capone, showing up in court in The Untouchables.
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 02:37 PM (3h62U)
Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at December 12, 2025 02:37 PM (JuaQi)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 02:23 PM (MGB5H)
Watching that game, I thought Moore had basically checked out of the game - like he had given up. There was no coaching that he was doing.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2025 02:49 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (VnsnO)
So, the Brian Williams of independent podcasts?
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 02:55 PM (HQI1k)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 12, 2025 03:06 PM (YlWIZ)
I mean, a 30 second clip of Candace and a 5 minute clip of Tucker while extensively excerpting their critics?
Posted by: MBunge at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (2tWdQ)
Tucker literally never says ANYTHING like that. I suspect you know he never says anything like that.
Posted by: MBunge at December 12, 2025 03:11 PM (2tWdQ)
"Heiress to Swanson Foods" made me laugh. Tucker is so worried about they gheys now it makes me wonder about him! Maybe he's moose limb since he hates Jews and Christians.I spit in his general direction.
Candace is a special brand of insanity. I can't quite put my finger on it except paranoid schizophrenia with a ton of narcissism and borderline personality disorder swimming around.
I liked her, briefly, over a decade ago. Have never listened to her podcast as I ain't got time. Going off the deep end into a shallow pool with no water is on display. "She's too busy" for a full debate, because "her husband says so." Or something bullsharte and stinky. I add coward to all the other adjectives.
I hope Kirk's family sue her to oblivion. So weird to do what she's doing for attention (narcissism).
The fact that she was not asked to their wedding or his funeral is telling, no matter how important to Charlie Kirk she tries to tell herself she was.
She's like an unpinned grenade and I would never want her near me. I hope there is a pill for this, or electroshock therapy. Also...SHAME ON YOU!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 03:23 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM
Come on now, give me some sugar
Give me some sugar, little Deseret
Don't be afraid, not gonna hurt you
I wouldn't hurt my little Deseret
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4iVC12a
Posted by: Tom Petty at December 12, 2025 03:31 PM (P5BPp)
He "thinks" in his furry mind, that he is going to be a martyr for the gay furries. Like Luigi is for whatever he's against and the murder of the CEO.
For starters, you buck-toothed, acne ridden fag, you ain't Luigi (who I find peculiar to look at with his eyebrows wagging).
Second of all, you can ponce into court like you just know you are all that.
I have news for you: You are an ugly, scrawny "man." Who, from what I read, always thought you were the smartest in the room. I have known people like you and this is what your prop is; as generally they are nothing to look at (and you sure are not).
You somehow blew a free ride to a university after one semester. This shows immatuity and your general fagginess and could not fit in.Did you miss your mommy?
You are pathetic. What is your favorite costume for ghey sex is the only question I'd ask you.
I hope you are found guilty for premeditated murder one and are thrown into gen pop to get your martyred reward.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 03:33 PM (WONhk)
"NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAHHH! THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAHHH! AAGH!"
YouTube: https://bit.ly/48PbAGv
Posted by: Nick Cage at December 12, 2025 03:39 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 02:12 PM (0iZzW)
Undeservedly is doing some heavy lifting there. The judge found him liable because he failed to respond to discovery and court orders, iirc.
The monetary award was obscene, sure, but he absolutely deserved to have to pay out some damages for defaming people.
Posted by: Sjg at December 12, 2025 03:43 PM (aqZN1)
Candace acts like a woman scorned by the love of her life. Let's imagine for a moment that Candace has always been jealous of Erika and blames her for being ousted as part of Kirk's inner circle. Not getting an invitation to their wedding (throws temper tantrum).
Loses job (throws hissy fits & eyeballs pop). Has babies & that is not enough for her. She was rejected, her ego! She will have revenge!
Uses Kirk's death to make up fairy tales about their "friendship." Marries some guy three years before Kirk, when he started dating Erika.No invitation.
There is a reason she was not invited to their wedding in 2021. She left Turning Point in 2019. Some say due to anti-semitism, but I don't know. Was fired from Daily Wire a year ago due to anti-semitism...so that seems to be a pattern with this hysterical beetch on wheels.
For her, in 2025, to even THINK she should be part of Kirk's funeral is insane, as is she. Fairytale thinking. Morphing truth into a narrative she alone likes. Her ego boost.
She must be a ton of fun to live with. Her husband should be careful as she can turn on a dime. I'd sleep with a weapon under my pillow.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 04:05 PM (WONhk)
Step 1 - Have an affair with your hottie underling
AKA, not a bright guy
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM
Hottie underling is a fellow Purdue grad.
Purdue's football program is gawd-awful and has gotten demolished by UM for at least the last 3+ decades.
So great job by the Boilermaker grad taking down the UM program from within. Closest Purdue will ever get to a win against the Wolverines.
Posted by: Nick Cage at December 12, 2025 04:11 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 04:12 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:56 PM
“Ultimately [Kirk] was a Christian evangelist, and it actually reminds me of my favorite story ever. So it’s about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it, and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop: ‘This guy’s got to stop talking. We’ve got to shut this guy up.’ And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about — what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us? We must make him stop talking! And there’s always one guy with a bright idea, and I can just hear him say, ‘I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we just kill him? That’ll shut him up, that’ll fix the problem.’ It doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t work that way.”
Grok full answer: https://bit.ly/3KUQ5MG
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 04:16 PM (P5BPp)
It's time to take this cunt out.
Posted by: ace
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wtf?? The less sense she makes, the more views she gets. Her viewership must have morphed over to some bizarre bloc of people wandering in our midst with a single deformed finger or something.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 01:59 PM
Yep. That's why she can't be "taken out". The problem is not Candace Owens. The problem is American culture is rotten.
Owens is a symptom, not the disease. She would not be popular if the American culture were not so completely rotten to make people like her popular and rich.
"Take her out" and all that will happen is some other lunatic will become popular with the rotten American culture.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 04:28 PM (P5BPp)
It sure as Hell wasn't a .30-06 bullet.
Posted by: Jerome at December 12, 2025 04:41 PM (zIg45)
Owens should be given a forum to make her case and be scrutinized. Hopefully Carlson or Kelly themselves will do it. And if her claims don't hold up, she should be shunned, just as Alex Jones was. Sunlight is a great disinfectant.
Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 12, 2025 05:12 PM (YINx+)
I love to read a reddit site called Saint Meghyn Markle. Because they archive UK DM stories about her highness, the Duchass of Sucksex. She gets no clicks this way and I can snicker at the snark.
I hope someone dreams up an archive site for the people who are curious about what she spews next. That way she won't profit from her lies and slander, made up in her schizo mind.
Granted, I can't stand her, but I'd have to be hog tied with toothpicks opening my eyes to watch her podcast. And gagged to keep me from lalalala or humming against her lying voice. I don't watch her at all, fearing she's somehow making a buck from me. I also think she's evil.
Her eyes look wonky evil. I do not partake in evil and pray against it. I guess I will include her name in my prayers against esslam, trans, and evil in general. The list gets longer every day.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 12, 2025 06:13 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: epador at December 12, 2025 06:35 PM (TRnzq)
But Tyler Robinson is not the triggerman.
He just isn't. He's involved, but he did not pull the trigger that killed Charlie.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 12, 2025 09:57 PM (C0+hl)
Where is Kirk's bullet? Why was the crime scene immediately contaminated. I haven't seen Robinson's DNA at the crime scene and I have serious questions about government employee ethics at this point. Lay out the evidence for all to see, but they aren't. Kinda like JFK.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 13, 2025 08:27 PM (iXm17)
Gavin Newsom Admits That California Pays for Free Healthcare for Illegal Aliens
We already knew this, but Gavin Newsom admits it. As you know, in the propaganda media, no amount of evidence is ever enough to disprove a left-wing talking point. A point is only settled against a leftist if he admits it.
What is even more astounding is Regime Apologist Ezra Klein's reaction to this admission. Newsom's admission doesn't cause Klein to say, "Well, it turns out Trump wasright when he said Democrat states pay for health care for illegals." No, it causes him to re-assert that Trump "lies" about this, followed by praising Newsom for having the guts to make Trump's "lies" a reality.If it's true... how is Trump "lying," Ezra?
Trump often lies about Democrats giving healthcare to undocumented immigrants. In California, Newsom actually did it. And defends it.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 11, 2025
"I'm proud of that. I believe in universal health care."
But, he says, "we failed on the border. We need to own up to that." pic.twitter.com/5MFgK9tFQu
This is a work of art. This is their magic trick: Once they label something Trump said “a lie,”no amount of proof, no towering mountain of evidence, will force them to rethink https://t.co/23Jktsv7eb
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) December 12, 2025
It’s the meme in one tweet, and he almost certainly can’t see it. https://t.co/N1ZlTXUzC3 pic.twitter.com/WFcwU60iKw
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) December 12, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 12:14 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: Costanza at December 12, 2025 12:14 PM (3uBP9)
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)
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Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 12:16 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: Costanza at December 12, 2025 12:14 PM (3uBP9)
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It's not a lie if YOU believe it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 12:17 PM (RnixX)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:17 PM (Riz8t)
A lie can just be 'My Truth'.
Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2025 12:17 PM (Y8DZL)
it's super weird. I guess it's a manifestation of self-hatred? I dunno honestly.
but THAT is another important meme. it's something to always keep in mind.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (ZaZ9u)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (k9OZB)
btw, I created that "meme" a very long time ago here.
I called it the Democrats Argument Template and it originally went thusly:
1. It never happened.
2. Even if it did happen, so what?
3. Republicans do it, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (v6HoO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (YobFY)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)
The William F Buckley vs Gore Vidal debate proves that leftists have been calling the right Nazis forever. Nothing new under the sun.
Buckley was ruled by the media to have lost the debate when he called Vidal a Fag. But Vidal IMO had already sunk too low when he called Buckley a Nazi. Buckley flew into a rage, and while he should have kept his cool I totally understand it.
The best revenge for the right, is that gore Vidal has faded into utter irrelevancy. At one point it was required to have his books on your self if you were a proper lefty. But no one cares about him anymore.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (1Yy3c)
Then there are things that are neither factual, nor truthful.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (eIzlH)
So you do live in California!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
Worse; I'm fleeing Tampon Tim
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 12:21 PM (Dg7ng)
The way things are going this just might happen.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)
You really need to find a way to work corruption and moldering into that sentence.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (cuae1)
Trump lied. The Haitians aren't eating the cats and dogs, just the geese and the ducks at the park.
Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (s19xO)
5 cents spent on a noncitizen is 5 cents not spent on a needy American.
Of course the dude heading the San Francisco Homeless department has a fat salary and bennies and a secratery with a good salary and bennies, then the rank an file have salaries and bennies. Is it a wonder why the problem exisits?
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (gWBY1)
I’ve always thought Buckley was fantastic in that moment:
Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (YobFY)
Name one.
He said Democrats give your taxes to illegals.
But that's what they do, here are some examples.
Sure, but Trump didn't know that.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (/+FOE)
See the difference?
Posted by: huerfano at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (98kQX)
Bcuz it's still $20, same as in town.
Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (Vjo66)
The way things are going this just might happen.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)
It's incredibly stupid, but they'll vote for him for just his hair alone.
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (UnA8+)
lolololol
Just recently that Smiling Moron "mayor" of Los Angeles was on Plastic Face's dumb podcast and laughed about how everyone is "lying" about how "violent" the city is.
Meanwhile, children in Los Angeles are literally taking entire main streets and looting stores.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (v6HoO)
They are not immigrants. They are illegal aliens.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (9iyS+)
But the media will carry his water, as they always do. And the lefty Karens that needo be sexually attracted to a nominee to vote for him will love his American Psycho hairgel and look.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (k9OZB)
Not if you're a sociopath. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (MZ+PY)
The way things are going this just might happen.
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Sure, if there's 25% turnout in the next election.
A reason why I aggressively dislike doomerism about elections is that it's quite correctible. Even if a local GOP is run by morons, there are quite a lot of PACs that do GOTV efforts now. We could all join or support one to make sure voters actually vote. That's the problem we've been having with these off-year special elections this year - ultra low turnout that makes the AWFLs seem like they are replicating when they are a shrinking demographic almost by definition.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (Dg7ng)
@Polymarket 15m
BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (mlg/3)
Dummy Newsom just blew up his states legal argument.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (klxjG)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (v6HoO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:26 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Good news. It's not until 2028.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:26 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: mrp at December 12, 2025 12:26 PM (rj6Yv)
cut, jib, newsletter?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (9iyS+)
The way things are going this just might happen.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)
It's incredibly stupid, but they'll vote for him for just his hair alone.
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (UnA8+)
IMHO I don’t think Hairgel has a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected prez. He don’t play outside CA… and compare him to Kamala… he’s not getting nearly as many black female votes as she did. The all time king of vote getters in that demographic: 2020 Biden… which I don’t think that level of fraud can ever happen again unless they gin up another deadly pandemic
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (YobFY)
Posted by: Soothsayer
What I don't like are the stupid Olympics. Anywhere.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (cS1cw)
But the way it works is the left truly hates Trump. Even though Trump was a bit lefty. A lefty of a few decades ago, that degree of lefty, mostly on the social liberal side. But because they hate that he now stands in their way, and hate that he is sometimes, not often, but on occasion successful in opposing them they posses an existential hatred of the man.
And like any cargo cult in that situation they have brought forward their "Trump" a person who's only feature is they know he is really truly loathsome as they loath Trump. That's it entirely
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2025 12:28 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (vbXSk)
The best revenge for the right, is that gore Vidal has faded into utter irrelevancy. At one point it was required to have his books on your self if you were a proper lefty. But no one cares about him anymore.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (gWBY1)
"Call me a crypto-Nazi again, you queer, and I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered."
Posted by: More or less. Great line. at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (TbWk/)
Gonna be lit when the LGBTQ+++++++ athletes show up. 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)
@Polymarket 15m
BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (mlg/3)
Just in the nick of time, eh Carmine?
Posted by: John McClane, Die Hard 2 at December 12, 2025 12:30 PM (TbWk/)
Ah, I think I see the problem. You're thinking that most voters will pay at least minimal attention to actual facts and not just their feels.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:30 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: waelse1 at December 12, 2025 12:30 PM (lfepB)
Posted by: Howard Johnson at December 12, 2025 12:31 PM (3BwY8)
Gonna be lit when the LGBTQ+++++++ athletes show up. 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
You don't need a pool to do a high-dive.
Posted by: Karl Wallenda at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (oftw2)
The RIGHT Way to frame what newscum admitted is this: Newscum "solves" the health insurance "affordability" issue for illegals by giving them free health care.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (v6HoO)
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Huh? His record is impeccable.
- MSM
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Probably in NEOM, I'm guessing. That big planned city they're building in the northern part of the country.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM
Maybe, if you're white.
Posted by: huerfano at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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The reality is, every election is basically a coin flip.
I do agree he's not their strongest, not by a long shot. I just think CA anything is looked at negatively in the rest of the 49 states. And he is incredibly polarizing and oft putting.
I have Democrat friends in CA and even they loathe him.
If I were a Democrat, I'd find some vanilla Governor that just focused on kitchen table issues.
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (cS1cw)
I look forward to some of the new sports. The 50 yard drive by should be something to behold!
SLC is excited to have the Olympics again. But they unveiled their logo and it's not great. They are emphasizing Utah vs SLC.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:33 PM (gWBY1)
Thus, the O-care portion, surely, is being illegally spent, as that abomination of a disaster of an unconstitutional "law" expressly prohibited it.
Which just again raises the question of why Trump's HHS, whose secretary is given unbelievable dictatorial powers under that same law, never uses those powers to strangle/destroy/dismantle that enormous anchor around the country's neck. A question raised by a few in the first term, where again nothing was done.
So has the administration moved to end/block all $ to CA and other states proportional to those funds being illegally spent on illegal aliens? And is HHS gonna do anything else using its enormous discretion under the existing law?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 12:34 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:34 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)
It’s even more regarded. Neil is hosting the Asian WINTER games. Yes winter games in Saudi Arabia. Cuz why not?
