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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Dance to the Music of Time
Nicolas Poussin

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Switch blade

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 11, 2026 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 09:30 AM (tgvbd)

3 No Boots, Poussin.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 11, 2026 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

4 Ugly cattle.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 11, 2026 09:31 AM (Kt19C)

5 Lyre, Lyre, Pants on Fire

Oh, wait...

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 11, 2026 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

6 Not to the beat of the rhythm of the night? The artist clearly knows nothing of the 80s.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 11, 2026 09:32 AM (bFu5X)

7 Needs a concertina.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:32 AM (JoLAO)

8 Naked baby with crack pipe.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 11, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

9 This painting disgusts me.

Yet I can't look away.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 11, 2026 09:33 AM (DgMqy)

10 It's Greek to me.

Posted by: huerfano at February 11, 2026 09:33 AM (98kQX)

11 This is weird, yet fascinating.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

12 Time was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at February 11, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

13 I like this, though there's nowhere in my house it would really fit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:36 AM (ufSfZ)

14 "Dance, dance, dance --
She's a dancin' machine!
Automatic, systematic --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

15 There's a naked old man with wings, watching chunky women dance, while a horse is floating in the cloud.
I don't get it.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

16 Hippies corrupting our youth. Probably smoking the Marihuana and talking s$&t about Athens. Typical.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 11, 2026 09:36 AM (A8EHn)

17 You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and shake it all about...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2026 09:37 AM (ESVrU)

18 Are those ghost riders in the sky??

Posted by: dantesed at February 11, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

19 Ladies with thick, muscular legs....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 09:37 AM (QGaXH)

20 Very pretty and beautifully painted.

Posted by: Tuna at February 11, 2026 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

21 sniper - peashooter - bottom left

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 09:38 AM (+YA9H)

22 Angels do not skip leg day, apparently.

Posted by: PabloD at February 11, 2026 09:38 AM (3VXNH)

23 Dance to the Music of Time
-

I see wraps and hip hop.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 09:38 AM (7xyr6)

24 Dance to the Music of Time

Apparently, in the 32nd century, we're still dancing to crappy 21st century generic hip-hop.

https://tinyurl.com/2ef883sv

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 11, 2026 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

25 Nekkid babies!

Posted by: Creepy Joe at February 11, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

26 Ghost riders in the skyyyyy.........

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 09:38 AM (QGaXH)

27 Naked baby with crack pipe.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 11, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

First known photo of Hunter Biden?

Posted by: Doof at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (B4Se1)

28 Could it have to do with life seasons? There's a old man and a baby and at least one of the women looks somewhat younger.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (ix8EF)

29 Those are some thicc gals.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

30 Protofunk.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (XvL8K)

31 8 Naked baby with crack pipe.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 11, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

h8er

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (+YA9H)

32 I like the Sly Stone version better.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (viF8m)

33 Odd combo of images. A naked elderly angel (? he has wings, anyway) playing the lyre; four sturdy women dancing under a cloudy sky through which a palomino soars surrounded by impish mini-angels -- one with a hula hoop . . .

Interesting in its way, and technically excellent, but I don't get it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

34 one wonders what prompts such frollicking...could it be Bad Bunny is conducting from the wing?

Posted by: DanMan at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (8uzBS)

35
Let's Talk About Whatever Pops Up - a limerick

There once was a right proper dance
Where the ladies would frolic and prance
Down at the Forum
There was proper decorum
'Til the lutist forgot to wear pants!

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (qgHp7)

36 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 09:40 AM (J+Psw)

37 I like the color palette, the composition and the technique.

Probably still wouldn't hang it though.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 11, 2026 09:40 AM (cwGMH)

38 34 one wonders what prompts such frollicking...could it be Bad Bunny is conducting from the wing?
Posted by: DanMan at February 11, 2026 09:39 AM (8uzBS)

heh

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 09:40 AM (+YA9H)

39 Old man Angel is jacked.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 11, 2026 09:40 AM (cwGMH)

40 Bogie Fever

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 09:41 AM (jtM2q)

41 Whole lotta shakin' going on.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 11, 2026 09:42 AM (0nHVk)

42 The first Academy Award Winning song was about a dance, "The Continental" featured in the 1934 film The Gay Divorcee, an Astaire/Rogers vehicle.

Posted by: Two Left Feet at February 11, 2026 09:42 AM (oftw2)

43 They can dance if they want to.
They can leave their friends behind.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 11, 2026 09:43 AM (8AONa)

44 Freaky.
Babies in the corners…weird.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:43 AM (Eh6IB)

45 Tempus Fugg it

Posted by: Bubble Pipe, by Blam-O at February 11, 2026 09:43 AM (bR6qe)

46 Wiki-

Overview of the Painting
A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin, created between 1634 and 1636. It is housed in the Wallace Collection in London. The artwork is an allegory that explores themes of time, human life, and the cyclical nature of existence.

Symbolism and Interpretation

Main Figures
The painting features four central figures representing different stages of human life:
Poverty: Depicted as a male figure at the back.
Labour: A muscular woman next to Poverty.
Riches: Positioned next in the circle.
Pleasure (or Luxury): The front figure, often interpreted as leading to Poverty again.

These figures symbolize the progression and cyclical nature of life, suggesting that pleasure ultimately leads back to poverty.

Additional Elements
Father Time: A winged, naked figure playing a lyre, representing the passage of time.
Apollo: The sun god, driving his chariot across the sky, symbolizes the relentless march of time.
Putti: Small figures holding an hourglass and blowing bubbles, further emphasizing the transience of life.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

47 They are playing musical chairs. Baby on the right is timing when to stop the music.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 11, 2026 09:43 AM (cwGMH)

48 No upright bass means piss-poor music.

Posted by: Nor A Sackbut at February 11, 2026 09:44 AM (oftw2)

49 Next year’s alternative 1/2 time show?

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:44 AM (Eh6IB)

50 100 comment rule. [CBD]
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 09:40 AM (J+Psw)

That's a MAN, baby....

Now back to our regularly scheduled mocking of art...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 09:45 AM (QGaXH)

51 Who is up in the clouds?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:46 AM (48ipd)

52 Freaky.
Babies in the corners…weird.
Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:43 AM (Eh6IB)

No one puts babies in the corners.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 11, 2026 09:46 AM (cwGMH)

53 Done well.. Never a fan of this type of art...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 11, 2026 09:46 AM (m4p63)

54 Superb Owl halftime show. The early years.

Posted by: National Faggots League at February 11, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

55 43 They can dance if they want to.
They can leave their friends behind.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 11, 2026 09:43 AM (8AONa)

The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol
When they do the Bristol Stomp...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 09:47 AM (QGaXH)

56 >>Interesting in its way, and technically excellent, but I don't get it.

It's a mythstery!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:47 AM (48ipd)

57 Who is up in the clouds?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:46 AM (48ipd)
*****
Apollo

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 09:48 AM (NpAcC)

58 Who is up in the clouds?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:46 AM (48ipd)
*****
Apollo
Posted by: redridinghood

He's going after Scotty for moving in on his girl.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

59 So, the top part is obviously Apollo in his chariot with his golden ring, blazing through the heavens. It's Time, and it's central position in the frame emphasizes that the four figures below are in the middle of theirs. The oldster and the babies are bookends on that point.

Not sure why it's three chicks and one dude though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 09:49 AM (BI5O2)

60 This is what my dreams look like if I take melatonin.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 11, 2026 09:49 AM (h/O4U)

61 46 Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

Great summary! Thank you for posting the info.

Do you have any of the ladies phone numbers...?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 09:49 AM (QGaXH)

62 >>Next year’s alternative 1/2 time show?

. . . France's first idea for their 2024 Olympics opening, before they toned it down and went with the LBTQ Last Supper.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:50 AM (48ipd)

63 Small figures holding an hourglass and blowing bubbles is no basis for a system of government.

Posted by: Monty Python at February 11, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

64 Shake your Bootay!

Posted by: KC & The Sunshine Band at February 11, 2026 09:50 AM (uvB+6)

65 There certainly is a lot going on here. Enjoyable frolic.

What with grampaw and the toddlers being naked, don't you think we could have had at least one little nip slip on the ladies?

I like the action in the cloud.

And, at least, there's some color. Nice crisp details.

Name that tune.

Good morning.

Posted by: mindful webworker hears thunder at February 11, 2026 09:51 AM (xTrHG)

66 They'll be dancin'. Dancin' in the streets

Posted by: Coked out DLR at February 11, 2026 09:51 AM (+abK1)

67 Grampa Time was sporting wood. A metronome for the occasion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 09:51 AM (xFfhU)

68 They can dance if they want to.
They can leave their friends behind.
Posted by: 2009Refugee

You can pick your friends.
You can pick your behind.
But you can't pick your friends behind.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 09:51 AM (gkpAx)

69 This piece raises the question Why?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 09:51 AM (RIvkX)

70 It's no Super Bowl halftime show, but I guess it'll do...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2026 09:52 AM (ESVrU)

71 ...don't you think we could have had at least one little nip slip on the ladies?.

Posted by: mindful webworker hears thunder at February 11, 2026 09:51 AM (xTrHG)

There is a fully bare breast, but it is in shadow.

Poussin was a tease!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 11, 2026 09:52 AM (n9ltV)

72
The newborn piccolo player...

...plays the Flute of the Womb!

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 09:52 AM (qgHp7)

73 "I wanna put on, I wanna put on,
my my my my boogie shoes!
And boogie with you!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:52 AM (48ipd)

74 Old Man sings:

Dance in a ring
Stick out your rump
If something goes in
Give it a pump
Now you're doin' The Greek Mistake!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 11, 2026 09:52 AM (iJfKG)

75 Them there ladies are doin' the Tube Snake Boogie

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 11, 2026 09:53 AM (QVmho)

76 63 Small figures holding an hourglass and blowing bubbles is no basis for a system of government.
Posted by: Monty Python at February 11, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

; )

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 09:54 AM (+YA9H)

77 Old Man sings:

Dance in a ring
Stick out your rump
If something goes in
Give it a pump
Now you're doin' The Greek Mistake!

Posted by: naturalfake

GOLF CLAP

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 09:54 AM (gkpAx)

78 Only the musician is naked? Gotta pick things up bud.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 11, 2026 09:54 AM (sl73Y)

79 Small figures holding an hourglass and blowing bubbles is no basis for a system of government.
Posted by: Monty Python

Yes it is.
Posted by: Bubbles

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 09:55 AM (gkpAx)

80 Those babies look kinda old.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 11, 2026 09:55 AM (i1DgZ)

81 OK, but can they do THIS?!!

https://tinyurl.com/29zzebap

Posted by: Bad Bunny at February 11, 2026 09:55 AM (48ipd)

82 Dancing in the Moonlight.

Posted by: King Harvest at February 11, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)

83 muldoon.

I dig how your brain is wired, man.

Posted by: Maynard G. Krebs at February 11, 2026 09:56 AM (uvB+6)

84 Them there ladies are doin' the Tube Snake Boogie
Posted by: BifBewalski
___________

In hopes of a Pearl Necklace.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 11, 2026 09:56 AM (XvL8K)

85 Dance to the Music of Time
Nicolas Poussin

*************

They must be playing up tempo. It's The 45Second Waltz.

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 09:57 AM (qgHp7)

86 Something is burning.

Posted by: pawn at February 11, 2026 09:57 AM (uvB+6)

87 Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
Genesis

Said the uni faun to his true love's eyes
"It lies with me!" cried the Queen of Maybe
For her merchandise, he traded in his prize
"Paper late!" cried a voice in the crowd
"Old man dies!" The note he left was signed 'Old Father Thames'

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)

88 You'll find them all
Doing the Lambeth Walk!
Oy!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:58 AM (JoLAO)

89 Didn't anyone have to work back then? All fun and games I guess.

Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 09:58 AM (j6kTf)

90 ___________

In hopes of a Pearl Necklace.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Bwahahahaha. Most excellent response.

How are you sir?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 11, 2026 09:59 AM (QVmho)

91 Goin downtown, gonna see my gal
Gonna sing her a song
Gonna show her my ding-dong.....

Blind Melon Chitlin' on lyre....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 09:59 AM (QGaXH)

92 50 100 comment rule. [CBD]
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 09:40 AM (J+Psw)

That's a MAN, baby....

Now back to our regularly scheduled mocking of art...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 09:45 AM (QGaXH)

Dancin right on the edge......lol!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:00 AM (QGaXH)

93 86 Something is burning.
Posted by: pawn at February 11, 2026 09:57 AM (uvB+6)

Your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love
With burning love
(Ah, ah, burning love)

[Outro]
I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 10:01 AM (+YA9H)

94 They'll be dancin'. Dancin' in the streets

Posted by: Coked out DLR

======

Not Jagger or Bowie's best moment

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 11, 2026 10:01 AM (8AONa)

95 What are the best or most popular songs/music that deal with time?

Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
When I'm 64 - The Beatles

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (qgHp7)

96 "Plays the lute, flute, bass piccolo and harmonium..."

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

97 They can dance if they want to.
They can leave their friends behind.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 11, 2026

***
And act real rude and totally removed, and one of them can act like an imbecile.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)

98 In hopes of a Pearl Necklace.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Bwahahahaha. Most excellent response.

How are you sir?
Posted by: BifBewalski
_______

Good. And I Thank You.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (XvL8K)

99 Pants optional.

Posted by: Unlike the Book Thread at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

100 100

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (+YA9H)

101 Alternate title:

"Originally, Homer's "Odyssey" Ended With a Cakewalk at the Temple Bazaar"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (iJfKG)

102 No upright bass means piss-poor music.
Posted by: Nor A Sackbut at February 11, 2026

***
Everyone says if you wanna play in Heaven, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

103 95 What are the best or most popular songs/music that deal with time?

Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
When I'm 64 - The Beatles

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (qgHp7)

In the year 2525...Zager and Evans

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:04 AM (QGaXH)

104 Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

Posted by: Chicago at February 11, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

105 There is a fully bare breast, but it is in shadow.

Poussin was a tease!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 11, 2026 09:52 AM

Tease? He was chicken!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 11, 2026 10:04 AM (bFu5X)

106 El Paso airport briefly shut down - Mexican cartel drones violated US airspace.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:05 AM (QGaXH)

107 What are the best or most popular songs/music that deal with time?

Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
When I'm 64 - The Beatles

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (qgHp7)

In the year 2525...Zager and Evans
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:04 AM

Really?!

Posted by: Zombie Jim Croce at February 11, 2026 10:05 AM (bFu5X)

108 Story time:
A Super Bowl Ad Accidentally Showed The Horrific Future of America!

Sinclair Lewis famously wrote, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

That may be true. But we found out during this weekend’s Super Bowl that when mass surveillance comes to America, it will be to help sad puppy dogs.

In the Amazon Ring ad a poor little beautiful sad doggie goes missing. A little white girl cries. A man sobs uncontrollably. Then we find out the dog can be found using the Ring Cam Mass Surveillance Doggie Rescue™ app. The man with AI hair in the ad says, “One post of the dog’s photo in the Ring app starts outdoor cameras looking for a match. [It] then uses AI to help find the lost dog.”

This is wonderful! You can find your lost dog! …Or maybe instead of a lost dog, you can just type into the search box: “Black man in the neighborhood.” And then every camera in a ten-mile radius will let you watch that black man (or any black man) to make sure he’s not up to something. …Or you could type in: “college girl walking down the street” and then watch her throughout the neighborhood on her entire walk home.
(Cont)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 10:05 AM (gkpAx)

109 I think it's 25 or 26 minutes before four o'clock.

Posted by: The drummer for the band Chicago squinting at the analog clock across the room at February 11, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)

110 130,000 jobs added in January, net of over 30,000 government jobs being eliminated.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 11, 2026 10:06 AM (0U5gm)

111 And most importantly, it’s unobtrusive! That 20-year-old girl won’t know you’re watching her. There’s no 1910’s flash-bulb camera going off. Or even just 15 years ago, when you wanted to track and take photos of an annoyed young lady, you had to follow her around in your van. And even if you were in the bushes dressed as a large bird or something, those little click-and-wind cameras they sold at Walmart always alerted her to your presence. It was a disaster, even for the most skilled leering creeper.

But now, with Ring Cam Mass Surveillance Fucking Doggie Rescue™, you can watch anyone and everyone anywhere in your neighborhood. Or hell, with a little hacking knowledge, you can probably watch anyone near a Ring cam in the nation.

But what if your missing adorable puppy cute puppy dog has hot-wired a car and skipped town? Have no worries! Amazon’s Ring has signed a deal with Flock Safety, which has deals with police departments across the country. Flock cameras monitor license plates in many cities using their gigantic surveillance network. And luckily for your adorable driving puppy cute puppy doggie, Flock monitors cars whether the driver has done anything wrong or not. (Cont)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 10:07 AM (gkpAx)

112 January jobs report is even better than the headline.

Net job gain was 130k. Great number on its own. But this included federal govt cuts of 34k and state govt cuts of 8k. Which means a net 172k new jobs created in the private sector.

Within that 172k, 5k factory jobs and 33k construction jobs. That means companies are investing in building real things again.

Wages up 3.7% year over year, well ahead of inflation. People are getting real raises.

2026 is shaping up to be a blockbuster year economically speaking.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:07 AM (Eh6IB)

113 Relax, everybody. He's on it.

A manic Tim Walz claims he’s the one who actually cares about prosecuting fraud in Minnesota, unlike the federal government:

"Fraud is a long forgotten thing for everybody except me!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 10:08 AM (J+Psw)

114 110 130,000 jobs added in January, net of over 30,000 government jobs being eliminated.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 11, 2026 10:06 AM (0U5gm)

Saw that.. Double what was predicted..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 11, 2026 10:08 AM (m4p63)

115 Or you could type in: “college girl walking down the street” and then watch her throughout the neighborhood on her entire walk home."

There she goes, just a walkin down the street...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:08 AM (XuXeR)

116 They then share that surveillance with police upon request.

But the nation’s 800,000 police officers have promised they will only use Amazon’s fun and exciting new panopticon for good, not evil.

Just think of the possibilities of the new Ring Cam Mass Surveillance Doggie Rescue System™:
Adorable puppy cute puppy dogs will never go missing again.
Abusive spouses will never be able to abuse a partner in their front yard again.
Murderers will never be able to easily bury a body in the back yard again.
Sexy US postal employees will never go un-ogled again.
Food delivery people will finally be watched as they bend over to place a bag on your front steps.
Annoying neighbors will finally be filmed as they do annoying nefarious things like sit on their porch and eat an apple.
Folks can watch teenagers for fun or profit.
Squirrels.
So, everyone in America needs to do their patriotic duty and attach an Amazon Ring Cam Mass Surveillance Doggie Rescue Device™ to their front door, back door, and hell, living room ceiling, immediately. Otherwise the good people at Amazon Ring Cam will murder your missing dog.
Seriously though, are you noticing a trend?

(Cont)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 10:08 AM (gkpAx)

117 When our data was first mass-surveilled, we were told it was to catch terrorists. When drones first started flying over American skies, we were told it was to catch pedophiles. When they started watching all of our license plates everywhere we went, we were told it was to catch criminals on the run.

Every right you give up will be couched in something moral and pure and cute.

Fini

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 10:09 AM (gkpAx)

118 It's cute, but can you put it in a bottle?

Posted by: The ghost of James Joseph Croce at February 11, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

119 No love for a woman's man with no time to talk?

At least try to understand the New York Times' effect on man!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

120 In the year 2525...Zager and Evans
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

It Was a Very Good Year.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

121 Sinclair Lewis was wrong. Fascism want nothing to do with the cross.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2026 10:09 AM (qFwJc)

122 net of over 30,000 government jobs being eliminated."

Fairfax VA restaurants hardest hit...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:10 AM (XuXeR)

123 Snowed was right.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:10 AM (Eh6IB)

124 Every right you give up will be couched in something moral and pure and cute.

And the Ring Camera superbowl ad touting how they network all the cameras to find lost dogs.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 11, 2026 10:10 AM (cO6Mr)

125 103 95 What are the best or most popular songs/music that deal with time?

Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
When I'm 64 - The Beatles

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (qgHp7)

In the year 2525...Zager and Evans
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:04 AM (QGaXH)

Livin on Tulsa Time - Don Williams
Time marches on - Tracy Lawrence
Does anybody really know what time it is..Chicago

I couild go on.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:11 AM (QGaXH)

126 but can you put it in a bottle?"

Sure. It came today...

Posted by: The Chambers Brothers at February 11, 2026 10:11 AM (XuXeR)

127 Sinclair Lewis was wrong. Fascism want nothing to do with the cross.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2026 10:09 AM (qFwJc)
---------
Sinclair Lewis was full of shit on a number of subjects.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 10:11 AM (JoLAO)

128 Rear Window, The Matrix edition.

Posted by: And you're Jimmy Stewart at February 11, 2026 10:11 AM (2Ez/1)

129 >>That may be true. But we found out during this weekend’s Super Bowl that when mass surveillance comes to America, it will be to help sad puppy dogs.

As Mary Katharine Ham commented: Guys I think we're the dogs.

Opting in to mass surveillance to save the doggies!
The 'We Rate Dogs' guy, a Lefty, had a good statement on it (he dug into who has access, and how many dogs Ring actually helps find), which shows both sides are not buying this at all.

Posted by: Bad Bunny at February 11, 2026 10:11 AM (48ipd)

130 Your Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers

https://is.gd/HVm3fm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 10:11 AM (J+Psw)

131 Livin on Tulsa Time - Don Williams
Time marches on - Tracy Lawrence
Does anybody really know what time it is..Chicago

I couild go on.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026

***
"24 Hours From Tulsa"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:12 AM (wzUl9)

132 95 What are the best or most popular songs/music that deal with time?

I think Pink Floyd did a song about that subject. Had clocks and everything.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 11, 2026 10:13 AM (PSEDc)

133 Time - Pink Floyd

Posted by: Nazdar at February 11, 2026 10:13 AM (NcvvS)

134 By the time I get to Phoenix...

Posted by: Hi! I'm Glenn Campbell! at February 11, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

135 130, scroll up...

Posted by: The Chambers Brothers at February 11, 2026 10:13 AM (XuXeR)

136 Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 11, 2026 10:13 AM

Horde mind...

Posted by: Nazdar at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (NcvvS)

137 >>Not Jagger or Bowie's best moment

https://tinyurl.com/zkse66kb

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (viF8m)

138 Downside of a booming jobs market is no more rate cuts. At least not for a while.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (Eh6IB)

139 Time after Time

Posted by: It's me donna at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (m4p63)

140 I think Pink Floyd did a song about that subject. Had clocks and everything.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 11, 2026 10:13 AM (PSEDc)

133 Time - Pink Floyd
Posted by: Nazdar at February 11, 2026 10:13 AM (NcvvS)

*smacks head* Oh yeah!

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (PSEDc)

141 By the Time I Get to Phoenix.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (J+Psw)

142 Trying to write a cover letter for a position I'm applying to. I'm really out of practice for that.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

143 Time - Pink Floyd
Posted by: Nazdar at February 11, 2026

***
Pink Floyd's lyric about "Teacher -- leave those kids alone!" has taken on a whole new meaning in the 2020s. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (wzUl9)

144
Grandpa played like the strings were on fire
Accompanied by a full toddler choir
"Sure, I'll play at your dance.
I'll even wear pants."
That old goat was a dirty stinkin' lyre!

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (qgHp7)

145 Dance to the Music...Sly and the Family Stone

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (NFX2v)

146 But security is good for you!

/

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:15 AM (XuXeR)

147 Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

148 138 Downside of a booming jobs market is no more rate cuts. At least not for a while.
Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (Eh6IB)

Let's face it it was never gonna be lowered while Powell is there...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 11, 2026 10:15 AM (m4p63)

149 "If I Could Turn Back Time . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

150 THERE'S NO THYME!!

Posted by: Jack Bauer in the kitchen at February 11, 2026 10:16 AM (PSEDc)

151 El Paso airport briefly shut down - Mexican cartel drones violated US airspace.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:05 AM (QGaXH)

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

The department of War has "disabled" (shot down or maybe a directed EMP weapon?) those drones.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 10:16 AM (XbPXw)

152 Who makes time with the timekeeper's daughter while the timekeeper's busy keeping time?

Posted by: Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer at February 11, 2026 10:16 AM (2Ez/1)

153 Trying to write a cover letter for a position I'm applying to. I'm really out of practice for that."

"Dear Sir,
I'm the sh*t."

Signed....

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:16 AM (XuXeR)

154 Rivers (of the Hidden Funk), by Joe Walsh.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 11, 2026 10:16 AM (XvL8K)

155 Not that fond of the PF Time, though the intro is fun - thought having that on an alarm clock would be cool.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 11, 2026 10:16 AM (NcvvS)

156 Yes it is.

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 10:17 AM (oZ51P)

157 "Time" by Zebra (a freakin awesome tune)

"Time Stand Still" by Rush (even freakin awesomer)

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 11, 2026 10:17 AM (DgMqy)

158 Oh, please... it's obviously Time Stand Still. Not even a contest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 10:17 AM (BI5O2)

159 Personally I helped find dogs via Ring. Not directly through my camera but with the app. About a year ago I saw two dogs on their own wandering around. They must have got out of their yard somehow.

I posted on the neighborhood thingy on Ring. Two dogs, this color, this size are wandering around in this area. A bunch of responses came in right away saying oh I think that’s my neighbors dogs. Or uh I saw them too, they’re now walking over at this intersection.

And the owner of the dogs ended up getting noticed as well and got her dogs.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:17 AM (Eh6IB)

160 Time by the Alan Parsons Project.

Time, is flowing like a river, to the SEEEEAAAAA!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 11, 2026 10:17 AM (0bjKf)

161 Kamala is still serving up word salads.

https://is.gd/3Dac9q

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 11, 2026 10:17 AM (8ZVmQ)

162 142 Trying to write a cover letter for a position I'm applying to. I'm really out of practice for that.
+++
We're sitting right here.

Posted by: AI engines everywhere at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

163 117 When our data was first mass-surveilled, we were told it was to catch terrorists. When drones first started flying over American skies, we were told it was to catch pedophiles. When they started watching all of our license plates everywhere we went, we were told it was to catch criminals on the run.

Every right you give up will be couched in something moral and pure and cute.

Fini
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 10:09 AM (gkpAx)

Rick - absolutely chilling!

Like the ad saying the future wasn't scary which featured a soy-boy in the back of a self-driving car, asking nervously 'car where are we going?' as it takes him to a dark lit area....No response...but no worries - it's taking him to a surprise party for him!

I would have been trading in self-driving car the next day for a mid-60's GM product.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (QGaXH)

164 The tall block of stone to the left (I'd sure that kind of object has a name somebody here will know) with the two faces: Is that supposed to be the Roman god Janus? One face is clearly bearded and male, while the other is probably female. Was Janus gender-fluid?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

165 157 "Time" by Zebra (a freakin awesome tune)

"Time Stand Still" by Rush (even freakin awesomer)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 11, 2026 10:17 AM (DgMqy)

158 Oh, please... it's obviously Time Stand Still. Not even a contest.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 10:17 AM (BI5O2

*fistbump*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (BI5O2)

166 Does anybody really know what time it is..Chicago

I couild go on.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

25 or 6 to 4

Posted by: Tuna at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (lJ0H4)

167 Trying to write a cover letter for a position I'm applying to. I'm really out of practice for that."

—

That’s what AI for. Seriously. Just make sure it doesn’t sound like it’s AI. 😀

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (Eh6IB)

168 *sobs*

Posted by: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (w9Wax)

169

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
Pete Hegseth shot down a Mexican drone

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (Cqx++)

170 Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (m4p63)

171
Why did the moron throw the clock out the window?

Because it reminded him of Richard Clock, the man convicted of knife raping his wife.

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (oZ51P)

172 sobs*
Posted by: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary "

Time. Not...nevermind.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (XuXeR)

173 Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

174 >>Dance to the Music...Sly and the Family Stone

I was a kid living in a very mixed area in NJ when that song came out and Motown was peaking. About the only time we weren't fighting was when the music was playing.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (viF8m)

175 107 What are the best or most popular songs/music that deal with time?

Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
When I'm 64 - The Beatles

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:03 AM (qgHp7)

In the year 2525...Zager and Evans
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:04 AM

Really?!
Posted by: Zombie Jim Croce at February 11, 2026 10:05 AM (bFu5X)

Ok Zombie Jim - yes - Time in a Bottle....now go back to bothering the operator.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (QGaXH)

176
It's no "The Syncopated Clock".

Nor is it "Skip to My Lou".

Missed opportunities, M'sieur Fish!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (xG4kz)

177 Downside of a booming jobs market is no more rate cuts. At least not for a while.
Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (Eh6IB)

Which is why the market is currently down since rate cuts are, apparently, the only thing that stock traders care about.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (ExV1e)

178 "Time" by Zebra (a freakin awesome tune)

"Time Stand Still" by Rush (even freakin awesomer)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 11, 2026

***
I went to jr. high and high school with a founding member of Zebra. We even did a musical together in high school: Guys and Dolls.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:20 AM (wzUl9)

179 And I shot a drone in El Paso
Just to watch it die...

No, that's not it...

Posted by: Johnny Cash at February 11, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

180
In the Year 2525...Zager and Evans
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

That histrionic horseshit sucked green donkey balls.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:21 AM (xG4kz)

181 THERE'S NO THYME!!
Posted by: Jack Bauer in the kitchen

Sage advice.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 10:21 AM (gkpAx)

182 Cyndi Lauper whimpers...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:21 AM (XuXeR)

183 157 "Time Stand Still" by Rush (even freakin awesomer)
--

with Aimee Mann on guest vocals!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 11, 2026 10:21 AM (0bjKf)

184 Phil Keaggy does a song called "Way Back Home" that looks at his past.

If you are in a mellower/sentimental mood, I highly recommend.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 11, 2026 10:22 AM (DgMqy)

185 The infants in the corners are pretty well-fed.

The dancing women are hardly anorexic themselves.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:22 AM (wzUl9)

186 I went to jr. high and high school with a founding member of Zebra. We even did a musical together in high school: Guys and Dolls.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Randy Jackson's brother was in my high school class. He could type faster than anyone else in the class. Guess it runs in the family!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 11, 2026 10:22 AM (w9Wax)

187 What's that hippie song "the time has come today", and the backup singers go "Time!" in the background.... you know, they always use it in car commercials and stuff...

That one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:22 AM (JwNbV)

188 We even did a musical together in high school: Guys and Dolls.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

What part did you play, Wolfus?

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

189 Downside of a booming jobs market is no more rate cuts. At least not for a while.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (Eh6IB)

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

I've been assured by our "AI" algorithm-coding overlords that half of white collar jobs will be eliminated (assuming they don't destroy humanity first). #Soon.

That's gonna suck for those in college -- especially with large college loans -- programmers, lawyers, et. al., and especially for whomever is POTUS if that ever does happen ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 10:23 AM (XbPXw)

190 Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
Pete Hegseth shot down a Mexican drone"

In a little Cafe just the other side of the border...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:23 AM (XuXeR)

191 Watching the Olympic women's biathlon (skiing and shooting). A Ukrainian woman just came in 14th.
Hey, if she's really good at shooting, and her country is in such grave danger of losing its freedom, maybe she shouldn't be in Italy right now.

Posted by: Wally at February 11, 2026 10:23 AM (0e5Te)

192 High little girl! Wanna help me and the puppet find my lost kitten?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 11, 2026 10:23 AM (Kt19C)

193 Which is why the market is currently down since rate cuts are, apparently, the only thing that stock traders care about.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (ExV1e)

I remember seeing this phenomenon back in the 90s and thinking that’s weird, should stocks go up when the economy is doing well. But it makes sense in a weird way. Cost of capital is a yuuuge component in the analysts of what a company’s share price is worth.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:23 AM (Eh6IB)

194 When the clock strikes two.....

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 10:24 AM (oZ51P)

195 Poussin really seems to like allegorical themes for his paintings. He has used the old man as an example of time in other works. The circle dance indicates a year/time and the four dancers the seasons. Each figure wears a different color to distinguish them. It's dawn (I assume that is Aurora and Apollo's chariot in the sky), the start of a new day and each day should be celebrated. No idea why one of the figures is male and in shadow or if that has a meaning. It's altogether a positive image of celebrating life.

I enjoy Poussin's landscapes. I wonder if he was an influence on John Constable. They both have a lyrical, poetic/romantic feel.

Posted by: JTB at February 11, 2026 10:24 AM (yTvNw)

196 I'm not gonna use AI. Just need to noodle it through for a bit.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

197 Watching the Olympic women's biathlon (skiing and shooting). A Ukrainian woman just came in 14th.
Hey, if she's really good at shooting, and her country is in such grave danger of losing its freedom, maybe she shouldn't be in Italy right now.
Posted by: Wally at February 11, 2026 10:23 AM (0e5Te)

14th though.
I mean…
🤣

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:24 AM (Eh6IB)

198 hat's that hippie song "the time has come today"

The Chambers Brothers "hippie"?

Ah...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:24 AM (XuXeR)

199
Dear Time:
https://youtu.be/v_yJFbvOkXs

Posted by: Alison Brown and Steve Martin featuring Jackson Browne at February 11, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)

200 We even did a musical together in high school: Guys and Dolls.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
What part did you play, Wolfus?
Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026

***
I was "Nathan Detroit." Fortunate that ND has only one solo song and it can be talk-sung, as I really can't carry a tune.

Felix was "Nicely-Nicely Johnson," the "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" character. He rocked that song for sure, as did all of our actors and actresses. The show was a big hit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:25 AM (wzUl9)

201 Anyone notice that the Guthrie kidnapper picture was obtained from “background data” on the system?

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 11, 2026 10:25 AM (LMRVO)

202 Really, Time Stand Still is a work of art. I love that song.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 10:26 AM (BI5O2)

203 When the clock strikes two....."

Instead of 13?

Posted by: Winston at February 11, 2026 10:26 AM (XuXeR)

204
Trying to write a cover letter for a position I'm applying to. I'm really out of practice for that."

"Dear Sir,
I'm the sh*t."

Signed....

"Dear Sir,

"I am offering to you the opportunity to hire me.

"Should you decline to do so, you will regret it but once ... and that will be for the rest of your life.

"Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"With my kindest regards,"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:26 AM (xG4kz)

205 'Closing Time' by whoever the name of that band.

Posted by: dantesed at February 11, 2026 10:26 AM (Oy/m2)

206 Felix was "Nicely-Nicely Johnson," the "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" character. He rocked that song for sure, as did all of our actors and actresses. The show was a big hit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I'm sure it was. I would love to play Nicely-Nicely. Stubby Kaye rocked that role.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

207 When the clock strikes two....."
*
Instead of 13?
Posted by: Winston at February 11, 2026

***
You ought to know that when the clock strikes go, she'll call it off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:27 AM (wzUl9)

208 What are the best or most popular songs/music that deal with time?

The song Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof?
https://tinyurl.com/nhd9n6rz

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 11, 2026 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

209 It's Hammer Time

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

210 Sly Stone does not approve.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (MZ+PY)

211 186 I went to jr. high and high school with a founding member of Zebra. We even did a musical together in high school: Guys and Dolls.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

So, who was behind the door?

Posted by: I member zebra at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (+abK1)

212
Sue me. Sue me. What can you do me? I love you.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (xG4kz)

213 "I don't do cover letters. I write all my own letters."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (JwNbV)

214 You write a resume and cover letter using AI and HR uses AI to read said resume and cover letter.

It’s a fun world we live in.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (Eh6IB)

215 The song Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof?
https://tinyurl.com/nhd9n6rz
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 11, 2026 10:27 AM

Yes!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (bFu5X)

216 The song Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof?
https://tinyurl.com/nhd9n6rz
Posted by: Moron Analyst

Yeah, that one gets my vote.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

217 Summer Time Blues.

Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (j6kTf)

218 Felix was "Nicely-Nicely Johnson," the "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" character. He rocked that song for sure, as did all of our actors and actresses. The show was a big hit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
I'm sure it was. I would love to play Nicely-Nicely. Stubby Kaye rocked that role.
Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026

***
Oor lead playing "Sky Masterson" did a great job too. "Luck, Be a Lady Tonight" is an exciting song and it sends the audience out of the theatre humming. G & D is rife with memorable tunes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)

219
Today it would be Trans Guys and Queer Dolls.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:29 AM (xG4kz)

220 Time, time, time, what has become of me?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 11, 2026 10:29 AM (0U5gm)

221 Hey Ladies!

Want me to play you a song on my skin lute?

Posted by: Naked guy at the party at February 11, 2026 10:30 AM (6fhoX)

222 So did the super whammodyne awesome find-your-lost-dog Ring camera network of Big Brother busybodies find the Old Lady Guthrie kidnapper?

Hmmmm?

Posted by: I gotta ask at February 11, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)

223 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2PNlhvy8E

Dance to the sideburns and feathered hats

Posted by: DaveA at February 11, 2026 10:30 AM (FhXTo)

224 I just landed a job with a rather large corporation, and there was no cover letter involved at any point in the process. Resume got uploaded through a referral link from a friend who works there too. I think there might have been a thing on the submittal site where you could put extra documents in if you want to, but that smelled like a trap so I didn't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:30 AM (JwNbV)

225 Father Time - Sammy Hagar & The Circle

It ain't over yet.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 10:30 AM (xFfhU)

226
G & D is rife with memorable tunes.

Arvidy's Song

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:31 AM (xG4kz)

227 Timing X

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vZdKHAx7Wio

Posted by: Devo at February 11, 2026 10:31 AM (G7orJ)

228 163 I would have been trading in self-driving car the next day for a mid-60's GM product.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:18 AM (QGaXH)

Equally satisfying would be driving it to the edge of a deep quarry, put a bullet right thru the computer and push it over the edge....especially if you dub in the voice of HAL saying 'Dave...don't do that Dave...can we talk, Dave...?' right before the gubshot.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:31 AM (QGaXH)

229 Dude playing the harp is just waiting for the inevitable wardrobe malfunction.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 11, 2026 10:31 AM (Y1sOo)

230 Trying to write a cover letter for a position I'm applying to. I'm really out of practice for that."

"Dear Sir,
I'm the sh*t."

Signed....

"Dear Sir,

"I am offering to you the opportunity to hire me.

"Should you decline to do so, you will regret it but once ... and that will be for the rest of your life.

"Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"With my kindest regards,"

Gentlemen,
I despise each and every one of you.
Best wishes...

Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2026 10:31 AM (Riz8t)

231 from Fiddler on the Roof?"

True story - saw the final performance at the Broadway... have a Playbill autographed by several cast members...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:31 AM (XuXeR)

232 It's go time!

Posted by: Mandelbaum at February 11, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)

233 Today it would be Trans Guys and Queer Dolls.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:29 AM (xG4kz)

It's Guys and Dolls, not Guys and Guys!

Posted by: G. Costanza at February 11, 2026 10:32 AM (PSEDc)

234 Today it would be Trans Guys and Queer Dolls.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026

***
"I got the tranny right here;
His name is Paula Revere --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:32 AM (wzUl9)

235 I ain't no time keeper.

- Billy Cobham

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 11, 2026 10:32 AM (Kt19C)

236 Is Father Time's father Grandfather Clock?

Must be a maternal grandfather, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:32 AM (JwNbV)

237 I remember seeing this phenomenon back in the 90s and thinking that’s weird, should stocks go up when the economy is doing well. But it makes sense in a weird way. Cost of capital is a yuuuge component in the analysts of what a company’s share price is worth.
Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:23 AM (Eh6IB)

Imagine if companies could operate without going massively into debt. Once upon a time, the company I worked for had a very large cash reserve. When times were bad we'd forego raises but no layoffs happened.

Then the founder retired.

New CEO was a finance bro. Bought other companies. Went into debt. Layoffs happened. Company bought out by larger company.

Still... the executives got big bonuses.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 10:33 AM (ExV1e)

238 'Closing Time' by whoever the name of that band.
Posted by: dantesed
________

Six Pack to Go is better song on closing times.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 11, 2026 10:33 AM (XvL8K)

239 Naked Harp Man wants congress to pass the SAVE Act.

Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 10:33 AM (iXqHn)

240 Sly Stone does not approve."

How about the rest of the family?

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:33 AM (XuXeR)

241 you will regret it but once ... and that will be for the rest of your life.
-----------
Thank you, Jeb Stuart.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 10:33 AM (JoLAO)

242 Also : How the hell is Naked Harp Man so ripped at his age?

Dude is jacked to the gills, and he doesn't have a roid gut.

Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 10:34 AM (iXqHn)

243 221 Hey Ladies!
Want me to play you a song on my skin lute?
Posted by: Naked guy at the party

I think I'm seeing a trend here.

Titian's The Three Ages of Man
https://is.gd/NTl2zJ

Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)

244 Imagine if companies could operate without going massively into debt. Once upon a time, the company I worked for had a very large cash reserve. When times were bad we'd forego raises but no layoffs happened.

Then the founder retired.

New CEO was a finance bro. Bought other companies. Went into debt. Layoffs happened. Company bought out by larger company.

Still... the executives got big bonuses.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Companies with large cash reserves become targets for venture capitalists like Romney.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 11, 2026 10:34 AM (0U5gm)

245 180
In the Year 2525...Zager and Evans
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

That histrionic horseshit sucked green donkey balls.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:21 AM (xG4kz)

Really? GREEN donkey balls? Not just donkey balls, it's gotta be green donkey balls...??? (laughing!)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:34 AM (QGaXH)

246 Sexy US postal employees will never go un-ogled again.
Posted by: rickb223

***********

Sexy US postal employees?
What universe do you live in?

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (qgHp7)

247 A great tune to play and sing when viewing that painting is the Grateful Dead's "Ripple."

" . . . and my tunes . . were played . . . on the harp . . . unstrung . . . "

Couple of gummies or a half a blunt and you are la la la da da-ing along with the dancers.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (KiBMU)

248 Tom Waits - Closing Time

https://tinyurl.com/4mhnvmzp

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (viF8m)

249 New CEO was a finance bro. Bought other companies. Went into debt. Layoffs happened. Company bought out by larger company.

Still... the executives got big bonuses.

What happened to the stock price? If it went up dramatically, then the finance guy was right. The shareholders made out.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (Riz8t)

250 242 Also : How the hell is Naked Harp Man so ripped at his age?

Dude is jacked to the gills, and he doesn't have a roid gut.
Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 10:34 AM (iXqHn)

He's an angel. Look at the wings. Ever seen a fat angel?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (JwNbV)

251 Six Pack to Go is better song on closing times.

Hangover Tavern

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 11, 2026 10:36 AM (Kt19C)

252 I just landed a job with a rather large corporation, and there was no cover letter involved at any point in the process. Resume got uploaded through a referral link from a friend who works there too. I think there might have been a thing on the submittal site where you could put extra documents in if you want to, but that smelled like a trap so I didn't.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I usually don't bother, but this is a company that I think would be a fascinating place of work, and where my previous experience would be a good fit. So I'm gonna try to communicate that in the cover letter to make myself stand out.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

253 Titian's The Three Ages of Man
https://is.gd/NTl2zJ
Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)
----------
Dude's about to play "Spin the Shepherdess."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 10:36 AM (JoLAO)

254 Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream....
Manic Monday (Bangles?)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:36 AM (QGaXH)

255

Each watch I smash apart, just bringing near the hour

Of 25 o'clock, that's when you're going to be mine
25 o'clock, we'll be together 'til the end of time
At 25 o'clock

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 11, 2026 10:36 AM (Cqx++)

256 Last year, someone kept going on about the significance of time.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at February 11, 2026 10:36 AM (YXfnZ)

257 Sexy US postal employees?
What universe do you live in?

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (qgHp7)

there was a no-foolin' smoke-show who used to do the UPS route for my old house. Does that count?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:37 AM (JwNbV)

258 Who you gonna call?

https://is.gd/duVknv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 10:37 AM (J+Psw)

259
Libertine men and scarlet women,
And ragtime! Shameless music that'll grab
Your son and your daughter
In the arms of the jungle, animal instinct
Mass 'steria!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 10:37 AM (tgvbd)

260 G & D is rife with memorable tunes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yes, it is.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

261 250 He's an angel. Look at the wings. Ever seen a fat angel?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (JwNbV)

Angel? Where's the 68 eyeballs? Where's the flaming dodecahedron?

Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 10:38 AM (iXqHn)

262 190 Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
Pete Hegseth shot down a Mexican drone"

In a little Cafe just the other side of the border...
Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 10:23 AM (XuXeR)

From 30,000 feet I see her there below...
A city with a legend, the west Texas city of El Paso....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:38 AM (QGaXH)

263 The procession in the sky has seven human figures and *three* horses, the palomino, a white, and a black. This is one busy painting!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:38 AM (wzUl9)

264 Trying to write a cover letter for a position I'm applying to. I'm really out of practice for that.
Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
---
Use AI to get you a rough draft. Take out all the buzzwords and replace them with concrete examples of your achievements in applying the buzzwords.

Rinse and repeat for each company you are applying to.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2026 10:38 AM (ESVrU)

265 Bulg, good luck on your applications & have fun on your cover letter

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 11, 2026 10:39 AM (42yrw)

266 201 Anyone notice that the Guthrie kidnapper picture was obtained from “background data” on the system?

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 11, 2026 10:25 AM (LMRVO)

She had a cam, but no subscription to keep files stored.

Which, supposedly, meant Ring, Google, or whoever, was supposed to have deleted the data and not have access to it.'

Maybe they do a dump once every few weeks or a month and the FBI got in there in time to save some recordings.

Or maybe they lie and keep your stuff forever whether you pay or not.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 10:39 AM (6ydKt)

267 Time is on my side

Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 10:39 AM (j6kTf)

268
Closing Time' by whoever the name of that band.
Posted by: dantesed

I, not at all fondly, referred to that as "Closing Whine".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:39 AM (xG4kz)

269 Each watch I smash apart, just bringing near the hour

Of 25 o'clock, that's when you're going to be mine
25 o'clock, we'll be together 'til the end of time
At 25 o'clock
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 11, 2026

***
It's really gonna be something when that happens on the twelfth of Never.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:39 AM (wzUl9)

270 What happened to the stock price? If it went up dramatically, then the finance guy was right. The shareholders made out.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (Riz8t)

The stock price didn't go up until we were bought out at a premium by a technically US company whose top 5 levels of management are entirely Indian.

Yay, shareholders.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 10:40 AM (ExV1e)

271 would hang

Posted by: Gref at February 11, 2026 10:40 AM (5rh/l)

272 Congrats on your new job, Warai!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 11, 2026 10:40 AM (42yrw)

273 I kinda like "2525." Yeah, it's over the top, but sometimes it fits my mood.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

274 Summer Time Blues.

Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (j6kTf)

There ain't no cure for that. Oh wait I thought you said Syphilis.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 11, 2026 10:41 AM (oZ51P)

275 200 ... "I was "Nathan Detroit." Fortunate that ND has only one solo song and it can be talk-sung, as I really can't carry a tune."

Wolfus,
I bet that was fun. Guys and Dolls is one of my favorite movie musicals. I sing along especially with Luck Be A Lady and Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat, just an octave or two lower.

Posted by: JTB at February 11, 2026 10:41 AM (yTvNw)

276 Time is on my side
Posted by: Case
_______

Time could be my friend
But it's less than nowhere now
It’s less than nowhere now
It’s less than nowhere now
Nowhere now

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 11, 2026 10:42 AM (XvL8K)

277 I think the guy on the top of the cloud is supposed to be Apollo, but what do I know.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 10:42 AM (6ydKt)

278 266 Which, supposedly, meant Ring, Google, or whoever, was supposed to have deleted the data and not have access to it.'

Maybe they do a dump once every few weeks or a month and the FBI got in there in time to save some recordings.

Or maybe they lie and keep your stuff forever whether you pay or not.

*whistle innocently*

Posted by: chatgpt at February 11, 2026 10:42 AM (sGtp+)

279 Well, it's over for me. I've got Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" stuck in my head. That's gonna be there all day now.

Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 10:42 AM (iXqHn)

280 272 Congrats on your new job, Warai!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 11, 2026 10:40 AM (42yrw)

Thanks

It's gonna be some crazy whiplash, going from a family company with about a dozen people, to one of the largest corporations on earth.

Definite culture shock coming in my future.

"Six pack in the break room fridge if you want one. ... What?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:42 AM (JwNbV)

281
Titian's The Three Ages of Man

The Stone Age
The Bone Age
The Time to Atone Age

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:42 AM (xG4kz)

282 Use AI to get you a rough draft. Take out all the buzzwords and replace them with concrete examples of your achievements in applying the buzzwords.

Rinse and repeat for each company you are applying to.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2026 10:38 AM (ESVrU)

Saw a thumbnail for a video from a corporate recruiter which said that to ensure success... lie. The more you lie, the more success you will have. Presumably that's because the vetting process goes through several layers of people who know fuck-all about what their company does before it gets to someone (maybe) who can determine if you can do the job for which you're applying.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

283 Why did the moron throw the clock out the window?

Because it reminded him of Richard Clock, the man convicted of knife raping his wife.
Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 10:19 AM (oZ51P)

Ah, a fellow Norm McDonald fan I see...

Posted by: Denny Crane - Queefs are for Kids at February 11, 2026 10:43 AM (i49OE)

284 Only “cover letters” I write is if I message someone directly about a job on LinkedIn or something like that. But if applying for an open position, it’s a waste of time. Nobody reads that stuff. They barely read a resume as it is.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 10:43 AM (Eh6IB)

285 Like Six Flags.

https://is.gd/3mysVe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 10:43 AM (J+Psw)

286 Titian's The Three Ages of Man

The Stone Age
The Bone Age
The Time to Atone Age
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:42 AM (xG4kz)

But hey if you're too stoned to bone then you don't have to atone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:44 AM (JwNbV)

287 So, the musician is naked and the dancers are fully clothed.

That seems backwards to me.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 11, 2026 10:44 AM (TsPiR)

288 How the hell is Naked Harp Man so ripped at his age?

group sex?

Posted by: Gref at February 11, 2026 10:44 AM (5rh/l)

289 Y'all are forgetting the mid-80s Eddie Murphy masterpiece "Party All The Time"

Posted by: Doof at February 11, 2026 10:44 AM (B4Se1)

290 Guy Clark - Desperadoes Waiting for a Train

https://is.gd/Uf5VCb

There was old men with beer guts and dominoes, lying 'bout their lives as they played

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (qgHp7)

291 Really? GREEN donkey balls? Not just donkey balls, it's gotta be green donkey balls...??? (laughing!)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

Does that mean they're mint flavored, or pistachio?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

292 287 So, the musician is naked and the dancers are fully clothed.

That seems backwards to me.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 11, 2026 10:44 AM (TsPiR)

All I know is the chick in blue seems to flirting with me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (6ydKt)

293 WRT RCV, any system where you can get fractional vote tallies and "surplus votes" are de-weighted and distributed to other choices.

Well that system is a bullshit, opaque monstrosity, totally ripe for shenanigans.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (XV/Pl)

294 289 Y'all are forgetting the mid-80s Eddie Murphy masterpiece "Party All The Time"
Posted by: Doof at February 11, 2026 10:44 AM (B4Se1)

Yay better earworm than Mexican Radio!

Thanks, doof.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (JwNbV)

295 From the slightly more prudish Romantic period.

There's still 3 gals and one guy, but they're all mostly dressed, with no nudididity. (And one old angel, with 2 cupids, who will just watch. Hey, that's Romanticism.)

Posted by: GWB at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (ZuFx4)

296 Funny how the wedding reception gigs started drying up for the lyre player about the same time he began showing up naked.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (8ty7h)

297 259
Libertine men and scarlet women,
And ragtime! Shameless music that'll grab
Your son and your daughter
In the arms of the jungle, animal instinct
Mass 'steria!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 10:37 AM (tgvbd)

You need a boys band....

Professor Harold Hill - Conservatory Gold Medal Class of '08

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (QGaXH)

298 If I knew the way
I would take you home

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 10:46 AM (viF8m)

299 Sometimes I look at how our elections actually work, mechanically, and wonder in exactly what way this is any better than trial by combat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:46 AM (JwNbV)

300 Must be hard for Janus there in the left to ever get good seats for a show.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2026 10:46 AM (sKqQm)

301 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sees painting. I'm feeling the time this morning.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 11, 2026 10:47 AM (2WIwB)

302 Sue me. Sue me. What can you do me? I love you.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:28 AM (xG4kz)

When you see a fat slob with a good paying job....

Posted by: Boswell at February 11, 2026 10:47 AM (V7158)

303 "I was "Nathan Detroit." Fortunate that ND has only one solo song and it can be talk-sung, as I really can't carry a tune."
*
Wolfus,
I bet that was fun. Guys and Dolls is one of my favorite movie musicals. I sing along especially with Luck Be A Lady and Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat, just an octave or two lower.
Posted by: JTB at February 11, 2026

***
It amazes me now to think of how much energy we all had at 16 and 17. We did school all day, then rehearsal at night. Some of our actors were on sports teams, and I was handling several college-prep classes. Whew.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 10:47 AM (wzUl9)

304 For some reason "Electric Avenue" just started playing in my head and I have no idea why.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 10:47 AM (6ydKt)

305 Yay better earworm than Mexican Radio!

Thanks, doof.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 11, 2026 10:45 AM (JwNbV)

I help where I can

Posted by: Doof at February 11, 2026 10:47 AM (B4Se1)

306 Well, it's over for me. I've got Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" stuck in my head. That's gonna be there all day now.
Posted by: XTC
________

I'll distract you with The Walls Came Down, which was playing nonstop on MTV at the same time.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 11, 2026 10:47 AM (XvL8K)

307 273 I kinda like "2525." Yeah, it's over the top, but sometimes it fits my mood.
Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

It's on my playlist...

Green Donkey balls INDEED! (sneeringly!)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 10:48 AM (QGaXH)

308 FAA lifted the NOTAM on the TX NM MX border.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 10:48 AM (7xyr6)

309 The Three Ages of Man

Neonate
Infantry
Adultery

Posted by: muldoon at February 11, 2026 10:48 AM (qgHp7)

310 Professor Harold Hill - Conservatory Gold Medal Class of '08

IIRC, it was the Gary Conservatory Gold Medal Class of '05.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

311 Guy Clark - Desperadoes Waiting for a Train

I'm still recovering from my last train, but already have the next one scheduled!

🍑 🚄

Posted by: Bonnie Blue at February 11, 2026 10:48 AM (JCZqz)

312 The Righteous - Unchained Melody

And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 10:49 AM (viF8m)

313 Posted by: Denny Crane - Queefs are for Kids at February 11, 2026 10:43 AM (i49OE)

A classic

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 10:49 AM (oZ51P)

314 Professor Harold Hill - Conservatory Gold Medal Class of '08

IIRC, it was the Gary Conservatory Gold Medal Class of '05.
Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
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Bulg Johnson is right!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 10:49 AM (JoLAO)

315 25 or 6 to 4

It's Time to say goodbye

Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 10:50 AM (j6kTf)

316 This banger might help remove the earworms

Pretenders - Time The Avenger
https://youtu.be/HbTYnEB1jRA

Posted by: Doof at February 11, 2026 10:51 AM (B4Se1)

317
It's Time to say goodbye
Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 10:50 AM (j6kTf)

Bocelli.. Good one

Posted by: It's me donna at February 11, 2026 10:51 AM (m4p63)

318
All I know is the chick in blue seems to flirting with me.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Oh, she's a naughty girl ... a very, very naughty girl, indeed!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 10:52 AM (xG4kz)

The Morning Report — 2/11/26

Good morning kids. First up comes news of a mass shooting up in British Columbia. Prayers for the victims and all affected. As the NY Post states: Female in dress suspected in horrific school, home shootings in Canada that left 9 dead, 25 hurt The ludicrousness of the shooter's description leads one to wonder if this is another incident involving transexual psychosis.

Moving on, One more key move by President Trump that will ensure he will go down in history and be remembered by all sane Americans as one of our greatest presidents of all time.

President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency this week will repeal an Obama-era rule called the “Endangerment Finding,” which categorized carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health. This move would remove the legal framework for the EPA’s climate rules, which allowed the federal government to impose ever-increasing regulations on automobiles, appliances, and power plant emissions.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the new rule would amount “to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.”
. . . ‘Carbon dioxide, which is required for life on earth and also happens to result from every single bit of human and animal activity on the planet, is not a pollutant and never was.’

Turning to the immigration front and the attempt to nullify federal law and foment insurrection, there's this infuriating link:

He snuck across the border illegally and went undetected. Then, he went on to allegedly rape three young children in Asheville, North Carolina, authorities said. Now, federal immigration authorities are begging sanctuary officials to hand Mexican illegal immigrant Juan Ramon Juarez-Talamantes, 29, over to ICE before he has the opportunity to continue on with his violent rampage,

BEGGING?! How about rolling up in a few Bradley fighting vehicles and deploying a platoon of soldiers, shove a few M-16s in the Asheville flunkies' faces, demand the animal be handed over forthwith and shoot anyone who even raises an eyebrow in opposition.

And then there's vermin like Markwayne Mullin . . .

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said there is a possible conversation about legalization for people brought to the U.S. under the age of 18 by their parents or people who have been in the country for ten years or more, but not for anyone who came under the Biden junta and “it’s not an absolute nonstarter, but it is, if we talk anything about amnesty, at all.”

. . . and Alaskan Snow Blower Lisa Murkowski, well it is the Grifting Oleaginous Party after all.

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced her opposition to two GOP-backed voter ID and election integrity bills, signaling significant challenges for the legislation in the Senate. . . Murkowski’s opposition, combined with the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold, likely dooms the voter ID bills without significant bipartisan support—unless Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) moves to end the legislative filibuster.

This cocaine addicted criminal shit-whore needs to be set off on an ice floe up in Valdez where a polar bear or two can chow down on her rancid carcass.

And really, Downeasters up in Maine. Is there no one up there that can save us from this desiccated coprolite?

Collins was first elected to the Senate in 1996, and again in 2002, 2008, 2014, and 2020, according to her website: Senator Collins has earned a national reputation as an effective legislator who works across party lines to solve problems and deliver results for the people of Maine and America. She has repeatedly been ranked as the most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University.
Throughout her Senate service, Senator Collins has worked with members of both parties to advance landmark legislation to improve the lives of all Americans. Her record demonstrates significant legislative accomplishments in such critical areas as health care, small business development and job creation, education, transportation, national defense, and issues of particular interest to our nation’s seniors.

Translation: She spent her time stabbing Americans in the back by aiding and abetting the Satanic Democrats in the destruction of the republic. She too needs to go for a swim in the Kilauea lava field or Blofeld's piranha tank.

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‘Carbon dioxide, which is required for life on earth and also happens to result from every single bit of human and animal activity on the planet, is not a pollutant and never was.’
Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s Imminent Repeal of the Endangering Finding for CO2

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

ICE is reportedly detaining and arresting thousands of Minnesota protestors under Title 18, Section 111 of the US Code, which prohibits citizens from interfering with a federal officer conducting official duties, according to Reuters. A recent trend began amongst protestors to follow ICE agents in their vehicles as “legal observers” of federal law enforcement operations following the deadly shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January.
ICE Drops Hammer On Minnesota ‘Agitators’ Shadowing Agents On Street
Teachers union members were encouraged to find ways to resist the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.
‘Summer of Resistance’: Docs Reveal How California Teachers Were Trained To Fight Back Against ICE
Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson used an AI-generated image of Alex Pretti’s death in which a federal immigration agent is missing his head during a Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday. Thompson is the same man who chaired the Jan. 6 Committee, which was also caught fabricating “evidence.”
Top Dem Uses Fabricated AI Photo Of ICE After Getting Caught Fabricating J6 Records
Naomi Wolf: "Your support for the anti-ICE protest movement will destroy us."
“Dear Beloved Elder, Please Stop”

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Brahmbhatt’s comments have drawn attention to her political affiliations and past controversial statements, though Mayor Mamdani has yet to comment on the matter.
Another Mamdani Aide Found Trashing ‘White Civility,’ ‘White Politeness,’ and ‘White Women Behavior’ Online.
Sen. Grassley alleges that Smith and his team appear to have purposefully circumvented constitutional safeguards to obtain the phone records of senators.
Jack Smith Accused of Circumventing Constitutional Safeguards to Secretly Obtain Senators’ Phone Records.
There should be no surprise that Judeo-Christian western civilization is under attack.
Defeating the Deep State's Inversion Matrix
"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"An alleged antisemitic attack"
Senate Dem Complains Adult Daughter of Muslim Terrorist Who Set Holocaust Survivor Being Held for Deportation
Numerous Democrat leaders say their high-migration, low-wage sanctuary city economies are crashing because President Donald Trump is requiring them to comply with national labor laws.
Democrat State Leaders: Sanctuary Cities Must Be Exempted from Civil Rights Laws
‘We have prioritized and removed tens of thousands of the “worst of the worst,”’ acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told a House committee.
Exclusive: Dems Grandstand While ICE Agents Remove Violent Criminals
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said there is a possible conversation about legalization for people brought to the U.S. under the age of 18 by their parents or people who have been in the country for ten years or more, but not for anyone who came under the Biden administration and “it’s not an absolute nonstarter, but it is, if we talk anything about amnesty, at all.” (RINO Amnesty Alert - jjs)
Mullin: There Is Possible Conversation About Legalizing Some in U.S. Illegally
“Colony Ridge endangered American citizens by allowing illegal aliens to run rampant on its streets."
Colony Ridge Agrees To Pay $68 Million In Penalties For ‘Illegal Immigrant Haven’
"This criminal illegal alien has no place in American communities."
Feds Implore Sanctuary Authorities To Hand Over Illegal Charged With The Rape Of Three Kids (Implore? RUFKM? Send in an APC and heavily armed soldiers. Shoot to kill anyone who tries to stop you - jjs)
The agency’s enforcement capacity could drop by 90 percent, one scholar estimates (If they actually comply instead of using deadly force to put down nullification/obstruction of justice - jjs)
Dem Demands For ICE To Obtain Judicial Warrants Could Bring Immigration Enforcement to a Near 'Halt,' Experts Say
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The probe centers on allegations that the Dubai-linked project could be an unlawful attempt to establish a “sharia city” on American soil, potentially accommodating up to 20,000 foreign nationals in an unincorporated area of Kaufman County.
Texas AG Ken Paxton Launches Probe After Daily Caller’s Explosive Report On Muslim-Linked City Plans
With over 100 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims, Japan is endangered.
Japan Fights Back Against Muslim Migration (Should've nipped it in the bud - jjs)
And it just gets worse from there.
UK’s Leftist Government Muzzles Adviser on ‘Islamist Threat’
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
It’s going to be a tough four years.
Jewish and Israeli-Owned Businesses in New York Brace for Mamdani
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
‘If [Trump] does get elected president, no one will ever have to worry about me wanting to be in any meeting, ever, anywhere, with anyone associated with him.’
Docs: Director Of ‘Bipartisan’ Attorneys General Group Proposed An ‘Infiltration’ Of Trump’s 2016 Transition Team
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Arguments that finance is a drain on the “real” economy are just warmed-over Marxist critiques of capitalism.
Actually, the U.S. Financial Sector Is Good for the Economy
John Stossel: The biggest reason for rising prices.
Politicians Make Things Worse
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
He doesn’t even make it to the three branches, first guessing a “county” branch and then a “Constitution” branch.
County sheriff quizzed on what branch of government he operates under, and he can’t figure it out
Tracey Davis should be off leading some DEI struggle session somewhere. (Swimming in Blofeld's piranha tank - jjs)
Meet The DEI Activist Judge Who Let A Rapist Out Of Prison Early To Spite White People
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The media’s political attacks are meant to confuse and demoralize conservative resistance to a political halftime show whose messaging targeted American culture and Christian values.
Media’s Fawning Bad Bunny Coverage Is Just Another Psyop To Demoralize And Mislead Americans
“According to guild steward Sarah Kaplan, a Post Metro reporter, the paper is dropping between 350 and 375 journalists,” reports the Washingtonian. “With the newsroom’s pre-layoff strength at 790 people, that means between 44 percent and 47.5 percent of the newsroom has been axed.”
Washington Post Layoffs Worse than Originally Reported
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
When Trump’s EPA orders the end of a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are a threat to public health, it will halt 16 years of federal efforts to mandate vast changes in American life without legal justification. The so-called Endangerment Finding led to a host of regulations whose estimated costs exceeded a trillion dollars.
Trump’s about to cancel Obama’s most outrageous power grab
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted chasing the "zero emissions" phantom.
Are EVs The Biggest Boondoggle In Human History?
Our new study offers suggestions for reducing bias and restoring public trust in science.
Yes, Science Has a Political Bias Problem. Here’s One Way to Fix It.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
In other words, native-born U.S. citizens will stop getting fleeced by teachers' unions and public officials who profit off trafficking needy, dependent, future public services addicts — aka Democrat voters.
Big Left Freaking Out as Illegal Alien Student Enrollment Plummets
Less than half of the students they teach are proficient in math. Only half in English.
SF Teachers’ Union Earning $100K, Strike After Being Unsatisfied With 10% Raises
American academia and policymakers must strengthen vetting for J-1 and other visa applicants with ties to high-risk institutions or programs.
Report: These Chinese Researchers At U.S. Universities Have CCP Ties
The public university is using Mellon Foundation money to build “decolonized internships.”
San Diego State Wants Students to “Interrogate Capitalism”
In addition to James, who fantasized of 'murdering Zionists,' Jonathan Wallace represents activists like Mahmoud Khalil and a Columbia professor who endorsed Hamas and Hezbollah
Meet Columbia Encampment Radical Khymani James' Lawyer, Who Compared Hamas Terrorists to WWII 'French Resistance' Fighters
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The unsealing provides greater clarity into what materials the FBI was searching for during the late January raid.
Court Unseals FBI Affidavit for Fulton County Election Raid, Here’s What It Says:
The Election Oversight Group’s 250-page report points to incidents that appear to exceed election worker incompetence and ‘clerical errors’.
Here Are The Top 5 Takeaways From Georgia’s Suspect 2020 Election
Sources say some Senate Republicans don’t want to see the popular election-integrity measure come up for a vote.
RINO Senators Could Sink The SAVE Act
Murkowski’s opposition, combined with the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold, likely dooms the voter ID bills without significant bipartisan support—unless Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) moves to end the legislative filibuster.
RINO Senator Breaks With GOP to Oppose Voter ID Law.
“Arizonans are done with excuses, delays, and chaos in our elections,” amendment sponsor and Republican Rep. Alexander Kolodin said in a statement.
Arizona House Advances Constitutional Amendment To End Delayed Election Results
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
That's what the Epstein files suggest. Looks like the Democrats owe him another apology.
So Trump helped rat out Epstein?
POLITICS
She has repeatedly been ranked as the most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University. (Meaning she's a fraudulent whore - jjs)
Venal RINO Prune Sen. Susan Collins Announces Reelection Bid as Midterm Battle Heats Up
As the U.S. advances toward the 2030 Census, a structural political realignment is taking shape ...
Democrats are Desperate to Win the Midterms — Because They’re Losing Power
Mamdani and Newsom sell rival myths, but their shared model—big government fused with big corporate power—centralizes control, inflates costs, and leaves ordinary Americans paying the price. (so, Fascism nein? - jjs)
Mamdani and Newsom: The Democrat Party’s Fraternal Twins
After all these years of loony rhetoric and swampy politics, Waters is getting a formidable primary challenger for the upcoming midterm elections: Myla Rahman, a 53-year-old nonprofit exec. Rahman argued that Waters has become utterly out of touch with her constituents in California’s 43rd district. To give some color on how old Waters is, Rahman has lived in her district since she was 6 years old. (Waters will likely have one of the Bloods or Crips pay her a visit - jjs)
Did Maxine Waters Finally Meet Her Match?

IRAN ON the BRINK?!
What the Mullahs don't intend to give up. (Their goal of annihilating every Jew on earth - jjs)
US-Iran Negotiations Are Worrying Israel
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Female in dress suspected in horrific school, home shootings in Canada that left 9 dead, 25 hurt (as opposed to a male in a dress?! - jjs)
Tumbler Ridge students barricaded themselves in classrooms for 2 hours as suspect launched Canada’s deadliest mass school shooting in 40 years
President Trump's pressure campaign signals that the United States still recognizes danger near its doorstep.
Russia, China, and the Cuban Chessboard
On Tuesday, Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) introduced a resolution to "leave the Monroe Doctrine to the dustbin of history." It calls "for the annulment of the Monroe Doctrine and the development of a 'New Good Neighbor' policy in order to foster improved relations and deeper, more effective cooperation between the United States and our Latin American and Caribbean neighbors."
Dems Move to Kill Trump’s Western Hemisphere Policy, Replace It with Something Far Worse
It's good for America to have a leader who projects unapologetic strength.
Trump's global leadership puts America first
Canada’s brave new challenge to American military power requires American weapons and technical support.
Canada’s Mark Carney Can’t Even Challenge American Hegemony Without American Help
Our Founders must be spinning in their graves.
The UN: Still Willfully Blind After All These Years
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The review could lead to changes in the use of BHA in processed foods and aligns with broader efforts to remove harmful chemicals from the food supply.
MAHA: The FDA is Reviewing This Food Additive Over Cancer Risk.
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
A female high school wrestler is accusing a transgender opponent of trying to push his fingers into her vagina during an official wrestling match in Washington State.
VIDEO: High School Wrestler Says She was Sexually Penetrated by Trans Opponent During Match
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Add Keir Starmer's newfound concern for victims of Peter Mandelson's bestie to his backflip on whether women can have penises and his U-turn on the Rotherham grooming gangs enquiry."
JK Rowling torches Starmer as Mandelson-Epstein scandal blows up, calls PM 'indifferent' to harm against women
The Jews, who were expelled from their homeland after the destruction of the temples of Solomon and Herod, remain persecuted by ideologies that exploit base instincts such as bigotry, envy, and hatred.
Anti-Semitism In An Anti-Western Perspective
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: 'Saltburn' director ditches much of classic novel for pure bodice ripping
This ‘Wuthering Heights’ Will Drive Purists Mad

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 07:16 AM (7xyr6)

2 Hey, JJ - willowed:

10-day NOTAMs in NM and TX:

https://tinyurl.com/49wh4amt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 07:16 AM (7xyr6)

3 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 11, 2026 07:17 AM (w3u3d)

4 Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 07:18 AM (99eI0)

5 President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency this week will repeal an Obama-era rule called the “Endangerment Finding,” which categorized carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health.
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Enjoying sniffing sparkling water as I type!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 07:18 AM (7xyr6)

6 Other than being a Democrat, does Lisa Murkowski have a cogent explanation of why she wants to let Mexicans vote in Alaskan elections?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:20 AM (osH04)

7 Its Hump Day

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

8 As far as a platoon in Asheville goes, if they shoot anyone it should be the rapist.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:21 AM (osH04)

9 Also willowed:

So you all remember the Trump Lion King/Obama Apes clip from last week?

Now there's a Power Rangers sequel from the same video creator. Have fun!

https://tinyurl.com/ynrwza2f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 07:21 AM (7xyr6)

10 "Now, federal immigration authorities are begging sanctuary officials..."