They’re bidding for then 2036 summer games. Not sure which city though.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:34 PM (9iyS+)
If only The Stupid Party took advantage of such things...
Posted by: Brewingfrog at December 12, 2025 12:35 PM (2A6DC)
@Polymarket 15m
BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (mlg/3)
Only a matter of time, some changes in legal protection afforded to a few companies here and there before we start getting, tv, radio, internet, highway bulletin, ads for, "Were you effected by the side effects of COVID-19 vaccines? Call ....." I bet there is a lot of rearranging, retiring going on in pharm boards as the high ups try to limit their squeak hole's degree of liability.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:35 PM (3uBP9)
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This is what the Left has in mind for ALL of us.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (RnixX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
With enough money from trans-fascists, electability is no longer an issue. It's a matter of vote-by-mail, ballot harvesting, and assorted hacking that matters. The Left doesn't care anymore about the candidate because their evil machines are the thing that wins elections now.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Pretty much like the real Olympics except instead of shot put they have homo put and it's off rooftops.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)
No, you probably would get it. And you'd jump to the head of the line as a disadvantaged refugee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Apparently the World Cup is in DC this year. It was fluffed up to the most pride friendly World Cup ever. Yaaaaas Kween! Snaps!
Guess who the finalists are? Two middle eastern counties where being gay is illegal. You can't make this up.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:37 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (dIske)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (1wjle)
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You mean the party that just overwhelmingly and eagerly voted for an attorney general who wished children would get shot in the head because of their parent's politics?
It's time we stop assuming rationality on the left:
They hate America.
They hate Republicans.
They hate Trump.
They hate conservatives.
Anyone and anything that will cause those pain and suffering are their goals, no matter how destructive, vile or disgusting a vessel it comes in--as long as it hurts those they hate.
Mark my words:
They will be running an illegal in prison for a felony murder by 2028, in a safe blue seat--just to spite America and Americans.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (HXT0k)
I can't keep up with this dude's "reasoning." How is he simultaneously proud to provide free healthcare to illegals and upset about all the illegals in the state?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (1N/bM)
90%+ easy would say, "yes" that is happening.
nobody truly believes it's NOT happening, they might lie to influence a polling question they don't like, but they understand what's happening
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (eIzlH)
Ezra Klein hilariously trying to do journalism.
Newsom: "We failed on the border."
Klein: "Why?"
Newsom? "Because we failed."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (1N/bM)
Newsom is now in someone's cross hairs (not involving guns of course)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:40 PM (gm9Sb)
no i think that was one of Obama's himbos, like Tommy Vietor. Ezra Klein never *officially* worked for the Democrat apparatus. Just the media, which, you know, is totally independent of the Democrat Party.
Racist.
Just thought I'd throw that in.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:40 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:30 PM (3nLb4)
I'm stupid like that! I have faith people might one day vote facts over feels. The eternal optimist.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:40 PM (gWBY1)
If only The Stupid Party took advantage of such things...
Posted by: Brewingfrog
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To be fair, they did, basically stripping medicaid funds from states for this purpose. That's why they are so mad right now at this thing that was "never" happening.
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:40 PM (eIzlH)
Oh I forgot, yeah, he was a ringleader of -- maybe the one who started -- JournOList.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:41 PM (1wjle)
omg I'm working my way through that interview. Biden's border failure was "a reaction to Trump." Newsom literally flat-out admits that whatever Trump did, Dems did a 180.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:41 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:42 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 12:42 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Costanza
You're fired.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (1wjle)
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've commented at a lot of blogs, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
Posted by: Costanza at December 12, 2025 12:42 PM (3uBP9)
lol
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (cS1cw)
Adam Carolla's two interviews with Newsome are the only time he has not been handled with kid gloves, and both were a hilarious disaster for him. It's sad when a comedian does more journalism than supposed journalists.
Forget media news anchors. I'd love Adam Cadillac to host a debate.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (gWBY1)
Klein: "Why?"
Newsom? "Because we failed."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (1N/bM)
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As significant as the passage of time.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (ynpvh)
he's echoing the New York Times Narrative Shift piece that claims that. I'll be posting that later. Hooboy, it's somethin' else.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (cS1cw)
Ley-yoo-pold
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: LizLem
It would be a pay per view, fo' sho'.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (Vq1pX)
If it's "free" you don't know the true costs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (ynpvh)
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I would imagine the illegals are still, to this day, a huge voting bloc in CA.
One comment is for local consumption. The other's for Trump.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Weird Dave, who hosts the Friday ONTs.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (cS1cw)
Ley-yoo-pold
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (Vq1pX)
Loop-hold? Loop-hole?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Weird Dave, who hosts the Friday ONTs.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)
Ah, thanks.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)
Carolla did an experiment replacing Newsom's voice with Burt Reynolds' voice in those interviews. I'm not sure what it's supposed to prove but it's funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIt_Rb0oi0
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle)
BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (mlg/3)
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I will be a member of that class once certified.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (9ipOP)
Ezra Klein of Journo List fame must be working for some other Dem. He wouldn't have put this out if he wasn't.
Newsom is now in someone's cross hairs (not involving guns of course)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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There's another theory: Klein just co-wrote a book called "Abundance" and has developed something called "the abundance theory" (or something) in which he supposedly tackles the Democrats' eternal failure to get things done, all while making people more prosperous, not less. It seems like he's frustrated with continuing Democrat failures and he's trying to make a change in Democrat policies and the ideology itself.
He's 5% onto something, but I've seen him talk about other things and he's way too blind and stupid to make the biggest and most obvious connections.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (M0V4/)
Adam Carolla's two interviews with Newsome are the only time he has not been handled with kid gloves, and both were a hilarious disaster for him. It's sad when a comedian does more journalism than supposed journalists.
Forget media news anchors. I'd love Adam Cadillac to host a debate.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:43
I love that clip and it should be played more often. I also wonder if Carolla was audited after that interview.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (a4iX6)
Posted by: coba at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (Wg6v7)
With current forestry policies here, it won't take long...just wait for the next drought.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (ynpvh)
What a Fag. At least two lies, for the price of one.
They are not “immigrants” and they are not “undocumented”.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (K0w3s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Learn to speak Spanish and go to the Emergency Room. Free Shit abounds.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (Wg6v7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIt_Rb0oi0
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle)
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So Gavin's words can be analyzed separately from his style and presentation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You're welcome. Somebody else asked about him on the last thread, too.
How're you doing?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:47 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (1N/bM)
*******
He's slick. Newsom has learned that he can get away with talking out of both sides of his mouth.
He's been doing this for years and it has gotten him elected.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 12:47 PM (NpAcC)
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When your company COBRA expires the state will offer you a 3 year Cal-COBRA extension.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (cS1cw)
Ley-yoo-pold
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (Vq1pX)
Loop-hold? Loop-hole?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)
It's pronounced "Larry." Just like it's spelled.
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (C24tU)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You're welcome. Somebody else asked about him on the last thread, too.
How're you doing?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)
Okay. Surgery is Monday. Still paying for the last one, LOL. And my son's "visit" to ER in June...and for his ambulance service...and for...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (ynpvh)
But again, it pales in comparison, in terms of impact (#s self-deporting) to the absolutely critical move, that will yield yuuuge results: turning off the magnet of employment by enforcing the law against employers.
The low-risk, low-cost, almost invisible (in public relations terms) move, which is girls' gym compared to messy raids with idiots protesting/interfering. Fifty lawyers making 5 phone calls a day to known perp firms laying out the situation - with some demonstrative raids and executive suite arrests to set the table - and the outflow of illegals will be dramatic.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (U/Byj)
So here's my philosophical, moral ethics problem:
If you had accidently used cranberry sauce, the canned jell stuff, in your chili, would you
A. Still eat it. Except your faults and embrace the outcome.
B. Throw it all out and start from scratch. Adapt and overcome.
C. ?? whatever that is
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (3uBP9)
yeah I thought that would be too hard to explain but I see you did it very concisely.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (1wjle)
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When your company COBRA expires the state will offer you a 3 year Cal-COBRA extension.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (9ipOP)
Oh? Didn't know that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Lex at December 12, 2025 12:49 PM (l5xX+)
Klein is another one I've never really heard of except here. Oh well.
Posted by: rhomboid
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Oh, you remember him. "The trouble with the Constitution is that it's, like, a hundred years old."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:49 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)
no that was, I think, Tommy Vietor.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)
Who was that Congressman who yelled "you lie" during Obama's SOTU speech? Remember how he was shamed for that, even if it was a breech of etiquette. He was right! When will he get an apology?
Posted by: Lex
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Joe Wilson. I established a Personal Best in running time as I dashed to my computer to send him $25.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (1N/bM)
So here's my philosophical, moral ethics problem:
If you had accidently used cranberry sauce, the canned jell stuff, in your chili, would you
A. Still eat it. Except your faults and embrace the outcome.
B. Throw it all out and start from scratch. Adapt and overcome.
C. ?? whatever that is
Posted by: banana Dream
A. Just add carrots, it'll be fine.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)
So here's my philosophical, moral ethics problem:
If you had accidently used cranberry sauce, the canned jell stuff, in your chili, would you
A. Still eat it. Except your faults and embrace the outcome.
B. Throw it all out and start from scratch. Adapt and overcome.
C. ?? whatever that is
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (3uBP9)
Separate out the jelly, eat it on the side. Add beans and continue chili
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)
I think his house was spared.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (a4iX6)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)
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No it escaped.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (9ipOP)
Klein: "Why?"
Newsom? "Because we failed."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (1N/bM)
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As significant as the passage of time.
TBF, he did say that they'd have to get control of the border before they can get to their holy amnesty grail. Now, since Trump has already gotten control of the border, I guess that means we can move straight to amnesty.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (DY2gD)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (3uBP9)
Eat it and enjoy!
There's a "recipe" that's literally just a whole can of whatever junk chili sauce you got on hand, a whole can of cranberry sauce, a bag of frozen pre-made meatballs, and a crock pot.
It sounds absurd but it's actually pretty good.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:51 PM (Vq1pX)
But again, it pales in comparison, in terms of impact (#s self-deporting) to the absolutely critical move, that will yield yuuuge results: turning off the magnet of employment by enforcing the law against employers.
The low-risk, low-cost, almost invisible (in public relations terms) move, which is girls' gym compared to messy raids with idiots protesting/interfering. Fifty lawyers making 5 phone calls a day to known perp firms laying out the situation - with some demonstrative raids and executive suite arrests to set the table - and the outflow of illegals will be dramatic.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (U/Byj)
Moar like this
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:51 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:51 PM (ynpvh)
If I'm cooking, she has failed me.
There have to be consequences.
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 12:52 PM (C24tU)
Posted by: Lex at December 12, 2025 12:52 PM (l5xX+)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:52 PM (Wg6v7)
no that was, I think, Tommy Vietor.
Posted by: ace
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Hmm, maybe. I recall Tommy Vietor was the guy speaking to Brett Baier about internal doctoring of Benghazi coverage. "Dude. That was like two years ago."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Lex
Obama said something about a Supreme Court case (Citizens United?) in one of his SOTUs, and even the Wide Latina was caught on camera saying something like "not true" under her breath.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (77rzZ)
Hey, they have to own up to letting tens of millions into the country. They will get around to it.
What a greasy tapeworm this buffoon is.
Posted by: E Buzz at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (eXp3j)
That takes chutzpah.
Analyzing their rhetoric is much simpler if you begin with the presumption they think you're stupid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (9ipOP)
Trying to figure out what they can possibly offer next.
Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (cS1cw)
oh maybe I'm getting it confused. I don't think Ezra Klein said the constitution was like 100 years old. Wasn't that Meghan McCain, then?
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:54 PM (1wjle)
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You'd clear out half of them over night by not letting illegals go to public schools.
So if you live a block outside the school district you can't attend, but if you're here illegally, and you HAVE TO let them have a spot at schools?
This alone is like trillions of dollars that are being wasted.
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:55 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: wferrin at December 12, 2025 12:55 PM (2Nm29)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 12:55 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Bulg
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I think that was Roberts. Sotomayor the Stupid would never go against the lightworker.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 12:56 PM (1Nv0l)
Yeah, Klein was the one who said the Constitution is like 100 years old.
https://tinyurl.com/2t5rc3ua
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:56 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 12, 2025 12:56 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: connected and litigious
Throat Warbler Mangrove
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 12, 2025 12:57 PM (M0V4/)
https://tinyurl.com/2t5rc3ua
Huh.
This is why Breitbart only read the comments. I am unreliable.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:57 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace
I think it was a chick, but I don't remember her name. Maybe some Congresswoman?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:57 PM (77rzZ)
IIRC, that was Alito.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
I seem to remember that it was Sotomayor. That's what made it so noteworthy.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: banana Dream - your humble fartcoin reporter at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (D+mpw)
Because I can read Trump's mind. And he actually believes that Democrats don't provide health care to undocumented immigrants. Therefore he's lying when he says they do.
Posted by: Ezra at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ace
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Nah, it's because we're funnier.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Toad-0 at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (S6jVk)
https://tinyurl.com/2t5rc3ua
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
No math!!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (ZaZ9u)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (sDNVV)
Exactly the situation. And the amnesty will be lawless and "administrative", just as Biden/Obama worst of all, but also other administrations, misused discretion to create de facto amnesty (culminating in the worst case, DACA).
Still likely that enough GOP senators will remain terrified to vote for actual amnesty (41), despite being desperate to do so - assuming a few don't do a banzai charge and retire before their next primary - so lawless abuse of power will be the only option.
Border can be opened/closed like a door. Trump 2.0 just dramatically illustrated this. Reason #1,321 why removals of illegals is an urgent matter, and the administration should play like they're 20 points behind. They are, mostly - but not in the most important area, employment.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (U/Byj)
So has the administration moved to end/block all $ to CA and other states proportional to those funds being illegally spent on illegal aliens? And is HHS gonna do anything else using its enormous discretion under the existing law?
Posted by: rhomboid
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They are but DC courts. Plus, all blue states are having to be sued to get basic information on voting lists, Medicaid recipients, and so on.
Cutting off funds implicates the APA and other laws so all of that takes time including overcoming adverse lower court decisions even if the law is black letter. See Planned Parenthood cutoff ruling from a Boston district court judge despite BBB specifically cutting those funds off.
Basically legal mumbo jumbo ruling, "it ain't fair to single out PP by cutting off their funds." See Liberty interest of the 14th Amendment as quasi justification although misapplied here.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (WDjG6)
It's so cute when You People try to remember stuff.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (eLNVP)
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Much like Pete Buttigig, my read of Barry is that he has never changed a tire.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: ace
You're never gonna get past that shelving incident, are you?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)
And Macho Grande
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (xcxpd)
TBF, he did say that they'd have to get control of the border before they can get to their holy amnesty grail. Now, since Trump has already gotten control of the border, I guess that means we can move straight to amnesty.
Posted by: Archimedes
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"Bravely" copping to one "mistake" so he can move quickly along to the "solution" (total amnesty) is a Stupid Politician Trick that Democrats will nod along with.
Then JD Vance will expose it in 2 seconds.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 01:01 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:57 PM (1wjle)
We still love you, Ace!
Posted by: pookysgirl, somewhat reliable at December 12, 2025 01:01 PM (Wt5PA)
See, the construction is a violation of the Administrative Procedures Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. (lol, wut?)
Will the illegal injunction be granted today or will the clown judge wait until Monday?
LOL, these retards:
Do they realize that they've just given Trump a SCOTUS ruling that the APA is unconstitutional?
Every single lawsuit against Trump has cited violations of the APA ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (HXT0k)
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"
"Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav"
Incredible things are happening. She's also been praising JD Vance.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Bulg
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I just looked it up (cheating, I know). It was Alito. But Roberts backed him up.