There's your problem, right there. We're playing defense. We've been playing defense for 50 years. No matter the heaps of crimes, lies, insults, degradations, abuses, hypocrisies, and assassination attempts, we're still playing defense.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 07:21 AM (t+TFX)

11 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 07:22 AM (RIvkX)

12 Who needs enemas when you have rinos for ‘friends’.

Posted by: Eromero at February 11, 2026 07:22 AM (Lytz7)

13 8 As far as a platoon in Asheville goes, if they shoot anyone it should be the rapist.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:21 AM (osH04)

True. But preventing his apprehension by ICE means being his accomplice and so it goes from there.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2026 07:22 AM (x0n13)

14 Thanks, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2026 07:23 AM (Cjt/F)

15 I don't want to see a movie that's merely "influenced" by the original book, so I'll give "Wuthering Heights" a pass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 07:23 AM (ix8EF)

16 Hey, JJ - willowed:

10-day NOTAMs in NM and TX:

https://tinyurl.com/49wh4amt
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 07:16 AM (7xyr6)
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Over Las Cruces? Trump invading Cartel-exico?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:23 AM (osH04)

17 President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency this week will repeal an Obama-era rule called the “Endangerment Finding,” which categorized carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health
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Which will be reversed on day 1 of the Newsom Administration.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 07:25 AM (RIvkX)

18 Mullin seems like a good guy, and sincerely believes what he says. Heck, I probably don't disagree with him.

But now is definitely not the time. Give Democrats an inch and they'll take a hundred miles.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:26 AM (osH04)

19 >Female in dress suspected in horrific school, home shootings in Canada
----

the kind of female that has a penis

Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 07:27 AM (ZxPkt)

20 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 07:28 AM (jtM2q)

21 The one on the left did not die right away:

https://tinyurl.com/2vbbmdrx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 07:28 AM (7xyr6)

22 I read Naomi Wolf's "Dear Beloved Elder" letter up in the links.

1. She is far more patient with her relative than I would have been.

2. I got halfway through it and realized that her beloved elder won't care or understand anything Naomi says.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 07:28 AM (99eI0)

23 Which will be reversed on day 1 of the Newsom Administration.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 07:25 AM (RIvkX)
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Seems like you are jumping over the whole "Kamala will kick his ass in South Carolina" problem. Are you assuming he pays her to leave the field? How many hundred million will that take, do you think?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:28 AM (osH04)

24
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 11, 2026 07:29 AM (tljrc)

25 Remember the 'disobey illegal orders' video

@nypost
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11m
Grand jury refuses to indict six Democratic lawmakers Trump accused of ‘seditious behavior’

Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 07:30 AM (ZxPkt)

26
Big Left Freaking Out as Illegal Alien Student Enrollment Plummets

Fort Bend ISD, in an area of enormous growth over the years, is now facing declining enrollments and deficits. Now, how could that happen?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 07:31 AM (tgvbd)

27 Dont pay taxes for 10 years.

TA Fucking DA

You dont ever have to pay.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

28
Just received my autopay notice for the street light by the road: $8.78. It even has its own address!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 07:32 AM (tgvbd)

29 Grand jury refuses to indict six Democratic lawmakers Trump accused of ‘seditious behavior’
Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 07:30 AM (ZxPkt)

The idea we're going to get any traction on a charge of sedition against anybody is fantasy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 07:32 AM (t+TFX)

30 EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the new rule would amount “to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.”

. . . ‘Carbon dioxide, which is required for life on earth and also happens to result from every single bit of human and animal activity on the planet, is not a pollutant and never was.’

Not to mention, trees and plants love the shiz!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:32 AM (6ydKt)

31 At this point I’d rather have a dem in the senate than a Murkowski or Collins. I’d rather see it coming than get shot in the back….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 07:36 AM (ZCxQ+)

32
Don't wanna be a Canadian transvestite
Don't wanna see weirdo in a dress sight
Don't wanna even appear gay
Like all those stupid fans of Green Day

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 11, 2026 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

33 28
Just received my autopay notice for the street light by the road: $8.78. It even has its own address!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 07:32 AM (tgvbd)

I read autopay as "autopsy"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2026 07:37 AM (x0n13)

34 > “Colony Ridge endangered American citizens by allowing illegal aliens to run rampant on its streets."
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IIRC Texas governor Abbott had a hand in all this. Whether he should/will/was held accountable for his involvement is debatable.

But if he is, it might send a message to the other governors who want to FA before FO.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 07:37 AM (jtM2q)

35 May we never again hear the phrase "carbon neutral."

Posted by: And breathe free at February 11, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1)

36 Wait. NOTAM for El Paso airport? What wizardry is this?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 11, 2026 07:38 AM (nC+3t)

37 Detectives first learned of Juarez-Talamantes’ alleged crimes in July 2024 after receiving a report of a rape involving a child lured by a man named “Juan” on Snapchat, according to the Asheville Citizen Times.

The child and their friend met up with the man in his car before going to his house, according to the local report.

I have to wonder where the parents are.
Who lets their teenager go on Snapchat then meet up with a total stranger?

I'm amazed how often this happens because parents have no clue what their kids are doing for most of the day, apparently.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:39 AM (6ydKt)

38 Another Mamdani Aide Found Trashing ‘White Civility,’ ‘White Politeness,’ and ‘White Women Behavior’ Online.

I am so fucking sick of this nonsense. If it wasn't for 'white politeness' and 'white civility,' assholes like this would be forcibly repatriated and the gates slammed shut on their shithole countries.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:39 AM (ufSfZ)

39 As the NY Post states: Female in dress suspected in horrific school, home shootings in Canada that left 9 dead, 25 hurt The ludicrousness of the shooter's description leads one to wonder if this is another incident involving transexual psychosis.

Supposedly to not offend the feelings of the shooter, the police referred to him as a "gunperson" instead of the correct description of gunman.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

The shooter was reportedly a mentally ill male who identified as trans and pretended to be a girl

Police didn’t want to offend him by “misgendering” him so they called him a “gunperson”

Pure insanity

X: https://bit.ly/4bPDANG

No one can be "misgendered". People do not have genders. Words have gender. Feminine, masculine, neuter. People have sexes. Male, female.

He could have been referred to as the incorrect sex, but that's it. There is no such thing as "misgendering", unless we are talking about words.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 11, 2026 07:39 AM (P5BPp)

40 Fox reports airspace has not been closed in the U.S. since 9/11

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 07:40 AM (RIvkX)

41 I wonder if Trump endorsing a Republican in Alaska would provoke any worry from Murkowski, given the weird election system she installed there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:40 AM (osH04)

42 What is this piece of "Landmark legislation "?? Can someone point it out? I sure as hell dont remember a damn thing.

If the was, they would have put it in the release.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 11, 2026 07:41 AM (2f+Mn)

43 Roughly 47% of households in Puerto Rico (where Bad Bunny is from) receive some kind of welfare — the highest rate of any U.S. jurisdiction. Nearly 43% of them receive food stamps, which you’re paying for. Yes, almost half of the population of Puerto Rico is on food stamps.

In 2021, over $2 billion was allocated to assist more than 1 million residents, highlighting the program's role in addressing food insecurity on the island.

Walk away from this shit. Give PR to PR.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

44 Are the rats infesting New York registered Democrats?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 11, 2026 07:42 AM (TqK2x)

45 EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the new rule would amount “to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.”

. . . ‘Carbon dioxide, which is required for life on earth and also happens to result from every single bit of human and animal activity on the planet, is not a pollutant and never was.’

Not to mention, trees and plants love the shiz!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:32 AM

You're welcome.

Posted by: Photosynthesis at February 11, 2026 07:42 AM (P5BPp)

46 Who prescribed the mind altering drugs to the Dude In A Dress?

Posted by: I gotta ask at February 11, 2026 07:42 AM (2Ez/1)

47 The West is spiraling into a state of self-destructive delusion and stupidity that boggles the remaining sane minds.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 07:43 AM (t+TFX)

48 The so-called Endangerment Finding led to a host of regulations whose estimated costs exceeded a trillion dollars.

Then double or Triple that amount.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 07:43 AM (gbOdA)

49 Walk away from this shit. Give PR to PR.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

Dump PR, take Greenland, annex Alberta.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM (t+TFX)

50 Oklahoma has 77 counties. Not one county has been carried by any Pedocrat since 2000. It's a really red state.

Yet all of our politicians.....sigh. I don't know why we can't get it right.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM (cxFcK)

51 The word you're looking for is transexual.

Posted by: Please make a note of it at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

52 RINO Senator Breaks With GOP to Oppose Voter ID Law.

With respect, JJ, I suggest she isn't 'breaking' with the GOP at all.

The GOP does not want secure elections. They want to lose. A better J6 would have been not a protest against the 'election,' but a dragging out of every rat bastard GOP member and giving them the Plotzensee Prison treatment.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM (ufSfZ)

53 Police didn’t want to offend him by “misgendering” him so they called him a “gunperson”

Pure insanity

X: https://bit.ly/4bPDANG

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 11, 2026 07:39 AM (P5BPp)

Psychotic dude in a dress is dead, how are they going to offend him?

Oh, that's right, they aren't worried about offending him, they're worried about offending the other psychotic dude's in dresses.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:45 AM (6ydKt)

54 Not to mention, trees and plants love the shiz!

Oh, you said "shiz." Sorry, I misheard.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at February 11, 2026 07:46 AM (ufSfZ)

55 A better J6 would have been not a protest against the 'election,' but a dragging out of every rat bastard GOP member and giving them the Plotzensee Prison treatment.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM (ufSfZ)

The rat bastards knew it too and were terrified. Lindsey Graham wanted the J6ers shot on sight.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 07:46 AM (t+TFX)

56 I am so fucking sick of this nonsense. If it wasn't for 'white politeness' and 'white civility,' assholes like this would be forcibly repatriated and the gates slammed shut on their shithole countries.

You gotta flip it. When some idiot claims that YT is running things, why of course they do, since everyone else is so low IQ and incompetent that YT is the only one capable of running things. When Hitler claimed the Jews ran everything, why of course they did since the germans are blockheaded retards incapable of accomplishing anything. See?

Posted by: Turn It 180 at February 11, 2026 07:46 AM (hXJe5)

57 Digital Daisy @DigitalDaisyX

El Paso is on lockdown

10 days.
No flights in or out.
National Defense Airspace
FAA says planes could be shot down.
No warning. No explanation.

This isn’t a drill, what the heck is going on there?

X video: https://bit.ly/3OmqjSR

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 11, 2026 07:46 AM (P5BPp)

58 A lifelong DEMOCRAT in North Carolina, Kate Barr, openly admitted on camera that she's running as a Republican in name only.
"I'm not a real Republican... I'm running as a progressive in a Republican primary."
INSANE. Voters deserve to know exactly who they're being asked to elect.

Posted by: SMOD at February 11, 2026 07:47 AM (enSNT)

59 52 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM (ufSfZ)

Yeah, I hear ya. I just link the link and pull a quote.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2026 07:47 AM (x0n13)

60 Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at February 11, 2026 07:46 AM (ufSfZ)

lol

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

61 >>>the kind of female that has a penis

Posted by: Don Black

>Are you suggesting that another disturbed trans went wild and killed a bunch of innocents?

Nobody saw this coming.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 07:48 AM (xFfhU)

62 The cartels must have manpads, and threatened to shoot at El Paso air traffic from Juarez

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:49 AM (+odZa)

63 JOSH DUNLAP
@JDunlap1974
🚨🚨 VOTING FRAUD BOMBSHELL TO BE REVEALED SOON 🚨🚨

TRUMP'S FBI HAS SUMMONED STATE ELECTION OFFICIALS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR A VERY UNUSUAL AND UNPRECEDENTED BRIEFING IN PREPARATION FOR THE MIDTERMS ACCORDING TO LEAKED VIDEO.

MIGHT IT HAVE TO DO WITH THIS FBI WARRANTED RAID IN FULTON COUNTY GEORGIA A WHILE AGO?

ROGER STONE REPORTS THERE HAS BEEN VENEZUELA AND CHINESE ONLINE INTERFERENCE IN OUR ELECTION.

HE GOES ON TO SAY THERE ARE ELEMENTS WITHIN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT THAT DO NOT WANT THIS COMING OUT.

TONY SERRUGA HAS STATED THAT WHEN THE ELECTION INVESTIGATION IS OVER IT WILL BE REVEALED THAT IN ADDITION TO TOTALLY FAKE BALLOTS 25% OF THE VOTE WERE NOT EVEN FROM US CITIZENS.

TULSI GABBARD HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO LEAD THE INVESTIGATION.

Posted by: SMOD at February 11, 2026 07:49 AM (enSNT)

64 Oh, that's right, they aren't worried about offending him, they're worried about offending the other psychotic dude's in dresses.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I remember when Audrey Hale murdered people in a Nashville school and the media's behavior was "Let's not lose sight of the real tragedy. The shooter was misgendered."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 07:49 AM (99eI0)

65 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 07:49 AM (px53t)

66 El Paso is on lockdown

10 days.
No flights in or out.
National Defense Airspace
FAA says planes could be shot down.
No warning. No explanation.

This isn’t a drill, what the heck is going on there?

Is El Paso infested with cartels?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:50 AM (ufSfZ)

67 Between the time Fulton County’s polls closed on Election Day and the final ballot was tallied, the number of absentee ballots soared from 74,000 to more than 148,000, according to the report.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

68 The cartels must have manpads, and threatened to shoot at El Paso air traffic from Juarez
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:49 AM (+odZa)
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Most simple explanation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

69 Fort Bend ISD, in an area of enormous growth over the years, is now facing declining enrollments and deficits. Now, how could that happen?"

Yeah. Seeing that NE of Houston, too.

Funny, no? And another thingy - can't find one "journalist" on the story.

Hmmm.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 07:51 AM (XuXeR)

70 Wutherin' Heights, my ass! I'm the champeen bodice ripper, bitch!

Posted by: Tank Abrams at February 11, 2026 07:51 AM (oftw2)

71 A woman there tells CNN the police are investigating her son-in-law for some connection to the Guthrie case.

The detained guy apparently works for DoorDash. (Door to door abductions?)

Posted by: SMOD at February 11, 2026 07:51 AM (enSNT)

72 Ad said downstairs
I detest writers who go with the Trannie mentality ill with their mental issues
If its a male, say so
Revolver News had a picture of this creap, no one thinks hecwas a female

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 07:52 AM (px53t)

73 Is El Paso infested with cartels?"

If by "infested" you mean "do cartels run much of what happens in parts of Texas, such as Uvalde?"... then the answer is "yes"

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 07:52 AM (XuXeR)

74 RINO Senator Breaks With GOP to Oppose Voter ID Law.

With respect, JJ, I suggest she isn't 'breaking' with the GOP at all.

The GOP does not want secure elections. They want to lose.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM

Agreed. The GOP is the same as it has been since the Amnesty betrayal of 2006. So for at least the past 20 years, the GOP has been the GOPe.

I saw a post from Karoline Leavitt the other day where she was saying that President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and as such the Republican Party is the party of something or another.

I wanted to reply that this is simply not true. On paper, yes, a Republican President is the leader of the Republican Party. But President Trump is not a Republican, he is MAGA. MAGA is a small to medium portion of the Republican Party. But the GOP as a whole is, and has been for decades, GOPe... which is wholeheartedly against President Trump and the MAGA agenda.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 11, 2026 07:52 AM (P5BPp)

75 Dump PR, take Greenland, annex Alberta.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM (t+TFX)
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Wait, wut?

PR can split off anytime it wants to but can Congress kick them out? Honestly do not know.

On Greenland, it sounds like we have the makings of a deal, last I heard.

And Alberta is in the process of organizing a vote on whether to stay part of Canada, isn't it?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:53 AM (+odZa)

76 Well after reading the content I am depressed. Can't Trump call in the asshole Republicans to his office and slap them upside their heads? And after that start on these assholes federal judges!

Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 07:53 AM (j6kTf)

77 I didn't like "Wuthering Heights" the book.

Heathcliff gets jilted and goes to America and becomes rich. He comes "home" and is a total asshole to everyone.

He should have found a wife in America and stayed.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2026 07:53 AM (qFwJc)

78 > Wait. NOTAM for El Paso airport? What wizardry is this?
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FWIW White Sands missile testing facility is nearby. And we called out the ChiComs for "secret" nuclear weapons tests the other day.

IIRC White Sands had a permanent flight restriction over it. El Paso is in the area and would likely be a focal point for the press to come and "observe" any testing we do there... that we'd rather they not "observe."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 07:54 AM (jtM2q)

79 Walk away from this shit. Give PR to PR."

This. Quit asking PR to vote on statehood, and tell them vaya con dios...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 07:54 AM (XuXeR)

80 Is El Paso infested with cartels?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:50 AM (ufSfZ)
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El Paso and Juarez are virtually one city.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

81 What about Saskatchewan? If Alberta splits, do they go along for the ride?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:55 AM (+odZa)

82 Whoever that was on the Guthrie door video was definitely weird. It tried to cover up the camera with some flowers it pulled up out of the flower bed? Lack of planning seems to be an issue. Definitely a nut.

Also, who carries a gun like that? What do you call that carry, full frontal?

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

83 “Once again, I do not support these efforts. Not only does the U.S. Constitution clearly provide states the authority to regulate the ‘times, places, and manner’ of holding federal elections, but one-size-fits-all mandates from Washington, D.C., seldom work in places like Alaska.” — Sen. Murkowski

Clause 1 Elections Clause
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

84 "DHS Fires Back at CBS."

Again, the problem. We shouldn't constantly be in the position of "firing back." That is, from Day One the mission should have been to go after CBS (and all of them) -- for anything, for everything. Proactively destroy them, destroy the MSM. That should have been the starting position. Now we're just playing the same defensive, catch-up game with one false narrative after another -- same as always. Who could not have seen this false narrative coming from a mile away?

In any case, we shouldn't be firing back only at the institution, but at the individual reporters and producers. Make it personal.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 07:56 AM (t+TFX)

85 Nick Sortor @nicksortor

The FAA has abruptly CLOSED the airspace around El Paso for TEN DAYS for “special security reasons”

ALL flights are grounded, including commercial, cargo, general aviation, and there’s no exemption for medevac.

The airport and pilots were given little to no notice, and it’s unclear exactly what’s being planned.

Air Traffic Control recordings show how caught off guard both pilots and controllers were

X video: https://bit.ly/4asmdQI

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 11, 2026 07:56 AM (P5BPp)

86 This. Quit asking PR to vote on statehood, and tell them vaya con dios...
Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 07:54 AM (XuXeR)

Judges would have accepted AMF

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 07:57 AM (gbOdA)

87 And Alberta is in the process of organizing a vote on whether to stay part of Canada, isn't it?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:53 AM (+odZa)

The proponents are collecting signatures to put a referendum on the ballot for Alberta to leave the federation and become it's on independent republic.

I'm not sure when the vote will actually happen but it seems they are well on their way to getting the signatures part completed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

88 El Paso and Juarez are virtually one city.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

It would be lovely if the shutdown of airspace was because Trump told the military, "Ever see the movie 'Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia?' That's what I want you boys to do to every damned drug-peddling greaser down there."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:58 AM (ufSfZ)

89 > "DHS Fires Back at CBS."

Again, the problem. We shouldn't constantly be in the position of "firing back."
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The administration should have gone after the judicial coup on day one. Hard. It would have eliminated a lot of the bullshit since.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 07:58 AM (jtM2q)

90 Judges would have accepted AMF"

9.5 out of 10 there...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 07:58 AM (XuXeR)

91 Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 07:54 AM (jtM2q)

WSMR is pretty far inland form the border, isn't it? There's also a TFR just west of El Paso/Juarez with the same restriction; surface to FL 180, and a semi permanent one to the SE along the river. I wonder if we're moving against the cartels.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 11, 2026 07:59 AM (luW68)

92 Wow !!
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2021494009529761996

Posted by: SMOD at February 11, 2026 08:00 AM (enSNT)

93 I wonder if we're moving against the cartels."

Si.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:00 AM (XuXeR)

94 IIRC White Sands had a permanent flight restriction over it. El Paso is in the area and would likely be a focal point for the press to come and "observe" any testing we do there... that we'd rather they not "observe."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 07:54 AM (jtM2q)
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Santa Teresa NM has the same 10-day NOTAM. It's even closer to White Sands. Map:

https://tinyurl.com/5j9rxs59

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 08:01 AM (7xyr6)

95 It would be lovely if the shutdown of airspace was because Trump told the military, "Ever see the movie 'Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia?' That's what I want you boys to do to every damned drug-peddling greaser down there."

I like the idea. Short term rapid deployments with the teams involved going Exterminatus on the enemy. And by the time the media reacts to it, the next strike has already happened.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 08:02 AM (99eI0)

96 In any case, we shouldn't be firing back only at the institution, but at the individual reporters and producers. Make it personal.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 07:56 AM (t+TFX)

Exactly. There should have been a fresh set of kneepads on every chair at Leavitt's first press conference, and her telling them they were replacements for the ones they wore out during Stinkfinger's tenure.

Whenever some fat cow opens their mouth, throw them a donut and tell them you hope they get the diabeetus.

Every time Jim Acosta stands up, throw a pink bedazzled diary at him and tell him he can bitch there.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 08:02 AM (ufSfZ)

97 "I saw a post from Karoline Leavitt the other day where she was saying that President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and as such the Republican Party is the party of something or another."

She represents a moribund model of political press relations. She's bright, decent, sharp -- but this model of sending out some person, any person, to maintain a veneer of decency while parrying with 50 soulless jackals needs to be scrapped. This is a war. Equip yourself as if you're in a war. Plan offensives like good warriors do. Execute these plans with confidence and ruthlessness.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 08:02 AM (t+TFX)

98 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 08:03 AM (77rzZ)

99 Santa Teresa NM has the same 10-day NOTAM. It's even closer to White Sands. Map:

https://tinyurl.com/5j9rxs59
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 08:01 AM (7xyr6)
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Skyvector.com shows all current NOTAMs. The one in NM has an interesting trapezoidal shape that ends right at the Mexico border.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2026 08:03 AM (ESVrU)

100 Dont pay taxes for 10 years.

TA Fucking DA

You dont ever have to pay.
---
That's what I've been saying Trump ought to do:

"The Democrats say we should not enforce federal immigration law because they don't like it.
Well, a lot of my supporters don't like paying taxes.
So, I think I should pardon anyone for not paying taxes.
And I'm going to look into that, some fairness and equality for American citizens since the Democrats favor illegals so much."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 11, 2026 08:04 AM (HXT0k)

101 Enough depressing stuff. Here's a good video about the younger generation gravitating to the trades:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaKkPydxUTI

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 08:04 AM (99eI0)

102 Washington Post Layoffs Worse than Originally Reported
______
If there are more than was at first thought, it should say "better".

Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2026 08:05 AM (AlhUl)

103 Seriously. Correct me if I'm wrong. For more than a decade we have known that billionaire Les Wexner from Victoria's Secret was the originating money man behind Jeffrey Epstein.

This should not be some kind of revelation, as it was widely discussed by those who researched Epstein over a decade ago.

Wexner's money was the originating capital for what would later become Epstein's influence empire.

Posted by: SMOD at February 11, 2026 08:05 AM (enSNT)

104 Another Mamdani Aide Found Trashing ‘White Civility,’ ‘White Politeness,’ and ‘White Women Behavior’ Online.

--

It's pretty safe to assume any of his picks are going to be the most odious people he can find. Ones that trash anything America, anything white people, anything Jewish. What else would you expect from somebody so foul?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

105 Whoever that was on the Guthrie door video was definitely weird. It tried to cover up the camera with some flowers it pulled up out of the flower bed? Lack of planning seems to be an issue. Definitely a nut.

Please help me! Ever since I took Granny Guthrie she hasn't shut up once! If she asks me to see any more pictures of her grandkids I'm gonna lose it! Please help! She's yapping again! Arrghh!

Posted by: Nut In Trouble at February 11, 2026 08:05 AM (hXJe5)

106 "Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said there is a possible conversation about legalization for people brought to the U.S. under the age of 18 by their parents or people who have been in the country for ten years or more, but not for anyone who came under the Biden administration and “it’s not an absolute nonstarter, but it is, if we talk anything about amnesty, at all.” (RINO Amnesty Alert - jjs)"
----------------

It's an op. 5,000 quatlooos the Democrats will get RINOs to agree that proof of 10 years of continual residency in the US can be electric bills, a letter signed by a priest, or other junk that can be forged or easily obtained.

Next step will be waving millions into legal residency, on a path to citizenship, because the millions of simultaneous applications will force FedGov to make cursory checks, if any, of the 'proof' supplied. Because the Democrats will also con RINOs into requiring an application decision within 90 days of receipt ,or a legal residency application is automatically approved.

The methods of traitors in both parties are predictable.

Posted by: Gref at February 11, 2026 08:07 AM (5rh/l)

107 Juarez has an airport mainly served by domestic Mexican flights. Grok says the FAA "no fly" order stops at the border, and that implies flights are still using the Juarez airport.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:10 AM (W6oRy)

108 So is the Guthrie kidnapping a real-life Ruthless People? Nancy is Bette Midler and the hapless kidnapper is Judge Reinhold? No Danny DeVito…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:11 AM (fQqaC)

109 Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said there is a possible conversation about legalization for people brought to the U.S. under the age of 18 by their parents or people who have been in the country for ten years or more/i]

Send them all home.

Every single one. And send everyone that wants to legalize them with them

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2026 08:11 AM (sKqQm)

110 https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2021494009529761996

Posted by: SMOD at February 11, 2026 08:00 AM (enSNT)
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Yup and I believe the 2020 election fraud is one of the reasons Trump had Venezuela attacked and Maduro captured.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 08:11 AM (7xyr6)

111 "A female high school wrestler is accusing a transgender opponent of trying to push his fingers into her vagina during an official wrestling match in Washington State."

Wrestlers got no no squares?

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 11, 2026 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

112 Skyvector.com shows all current NOTAMs. The one in NM has an interesting trapezoidal shape that ends right at the Mexico border."

Yeah - something's up. There are several odd notices near/on the US/Mex border.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

113 BEGGING?! How about rolling up in a few Bradley fighting vehicles and deploying a platoon of soldiers, shove a few M-16s in the Asheville flunkies' faces, demand the animal be handed over forthwith and shoot anyone who even raises an eyebrow in opposition.

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Get out of muh head, JJ!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 08:12 AM (0Eh0f)

114 Wow !!
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2021494009529761996

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It's pretty clear, at least to me, one of the main avenues of vote fraud is coming from Dominion, or whatever BS name they've changed to. It's surreal to think how easily they can steal elections electronically, but doesn't this all make perfect sense? And yet...states continue to contract out for these machines. They need to be obliterated. My hopes for that happening aren't very high.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2026 08:12 AM (qBdHI)

115 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 08:12 AM (gkpAx)

116 So is the Guthrie kidnapping a real-life Ruthless People? Nancy is Bette Midler and the hapless kidnapper is Judge Reinhold? No Danny DeVito…"

Wanna buy some speakers?

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:13 AM (XuXeR)

117 One hour drive from El Paso Airport to Cd. Juarez Aero.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)

118 This will probably be an unpopular thought, but I’ll bet the new Wuthering Heights movie will be more watchable than the old Lawrence Olivier version. What an incredibly boring snooze fest that was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2026 08:14 AM (gCFgr)

119 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 11, 2026 08:14 AM (53oGX)

120 Coke Bear Murkowski shitting in everyone's cornflakes?

Must be a day ending in -y.

Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 08:14 AM (iXqHn)

121 The methods of traitors in both parties are predictable.
Posted by: Gref at February 11, 2026 08:07 AM (5rh/l)

This is why Vance will have no cakewalk to 2028. Because Trump, as great and phenomenal as he is, will not disrupt the system to the degree required. So a far more radical populist will emerge.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 08:15 AM (t+TFX)

122 112 Skyvector.com shows all current NOTAMs. The one in NM has an interesting trapezoidal shape that ends right at the Mexico border."

Yeah - something's up. There are several odd notices near/on the US/Mex border.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

Are there also new restricted areas all around Fort Bliss and its firing/test range?

Posted by: Gref at February 11, 2026 08:15 AM (5rh/l)

123 https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2021494009529761996
Posted by: SMOD at February 11, 2026 08:00 AM (enSNT)
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That looks like a whole lot of raving. According to DDG, "Joe Oltmann" owns a car repair garage in Colorado. Am I missing something? Why are you saying "wow"?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:15 AM (Y3RE3)

124 It's pretty clear, at least to me, one of the main avenues of vote fraud is coming from Dominion, or whatever BS name they've changed to.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2026 08:12 AM (qBdHI)
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From the comments there:

https://tinyurl.com/ywkuuaru

https://tinyurl.com/3jnydeas

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 08:16 AM (7xyr6)

125 > Juarez has an airport mainly served by domestic Mexican flights. Grok says the FAA "no fly" order stops at the border, and that implies flights are still using the Juarez airport.
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According to the airport... they're closed for 10 days.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 08:16 AM (jtM2q)

126 Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said there is a possible conversation about legalization for people brought to the U.S. under the age of 18 by their parents or people who have been in the country for ten years or more,

Why do so many Senators hate their own country and constantly seek out ways to pollute and corrupt it?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 11, 2026 08:17 AM (a4flb)

127 102 Washington Post Layoffs Worse than Originally Reported
______
If there are more than was at first thought, it should say "better".
Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2026 08:05 AM (AlhUl)

You could pull 100 names out of a phone book (ha) and get a better newspaper.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

128 "I’ll bet the new Wuthering Heights movie will be more watchable than the old Lawrence Olivier version."

The drag queens really spice the story up.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

129 Skyvector.com shows all current NOTAMs. The one in NM has an interesting trapezoidal shape that ends right at the Mexico border."

Yeah - something's up. There are several odd notices near/on the US/Mex border.
Posted by: man

Wonder what the TFR undefined Valid until further notice is for just NE of Dallas Love Field Airport. No idea of what could be there that would be that interesting that they'd restrict airspace for. It's just a small circle.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 08:18 AM (gkpAx)

130 At least Collins votes for Judges, and holds a Senate seat in a Blue state.

Murkowski on the other hand voted against Kavanaugh and Emil Bove from a Red State

Posted by: Jonah at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (YCxFk)

131 126 Why do so many Senators hate their own country and constantly seek out ways to pollute and corrupt it?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 11, 2026 08:17 AM (a4flb)

$$$$$

Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (iXqHn)

132 John Hinderaker has taken the black pill.

Honestly, I think it is hard to see how those of us who support the rule of law can continue to share a country with those who do not–a group that now numbers close to half of our population. What possible basis for a common citizenship is there, between us and them? I don’t think there is one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (RIvkX)

133 The 2020 election was stolen but IMHO it was primarily fake mail-in ballots…. Sidney Powell’s kraken fiasco has me doubting that the electronic machines were involved. But what do I know? Dems cheat and they’ll use any means at their disposal…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (fQqaC)

134 When you think about it... ** takes bong hit ** CO2 is mostly Oxygen.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (XV/Pl)

135 According to the airport... they're closed for 10 days.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 08:16 AM (jtM2q)
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Are you referring to El Paso? Because my comment was about Juarez. Just a few miles apart, but two different airports

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (qIi5X)

136 Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said there is a possible conversation about legalization for people brought to the U.S. under the age of 18 by their parents or people who have been in the country for ten years or more,

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They tried that in 2006/2007 and the people burned up the phone lines in DC until they dropped the subject. The vast majority keep saying over and over and over...get them out, do not legalize illegals under any circumstance. They just don't give a damn what "the people" want.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (qBdHI)

137 >>> "A female high school wrestler is accusing a transgender opponent of trying to push his fingers into her vagina during an official wrestling match in Washington State."

Wrestlers got no no squares?

Posted by: Bad Beaver

>That's one way to get some leverage. She really should have walked away before the match began.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 08:20 AM (xFfhU)

138 So a far more radical populist will emerge.
Posted by: Ordinary American

I think a Vance/Rubio ticket would be the best approach.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 08:20 AM (99eI0)

139 Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (RIvkX)
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Sounds like North America is going to reorganize.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:20 AM (qIi5X)

140 How can you have a possible conversation when your head is up your ass?

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

141 "Honestly, I think it is hard to see how those of us who support the rule of law can continue to share a country with those who do not–a group that now numbers close to half of our population. What possible basis for a common citizenship is there, between us and them? I don’t think there is one."

So he's coming to the understanding I reached about 20 years ago.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 08:20 AM (t+TFX)

142 Quit mumbling!

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 08:21 AM (vFG9F)

143 Sen. Mullin should sue his parents for giving him such a stupid name.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 08:21 AM (77rzZ)

144 Another Mamdani Aide Found Trashing ‘White Civility,’ ‘White Politeness,’ and ‘White Women Behavior’ Online.

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Next you'll be telling me they're trashing "White Breathing," and "White Virtues," and "White Civilization" -- and advocating to "Kill Whitey."

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 08:21 AM (0Eh0f)

145 @133

>>The 2020 election was stolen but IMHO it was primarily fake mail-in ballots…. Sidney Powell’s kraken fiasco has me doubting that the electronic machines were involved. But what do I know? Dems cheat and they’ll use any means at their disposal…

The steal was full spectrum, it was both mechanical and algorithmic.

And required direct administrator intervention to rack up those tallies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:22 AM (XV/Pl)

146 Wonder what the TFR undefined Valid until further notice is for just NE of Dallas Love Field Airport. No idea of what could be there that would be that interesting that they'd restrict airspace for. It's just a small circle.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 08:18 AM (gkpAx)
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Looks like it's for "VIP movement."

It's possible a politician is having a rally or something in the vicinity.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2026 08:22 AM (ESVrU)

147 35 May we never again hear the phrase "carbon neutral."
Posted by: And breathe free

Years ago, a company posted an ad bragging about "Carbon Free Sugar." I got geeky.

Sugar: C6H12O6
Carbon Free: H12O6
Which means: H2O

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 08:22 AM (99eI0)

148 133 The 2020 election was stolen but IMHO it was primarily fake mail-in ballots…. Sidney Powell’s kraken fiasco has me doubting that the electronic machines were involved. But what do I know? Dems cheat and they’ll use any means at their disposal…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (fQqaC)

About 25 to 40 Million looking at the numbers.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

149 Sen. Mullin should sue his parents for giving him such a stupid name.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 08:21 AM (77rzZ)

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What, BruceWayne wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 08:23 AM (0Eh0f)

150 Why do so many Senators hate their own country and constantly seek out ways to pollute and corrupt it?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 11, 2026 08:17 AM (a4flb)
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The GOP Senate caucus is now and has always been the core of opposition to America. With just a few exceptions, most of them seem dedicated to our destruction.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:23 AM (qIi5X)

151 huh

>>@MrAndyNgo

>>The Canadian “gun person” who killed nine people, including teens at a B.C. school and members of his own family before taking his own life, is a trans person.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 08:23 AM (viF8m)

152 And I'm going to look into that, some fairness and equality for American citizens since the Democrats favor illegals so much."

And drop the Selective Service requirements of American Citizens.

Illegals have zero rights to live under the protective umbrella that is secured for them by white men.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 11, 2026 08:23 AM (a4flb)

153 Honestly, I think it is hard to see how those of us who support the rule of law can continue to share a country with those who do not–a group that now numbers close to half of our population. What possible basis for a common citizenship is there, between us and them? I don’t think there is one.

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I suppose I'm black pilled then. After watching the Left go completely off the rails insane the last 20 years, with each subsequent year getting worse and worse, I see no path for continued citizenship with these people. If there isn't a split of some kind (I have no solution for that), one side will ultimately eat the other alive. There is no unison; there is no shared love of country; there is no cohesion as a unified entity once formerly known as the United States.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2026 08:24 AM (qBdHI)

154 A female high school wrestler is accusing a transgender opponent of trying to push his fingers into her vagina during an official wrestling match in Washington State."

Rape? I like rape!

Posted by: Bill Clinton, The El Camino Rapist at February 11, 2026 08:24 AM (hXJe5)

155 >That's one way to get some leverage. She really should have walked away before the match began.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 08:20 AM (xFfhU)

Young claims she did not know it was a boy.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

156 May we never again hear the phrase "carbon neutral."

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The old joke that's still true is:

"The carbon they want to eliminate is YOU!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 08:25 AM (0Eh0f)

157 " is a trans person."

Is a trans person transitioning to or from a person?

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

158 Anyway, now its a dead person.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

159 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

160 154 A female high school wrestler is accusing a transgender opponent of trying to push his fingers into her vagina during an official wrestling match in Washington State."

Rape? I like rape!
Posted by: Bill Clinton, The El Camino Rapist at February 11, 2026 08:24 AM (hXJe5)

What is interesting is that about 10 school admins and coaching that did not report to Law. May they all get fingered in jail.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

161 That wrestler should probably file a police report.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:26 AM (qIi5X)

162 > According to the airport... they're closed for 10 days.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 08:16 AM (jtM2q)
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Are you referring to El Paso? Because my comment was about Juarez. Just a few miles apart, but two different airports
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:19 AM (qIi5X)
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El Paso. The NOTAM extends right to Juarez. I'm not sure if approach and landing there would violate the El Paso NOTAM. Some on the internets say yes, some no. The runways there are awful close and point (more or less) to the restricted airspace.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 08:26 AM (jtM2q)

163 @118

>>but I’ll bet the new Wuthering Heights movie will be more watchable than the old Lawrence Olivier version. What an incredibly boring snooze fest that was.