It was noteworthy because Obama broke decorum with the criticism, and Alito broke decorum by responding.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (IaZ7c)
Posted by: Lex at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (l5xX+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (ynpvh)
Go to ehealth.com all the plans are there. This goes for every state.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 01:03 PM (9iyS+)
I am unreliable.
Posted by: ace
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You're still furrier and more cuddly and likable than I am.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 01:04 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (NpAcC)
She's been asked, and has stated she's interested in, being an ambassador or something to raise awareness of the plight of Christians being killed around the world.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:04 PM (3uBP9)
https://is.gd/1kK4Iu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 01:05 PM (L/fGl)
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"
"Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav"
Incredible things are happening. She's also been praising JD Vance.
Posted by: redridinghood
Trump acknowledging the persecution and murder of Christianss by Muslims in Africa really opened her eyes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:05 PM (MGB5H)
Is this verified? I feel like I've finally been vindicated after years of abuse.
Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2025 01:06 PM (SwyyQ)
For the entire planet, apparently. Paid for by American taxpayers.
Run Gavin, run. Please. You are so going to get smashed by JD.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:06 PM (1Nv0l)
It's almost Christmas.
I am not supposed to hate.
But, damn I come close when it comes to the dems.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: PG at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (1GUBr)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: bill
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Waaaay back, Nat Lamp proposed 'Running Amok' as an Olympic event. They opined that the Turks would be a shoo-in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (1Nv0l)
See, the construction is a violation of the Administrative Procedures Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. (lol, wut?)
Will the illegal injunction be granted today or will the clown judge wait until Monday?
LOL, these retards:
Do they realize that they've just given Trump a SCOTUS ruling that the APA is unconstitutional?
Every single lawsuit against Trump has cited violations of the APA ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (HXT0k)
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These people are insane. The building has already been torn down. What do they wanna do leave it in a pile of rubble for Trump's whole term?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:08 PM (NpAcC)
So if you live a block outside the school district you can't attend, but if you're here illegally, and you HAVE TO let them have a spot at schools?
This alone is like trillions of dollars that are being wasted.
Posted by: Leupold
Watching the local Orlando news, they are having to consolidate and close public schools all across the region, Orlando and Orange County, due to a lack of students.
The talking heads were all "but what happened to them all?" and "what's different this year?".
Dumbasses. They are self departing and Homan is kicking the fuck out.
I voted for this.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (GeOin)
Posted by: rhomboid
From a public safety standpoint, removing criminals and terrorists should come first. Every American killed by an illegal criminal is one needless death.
Second, Trump is trying to keep the economy going at the same time other disruptive moves are being made---tariffs shifting countries of production, supply chains for critical goods like food and pharma, probably some quid pro quo involving Latin countries that play ball on Venezuela (foreign and domestic issue), etc.
Trump and his team are masters at economic policy even in his first term, and he is in a rush which is why all the GOPe, Dems, and black robed tyrants are out to disrupt, delay, and deny his ability to roll back the tide.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (WDjG6)
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Never forget Bill Krystol's tweet. Which basically said:
The people can choose so long as they choose what we want.
That is why we are in the most dangerous time.
Not because they are winning but because they are no longer able to win.
And so, they will destroy the country rather than give up power.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM
How about 'Jumping to Conclusions'? I'd watch that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (kgE5c)
Finally, finally, finally - start to put the judiciary back in its place. Which is far far below and much less important than it has, disastrously, been allowed to become.
There are infinite rationalizations to comply with the imaginary imperatives the Legal Cult has invented, and they lead to where we are today. Administration has a choice to be either a speed bump, or a change in direction.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"
"Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav"
Incredible things are happening. She's also been praising JD Vance.
Posted by: redridinghood
Trump acknowledging the persecution and murder of Christianss by Muslims in Africa really opened her eyes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:05 PM (MGB5H)
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I would not put too much faith in Nicki Minaj, given her history, but she's been stronger on culture issues concerning children than I would have expected. I also think that blacks aren't nearly as down with the tranny movement as AWFuLs are. Trannyism seems 99% an affluent white thing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:11 PM (ZdaMQ)
Gay vs Really Gay
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:11 PM (v0R5T)
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When you live in a world where an unchaste woman speaks more against the persecution of Christians than the Pope ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
I've invented a jumping to conclusions mat. It has different conclusions and you can jump to them.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (MGB5H)
She killed 1/10 of him? The other 9/10s remain dangerous, no doubt, shambling on.
I wish she would have DESTROYED him with FACTS and LOGIC instead.
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (C24tU)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM
How about 'Jumping to Conclusions'? I'd watch that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
No love for dildo tossing?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (U/Byj)
Five seconds after they throw Trump out and the left is back in charge they will open the border wide open and then state there's simply no way to close it now as that is just the way things have always been.
And no one will question them.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:13 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Just like the gay thing. There's a reason Pete Buttgig has zeropointzero support among Blacks.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:13 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM
I'm putting my money on the Jumping Jews of Jerusalem.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 01:13 PM (kgE5c)
Insurance would be "this plan covers you getting hit by a car or getting brain cancer" it would not include check ups or lab work or any of that.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)
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Its called Twister. Jan Brady and I got it on playing Twister.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (Wg6v7)
She killed 1/10 of him? The other 9/10s remain dangerous, no doubt, shambling on.
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox
Because the meaning of words must be fixed in stone and may never, ever change.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)
"So -- if aliens come here, you think we should give them all free health care?"
"Of course — I support our Hispanic community."
"No, you misunderstand -- I mean, if alien-aliens, like from outer space, come here, should we give them all free health care?"
"I did say 'universal,' didn't I?"
But seriously, if you combine No Borders + Unchecked Mass Illegal Immigration + Universal Healthcare, then we are basically providing free health to the entire world (and universe, once the UFOs land).
Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (oraVG)
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It's spite.
They don't care if they leave an eyesore that lingers for decades.
So long as it hurts Trump, Republicans and America.
The threat is:
Give them back their power or they will leave America in rubble.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: bill
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Waaaay back, Nat Lamp proposed 'Running Amok' as an Olympic event. They opined that the Turks would be a shoo-in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (XeU6L)
I know that's a thing in Indonesia and the south pacific. Is it a thing in Turkey too where folks just go nuts, grab a blade and start hacking away?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: 18-1
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Obama made those plans illegal. He wanted to force people who take care of themselves to pay for the slobs.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Pudinhead
A friend of mine in elementary school had a crush on Eve Plumb, who played Jan.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)
I simply could not parse it. He lied, by stating a true fact.
I thought there must be a word missing. As cynical as I am, I did not understand that Ace just explained.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (uxVjF)
There are certain sectors to start with, and ways to do it, that minimize disruption - in fact both common sense and previous examples show there is a net economic benefit, and pretty quickly, to American citizens involved.
And this approach has been laid out and known since the first term. No administration can control the future or the idiocies the American people will tolerate or even embrace. But the choice between speed bump and change of direction is entirely up to the administration.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (U/Byj)
None of it is FREE. I think I've been suckered.
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (v0R5T)
Hundred yard dash for people with no sense of direction
Marathon for incontinents
100 meter swim for nonswimmers
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: 18-1
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Obama made those plans illegal. He wanted to force people who take care of themselves to pay for the slobs.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
Yup I carried catastrophic coverage plan and it was glorious. It was gone immediately.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (oraVG)
Every single lawsuit against Trump has cited violations of the APA ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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NEPA is probably what will cause higher courts to reverse the ruling. Scotus precedent has narrowed it a lot.
APA is simply codification of Londoner v. Denver and BiMetallic v. Board of Equalization Scotus rulings at the turn of the century.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:17 PM (WDjG6)
"I did say 'universal,' didn't I?"
.......
But they have green blood.
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:18 PM (v0R5T)
@_johnnymaga
Tim Walz is currently defending Somalis, who perpetrated one of the largest fraud schemes in history—and attacking Trump for bringing it up:
“The idea that the Somali community’s to blame for this… Trump brought this to the attention… very dangerous!”
https://tinyurl.com/2m7hhcmm
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:18 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (5IH8V)
Posted by: BruceWayn
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Same. I pay a fortune for a lousy ObamaCare plan under which the Insurance company still attempts to charge me for the few morsels of preventative care I use that are supposed to be covered.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (1Nv0l)
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He wanted to delay adolescence to the age of 26. Healthy kids don't buy insurance. Much like the Mothers Against Drunk Driving delayed adolescence by moving the age of majority from 18 to 21. Fuck these twits.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (Wg6v7)
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Last spring, the large health insurance company my wife works for (I.T. side of it.) had a 10% RIF. They started with 10k stateside contractors. Today she found out her org has to reduce another 20%.
This kind of seems like the path to universal healthcare. Instability in the private sector?
Posted by: Turn 2 at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (CyFyf)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
I've invented a jumping to conclusions mat. It has different conclusions and you can jump to them.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025
Can we put this on a trampoline? How fun would this be?
Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (ZdaMQ)
That takes chutzpah.
Analyzing their rhetoric is much simpler if you begin with the presumption they think you're stupid.
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Their presumption is that you will comply. And mostly, we do.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (TN0g+)
"I did say 'universal,' didn't I?"
.......
But they have green blood.
Posted by: wth
California taxpayers will fund McCoy Clinics in every neighborhood, where we patch up rock-eating underground aliens with silica cement.
Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Pudinhead
A friend of mine in elementary school had a crush on Eve Plumb, who played Jan.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)
I don't know how it happened, but the attractive dodgeball bicurious chick Christine Taylor is the original Marsha for me now. Somehow she has overwritten my brady bunch core memory location and I just have her now.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (3uBP9)
Obamacare was just
- Identify something we can sell as a vital bill to pass
- Lard it full of all our grift.
- Name it something clever
- Pass bill.
Like "Inflation Reduction Act", the "Affordable Care Act" was just a name and nothing in the bill had to do with that. It was all about locking the industry into their socialist plans.
It was a negotiation between the Medical Industrial Complex and the Democrat Party over how they were going to divvy up the loot.
And what bothered the Republicans is that they were not getting any.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (uxVjF)
She killed 1/10 of him? The other 9/10s remain dangerous, no doubt, shambling on.
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox
Because the meaning of words must be fixed in stone and may never, ever change.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)
They can also be misused.
But that's not really the point. The point is that this kidspeak ALLCAPS clickbait phrasing, whether DECIMATES or DESTROYED or SOMETHING ELSE is really dumb. You click on those kind of links and it's always someone who's just disagreeing with someone else in sneering Daily Show fashion without any substance. I don't disagree with what Minaj said here, but there's nothing particularly insightful or devastating about what she said. No one's mind has been changed. It's just some seals clapping on the Internet.
TL;DR version: If a solar flare destroys modern life, I won't miss this kind of inanity.
Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (C24tU)
Posted by: rhomboid
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That is a Crossing the Rubicon situation and you have to consider then what will be done in a future Democrat administration.
The problem, I think, is that our ruling elite now simply are done with popular democracy and taking them on is about on par with Caesar facing the decaying Roman Republic's Senate diktats.
It is actually far easier to replace an individual tyrant than a system of tyranny unless you want to go Sulla on them. Proscriptions are required and taking their generational wealth away from them.
Then any such ruler will never be able to sleep without one eye open.
Cromwell had it easier. He only had the Royalists to fight. The Roman Civil War after Caesar died was much more prolonged and arguably act 1 happened when Sulla and his co ruler duked it out.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (WDjG6)
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Then you're going on it too, you greasy sack of garbage. Not some special, carved out elite plan. The same damned one you want to herd the unwashed masses into.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 12, 2025 01:24 PM (qBdHI)
Doctor says: "Well at least you still have 5 good ones."
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:24 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM
How about 'Jumping to Conclusions'? I'd watch that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
No love for dildo tossing?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)
https://youtu.be/9BkwnGq2yaA
New Olympic sport?...fast forward to 1:30 after the first minute...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Eh, plenty of them actually did which is why it wasn't repealed. Big Hospital, Big Pharma (headed by former GOP Rep. Billy Tauzin), and Big Insurance all got a piece of the turkey and that continued throughout today via campaign contributions, etc. Look up Bill Cassidy's campaign contributions for example among others.
The medicine industrial complex (17.6 pct GDP) makes our defense complex (3.3) look weak politically and financially. Even the education complex is only at (5.4 pct).
American public got the bones and scraps of that spending.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (WDjG6)
For the left, the concept of lying is wholly dependent upon the political convenience of the moment.
That's why they are unbothered by our continual exposures of and accusations of their hypocrisy. All that means literally nothing to them. Their only cause for anything and everything boils down to "is it presently convenient?"
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 12, 2025 01:55 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 12, 2025 04:04 PM (R11M+)
The “Affordability Crisis” - Home Prices and Apartment Rents Are Decreasing as Deportations Increase
The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday that an estimated 2.5 million illegal aliens have left the country since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.Over 600,000 aliens have been deported and another 1.9 million have self-deported. Those 2.5 million people were occupying a lot of housing that is now competing for new tenants. The “affordability crisis” is a term being thrown around by those who want to sabotage the Trump presidency and help Democrats defeat Republicans in the mid-terms next November. But by causing millions of illegal aliens to depart the country, the Trump administration is actually taking powerful action to reduce the cost of housing and shelter. Coincidentally, most of the NeverTrump critics trying to kneecap the Trump agenda with the “affordability” issue are hell-bent on stopping deportations and throwing the border back open to illegal labor. Those people parroting the “affordability crisis” talking points need to be challenged to admit that Donald Trump’s deportations and closed border are bringing down the cost of housing. Reducing the cost of housing is the highest priority when talking about “affordability,” and President Trump’s policies are making it happen. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Clay at December 12, 2025 11:00 AM (rIjnE)
ESPONJA!!!1!!11
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 11:00 AM (tljrc)
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Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM (1Yy3c)
You know what I ne ne ne need.
Posted by: Jesse Duplantis at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM (y3u3n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:04 AM (MeJZi)
From Buck's cite:
the number of illegal immigrants who have self-deported is just an estimation as a vast majority of migrants leaving without informing the government. At President Donald Trump’s six-month mark in office, the Department of Homeland Security reported 150,000 deportations with a combined total of 1.6 million illegal immigrants having left the country. However, DHS only recorded roughly 13,000 migrants who have self-deported. These self-deportations were tracked by the CBP Home App created by the Department, which gave illegal immigrants a free flight and a $1,000 bonus for leaving the country.
https://is.gd/Gi0Smo
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (MeJZi)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (abIsI)
https://xcancel.com/iowahawkblog/. status/1999174078012248080
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:07 AM (1Yy3c)
So, I look him up and, he's just released a new movie!
Buuuuut, almost all of the critics, straight up hate it, which makes me wonder if he somehow violated some libtardian principle and that set their hair on fire.
Christian Toto gives it a middling recommendation, so we may go see it. Maybe no. Just wait for streaming.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)
I will never quite understand this Brooks' popularity.
I mean, Broadcast News is fine. But, little more than that. And Hollywood loved him, and his movies made good money.
They always feel very middling to me, though I don't think I've seen As Good As It Gets all the way through.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)
Ah, well. De gustibus and all that.
His writing is generally great. And I think his great gift is to make people feel"smart" for lack of a better word, while watching his movies filled with articulate people who still feel real, and you get to ride along.
He kind of reminds me of Paddy Chayefsky in that regard, except Ol Pads give you screaming drama instead of Ol Brooke's light comedy.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: The Margins at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (MeJZi)
Oh no...the cartels have gone full vegan!
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM (1Yy3c)
How... odd.
- experts everywhere -
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM (NwnyJ)
Let's not forget the gub's influence pushing for more multi family units, especially in those Reich wing suburbs...
Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 11:09 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:10 AM (pDt9x)
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Coincidentally, there have been numerous reports nationwide of less dogs and cats being eaten.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:10 AM (25a1J)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus
I get a "Page not found."