My bar for these sorts of movies is, is it better or as good as the 1995, Jennifer Elhe, Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice.

The only other movie of this type that reaches that bar is Sense and Sensibility.

And yes, I like Chick Flicks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:26 AM (XV/Pl)

164 That's one way to get some leverage. She really should have walked away before the match began.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 08:20 AM (xFfhU)

Young claims she did not know it was a boy.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Oh, please. Look at the crotch. Wrestling tights don't hide shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 08:26 AM (gkpAx)

165 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

166 The GOP Senate caucus is now and has always been the core of opposition to America. With just a few exceptions, most of them seem dedicated to our destruction.

I get the Don't Hate The Player, Hate The Game, but it seems that a US Passport isn't even worthy of a Cracker Jack prize status to these politicians.

A real man protects that which he cares about, everything from his faith, family, treasure, and vocation. But these guys don't value any of that. These politicians don't even value having reliable electricity, food, medical care or even a stable economic environment.

They have no soul. This is pure malevolent lizard brain thinking.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 11, 2026 08:28 AM (a4flb)

167 Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2026 08

I liked the Lawrence Olivier version, but I suppose a soft porn version would spice things up. Most men I know just hate the book " Wuthering Heights" anyway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:28 AM (ix8EF)

168 a group that now numbers close to half of our population
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They certainly want to cultivate that impression. I believe it is nowhere near this. That’s what propaganda and gaslighting is all about. The mind-fvckery has been pervasive, insidious and all encompassing for decades now.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 11, 2026 08:30 AM (S0rY1)

169 150 The GOP Senate caucus is now and has always been the core of opposition to America. With just a few exceptions, most of them seem dedicated to our destruction.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:23 AM (qIi5X)

They all want their payout.

Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 08:31 AM (iXqHn)

170 Open Source Intel @Osint613
1m

Airline sources tell Reuters the El Paso flight grounding is linked to Pentagon counterdrone operations targeting Mexican cartel drones near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 08:31 AM (7xyr6)

171 At Gateway Pundit: "Daily Mail reported:

“According to a receipt and several email exchanges buried within the millions of files that were released on January 30, Epstein had six 55-gallon drums of sulfuric acid delivered to Little St. James (LSJ) – his private island."

WTAF!? Cleaning the pool? I know Ace wants us to forget about the guy, but cripes.

Posted by: gp at February 11, 2026 08:31 AM (N8ZBc)

172 I’m one of the small group excited to watch #1 vs #2 in college wrestling on Friday night. #2 Ohio State vs #1 Penn State

Penn State is so good that even the clear #2 team in the country will probably not win any more than 3 of the 10 matches… PSU is good

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:31 AM (ZCxQ+)

173 I liked the Lawrence Olivier version of " Pride and Prejudice" as well, as I did the Colin Firth version , but the best one , I think, was a BBC tv. Person from the 90's.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:32 AM (ix8EF)

174 Common Tater, I think you are correct. Thirty percent would still be generous.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 08:32 AM (0KSrI)

175 There is no unison; there is no shared love of country; there is no cohesion as a unified entity once formerly known as the United States.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2026 08:24 AM (qBdHI)
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History has given us the solution, I do not believe Trump can do it, which is most unfortunate because I see no one else on the horizon who is as squeaky clean and incorruptible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

176 164 Oh, please. Look at the crotch. Wrestling tights don't hide shit.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2026 08:26 AM (gkpAx)

Dude probably has some sort of elaborate tuck garment.

Posted by: XTC at February 11, 2026 08:33 AM (iXqHn)

177 Border
Defense
Running Water
Sewage Mgmt
Law and Order
Safety (FDA etc)
Fair Elections

I do not believe you could find a (D) that believes in 3 out of these 7 items.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

178 There is a reason the Senate purposely keeps the advantage between +2 to +4 every two years: grift. And they all have shit on each other...

I dream of John Thune marching down the hall and threatening the shit out of people, but them I remember who they all are...

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 11, 2026 08:33 AM (mNOhh)

179 "Dude probably has some sort of elaborate tuck garment.
Posted by: XTC"

Camel toe cup.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

180 think, was a BBC tv. Person from the 90's.

Version, not person

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:34 AM (ix8EF)

181 Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2026 08

I liked the Lawrence Olivier version, but I suppose a soft porn version would spice things up. Most men I know just hate the book " Wuthering Heights" anyway.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:28 AM (ix8EF)

I don’t even know why but I found myself reading about Vivien Leigh’s life last night… she had a long romance with Laurence Olivier. She had TB for years and died from complications at age 53. Lots of mental health issues as well… very sad honestly. Famous actors have lives that aren’t very glamorous after all…. She was beautiful

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (ZCxQ+)

182 Washington Post Layoffs Worse than Originally Reported

Has the definition of 'worse' been changed?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

183 Robbing DJT of the 2020 Presidency has sharpened his actions.

God works in mysterious ways.

If they had butter-upped his ego in 2017 ... But the Left chose poorly. With total power so close, they raged at any obstacle. Like a cat whose food is 4 seconds late.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

184 And yes, I like Chick Flicks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:26 AM (XV/Pl)

Brave and stunning for you to come out like that.
I applaud your courage in this unforgiving world.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (6ydKt)

185 El Paso. The NOTAM extends right to Juarez. I'm not sure if approach and landing there would violate the El Paso NOTAM. Some on the internets say yes, some no. The runways there are awful close and point (more or less) to the restricted airspace.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 08:26 AM (jtM2q)

FAA jurisdiction ends at the Rio Grande. It’s not all that complicated. And if a plane violates the edge of the airspace, what will we do - send an F-16 to shoot it down?

I suspect this has more to do with shutting down the human and drug smuggling operations going on at the El Paso airports.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (gCFgr)

186 @wapotechguild
Last night after working hours, our members who are being targeted for layoffs by The Washington Post were locked out of their work devices, platforms and The Post building.

How can a person be this stupid?

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

187 Regarding 'Climate Change', here are the emails discovered in 2009:

https://tinyurl.com/2yn8en3e

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 11, 2026 08:36 AM (mNOhh)

188 The NOTAM extends right to Juarez"

To the border. CJ Airport is several miles south. IIRC, the runway is sorta NE/SW... and it's not very big.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:37 AM (XuXeR)

189 It's not impossible for a lady to go on a senseless, ramdom kill-crazy rampage. It's happened before. But it's exceedingly rare in the annals of kill-crazy rampages.

I'm putting my whole stack of chips of on "troon."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 08:37 AM (BI5O2)

190 The identity of the Tumbler Ridge shooter can now be confirmed as Jesse “Jess” Strang.

Strang is a biological male who started to “identify” as a "girl" around 2023.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

191 A real man protects that which he cares about, everything from his faith, family, treasure, and vocation. But these guys don't value any of that. These politicians don't even value having reliable electricity, food, medical care or even a stable economic environment.

They have no soul. This is pure malevolent lizard brain thinking.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 11, 2026 08:28 AM (a4flb)

You can tell what they value by how hard they protect it.
Power, pure power.

Everything they do is to get it and keep it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 08:38 AM (6ydKt)

192 How can a person be this stupid?
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (gbOdA)
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They work in the media. What did you expect?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 08:38 AM (RIvkX)

193 "Honestly, I think it is hard to see how those of us who support the rule of law can continue to share a country with those who do not–a group that now numbers close to half of our population. What possible basis for a common citizenship is there, between us and them? I don’t think there is one."

So he's coming to the understanding I reached about 20 years ago.
Posted by: Ordinary American
___________

Could not agree more. The long term trend, ever since the French Revolution, is towards increasing decadence in the West. Maybe we're getting close to it bottoming out, but I don't think so.

Grease the skids now for separating from these people and form some kind of bastion for our kids and grandkids.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 11, 2026 08:38 AM (XvL8K)

194 My theory on the current spate of tranny mass-murderers is that 1) They're crazy to begin with (I mean, obviously) 2) they're getting jacked up on all kinds of hormones that their bodies aren't designed to deal with and 3) there are a lot more of them nowadays.

What's the Horde's take? Would these whackjobs kill as many people without the hormones?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 11, 2026 08:39 AM (IG3/x)

195 Article by an AI dev, kinda long but quite worth reading:
shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

Posted by: gp at February 11, 2026 08:39 AM (N8ZBc)

196 Most men I know just hate the book " Wuthering Heights" anyway."

Most men I know... wouldn't know jack @ it. And neither do I...
/heh

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

197 I never trusted the way Alaska votes anyway. Some weird system that makes it hard to toss out the incumbent. That old bag Senator has been there forever.

Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 08:40 AM (j6kTf)

198 Other than being a Democrat, does Lisa Murkowski have a cogent explanation of why she wants to let Mexicans vote in Alaskan elections?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 07:20 AM (osH04)

Yo quiero Taco Bell. -- Lisa Murkowski

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

199 "Jesse “Jess” Strang."

Strang name indeed.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 08:40 AM (vFG9F)

200 "Democrats are Desperate to Win the Midterms — Because They’re Losing Power"

I don't think the Democrats are losing power. They always find a way to gain power even though they should be losing it.
Just look at gerrymandering and how they have been able to turn it around to their favor.
They'll find a way with the census too.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

201 I don't think I would want Jesse's girl.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 08:41 AM (vFG9F)

202 El Paso NOTAM

I'll bet that there is some really hot security issue or that we are testing something.

Posted by: pawn at February 11, 2026 08:41 AM (uvB+6)

203 Airline sources tell Reuters the El Paso flight grounding is linked to Pentagon counterdrone operations targeting Mexican cartel drones near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 08:31 AM (7xyr6)

Now that makes more sense. So the cartels have been using drones to make fentanyl shipments across the border, easy to do (drop off a load with a small transponder somewhere out in the desert) and the US is getting ready to shoot a bunch of them down. We’d prefer not to hit any local planes while we do it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2026 08:42 AM (gCFgr)

204 Strang name indeed."

Strangways?

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

205 Happy Armed Forces Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

206 194 My theory on the current spate of tranny mass-murderers is that 1) They're crazy to begin with (I mean, obviously) 2) they're getting jacked up on all kinds of hormones that their bodies aren't designed to deal with and 3) there are a lot more of them nowadays.

What's the Horde's take? Would these whackjobs kill as many people without the hormones?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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My theory was that, once the Dems added trans-intolerance to racism and homophobia, as clubs to beat normals, the Trans community viewed that as an empowering moment, and started letting their freak flags fly.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 11, 2026 08:42 AM (8AONa)

207 Remember the 'disobey illegal orders' video

@nypost
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11m
Grand jury refuses to indict six Democratic lawmakers Trump accused of ‘seditious behavior’
Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 07:30 AM (ZxPkt)

I remember people shrieking about how the DOJ should have an armed raid to arrest them. It'd look pretty stupid now, wouldn't it.

These people aren't stupid. They're going to commit their crimes in places where the 'citizenry' has their backs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

208 183 Robbing DJT of the 2020 Presidency has sharpened his actions.

God works in mysterious ways.

If they had butter-upped his ego in 2017 ... But the Left chose poorly. With total power so close, they raged at any obstacle. Like a cat whose food is 4 seconds late.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

You're right. Other than total amnesty, the Democrats could have had almost everything legislative they wanted early in Trump I. But their female base would have rebelled. Many incumbent Dems would have been successfully kicked out in the 2018 primaries.

Posted by: Gref at February 11, 2026 08:43 AM (5rh/l)

209 "Democrats are Desperate to Win the Midterms — Because They’re Losing Power"

I don't think the Democrats are losing power. They always find a way to gain power even though they should be losing it.
Just look at gerrymandering and how they have been able to turn it around to their favor.
They'll find a way with the census too.

--

I completely agree.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2026 08:44 AM (qBdHI)

210 Nobody should be surprised about this.

The GOP has been running quite literally the exact same playbook as 16-18. Drag feet, do nothing, and block Trump's agenda wherever possible. Mass House retirements, and listless campaigning. Stymie him, wait him out, punt on fourth to the Dems, and then lay down on the field while they ram the ball down his throat for the rest of the second half.

We've seen this all before, and there's no sense in getting upset about it. We knew who they were, and what they'd do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 08:44 AM (BI5O2)

211 Now that makes more sense. So the cartels have been using drones to make fentanyl shipments across the border, easy to do (drop off a load with a small transponder somewhere out in the desert) and the US is getting ready to shoot a bunch of them down. We’d prefer not to hit any local planes while we do it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2026 08:42 AM (gCFgr)

I wonder if Presidente Sheinbaum will get the hint that Maduro didn't take seriously.

Because if that's what happens, then Trump is sending Mexico a message the same way he sent it to Venezuela.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 08:44 AM (6ydKt)

212 Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

Then I'll amend my comment " Most men I know who read the book in high school hated it"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:44 AM (lQ+/f)

213 Generally, in past Senate crises, Murkowski could be bought. Her opposition now might just be a request to be paid.

Pay her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 11, 2026 08:44 AM (ZcGw/)

214 Another Mamdani Aide Found Trashing ‘White Civility,’ ‘White Politeness,’ and ‘White Women Behavior’ Online.

White women behavior is why Democrats are in charge of anything, to the extent that they aren’t leaning on over a century of voter fraud.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 11, 2026 08:45 AM (QZThv)

215 Rodrigo Borgia

There is rage that irreversible changes to their body did not heal their mental illness. They just have more issues added. Plus, they are a genetic dead end, preyed upon by the Left.

Lack of acceptance leads to such anger! So they kill, then kill themselves in an act of destructive despair.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

216 ‘ Oklahoma has 77 counties. Not one county has been carried by any Pedocrat since 2000. It's a really red state.

Yet all of our politicians.....sigh. I don't know why we can't get it right.’

I would bitch. But I’m from Indiana. RINOs are all that are offered.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2026 08:45 AM (jbnUc)

217 James Strang was the Mormon “King” of Beaver Island in Lake Michigan in the 1840s and 1850s.

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 08:45 AM (77rzZ)

218 > Some weird system that makes it hard to toss out the incumbent.
Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 08:40 AM (j6kTf)

As opposed to the system in the rest of the country, where incumbents get tossed out constantly?

Yeahno.

There are a lot of things to dislike about RCV, but that's not really one of them.

Also, RCV only been in effect for a couple of election cycles so far, so saying you've "never" trusted Alaska's voting system is a little weird.

You wanna know why Murky's still in there? It's because Alaska is has a tiny population and her DC frenz helicopter in millions and millions of dollars every election cycle.

Get rid of out-of-state money and Murky (and many of her colleagues) would be nothing but a bad memory.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 11, 2026 08:45 AM (IG3/x)

219 Ironically, the Dem Congresswoman in Alaska lost her seat in 2024 with ranked choice voting

Posted by: Jonah at February 11, 2026 08:45 AM (YCxFk)

220 Santa Teresa NM has the same 10-day NOTAM. It's even closer to White Sands. Map:

https://tinyurl.com/5j9rxs59
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 08:01 AM (7xyr6)

If you're talking about the wedge-shaped restriction in NM, it's further away from White Sands, not closer.

Regardless, my money's either on a military response to the cartels or concerning a major ICE enforcement (less likely).

Www. skymap.com is a nice reference for the restricted areas but clicking on them does not give any information like it normally does.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 11, 2026 08:45 AM (/HDaX)

221 So all the comments about drone the US just about about a million or so pump shotguns with some type of special steel shot.
Maybe to add to each platoon a crone killer.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

222 It's Been *0* Days Since The GOP Screwed Us

Posted by: It's Always Zero Days at February 11, 2026 08:46 AM (qUkBO)

223 186 @wapotechguild
Last night after working hours, our members who are being targeted for layoffs by The Washington Post were locked out of their work devices, platforms and The Post building.

How can a person be this stupid?
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

This is really funny - so some of them were making like Milton in Office Space, and trying to keep on working even though they were fired?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2026 08:46 AM (gCFgr)

224 So the cartels have been using drones to make fentanyl shipments across the border"

This. Got a relative w/a few hundred acres between Falfurrias and Laredo - and he's sent me pics of guys w/drones on a flatbed...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

225 Oklahoma has 77 counties. Not one county has been carried by any Pedocrat since 2000. It's a really red state.

Yet all of our politicians.....sigh. I don't know why we can't get it right.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 11, 2026 07:44 AM (cxFcK)

You have philosophical Democrats who vote in the Republican primaries to get squishes on the ballot for the general election?

Probably older folks. Remember that the South was all Democrat until the Democrats went too far left for them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

226 What military installations are in that immediately area?.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (0KSrI)

227 @184

>>Brave and stunning for you to come out like that.
I applaud your courage in this unforgiving world.

Well, I've been with my wife for nearly 40 years and being married that long, I've learned to like some of the things she likes, and she likes some of the things I like, in fact, she may be a bigger sci-fi fan than I am at this point.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (XV/Pl)

228 Mecklenburg County sheriffs knows absolutely nothing about government.

nothing
zero
NADA

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

229 204 Strang name indeed."

Strangways?
Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

That was the Jamaica MI-6 listening post that Bond went to investigate in Dr. No...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (x0n13)

230 Dude probably has some sort of elaborate tuck garment.
Posted by: XTC"

My duct tape failed on Ellen's show and my weiner was flopping all over and back and forth and up and down.

So exciting!

Posted by: Big Mike, hung like a donkey at February 11, 2026 08:48 AM (hXJe5)

231 the only thing the Senate GOP is unified on, ever, is confirming Judges.

Posted by: Jonah at February 11, 2026 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

232 she may be a bigger sci-fi fan than I am at this point.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (XV/Pl)

DId she like Prometheus

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

233 Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (XV/Pl

I think that's nice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:48 AM (lQ+/f)

234 Today Is Peppermint Patty Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

235 Strangways, JJ.

Posted by: Gref the Pedant at February 11, 2026 08:49 AM (5rh/l)

236 Tom Servo

This would be a good test of US anti-drone technology.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

237 My duct tape failed on Ellen's show and my weiner was flopping all over and back and forth and up and down.

So exciting!
Posted by: Big Mike, hung like a donkey at February 11, 2026 08:48 AM

Barack is still angry that everyone knows Big Mike’s is bigger than his.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 11, 2026 08:49 AM (QZThv)

238 >What's the Horde's take? Would these whackjobs kill as many people without the hormones?
---

I think one factor is that people go trans, and then discover NO ONE wants to have sex with them
they have adopted a lifestyle, sometimes with surgery, that effectively ends any chance of a normal human sexual experience

that realization may drive trannys to lash out

just spitballin' here

Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 08:50 AM (ZxPkt)

239 @232

>>DId she like Prometheus

In fact she did, well, she likes Michael Fastbender, so ipso facto, she likes anything he's in.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:50 AM (XV/Pl)

240 What military installations are in that immediately area?.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 08:47 AM (0KSrI)

Fort Bliss to the north and east, White Sands Missile Range out past Fort Bliss in the same general direction.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 11, 2026 08:50 AM (/HDaX)

241 Forensic Experts Say Kurt Cobain Was Murdered

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

242 What military installations are in that immediately area?.

Ft. Bliss is inside the TFR

Posted by: Halfhand at February 11, 2026 08:51 AM (cO6Mr)

243 Article by an AI dev, kinda long but quite worth reading:
shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Posted by: gp at February 11, 2026 08:39 AM (N8ZBc)
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Thank you this was very worthwhile reading.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

244 Then I'll amend my comment " Most men I know who read the book in high school hated it"

Fair enough...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

245 > 219 Ironically, the Dem Congresswoman in Alaska lost her seat in 2024 with ranked choice voting
Posted by: Jonah at February 11, 2026 08:45 AM (YCxFk)

Indeed she did. She served one term and a partial term (due to the previous guy dying in office).

However, Peltola doesn't have the massive graft machine that the Murkowski crime family has constructed over the decades.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 11, 2026 08:51 AM (IG3/x)

246 172 I’m one of the small group excited to watch #1 vs #2 in college wrestling on Friday night. #2 Ohio State vs #1 Penn State

Penn State is so good that even the clear #2 team in the country will probably not win any more than 3 of the 10 matches… PSU is good

Of course they are!

Posted by: Jerry Sandusky at February 11, 2026 08:51 AM (HFx9z)

247 236 Tom Servo

This would be a good test of US anti-drone technology.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

It will be a very good test of our low-flying drone detection technology.

Posted by: Gref the Pedant at February 11, 2026 08:51 AM (5rh/l)

248 234 Today Is Peppermint Patty Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

I liked Franklin better

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

249 @233

>>I think that's nice.

As the saying goes, if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy, goes doubly so for the wife.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:52 AM (XV/Pl)

250 I have a PhD in a math-heavy STEM field…. Yet I don’t understand ranked choice voting. Therefore I don’t trust it… It can be manipulated. Any other algorithm than “the person who gets the most votes wins” is stupid….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:52 AM (fQqaC)

251 Do some people really think Michelle Obama is a male? I think she's "just" a racist, entitled angry woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:52 AM (lQ+/f)

252 That was the Jamaica MI-6 listening post that Bond went to investigate in Dr. No..."

Think I'll go looking for shells...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

253 This is really funny - so some of them were making like Milton in Office Space, and trying to keep on working even though they were fired?

In his book Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson tells of the time Rupert Murdoch took over a newspaper and one of his men walked into a room and summarily fired everyone there. . .

except for one man who had been in the men's room at the time. That man came back, found an empty room, wondered where everyone had gone, but eventually just kept on working as the only person there.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 08:53 AM (ufSfZ)

254 204 Strang name indeed

Strange name, indeed! Most peculiar mamma 🎶 — Julian Lennon

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (fQqaC)

255 Do some people really think Michelle Obama is a male? I think she's "just" a racist, entitled angry woman."

It's a joke.

Beaten into a pulp, but still kinda funny...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (XuXeR)

256 Do some people really think Michelle Obama is a male? I think she's "just" a racist, entitled angry woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:52 AM (lQ+/f)

If she's a chick, then calling her a dude will piss her off. If she's a dude, then calling her a dude will piss her off.

So, call her a dude. Simple stuff.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (BI5O2)

257 Years ago I took it upon myself to read some of the 'classic' novels
Moby Dick, A Tale Of Two Cities, etc
Wuthering Heights was one
some very convoluted plot points
the moors sound nice

Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ZxPkt)

258 There are 44 missing boxes from Fulton County.
Imagine if this happened in a case where Judge ordered some company to turn of records.
There would be sheriffs with guns and people in handcuffs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (gbOdA)

259 Today Is Peppermint Patty Day.

I never understood why that character was so popular. I never found her appealing.

Fun fact: in the Peanuts strip, her name was established as "Patricia Reichardt."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ufSfZ)

260 @250

>>Therefore I don’t trust it… It can be manipulated. Any other algorithm than “the person who gets the most votes wins” is stupid….

It's opaque and requires algorithmic manipulation to derive a result.

Anything math that more involved than simply addition and subtraction when tallying vote totals is bullshit and prone to shenanigans.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (XV/Pl)

261 Pulls down my head tin foil Stetson. The attack with Iran is coming. Dirty bomb from. Mexico.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 08:55 AM (0KSrI)

262 Canada already banned guns. Guess they will double ban them now.

Trannies, not so much.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 08:55 AM (Eh6IB)

263 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

That's funny.

The WP propagandists can never find another job that gives them that thrill of power.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

264 People are strang
When you're a strang er

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 08:55 AM (viF8m)

265 This is really funny - so some of them were making like Milton in Office Space, and trying to keep on working even though they were fired?

In his book Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson tells of the time Rupert Murdoch took over a newspaper and one of his men walked into a room and summarily fired everyone there. . .

except for one man who had been in the men's room at the time. That man came back, found an empty room, wondered where everyone had gone, but eventually just kept on working as the only person there.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 08:53 AM (ufSfZ)

This reminds me of the episode when Kramer gets fired. Kramer says: But I don’t really work here. His “boss” says: That’s what makes this so difficult….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:56 AM (fQqaC)

266 US economy added 130K jobs in January, delayed report shows

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

267 U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January more than expected

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

268 Smithfield just bought Nathan's hot dogs

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 08:57 AM (0KSrI)

269 Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (XuXeR

No, I got the impression that some people really think that she's a man who had transgender surgery.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:57 AM (lQ+/f)

270 I don't think Trump can do much with it this far into his term, but JD Vance (Rubio, DeStantis, whoever) should run on term limits for Congress in 2028.

It's a winning stance, I believe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 08:57 AM (6ydKt)

271 Strange name, indeed! Most peculiar mamma 🎶 — Julian Lennon

The song is actually John, not Julian.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 08:57 AM (ufSfZ)

272 the moors sound nice
Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ZxPkt)
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I've got mixed feelings.

Posted by: Desdemona at February 11, 2026 08:57 AM (JoLAO)

273 > It's opaque and requires algorithmic manipulation to derive a result.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (XV/Pl)

"Algorithmic manipulation" like... counting?

There's nothing "opaque" about it.

https://tinyurl.com/nhksc24w

I don't like it myself, and expect it to be repealed the next time it comes up for a vote, but let's not go overboard here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 11, 2026 08:57 AM (IG3/x)

274 “it’s not an absolute nonstarter, but it is, if we talk anything about amnesty, at all.”

Does someone want to translate that into English?

Posted by: front toward enemy at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (TIizU)

275 Pulls down my head tin foil Stetson. The attack with Iran is coming. Dirty bomb from. Mexico.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 08:55 AM (0KSrI)
====

But I was going downtown to buy shoes today!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

276 Do some people really think Michelle Obama is a male? I think she's "just" a racist, entitled angry woman.

Its now Big Mike's brand. Big Mike once tried on the Wookie suit, but being characterized as a tranny hits both Obama and Obama's beard.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (a4flb)

277 Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 08:55 AM (Eh6IB)

No; They won't mention the tranny bit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (lQ+/f)

278 That was the Jamaica MI-6 listening post that Bond went to investigate in Dr. No..."

Think I'll go looking for shells...
Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

Watch out for the dragon.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (JRP2U)

279 so some of them were making like Milton in Office Space, and trying to keep on working even though they were fired?"

My $.02 is that most (all) had been using company devices for personal use. So now they can't get doordash...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (XuXeR)

280 Years ago I took it upon myself to read some of the 'classic' novels
Moby Dick, A Tale Of Two Cities, etc
Wuthering Heights was one
some very convoluted plot points
the moors sound nice
Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ZxPkt)

I did something similar years ago. I found Moby Dick insufferable. I read Pride and Prejudice and actually kinda liked it…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (fQqaC)

281 257 Years ago I took it upon myself to read some of the 'classic' novels
Moby Dick, A Tale Of Two Cities, etc
Wuthering Heights was one
some very convoluted plot points
the moors sound nice
Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ZxPkt)

I did Hemenway one year
Then McMurtry
etc
Never read all the English shit

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

282 It was inevitable that the gop would start talking about amnesty. It’s in their dna.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 08:59 AM (Eh6IB)

283 I never understood why that character was so popular. I never found her appealing.

Fun fact: in the Peanuts strip, her name was established as "Patricia Reichardt."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ufSfZ)
******
Interesting.
I love the candy.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

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

Smithfield is a Chinese company now, right?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

285 Modern Literature (books said need to be read to be well read)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

286 Smithfield just bought Nathan's hot dogs"

Nice! Now gotta get some Sabbrett's onions...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 09:00 AM (XuXeR)

287 This reminds me of the episode when Kramer gets fired. Kramer says: But I don’t really work here. His “boss” says: That’s what makes this so difficult….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 08:56 AM (fQqaC)

There was a variation of that in The King of Queens: Doug lied to Carrie about working at IPS in order to sleep with her, and as a consequence, had to hang out at the place every day.

One day, Carrie comes in to watch Doug work. He breaks things with a forklift and is fired by the boss, who is astounded to learn Doug actually doesn't work for IPS at all.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:00 AM (ufSfZ)

288 A Sale of Two Titties was my fave.

Posted by: Illiterate, Innumerate, Sometimes Incontinent at February 11, 2026 09:00 AM (oftw2)

289 > So the cartels have been using drones to make fentanyl shipments across the border"
----------
It'll be interesting to see what sort of "anti-drone" tech the US military has developed. Airborne, ground based, both?

Also... if the drones are landing or dropping off their "cargo" in the US... I'd hope those locations are now closely being monitored.

And lastly, if the military can locate the originating point(s) for these drones I'd hope those locations would cease to exist after this 10 day period too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2026 09:01 AM (jtM2q)

290 FAA just lifted flight ban.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

291 I have read the comments about the El Paso NOTAM. A few thoughts.

First, White Sands Missile Range / Holloman AFB are about 70 miles due north of El Paso and from there extend another 50 miles north. Unlike the El Paso Airport this is highly secured.

Fort Bliss, home of the 1st Armored Division, starts within the El Paso city limits and extends north towards Whites Sands / Holloman Air Base. It also shares common property lines with the El Paso airport.

El Paso and Juarez are historically the same urban area. Today the only thing separating the two is the border wall the runs the length of El Paso from north to south with one exception where there is about a mile gap in Sunland Park, NM (it might as well be part of El Paso). The cartels in Juarez maintain a constant surveillance presence along the border from the houses that run right along El Paso-Juarez border. Cartel tunnels also penetrate the border in the region.

Santa Teresa sits 10 miles west of DT El Paso. Given the growth in the region it is more or less a suburb these days. Santa Teresa is a major cross border economic zone and will soon be home to a major data center.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 11, 2026 09:01 AM (8ZVmQ)

292 the moors sound nice
Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ZxPkt)
===

Moops!
/obligatory

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 09:01 AM (RIvkX)

293 “it’s not an absolute nonstarter, but it is, if we talk anything about amnesty, at all.”

Does someone want to translate that into English?

Posted by: front toward enemy

=====

"I'll screw the base, if the price is right. "

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 11, 2026 09:01 AM (8AONa)

294 278 That was the Jamaica MI-6 listening post that Bond went to investigate in Dr. No..."

Think I'll go looking for shells...
Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

Watch out for the dragon.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (JRP2U)

Never say Never was a remake of Dr No as it was licensed to another movie production house.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

295 Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

Never read any of those, but my son likes Cormac McCarthy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 09:02 AM (lQ+/f)

296 I never understood why that character was so popular. I never found her appealing.

Fun fact: in the Peanuts strip, her name was established as "Patricia Reichardt."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ufSfZ)

Not my favorite character but I do laugh when she calls Charlie Brown “Chuck”… there’s one strip where Charlie Brown stands there after she walks away and says simply: Chuck??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 09:02 AM (fQqaC)

297 Fox reports NOTAM lifted.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

298 the moors sound nice
Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (ZxPkt)
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I've got mixed feelings.
Posted by: Desdemona at February 11, 2026 08:57 AM (JoLAO)

Preach it, sister.

Posted by: Sir Henry Baskerville at February 11, 2026 09:02 AM (ufSfZ)

299 It was inevitable that the gop would start talking about amnesty."

Far too many politicos can't think beyond 10th century economics (growth at all costs, regardless).

When the FedGov wasn't 99% of everyday life, that was OK. Now?
Yikes.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 09:03 AM (XuXeR)

300 I liked Moby Dick a lot. Wuthering Heights sucked ass, and I didn't finish it... after a couple of chapters, I wanted every character to die a slow and painful death. They weren't even good villains -- good villains can make for an entertaining read.

The only other book I've found as repugnant as WH is the Endless Narrative of Thomas Covenant the Whiny Little Shit.

I can't believe anyone slogged through that massive pile of shite, much less enjoyed it. I didn't even make through the first book.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 11, 2026 09:03 AM (IG3/x)

301 "279 so some of them were making like Milton in Office Space, and trying to keep on working even though they were fired?"

My $.02 is that most (all) had been using company devices for personal use. So now they can't get doordash...
Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 08:58 AM (XuXeR)"

I see this at work with some lazy gen xers that should know better, and nearly ALL the younger ones. Like, fuck no I am not using a company provided device for my daily business. That is fucking retarded.

Won't let them install the backdoor and monitoring crap they demand in order to run work apps, either (they also demand periodic snapshots of the phone and some sort of remote access. Yeah, get fucked)

Posted by: heya at February 11, 2026 09:03 AM (neSLO)

302 >>A Sale of Two Titties was my fave.

My fave was Moby's Dick

Posted by: Mayor Pete at February 11, 2026 09:03 AM (Y1sOo)

303 Out in the west Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with an Undocumented Girl...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 11, 2026 09:04 AM (DgMqy)

304 Never say Never was a remake of Dr No as it was licensed to another movie production house.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

No, it's a remake of Thunderball.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:04 AM (ufSfZ)

305 258 There are 44 missing boxes from Fulton County.
Imagine if this happened in a case where Judge ordered some company to turn of records.
There would be sheriffs with guns and people in handcuffs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 08:54 AM (gbOdA)

It's almost funny watching the Dems scream that reviewing past ballots is Outside Our Precious Norms!

Yeah, but it's not illegal. If past ballots are sacrosanct, un-reviewable, why do all(?) states have laws requiring ballots be stored for X years after elections?

The outrage is another Democrat FUD op.

FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (a marketing strategy used by IBM)

Posted by: Gref at February 11, 2026 09:05 AM (5rh/l)

306 This 10 year amnesty shit is so retarded. The “proof” an illegal has been here 10 years will be something like a lease agreement or utility bill. Which of course is impossible to fake.

And then in 10 years we’ll be right where we started with another amnesty for those here 10 years.

And didn’t we already have amnesty for kids? Thats what DACA is.

Fuck the gop.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:05 AM (Eh6IB)

307 Smithfield is owned by the Chinese.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2026 09:05 AM (qFwJc)

308 Never say Never was a remake of Dr No as it was licensed to another movie production house.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 09:02 AM (gbOdA)
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It was a remake of Thunderball. Fleming partnered with Kevin McClory in coming up with the plot and idea for SPECTRE and Eon Productions had constant legal problems with him.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:06 AM (JoLAO)

309 Collins is a thing because that corner of the US is so white that until recently the more oblivious never noted any consequence for their virtue signalling. I call it the LL Bean effect.

I am expecting the WH to be sitting on Maine somali fraud stories for better midterms timing.

Posted by: heya at February 11, 2026 09:06 AM (neSLO)

310 I don’t even know why but I found myself reading about Vivien Leigh’s life last night… she had a long romance with Laurence Olivier. She had TB for years and died from complications at age 53. Lots of mental health issues as well… very sad honestly. Famous actors have lives that aren’t very glamorous after all…. She was beautiful
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026

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I started a "biography" of Olivier & Leigh about a month ago. Very quickly it became apparent it was nothing more than a bunch of tabloid pieces dressed up in hardcovers. I gave up on it after the Gone With the Wind anecdotes were over.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 09:07 AM (wzUl9)

311 Not my favorite character but I do laugh when she calls Charlie Brown “Chuck”… there’s one strip where Charlie Brown stands there after she walks away and says simply: Chuck??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 09:02 AM (fQqaC)

That was in 1965, IIRC, during her debut in the strip. She also called Lucy "Lucille," in addition to thinking Snoopy was actually just a weird-looking kid.

Incidentally, I think Schulz only gave last names to a handful of characters: Charlie and Sally Brown; Linus, Lucy and Rerun Van Pelt; Violet Gray; the briefly seen Charlotte Braun and Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:08 AM (ufSfZ)

312 I saw Elaborate Tuck Garment open for Tool at Levi's Stadium in 2022

Posted by: Doof at February 11, 2026 09:08 AM (B4Se1)

313 In a brief 23-page decision, Jarbou found that three federal laws — the Help America Vote Act, the National Voter Registration Act and the Civil Rights Act — do not allow the U.S. to obtain the voting records. She also warned that interpreting the National Voter Registration Act to require the disclosure of private information submitted for voter registration "would potentially cause the statute to impose an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote guaranteed by the First Amendment." Jarbou, the chief judge of the U.S. district court for the Western District of Michigan, was appointed to the federal bench by President Trump in his first term.