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Take out the space and the period
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (/+FOE)
Profit is one thing, homelessness is another. Do you hate your fellow man, a working citizen in the country we all love, enough to deny him a dwelling?
Interesting dilemma. YMMV.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 12, 2025 11:12 AM (hhkIi)
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It was the one and only time I ever watched a movie solely because other people I was acquainted to and not friends with gushed about how good it was. I found it a real chore to get through. After that I always assume that normie recommended films are shit and avoid them.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dg7ng)
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Is it because the actress who plays the lady who uses a hammer to break the writer's ankles gets naked in a hot tub in this movie?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (/+FOE)
Uncountably Terrible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/Pagentfound
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Wonderful Wino at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: ...
Is that the one with Nicholson and Helen Hunt?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (MeJZi)
Oh no...the cartels have gone full vegan!
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM
Forget fentanyl, gringo, have you seen the price of arugula lately?
Posted by: TdA at December 12, 2025 11:15 AM (kgE5c)
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While that is absolutely correct and true, it is also beyond the grasp of most people. I've been seeing this for over 50 years. They are unshakably convinced that ending inflation entails lowering prices.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 11:15 AM (s0JqF)
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Is it because the actress who plays the lady who uses a hammer to break the writer's ankles gets naked in a hot tub in this movie?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)
Wrong movie. Isn't that something like "About Schmidt"?
But, yeah, AS is a terrible movie.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:15 AM (iJfKG)
But when you're talking about say 1-2% decrease in rent, I think more needs to be done on this front.
I keep saying that conservatives need to be more "populist" when it comes to Wall Street's newfound love of single family housing and owning rental properties. Also, wrangle in the short term rentals. So many starter houses have been gobbled up by investors. Make this a less appealing investment and watch a huge amount of inventory become available.
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 11:15 AM (eIzlH)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (/+FOE)
Wails...gnashes teeth...rends garments...
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Is it because the actress who plays the lady who uses a hammer to break the writer's ankles gets naked in a hot tub in this movie?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)
I think you're thinking of About Schmidt. As Good As It Gets has a very delicious Helen Hunt who also happens to be in a (tasteful) state of undress.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
And turns from the extreme left lane on I270 to the northbound ramp of I71 after they have come to a complete dead stop.
They destroyed more than a few of the Westerville schools.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)
OMG I hated that one too!!!!
Are they not the same movie?
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (/+FOE)
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I wonder if there's a way at the macro level to analyze the rate of decline in "remittances" to their home countries as a factor in helping to better determine the estimates of self-deportations?
Where's Elon and DOGE when you need them?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (25a1J)
Saltgrain-Sized Robot thought balloon: "Welp, this sucks balls."
Also at WaPo, news everybody can use: "Boxed wine is a pro move for holiday parties."
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
yes.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (ynpvh)
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Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
I think so
I genuinely confuse it with About Schmidt but I didn't like either one. It may be that I hated About Schmidt, and As Good As It Gets was just one I didn't like. I don't know anything anymore.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (/+FOE)
I don't go anymore either...donwanna crisis.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (Riz8t)
Add to this the inability of Dims or 'principled' Never-Trumpers to ever admit their true motivations, and you get an internet filled with bilge.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (Dg7ng)
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True -- and one of the reasons I love this place.
At least our future AI Overlords aren't being "trained" on all that internet bilge ... wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (25a1J)
Saltgrain-Sized Robot thought balloon: "Welp, this sucks balls."
Also at WaPo, news everybody can use: "Boxed wine is a pro move for holiday parties."
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (GHIyr)
I know someone, for Halloween, dressed up as a box wine. It had wine inside the box and a spigot out front at lower waist height...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (ynpvh)
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From a purely optics standpoint, Trump vigorously raising tariffs early in his term was not good timing.
The biggest reason Trump got elected was because of the cost of living under Biden.
The tariffs are not responsible for why things are still expensive, but even among friends/family I have that voted Trump, they blame a lot of the new reality of high prices on "tariffs".
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (eIzlH)
https://tinyurl.com/49ss6cu7
Most gun friendly admin evah!!!
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 11:19 AM (abIsI)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (van9r)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM
At least your rent CAN go down. My mortgage payment isn't going to decrease until I have enough equity to refinance, and that assumes that will make sense at some point. Fortunately, I bought something that I could afford.
Well, pretty much, anyway.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (Zst8M)
Where's Elon and DOGE when you need them?
IIRC, remittances are a very big part of Western Union's business now. The government probably has tried to get the data, but I'm not sure if any kind of legal jeopardy would attach to WU if they complied.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (D+mpw)
https://tinyurl.com/49ss6cu7
Most gun friendly admin evah!!!
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 11:19 AM (abIsI)
Obama was very gun-friendly, just not to US Citizens. Mexican Narcos got plenty of Fast-n-Furious guns...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (ynpvh)
https://is.gd/Gi0Smo
Posted by: Archimedes
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This has been correlated with worker numbers from DoL which tracks such things as native versus foreign employment.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:21 AM (WDjG6)
Saltgrain-Sized Robot thought balloon: "Welp, this sucks balls."
Oh, boo hoo.
Posted by: Capsule to be swallowed as a replacement for a colonoscopy at December 12, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (van9r)
he was never the same after the lobotomy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Peak Pique at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM
At least your rent CAN go down. My mortgage payment isn't going to decrease until I have enough equity to refinance, and that assumes that will make sense at some point. Fortunately, I bought something that I could afford.
Well, pretty much, anyway.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (Zst8M)
My mortgage company keeps calling me and sending me mail trying to entice me to refi with a cash-out. F'em. I've told them time and time again, I don't want to take out equity from my house and end up owing more, and their fees for a refi don't make it worthwhile yet.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (ynpvh)
And this is a core thing - price is highly dependent on demand
So if you remove people that need housing prices will decline.
Supply and Demand.
Now government can ease housing restrictions as well, but people don't generally like that. In my blue area people are constantly complaining about their towns becoming cities. Well idiots if you vote to bring in tens of millions of people they have to live somewhere.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (sKqQm)
xcancel.com/iowahawkblog/
status/1999174078012248080
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:07 AM (1Yy3c)
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I've never heard of "shiplap" before.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
Why the scare quotes around "affordability?" Either it's a real problem that Trump's wise policies are fixing, or it's a Dem hoax to be scare-quoted. Pick one.
IMHO, things are not very affordable right now, no scare quotes needed.
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Peak Pique at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (qUkBO)
Kumala Whoris played ET?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (Ffvt8)
Either way, it is a problem, and whatever the pros and cons of the tariff issue, I think (hindsight is 20/20, as always) Trump would have done better to hammer that instead. Though it's an open question whether the GOP would have given him any support.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (lHPJf)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (pDt9x)
Why?
Higher inflation rates mean higher loan rates mean fewer buyers.
So as loan rates go down there are more potential buyers and therefore higher prices.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Peak Pique
Yeah, I never understood all the ballyhoo about that flick.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
Tell me you never watched HGTV without telling me you never watched HGTV?
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:24 AM (/+FOE)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
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You obviously don't watch HGTV.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:24 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe
That's the most jarring statement we've ever heard.
Posted by: Chip, Joanna at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)
They're going to reveal it once they've:
- passed union protections for federal workers
- extended the Obamacare subsidies
- held hearings on whether Santa Clause is a socialist threat
- passed amnesty to speedboat fishermen trying to deliver powdered "fish" to Cuba
Then, and only then, can they get around to helping American citizens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (HXT0k)
If you drive around most major cities, you'll see tons of residential construction. At least two new high-rise condos are going up around my place in Manhattan. One in particular I know was delayed 24 months due in part to covid.
These are not totally "new" apartments, as older apartment buildings were knocked down to build these, but they are bigger (more rooms) and almost certainly more high-end.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Peak Pique at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (qUkBO)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (pDt9x)
That was gay as fk, literally. A song extolling the joys of Anal Sex? No thanks. Only watched it because wife wanted to watch it, and afterwards, never again.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (pDt9x)
The biggest reason Trump got elected was because of the cost of living under Biden.
The tariffs are not responsible for why things are still expensive, but even among friends/family I have that voted Trump, they blame a lot of the new reality of high prices on "tariffs".
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (eIzlH)
It was a calculated risk; the fastest way to get employment moving up and costs moving down was to rapidly repair the massive trade imbalances between the US and the rest of the world, and shaking everyone up with the tarriffs was by far the fastest way to do that.
But it risked the bad optics, as you say. So whether it pays off or not depends on whether the economy begins to noticably improve. I actually think the chances are very good.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (uWKK8)
What does "historically low" mean? Prices are not even back to the low national averages that existed during the Obama Administration and Trump 45 Administration years.
Over 600,000 aliens have been deported and another 1.9 million have self-deported. Those 2.5 million people were occupying a lot of housing that is now competing for new tenants.
That's a great start. But considering there were about 40-50 million illegal aliens in the country -- with I think 10 million brought in under the Biden/Obama Administration from January 2021 to January 2025 -- 2.5 million is only 5% of the total and 25% of what came in under Biden/Obama.
At this rate, we'll only be rid of the 10 million brought in under Biden by the end of President Trump's 2nd term.
Which is good, of course. But not anywhere near sufficient. 100% of illegal aliens need to be deported asap. And if Democrats take over Congress in January 2027 and a MAGA Republican does not win the Presidency in 2028...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
That's because you are heterosexual and male.
I had to look it up. It's apparently a froo froo term for siding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (1Yy3c)
They're going to reveal it once they've:
- passed union protections for federal workers
- extended the Obamacare subsidies
- held hearings on whether Santa Clause is a socialist threat
- passed amnesty to speedboat fishermen trying to deliver powdered "fish" to Cuba
Then, and only then, can they get around to helping American citizens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (HXT0k)
If by that you mean "issue a strongly worded resolution about the necessity of helping American citizens," then yes.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (lHPJf)
All that free and reduced cost healthcare is paid for by someone. And that's why people that aren't on welfare have seen their costs explode.
Get rid of the free riders and costs will start to go down.
And this is the only significant way, outside of rationing (which Europe does) to bring costs down.
Yes you can lower paperwork (which the government/insurance companies don't want to do). Yes you can mandate price transparency. And some other small things.
But if you want to get prices down for health insurance/health care costs you need to remove all those illegals and reduce the number of Americans getting freebies as well
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (pDt9x)
Can you smoke it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (ynpvh)
Will there come a point in the next three years when the current administration can finally take responsibility for the current state of the economy?
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (GHIyr)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (pDt9x)
And very sensual.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (3h4I5)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (pDt9x)
and we can go down and serenade our political betters with songs like Ol' Man Ribah while they sit on their verandahs and sip mint juleps on those sultry summer evenings.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (rbvCR)
Or are we going to hear a lot of whining from TriColor and the idiots that underwrote the sub-prime debt as they demand that our feckless politicians bail them out?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
I started to watch your latest vid, saved it to one of my lists due to time constraint.
I have only one thing to say about your vid:
"It's a Wonderful Christmas Suit"
Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
That's because you are heterosexual and male.
I had to look it up. It's apparently a froo froo term for siding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (1Yy3c)
Shiplap is to ships as Rocky Mountain Oysters are to oysters...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
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You obviously don't watch HGTV.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:24 AM (DRSnL)
funny, I lived in a house with shiplap siding for 20 years or therabouts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK8)
She was in Suits, but she never did much for me.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)
Remember the old (Klaus Scwab and WEF?) "You will own nothing and you will be happy" bullshit?
Anyone know if that's still going on?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (25a1J)
Posted by: Leupold
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Deny big institutional investors any tax deduction for interest on single family home mortgages. In a sense, the leverage that large entities get from abnormally low borrowing rates compared with individuals means they have an advantage in offering cash money on homes versus individuals in hot markets.
The other way is have localities strictly regulate rental housing. Most of the landlords like Blackrock are shitty landlords that often buy shitty new development homes that instantly require maintenance--hvac, quality of roofing, plumbing, and other such things are often subpar, which leads in turn to insta slum. Blackrock and others were essentially relying on govt subsidies like Section 8, refugee settlement, and others to fill their insta slums and like a NYC landlord, promptly ignore maintenance to goose their profit.
They enshittify areas pretty quickly while doing the legal bribery and canoodling with developers and local pols. Often affordable housing subsidies as well.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
She's no Karen Gillan, but she's alright.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (Dv3i1)
I had to look it up. It's apparently a froo froo term for siding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (1Yy3c)
That is because you never worked in construction, remodeling or anything that didn't just require sheets of OSB
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (pDt9x)
Can you smoke it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (ynpvh)
Of course. Bamboo has a multitude of uses. It might be nature’s perfect plant. Life is like Bamboo, when you think about it. I need you to think about it. Everyone should contemplate Bamboo, its’ nature and purpose.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (pDt9x)
--
I'm no economist, but I'm pretty sure that tariffs don't cause inflation. But that seems to be the leftish/Vichy Republican take.
Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (vqA1l)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (sKqQm)
Canada has figured out to lower the cost of health care dramatically!
Kill anyone who gets sick.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (MSlZp)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
That's because you are heterosexual and male.
Right? Men, real men, do clinker built (overlapping).
Posted by: Vikings at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
That reminds me - never, and I mean never, consider a used car previously owned by an Indian person/family. The person offering it for sale will lie about every detail of it including color.
Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (cYBz/)
I had to look it up. It's apparently a froo froo term for siding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (1Yy3c)
That is because you never worked in construction, remodeling or anything that didn't just require sheets of OSB
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (rbvCR)
I ain't down with OSB, yeah you know me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (ynpvh)
I saw some lefty pol talking about this and the reporter actually did his job once and asked, "Well what if someone doesn't want the job the government offers them?"
And the answer was textbook marxism - "well of course they'd HAVE to take that job."
All these young socialists think they will be a rapper/writer/philosopher for the government aren't going to be happy when they find out they'll be digging ditches.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)
Where's Elon and DOGE when you need them?
IIRC, remittances are a very big part of Western Union's business now. The government probably has tried to get the data, but I'm not sure if any kind of legal jeopardy would attach to WU if they complied.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)
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It's basically all of WU's business. So much so, that as soon as the recent restrictions on remittances were announced, the company made a splashy announcement that it was (suddenly!) focusing on finding new revenue streams.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)
I saw some lefty pol talking about this and the reporter actually did his job once and asked, "Well what if someone doesn't want the job the government offers them?"
And the answer was textbook marxism - "well of course they'd HAVE to take that job."
All these young socialists think they will be a rapper/writer/philosopher for the government aren't going to be happy when they find out they'll be digging ditches.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)
Wasn't the quote "a remunerative job"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (ynpvh)
Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (cYBz/)
I assume we're talking IT here, not casino.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (lHPJf)
It's a perfectly good method for building wooden boats but that ain't it in the picture of Tucker.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (3nLb4)
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I wish you two would eff off already.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: tubal
>I like your thinking, Comrade. You may have free reign on my daughter and wife as well. A good citizen is a mindless, compliant citizen.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (1zOXE)
By the way, that isn't shiplap, that is beadboard.
BEADBOARD David, get your s___ together!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: ShainS
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Yes. But in part because they relied on a raft of government subsidies and low cost capital to house new illegals, refugees, and Section 8 and getting breaks on zoning, etc. via affordable housing mandates.
And they are proving to be shit landlords skimping on maintenance, screwing average people on payments, late fees, etc., and so on. Basically just like big airlines degraded flying, big Tech degraded customer support, and so on.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (WDjG6)
I thought Dems scheming, price controls and screaming about affordability or whatever is what set prices.
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (GUOwU)
I saw some lefty pol talking about this and the reporter actually did his job once and asked, "Well what if someone doesn't want the job the government offers them?"
And the answer was textbook marxism - "well of course they'd HAVE to take that job."
All these young socialists think they will be a rapper/writer/philosopher for the government aren't going to be happy when they find out they'll be digging ditches.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)
Cleaning shitters is not their dream? Oh well, there’s always Walmart stocker gig to aspire to.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Sounds like commies in government...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: MacRadDoc at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (+OjEW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Sounds like commies in government...