There is no Right to Vote.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 09:09 AM (gbOdA)

314 The part of Maine where Somalis live is very progressive. It’s like Minnesota, the fraud is obvious, the destruction of society is too. AWFLs love it nonetheless. Portland , Maine is like its namesake on the west coast, full of mentally ill leftists.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:10 AM (Eh6IB)

315 Mmmmmmm...Kim Basinger in Never Say Never Again....mmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

316 NY Post -

California teacher put on leave after celebrating ICE on Facebook — as angry mob threatened her

A Northern California school placed a teaching intern on leave for celebrating US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Facebook comment as a mob of angry locals threatened to damage her property.

Sarai Jimenez, a special education teaching intern at MacQuiddy Elementary in Watsonville, endorsed the presence of ICE officers in her town in a comment on the social network last month.

“Yay!!! We need ICE in Watsonville!! It’s been getting out of hand,” Jimenez wrote.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 11, 2026 09:10 AM (Dv3i1)

317 It was a remake of Thunderball. Fleming partnered with Kevin McClory in coming up with the plot and idea for SPECTRE and Eon Productions had constant legal problems with him.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:06 AM (JoLAO)

DUH Thunderball not no.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 11, 2026 09:10 AM (gbOdA)

318 Incidentally, I think Schulz only gave last names to a handful of characters: Charlie and Sally Brown; Linus, Lucy and Rerun Van Pelt; Violet Gray; the briefly seen Charlotte Braun and Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:08 AM (ufSfZ)
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There was, briefly, a kid named 555 95462. He went by "5."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:10 AM (JoLAO)

319 Have a great day everyone.

Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.

Ad Astra Per Aspera

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

320 I love how folks insist that Peppermint Patty and Marcie were LGBTOMGWTFBBQ.

Yeah, no. Marcie had the hots for Charlie Brown even worse than Patty did.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 09:11 AM (99eI0)

321 Like, fuck no I am not using a company provided device for my daily business. That is fucking retarded."

This. X 10,000.

We used to tell newbies to think of everything on their work devices could be posted in 3 foot tall letters on the hallway walls... and some would still do it. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 09:11 AM (XuXeR)

322 That was the Jamaica MI-6 listening post that Bond went to investigate in Dr. No...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2026

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Right; Strangways was the local Secret Service officer. He had appeared earlier in Bond's previous adventure in Jamaica, Live and Let Die.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 09:11 AM (wzUl9)

323 Hey, MP4, isn't today your last day of work?

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

324 Jarbou, the chief judge of the U.S. district court for the Western District of Michigan, was appointed to the federal bench by President Trump in his first term.

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Remember how we were stoked that McConnell got a lot of Trump judges confirmed in his first term? Turns out a lot of them were garbage judges.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:12 AM (Eh6IB)

325 Jarbou, the chief judge"

Jobu likes rum. Oh, wait....

Mmmmmmm...Kim Basinger in Never Say Never Again"

Si. Very much Si....

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 09:13 AM (XuXeR)

326 A Mexican Dirty Bomb is a repugnant and messy act, but it pays well.

Posted by: The Donkey at February 11, 2026 09:13 AM (bR6qe)

327 Portland , Maine is like its namesake on the west coast, full of mentally ill leftists.
Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:10 AM (Eh6IB)
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Portland OR is the namesake of Portland ME. If the coin toss had gone the other way, we'd have Boston OR.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:13 AM (JoLAO)

328 That was the Jamaica MI-6 listening post that Bond went to investigate in Dr. No...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2026

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Right; Strangways was the local Secret Service officer. He had appeared earlier in Bond's previous adventure in Jamaica, Live and Let Die.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026

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And Nicholas Blake (British poet Cecil Day-Lewis) had a mystery series featuring Nigel Strangeways. CDL was actor Daniel Day-Lewis's father, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 09:14 AM (wzUl9)

329 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 09:07 AM (wzUl9)

Replied in ALH.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 11, 2026 09:14 AM (uQesX)

330 A more few thoughts about the El Paso NOTAM.

El Paso airport is about five miles north of DT El Paso and is surrounded by the city. Given its location next to Juarez, the amount of Mexican cartel activity in the area, and the amount open desert in the area, the air traffic in and out of El Paso would make a prime target. I fly in and out of El Paso - popping a plane out the air from Juarez by the Mexican Cartels is within the range of what is possible. Especially since the US is more or less in the opening phase of using its military to go after the cartels.

And just like that the 10 day closure was ended. WTF?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 11, 2026 09:14 AM (8ZVmQ)

331 After the GOP kills the voting act, Trump should tell them "everything from here on out gets vetoed, no exceptions, I will govern solely through EOs, and I'll support primary opponents for each and every one of you, also no exceptions, because now none of Congress matters for the rest of my term. Nice work. And go ahead and remove me from office if that's what you womanly cunts want to do. Commit political suicide. Please. Do it."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 09:14 AM (BI5O2)

332 I am so fucking sick of this nonsense. If it wasn't for 'white politeness' and 'white civility,' assholes like this would be forcibly repatriated and the gates slammed shut on their shithole countries.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:39 AM (ufSfZ)

They and Pedowood etc are playing the long game. They want two generations or more of people who will be thrilled to engage in a genocide of whites.

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 09:15 AM (oZ51P)

333 And just like that the 10 day closure was ended. WTF?"

Veeeery interesting...

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 09:17 AM (XuXeR)

334 130K jobs added in Jan
Unemployment rate down to 4.3%

MSM desperately trying to spin this as bad news, of course.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:18 AM (Eh6IB)

335 I will govern solely through EOs, and I'll support primary opponents for each and every one of you, also no exceptions, because now none of Congress matters for the rest of my term.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 09:14 AM (BI5O2)

And Musk should say, "I'll pay for it."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 11, 2026 09:19 AM (uQesX)

336 After the GOP kills the voting act, Trump should tell them "everything from here on out gets vetoed, no exceptions, I will govern solely through EOs, and I'll support primary opponents for each and every one of you, also no exceptions, because now none of Congress matters for the rest of my term. Nice work. And go ahead and remove me from office if that's what you womanly cunts want to do. Commit political suicide. Please. Do it."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 09:14 AM (BI5O2)

Are you accepting new subscribers for your newsletter?

Posted by: Doof at February 11, 2026 09:19 AM (B4Se1)

337 Another Mamdani Aide Found Trashing ‘White Civility,’ ‘White Politeness,’ and ‘White Women Behavior’ Online.

So, Mamdani flunky, Drashti Brahmbhatt, hates and rejects "white" standards of politeness.

FIIIIIIIIIIIIINE. Mission accomplished.

Make that:

Mamdani flunky, banana-nosed, curry whore, Drashti Brahmbhatt, who is said by some to smell like a Calcutta whorehouse toilet, hates and rejects "white" standards of politeness.

There you go, cookie. Your dream came true. Politeness removed.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 11, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

338 @HenMazzig
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2h
BREAKING: The UN Secretary-General congratulated the Islamic Republic of Iran on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 09:20 AM (ZxPkt)

339 There you go, cookie. Your dream came true. Politeness removed.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 11, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

Wait. You forgot the "J" word.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 11, 2026 09:21 AM (uQesX)

340 Mmmmmmm...Kim Basinger in Never Say Never Again....mmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

And in like 4 other things. I think I had a pillow named after her. Mercy

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 09:21 AM (oZ51P)

341 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 09:14 AM (BI5O2)

I think you should send your suggestion to the White House.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 09:21 AM (PFs9e)

342 @EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST IN: Rick Santelli goes TOTAL VICTORY LAP on the "Experts" who doubted President Trump after US DOUBLES jobs expectations 🤣

"All these NAYSAYERS continue to be NEGATIVE. [DOW] 50K says you've ALL BEEN WRONG!"

Holding an umbrella: "Nobody's gonna rain on MY PARADE!"

"GDP is going to take a BIG RAMP UP, and the US is leading the way!"

This is a glorious win

https://tinyurl.com/4wme6vwb

Posted by: redridinghood at February 11, 2026 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

343 Wait. You forgot the "J" word.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 11, 2026 09:21 AM (uQesX)
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Julep? Jambalaya? Jujube?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:22 AM (JoLAO)

344 Julep? Jambalaya? Jujube?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:22 AM (JoLAO)

The one they call Vance's wife. You know, the one the fake conservative uses for her.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 11, 2026 09:22 AM (uQesX)

345 Good morning!

Sad to see Canada is experiencing the trans mass shooter trend.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:23 AM (48ipd)

346 You know how RCV works in real life, right? One primary in WA state, we had 36 running for governor. Top two vote getters go on to the election. It makes the election confusing and makes it more likely to be Dem vs Dem

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 11, 2026 09:24 AM (+mUZM)

347 The core irreducible problem is that their side is constantly, organically on offense, and that we are not.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 09:24 AM (kz+ch)

348 Washington Post Layoffs Worse than Originally Reported

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OMG nooooo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (J+Psw)

349 >>Unemployment rate down to 4.3%

MSM desperately trying to spin this as bad news, of course.

Psssst! Just frown and say this was "below expectations." So very disappointed in you, Trump!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (48ipd)

350 Hey, MP4, isn't today your last day of work?
Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

It is, indeed! Just waiting for my supervisor to respond to my text saying I want to clock out ASAP.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)

351 hates and rejects "white" standards of politeness.

I think she probably wouldn't like it if her male and female progressive colleagues started with a blue streak about her, her work and her personality

Such stupid double standards.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (PFs9e)

352 348 Washington Post Layoffs Worse than Originally Reported

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OMG nooooo!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (J+Psw)
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Anyway...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (JoLAO)

353 It’s amazing how people can live in their own reality. On Reddit, it’s a given that we’re in a reaction or even a depression. Tariffs have destroyed the economy and there are no jobs for anyone. And inflation is also the worst it’s ever been. The fact that a depression and inflation by definition cannot coexist is irrelevant to them.

Meanwhile back on earth the economy is at full employment with nice steady low inflation growth. Not to mention daily records set in the stock markets.

It’s fascinating how leftist propaganda can be so effective.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (Eh6IB)

354 It is, indeed! Just waiting for my supervisor to respond to my text saying I want to clock out ASAP.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)

Just leave.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 11, 2026 09:26 AM (uQesX)

355 “ For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”

Matthew 16:25

Posted by: Marcus T at February 11, 2026 09:26 AM (JW6Az)

356 I just heard on the radio that the airspace over El Paso is now open.

I wonder if there was some kind of terrorist attack threat? I thought maybe the US military was going after the cartels ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 09:26 AM (kDEJH)

357 >>Washington Post Layoffs Worse than Originally Reported

Only way it could be worse would be if they started hiring them back.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:26 AM (48ipd)

358 The core irreducible problem is that their side is constantly, organically on offense, and that we are not.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 11, 2026 09:24 AM (kz+ch)

I think the worse problem is that they have infiltrated our side so heavily as to make the sides only discernible by the amount of blatant abject insanity displayed.

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 09:26 AM (oZ51P)

359 You know how RCV works in real life, right? One primary in WA state, we had 36 running for governor. Top two vote getters go on to the election.

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That’s not RCV. That’s a jungle primary.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:27 AM (Eh6IB)

360 JUST IN: Rick Santelli goes TOTAL VICTORY LAP on the "Experts" who doubted President Trump after US DOUBLES jobs expectations

"All these NAYSAYERS continue to be NEGATIVE. [DOW] 50K says you've ALL BEEN WRONG!"
____
It is entirely possible that the "Experts" are wrong because they may be credentialed, but are not actual experts, or maybe the "Experts" knew that Trump's policies would result in a good economy but they are invested in a Keep Real American People Suffering ideology.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 11, 2026 09:27 AM (Dv3i1)

361 "Never read any of those, but my son likes Cormac McCarthy."

Cormac started out writing like Faulkner, then pared it down. No Country and The Road are easier to read.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 11, 2026 09:27 AM (dtajH)

362 350 Hey, MP4, isn't today your last day of work?
Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

It is, indeed! Just waiting for my supervisor to respond to my text saying I want to clock out ASAP.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM
A lot of this ‘last day at work’ stuff going around. Must be the weather.

Posted by: Eromero at February 11, 2026 09:28 AM (Lytz7)

363 If term limits are good enough for the Presidents they are good enough for the Senators. Two terms and they have to run their spouses.

Posted by: Case at February 11, 2026 09:28 AM (j6kTf)

364 Washington Post Layoffs Worse than Originally Reported

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OMG nooooo!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (J+Psw)
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Anyway...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (JoLAO)

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The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 09:28 AM (kDEJH)

365 It’s fascinating how leftist propaganda can be so effective.
Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:25 AM (Eh6IB

Yes. Nobody has ever made a propaganda system so effective, or likely ever will again. They are the Nick Saban of lies, relentlessly pumping them into everyone's brains from the cradle to the grave.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 09:28 AM (BI5O2)

366 Julep? Jambalaya? Jujube?"

Jobu.

Posted by: man at February 11, 2026 09:28 AM (XuXeR)

367 Congratulations, MP4!

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2026 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

368 >>Cormac started out writing like Faulkner, then pared it down. No Country and The Road are easier to read.

Blood Meridian was ponderous.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2026 09:29 AM (viF8m)

369 Posted by: Ignoramus at February 11, 2026 09:27 AM (dtajH

He read The Country. He's reading "The Road" now. The male head librarian at his college was not a fan of Cormac. McCarthy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 09:29 AM (PFs9e)

370 You know how RCV works in real life, right? One primary in WA state, we had 36 running for governor. Top two vote getters go on to the election. It makes the election confusing and makes it more likely to be Dem vs Dem
Posted by: Notsothoreau

In areas dominated by one party (Democrat) Ranked Choice Voting effectively wipes out any chance of a minority party (Republican) from ever getting a candidate elected. Couple this with an extremely gerrymandered state and "our precious democracy" is reduced to some the the NORKs would appreciate. This is exactly the situation across much of New Mexico.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 11, 2026 09:29 AM (8ZVmQ)

371 Just leave.

She's been very good to me. I want to extend the same courtesy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 09:30 AM (ufSfZ)

372 The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 11, 2026 09:28 AM (kDEJH)
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You misspelled lying.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 11, 2026 09:30 AM (JoLAO)

373
We look like a newspaper.
But we're not.

Posted by: The Washington Post at February 11, 2026 09:30 AM (2Ez/1)

374 Everyday there are companies who do layoffs. Even in the best economic times there are 100-200k people who lose a job every month.

But 300 people got laid off at wapo and it’s the end of the world or the end of democracy? Fuck off. Just shit the fuck up and go fuck off . You entitled spoiled little bitches.

Posted by: Really?? at February 11, 2026 09:30 AM (Eh6IB)

375 Noods

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 11, 2026 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

376 Nood art.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 11, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

377 Congrats Poppins. What the hell are you going to do now

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 09:31 AM (oZ51P)

378 I’m officially jealous of MP4! I’d love to retire but… not quite yet….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 11, 2026 09:31 AM (ZCxQ+)

379 >>But 300 people got laid off at wapo and it’s the end of the world or the end of democracy? Fuck off. Just shit the fuck up and go fuck off . You entitled spoiled little bitches.

This.

Grow up. Best you learn we are all expendable and/or replaceable at work, particularly when you're contributing to your employer's failure.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2026 09:32 AM (48ipd)

380 332 I am so fucking sick of this nonsense. If it wasn't for 'white politeness' and 'white civility,' assholes like this would be forcibly repatriated and the gates slammed shut on their shithole countries.

I'm fine with breaking out asshole NCO mode on these cretins. Oh wait...that's a normal day for me.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 09:33 AM (99eI0)

381 Am I the only one who things that mondavi (spelling) didn’t “run out of money” as the mayor of New York, but that he is embezzling every last cent he can get is grubby hands on?

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 11, 2026 09:35 AM (FUi+p)

382 Posted by: Cray Cray at February 11, 2026 09:35 AM (FUi+p)

Now you're thinking like a commie!

Posted by: ... at February 11, 2026 09:54 AM (oZ51P)

383 didn't you retire once before MP4 ?

Posted by: alpine_beer at February 11, 2026 10:00 AM (van9r)

384 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

"This move would remove the legal framework for the EPA’s climate rules, which allowed the federal government to impose ever-increasing regulations on automobiles, appliances, and power plant emissions."

Ten miles west of the city, the area has become a constant 3 degrees warmer, winter and summer, with ground water issues. This has happened because the trees are old, dying and are not replaced as we're just the good ole middle, sort of working class. Bits of open ground cleared for expensive rowhouses, now more than ever - forget the cities of the past - segregated into small communities designed to minimum traffic, enhance security, protect certain schools. We're pinned between the cooler city on the river and the near 'burbs, and forced to use automobiles and pay exorbinate costs for power plant operations and emissions.

The CO2 rules were always ridiculous. 🤞 as to them not returning for a while, and a return to more affordability for the middle (the strongest voting base).
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Isn't Asheville, NC the heart of the some of recent great floods and the former FEMA negligence? We sent thoughts

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 11, 2026 10:11 AM (NFX2v)

385 and prayers, money and supplies. We watch TOH on PBS stations as it rebuilds the communities. However,

"Now, federal immigration authorities are begging sanctuary officials to hand Mexican illegal immigrant Juan Ramon Juarez-Talamantes, 29, over to ICE before he has the opportunity to continue on with his violent rampage."

If a liberal joke, it's not f***ing fully. May the feds shut that **** down. Fast.
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So the warm up comes from Mullin, and once again it's Obama's DACAs. But how could it stop there, and who or what federal agency has exact records on DACAs? You know there aren't any now, if there ever really were. (BTW, DACAs were never just Latinos, Hispanics.)

But heaven help us the USA's big tourist areas aren't seeing Mexican visitors & 'they' say that could be a problem for their economies.
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Naomi Wolf's article is excellent but for it being too long. The intended audience will not read it in its entirety, nor will they take heed regardless. They're living in a fantasy world where they actually matter.
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Good day 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 11, 2026 10:11 AM (NFX2v)

386 Funny, not fully.

Sorry

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 11, 2026 10:12 AM (NFX2v)

387 But ... But ... I thought they had gun control in Canada...

Posted by: Ralph at February 11, 2026 10:35 AM (8WZD4)

Daily Tech News 11 February 2026

Top Story

The global memory market is set to hit $550 billion this year. (Trendforce)

Thanks a bunch, Sam Altman.

Speaking of which, two of the SSDs I ordered during the brief sale late last year seem to have disappeared into the Twilight Zone. Amazon gave me a refund without a fuss, but now I have to pay twice as much to replace them. Though, given the compression of SSD prices, that does give me much better drives - Crucial T710 vs. P310.
And while the Big Three memory makers don't plan to do anything to alleviate the shortage - quite the opposite - TSMC is planning to invest $45 billion on new factories this year. (Tom's Hardware)

The company is also working on a 1nm process due around 2030.

Tech News

Europe is working - well, not working so much, because they don't do that over there, but scheming - towards yet another failed attempt at breaking away from the clutches of the American payment processors. (European Business Magazine)

I don't know. Have you tried... Cash?
Meanwhile in Japan the stock market gained $3 trillion on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's extremely successful re-election bid. (European Business Magazine)

Takaichi's party won a two-thirds supermajority in Japan's parliament even without the help of their coalition partner. Her election platform includes plans to invest $700 billion in AI, semiconductor manufacturing, and quantum.
Python's dynamic typing problem. (While For Loop)

The Python programming language is designed for rapid development of small, simple applications, but the exact features that make it shine there are a massive pain when your application stops being small and simple.

I maintain an application containing about a million lines of Python at my day job, which is a long way beyond small or simple. When your programming language does not force rigour upon you, you had better be prepared to provide it yourself.
Microsoft has announced plans to make Windows 11 more confusing. (Thurrott)

And that's not my editorialising, that's straight from the article.
And also more annoying. (The Register)

Same deal.
Microsoft also issued a DMCA takedown against indie block game Allumeria. (Notebook Check)

The takedown has since despawned, but the developers thank the three trillion dollar company for the free publicity.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: EVERYTHING IS NOT ALRIGHT!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 04:05 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at February 11, 2026 04:06 AM (4nyld)

3 Good morning

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 11, 2026 04:06 AM (qlUA+)

4 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 11, 2026 04:06 AM (BLOW1)

5 BOING!

Exercise done. To the shower!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 04:09 AM (gK5jz)

6 Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 04:13 AM (0KSrI)

7 Mornin'

I have to go into work today. Not to my office, another office to pick up some paperwork. Nothing major and what its for, I'll never do. But fED guVeRMinT is demanding it, and I work for them. Whatever. I'll take some comp time for this! An hour anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 11, 2026 04:14 AM (sAmhv)

8 Has M$ decided to stress test their ability to survive? Doing so many stupid moves lately.

Posted by: clarence at February 11, 2026 04:14 AM (4nyld)

9 Her election platform includes plans to invest $700 billion in AI, semiconductor manufacturing, and quantum.
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Toto Commodes, they've been making them since 1917. Top of the line. You can purchase them fitted with bidets and seat warmers. They also make little ceramic clamps that hold chips while they are being fabricated or something like that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 04:22 AM (/LXUT)

10 Female singer is cute. Looked her up. Aussie, 59, still in the music biz. Seems to be a fan girl of Ron L Hubbard's weird little cult, at least according to IMDb and Wiki.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 11, 2026 04:24 AM (sAmhv)

11 Chick has a spooky. Would not want to be in a room alone with her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 04:27 AM (/LXUT)

12 Canadian shooter goes on a killing rampage. Too bad they only have the Mounties to rely upon.

Dudley Do-Right’s horse response time is about 8 minutes out.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 04:35 AM (xFfhU)

13 Testing

Posted by: Tuna at February 11, 2026 04:37 AM (lJ0H4)

14 Video was nice

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 04:38 AM (Ia/+0)

15 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 29 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, which is a heat wave compared to temperatures over the last few days. We had snow last night, but at this time of the morning, I can't tell how much the plows have piled up around me, so I don't know how long it's going to take me to dig out after work.

Work! It is, finally, after 40+ years, my last day! I've got a couple of hours' work ahead of me, but once that is done, I told the office that if things are clear at 10.30, I am signing out. We shall see.

Talk to you all on the Morning Report.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 04:41 AM (ufSfZ)

16 Congratulations MP4. Hope your last work day is short.

Posted by: Tuna at February 11, 2026 04:43 AM (lJ0H4)

17 FDA rejects Moderna's new flu vaccine

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 04:47 AM (0KSrI)

18 Canadian shooter goes on a killing rampage.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 04:35 AM (xFfhU)
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Guess ~~who~~ the gender?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 04:48 AM (7xyr6)

19 Ron L Hubbard's weird little cult..Not so small actually, and I used to listen to his radio broadcast.
Relatives got hooked and spent a lot of money on the cult. He milked them for all he could and traveled by private jet. They held huge conventions in Orlando, Niagara Falls and probably other places. You had to give a certain amount of money each month or year, no matter how poor (or rich) you were. Now they look back on it and wonder what the hell they were thinking. But Ron had a way with words that sort of made sense.

Posted by: Colin at February 11, 2026 04:49 AM (e8qy3)

20 Guess ~~who~~ the gender?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 04:48 AM (7xyr6)
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https://tinyurl.com/3uxmuezh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 04:50 AM (7xyr6)

21 Took.his own life. Good

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 04:53 AM (0KSrI)

22 I would rather go back to bed then go to work

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 04:54 AM (Ia/+0)

23 Evening and morning for this Woden's Day in (almost) mid-February -- and congratulations to MP4 on his last work day!

I'm awake early, no blame to attach to the cats; it just happened. Which happens. It's 66 F. outside, but I have no plans to work out today after yesterday's vigorous session. Later, Miss Linda wants to go to the Macy's at the suburban mall, and I can visit the nearby pipe shop and probably spend money I shouldn't.

Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 04:55 AM (wzUl9)

24 10 dead, 25 injured after a 'woman wearing a dress' opens fire in a school

Umm, yeah play right into their game why don't you

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 04:57 AM (Ia/+0)

25 Revolver News has a picture of the man

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0)

26 But Ron had a way with words that sort of made sense.
Posted by: Colin at February 11, 2026

***
Hubbard began as a pulp SF writer; Heinlein knew him in the '40s. The story goes that they had stepped outside at a party, and a dust devil was whirling along a nearly alley, stirring up papers. Ron said, "Oh, that's just Kitten," and went back inside. Heinlein wrote that down and turned it into his story "Our Fair City," which features a living whirlwind, Kitten, who helps her humans take down a corrupt mayor. (I think that's how it plays out; it's been a while since I read it.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 04:59 AM (wzUl9)

27 Work! It is, finally, after 40+ years. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing.
Congratulations on 40 years of work.
I was amazed that how quickly the company shut off my assess to anything in the building. Computer didn't log on, had to be let out by the security person as the turnstile wouldn't open. Files locked, good bye and have a nice day. I did have a nice farewell party though.

Posted by: Colin at February 11, 2026 04:59 AM (e8qy3)

28 My current job starts at 6:30 but it is only 20 minutes away. Out the door at 6 and home by 3. The only time it sux is when I have to work in Millsboro when the commute 90 minutes. I feel your pain, Skip

Posted by: Accomack at February 11, 2026 05:00 AM (T8bqm)

29 My job site is one step out my door.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 05:01 AM (0KSrI)

30 My job site is one step out my door.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 05:01 AM (0KSrI)
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Hall monitor?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 05:07 AM (7xyr6)

31 I really detest article writers who don't flat out dismiss Trannies for their mental illness beliefs

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 05:07 AM (Ia/+0)

32 Files locked, good bye and have a nice day. I did have a nice farewell party though.
Posted by: Colin

I was working from home when I retired so I didn't have to deal with any of the in office stuff. Packed up my computer and laptop the next day and that was that.

Posted by: Tuna at February 11, 2026 05:08 AM (lJ0H4)

33 Biden's Dog, barndominium. Livestock is 24/7/365

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 05:08 AM (0KSrI)

34 Used to read about workers in SF spending hours a week getting to work, because SF was to expensive to even think of buying a house. Now that the new high speed rail is coming along, commute should be quick assuming you work in Bakersfield or Merced. Progress under Newsom is amazing.
/sarc.

Posted by: Colin at February 11, 2026 05:08 AM (e8qy3)

35 My first job, a part-time gig, was as a phone solicitor for a magazine publisher, selling subscriptions. That was in early 1974. Then I worked -- in radio, as a van driver/courier, as a waiter (very briefly), in radio again, as an office assistant, a computer programmer and analyst, and finally as an office manager -- for a hair over fifty-one years.

Egad. I'm amazed I could afford to retire.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 05:08 AM (wzUl9)

36 Biden's Dog, barndominium. Livestock is 24/7/365

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 05:08 AM (0KSrI)
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/hums to self green acres theme

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 05:10 AM (7xyr6)

37 The Saks Fifth Avenue store in downtown is closing. The local "news" blames it on a poor economy and online sales. Nobody mentions an important detail: that no one wants to go downtown to shop. Traffic, paying $$$ to park even on Saturday, homeless and panhandlers abounding -- of course you'd rather go online, or drive to stores and park for free in the suburbs, where most of the people with disposable income here live.

And the prices at Saks are enough to give you heart palpitations, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 05:14 AM (wzUl9)

38 Big black Stirling cat just hoicked up a hairball. I got to him in time to slide him onto the kitchen tile floor. He does that very rarely compared to his longer-haired predecessors Wolf and Chekov. With them I was always having to spot-clean the carpet.

Little Dagny is bushy-furred too, but she doesn't seem to do that often.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 05:16 AM (wzUl9)

39 Horrible situation. The Left has created an army of Frankensteins to rampage and murder innocents. Mental illness should be treated, not exploited for mayhem.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 05:18 AM (xFfhU)

40 My cats must be exceptional. They are 10 and have never hooked up anything. They are on a wet food only diet with an occasional dry treat thrown in.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 05:20 AM (0KSrI)

41 When I started one of first jobs after college the downtown of the city I lived near was a bustling place. Dept. stores, and malls and restaurants and lots of people. All is gone now and the only store downtown is a Family Dollar which gets robbed often. Shopping is all in the suburbs now, with easy access by all the new expressways. Having traveled a lot the last 15 years, its that way all over the country, not just in the blue states.

Posted by: Colin at February 11, 2026 05:21 AM (e8qy3)

42 G'morning, all!

Canadian shooter is being referred to as a 'gunperson'.

Hmmmm.....I think I know how this ends.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 11, 2026 05:23 AM (iMotb)

43 Ben Had, I think longer-haired cats, even if brushed regularly (and most of mine have hated that), will tend to hairballs a bit more than their shorter-haired cousins. Stirling is a medium-hair, with a silky-plushy but not long coat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 05:23 AM (wzUl9)

44 59.8 degrees outside.

Getting ready for the morning walk.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 11, 2026 05:24 AM (iMotb)

45 Good morning! Retirement; a little story.....Retired (took the early buyout) in 2014. About a year later a friend called and asked me to help him over the summer on a project in Colorado. Spent the next 7.5 years there working full time. After the Sino Sinus Syphilis fiasco we sold the house and moved back to Texas and retired again. About a year and a half later, a friend called and said he was working a big project and needed help, so now I commute up to AFW to work almost daily. It's a work when it's busy, golf when it's not type of arrangement. Honestly, retirement was kinda boring so I can't complain and not having to work really gives you a different perspective on it. Between that and consulting, I stay pretty busy.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 11, 2026 05:27 AM (3Ope8)

46 When I started one of first jobs after college the downtown of the city I lived near was a bustling place. Dept. stores, and malls and restaurants and lots of people. All is gone now and the only store downtown is a Family Dollar which gets robbed often. Shopping is all in the suburbs now, with easy access by all the new expressways. Having traveled a lot the last 15 years, its that way all over the country, not just in the blue states.
Posted by: Colin at February 11, 2026

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When I was a kid and a teen, downtown was a big shopping and business hub too. During jr. high and high school I'd walk around and peer into jewelry store windows to admire and dream of the Rolexes and Bulova Accutrons, visit the library and stock up on books, go to first-run movies, pick up books and magazines at the two newsstands, etc.

In the '90s I used to visit Meyer the Hatter often in downtown on Saturdays. Then this benighted dump decided to activate the parking meters on that day as well as M-F -- and in shopping areas uptown that used to have free parking when you could find it. And the ferry from my side of the river to downtown is now $2.00 per person, each way. Uh, no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 05:30 AM (wzUl9)

47 So you all remember the Trump Lion King/Obama Apes clip from last week?

Now there's a Power Rangers sequel from the same video creator. Have fun!

https://tinyurl.com/ynrwza2f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 05:33 AM (7xyr6)

48 58 years doing the work I love. My retirement and obituary will arrive at the same time.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2026 05:35 AM (0KSrI)

49 Adios Valero!

https://tinyurl.com/33kp6zyn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 05:41 AM (7xyr6)

50 Adios Valero!

https://tinyurl.com/33kp6zyn
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026

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Utter insanity. California's, I mean.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

51 Yes, the shooter in Canada was a fake transgender. I just can't find the picture I saw last night.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 05:47 AM (rZCVI)

52 If you wish to access the two statements the Tumbler Ridge RCMP have made on the shooting directly:

https://tinyurl.com/9ajp58hs
(link goes to rcmp.ca)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

53 @51/FenelonSpoke: "51 Yes, the shooter in Canada was a fake transgender. I just can't find the picture I saw last night."

Biden's Dog has a post at X with a couple of pictures at comment # 20.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2026 05:52 AM (O7YUW)

54 The SyFy miniseries from 2007, Tin Man, is coming up on Movies! I may not watch it all, but anything with some Zooey Deschanel in it is worth checking out.

In other news, my order of shaving cream and soap plus blades arrived yesterday. I planned to shave with the Tobacco Leaf cream, but didn't get to it. This morning for sure!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

55 Greetings and good morning, everyone. I am happy to report that my concerns about my car yesterday were unfounded after my mechanic ran a check on things. This means I don't have to go car shopping.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 05:54 AM (99eI0)

56 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 11, 2026 05:55 AM (2Ez/1)

57 w00t late

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 05:55 AM (+YA9H)

58
Isn't "fake transgender" a redundancy?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 05:56 AM (tgvbd)

59 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 05:56 AM (tgvbd)

I use it because if I used "Transgender" someone would tell me there are no transgenders-that it's fake.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 05:57 AM (rZCVI)

60 Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 05:54 AM (99eI0

Glad to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 05:57 AM (rZCVI)

61 >>>The takedown has since despawned

haha

My dictionary has "respawn":

(of a character in a video game) reappear after having been killed: if someone dies—and they probably will—they simply respawn | once an operative is downed, he'll respawn as a Hunter | [with object] : If an enemy defender gets destroyed, he will be respawned after 20 seconds.

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 05:59 AM (+YA9H)

62 Glad to hear that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thanks, Fen. The problem was from when we were in NJ over the weekend and the guy who filled my car didn't tighten the gas cap enough. Lesson learned: Anyone else fuels my car, check the gas cap.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:02 AM (99eI0)

63 Greetings and good morning, everyone. I am happy to report that my concerns about my car yesterday were unfounded after my mechanic ran a check on things. This means I don't have to go car shopping.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026

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Good news! What kind of symptoms was it presenting with?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

64 My Buick is slated for the car hospital tomorrow: a blood (oil) change and a shoulder repair (the plastic shell inside the front fender has lost a fastener; should be an easy fix there).

I'd also like my mechanic to test-drive it and listen for that rattle inside the B-pillar. If he can hear it -- and he should -- we can schedule something after Mardi Gras is over. I may have to rent a car for a day, which I dread.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

65 Man in Florida saves woman from sinking car:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8y8wd6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 06:03 AM (rZCVI)

66
Thanks, Fen. The problem was from when we were in NJ over the weekend and the guy who filled my car didn't tighten the gas cap enough. Lesson learned: Anyone else fuels my car, check the gas cap.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026

***
When the check engine light comes on with a modern car, that gas cap is the first thing to check. Second thing is to go to Autozone or one of the car parts places that can read the codes and give you some idea of the problem.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

67 Good news! What kind of symptoms was it presenting with?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

The check engine light came on with a warning about the emissions system and the hill assist. Thankfully it was just because the gas cap hadn't been put on properly when the dude in NJ filled my car.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:07 AM (99eI0)

68 Second thing is to go to Autozone or one of the car parts places that can read the codes and give you some idea of the problem.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Thankfully, my mechanic is relatively close to me and he didn't charge me for the work.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:08 AM (99eI0)

69
Europe is working - well, not working so much, because they don't do that over there, but scheming - towards yet another failed attempt at breaking away from the clutches of the American payment processors.

Wero will be the Minitel of Sinclairs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 06:13 AM (tgvbd)

70 A while back, I was shopping for some small animal traps in a local hardware store. I had questions and got one of the store's employees to come over and help me (nice guy, very helpful.)

As we're talking a customer shows up in our aisle who is obviously a dude-in-a-dress. Clownie in a dress starts getting impatient and mouthy that the guy helping me doesn't immediately come over to him and answer his questions. These idjits are all about creating uncomfortable drama for everyone around them.

The guy helping me looked a little desperate that he was going to have to help out Mr. Freakazoid as soon as I was done needing help, so I kept asking him questions about the traps, and the different options, until "IT'S MA'AM!" stormed off to find some other employee to make a scene with.

As soon as he moved off, I looked at the nice man who'd been helping me and said, "Thanks for all the help. I think you deserve your 15 minute break now." He smiled, nodded, and straight for the back. (And I got the heck out of there with a quickness myself.)

Definitely my good deed of the day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2026 06:13 AM (O7YUW)

71 This is the X post that Revolver News linked to:

https://tinyurl.com/3cyt4d75

It's supposedly photos of the Canadian shooter, but I can't confirm it.

If it is the person, it's definitely a man.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:14 AM (6ydKt)

72 68 Thankfully, my mechanic is relatively close to me and he didn't charge me for the work.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:08 AM (99eI0)

nice

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 06:14 AM (+YA9H)

73
Second thing is to go to Autozone or one of the car parts places that can read the codes and give you some idea of the problem.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

If it's not the gas cap, it will be the catalytic converter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 06:15 AM (tgvbd)

74 Man in Florida saves woman from sinking car:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 06:03 AM (rZCVI)
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Isn't there a law against sinking cars?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 06:15 AM (7xyr6)

75 70 starts getting impatient and mouthy that the guy helping me doesn't immediately come over to him and answer his questions
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2026 06:13 AM (O7YUW)

I hate this so much in people. I assume that they have never worked retail.

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 06:17 AM (+YA9H)

76 Second thing is to go to Autozone or one of the car parts places that can read the codes and give you some idea of the problem.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Thankfully, my mechanic is relatively close to me and he didn't charge me for the work.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026

***
My oldest friend told me last year that the CE light came on with his van. His wife was nervous, so he went to *Midas Muffler* (talk about a buncha grifters) who gave him an estimate for $4200. He didn't get a second opinion, but went ahead and paid for whatever work they said the van needed. Money he could ill afford to spare. And this is the guy who taught *me* simple things about cars when we were young. *Shakes head*

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

77 @71/SpeakingOf:

Yup, about what I expected. Ugh.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW)

78 Second thing is to go to Autozone or one of the car parts places that can read the codes and give you some idea of the problem.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026
*
If it's not the gas cap, it will be the catalytic converter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026

***
Probably. But checking the gas cap and having the codes read are free. A "cat," as people call it, is $$$.

Sometimes I wish I could have a '66 Ford or something simpler. Poor gas mileage, frequent oil changes and tuneups, but no big-ticket parts like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

79
I hate this so much in people. I assume that they have never worked retail.
Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 06:17 AM (+YA9H)

How people treat staff, clerks, servers, etc. says a tremendous amount about them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 06:20 AM (tgvbd)

80 If it's not the gas cap, it will be the catalytic converter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That was discussed as a possibility. Thankfully that was not the case.

And about Wolfus's remark at 37 regarding Saks closing: It's almost as if the powers that be can't grasp why we embrace better alternatives to going to a physical store.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:21 AM (99eI0)

81 . . . Definitely my good deed of the day.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2026

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Heh, heh, heh. And good for you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

82 How people treat staff, clerks, servers, etc. says a tremendous amount about them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I worked for Target (Don't judge. It was money for college expenses) for a few years. Folks that work in retail will find me one of the easiest people to work with.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:23 AM (99eI0)

83 "he went to *Midas Muffler* (talk about a buncha grifters) who gave him an estimate for $4200. He didn't get a second opinion, but went ahead and paid for whatever work they said the van needed"

There is no way any van needs a $4200 exhaust system. The boss must of had a boat payment coming up

Some guy gave my dad an estimate of $45k to replace his roof. That's about twice what it should be. If my sister and I had not stopped it he would have gone ahead with that first quote.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:24 AM (vFG9F)

84 And about Wolfus's remark at 37 regarding Saks closing: It's almost as if the powers that be can't grasp why we embrace better alternatives to going to a physical store.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026

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The physical store is often a good thing. You can look at the actual various items, and in the case of certain things like trousers, shoes, and boots, try them on. That's worth a little extra money to me. But paying to park after battling snarled traffic, and then getting accosted by panhandlers? No.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:25 AM (wzUl9)

85 How people treat staff, clerks, servers, etc. says a tremendous amount about them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

***
I always treat them well, unless they are rude to me first. Or officious and willfully stupid, as during the Sniffle Scare ("Mask! Mask!").

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

86
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 11, 2026 06:26 AM (tljrc)

87 These idjits are all about creating uncomfortable drama for everyone around them.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2026 06:13 AM (O7YUW)

Narcissistic Psychopath describes most of them, especially 'male to females'.
It comes with the territory.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:27 AM (6ydKt)

88 But paying to park after battling snarled traffic, and then getting accosted by panhandlers? No.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

And in the case of a few malls I used to go to, gang activity inside the building. Nope. Not interested.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:28 AM (99eI0)

89 66
When the check engine light comes on with a modern car, that gas cap is the first thing to check. Second thing is to go to Autozone or one of the car parts places that can read the codes and give you some idea of the problem.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:06 AM

I have a OBD-II to USB thingie in the car and an app that can read and reset the codes. It's cheaper than the device I used to have in the car, which I gave away when I gave the car to my stepdaughter. The USB dongle is how I knew that I had a valve timing code when the light came on in Alabama last year. I got it again a while back. Something to do with the oil, if my Internet search I'd to be believed.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 11, 2026 06:29 AM (VmDLh)

90 Things that can go off without warning:

Fish
Car batteries
Pit Bulls
Transvestites

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:30 AM (vFG9F)

91 I told my buddy that the next time an issue comes up with his vehicle, in fact before that, ask his co-workers who they take their cars to and get a recommendation for a good and honest mechanic. They do exist.

He works at a Walmart in FL. From what I know of WM staffers around me, though, I suspect a lot of his co-workers just take their cars to the oil and tire store right there in WM.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

92 I have a OBD-II to USB thingie in the car and an app that can read and reset the codes. It's cheaper than the device I used to have in the car, which I gave away when I gave the car to my stepdaughter. The USB dongle is how I knew that I had a valve timing code when the light came on in Alabama last year. I got it again a while back. Something to do with the oil, if my Internet search I'd to be believed.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 11, 2026

***
I need to get a code reader myself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

93 71 This is the X post that Revolver News linked to:

https://tinyurl.com/3cyt4d75

It's supposedly photos of the Canadian shooter, but I can't confirm it.

If it is the person, it's definitely a man.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:14 AM (6ydKt)

Pure evil; which is perhaps what the person wants us to think.
Imagine being the parents.

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 06:32 AM (+YA9H)

94 One of three. Wednesday, Thursday, FRIDAY!

Posted by: Eromero at February 11, 2026 06:33 AM (Lytz7)

95 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2026 06:34 AM (Cjt/F)

96 Honestly, when I walk into a store I will know what I'm looking for and find it myself. My goal in any retail establishment is to get in and get out as quickly as possible. If a clerk approaches me, I'm likely to just say "Thanks, I got it." while I'm moving down the aisle.

I've been like that since I was a kid, though, so nothing new there.

The good thing about the internet is I can browse just about anything online and decide what I want before I ever get to a store, if needed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:34 AM (6ydKt)

97
Canadian shooter is being referred to as a 'gunperson'.

Hmmmm.....I think I know how this ends.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Persyn of Pew!, Pew!, Pew!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 06:35 AM (xG4kz)

98 And in the case of a few malls I used to go to, gang activity inside the building. Nope. Not interested.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026

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Yup. The oldest enclosed mall in our area, my first real mall, is now a twin (i imagine) to downtown Nairobi, Tijuana, or Mogadishu.

The big one in the suburbs is still pretty nice. But there are few stores that interest me. Nearly everything now is for women and children.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:35 AM (wzUl9)

99 James 5:13-16 Upper Room
Devotional, " Got a minute?" Man ( yes; it's by a man even though the name is Kim) prays with others:

https://tinyurl.com/3yw3kv2z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 06:35 AM (PFs9e)

100 Intermittent valve timing codes may be a camshaft position sensor failing. A lot of OBD errors are like that, some sensor has gone bad and there is nothing actually physically wrong with the engine/vehicle.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

101 100

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 06:35 AM (+YA9H)

102 The good thing about the internet is I can browse just about anything online and decide what I want before I ever get to a store, if needed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026

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Generally I'm a fast mover in a store myself. I do like visiting a physical pipe shop, though; there are so few of them still left that I consider it a good thing to help keep them in business. And my local shop, while it has a web site, does not have online shopping.

However, the pipe/cigar place I visited in Evansville had very little of anything for pipe smokers, and he wanted *$7.00* for a $2.00 bundle of pipe cleaners. I passed on that and didn't go back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 06:38 AM (wzUl9)

103
Sabot in the gears at 101?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 06:38 AM (xG4kz)

104 "Shooter in a dress" is an odd way to describe it. They don't ever say "shooter wearing pants".

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:39 AM (vFG9F)

105 One article said the guy shoot people at a home before going to the school, so I don't know if that was his parents or siblings or some other people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 06:39 AM (PFs9e)

106 100 Intermittent valve timing codes may be a camshaft position sensor failing. A lot of OBD errors are like that, some sensor has gone bad and there is nothing actually physically wrong with the engine/vehicle.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

I've had a tire pressure sensor light blinking at me for about six months now.

The Chevy app tells me one needs to be replaced but it just threw up a warning to me a few weeks ago when all four tires needed more air, and actually showed me the PSI on all four tires while warning me to get on the ball.

So riddle me this, how does a broken tire sensor need to be replaced when it's clearly showing me the PSI when it wants to?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:41 AM (6ydKt)

107
They don't ever say "shooter wearing pants".
Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:39 AM (vFG9F)

What about "shooter wearing no pants"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 06:41 AM (tgvbd)

108 Adios Valero!

https://tinyurl.com/33kp6zyn
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026

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Utter insanity. California's, I mean.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 11, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)
-

Yesterday i pointed out that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife just purchased a Florida waterfront mansion.

Valero is a drop in the bucket.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 06:42 AM (7xyr6)

109 They don't ever say "shooter wearing pants".
Posted by: fd

They will move Heaven and Earth to avoid detailed reporting when the malefactor is an Approved Victim Group.™

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:43 AM (99eI0)

110 What about "shooter wearing no pants"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

If that happens, we have a lot of suspects on this site.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 06:44 AM (99eI0)

111 I had my 2021 Honda in for an oil change the other day and had an after-call that I've never had before in all my years: the dealership called, thanked me for coming in and asked if I wanted a trade-in quote. I still owe money on the thing, so I ignored the call, but I did find it curious.

Back again in about 40 or so; more work to do.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 06:45 AM (ufSfZ)

112
With the deaths by shooting, "Canadian Nice" took some body blows.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 06:45 AM (xG4kz)

113 You know who James O'Keefe caught on hidden camera?

https://tinyurl.com/2xxuxhyr

Oh, the irony!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 06:47 AM (7xyr6)

114 83 Some guy gave my dad an estimate of $45k to replace his roof. That's about twice what it should be. If my sister and I had not stopped it he would have gone ahead with that first quote.
Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:24 AM (vFG9F)

Used to be able to report that sort of thing to the county.

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 06:48 AM (+YA9H)

115 more like an Approved Murderer Group, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2026 06:49 AM (Cjt/F)

116 @111/MP4: "... the dealership called, thanked me for coming in and asked if I wanted a trade-in quote."

Just trying to drive sales, or they might have someone specifically asking about your make/model/year for a used-vehicle purchase.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2026 06:49 AM (O7YUW)

117 It's 60 degrees here this morning. I hope we have seen the last of the cold weather until fall.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

118 My vehicle recently flashed a message that the battery in my key fob needs to be replaced soon.
I appreciate that.
Guess I'll buy a name brand 2032 instead of the cheap Chineseum.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 11, 2026 06:50 AM (2Ez/1)

119 "Used to be able to report that sort of thing to the county.
Posted by: m "

We got another quote from a Mennonite roofing company. $27k, and they said they may have overestimated based on the square footage so they are coming back with a new quote today.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

120 111 Back again in about 40 or so; more work to do.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 06:45 AM (ufSfZ)

Got a lot of fans here, rooting for you on your last workday 'til retirement.

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 06:53 AM (+YA9H)

121

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 11, 2026 06:54 AM (DDJSl)

122 111 I had my 2021 Honda in for an oil change the other day and had an after-call that I've never had before in all my years: the dealership called, thanked me for coming in and asked if I wanted a trade-in quote. I still owe money on the thing, so I ignored the call, but I did find it curious.

Back again in about 40 or so; more work to do.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 06:45 AM (ufSfZ)

I got an automated email the other day from the dealership asking me if I wanted to sell my car (or any car) back to them.

Their explanation was that used cars were in very high demand (geee, I wonder why?) and they were offering top dollar to renew their stock.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

123 I would like to be able to retire and walk away but it's not going to work like that unless I can sell the business off. Otherwise I will just lose clients thru attrition. It remains to be seen who will last longer.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2026 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

124 Something went boom in a good way:

https://tinyurl.com/28nexy94

Congrats, President Trump!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 06:55 AM (7xyr6)

125 Present

Posted by: Don Black at February 11, 2026 06:56 AM (ZxPkt)

126 10-day NOTAMs in NM and TX:

https://tinyurl.com/49wh4amt

hmmm....

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 06:57 AM (7xyr6)

127 126 10-day NOTAMs in NM and TX:

https://tinyurl.com/49wh4amt

hmmm....

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 06:57 AM (7xyr6)

That seems very weird and ominous.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:59 AM (6ydKt)

128
10-day NOTAMs in NM and TX

Has "Beto" been heard from lately?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 07:00 AM (xG4kz)

129 Fen,

Thanks for that link about the guy rescuing the woman in FL.

I needed an "upper" this morning.

I've bookmarked that site because sometimes you just need to be grateful or a good laugh.

Here's another story from the same place that I found very funny, especially if you are a dog person:

https://tinyurl.com/mu6kt3xn

Posted by: pawn at February 11, 2026 07:04 AM (uvB+6)

130 Wikipedia

A NOTAM (ICAO & FAA: Notice to Airmen, CAA: Notice to Aviation) is a notice filed with an aviation authority to alert aircraft pilots of potential hazards ...

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 07:04 AM (+YA9H)

131 Good morning form the foothills of western NC. It's 56 degrees here!!!, going up to the mid-60's. The frozen nightmare appears to be over, for now. Wishing you all a great day.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 11, 2026 07:04 AM (I0SR4)

132
10-day NOTAMs in NM and TX

This is it. The invasion of Greenland begins.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 07:05 AM (tgvbd)

133 You know who else the secret police planted as a CI in a political movement they were trying to undermine?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 07:05 AM (BI5O2)

134 133 You know who else ...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 07:05 AM (BI5O2)

Never gets old!

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 07:07 AM (+YA9H)

135 On dog related good news: Over the weekend, I transported an 8 month old greyhound up to NJ. I received a picture taken with her new family which includes a greyhound big brother. She'll be all right.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 07:07 AM (99eI0)

136 This is it. The invasion of Greenland begins.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I was wondering why the local Boy Scout troop was mobilizing.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 11, 2026 07:09 AM (99eI0)

137 133 You know who else the secret police planted as a CI in a political movement they were trying to undermine?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 07:05 AM (BI5O2)

That black guy that they had infiltrate the KKK?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:09 AM (6ydKt)

138 Posted by: pawn at February 11, 2026 07:04 AM (uvB+6)

You're welcome, and thanks for the cute and funny dog video.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2026 07:09 AM (ix8EF)

139 132 This is it. The invasion of Greenland begins.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2026 07:05 AM (tgvbd)

It's not easy being green.

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 07:10 AM (+YA9H)

140 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 11, 2026 07:10 AM (bQ4nt)

141 That black guy that they had infiltrate the KKK?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:09 AM (6ydKt)

I hadn't heard about that one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 07:11 AM (BI5O2)

142 Just trying to drive sales, or they might have someone specifically asking about your make/model/year for a used-vehicle purchase.

I suspect trying to drive sales. When I rode, I would tell people that winter was the best time to buy a motorcycle in NE, because dealers were desperate to get old iron off the floor.

As I said, if I didn't owe 8K on the thing already, I might have considered the offer, but retirement also means watching the pennies. Anyway, I only have 36K miles on the car, so she's good for at least another 90K.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 11, 2026 07:11 AM (ufSfZ)

143 I can't understand why this Canadian massacre isn't headline news. Were there any protesters of color involved?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 07:14 AM (xFfhU)

144 I hadn't heard about that one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 07:11 AM (BI5O2)

They made a movie about it; "BlacKkKlansman".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:14 AM (6ydKt)

145 Congratulations MPPPP. The lunch of no return.

My dad gave me some good advice. "You can't just retire from something. You have to retire to something."

In his case, it was dancing and chasing little old ladies.

In my case, it was full-time caregiver to my disabled wife. Now that she has "gone home to the Lord," I study theology and play golf and volunteer for some charities.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2026 07:14 AM (qFwJc)

146 They made a movie about it; "BlacKkKlansman".
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026

Well, I'm sure any movie about it sucks ass, but that's a pretty funny thing to do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 07:15 AM (BI5O2)

147 143 I can't understand why this Canadian massacre isn't headline news. Were there any protesters of color involved?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 07:14 AM (xFfhU)

The shooter's identity is apparently giving them some hesitation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:15 AM (6ydKt)

148 Well, I'm sure any movie about it sucks ass, but that's a pretty funny thing to do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 07:15 AM (BI5O2)

Aren't you in CO?

Apparently it was in your state.
A Colorado Springs cop named Ron Stallworth, happened in the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Stallworth

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

149 127 10-day NOTAMs in NM and TX:

https://tinyurl.com/49wh4amt

hmmm....

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 06:57 AM (7xyr6)

That seems very weird and ominous.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:59 AM

A TFR for security reasons? That's about as weird as sunrise. No way to tell if it's ominous or not without digging into it.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 11, 2026 07:18 AM (VmDLh)

150 Aren't you in CO?

Apparently it was in your state.
A Colorado Springs cop named Ron Stallworth, happened in the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Stallworth
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 07:18 AM

By the grace of G-d, I am now a former Coloradan, but I'll check this out, thanks!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2026 07:19 AM (BI5O2)

151 149 127 10-day NOTAMs in NM and TX:

https://tinyurl.com/49wh4amt

hmmm....

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 06:57 AM (7xyr6)

That seems very weird and ominous.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 11, 2026 06:59 AM

A TFR for security reasons? That's about as weird as sunrise. No way to tell if it's ominous or not without digging into it.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 11, 2026 07:18 AM (VmDLh)

For 10 days?

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 07:21 AM (+YA9H)

152 The MR is up.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 11, 2026 07:23 AM (I0SR4)

153 Everything's Alright (1992)

Lovely!

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 07:28 AM (+YA9H)

154 Disclaimer: EVERYTHING IS NOT ALRIGHT!

I mean, you're not wrong.

Posted by: m at February 11, 2026 07:29 AM (+YA9H)

155 There are TFRs that have been in place for years over every major sports stadium, theme park, outhouse, doghouse, and hen house in the lower 48.

10 days probably means some VIP is visiting and the schedule is still not quite set. Maybe SecDef is going to take a vacation there.

That's a guess, but these things really do happen all the time. I still like to think of myself as a pilot so I subscribe to the email notifications of such things.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 11, 2026 07:31 AM (VmDLh)

156 @155 "There are TFRs that have been in place for years over every major sports stadium, theme park, outhouse, doghouse, and hen house in the lower 48.

10 days probably means some VIP is visiting and the schedule is still not quite set. Maybe SecDef is going to take a vacation there"

Maybe but 10 days is a very long time. Zero flights in or out, while the schedule firms up? This is very odd.

Posted by: occamn's brassiere at February 11, 2026 08:07 AM (gEjVe)

157 Sooosan shaky hands Collins haired dyed twitch, devil take the hind parts.

Posted by: kingsman at February 11, 2026 08:30 AM (ehY6c)

158 fat obese tranny did the canuck killings. I know, two adj for obese but he/she is pig fat.

Posted by: kingsman at February 11, 2026 08:32 AM (ehY6c)

159 156 MMaybe but 10 days is a very long time. Zero flights in or out, while the schedule firms up? This is very odd.
Posted by: occamn's brassiere at February 11, 2026 08:07 AM

Zero flights in or out is NOT how TFRs work. Air traffic still flows,but there are additional rules.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 11, 2026 09:13 AM (d73s0)

160 sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 11, 2026 09:29 AM (w9Wax)

161 "When your programming language does not force rigour upon you, you had better be prepared to provide it yourself."

Oh, man, is that true! Thirty years ago, I had to write a reporting system, and the only tool available at the time was Perl - which is the world's only self-encrypting language. (A friend once called it "the Swiss-army chainsaw".) For it to work, I had to be very scrupulous in how I used it - and the first step was to shit-can that "there's more than one way to do it" nonsense. The result was code that I can pick up and read and understand immediately, decades after I wrote it. The system, BTW, worked quite well.

Posted by: Nemo at February 11, 2026 10:16 AM (4RPgu)

162 Microsoft is like the NFL. If the horrible, unforgivable shit they been doing for the last 35 years hasn't driven you away by now then you will consume any slop they put in your trough

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 11, 2026 10:16 AM (v5auy)

163 We are a small "Mom & Pop" computer company in business for over 40 years. After Covid, HP pulled our reseller's license (like every other "Mom & Pop"). Since then we have been building our own business desktops. We sat on an order for 15 Intel I5-14th gen processors for over 5 months before they were shipped. Now it is memory and hard drives too. It isn't just that - manufacturers are using this to jack up prices on cases and power supplies too. Kind of tough to be in business.

Posted by: oldgeezer at February 11, 2026 10:22 AM (wUdkx)

Tuesday Overnight Thread - February 10, 2026 [Not Doof]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

I know what you're thinking. Where's Doof? This Tuesday night ONT looks suspiciously like a Wednesday night ONT. If a Wednesday night ONT is posted on Tuesday night, is it still a Wednesday night ONT - just misplaced on the time-space continuum? or has the posting on Tuesday transformed the Wednesday ONT into a Tuesday ONT at a molecular level? So many questions.

TRex is just a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms. All I know is that Doof is detailed elsewhere this evening, so it is you and me. Glad you stopped by and pleased you've chosen to patronize the ONT. Happy to spend a little interweb time with my favorite Morons.

What will happen tomorrow night? Tune in tomorrow and find out!

In the meantime, an ONT means another edition of very random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Pants are optional regardless of the day. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Matterhorn, Switzerland]

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Department of Music

This isn't a music thread, but since most posts end up being a music thread at some point, let's just shortcut the process.

All hail the bass player. Do bass players get enough credit? Oh sure, the lead singer screams and yells and winds up the crowd. The lead guitarist unleashes solos in the spotlight. To be fair, it is all about the drums, but the bass player is the unsung hero.

But how many bands are driven by the vision of the bass player?

Les Claypool from Primus -

Bonus trivia nugget - Claypool auditioned for Metallica in 1986 following the death of Cliff Burton, but was rejected because his eclectic, "funky" style did not match the band's metal direction. Despite his high school friendship with Kirk Hammett, he was deemed "too weird" and "too good" to simply fit into their existing sound, leading James Hetfield to suggest he pursue his own band.

Cliff Burton was a force of nature and made some of Metallica's best music, but arguably the band was driven by James and Lars.

Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead -

Steve Harris from Iron Maiden -

Maiden doesn't sing about sex, drugs and rock n' roll. They sing about for what lurks in the darkness, British military history and Samuel Taylor Coleridge poetry. With a few exceptions along the way, Harris wrote most of the music and lyrics from the very beginning. Impressive body of work.

For what its worth, as with Metallica, TRex prefers the older stuff.

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No idea if this is real or AI, but I'd like to think this is something that a Calvin and Hobbes reader would do.

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Wednesday ONT History Department

No idea if this is a true story, but would be a fun history nugget if true:

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Full disclosure: My grade school science fair projects did not involve nuclear fusion.

Dallas 12-year-old achieves nuclear fusion after four years of effort

A 12-year-old Dallas student's four-year-long science project may have resulted in his becoming the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion.
Aiden McMillan, a Dallas Independent School District seventh-grader, said he started work on his ambitious project when he was just 8 years old, and spent the first two years studying nuclear physics concepts before building his first prototypes.
He said it took some work to ensure his mother was comfortable with his tinkering.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner has the night off. In its place, the Pima County Sheriff's Department has an important message:

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A little upbeat bluegrass banjo music for the big ONT finish:

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1 Click here to re-play.

Posted by: mindful webworker - you're shaking my confidence daily at February 10, 2026 10:01 PM (kqXjy)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 10, 2026 10:01 PM (LdBR/)

3 Guthrie preempts Gutfeld.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 10:01 PM (Cqx++)

4 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at February 10, 2026 10:01 PM (+HNx/)

5 Ya know, the powers that be have a plan for you. In the words of that great scholar, Mike Tyson, "Every one has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:02 PM (u82oZ)

6 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

7 It's a Mattahorn....!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 10:02 PM (QGaXH)

8 Deformated time zone in passing

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 10:02 PM (/LXUT)

9 Top pic looks like the Whazzamatterhorn to me.

Posted by: mindful webworker - isn't that in Disneyland? at February 10, 2026 10:03 PM (kqXjy)

10 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 10, 2026 10:03 PM (lUFok)

11 Full disclosure: My grade school science fair projects did not involve nuclear fusion.

Dallas 12-year-old achieves nuclear fusion after four years of effort

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Great nuclear fusion generator, Ahmed!

Posted by: Barky O'Shithead at February 10, 2026 10:03 PM (+HNx/)

12 "All I know is that Doof is detailed elsewhere"

Detailed? Like what my car needs?

Posted by: mindful webworker - clean those floor mats at February 10, 2026 10:05 PM (kqXjy)

13 TRex is just a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms.
=
Don't feel bad about it.

Posted by: H Cavill at February 10, 2026 10:05 PM (vSvIl)

14 This week I learned that Proof of Life is a thing. As did the rest of the internet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (+HNx/)

15 Geddy Lee

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (Cqx++)

16 The kite story is true. It was the only way they really had back then to get the line started on a set up like that.

Posted by: KCSteve at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (2+WvJ)

17 12 "All I know is that Doof is detailed elsewhere"

Detailed? Like what my car needs?
Posted by: mindful webworker - clean those floor mats at February 10, 2026 10:05 PM (kqXjy)

Maybe Doof's detained in Tucson -

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (QGaXH)

18 An extra Dino ONT can't possibly be bad!
Hiya T😄

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 10, 2026 10:07 PM (LNeRu)

19 Good evening morons y gracias Dino for filling in

It's a toss up between Mike Rutherford and Tony Levin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

20 Fusion? I question the containment magnet strengths. Wonder what level of neutron poisoning they reached.

Fission is easier, with the right materials.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:07 PM (u82oZ)

21
Detailed? Like what my car needs?

Is that Army talk? I was in the Navy. I guess we had work details.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 10:07 PM (Cqx++)

22 16 The kite story is true. It was the only way they really had back then to get the line started on a set up like that.
Posted by: KCSteve at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (2+WvJ)

They may have done something similar with the Brooklyn Bridge.

A small cannon might work also.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 10:08 PM (QGaXH)

23 {{{COMountainMarie}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:08 PM (u82oZ)

24 Thanks, TRex!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 10:09 PM (rdVOm)

25 FYI, the kites are just following an old nautical technique called the messenger line. From a thin cord, it eventually can go to towing cables.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:10 PM (u82oZ)

26 Ummm... Chris Squire.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at February 10, 2026 10:10 PM (sq9Io)

27 22 16 The kite story is true. It was the only way they really had back then to get the line started on a set up like that.
Posted by: KCSteve at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (2+WvJ)

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Seems like they could have used a European swallow.

Posted by: Arthur, King of the Britons at February 10, 2026 10:10 PM (+HNx/)

28 18 An extra Dino ONT can't possibly be bad!
Hiya T😄

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 10, 2026 10:07 PM
***
Howdy!

Posted by: TRex - fill-in dino at February 10, 2026 10:10 PM (1vAma)

29 Aspiring physicists often have weird high school science projects.

Physicist Michio Kaku built a 2.3 MeV particle accelerator in his mom's garage when he was in high school.

He wanted to create a beam of antimatter.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 10:10 PM (ESVrU)

30 Aiden's nuclear fusion > Ahmed's cool clock

Posted by: huerfano at February 10, 2026 10:11 PM (98kQX)

31 The kite story is true. It was the only way they really had back then to get the line started on a set up like that.
Posted by: KCSteve at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (2+WvJ)

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Seems like they could have used a European swallow.
Posted by: Arthur, King of the Britons at February 10, 2026 10:10 PM (+HNx/)

Definitely laden.

Posted by: RickZ at February 10, 2026 10:11 PM (gKDq2)

32 Gotta love the banjos

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at February 10, 2026 10:11 PM (t/Eo5)

33 I saw the Amelia clip with her bolstering the men of the UK to fight against the dark forces of Sauron.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:12 PM (u82oZ)

34 16 The kite story is true. It was the only way they really had back then to get the line started on a set up like that.
Posted by: KCSteve at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (2+WvJ)

They may have done something similar with the Brooklyn Bridge.

A small cannon might work also.....

The kite is a better choice, though. Wind would have to way to high to be safe in order to carry a cannon across the gap.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 10, 2026 10:12 PM (lUFok)

35 Shoot. I was watching a YT vid and forgot about the ONT. Eh, too late now, everything's already been said.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 10, 2026 10:12 PM (uQesX)

36 Three banjos is three too many.

Posted by: Just Want Peace And Quiet at February 10, 2026 10:13 PM (oftw2)

37 No offense to the OP, but Les Claypool is the singular worst bass player I've ever heard. There is no such thing as "Lead Bass Player". Bass is supposed to aligned with the drummer in the "rhythm section". He overplays...badly...and on every song. If he wanted to be a guitarist, he should have given up the bass and played guitar.

And I feel the same way about Tool's drummer. There's no such thing as "lead drummer". Provide the rhythm, and let the other musicians tell the story.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

38 John Paul Jones(John Richard Baldwin) of Led Zeppelin.

Posted by: davidt at February 10, 2026 10:13 PM (Q+gd/)

39 Shoot. I was watching a YT vid and forgot about the ONT. Eh, too late now, everything's already been said.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 10, 2026 10:12 PM (uQesX)

Boobs.

Posted by: Methos at February 10, 2026 10:13 PM (vSvIl)

40 "Perfessor" Squirrel

A beam of anti-matter. On Earth. Without parsecs of vacuum around.

Sounds like an explosive science project.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:13 PM (u82oZ)

41 Thanks for the dandy off-night ONT, TRex! Well done, as always.

Loved the Dilbert cartoon.

And love-love-love the snow sculpture!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 10, 2026 10:14 PM (kB9dk)

42 24 Thanks, TRex!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 10:09 PM
***
Good evening, barkeep!

Posted by: TRex - doof substitute at February 10, 2026 10:14 PM (1vAma)

43 Three banjos is three too many.
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And one harmonica is one too many.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:14 PM (Cjcf6)

44 {{Salty}}!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 10, 2026 10:14 PM (LNeRu)

45 Robert Trujillo is no slouch as a bass player. He's the only reason I've had any interest in listening to anything Metallica has put out in 20 years.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:14 PM (xFfhU)

46 Boobs.
Posted by: Methos at February 10, 2026 10:13 PM (vSvIl)

See.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 10, 2026 10:15 PM (uQesX)

47 Was hoping to celebrate Doof CLI, but this is a fine ONT, especially the Lemmy cut.

Posted by: Humpy Carlos at February 10, 2026 10:15 PM (oftw2)

48 There's no such thing as "lead drummer".

WTF?

Posted by: Zombie Keith Moon at February 10, 2026 10:15 PM (lUFok)

49 Doof substitute > Soylent yellow

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

50 Uh-huh. Sure.

@EndWokeness
BREAKING: 10 dead, 25+ injured after a "woman wearing a dress" opens fire on Canadian school (Tumbler Ridge)

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 10:16 PM (diia5)

51 "Perfessor" Squirrel

A beam of anti-matter. On Earth. Without parsecs of vacuum around.

Sounds like an explosive science project.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:13 PM (u82oZ)
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All he needed was a dilithium crystal or two and we'd have warp drive right now!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 10:16 PM (ESVrU)

52 And one harmonica is one too many.
Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:14 PM (Cjcf6)

That damn Frisby!

Posted by: Aliens at February 10, 2026 10:17 PM (uQesX)

53 John Wetton of Asia

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:17 PM (lJ0H4)

54 There is no such thing as "Lead Bass Player".
Posted by: Crusader

Counterpoints.....

The Omnific, a three-pieces with two basses and a drummer:
https://youtu.be/A_fzsa4C81c

Renaissance: bass playing lead, acoustic playing rhythm:
https://youtu.be/HKBJqHvQvjg

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

55 Did Doof get detained in a disco by a detail of die hard fans of his dancing? Were they called the Dancing Doofettes of Disco?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

56 COMountainMarie

Yup.

I called my former next-door Reston, VA neighbor today. She is the 92 year old bitter end Leftist, who wants to check her sexually active box with Medicare with Yes every year.

She was talking to a new man when I called. She told him "This is an old, old, old, old friend." I shouted "I'm not that old." And hung up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:18 PM (u82oZ)

57 John Paul Jones(John Richard Baldwin) of Led Zeppelin.
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Absolutely! AND he could play the keyboards amazingly as well! "In Through The Out Door" is often referred to as the John Paul Jones album. He was the one most centered at the time of the recording (Page was in a bad place) and his bass and keyboards dominate that album. IF you've never paid attention to John Paul Jones on *keyboard*, check out the Led Zeppelin song "Carouselambra". That entire song is a legacy piece for John Paul Jones.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:18 PM (Cjcf6)

58 "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'd only get on a NCC-1701 cruiser if you were the science officer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:20 PM (u82oZ)

59 52 Crusader

Ha😂!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 10, 2026 10:20 PM (LNeRu)

60 Wind turbine 1: Hey, what kind of music do you like?

Wind turbine 2: I'm a big metal fan.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at February 10, 2026 10:21 PM (NlEaG)

61 "A 12-year-old Dallas student's four-year-long science project may have resulted in his becoming the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion."

Ah. Young Sheldon.

https://youtu.be/JSyLWa3vKzM

Posted by: mindful webworker and his sonic death ray at February 10, 2026 10:21 PM (kqXjy)

62 Uh-huh. Sure.

@EndWokeness
BREAKING: 10 dead, 25+ injured after a "woman wearing a dress" opens fire on Canadian school (Tumbler Ridge)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 10:16 PM (diia5)

This can’t have happened. That school was a gun free zone!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 10:21 PM (dhHpw)

63 "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'd only get on a NCC-1701 cruiser if you were the science officer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:20 PM (u82oZ)
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Oh, I'm just a dabbler in the field...I know just enough to be dangerous.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 10:21 PM (ESVrU)

64 It’s great (usually) when kids start early in their craft or chosen field. Wehrner Von Braun got in trouble as a youth for attaching solid rockets to a toy wagon, frightening the womenfolk and horses in his small burg.

Young Arthur Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa had an interest and n building radios in the 1920s, this was like the Internet of the day. For whatever reason, young Arthur could receive the radio transmissions at his parents home from a polar expedition being conducted by the military when no one else, including the US Navy were having any luck.

He went on to eventually form Collins Radio, a highly respected electronics manufacturer for many years. I remember a Black Hawk driver in the .mil who had a lot of experience in general aviation, and he told me “Collins” was the only thing he ever wanted to see when he got into the cockpit of an airplane.

Today it’s part of some humongous corporate conglomerate, Rockwell-Collins, but it started with some kid in his bedroom winding coils, and bugging his parents to buy him a couple WD-11 tubes. Love stories like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:22 PM (5119n)

65 Perfect pitch: When you can throw a banjo onto the bottom of the dumpster without touching the sides.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 10, 2026 10:22 PM (aMrr2)

66 Three banjos is three too many.
----

And one harmonica is one too many.
Posted by: Crusader

Welp, I guess spoons are out of the question then.

However, for the hoi polloi - I give you the delightful Abby Roach:

https://t.ly/tk2Bk

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 10:22 PM (cYBz/)

67 My son sent me a birthday text:

"Please accept this acknowledgement of the anniversary of your birth. Please infer appropriate warmth and affection from this acknowledgement, as defined by your relationship with the sender."

I laughed so hard I could not read it to my wife. I handed the phone to her.

We done good raising our sons.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 10:22 PM (0aYVJ)

68 Was hoping to celebrate Doof CLI, but this is a fine ONT, especially the Lemmy cut.
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Lemmy was an interesting cat. He KNEW that Motorhead was "metal". But he bickered with the press about it--he insisted that they were rock-n-roll. It mattered to him.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:22 PM (Cjcf6)

69 Hello, Horde. Hope you are all doing great tonight, and in the week as it has unfurled.

I watched Arrow's "Deep Blue Sea" and while I don't have to tell you about this film, it was interesting that the parrot's dialogue was done by Frank Welker.