And superhero movies.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes
They don't have much of a choice. Fincen regulations are pretty broad. It is just that the Eye of Donald has not turned toward remittances yet. Bessent though has them on his radar scope.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:34 AM (WDjG6)
Second look at telegrams?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: MacRadDoc at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (+OjEW)
Sounds like a disaster for GOPe and Dems...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:34 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)
The other part of it is that Jamie Dimon just admitted that JPMorgan Chase is using Crypto and Bitcoin to do bank transfers now. Very large transfers that don't use SWIFT.
Crypto means WU has no real role in the banking world.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (rbvCR)
‘ Only watched it because wife wanted to watch it, and afterwards, never again.’
I let my wife watch that one on her own.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Bamboo, like Life, will find a way. Bamboo has purpose, and is steadfast. We should model our lives on the Bamboo Model.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (ynpvh)
I'm convinced that certain words aren't meant to be spoken out loud. "Remunerative" is such a fucking clunker that it only looks intelligent written out but trying to say it makes the speaker look like a pretentious dolt.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: TV Hall of Fame at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (rbvCR)
COCKSUCKAHH!!!
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (/+FOE)
Posted by: whig
Sounds vaguely like Tolkein. Is Schiff carrying the Ring of Impeachment to Mt. Roberts in this analogy?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg
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Only have it in containers. It spreads underground and requires massive effort to keep it from spreading including digging trenches around a grove and putting barriers around it.
If you keep cutting it down and killing it when new shoots emerge with brush killers, it can also do it over a long period of time.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (pDt9x)
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Does he still sit courtside at Lakers home games with the rest of the glitteratti?
And is Queen LeBron still playing for them and taking it up the ass from Chairman "Winnie The Pooh" Xi? /rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (25a1J)
‘ Only watched it because wife wanted to watch it, and afterwards, never again.’
I let my wife watch that one on her own.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)
I knew nothing about it beforehand. Afterwards, I was, "What in the name of all that's Good and Virtuous was that hell I just watched?"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (xG4kz)
Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
Posted by: As Good As It Gets at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: whig
Sounds vaguely like Tolkein. Is Schiff carrying the Ring of Impeachment to Mt. Roberts in this analogy?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)
Yes. The Trump though, he is Tricksey, Precious.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
Work in home improvement and you'll start shooting anybody who mentions it. lol
Its what I call trendy ugly.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (/+FOE)
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Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (25a1J)
Posted by: Bamboo Shoots at December 12, 2025 11:38 AM (oftw2)
‘ Did you know that Bamboo is really grass?’
No . I didn’t know that, Mr. Claven. Was that a question on Jeopardy?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:39 AM (jbnUc)
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The bitching and moaning from Mexico's prezzy might not factor the self-deportations, but it sure sounded like it amounted to a whole lot of Mexico's GDP.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 11:39 AM (NwnyJ)
Kill anyone who gets sick.
That is actually an interesting talking point. Canada and every euthanasia enthusiast and abortionist has already endorsed killing people in the name of "health care".
If you are a foreigner or otherwise expecting the public to pick up the medical tab, then you get to pick your "health care" treatment plan from the Euthanasia Menu.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 11:39 AM (pUU4E)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
She is equal parts cute and sexy, that's pretty much it.
She's like if a basket full of puppies was super hot. It's weird now that I put it that way.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (/+FOE)
‘ Did you know that Bamboo is really grass?’
No . I didn’t know that, Mr. Claven. Was that a question on Jeopardy?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:39 AM (jbnUc)
I learned from Ryan Lizza, Philosopher.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (pDt9x)
I liked all of it but the stupid road trip with gay guy drawing her. One of the last decent grown up romantic comedies. I liked the gay guy, I liked Nicholson obviously relishing playing a detestable person with a secret heart of gold, I liked the dog, and the gay guy getting ticked his dog likes Jack. I liked Helen hunt's storyline. The harried single mom, the gay guy getting beat up, the OCD... There was a realness to the characters' lives that gets sanded off in the fluffy Romantic comedies with the teenyboppers in them. And none of them were woke or perfect. Just people. I miss Hollywood writing just people.
And of course it has one of the funniest exchanges in 90s cinematic history:
-- How do you write women so well?
-- I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
She is equal parts cute and sexy, that's pretty much it.
She's like if a basket full of puppies was super hot. It's weird now that I put it that way.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (/+FOE)
Go on...
Posted by: Sam Brinton at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (ynpvh)
>>As much as I love gingers, I've never gotten the Karen Gillan thing. She's cute enough, but just doesn't push my buttons.
Any man that talks about Amy Pond this way, get's a night in the box.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 12, 2025 11:41 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
Sigh....
Well, she can certainly push mine.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:41 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:41 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (25a1J)
Click the plus sign in my hash and you'll find out all about future use.
I'm just kidding I just wanted to point out my hash which says it all but not usually on Friday.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (/+FOE)
I'M KIDDING! Im kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding.
I'm at home on the shitter.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Well Schiff would be more like Saruman in that scenario. But I think the Donald is aware of the issue but is relying on delegation to Bessent right now instead of speaking about it publicly.
Remittances interact with Donald's foreign policy/tariff initiatives with Latin America, India, among other strategic places. JJ had a link to a story about the whole drug trade emanating from Venezuela and likely destabilizing the West Coast of Africa nations like Benin, etc. fueling Muzzie terrorism in Nigeria against Christians, etc.
Venezuela has apparently become a nexus for all sorts of bad cartels and foreign players like Russia, China, and Iran to colonize in the US backyard. Also apparently Venezuelans were still involved in the Smartmatic voting machines which licensed the technology to Dominion which is coming out. Smartmatic (or whatever they call themselves now) managers ares facing prison for bribes in the Philippine Islands regarding elections there as well.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (GHIyr)
Why are we falling for the Democrats' "affordability" Gaslighting?
We even immediately adopted their stupid buzzword "affordability."
All you need to know is by "affordability," Democrats mean "free." They Have No Plan to "lower costs." Their only "plan" is subsidize Everything.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (b3HfZ)
Yeah I realized that it's About Schmidt I despised, and I just didn't like As Good As It Gets. I think.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (/+FOE)
Kill anyone who gets sick.
in the book moscow 2042, moscow (a city-state in the book) solved its health-care problem by deporting anyone who got sick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_2042
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (v3pYe)
They're going to reveal it once they've:
- passed union protections for federal workers
- extended the Obamacare subsidies
- held hearings on whether Santa Clause is a socialist threat
- passed amnesty to speedboat fishermen trying to deliver powdered "fish" to Cuba
Then, and only then, can they get around to helping American citizens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (HXT0k)
If by that you mean "issue a strongly worded resolution about the necessity of helping American citizens," then yes.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (lHPJf)
There's a reason Johnson kept the House out 6+ weeks - there are more true Ds than true Rs there, and he can't stop discharge petitions when they happen.
Good news is none of the virtue signaling will become law, so it's pointless posturing...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (tOcjL)
Nope.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (/+FOE)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
Shiplap is boards with a rabbet facing one way on one edge, and a rabbet facing the other way on the opposite edge, so with adjacent boards the rabbets overlap.
Having said that, the wall in the photo looks like tongue and groove to me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (npFr7)
I have an ornamental bamboo called nandina
it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year
Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)
...brokerage firm Olshan Realty reports sales of luxury homes...were up by 31 percent in November compared with October...brokerage Douglas Elliman, reported a similar increase, saying that sales in November were up 25 percent from a month earlier.
And anyone who needs a place despite their politics would want to buy before anyone increases taxes on that transaction. I live in a different city but heard that while visiting.
While I do support many of Mamdanis policy’s, knowing that Cuomo was going to leave if Mamdani won sweetened the deal
If you're the sort of rich that they're talking about, where else are you going to go to live the sort of lifestyle that NYC provides?
His proposed millionaire's surtax is only 2% too. When you're rich enough to be clearing over 1mil annually, a little 2% ain't gonna be enough to offset the benefit of being located in NYC.
We did the same thing in MA with a 5% surtax and surprise, the rich are still here and we funded universal school lunch and a few other things with it.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (FMtrg)
I have an ornamental bamboo called nandina
it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year
Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)
are the berries edible?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (ynpvh)
I'm just kidding I just wanted to point out my hash which says it all but not usually on Friday.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (/+FOE)
FOE = Full Of Excrement?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (3h4I5)
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (GUOwU)
Print all the money. Stop making stuff. Import cheap trash you immediately throw into a landfill, and pay for it on your credit card with money that doesn't exist.
Bam.
Inflation.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (Vq1pX)
Images do not do the woman justice. There are just some chicks you have to see in motion. Preferably slow motion.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (/+FOE)
The problem with inflation is that it sets a "New Zero".
So, in theory, things will never go back to the before Biden times.
Three things helping Trump though:
1) A lot of the inflation was caused by trying top destroy the USA's cheap energy and energy production,
Lower energy costs help everything go lower.
2) Massive deportation. A lot of Biden Handlers(?) plan was to drive inflation by immigration. That's being handled though I wish more aggressively.
3) Since Clinton the Democrats have been talking about "solving the debt" through inflation. Because, then we are paying our debts with worthless money. Ha ha ha! The Chinese are getting worthless dollars! Ha ha ha! What about US citizens? Fuck'em! HA HA HA!.
That idea's no longer being used.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (3h4I5)
It's like you've known me all my life.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (/+FOE)
The rhizomes are nearly impossible to eradicate once they spread. You have to dig deep trenches around them and and put in heavy plastic as a barrier so they don't spread.
I did my homework and planted the cluster kind of bamboo. Filled in a tough spot in my yard beautifully and quickly, never spread, easy to care for. Loved the look and the low maintenance.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (gWBY1)
When Republicans talk about "affordability," they mean "it's never our fault, and we can't fix any problems we inherit anyway."
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (GHIyr)
‘ Canada has figured out to lower the cost of health care dramatically!
Kill anyone who gets sick.’
Give a man Canadian Healthcare and he’ll have medical care for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (jbnUc)
Home prices had to start falling eventually. At some point if nobody can afford a product the product’s price has to adjust. This is Econ 101 stuff.
As for places like Austin or Phoenix a ton of people went there during Covid to escape blue state lockdowns. But then they realized they miss California or Chicago or wherever. And are moving back. Notice the article says Providence is up 5%. That’s the pattern.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)
***
Cute smile, red hair of course, and legs that go on for ever and ever!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (2WIwB)
I have an ornamental bamboo called nandina
it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year
Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)
are the berries edible?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (ynpvh)
Internet says berries contain cyanide, so maybe.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM
You obviously never watched the series Suits? Her character was excellent in that. And yes, quite yum.
Posted by: As Good As It Gets at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (P5BPp)
I have an ornamental bamboo called nandina
it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year
Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)
are the berries edible?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (ynpvh)
Internet says berries contain cyanide, so maybe.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (pDt9x)
Yum, just like apple seeds!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (ynpvh)
Crypto means WU has no real role in the banking world.
Posted by: Kindltot
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US has already proven it can track blockchain transactions and unwind them if necessary. A lot of the crypto hype was that it was untraceable. It isn't probably for state actors anymore than numbered accounts in the Cayman Islands are safe from monitoring.
I have come to the conclusion that privacy is dead from state actors and most commercial entitites unless you want to live like Ted Kaczynski.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (WDjG6)
It'd be amusing and maybe useful to insert a parrot squawking into these NPC OPS.
Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2025 11:48 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:48 AM (25a1J)
Do not recommend as flooring unless you get the really high end stuff.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:48 AM (gWBY1)
They're going to reveal it once they've:
- passed union protections for federal workers
- extended the Obamacare subsidies
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Apparently they're holding the line on the subsidies:
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
https://tinyurl.com/4etscewj
(AP via Spectrum News)
It seems they've got a backbone somewhere that they pull out on special occasions.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 11:49 AM (6ydKt)
It'd be amusing and maybe useful to insert a parrot squawking into these NPC OPS.
Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2025 11:48 AM (FhXTo)
Affordability Crisis...
Climate Crisis...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:49 AM (ynpvh)
See I always wonder about stats like this. Why wouldn't you compare one Nov to another. Does NYC normally see more sales in Nov then Oct?
But then also...isn't this being driven by the people who want a luxury NYC place getting in before Mammy gets his new taxes?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:49 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: kallisto
FWIW, if you have the original strains of heavenly bamboo aka nandina, it will spread more aggressively via new baby nandina. Rose of Sharon is another such.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:49 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: MikeN at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (aw6/b)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (GHIyr)
Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (Kt19C)
It's be like going to another country and seeing bundles of fire ants for sale.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (/+FOE)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (pDt9x)
Kill anyone who gets sick.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM
Not to mention, kill all the white people.
From this morning's Morning Report:
Free health care for Muslim migrants. Free death for Canadian taxpayers.
Canada’s Euthanasia Kills 96% White People
LINK: https://bit.ly/4pZtI7E
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (P5BPp)
It's be like going to another country and seeing bundles of fire ants for sale.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (/+FOE)
Give it to the neighbors you don't like, but eventually it'll end up in your yard...LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ShainS
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HGTV is on in every doctor's office waiting room.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (WDjG6)
She was darling in Doctor who. And in the live action Jumanni film, she wears these really tiny safari shirts and is also hilarious. I think a lot of teenage boys fell in love with her in that film.
I love they cast her as the stoic Nebula character in the marvel films. She plays the serious side well, then sneaks in subtle comedic bits (it's not ripe!) that a primarily dramatic actress would have completely missed.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (gWBY1)
And they are proving to be shit landlords skimping on maintenance, screwing average people on payments, late fees, etc., and so on. Basically just like big airlines degraded flying, big Tech degraded customer support, and so on.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (WDjG6)
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Ah, that tracks. Thanks for putting me to some additional knowledge, per usual ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:53 AM (25a1J)
‘ What in the name of all that's Good and Virtuous was that hell I just watched?"’
You watched a musical that a rejected Friends episode : A bunch of assorted young NYC fags singing and whining about rent.
Wasn’t that a great concept for entertainment?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:53 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: 18-1 a
I thought everyone with money was fleeing NYC to Florida.
That’s what Fox News was screaming about. Did it turn out to be bullshit after all? Here’s my shocked face. lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (9iyS+)
To all the hetero lurkers...I'm so very sorry.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (1Yy3c)
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Seems like maybe the Dems did the briar patch thingy on the Reps. I hope the Reps have a plan* for the midterms that blunts the obvious Dem messaging that is coming.
*No, I don't think Congressional Reps have any plans, at least ones that aren't geared towards getting back in the minority where there's money for nothing and the chicks (or boys) are free
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK8)
DHS only recorded roughly 13,000 migrants who have self-deported.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I keep saying this 1 million+ number can't be provable or real. If it were true, there would be stories about little Central American towns that are being repopulated, about the Pedros and Marias who are returning to build homes and start businesses with their (SUBSTANTIAL, by local standards) American savings, to tell their stories, blah blah-bo.
Here in California, any change is invisible. I read stories from time to time about classrooms being "empty" as a "chill" settles over Hispanic residents who live in "terror" of budging outside their homes. Similar stories about Mexican groceries and small businesses losing customers who are similarly "terrified" to go outside (how are they eating, one wonders).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (1N/bM)
‘ What in the name of all that's Good and Virtuous was that hell I just watched?"’
You watched a musical that a rejected Friends episode : A bunch of assorted young NYC fags singing and whining about rent.
Wasn’t that a great concept for entertainment?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:53 AM (jbnUc)
It felt like I contracted AIDS watching that abortion.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Add Some Kudzu, Too. at December 12, 2025 11:55 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
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I thought everyone had heard of Suits because of Mrs. Prince Harry.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:55 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: ..."
It was all over one side of my backyard when I bought my current house. Took three years of tearing out and poison to get rid of it. Do not let it get started because it looks attractive.
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2025 11:55 AM (GUOwU)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (pDt9x)
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That's what I love about this place.
We come here for conversations about economics, but we stay here for the bewbs...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 11:55 AM (RnixX)
That would definitely be the normal way to do it, so when it's done differently, I assume the data doesn't support the pre-determined outcome.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (JCZqz)
Canada’s Euthanasia Kills 96% White People
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Canada will run out of gingers if this trend continues.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (FhXTo)
Riiiigggghhhhtttt.
Here's how NBC reports it:
"Amid historic flooding from days of torrential rain, Washington state Governor Bob Ferguson is still waiting for the Trump Administration to approve his request for a disaster declaration. It comes as federal officials canceled a meeting yesterday to potentially downsize FEMA."
Fu*k NBC. What's the story here komrades? The flood? The disaster request? The fact that the guv is still waiting (it had been less than 24 hours from when the report was written)? Or FEMA cancelling a meeting?
This very story demonstrates Ferguson doesn't give a damn about the citizens of the state. Anything to trash Trump huh guv?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Jordan61
Oh, Sparkles was in that? Was she any good?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
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William F. Buckley was a nancy-boy piece of shit.
The country and the Republican Party would have been better off keeping the Birchers and jettisoning Big Business.
Corporatism is no better than communism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
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I haven't watched it, myself.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:57 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Seems to me that we have an insurance broker here as one of the cobs. Mebbe they can help.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:57 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (WDjG6)
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Aha!
Had to visit an endodontist multiple times over the past year and I noticed it they had something along those lines being broadcast (home & garden -- and also cooking).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:57 AM (25a1J)
Buckley was controlled opposition. That's all.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
Here in California, any change is invisible. I read stories from time to time about classrooms being "empty" as a "chill" settles over Hispanic residents who live in "terror" of budging outside their homes. Similar stories about Mexican groceries and small businesses losing customers who are similarly "terrified" to go outside (how are they eating, one wonders).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM
Yep. It’s a bullshit number.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Penn. Chamber of Tourism at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (Mr2jk)
Posted by: Jordan61
Oh, Sparkles was in that? Was she any good?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
I saw a handful of episodes. She was competent.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: whig
Weird Dave.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
Most Americans largest financial asset is their ho.e. that value is dropping most Americans would not like that to happen
Does Buck think that our shitty economy is also due to fewer hard working migrant home owners leaving ?
Lowest current gas prices are in OK $2.50
1 year ago has prices in Ok were $2.52
When Biden left office. Inflation was less than 3% just as it is now.
People no longer believe in Trump when he days things like he inherited the worst inflation in history or that the economy is doing well.
Prices are dropping but only because people are too worried about JOBS not inflation to buy
Deflation is worse than inflation
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (fZpiI)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I think the HOT L BALTIMORE was the forerunner in AIDS-ravaged, urban comedy.
Posted by: With The Fierstein Play-Safe Sex at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (oftw2)
Inflation is NOT the phenomenon of prices rising.
It's the phenomenon of debasement of the currency. When the Treasury floods trillions of dollars into the marketplace, each dollar become worth less. Thereby requiring more dollars to purchase goods.
The only was prices come down is if SUPPLY of the products increases.
Blaming higher prices on 'inflation" is like blaming your car engine for stopping when in fact you've run out of gas.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 12, 2025 11:59 AM (MNCvZ)
Next, on Affordable Starter Homes we have Buffy and Simp who are looking to buy their first home. Buffy, a Only Fans Influencer and Simp, an intern at Arby's Drive through, have a limited budget and have chosen a simple 3200sq ft fixer-upper for only $750k.
Our team has TWO WEEKS before the city inspector come back to lift the red-tag Condemned sign from the door...
Will they be able to make the transformation in time?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 11:59 AM (pUU4E)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (9iyS+)
CBP Home app. They're encouraging illegals to use this to notify the gub'mint of self-deportation. Yes, literally saying, "Hey ICE just FYI I'm leaving now."
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (1Yy3c)
It would be like comparing candy sales in Nov vs Oct. gee it fell off a cliff. Wonder why.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (9iyS+)
(LifeSiteNews) — Multiple churches in the United States have staged politically charged Nativity scenes to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to remove illegal immigrants.
At St. Susanna Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, the traditional figure of Jesus in the manger was replaced with a sign implying that Jesus would be deported by ICE.
“ICE was here,” reads the sign. “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church.”
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Archimedes
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I keep saying this 1 million+ number can't be provable or real. If it were true, there would be stories about little Central American towns that are being repopulated, about the Pedros and Marias who are returning to build homes and start businesses with their (SUBSTANTIAL, by local standards) American savings, to tell their stories, blah blah-bo.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (1N/bM)
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I tend to agree. I think if over 1.5M people disappeared from this country in 6 months, there would be huge areas in USA that suddenly became ghost towns. Plus, I would think massive chaos at the border as over a million people suddenly fled.
Many parasites have indeed left. You can see the numbers in the employment figures and in easing of some housing and other figures. But 1.5M? I'd love for that to be true, but I'm skeptical.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)
I still feel bad that the lefty voters in WA voted in a bunch of gas tax hikes in 2024 "for the children," that raised it like 50 cents. They they already have some of the highest gas prices. So while most other states are seeing a big price drop on gas, WA probably won't.
Sorry Nurse and the other Washingtonians!
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (gWBY1)
maybe they were like, if we can't do a political protest one we just won't do one or something?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (9iyS+)
"I told you people that gravy flavored snickers was a terrible idea!"
-Mars Corp. Executive #54381
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Nobody takes Econ 101 anymore at December 12, 2025 12:02 PM (TbWk/)
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Never, ever, ever private sale anything to an Arab or an Indian, either.
Doesn't matter what price you agree on, they will always try to change it after you agree.
And, if you hate money, let them test-drive without you being in the vehicle.
Because, they'll drive out of sight, sabotage it somehow, come back and demand you sell it for scrap to them.
So many Americans have no idea just how much a luxury the formerly high-trust society we had was.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 12:02 PM (HXT0k)
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Internet says berries contain cyanide, so maybe.
All plants are edible. Some of them only once.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:03 PM (3nLb4)
“ICE was here,” reads the sign. “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church.”
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)
If only Mary had reproductive rights we wouldn't be forced into this conversation.
Posted by: It's fraught! Fraught I tell you! at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:57 AM (WDjG6)
That would be Weird Dave, and he should be hosting the ONT tonight. He is a good man.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (v6HoO)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
The phony "deadline" makes those shows unwatchable. That and the faggotry.
Posted by: 30K Granite Countertops at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (oftw2)
It's like there's a law or a rule or something that dictates that...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)
(LifeSiteNews) — Multiple churches in the United States have staged politically charged Nativity scenes to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to remove illegal immigrants.
At St. Susanna Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, the traditional figure of Jesus in the manger was replaced with a sign implying that Jesus would be deported by ICE.
“ICE was here,” reads the sign. “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church.”
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)
I always found that a silly argument. If folks coming here are escaping a gov't that wants to take their lives, they can apply for asylum; those than come here for economic reasons need to do it the proper, legal way, not jump the line and pop out anchor babies once here.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:05 PM (ynpvh)
‘ It felt like I contracted AIDS watching that abortion.’
Second hand AIDS? I hope you get better.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 12:05 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
If employers are sent to jail for employing illegals (and judges don't just dismiss the cases out of spite), we'll see more self-deportations. Also if a high profile deportation happens (take Ilhan Omar, please) that sends a message. Tom Homan is either a front, or is being fettered behind the scenes.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:05 PM (Dv3i1)
maybe they were like, if we can't do a political protest one we just won't do one or something?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (emBoF)
It's rare for Catholic Churches to do a live nativity...only ones I've ever seen or been to (having lived in NJ, AL, TX, OH, and now VA) is at Protestant places...Catholics don't really do the "let's bring in live animals" thing...
So, the fact you ever had a Church that did one surprises me...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 12:06 PM (tOcjL)
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Internet says berries contain cyanide, so maybe.
All plants are edible. Some of them only once.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:03 PM (3nLb4)
edible /ĕd′ə-bəl/
adjective
Fit to be eaten, especially by humans.
"edible roots; an edible mushroom."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee Since 1966 at December 12, 2025 12:07 PM (oftw2)
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I hate to be the guy to point this out, but a high trust society is not a “luxury” or one of those “nice things to have”. As a society this is no longer discussd.
It isn’t a luxury it is a base prerequisite to achieving and maintaining civilization. It is not possible otherwise. No chance. Get that in your head.
Posted by: Penn. Chamber of Tourism at December 12, 2025 12:07 PM (Mr2jk)
Berries aren't berries.
I learned that last week.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (v6HoO)
Well, most things we call berries are aggregates...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)
well they don't have animals tho
the churches here all have schools and the kids love doing them - my kids used to and their schools were private catholic and the girls' school isn't doing it anymore but the boys' is. make of that what you will!
we will check out the boys school if the guys feel like going back there, which they usually do. the two schools are connected but the boys school was eons better than the girls'.. but that's a whole other story
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:08 PM (emBoF)
The country and the Republican Party would have been better off keeping the Birchers and jettisoning Big Business.
Corporatism is no better than communism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (HXT0k)
I agree. The Birchers at least loved America.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:08 PM (xcxpd)
I learned that last week.
There is a whole category of Youtube vids that can be described as "Everyone except me is wrong about [ thing ]."
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:09 PM (3nLb4)
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Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:10 PM (emBoF)
It seemed to me nearly every home (early 20th century shotguns and bungaloes) where I stayed was either a short term rental or an occupied but "deferred maintenance" dwelling.
When I was ready to start a family 30 years ago, the concept of a "starter home" was something we all talked about. You could get into a good neighborhood with small homes, have your babies, and then move into something nicer when you started making real money in your late 30s.
I'm not sure that option is available to young adults anymore. The ones I talk to do not want to start families while living in a rental.
But the newly built 3BRs are expensive and crappy and remotely located. The older ones close to town are run down or else converted to short term rentals.
I actually got to meet Sec. Scott Turner last spring, who told me HUD was working on low cost home ownership for first time buyers. But it seems like a 10-20 year project and not a 5 year project.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 12, 2025 12:10 PM (GD2xa)
I think it did well on streaming reruns because it's a classic drama, not fancy but solid, and all the newer shows are dreck. It's weird to realize we lost a lot of basic competent storytellers, between the woke and the DEI and the strikes and the covid. The modern woke stuff makes suits look like it's high art.
Markle was trying to act like she was the reason it's done well in streaming. But she's such a minor character that's laughable. She can act a little though; I actually found her character likable, whereas everything about her actual persona is repellant.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:10 PM (gWBY1)
Not true. I am in a swing state and yes, students are disappearing from public school rolls, traffic is lighter, rental vacancies are increasing, construction openings are increasing including shutdowns of entire developments in order to recruit new workers, ER wait times are shorter, etc. And aggregate statistics indicate that momentum is happening and the border being secured means the tap is turned off for new ones.
If you live in a blue area in a blue sanctuary state , then you won't see as much of it as blue areas in red states.
Remove the bennies, make employment uncertain, remove the criminals first, but the number are changing and it is really big but so it the US so personal observations are about as useful as figuring the weather you have is the same across the US.
Illegals distribution across the US is lumpy--they stick out in rural areas, not so much in urban and suburban and blue areas. CA,NY, and IL are epicenters of illegals that have been woven into the society of these states with their large ethnic enclaves. If you don't go to those places in your state, you won't see it whether it is waxing or waning.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (WDjG6)
The country and the Republican Party would have been better off keeping the Birchers and jettisoning Big Business.
Corporatism is no better than communism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (HXT0k)
I agree. The Birchers at least loved America.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:08 PM (xcxpd)
I kinda halfway agree, but not fully. I think Buckley absolutely believed in conservatism and freedom and thought the new deal was a disaster… I also think he was very smart and good at debate. But… he was too nice or naive in thinking he could just “talk it out” with lefties….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (/iXAp)
But if you want to get prices down for health insurance/health care costs you need to remove all those illegals and reduce the number of Americans getting freebies as well
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (sKqQm)
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Try as I might, I have yet to understand what value health insurance companies bring to the table.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (Vh9CX)
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He didn't get the Charlie Kirk treatment, at least.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:12 PM (Dv3i1)
Markle was trying to act like she was the reason it's done well in streaming. But she's such a minor character that's laughable. She can act a little though; I actually found her character likable, whereas everything about her actual persona is repellant.
Posted by: LizLem
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Suits, Psych, and Monk are some of the more beloved streaming series and still high in views. All three aired on USA Network.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (/iXAp)
I'll agree with that, but deciding to unperson the John Birch Society in favor of Ivy League Businessmen was a bad bargain.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
Try as I might, I have yet to understand what value health insurance companies bring to the table.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (Vh9CX)
Pass-throughs for Gov't corruption?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Fix Your Own Mess at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (oftw2)
Like casinos, they facilitate the transfer of money from a large group of people to a small group of people and take their cut off the top.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (v6HoO)
trouble is we're inundated with legal H1B immigrants ... and that seems to only be increasing ...
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (emBoF)
Suits, Psych, and Monk are some of the more beloved streaming series and still high in views. All three aired on USA Network.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
I am partial to the series “ Chuck”.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
Yes. I think we’re in agreement!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:14 PM (/iXAp)
They are the de facto gatekeepers to the healthcare system. Most doctors simply won't see patients without insurance. This sucks.
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (GHIyr)
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Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (jvxGE)
Anyone want a slice of delicious DROUPE Pie?
How about a cool bowl of Aggregates?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (v6HoO)
My wife and I used to make some fine Blackaggregate jam. I'd remove the seeds, so just the pulp and juice. I like my jam seed-free.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (ynpvh)
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)
Buckley was ruled by the media to have lost the debate when he called Vidal a Fag. But Vidal IMO had already sunk too low when he called Buckley a Nazi. Buckley flew into a rage, and while he should have kept his cool I totally understand it.
The best revenge for the right, is that gore Vidal has faded into utter irrelevancy. At one point it was required to have his books on your self if you were a proper lefty. But no one cares about him anymore.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:16 PM (gWBY1)
The first couple of seasons are good where he's a hapless geek being dragged along for the ride. They lost the thread when they turned into a superhero. Still... Yvonne Strahovski.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (3nLb4)
That implies there was something wrong with the Birchere, and Buckley was correct in denying them legitimacy or whatever.
What was wrong with the Birchers? The only fault I could find was they did have a problem with flouridating the municipal water supplies.
Their general theme that the US “Lost China” and Korea, and the countries behind the Iron Curtain, and Yugoslavia and Cuba and Viet Nam .. etc. The State Department was riddled with communists, and set the stage for millions of deaths.
Like Sen. McCarthy, most people only know of the Birchers through the leftist or marxist media lens. “Red Scare” and “Witch Hunt” and “Hysteria” will be in there somewhere.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (Mr2jk)
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Because catastrophic health problems can arise that could and did bankrupt people. The problem became though, because of a weird quirk in labor pay rates being controlled circa 1940's during WWII, Kaiser Shipbuilding could recruit workers by offering freehealth care and the OPM (Office of Price and Management) ruled that this was not an increase in wages. So other corporations did it too.
Since health care was not ruled as compensation, then we got health insurance for routine care instead of catastrophic coverage. That meant eventually over time, due to size effects, insurance companies got reductions in what they paid providers versus those that paid cash. And from there, the system metastasized. Medicare boosted the effects when it came online because large insurance companies adopted Medicare coverage rules and based their charges on Medicare rates (medicare and medicaid created a price floor in essence). System still worked decently until Obama, you didn't earn that, decided to use big insurance to give coverage to those in the gaps on coverage.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:21 PM (WDjG6)
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Same with Russians. If I see the sellers name is Vasily or some such, I move on.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:21 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)
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The foreclosures are just now hitting the market.