If you don't know who Frank Welker is, well, you are seriously deficient in your cultural knowledge. Shape up, people!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 10, 2026 10:23 PM (CHHv1)

70 "A woman wearing a dress."
I read that too. I thought what a strange way to say something. If it was a woman what does it matter what she was wearing?

Posted by: Case at February 10, 2026 10:23 PM (E7+ue)

71 But how many bands are driven by the vision of the bass player?

_______________________

You definitely, positively, absolutely have to include THE POLICE, whenever you talk about the bass player driving the vision of the band. Sting is the consumate bass player. Some of the best bass players in the business have marveled at his ability to actually do lead vocals and play difficult bass lines at the same time.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 10:24 PM (dIske)

72 The kite story is true. It was the only way they really had back then to get the line started on a set up like that.
Posted by: KCSteve

Harpoons were not yet invented.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2026 10:24 PM (/lPRQ)

73 BTW T-Rex, thanks for Dilbert. Scott Adams will be sorely missed😥...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 10, 2026 10:24 PM (LNeRu)

74 Evening all,

Just posted an update on the kitty who showed back up yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/dg65258

On the ONT front, I hope that snow sculpture to the garage entrance isn't AI. It's pretty neat if real.

Posted by: Joyenz at February 10, 2026 10:24 PM (2F0/Y)

75 I guess if Canadian schools didnt have mass graves before, some liberal with a gun will make sure it has them now

Posted by: Wally at February 10, 2026 10:26 PM (0e5Te)

76 There is no such thing as "Lead Bass Player".
Posted by: Crusader

Counterpoints.....

The Omnific, a three-pieces with two basses and a drummer:
https://youtu.be/A_fzsa4C81c
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We might as well listen to a Joe Satriani album. At least there would be speed. Instrumental "rock" or "metal" is just...uninteresting. And both of those "lead" bass players should just take up guitar and be done with it.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:26 PM (Cjcf6)

77 a "woman wearing a dress"

... "a pink dress, and wearing lipstick, and blasting out Shania Twain's The Woman In Me on a big boom box"

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 10:27 PM (gKWVE)

78 One of my favorite Despair.com motivational posters is the "Mistakes" one. It has a shipwreck sticking up out of the water, and the caption "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."

Posted by: GWB at February 10, 2026 10:27 PM (IJVVD)

79 One of my favorite Despair.com motivational posters is the "Mistakes" one. It has a shipwreck sticking up out of the water, and the caption "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
Posted by: GWB at February 10, 2026 10:27 PM (IJVVD)
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I've had a couple of bosses like that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 10:28 PM (ESVrU)

80 Itinerant Alley Butcher

The first action to happen when Navy ships get alongside to swap supplies (Underway Replenishment) is to send over the phone and distance messenger line. Usually with a grenade launching gun. You have to watch, because the Gunners Mates liked to target officers on the bridge.

One CO I saw took out a driver and hit a golf-ball attached to the phone and distance line messenger line. That was much more dangerous for the receiving ship.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:28 PM (u82oZ)

81 You have to watch, because the Gunners Mates liked to target officers on the bridge.

So what's the down side?

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 10, 2026 10:29 PM (47diA)

82 Geddy Lee was good at staying in the bass clef. While warbling, playing footpedals, and synth. Dude is a machine.

Chris Squire noodled too much. He wanted to be a lead bass guitar dude.

Claypool is an anomaly. Whole 'nother level.

Favorites; Geezer Butler, Cliff Burton, Tom Hamilton, Steve Harris, John Paul Jones.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 10:30 PM (0aYVJ)

83 Usually with a grenade launching gun. You have to watch, because the Gunners Mates liked to target officers on the bridge.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I see you've spoken with my son.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 10:31 PM (cYBz/)

84 I think Canada did have a school shooting awhile back. I believe it was as bad as this. But I can't remember those details.

Posted by: Case at February 10, 2026 10:31 PM (E7+ue)

85 I had a junior high science project that someone stole to try and make a bong out of. I got it back in time for judging though.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2026 10:31 PM (+YZ+2)

86 >>>We might as well listen to a Joe Satriani album. At least there would be speed. Instrumental "rock" or "metal" is just...uninteresting. And both of those "lead" bass players should just take up guitar and be done with it.

Posted by: Crusader

>Now do Classical music. Jazz?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:31 PM (xFfhU)

87 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 10, 2026 10:31 PM (sAmhv)

88 For an album or two, Pete Trewavas of Marillion got to play the melody line on the bass.

https://youtu.be/7HEhEQUamCU

Yes, it's an intentional Righteous Brothers pastiche. It's supposedly about Phil Spector.

.....

Marble (the Japanese duo) had at least one bass-led song, with Puzzle:

https://youtu.be/HpwtLb2d8Kc

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)

89 But we must remember Spinal Tap: Big Bottom All bass.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)

90 called my former next-door Reston, VA neighbor today. She is the 92 year old bitter end Leftist, who wants to check her sexually active box with Medicare with Yes every year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:18 PM (u82oZ)

Does she have an OnlyFans account?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at February 10, 2026 10:33 PM (aMrr2)

91 Uh-huh. Sure.

@EndWokeness
BREAKING: 10 dead, 25+ injured after a "woman wearing a dress" opens fire on Canadian school (Tumbler Ridge)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 10:16 PM (diia5)
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This can’t have happened. That school was a gun free zone!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 10:21 PM (dhHpw)

Canucknuckleheads will just blame American gun culture.

Posted by: RickZ at February 10, 2026 10:33 PM (gKDq2)

92 "A woman wearing a dress."
——

It could be, their way of letting you know “trans women are women!!” Could be. It is sad we have to reverse-engineer the “news” these days, but that’s the world we live in.

The reason I suggest this might be the situation, a couple years ago a story circulated about a suicide attempt out in the Mojave or someplace like that, they rescued this person. The article was very heavy on “She” and “The woman” and “her” adjectives, way way over the top, over and over. A light clicked off in my head. It was tranny. I can’t prove it, but I know that’s what happened. Maybe that isn’t what happened in this latest atrocity, but something to consider.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:34 PM (5119n)

93 Lemmy was a guitar player who moved to bass and pretty much didn't change anything about how he played.

Posted by: Reforger at February 10, 2026 10:34 PM (J/fgw)

94 One of my favorite Despair.com motivational posters is the "Mistakes" one. It has a shipwreck sticking up out of the water, and the caption "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
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There is or was a "Demotivaters" site that had many such phrases. One of my favorites was:

"Leaders are like Eagles...we don't have either of those around here."

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:35 PM (Cjcf6)

95 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

Didn't know the guy had passed away, the radiation definitely fried his brain a bit. He would've fit right into Pooky's former USAF career field if the Navy hadn't grabbed him first.

Posted by: pookysgirl misses some wacky characters at February 10, 2026 10:35 PM (Wt5PA)

96 @nicksortor
·
22m
🚨 BREAKING: 10 people are dead, 25 injured after a “woman wearing a dress” opened fire on a school in British Columbia, Canada

Local police are referring to the shooter as a “gunperson.”

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2026 10:35 PM (ZxPkt)

97 LRob in OK

Uh, none. But the phone talker that needs that line is on the bow, near the anchor winch. Lower and further forward.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:35 PM (u82oZ)

98 the thing I like about the Matterhorn is that it's really pointy

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2026 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)

99 Billy Jeff Clinton

Close, but no cigar.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:37 PM (u82oZ)

100 64 Today it’s part of some humongous corporate conglomerate, Rockwell-Collins, but it started with some kid in his bedroom winding coils, and bugging his parents to buy him a couple WD-11 tubes. Love stories like that.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:22 PM (5119n)

Rockwell Collins is part of Raytheon Technologies, which was formed by the merger of Raytheon and United Technologies (Pratt & Whitney etc). I believe Rockwell-Collins was part of UT prior to the merger.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (QGaXH)

101 For an album or two, Pete Trewavas of Marillion got to play the melody line on the bass.

https://youtu.be/7HEhEQUamCU
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He played bass in that track. Well. But nothing out of the ordinary.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (Cjcf6)

102 You definitely, positively, absolutely have to include THE POLICE, whenever you talk about the bass player driving the vision of the band. Sting is the consumate bass player. Some of the best bass players in the business have marveled at his ability to actually do lead vocals and play difficult bass lines at the same time.
Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 10:24 PM (dIske)
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This is why "Walking on the Moon" is on my playlist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (RIvkX)

103 Local police are referring to the shooter as a “gunperson.”
Posted by: Don Black

Goodbye, horses

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (gKWVE)

104 Salty, is radio use a bad idea? Concerns about folks listening in? Scrambling works. Or is the distance part the important one? Please excuse the questions, I was in another element of the DoD!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (47diA)

105 Will we never be rid of mentally ill trans people trying to kill?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (u82oZ)

106 One of my favorite Despair.com motivational posters is the "Mistakes" one. It has a shipwreck sticking up out of the water, and the caption "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."

There is or was a "Demotivaters" site that had many such phrases. One of my favorites was:
"Leaders are like Eagles...we don't have either of those around here."
Posted by: Crusader

"Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us."

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)

107 My favorite demotivator is "potential"-- with picture of a sleeve of french fries, and text (paraphrased):

Not everyone can be a rocket scientist.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 10:39 PM (rdVOm)

108 57 IF you've never paid attention to John Paul Jones on *keyboard*, check out the Led Zeppelin song "Carouselambra". That entire song is a legacy piece for John Paul Jones.
Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:18 PM (Cjcf6)

Stairway wouldn't be as great without the John Paul Jones electric piano and 4 wooden medieval-styled recorders.

Posted by: Joemarine at February 10, 2026 10:40 PM (y171U)

109 John Paul Jones did not get the attention he deserved. He was a vital part of the Zep magic.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at February 10, 2026 10:41 PM (+0Wk3)

110 Just prior to the end of my service, my office mate was a LtCol who WAS a rocket propulsion guy. Pretty danged smart but a better third baseman on the softball team!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 10, 2026 10:41 PM (47diA)

111 Local police are referring to the shooter as a “gunperson.”

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Person of Firearm

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 10:41 PM (+HNx/)

112 🚨 BREAKING: 10 people are dead, 25 injured after a “woman wearing a dress” opened fire on a school in British Columbia, Canada

Local police are referring to the shooter as a “gunperson.”
Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2026 10:35 PM (ZxPkt)
====
Pattern Detection Sensors
[ X ] ACTIVATED
[ _ ] NOT ACTIVATED

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 10:41 PM (RIvkX)

113
And one harmonica is one too many.
Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:14 PM (Cjcf6)

That damn Frisby!
Posted by: Aliens

Old "rear engine" Frisby they called him.
Jut before the anal probe.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 10:41 PM (Cqx++)

114 FBI erased surveillance video of night Jeffery Epstein was murdered and noose was not the one used according to epstein files. So person in orange is just a blob in photo. Hillary gets away again!

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at February 10, 2026 10:43 PM (TgBHO)

115 Motorhead and Lemmy were rock and roll. Fast Eddie threw in some metal licks now and again, but I wouldn't consider them thrash metal.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:44 PM (xFfhU)

116 64
Young Arthur Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa had an interest and n building radios in the 1920s, this was like the Internet of the day. For whatever reason, young Arthur could receive the radio transmissions at his parents home from a polar expedition being conducted by the military when no one else, including the US Navy were having any luck.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:22 PM (5119n)

Cool story..thanks.

Posted by: Joemarine at February 10, 2026 10:44 PM (y171U)

117 106 Will we never be rid of mentally ill trans people trying to kill?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (u82oZ)

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One might even consider it a question worthy of systematic study to determine whether loading up a young body with the hormones of the opposite sex might have some detrimental impact on said person's mental and emotional functioning.

Naaaaww.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 10:45 PM (+HNx/)

118 Dallas 12-year-old achieves nuclear fusion after four years of effort

I’d better be going.

Posted by: Mitch Taylor at February 10, 2026 10:45 PM (EXyHK)

119 We might as well listen to a Joe Satriani album. At least there would be speed. Instrumental "rock" or "metal" is just...uninteresting. And both of those "lead" bass players should just take up guitar and be done with it.

Posted by: Crusader

>Now do Classical music. Jazz?
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Same story. A properly marketed "two lead bass players!!!" band would out-draw the typical classical or jazz band. And none of them would out-draw Joe Satriani...who wouldn't outdraw a Ratt gig at an Indian Casino.

I'm not asserting Les Claypool can't play bass. I'm merely asserting he shouldn't, because he gums up the recordings he's associated with. Keith Moon could clearly play drums, but Pete Townsend admitted that playing in a band with him AND John Entwistle was hard because neither of them were focused on keeping the rhythm going even though both were playing rhythm positions.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:45 PM (Cjcf6)

120 If the Calvin and Hobbs snow monster is real then you people in the snow country have way too much time on your hands.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 10:45 PM (QGaXH)

121 LRob in OK

Just keying the mike give "specialized equipment" a line of bearing. Takes a mili-second. You can use two lines of bearing to get a position, and send a missile to that location.

Signal Flags or flashing light are more secure, but have been discontinued by the US Navy.

Theoretically, a gyro-stabilized laser can link ships within visual range. However, wha tis done is to use space assets or other high-flying transponders. Satellites carry a lot of the coordination data and voice traffic.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:46 PM (u82oZ)

122 I need to stop trying to discuss late Republic land reform

https://tinyurl.com/4ptkb7hk

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 10:46 PM (rbvCR)

123 Will we never be rid of mentally ill trans people trying to kill? Posted by: NaCly Dog

Hannibal Lecter: First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?
Clarice Starling: He kills women...
Hannibal Lecter: No. That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does? What needs does he serve by killing?
Clarice Starling: Anger, um, social acceptance, and, huh, sexual frustrations, sir...
Hannibal Lecter: No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.
Clarice Starling: No. We just...
Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 10:46 PM (diia5)

124 New ad:

Roses are red,
Horses go clop,
For a vasectomy,
See Dr. Chopp.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 10:46 PM (S/Y4j)

125 I used to work for Alliant Techsystems. But-- that was back when they owned the (small arms) ammo place. Hah. Told Mom: "If I *had* been a rocket scientist, I'd *still* probably have ended up working for this outfit!"

They spun us off because the Big Bux were in aerospace, not Elmer Fudd stuff. Now "Orbital ATK".

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

126 Happy birthday, Pug Mahon!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 10, 2026 10:47 PM (42yrw)

127 New ad:

Roses are red,
Horses go clop,
For a vasectomy,
See Dr. Dick Chopp.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 10:47 PM (S/Y4j)

128 I bought the eponymous Ace of Spades album by Motorhead when it came out. The album cover photo looked promising, even.

Every tune sounded the same, and I wondered why they even bothered separating the individual tracks on the album.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:47 PM (psViZ)

129 Dallas 12-year-old achieves nuclear fusion after four years of effort

Pressing X to doubt

Posted by: Pons and Fleischmann at February 10, 2026 10:48 PM (D0HYP)

130 Local police are referring to the shooter as a “gunperson.”

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Person of Firearm
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In response liberals everywhere will propose to outlaw pepper spray.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:48 PM (Cjcf6)

131 One of my favorite Despair.com motivational posters is the "Mistakes" one. It has a shipwreck sticking up out of the water, and the caption "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
Posted by: GWB at February 10, 2026 10:2

This my favorite one too. I have it above my desk here at Beartooth Manor. Years ago my wife would buy me their calendar and I hung them in my work cube. Management requested that I refrain for hanging the calendars.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 10, 2026 10:48 PM (GGatE)

132 Happy Birthday Pug

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at February 10, 2026 10:48 PM (+0Wk3)

133 not all of us can be the one note one string bass player that every mediocre drummer (like Lars) so richly deserves

Then and again when you have a proper drummer (like Kieth Moon or Scott Travis) you can have a real bass player (like John Entwistle) or no bass player (like Ian Hill)

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 10, 2026 10:49 PM (jrgJz)

134 The mentally disturbed gun person in a dress.
The media, can they get any worse than they are now?
Just say it!

Posted by: Case at February 10, 2026 10:49 PM (E7+ue)

135 I generally oppose any gun restrictions because they just embolden the gun grabbers but I could support banning trannies from owning or possessing a gun.
I'm willing to compromise, Lefties. Come join me.

Posted by: Wally at February 10, 2026 10:50 PM (0e5Te)

136 New ad:

Roses are red,
Horses go clop,
For a vasectomy,
See Dr. Dick Chopp.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 10:47 PM (S/Y4j)

***

Violets are blue
You will be too.
When Chopp slips on the cut
And you lose your nuts.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 10:51 PM (2WIwB)

137 BREAKING: 10 people are dead, 25 injured after a “woman wearing a dress” opened fire on a school in British Columbia, Canada

The guy who occasionally replaces the the numbers over the "0 Days Since Trans Violence" sign has an easier job than the Maytag Repairman.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 10, 2026 10:51 PM (D0HYP)

138 You are five minutes late.
What is your excuse?
Why is it wrong?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 10:52 PM (/LXUT)

139 Renaissance: bass playing lead, acoustic playing rhythm:
https://youtu.be/HKBJqHvQvjg
Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

Jon Camp occurred to me, too. Saw Renaissance in Passaic, NJ, circa 1985. Annie Haslam ....(swoons)...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 10, 2026 10:52 PM (nbLIj)

140 We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-34
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: February 11, 2026 (PST)
Launch Time: 6:07 a.m. PST (1407 UTC, 15:07 CET)

https://youtu.be/u9ijY00aiUo

Posted by: Joyenz at February 10, 2026 10:52 PM (2F0/Y)

141 The version I know is:
"If you can't be a good example,
you can at least serve as a horrible warning,"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 10, 2026 10:52 PM (42yrw)

142 One of my favorite Despair.com motivational posters is the "Mistakes" one. It has a shipwreck sticking up out of the water, and the caption "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
Posted by: GWB at February 10, 2026 10:2

Working at an office with a manager who liked the "Keep Calm and ..." motto

Keep Calm
(Photo of lion catching zebra)
We'll Get to the Carrion Part in a Moment

Posted by: Chuck C at February 10, 2026 10:55 PM (D0HYP)

143 "The nation's largest public utility—the Tennessee Valley Authority—says it now wants to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its board, which has a majority of members picked by the Trump administration.

In new filings, TVA's signaled that it wants to ditch closure dates for the Kingston Fossil Plant and Cumberland Fossil Plant in Tennessee, which would require further action from its board. The new plan would still include introducing natural gas-fired plants at both locations.

TVA had intended to shutter its remaining, aging coal plants by 2035 in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that spur climate change. But the utility, which partners with local power companies to serve roughly 10 million people in seven states, said it is rethinking the coal plant closures because of regulatory changes and increasing demand for electricity."

Well, well, well. Will wonders never cease.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 10:55 PM (cYBz/)

144 Signal Flags or flashing light
--
Aldis lamp.

As an aside, I think that the BSA still has a Semiphore merit badge

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:56 PM (XeU6L)

145 Happy birthday, Pug Mahon!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 10, 2026 10:47 PM (42yrw)

thank you. Still clinging to being 29.

No carousel!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 10:56 PM (0aYVJ)

146 …but I could support banning trannies from owning or possessing a gun.

I’m not sure, but I suspect they already are. I’m pretty sure there’s a question about mental illness on the forms. It’s just one of the laws—like it being illegal to mutilate or poison children—that aren’t enforced when done by the Left.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 10, 2026 10:57 PM (EXyHK)

147 ....or no bass player (like Ian Hill)
----

You mean the ONLY bass player to play on every Judas Priest studio album? I guess you don't get how this "music" thing works.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:57 PM (Cjcf6)

148 🚨 BREAKING: 10 people are dead, 25 injured after a “woman wearing a dress” opened fire on a school in British Columbia, Canada

Local police are referring to the shooter as a “gunperson.”
Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2026 10:35 PM (ZxPkt)
______________________________________

I just read the CBC article, and second paragraph. "It's very likely we will never know the motive of the suspect."

That sets off the alarm bells. Making a definitive statement like that this early is code for, everyone will know the motive, but you must not speak it.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 10:57 PM (dIske)

149 The kite story is true. It was the only way they really had back then to get the line started on a set up like that.
Posted by: KCSteve at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (2+WvJ)

Or a gun. We still use that to run cables between navy ships for an underway replenishment. Shoot the smaller rope over, then pull progressively bigger ones over until the fuel hose is across and hooked up.

Posted by: GWB at February 10, 2026 10:58 PM (IJVVD)

150 Now "Orbital ATK".

Now Northrup Grumman Innovation Systems

I used to work for Orbital. They were great. Treated very well, even as a contractor. I know, shocking!!Very different culture from the usual Big Box government aerospace companies.

Then NG bought them and let go of all the Orbital contractors that didn't have a clearance including me.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 10:58 PM (uvB+6)

151 Pug, happy birthday

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

152

Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom

https://t.ly/ew6Tz

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 10:58 PM (Cqx++)

153 “Aging” coal plants.

They always throw “aging” in there, ex. when they want to build a new school.

Tell me, what the fuck on this planet isn’t “aging” just as soon as it is born, built, produced?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:59 PM (psViZ)

154 Wonderful ONT. Thank you TRex!

Just have to say the turtle in the cafe is adorable!

Evening Horde!

Posted by: Iris at February 10, 2026 10:59 PM (bOJ2I)

155 Love the bluegrass!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2026 10:59 PM (2Ez/1)

156 Joe Bouchard was an important part of Blue Oyster Cult.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 11:00 PM (KAi1n)

157 The TVA probably has some really fucked up, old shit that needs heavy maintenance. But if Uncle Sam is willing to offer grants and subsidies, they may stand to correct the mismanagement.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 11:00 PM (xFfhU)

158 Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom

https://t.ly/ew6Tz
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 10:58 PM (Cqx++)

As an added bonus, coal plants provide a way to clean up dissidents.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 11:00 PM (S/Y4j)

159 Some of the best bass players in the business have marveled at his ability to actually do lead vocals and play difficult bass lines at the same time.
Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 10:24 PM (dIske)

Paul McCartney is credited by Sting as a major influence..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 10, 2026 11:01 PM (nbLIj)

160 Have a great night, everyone.

May the surface around you become free from snow and ice.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 11:02 PM (u82oZ)

161 Well, well, well. Will wonders never cease.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Ted talk?

No, a talk with Big Daddy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 11:03 PM (/LXUT)

162 Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 10:58 PM
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Cool! Haven't kept up with the place, since retiring. Yeah, I'm sure they were nice to you smarty-guys.

Corporate really looked down on us peons in the ammo facility though. The condescension just *oozed* when the bigwigs came to visit.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 11:04 PM (rdVOm)

163 Happy Birthday, Pug Mahon

Sleep well NaCly Dog.

Posted by: Joyenz at February 10, 2026 11:04 PM (2F0/Y)

164 Darn, they put too much chocolate on my cheesecake.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 11:04 PM (/LXUT)

165 They spun us off because the Big Bux were in aerospace, not Elmer Fudd stuff. Now "Orbital ATK".

I know them! They sent me an offer letter for a position I never applied for. I called them up and told them they better get their shit straight. Hiring isn't rocket science, ffs!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 10, 2026 11:04 PM (lUFok)

166 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Dear Lord, the wall to wall coverage over someone "in custody"...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 11:04 PM (SRRAx)

167 I always thought Jaco Pastorius hooking up with Joni Mitchell was kind of interesting. He ended up in a bad way, I think he ended up getting his ass beat up outside a bar and died. Even bass players don’t deserve that

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:05 PM (psViZ)

168 Howdy, Dino! Loved the bass player compilation, especially Steve Harris. That version of Fear of the Dark is, in my largely correct opinion, probably the GOAT live concert video.

Loved the bluegrass finale as well.... musically, I really like the cut of your jib

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at February 10, 2026 11:05 PM (H/suN)

169 168 Howdy, Dino! Loved the bass player compilation, especially Steve Harris. That version of Fear of the Dark is, in my largely correct opinion, probably the GOAT live concert video.

Loved the bluegrass finale as well.... musically, I really like the cut of your jib

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at February 10, 2026 11:05 PM
***
Outstanding. Thank you!

Posted by: TRex - Dino be my Name at February 10, 2026 11:06 PM (1vAma)

170 Robert Trujillo is no slouch as a bass player. He's the only reason I've had any interest in listening to anything Metallica has put out in 20 years.
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Come on man. Metallica still puts out good material. To pretend that the ONLY reason you still listen is the bass line is a little silly.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:07 PM (Cjcf6)

171 Perhaps instead of loading up on hormones and eventually killing other people, these freaks should be encouraged to kill themselves. Canuks even have the maid program in place.

Failing that, the mengeles that prescribe this shit should be held criminally liable as accessories to murder.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 10, 2026 11:08 PM (cvMzD)

172 Sorry I'm late, the lugers needed help stuffing themselves into their outfits. (I told Ursella she didn't need that second donut.)

Posted by: tankdemon at February 10, 2026 11:09 PM (2u9IC)

173 Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce clashed quite a bit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 11:10 PM (XeU6L)

174 "metal" is just...uninteresting.
Posted by: Crusader

....or no bass player (like Ian Hill)
----

You mean the ONLY bass player to play on every Judas Priest studio album? I guess you don't get how this "music" thing works.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:57 PM (Cjcf6)

Ahahahahahahah it doesn't get more un-interesting than Ian Hill and Judas Priest. Let me help. I outgrew Judas Priest about the same time I outgrew Kiss. At 13.

And yes......I know pretty well how this music thing works

Maybe you would be happier in life as the tambourine player?

For the rest of you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sLSyTEXfCI

That's what I find interesting

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 10, 2026 11:11 PM (jrgJz)

175 The Kazurabashi Bridge in Japan is made of vines knotted together. It is a pedestrian bridge and is 45 meters in length. I weighs five tons and is replaced every 3 years. Its a big tourist attraction.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 11:13 PM (uvB+6)

176 How many bands are driven by the vision of the bass player?

Morphine.

That's all you need. (RIP Mark Sandman.)
https://youtu.be/BgvBWR0Tr7I

Posted by: tankdemon at February 10, 2026 11:14 PM (2u9IC)

177 Dear Lord, the wall to wall coverage over someone "in custody"...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 11:04 PM (SRRAx)

Fraud discoveries in multiple states?
What fraud discoveries?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 11:14 PM (2WIwB)

178 14 This week I learned that Proof of Life is a thing. As did the rest of the internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (+HNx/)

Now tell Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 10, 2026 11:17 PM (2u9IC)

179 I just realized that TVA announcement is probably related to the new Orano Enrichment Facility in Oak Ridge.

The Kingston plant is just down the road a piece from Oak Ridge. And those new centrifuges will suck up monster MWs.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 11:18 PM (cYBz/)

180 >>>Maiden doesn't sing about sex, drugs and rock n' roll. They sing about for what lurks in the darkness, British military history and Samuel Taylor Coleridge poetry.

>I always found it interesting when my high school mates would downplay Iron Maiden for that very reason. I guess my buddies desire to bang cheerleaders always overruled.

Maiden has been a monster force since day one. Rock and roll, and a history lesson. Good stuff.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 11:19 PM (xFfhU)

181 164 Darn, they put too much chocolate on my cheesecake.
Posted by: Braenyard

"Should Sydney Sweeney really be motorboating me THAT hard?!"

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 11:19 PM (gKWVE)

182 Proof of Life is a 2000 American action thriller film directed and produced by Taylor Hackford, and starring Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe.

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2026 11:19 PM (ZxPkt)

183 >>>Come on man. Metallica still puts out good material. To pretend that the ONLY reason you still listen is the bass line is a little silly.

Posted by: Crusader

>That's not what I pretended, but Metallica has become stale.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 11:21 PM (xFfhU)

184 "metal" is just...uninteresting.
Posted by: Crusader
....or no bass player (like Ian Hill)
----
You mean the ONLY bass player to play on every Judas Priest studio album? I guess you don't get how this "music" thing works.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:57 PM (Cjcf6)

Ahahahahahahah it doesn't get more un-interesting than Ian Hill and Judas Priest. Let me help. I outgrew Judas Priest about the same time I outgrew Kiss. At 13.

And yes......I know pretty well how this music thing works

Maybe you would be happier in life as the tambourine player?

For the rest of you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sLSyTEXfCI

That's what I find interesting
----
First, you badly clipped my quote--metal (done well) is very interesting, but you quote me out of context.

Secondly, you "outgrew" Judas Priest and Kiss when you were 13"...and you're proud of that?

Lastly, that band you posted the video of might as well have been Trans Siberian Orchestra...because there are exactly ZERO heterosexual males that play THAT song or THAT band while they're suiting up to meet a hot chick. I'm sorry they matter to you.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:21 PM (Cjcf6)

185
Bass players never get to bang the cheer leaders.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 11:22 PM (uvB+6)

186 How many bands are driven by the vision of the bass player?

Morphine.
---

They ended 30 years ago. This isn't trivia night.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:23 PM (Cjcf6)

187 Thanks for the ONT.

It got up to 65 here today. Then we had some driving, purifying rain. Most of the ice that mattered is all gone.

God is good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:25 PM (bss/y)

188 The Canadian school shooter is a tranny. Collect your winnings at CBD's desk.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 11:25 PM (tUj8P)

189 How did he get a gun in Canadia?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:27 PM (bss/y)

190 Hey, I'm curious. How many of you Morons had Ring cameras on your house until you saw their Super Bowl commercial....and now you're Ring-less?

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 11:28 PM (dIske)

191 188 The Canadian school shooter is a tranny. Collect your winnings at CBD's desk.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 11:25 PM (tUj8P)

Not if he's paying in dildos. Cash, gift cards, or, best of all, food he's prepared, would be great.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 11:28 PM (S/Y4j)

192 Darn, they put too much chocolate on my cheesecake.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 11:04 PM (/LXUT)

That's actually a problem for me, as I can't really have chocolate.

Posted by: pookysgirl, stumbling through life uncaffeinated at February 10, 2026 11:28 PM (Wt5PA)

193 173 Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce clashed quite a bit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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If only Baker had listened more to Elvin Jones and less to the time keeper on a Roman attack vessel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 11:30 PM (/LXUT)

194 190 Hey, I'm curious. How many of you Morons had Ring cameras on your house until you saw their Super Bowl commercial....and now you're Ring-less?
Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 11:28 PM (dIske)

I have never really desired a Ring. I have seen people have them in the complex here (which seems even odder.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:31 PM (bss/y)

195 Omg.....the irony! So delicious that Poe would spontaneously masturbate for months!

*plays the heterosexual card in context with Judas Priest and "Rob the peter pumper" Halford!

Go get em ace!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7-sdJARLo

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 10, 2026 11:34 PM (jrgJz)

196 I was watching one of those generation videos, with a relatively young person asking why Gen X doesn't get picked on. One guy's response is that Gen X is the "Break glass in case of emergency" generation, or the main FAFO generation. I figured at least a few people here would enjoy the description.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 11:34 PM (S/Y4j)

197 Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce clashed quite a bit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Yes. And the crazy thing is that BOTH of them were so into themselves that when Cream re-united with Eric fricken' Clapton, they both behaved like asses rather than realizing "Wait a minute, Eric is back--we could make a TON of money off of this!".

It was a one-off. Neither of them deserved a longer chance at the reunion.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:37 PM (Cjcf6)

198 Have I missed Berserker's reaction to the cowboys singing about Wynona's beaver?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 10, 2026 11:37 PM (Ezs10)

199 Bass players never get to bang the cheer leaders.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 11:22 PM (uvB+6)

If you feature them in your video, you have a chance..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-rngzNR4Z0

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 10, 2026 11:39 PM (nbLIj)

200 "A woman wearing a dress."
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It could be, their way of letting you know “trans women are women!!” Could be. It is sad we have to reverse-engineer the “news” these days, but that’s the world we live in.

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Could be a subversive type required to say "woman" and rebelling by using code.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 10, 2026 11:40 PM (RkOfE)

201 My wish for every Moron and Etta.

May your 2026 be as profitable... as a Somalian daycare.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 11:41 PM (S/Y4j)

202 Demotivation poster: all we ask is your heart imposed on an Aztec pyramid.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 10, 2026 11:41 PM (RkOfE)

203 Will we never be rid of mentally ill trans people trying to kill?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (u82oZ)
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When they have died off or are locked up or are redeemed by Jesus.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 10, 2026 11:43 PM (RkOfE)

204 The bassist for Asterism is absolutely insane. He has a 7 string bass. Listen to their song "Church."
https://tinyurl.com/4dt2h6u5

Posted by: Blahblahblah at February 10, 2026 11:43 PM (ca+Gv)

205 37 No offense to the OP, but Les Claypool is the singular worst bass player I've ever heard. There is no such thing as "Lead Bass Player". Bass is supposed to aligned with the drummer in the "rhythm section". He overplays...badly...and on every song. If he wanted to be a guitarist, he should have given up the bass and played guitar.
Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

I'm honestly not sure if these are counterpoints or not.

Bass as lead: Flea in Red Hot Chili Peppers. He actually does keep the rhythm, but it's bass-forward party music, and I couldn't even tell you the guitarist's name without looking it up.

If this, then not that: you could say that about every metal guitarist with 7+ strings tuned at B-standard on down. If they really want to play bass that badly, then maybe they should instead.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 11:44 PM (Sy6m/)

206 Itals off

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 11:44 PM (Sy6m/)

207 The bassist for Asterism is absolutely insane. He has a 7 string bass. Listen to their song "Church."
https://tinyurl.com/4dt2h6u5
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Why?

I'd rather listen to "Surfing with the Alien" by Satriani, and that album is one that I "get" but would prefer to never hear again.

Bass players aren't supposed to be LEADS. They play in the wrong "register", and they confound the rest of the players in the band to assume irregular roles.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:49 PM (Cjcf6)

208 Ron Carter and Christian McBride play bass real good.

Plus the FBI/Pima Sheriff has a Guthrie suspect in custody. He was picked up in Rio Rico as part of a traffic stop. Is was not disclosed if the suspect was having a Taco Bell moment by running for the border. Rio Rico is about an hour south of Tucson and 15 miles north of Nogales, MX. The suspect seems to have property there which is currently being searched. Meanwhile the suspect is back in Tucson and is having a very bad evening.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 11:50 PM (8ZVmQ)

209 Bass players aren't supposed to be LEADS.

I guess there's Sting.
Underrated bassist is Tina Weymouth. She proved in Tom Tom Club that she didn't need Byrne to tear shit up.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 11:52 PM (gKWVE)

210 Musical composition and musical collaboration will not be contained in a box defined by some hostile entity on a blog.

Get out of the box. Are you mad, bro?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 11:53 PM (xFfhU)

211 Bass as lead: Flea in Red Hot Chili Peppers. He actually does keep the rhythm, but it's bass-forward party music, and I couldn't even tell you the guitarist's name without looking it up.
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The RHCP's guitarist is John Frusciante. His playing and "tone" is celebrated in guitar circles. He primarily plays "vintage" instruments, and has a "signature" guitar built by Fender.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:54 PM (Cjcf6)

212 My wish for every Moron and Etta.

May your 2026 be as profitable... as a Somalian daycare.
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With non of the attendant illegal activities beforehand and non of the judicial responses that are coming.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 10, 2026 11:54 PM (RkOfE)

213 144 Signal Flags or flashing light
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Aldis lamp.

As an aside, I think that the BSA still has a Semiphore merit badge
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:56 PM (XeU6L)

Maybe for First Class? I recall having to demonstrate proficiency in either semiphore or morse as a requirement somewheres along the trail to Iggle. My old Boy Scout manual is in the other room but I'm too lazy to go look......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 11:54 PM (QGaXH)

214 Double bent brain. Kidnappers kidnap for ransom and always kill the victim and always either kill themselves or the cops take care of them.
Really weird.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 11:55 PM (/LXUT)

215 Bass players aren't supposed to be LEADS.

I guess there's Sting.
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I'm a HUGE Police fan. Please name a single song he played with the Police where his playing was "lead".