It's kinda sad but yeah, vids of walking through the house and you can see the grabbed what they could and fled.
Funny though, 'cause all the comments are variations of "how the F did they get a FHA loan w/o proof of citizenship, and when citizens can't qualify?!"
LOL, it's getting mean out there and the Dems have no clue the mood.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Common Tater
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CIA did not like them as they affronted modern liberal progressive attitudes so they used Buckley to take them down.
Tailgunner Joe was taken down in part for the same reason. No elite class members really wanted inquiry into their sordid personal lives and tangled finances/loyalties going back to school days. Joe, as an outsider, was disposable and removable because of his personal problems.
Uniparty has been running the show for a long time since WWII at the very least.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (WDjG6)
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Sounds like that's a church where the Bible is just a word and not a book they read.
Guaranteed there's a fag flag somewhere on the grounds a well.
About as Christian a church as a mosque ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (HXT0k)
The surge in homebuilding will be a boon to employment overall. All the various materials that go into building will increase need and productivity there. And all the crafts, skills, and trades that go into building a home and in producing and delivering the necessary goods.
This development will resonate incrementally upward. A new neighborhood needs new stores, etc., etc. This is what Powell understands and why his hate Trump is so adamant againt lowering rates.
Lowering rates is not printing more money.
Lowering rates is creating places for money to go.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:31 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: BlackOrchid
Stats say no. Part of teh issue is that the bloated numbers above the statutory cap admitted by Biden junta are good for three years and renewable for another 3.
New restrictions kicked in requiring 100k fee per job plus other restrictions such as a minimum salary of $65k starting Sept. 21, 2025.
Stats are here for the last several years. Link goes to an H1B firm. https://tinyurl.com/mk5dttah
Biden's junta spiked admissions to 188400 for FY 25 versus the 125 k total granted (this includes spouses) for FY 26. So your kids are probably seeing the Biden spike in the job market as it can take some time for the bulge in the python to be digested.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:41 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Toad-0 at December 12, 2025 12:55 PM (S6jVk)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 12, 2025 02:41 PM (s/0Zp)
I recall the experts laughing about that.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 12, 2025 02:45 PM (s/0Zp)
And, thing is, this could accelerate. As ICE visits more sanctuary cites. This problem is going to start solving itself very quickly. As we have fewer illegals, law enforcement can focus more and more resources on what's left. As secure border means less ICE at the border, and more to patrol and deport.
Imagine your choice - sell you shit, take you money, and leave, in an orderly manner, or get arrested and deported, and maybe losing everything you have. And not being able to find a job or get benefits. AND the feds will pay for your plane ticket. That plane ride starts looking awful good.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 12, 2025 02:50 PM (s/0Zp)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:08 PM (viF8m)
10,000 additional ICE agents will be hitting the streets next year.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 03:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Sears at December 12, 2025 03:29 PM (WzTQR)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
[Do not click to embiggen] Woman in Doorway
Samuel Halpert Is this great art? No, but it is competently executed, the artist has obvious skill, and there is no obvious political bent to the work. And the scene is sufficiently complex that it suggests questions. What is going on? Who is the woman ascending the stairs? Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (HU4DS)
ESPONJA!!11!1!!11
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (WPL6O)
1925
Classification
Paintings
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 31 5/8 × 25 5/8in. (80.3 × 65.1 cm)
Accession number
70.1591
Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Sidney Elliott Cohn
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Posted by: George Costanza at December 12, 2025 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Would hang, thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 09:33 AM (D+mpw)
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (ESVrU)
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Seriously. DON'T!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (ESVrU)
Do y'all know just how much the Moron in me wants to do just that right now????
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (PSEDc)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)
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Seriously. DON'T!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
At least once a year, he's contractually obligated to post that.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (OUMaO)
Sounds...suspicion.
Its too small for an overcoat. The woman in orange has a hat and a shirt so...stolen pants?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 09:33 AM (D+mpw)
Yup. Skill is more important than some rarified social philosophy that irritates most people!
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Posted by: cmeat at December 12, 2025 09:36 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (PSEDc)
No...do what you are told like a good little HotAir reader.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:36 AM (n9ltV)
We played on them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 09:37 AM (NwnyJ)
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Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM
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You know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 12, 2025 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (abIsI)
Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)
You are using the force here. The dark side of the force.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (sKqQm)
It's like the woman in the doorway is paused to hear the woman ascending the stairs, suggesting motion rather than portraying it.
I like this very much. A painting that makes you wonder.
Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (Y8DZL)
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
The back staircase at my grandparent's farmhouse had a rise of eight feet and a run of about the same. You had to pull yourself up using the banister. Every one that used it fell up or down at least once.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)
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Posted by: Stinky Davis at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (PSEDc)
No...do what you are told like a good little HotAir reader.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:36 AM (n9ltV)
https://tinyurl.com/uf3ackzt
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)
What makes for a cankle (?) because the woman in the blue dress does not look like she has chubby ankles, although the right in slimmer than the left.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (lQ+/f)
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Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)
Speaking of flapjacks...
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (GTqXr)
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Posted by: cmeat at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)
Damn CBD's older sister!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (ExV1e)
the artist uses shading to add detail to the blue woman's butt
who's the red handmaiden at lower left?
the stairs are a mess
I rate this as Meh with oakleaf clusters
would sell to unsuspecting rube
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: redridinghood
Probably pantyless, to have a nooner with the super?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (abIsI)
I wouldn't hang but I would bang.
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Posted by: Tonypete
Look, Fat, falling upstairs three times on Air Force One is a record that will never be broken.
Posted by: Scranton Joe With Squirts at December 12, 2025 09:42 AM (oftw2)
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Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (A0sqA)
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"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
Posted by: Jebediah Springfield at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
I'm not the Super! I'm the Concierge!
Posted by: Ground Floor Gertie at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)
"Oh, it looks like the sun's about to set. Time to put a bowl of meat at the end of the driveway, to keep the Somalis away from the dog."
Posted by: Minnesota Housewife at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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well clue me in
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 09:44 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (A0sqA)
Every picture tells a story.
Posted by: Rod Stewart at December 12, 2025 09:44 AM (GTqXr)
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Posted by: The Nose Knows at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (oftw2)
I'm guessing this painting did not embiggen Samuel Halpert's wallet.
Embiggen!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (NuV6c)
Obviously to make up for not having the finesse to rapidly place two to the chest, one to the skull in 9mm.
Heathen.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (mT+6a)
No. It's the intercom, but back then they worked in semaphore instead of electricity.
Posted by: Robert Plant at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (PTJlB)
Posted by: The Nose Knows at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (oftw2)
I just crop dusted my sister.
Posted by: Gal in the blue dress at December 12, 2025 09:46 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (lQ+
*******
Usually, it's when there's no definition between the ankle and the leg or there is swelling in the leg.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:46 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (W7XSX)
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"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
Posted by: Jebediah Springfield
“I find your attitude most deleterious to the morale of this unit.”
- Word a Day Radar O'Reilly
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Lend Me Your Ears at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
__________
Respectfully disagree. Thems cankles.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (XvL8K)
Symbolism appears when you seek it; making Weasel angry is no doubt what the artist had in mind.
Would hang.
Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Movie nerd at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)
That’s how I personally judge whether a painting is better than good.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (KDPiq)
I have Type II diabetes but I manage it well
I like this painting because it has a story to tell
I take two daily Jardiance at each day start-a-a-rt...
Shit. I have to get out more.
Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (Ve/HL)
Dick head on the steps!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (xG4kz)
Actual theme: The Aristocrats!?!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Al Czervik at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)
Oh, well. She's long past being worried about what people think of her cankles.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 09:50 AM (yT3KW)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:52 AM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:52 AM (tgvbd)
[Do not click to embiggen]
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Seriously. DON'T!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I LOLed.
I warned all y'all yesterday about the summoning power of certain prefixes, but would all y'all listen? Noooooo!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 09:52 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: The Gimp at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Auspex
It may not be the best painting in the world but hanging the artist seems a little extreme.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)
Samurai Armor complete with Kabuto helmet.
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (UnA8+)
"You can come up, Mabel! They're done shooting! Looks like everyone's dead."
Posted by: Chicago Housewife at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (KDPiq)
That is one wonky landing on that upper stairway.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)
Samurai Armor complete with Kabuto helmet.
Beau Biden naked and painted blue.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (Riz8t)
I never like going up and down steep staircases like those.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (ESVrU)
Our house in Ohio was built in 1869. The stairs to the basement were not only steep, but the stairs themselves were unevenly spaced.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (kpS4V)
Is this great art? No, but it is competently executed, the artist has obvious skill, and there is no obvious political bent to the work. And the scene is sufficiently complex that it suggests questions. What is going on? Who is the woman ascending the stairs? Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?
The two obvious unasked questions this morning:
Why didn't JMB (PBUH) jump straight to the greatest of all handgun calibers, the .41 Magnum?
Why should we not click to embiggen?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:52 AM (tgvbd)
The chick with boobs around her waist coming up the stairs fits the bill nicely.
Posted by: Typical piggish Moron at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (n9ltV)
I figure the horde would tell me soon enough.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (KDPiq)
Noted prosperity-gospel Televangelist Jesse Duplantis explains when you see him, you 'see the Father' and 'God incarnate.'
He later adds "you mad at me because I live in a mansion? I'm just acting like my father, because he's living in a mansion."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (A0sqA)
Wasn’t global warming supposed to kill winter? Someone forgot to tell Chicago. lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (9iyS+)
It's "Climate Change" and it's caused by you, Mr. and Mrs. Republican!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: The Paolo at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: the Outlaws at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (PSEDc)
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Tread carefully, CBD.
I've been stairing at this for a while and the scene obviously suggests more than one story but we should avoid flights of fancy just in case, or things might spiral out of control.
Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (36PRH)
Posted by: The Brothel Maid Service, Inc. at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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And the steps looks to be spiral, so that slope must be brutal.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM
You also don't wear pants in the Book Thread, even tho The Perfessor warns you! (But no "Aaaagh!" from me. I report, you decide.)
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: No Name Today at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (8mulE)
The chick with boobs around her waist coming up the stairs fits the bill nicely.
Posted by: Typical piggish Moron
Nancy Pelosi
On the stairway
With a hammer
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I don't wanna go down to the basement. (There's something down there).
Posted by: Joey Ramone 1976 at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Uh-oh. Calabri chilis will get you in hot water with Mario Rubio.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)
You are too full of baluster to get a rise out of me!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
Uh, have you met my neighbor, Christina?
Posted by: Andrew Wyeth at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: John Frink at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (y3u3n)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (3uBP9)
Samurai Armor complete with Kabuto helmet.
Pizza delivery guy, and we'd be here all day writing plots for it.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (zdLoL)
On the stairway
With a hammer
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
Hey, Nancy, that's my hammer, dammit! Give it back!
-- Paul Pelosi
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mostly Cruel, Though. at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 10:01 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Or telling us not to embiggen.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 10:01 AM (L/fGl)
Scratches
Look's around
Dang. Great art! One could sit and look at it and create a whole story. Fun!
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:01 AM (2WIwB)
So there is a sniper hidden in the background.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:02 AM (0iZzW)
Posted by: Oh, no... at December 12, 2025 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)
The cat in that dwelling will return that plant to its rightful place -- on the floor -- in short order.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:03 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 10:01 AM (L/fGl)
I'm so tempted to...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 10:03 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 10:04 AM (Riz8t)
There are two (2) human figures in the frame, so,
somebody is about to get "ascended." It's a Rule.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 10:04 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (L/fGl)
Before the internet, your NSA monitor sometimes had to make housecalls.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:04 AM (0iZzW)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 10:04 AM (KDPiq)
So there is a sniper hidden in the background.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:02 AM (0iZzW)
CBD is the sniper. Very meta.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 10:05 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Oh, no... at December 12, 2025 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)
Morons are always willing to go on flights of fancy with these puns.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:05 AM (0iZzW)
Posted by: Led Zeppelin at December 12, 2025 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:07 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Denny Crane - CBD is a BASTARD at December 12, 2025 10:07 AM (i49OE)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 10:07 AM (9iyS+)
youtube.com/watch?v=0aY6PFccu-k&list =RD0aY6PFccu-k&start_radio=1
one space because I'm lazy
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:08 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (1Yy3c)
Too graphic?
Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (/iMjX)
- Jebedaia Springfield
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“My Man Stands Out,” Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends (1950)
https://youtu.be/MrU63AFRQPk
Posted by: Double Entendre at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (abIsI)
I would have thought you already got more Kincaid than you can handle this month.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (0iZzW)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:10 AM (xG4kz)
Arrrrrrgh! Cankles!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:10 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:11 AM (WDjG6)
Too graphic?
Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (/iMjX)
Cannibal Corpse would reject it for not being graphic enough.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:11 AM (1Yy3c)
It almost goes without saying that you can also deliberately get that formula wrong, and Hitchcock all and sundry to their deaths.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 10:11 AM (zdLoL)
Too graphic?
Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (/iMjX)
No, that actually makes the painting better.
Posted by: Denny Crane - CBD is STILL a BASTARD at December 12, 2025 10:12 AM (i49OE)
British judge fines migrant family £1 each for stealing £1.2 million
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!
I'm pretty sure in today's society rhat the number one job for a judge is to demoralize the law abiding citizen.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 10:12 AM (Dv3i1)
Too graphic?
Posted by: muldoon
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And then the murders started--
Too late?
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:13 AM (WDjG6)
That is not a stairwell on the left, it's an alcove.
There is, however, a bathroom on the right ... from which we, the viewers, are emerging.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:13 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 12, 2025 10:13 AM (OUMaO)
Fox News: Pickleball player plunges to his death in 3-story fall after climbing over safety rail to retrieve ball
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Depends on whether you are wearing pants. Might find pants constraining if you click.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:15 AM (WDjG6)
You really oughtta, man.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum
Great will be your reward!
No, really! Really, really great!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:16 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 10:16 AM (G1OIb)
https://is.gd/U30dEb9
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 10:16 AM (L/fGl)
What twinkle toed communist Hoosier GOPe cock-sucker just signed his own death warrant. Or at least failed badly enough that I have to look him up so I can not vote for him.
Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2025 10:17 AM (FhXTo)
There's a woman ascending the stairs
Some say that she's always been there
And a ghost dressed in blue
Haunts the halls on Floor Two
On Floor Three, your place is a chair.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:17 AM (iJfKG)
https://is.gd/U30dEb9
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 10:16 AM (L/fGl)
He’ll get a 30 day suspended sentence and promise to never do it again. But keep the money of course.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 10:18 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:19 AM (xG4kz)
One might even say it insists upon itself.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 10:19 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg
More like Pickeball enthusiast arrested after violating city noise ordinance. Neighbor Gladys Kravitz explained, "That Mr. Doof was pickleballing day and night and I found it obscene because of the loud noises he was making hitting those balls hard with his partner." "Why couldn't that man pick up a decent sport like Tennis instead."
Officer Muldoon in Car 54 which responded to the call, when asked for a response said, " You can't just play pickleball wherever and whenever you feel like it. We got laws and morals in this city!"
The accused, Mr. Doof, was unavailable for comment for this story as he is currently in maximum security lockdown for trying to play solo pickleball in his cell.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:21 AM (WDjG6)
So many buttons for that sweating meme guy to choose from.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 10:22 AM (T7fic)
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Cuz, you'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 10:23 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)
That's a heck of a big family!
Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 10:23 AM (O9D0G)
So many buttons for that sweating meme guy to choose from.
Posted by: t-bird
Rewritten, "Weirdo sex pervert pastor steals millions from his own fake charity"
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:24 AM (WDjG6)
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True enough, but it’s clear they apparently don’t have any education rooted in even a cursory look at history, because there’s only one way this kind of jiggery-pokery ever resolves. I’m thankful I’ve lived long enough to see it, I can at least go out laughing my ass off.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (04lxq)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:24 AM (WDjG6)
If it's a fake charity then was it really stealing?
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (9iyS+)
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what kind of ball do they use
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (ZxPkt)
Easy, he was busy designing a 50 BMG instead. Greater length, more power, more penetration that could go the distance. Girthier and Lengthier than a mere 50 ACP.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:26 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
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He should have called it The Fagz Global Initiative. Money would flow like wine!
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 10:26 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Robert
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Huh, a legal conundrum that would be.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)
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True enough, but it’s clear they apparently don’t have any education rooted in even a cursory look at history, because there’s only one way this kind of jiggery-pokery ever resolves.
Their whole lives will come tumbreling down.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (Riz8t)
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what kind of ball do they use
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (ZxPkt)
I think it's a shuttlecock.
Shuttlecock.
Shuttlecock.
I don't care what anyone says that word will never stop being funny.
Shuttlecock.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (1Yy3c)
I, on the other hand am a cornhole expert because horseshoes is too much work when I drinking.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Mebbe. Genderqueer is an all encompassing sex pervert label for deviants. It is the label for our times unfortunately. Waiting for the NYT headline--"God is Dead and We are all Genderqueer Now".
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:29 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (1zOXE)
How YOU doin'?!?
Posted by: Don Lemon at December 12, 2025 10:29 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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That sport has unfortunate connotations in the Dixie meaning quite something else.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:30 AM (WDjG6)
How many times do I have to warn you to get that mannequin off the stairway? I'll just have to toss this offal out through your room's window! Enjoy the smell!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:30 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Archimedes
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I think that is illegal in Kentucky.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)
It won’t become law of course but shows how many traitorous fucks there are in the GOP house. Which is why I’m like if the Ds win it back, will anyone even notice? Answer: no.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 10:31 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:32 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 12, 2025 10:32 AM (MSlZp)
It is well to choose, early in life, a single type and color of sock. Do not deviate from the path, grasshopper.
Such problems as described above could never arise even if one were to grab two socks at random, they will match.
Q.E.D.
Posted by: Sock It To Me! at December 12, 2025 10:33 AM (04lxq)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 12, 2025 10:34 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Except we will have tiresome impeachments which also go nowhere designed to disrupt government.
I just as soon have do nothing GOP types instead annoying assholes of House Dems strutting around on TV and social media.
The main blockage to anything decent is the Senate filibuster and refusal to recess so Trump can put the rest of his people in until after the next election. That is fully in control of the GOP there.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: whig
>Well, here at the AOSHQ, we're granted certain allowances depending upon your membership status.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Lawrence at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (1Yy3c)
81% of Somali households in Minnesota are on welfare.
https://instapundit.com/761906/
If you enter this country as an immigrant, and go on welfare, at any point in your life,
that should earn you an instant ride back home.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bad Andrew
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Fun game unless you have a Siamese. Some of them will jump on you from on high with claw landing gear fully extended for maximum traction.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:36 AM (WDjG6)
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You Ain’t Never Wrong, Honkie!
Posted by: Dr. Cornhole West at December 12, 2025 10:36 AM (04lxq)
Posted by: Sir PicksALot at December 12, 2025 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:37 AM (25a1J)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome - we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until HE ends the game, not us.
Posted by: Robert W. Pratt at December 12, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)
that should earn you an instant ride back home.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)
Congress could easily fix it with a law that says gub'mint bennies are reserved for citizens only.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:38 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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FWIW, the phrase probably came into use because corn cobs were used for a certain necessary body function in lieu of pages from magazines or the Sears and Roebuck catalog.
The only way to win cornhole is not to play as WOPR (aka Joshua) said.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:38 AM (WDjG6)
Well, at least their jobs don't bring them into intimate contact with other people. So there's that.
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (GHIyr)
that should earn you an instant ride back home.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)
My understanding is as an immigrant, you cannot get welfare. Meaning (if true) someone is on the take.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Robert W. Pratt
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Tis true.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: The chick on the stairs at December 12, 2025 10:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 10:41 AM (looXz)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 10:42 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 10:42 AM (Kt19C)
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The Barbara Hershey character (Harriet Bird) who shoots the Robert Redford character (Roy Hobbs) in "The Natural."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:42 AM (25a1J)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 10:43 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)
When ISN’T she race baiting?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 10:43 AM (rQwsY)
The best thing (two things, really) about Hannah and Her Sisters.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
I can't eat soup in the summertime.
Posted by: Cream of Chicken at December 12, 2025 10:44 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 10:42 AM (Kt19C)
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"Hakeem Jeffries is El Fantasma de la Ópera!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:44 AM (25a1J)
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 10:44 AM (GHIyr)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 10:45 AM (Y1sOo)
Fox News: Pickleball player plunges to his death in 3-story fall after climbing over safety rail to retrieve ball
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
Thanks for your concern! I'm alive and well.
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2025 10:45 AM (CwUhY)
that should earn you an instant ride back home.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)
My understanding is as an immigrant, you cannot get welfare. Meaning (if true) someone is on the take.
Posted by: Cow Demon
IIRC, refugees come in under separate provisions of the law. You can blame GHWB for that whole mess which also turned ME blue as well.
Refugee treaties always require people to go to the adjacent safest adjacent country, not fly them across the ocean to the US.
Our political class found refugee classification to be a useful way to bring in cheap labor for various tasks and the Democrats, welfare clients plus D voters.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:45 AM (WDjG6)
The only way to win cornhole is not to play as WOPR (aka Joshua) said.
Posted by: whig
>Back at the bunkhouse, we always wrapped one page of the Sears and Roebuck around the corncob because it was too aggressive to crumple it up like modern-day paper.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:46 AM (1zOXE)
Well, at least their jobs don't bring them into intimate contact with other people. So there's that.
Posted by: gp
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"Have you engaged in rub and tug recently?" becomes a new screening question for doctors in Romania.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:47 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Doof
Good to hear!
I figured you were too smart to do something boneheaded like that anyway.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus
Which fashion industry fag decreed that socks must match?
Posted by: Diversity Is Our Strength at December 12, 2025 10:47 AM (oftw2)
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@whig
I belatedly saw your comment a couple days ago about having had "perfect pitch" (very cool!) prior to suffering from tinnitus (I now have and hate that) owing to Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) -- which I'd never heard of (and so sorry to hear).
Anyway, you're probably already aware -- but if not (or others are not): I have a good friend who was afflicted with awful psoriasis for a couple of years (I think he was being treated with nitric oxide or something) and his skin would continuously crust up and bleed (he spend the night once and his bed sheets were all bloody).
He stumbled onto somebody (maybe Dr. Eric Berg?) who recommended 50,000 IU of Vitamin D daily -- and it quickly cured his psoriasis!
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[Piper responded:] "If you want to do this, please do it with your doctor. Short term, these doses under medical supervision may be okay. But VIT D toxicity is a thing, tummy upset, fatigue, etc. Plus, if you want to go at those levels, getting them in a shot form is easier."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:48 AM (25a1J)
Posted by: I Pay Attention at December 12, 2025 10:49 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Diversity Is Our Strength
I've told the story here before about an extremely hot woman I used to work with. She let out a scream in the breakroom, and all the guys rushed to her rescue, only to find out that she had screamed upon discovering that her socks didn't match.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)
81% of Somali households in Minnesota are on welfare.
Are Americans the only unserved economic refugees on this planet?
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 10:51 AM (T7fic)
Noted prosperity-gospel Televangelist Jesse Duplantis explains when you see him, you 'see the Father' and 'God incarnate.'
He later adds "you mad at me because I live in a mansion? I'm just acting like my father, because he's living in a mansion."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)
What's the big deal?
Posted by: Anthony SCIENCE!!! Fauci at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (ULPxl)
So, last night we were watching "As Good As It Gets" again, I think on Netflix, and I turns to the lovely and delightful Mrs naturalfake, and I says-
I says, "This is such a good movie. Great acting, writing, directing. I wonder why Ol' Brooks stopped making movies."
So, I look him up and, he's just released a new movie!
Buuuuut, almost all of the critics, straight up hate it, which makes me wonder if he somehow violated some libtardian principle and that set their hair on fire.
Christian Toto gives it a middling recommendation, so we may go see it. Maybe no. Just wait for streaming.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)
I figured you were too smart to do something boneheaded like that anyway.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
You give me too much credit
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2025 10:53 AM (CwUhY)
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 10:53 AM (GHIyr)
He stumbled onto somebody (maybe Dr. Eric Berg?) who recommended 50,000 IU of Vitamin D daily -- and it quickly cured his psoriasis!
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[Piper responded:] "If you want to do this, please do it with your doctor. Short term, these doses under medical supervision may be okay. But VIT D toxicity is a thing, tummy upset, fatigue, etc. Plus, if you want to go at those levels, getting them in a shot form is easier."
Posted by: ShainS
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Thanks.
My new medication Rinvoq seems to be working at least for now. Finally got off from Cosentyx which never worked for me after insurance would not let me take Humira any longer. I will mention it to my rheumatologist but due to impending spinal surgery probably can't make any changes in meds for awhile.
I take Vitamin D3 supplements anyway as I am doubly cursed to get respiratory infections--via medication and a (genetic?) deficiency in IGG4 subtype.
FWIW, Quercetin is also a proven anti inflammatory and also anti seasonal allergen for some people. Also taken with zinc, has some anti viral applications. Took it too in the past until it interacted with one of my other meds.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (WDjG6)
Buuuuut, almost all of the critics, straight up hate it, which makes me wonder if he somehow violated some libtardian principle and that set their hair on fire.
Christian Toto gives it a middling recommendation, so we may go see it. Maybe no. Just wait for streaming.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)
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I will never quite understand this Brooks' popularity.
I mean, Broadcast News is fine. But, little more than that. And Hollywood loved him, and his movies made good money.
They always feel very middling to me, though I don't think I've seen As Good As It Gets all the way through.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)
253 "Just wait for streaming."
Always a safe choice.
Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 10:53 AM (GHIyr)
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"My God, Bones...what have I done?"
-Hollywood, having blown up theatrical to get Orange Man Bad
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I Pay Attention at December 12, 2025 10:49 AM (oftw2)
Wow, you do pay attention. Yup - haven't played in a month or so. Knee was in bad shape. But I'm on some good meds that took care of the swelling and inflammation. Probably back on the court this weekend to see how it goes.
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2025 10:55 AM (CwUhY)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)
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This plane I′m riding, they say it's leaving
For a place where we′ll never die
And the pilot will be my Jesus
To my mansion up in the sky
/obligatory
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:56 AM (25a1J)
Posted by: t-bird
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Americans are viewed, even by some other Americans that should know better, as a lottery winner in the world. That means everyone in the world believes we have magic dirt and it is unfair to prevent all the world from enjoying our magic dirt.
Same as lottery winners are treated by those around them and even strangers: as a private welfare agency.
Somehow people feel they deserve what other people have in return for nothing.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:57 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (looXz)
Shuttlecock.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM
Spatchcock > shuttlecock
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (kgE5c)
Groan.
Ignore it...you will explain your own life choices to G-d, Who won't ask you anything about Jesse.
Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
Phillipians 3:14
I, Paul, press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of G-d in Christ Jesus.
Posted by: ju at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (EgpoY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Prosperity gospel is a heresy.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 10:59 AM (MeJZi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 10:59 AM (looXz)
For a place where we′ll never die
And the pilot will be my Jesus
To my mansion up in the sky
i don't care if it rains or freezes
as long as i've got my plastic jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car
Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 10:59 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:01 AM (MeJZi)
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)
Watch it. Right now. Go. Go!
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:01 AM (1Yy3c)
nood Throck Buckmorton
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)
FWIW, Quercetin is also a proven anti inflammatory and also anti seasonal allergen for some people. Also taken with zinc, has some anti viral applications. Took it too in the past until it interacted with one of my other meds.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (WDjG6
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Wifey is into a long list of supplements (and apparently you need co-factor supplements along with Vitamin D3 like K2, Zinc, Magnesium Glysinate, and dietary fat -- but not with Iron as that competes with D3).
Along with a myriad of other vitamins, she's also taking DMSO, Collagen, Creatine, and straight Glycine.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM (25a1J)
Your average Republican didn't run for office because they were successful in private life.
They started life with a 99 yard head start in 100 yard dash, tripped over their feet, but found success in a single election.
I mean, not one Republican of the last 50 years had even half the fights Trump went through.
They're a bunch of faggoty ballet dancers prancing around the octagon confused at why the crowd isn't cheering for them.
"But I've rolled up my sleeves! I'm shadow punching the air! What more do you want?!"
Draw blood, bitch.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:03 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Doof
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FWIW,
Warning, if you take steroid shots to the knee for pain, it can soften the cartilage for a time making it more likely to tear.
Also avoid K-flex, Levaquin, and other Fluoroquinolones as they can have the same effect of softening cartilege. Levaquin is now black labeled by the FDA because of it.
Botched ACL surgery with the initial tear possibly caused by Levaquin administration for sinus infection is what started me on my road to ruin.
Hyaluronic acid shots can also have separate side effects.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:03 AM (WDjG6)
Buuuuut, almost all of the critics, straight up hate it, which makes me wonder if he somehow violated some libtardian principle and that set their hair on fire.
Christian Toto gives it a middling recommendation, so we may go see it. Maybe no. Just wait for streaming.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)
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I will never quite understand this Brooks' popularity.
I mean, Broadcast News is fine. But, little more than that. And Hollywood loved him, and his movies made good money.
They always feel very middling to me, though I don't think I've seen As Good As It Gets all the way through.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)
Ah, well. De gustibus and all that.
His writing is generally great. And I think his great gift is to make people feel"smart" for lack of a better word, while watching his movies filled with articulate people who still feel real, and you get to ride along.
He kind of reminds me of Paddy Chayefsky in that regard, except Ol Pads give you screaming drama instead of Ol Brooke's light comedy.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)
Reuters: "Romania finds two masseuses with leprosy"
Well, at least their jobs don't bring them into intimate contact with other people. So there's that.
Posted by: gp
The next thing you know, Bulgaria will find three with leprosy. Balkan rivalries are serious, yo!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 11:05 AM (xG4kz)
Well, at least their jobs don't bring them into intimate contact with other people. So there's that.
Posted by: gp
Don't ask for the unhappy ending
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:10 AM (Dv3i1)
Along with a myriad of other vitamins, she's also taking DMSO, Collagen, Creatine, and straight Glycine.
Posted by: ShainS
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Because of existing prescription meds, I am very careful about which supplements I take or even additional drugs which I keep to a minimum. Too many chances for interactions that simply are not even researched.
Basically, the psoriatic arthritis led to a condition of Ankylosing spondylitis which is in the process of fusing my spine. I take the Rinvoq as much to slow and stave out that as I do for the psoriatic arthritis. Before Rinvoq, I took Humira and then Cosentyx which are recommended for it.
The longer you have inflammatory arthritis, the more damage it does but you can and do go into remission at times. Over time, the inflammatory arthritis will pick and choose which other organs it will attack. In my case, the spine and inside one of my ears for whatever reason; in others, it will attack the heart, or other internal organs.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (WDjG6)
He kind of reminds me of Paddy Chayefsky in that regard, except Ol Pads give you screaming drama instead of Ol Brooke's light comedy.
Posted by: naturalfake
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In his best films, I would agree with you. Brooks is the type that makes lemonade out of lemons in his movies which are never big on action or even much drama but are essentially snapshots into other people's lives. Even in his lesser films, his characters seem more real but flat to some because you don't get the big emotional highs or lows but instead witty urbanites muddling through.
Like Defending Your Life for example. Brooks is neither a great hero nor is he a despicable villain. He just seems average as does Meryl Streep and his trial which in other hands would seem to be dramatic, instead his character is more peevish and neurotic than dramatic. Rip Torn is the liveliest actor in that movie.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6)
that's why sometimes we really appreciate paintings that most of the world consider just "meh".
also, the embiggening trick was pretty good
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