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:57 PM (Cjcf6)

216 Bass players aren't supposed to be LEADS. They play in the wrong "register", and they confound the rest of the players in the band to assume irregular roles.
Posted by: Crusader at February

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Show us on the doll where the bass player touched you.....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at February 10, 2026 11:57 PM (H/suN)

217 I*Why? . . . Bass players aren't supposed to be LEADS. They play in the wrong "register", and they confound the rest of the players in the band to assume irregular roles.**

I didn't say he was the lead, I said he was insane. The song I linked to really shows off his abilities though.

Posted by: Blahblahblah at February 10, 2026 11:57 PM (ca+Gv)

218 Stanley Clarke plays bass gooder too.

Tina Weymouth is fantastic. She doesn't have virtuoso chops unless effortlessly playing right in the pocket counts as virtuoso.

I likes me some Willie Dixon too. His work on the Chuck Berry recordings are for the ages.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 11:59 PM (8ZVmQ)

219 214 Double bent brain. Kidnappers kidnap for ransom and always kill the victim and always either kill themselves or the cops take care of them.
Really weird.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 11:55 PM (/LXUT)

Strangely, kidnapping for ransom is quite common in Central and South America, and hostages are mostly returned when the money is paid. Something about that culture lets it be successful, while in the US it almost never is.

Leads me to suspect that this wasn’t a relative as perp, but rather someone with Mexican cartel experience. They might think they could get away with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2026 12:00 AM (gCFgr)

220 The kite story is true. It was the only way they really had back then to get the line started on a set up like that.
Posted by: KCSteve at February 10, 2026 10:06 PM (2+WvJ)

They had line-throwing cannons, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 12:00 AM (8zz6B)

221 The bassist for Asterism is absolutely insane. He has a 7 string bass. Listen to their song "Church."
https://tinyurl.com/4dt2h6u5
Posted by: Blahblahblah at February 10, 2026 11:43 PM (ca+Gv)

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Thanks for sharing. While I REALLY liked that bass player, I think I might love the guitarist....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at February 11, 2026 12:00 AM (H/suN)

222 189 How did he get a gun in Canadia?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:27 PM (bss/y)

'I sit talkin with mynext-door neighbor saying
'Where'd you get the gun, John....'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 12:01 AM (QGaXH)

223 >>>I'm a HUGE Police fan. Please name a single song he played with the Police where his playing was "lead".

Posted by: Crusader

>Now do Bootsy Collins.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 12:02 AM (xFfhU)

224 Fusion? I question the containment magnet strengths. Wonder what level of neutron poisoning they reached.

Fission is easier, with the right materials.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:07 PM (u82oZ)

I would assume the kid duplicated the Farnsworth Fusor. Pretty simple device. Manufactured commercially as a neutron source.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 12:02 AM (8zz6B)

225 HUGE Police fan. Please name a single song he played with the Police where his playing was "lead".
Posted by: Crusader

I'd count Walking On The Moon.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 11, 2026 12:03 AM (gKWVE)

226 Leads me to suspect that this wasn’t a relative as perp, but rather someone with Mexican cartel experience. They might think they could get away with it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

There is intertube speculation that the guy the FBI picked up is the drummer in Early Black a band founded, in part, by Tommaso Cioni. Cioni is Nancy Guthrie's BIL.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 11, 2026 12:04 AM (8ZVmQ)

227 190 Hey, I'm curious. How many of you Morons had Ring cameras on your house until you saw their Super Bowl commercial....and now you're Ring-less?
Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 11:28 PM (dIske)

Watching W2W coverage on Guthrie kidnapping - wonder how many people picking up on back story that these devices are recording and storing a lot more information than is advertised? One of the talking heads came right out and said Alexa and Siri are listening and recording.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 12:04 AM (QGaXH)

228 Thanks for the ONT, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at February 11, 2026 12:04 AM (41CYW)

229 The biathlon is really quite watchable, and interesting. Such pressure, and so much potential for wild swings in position due to shooting misses. The men's individual 20K I'm watching now (replay) has a lot going on.

The commentators are excellent (unlike for the mixed relay), so lots of info. The sights have no magnification. Biathlon has the highest TV ratings in Europe for any winter sport. Those with the ability to watch individual replays and who haven't committed to the performative vow not to watch any Olympics might check it out.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 11, 2026 12:04 AM (U/Byj)

230 Nancy Guthrie's son in law.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 11, 2026 12:06 AM (8ZVmQ)

231 HUGE Police fan. Please name a single song he played with the Police where his playing was "lead".
Posted by: Crusader

I'd count Walking On The Moon.
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You're trying too hard.

He's a *great* bass player.

But that song?

Bump bump bump bump. Bump bump bump.

Repeat.

There's no "lead" about his playing in that song, or any other Police song.

Posted by: Crusader at February 11, 2026 12:06 AM (Cjcf6)

232 203 Will we never be rid of mentally ill trans people trying to kill?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 10:38 PM (u82oZ)
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When they have died off or are locked up or are redeemed by Jesus.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 10, 2026 11:43 PM (RkOfE)

I have a bad feeling that they're just getting started.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 12:07 AM (QGaXH)

233 Just randomly found some background on the Yeti snow sculpture:

https://youtube.com/shorts/kVDkeVzoVks

Posted by: tankdemon at February 11, 2026 12:07 AM (2u9IC)

234 I'm a HUGE Police fan. Please name a single song he played with the Police where his playing was "lead".
Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:57 PM (Cjcf6)

________________________

I think you could make the agrument that bass plays lead in portions of "Message in a Bottle"....specifically the chorus, as well as the lead up to the chorus. The Police are a strange band that way. Generally, the melody is with the singer, and not an instrument with them.

Posted by: Orson at February 11, 2026 12:08 AM (dIske)

235 Sheesh. Mrs D is watching the women's downhill. These announcers suck. It's a constant stream of stating the obvious and throwing in a bunch of euphemisms. The skier if going 60 mph and is .2 seconds off the lead and the bozo announcer says she needs to "get aggressive."
WTF???
Blather

Posted by: Diogenes at February 11, 2026 12:09 AM (2WIwB)

236 BREAKING: 10 dead, 25+ injured after a "woman wearing a dress" opens fire on Canadian school (Tumbler Ridge)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 10:16 PM (diia5)

Tumbler Ridge is a weird-ass place. It was an architect-designed "instant town" designed and built as accomodations for a huge metallurgical coal mine located nearby. All the houses, all the storefronts look like pastel gingerbread. Spooky. Then the mine closed for a long spell, and homes and shops were sold for pennies on the dollar. They tried to make it into an artists's retreat (so dope!). Then the mine reopened. I passed through it a few times. Weird sort of Stepford Wives vibe to it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 12:09 AM (8zz6B)

237 228 Thanks for the ONT, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at February 11, 2026 12:04 AM
***
Doggo!! Good evening!

Posted by: TRex - Dino olympian at February 11, 2026 12:10 AM (1vAma)

238 Victor Wooten - Amazing Grace

youtube.com/watch?v=tygz5q9G2no

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 12:11 AM (/LXUT)

239 I think you could make the agrument that bass plays lead in portions of "Message in a Bottle"....specifically the chorus, as well as the lead up to the chorus.
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I'm not trying to piss any of you off, but none of you all making your case, and you're trying to hard to make a rhythm instrument a lead instrument. If you go looking, you will find LOTS of guitar forum posts praising Andy Sumner's playing on that song--the chording and rolling-chording in that song is very difficult because of the stretch involved with fingering one of those chords.

Its not a bass song. Its never been a bass song. Sting, and John Paul Jones, and Paul McCartney play AMAZING bass. But nobody listens to a song of theirs and says "God, he played a million notes a minute and ruled that song." Lead bass is an oxymoron.

Posted by: Crusader at February 11, 2026 12:14 AM (Cjcf6)

240 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 12:09 AM (8zz6B)

I've actually been very close to that town. On college break my Uncle (who was an archeologist) took me up there to see dinosaur tracks and do some hiking.

Posted by: Orson at February 11, 2026 12:15 AM (dIske)

241 The Banjo vid reminded me of Barbara Mandrell.

She could play about 12 different instruments.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 11, 2026 12:18 AM (cwGMH)

242 How did he get a gun in Canadia?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:27 PM (bss/y)

Sounds like he may have killed family member(s) to get it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 11, 2026 12:18 AM (dK+Kv)

243 https://tinyurl.com/cah5kw36

I found this video really fascinating. It is about the Bathyscape Triest- the submersible to reach the deepest point on earth- the Challenger Deep.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2026 12:18 AM (bss/y)

244 Queen. Another one bites theDust.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 11, 2026 12:20 AM (cwGMH)

245 Lead bass is an oxymoron.

Jaco Pastorius would like to disagree. Strongly.
https://youtu.be/-0NNA6w8Zk4

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 11, 2026 12:21 AM (8ZVmQ)

246 Posted by: Opinion fact at February 11, 2026 12:20 AM (cwGMH)

Joy Division, She's Lost Control [actually most of whatever Peter Hook was playing on since 1979]

Posted by: gKWVE at February 11, 2026 12:22 AM (gKWVE)

247 I always thought Jaco Pastorius hooking up with Joni Mitchell was kind of interesting. He ended up in a bad way, I think he ended up getting his ass beat up outside a bar and died. Even bass players don’t deserve that
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:05 PM (psViZ)

He got in a lot of fights. Kind of a miserable asshole, but talented.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 12:23 AM (8zz6B)

248 “Post Toastie” by Tommy Bolin deserves an honorable mention for bass on that tune, I think.

I had a 400 watt Carver amp and a quad of JBL studio monitors in the barracks, L100s and Control 12SR, thought I was gonna get arrested by the CQ.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 11, 2026 12:24 AM (Zo4ys)

249 Saw Zep live in 77. The connection between Jones and Bonham was unreal. As for other talented Bass players, no one has mentioned Chris Wolstenholme of Muse.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at February 11, 2026 12:25 AM (OR60z)

250 I've actually been very close to that town. On college break my Uncle (who was an archeologist) took me up there to see dinosaur tracks and do some hiking.

Posted by: Orson at February 11, 2026 12:15 AM (dIske)

Sigh... I've wanted to explore the Pacific Northwest/BC area for a long time. But Pooky isn't an outdoorsman, and Pookette hates hiking. I don't want to climb mountains, I just want to wander around gorgeous nature.

Posted by: pookysgirl isn't a lumberjack and that's okay at February 11, 2026 12:25 AM (Wt5PA)

251 The Canadian school shooter is a tranny. Collect your winnings at CBD's desk.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 11:25 PM (tUj8P)

Was there ever any doubt?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 12:26 AM (8zz6B)

252 That's actually a problem for me, as I can't really have chocolate.
Posted by: pookysgirl, stumbling through life uncaffeinated at February 10, 2026 11:28 PM (Wt5PA)

Ok, why can’t you have chocolate?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 11, 2026 12:30 AM (dhHpw)

253 Motorhead and Lemmy were rock and roll. Fast Eddie threw in some metal licks now and again, but I wouldn't consider them thrash metal.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:44 PM (xFfhU)

Yup, lemmy didn't consider motorhead metal. He said they were rock and roll, but had the metal hair, lol. I told him if he wasn't metal he's doing a piss poor job hiding it. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 12:31 AM (snZF9)

254

A federal grand jury on Tuesday refused to indict six congressional Democrats who drew President Trump’s ire last year by taping a video telling members of the military that they must reject “illegal orders,” according to three sources familiar with the matter, including one within the Justice Department.

“If these fuckers think that they’re going to intimidate us and threaten and bully me in the silence, and they’re going to go after political opponents and get us to back down, they have another thing coming. The tide is turning,” Democrat Rep. Jason Crow said.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 11, 2026 12:31 AM (Cqx++)

255 I can’t really have chocolate either. It’s kind of a binary problem. It goes like this; “Do we have any chocolate Y/N?

Yes - You should eat it!
No - I wish I had some chocolate (because I’d eat it)

Posted by: Common Tater at February 11, 2026 12:33 AM (Zo4ys)

256 Lead bass is an oxymoron.

Posted by: Crusader at February 11, 2026 12:14 AM (Cjcf6)

Joey Demaio from Manowar might want a word with you. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 12:33 AM (snZF9)

257
"That search warrant they are a-executin' on the domicile out there" -- Ted Williams on FOX a while back.

This stuff always cracks me up. Stick a camera in front of someone, and they want to sound all sophisticated and smart, and that's what comes out. I noticed that with local media and some of the local people, and it always cracked me up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 12:34 AM (w6EFb)

258 Ok, why can’t you have chocolate?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 11, 2026 12:30 AM (dhHpw)

Caffeine makes me really, really sick. I found this out the hard way as a kid. I got a lot of gummy bears and root beer on Valentine's Day-the boys in my class were pretty nice about it.

Posted by: pookysgirl, printing out Pookette's Valentines at February 11, 2026 12:34 AM (Wt5PA)

259 Michael Rhodes was Joe Bonamassa's bassist for years and years. The core part of the band was Bonamassa, Reese Wynans - Keyboards, Michael Rhodes - Bass, and Anton Fig - Drums. I was fortunate to hear this band many times. Fig and Rhodes had a perfect pocket synergy that propelled the arraignments and put down that foundation for Bonamassa's solos - all four where always on point; it was something special. There where places where the four of them would go to the next level - it was four guys soloing and riffing off of each other with complete freedom, confidence, and trust. Those moments stopped being music and became poetry in sound. What a blessing to have heard all that.
Mr. Rhodes passed in 2023 and Reese Wynans retired at the end of 2025.

https://is.gd/2CyDEa

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 11, 2026 12:37 AM (8ZVmQ)

260
From my extensive experience watching Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Columbo, Rockford, etc, etc, this ain't how you do a proper kidnapping.

First, after you snatch the victim, you take a photo of them, bound and gagged, usually in a chair. You put a copy of that day's newspaper front page right there as proof they're alive and kicking.

Then, you have to a proper ransom note via cutting and pasting letters out of magazine articles, and send it right away to the family. The first thing you say is no cops, no media, or the victim gets it.

Then you demand payment, always in small, unmarked bills. And you do that by having the family drive to some phone booth at some gas station in the seedy part of town, wait for a call, and then you send them on some convoluted trek all over the place, stopping at phone booths several times, and finally have them put the bag with the money in some remote spot out in the desert somewhere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

261 Caffeine was why my late wife couldn’t have any chocolate either. It was bad for her heart. Thanks for sharing. I was just curious.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 11, 2026 12:39 AM (dhHpw)

262 It was a new day yesterday but it's an old day now.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 11, 2026 12:39 AM (Cqx++)

263 One might even consider it a question worthy of systematic study to determine whether loading up a young body with the hormones of the opposite sex might have some detrimental impact on said person's mental and emotional functioning.
- - - - - - -
I assume the real game here is to pump somebody up with so many chemicals that they literally explode or spontaneously combust.
And speaking of a game, pretty sure the sickos pushing kids to genderbend themselves are competing with each other. It makes more sense (if that's possible) to explain the trans trend...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at February 11, 2026 12:41 AM (KEGU7)

264 Then you demand payment, always in small, unmarked bills. And you do that by having the family drive to some phone booth at some gas station in the seedy part of town, wait for a call, and then you send them on some convoluted trek all over the place, stopping at phone booths several times, and finally have them put the bag with the money in some remote spot out in the desert somewhere.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

I'm guessing now it could done by demanding payment in Bitcoin sent to some anonymous account, which then converts the Bitcoin to cash, and closes out before the victim gets released.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 12:42 AM (8zz6B)

265 From my extensive experience watching Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Columbo, Rockford, etc, etc, this ain't how you do a proper kidnapping.…

There aren’t any phone booths any more. What do mystery/crime writers use instead?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 11, 2026 12:42 AM (dhHpw)

266 There aren’t any phone booths any more. What do mystery/crime writers use instead?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 11, 2026 12:42 AM (dhHpw)

Pre-registered Signal accounts on burner phones at dead drop locations.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 11, 2026 12:44 AM (dK+Kv)

267 The tide is turning,” Democrat Rep. Jason Crow said.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 11, 2026 12:31 AM (Cqx++)

Nice to know he knows he's losing. People who are winning aren't usually looking for the tide to turn.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 11, 2026 12:45 AM (w/O5Q)

268 Wow, great content tonight.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 11, 2026 12:46 AM (WF/xn)

269 If you ask me, coming from someone who played with a shitload of bass players, I say they fall into 3 groups

1. You got the dudes that are up front. Their playing is unmistakable, completely critical to the sound of the band, and almost unreplaceable. Geddy lee, Steve harris, lemmy, Marcus Grosskopf (helloween) are some that come to mind.

2. Very talented- always in the pocket, puts up a wall of sound, great bass player, but can be replaced by another solid player.

3. Wallpaper. Blink and you would miss him. A bass player in the academic sense, he wears a bass, and is going boom boom boom somewhere in the back. Easily replaced, and usually always an improvement when he is.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 12:47 AM (snZF9)

270 When the night has come
and the moon is high
My day is done
Gotta say good-bye

https://youtu.be/MDQNsqi9lrk

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker pounds the eighty-eights at February 11, 2026 12:47 AM (kqXjy)

271 I used to drink whiskey with Lemmy in Hollywood or on the Sunset Strip or whatever you want to call it, at the Rainbow and he was an interesting character.

Motorhead was the loudest concert I have ever witnessed. Heh.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 12:49 AM (xFfhU)

272 260 Then you demand payment, always in small, unmarked bills. And you do that by having the family drive to some phone booth at some gas station in the seedy part of town, wait for a call, and then you send them on some convoluted trek all over the place, stopping at phone booths several times, and finally have them put the bag with the money in some remote spot out in the desert somewhere.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

There's a flaw in your plan....

Where ya gonna find a phone booth nowadays?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 12:49 AM (QGaXH)

273
I wonder how untraceable these burner phones really are. The phone booths were ideal for this. Bad guy makes the call to the specified phone booth from a random phone booth himself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 12:52 AM (w6EFb)

274 273
I wonder how untraceable these burner phones really are. The phone booths were ideal for this. Bad guy makes the call to the specified phone booth from a random phone booth himself.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 12:52 AM (w6EFb)

It seems nearly impossible to be anonymous these days.

Plus no phonebooths - Superman has a real problem too....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)

275 Nailed it Beserker.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at February 11, 2026 12:54 AM (OR60z)

276 I wonder how untraceable these burner phones really are. The phone booths were ideal for this. Bad guy makes the call to the specified phone booth from a random phone booth himself.
Posted by: publius
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If I ever needed a burner phone, certainly would be far, far from home when I purchased & activated it.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 12:54 AM (rdVOm)

277 I prefer my bass low and growly. The young man in the link above, with the seven string bass, sounded like he was playing a fucking harp. Very talented, as was Victor Wooten, just not my taste.

I am a Basic Bitch, I guess.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 11, 2026 12:55 AM (Ezs10)

278 276 I wonder how untraceable these burner phones really are. The phone booths were ideal for this. Bad guy makes the call to the specified phone booth from a random phone booth himself.
Posted by: publius
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If I ever needed a burner phone, certainly would be far, far from home when I purchased & activated it.
Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 12:54 AM (rdVOm)

I guess you could activate the burner phone with a prepaid credit card that you loaded with cash at the point of sale. Of course there would be the issue of the card transaction being time stamped and cameras at the cash register....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 12:56 AM (QGaXH)

279 If I ever needed a burner phone, certainly would be far, far from home when I purchased & activated it.
Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 12:54 AM (rdVOm)
_____________________

Some spook was talking about the myth of burner phones on Shawn Ryan a while back. He said to get true anonymity you'd have to purchase the phone in a country that doesn't share intelligence with the US...the less cooperation between the US and that country the better.

Posted by: Orson at February 11, 2026 01:00 AM (dIske)

280 If you ask me, coming from someone who played with a shitload of bass players, I say they fall into 3 groups...

4 groups...the Guitar Center bassist..

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:01 AM (XTs+8)

281
The game is to be able to make a call to the target from some phone that that it doesn't matter if they can trace the location. Public phones were ideal for this.

So, use somebody else's phone someway somehow? No-tell motel phone?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

282 If sufficient time and manpower is devoted to a specific crime, given the amount of surveillance and digital “footprint” virtually everyone has, it would be almost impossible to get away with a crime. It they really, really want your ass, they will find you.

100 years ago, even photographs of perps and suspects were still kind of a novelty. Fingerprints were just starting to be a thing. During a chase, the Sheriff would have to let off, if you made it across the county line.

Moving to a different state, assuming a new identity, wasn’t exactly trivial but it was doable. Now? They want everyone tagged and bagged and inventoried, so to speak. Catalogued. License plate readers, retinal scans. DNA. Facial recognition, gait analysis, voice, you name it. Probably scanning brain waves by now.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 11, 2026 01:05 AM (Zo4ys)

283 ARiK-- pay cash & buy an "air time" card too.

I dunno about next steps. Interesting thought exercise, though.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

284 I guess you could activate the burner phone with a prepaid credit card that you loaded with cash at the point of sale. Of course there would be the issue of the card transaction being time stamped and cameras at the cash register....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 11, 2026 12:56 AM (QGaXH)

Aren't there still some services like Skype? Get a cheap tablet or laptop, go to some crowded place with Wi-fi, use a headset and boom mike. and call the principal via internet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:06 AM (8zz6B)

285 Aren't there still some services like Skype? Get a cheap tablet or laptop, go to some crowded place with Wi-fi, use a headset and boom mike. and call the principal via internet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Odds on you get picked up on 47 surveillance cameras. I used to got an IP address about the location, date and time. It's not very hard to work back into the cameras to figure out who's there.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:08 AM (XTs+8)

286 So, use somebody else's phone someway somehow? No-tell motel phone?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

Do truck stops still have phones at the diner booths?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:09 AM (8zz6B)

287 Now? They want everyone tagged and bagged and inventoried, so to speak. Catalogued. License plate readers, retinal scans. DNA. Facial recognition, gait analysis, voice, you name it. Probably scanning brain waves by now.

Posted by: Common Tater
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Yeah. Panopticon.

https://youtu.be/kYdQuuLzg2A

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

288 Stupid voice recognition stupider editor.

Once you log into a WiFi and hit the internet the IP address, the location, date and time is captured.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:11 AM (XTs+8)

289 Use radio instead?

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:13 AM (rdVOm)

290 Meh. There's happier things to discuss here...

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

291 Maybe we are overthinking this, You want to call the target, not have the target call you. You are a criminal, who is engaged in a kidnapping, which could be a capital offense.So what harm in committing another crime? Simply go to a mall, and mug some schlub for his phone. Stick a gun in his/her ribs. "I need your phone, unlocked, to make a call. I will make my call, and abandon the phone. You will get it back, eventually."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:16 AM (8zz6B)

292
As of 2018, there were still about 100,000 pay phones in use in the US.

There is no longer any legal requirement for phone companies to operate them, and all the major carriers dropped them, so all that's left is other private outfits that want to maintain them.

So, they still exist, but are hard to find.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)

293 Day 4 without a cigarette, and I still haven't hurt anyone!

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

294 So, they still exist, but are hard to find.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)

Airports, and bus stations?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:18 AM (8zz6B)

295 Meh. There's happier things to discuss here...
Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm

Still sad, from a certain point of view (SFW)

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/qpzo3juEVhw

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 11, 2026 01:19 AM (S/Y4j)

296 293 Day 4 without a cigarette, and I still haven't hurt anyone!
Posted by: JQ
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You can do it. You have breached the lock the rest is in your mind. I used Nicorette gum from Walmart.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 01:19 AM (/LXUT)

297 Airports, and bus stations?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The last payphones I saw at an airport, would not take cash/coins-- credit card only.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

298 You can do it. You have breached the lock the rest is in your mind. I used Nicorette gum from Walmart.

Posted by: Braenyard
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I got a vape device. Hope to ditch it too, in time.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

299 Saw Primus open for the Greatest Rock Band EVER!!! RUSH!!!! in 1993 at Wembley Arena in London. Mostly Euro crown, of course, but lots of 'Muricans and Canuks too. Primus did not impress the crowd much. Most just politely waited till RUSH showed up. Some didn't ('Murica!!).

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 11, 2026 01:22 AM (sAmhv)

300 The last payphones I saw at an airport, would not take cash/coins-- credit card only.
Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

Prepaid card?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:23 AM (8zz6B)

301
Heh, in the early days, one of the biggest motivations for public pay phones was phone bums, people coming in places of business who had telephones and begging to use the phone.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

302 Prepaid card?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Back then, yes. I used to use prepaid long distance cards regularly when travelling.

Are those even available anymore?

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

303
I was thinking of that, steal or otherwise commandeer somebody else's phone, so random one somewhere.

The trouble with that, is you expose yourself to more things that can identify you or otherwise go wrong. If you stick somebody up at gunpoint for his phone, you're gonna leave evidence of some sort, even if you're willing to kill the victim. And that makes a murder you've just committed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2026 01:27 AM (w6EFb)

304 I remember an old crime drama on TV where the cops track down a landline phone to find another phone that had been “acoustically coupled” (with duct tape) to another phone (just putting the mouthpiece of one handset to the earpiece of the other, etc.) so when they got to that location the caller was somewhere else, and had already hung up. I suppose you could do that with a sequence of burner phones. What do you think?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 11, 2026 01:28 AM (dhHpw)

305 I got laid off from Collins Radio as part of the financial fiasco that led to Art losing control of the company and it being absorbed into what wss then North American Rockwell. What triggered it was "reach exceeding grasp". Collins built radios, yes, but also microwave and carrier comm equipment AND mini-computers. Everybody remembers DEC minis, but Collins 8300 series were a close second in sales..Art had this vision for a big "mainframe" computer and set about designing it. He played some financial.games,like capitalizing development costs, which, when the C-system (its name) didn't ship on time, caused the board to replace him and sell the company to NA Rockwell. In the lead up to this, the company did the usual, shed employees and their associated cost. "10% across the board" went on for almost 2 months before they got around to me. There were 17 engineers and tech and a manager and secretary in the dept when I joined. After I left, they had one more layoff and were down to 8 people including the manager with no secretary. (contd)

Posted by: buddhaha at February 11, 2026 01:29 AM (wTg85)

306 Day 4 without a cigarette, and I still haven't hurt anyone!
Posted by: JQ

Gut it out. Quitting cigarettes is worth it. You probably have a few weeks of bumpy sailing and then after that it gets easier, easier and easier. Then one day you wake up and you haven't smoked for 15 years

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:29 AM (XTs+8)

307 Back then, yes. I used to use prepaid long distance cards regularly when travelling.

Are those even available anymore?
Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

I had a telco "calling card" which charged payphone calls to my home phone. I think I dialed "9" to get card calling service, then at a prompt, punched in my phone number plus the 4-digit calling card id.

But I was thinking prepaid debit card, bought for cash at a bodega.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:30 AM (8zz6B)

308 Back when phone cords had real wire, instead of foil-wrapped nylon... I cut one end off a trimline line cord & put alligator clips on it. Took it outside to my landline box and clipped it to the terminals. Yep, I could dial out.
Just a silly thing-- an experiment.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

309 Indian Motorcycles has been sold to a private equity company in who specialty is real estate. Prediction: this is not going to end well.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:34 AM (XTs+8)

310 Good evening ladies & gentlemen. I am late checking on the world of Morons due to online shopping for my summer clothes. Which I just felt like doing because I was a bit productive today, not a lot or enough to brag about.

I have had very little energy today because I woke at 0300 for 90min of lying in bed and being irritated. This typically indicates stress,and we've had a stressful past week and now the baby girl has a cold. Bless her, due to her siblings her immune system is going to be fantastic. However I hate it when babies are sick because my nurse brain spins through stuff that probably won't happen and I wake at 3am.

To make things more wonky I had an earwig of the Sultan's of Swing at 3am (since T Rex brought up Dire Straits). I don't know why. I like them but don't listen to them a lot except in the summers on the deck. Finally I got that off my mind with another song, read a bit, and went back to sleep.

I got sleep but this always irritates me and casts a spell on me for part of the rest of the day.

On the bright side the weather is going to get wetter, with added snowpack in the mountains and maybe snow here next week. Lookin' up!

https://tinyurl.com/y8aeum8m

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2026 01:36 AM (WONhk)

311 Back when phone cords had real wire, instead of foil-wrapped nylon... I cut one end off a trimline line cord & put alligator clips on it. Took it outside to my landline box and clipped it to the terminals. Yep, I could dial out.
Just a silly thing-- an experiment.
Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

You reinvented the lineman's handset.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:36 AM (8zz6B)

312 I used to drink whiskey with Lemmy in Hollywood or on the Sunset Strip or whatever you want to call it, at the Rainbow and he was an interesting character.

Motorhead was the loudest concert I have ever witnessed. Heh.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 12:49 AM (xFfhU)

We used to bring him to a local bar he liked when they were in the area. They had pool tables, and lemmy liked playing pool. yeah, he was interesting. Pretty mellow dude.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 01:37 AM (snZF9)

313 I heard from a friend of friend that back in the day you could call long distance collect from a payphone to another payphone. The open sesame words were, "yes, I accept the long distance charges."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:37 AM (XTs+8)

314 Indian Motorcycles has been sold to a private equity company in who specialty is real estate. Prediction: this is not going to end well.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:34 AM (XTs+

Oh they are fucked if thats the case.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 01:38 AM (snZF9)

315 You reinvented the lineman's handset.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That's how I got the idea!

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)

316 For me, a lot of smoking was the the ritual.
Hand to mouth, the ritual of taking a drag.
The lighter, and cup of coffee.
It was my nemesis, my adversary working to defeat me. The brain is spoiled and wants its way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 01:40 AM (/LXUT)

317 Oh they are fucked if thats the case.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

This news arrived on my PC just as I was thinking hard about upgrading from the beastly Honda 125 to an Indian Scout because they come in the greatest blue color I've seen in a long time. Now I don't know what to do. I'll probably just buy a big boy kit for the Honda. I am really bummed.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:41 AM (XTs+8)

318 Is there any parts commonality between any of the current offerings from HD, Indian, and Victory?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:42 AM (8zz6B)

319 >>For me, a lot of smoking was the the ritual.
Hand to mouth, the ritual of taking a drag.
The lighter, and cup of coffee.
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Me too. The motions of it.

I don't even pick up the vape until *long after* I've had the first sips of coffee, or finished a meal. It's all about breaking the ritual.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)

320 (contd)
The C-system was far ahead of its time, and that produced all the delay. It was a distributed processor system with individual computing sub-sections that could be physically separated and connected by a counter rotating ring packet data path on coax.
In 1969.
The concept didn't show up again until the late '90s with SONET.
I never formally met Art, but he did stick his head in a meeting on a military RFP that I was giving the presentation on. Sat in the back for about 20 minutes, then disappeared. EJ (my boss) told me who it was later. At the time I had no.idea who it was.
When Collins Radio was a much smaller company, Art ha established a tradition of handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving. By the time I got there the company was way to.large for this, but he gave every employee a $10 check (which would buy a good sized bird back them, out of his own, personal (not company) account.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 11, 2026 01:44 AM (wTg85)

321 Regarding bass players, in my non-professional opinion, their beat is the one I dance to, or the down beat. And, in my primitive thinking, they lead the drummer.

I also dated a bass player before I moved West; and the one in the original Jethro Tull picked me out of a crowd one summer night (Jeffrey Hammond Hammond).

I tend to like bass players but married an acoustic guitar guy (his hobby, but very good). He plays by ear, both piano and guitar.

I took piano lessons for seven years and he can simply hear a song and sit down and play it. I endured years of practice, and my second piano teacher had rancid breath and whacked my hands with a wooden ruler now and then. I had to sometimes play with a pencil in my fingers.I was not fond of it but ok when left alone. I had one grand recital onstage, played it perfectly and informed my mother I was never doing that again.

My husband taught me fun chords I like better.

I need to go to bed and hope to sleep through the night. I want to get done with all of my inside stuff so I can play in the snow next week (I hope). Hope y'all are doing well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2026 01:46 AM (WONhk)

322 Well, I am getting real sleepy. Off to the rack, I go. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:50 AM (8zz6B)

323 You reinvented the lineman's handset.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Otherwise known as a Butt-in or The Old Buttinski.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 11, 2026 01:50 AM (wTg85)

324 I heard from a friend of friend that back in the day you could call long distance collect from a payphone to another payphone. The open sesame words were, "yes, I accept the long distance charges."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Highly unlikely. Pay phones have unique numbers,like 9700 up. A long distance operator would recognize the called # as a payphone.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 11, 2026 01:54 AM (wTg85)

325 Oh they are fucked if thats the case.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

This news arrived on my PC just as I was thinking hard about upgrading from the beastly Honda 125 to an Indian Scout because they come in the greatest blue color I've seen in a long time. Now I don't know what to do. I'll probably just buy a big boy kit for the Honda. I am really bummed.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 01:41 AM (XTs+

I always though they had a future if polaris stayed as the owner. I had a chance to peek inside a few of the engines. They seemed solid from I could see. The parts looked well made. Different engineering than a harley. Harleys use roller bearings for the rods, the indian has the babbitt bearings like a car. I don't really think it matters if indian sold out as long as parts stay available. There isn't many places that work on them anyway, so if you're nowhere near a dealer you're fucked anyway.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 01:55 AM (snZF9)

326 226 Leads me to suspect that this wasn’t a relative as perp, but rather someone with Mexican cartel experience. They might think they could get away with it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I've thought Mexican cartel from the very first. Although today I switched to that fat and bald Sen. Kelly, as that's who looks like messed with the camera. And Savannah called him first. Mostly because I dislike him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2026 01:56 AM (WONhk)

327 I have never had a cigarette. Wasn't my gateway drug, lol. Nasty things.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 11, 2026 01:57 AM (KAi1n)

328 Is there any parts commonality between any of the current offerings from HD, Indian, and Victory?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2026 01:42 AM (8zz6B)

I'll say tires, thats about it. Maybe bulbs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 01:57 AM (snZF9)

329 I have never had a cigarette. Wasn't my gateway drug, lol. Nasty things.
Posted by: Dark Litigator
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Lucky you!

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

330 Me too. The motions of it.

I don't even pick up the vape until *long after* I've had the first sips of coffee, or finished a meal. It's all about breaking the ritual.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)

Have you ever had a stress test?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 02:00 AM (snZF9)

331 Cigarettes don't generally smell like skunk, though. So they got that going for them. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:00 AM (rdVOm)

332 Have you ever had a stress test?
Posted by: Bers
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We talked about this the other night, Bers. No, I haven't but will speak with Dr. about it when I see him next month.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:01 AM (rdVOm)

333 Have you ever had a stress test?
Posted by: Bers
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We talked about this the other night, Bers. No, I haven't but will speak with Dr. about it when I see him next month.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:01 AM (rdVOm)

If you're getting winded on stairs you really should have a stress test.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 02:04 AM (snZF9)

334 Day 4 without a cigarette, and I still haven't hurt anyone!
Posted by: JQ
- - -
When you get a craving, don't smoke it, chew on it.
The unpleasantness will jolt that crave right out of you.

Posted by: Unhelpful advice from Pavlov's cat at February 11, 2026 02:05 AM (MXTw0)

335 If you're getting winded on stairs you really should have a stress test.
Posted by: Berserker
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Yes, Dad. LOL. You're right.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:06 AM (rdVOm)

336 331 Cigarettes don't generally smell like skunk, though. So they got that going for them. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:00 AM (rdVOm)

Still not asleep.

Why does pot smell like skunk now? It didn't use to and I should know. Is there a reason? Granted I am not smoking anything ever again unless I knew who grew it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2026 02:08 AM (WONhk)

337 When you get a craving, don't smoke it, chew on it.
The unpleasantness will jolt that crave right out of you.
Posted by: Unhelpful advice from Pavlov's cat
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Hmm. But I *have* chewed on cigarette tobacco & didn't find it so awful. Not that I enjoyed it-- was just wetting & bruising it to apply to hornet sting.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

338 Finally finished watching all the videos in the OP, though not all in the comments. Of course I still love Primus's "Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver." Did not care for "Overkill"; maybe Motörhead just isn't for me. Iron Maiden's "Fear Of The Dark" was a close miss; I could see the appeal, and I appreciated the technical skill in each aspect both individually and in combination, but the song just didn't tickle my brain right. And Ralph's Banjo Special was a big miss, because (IMO) music without vocals needs context to lend it emotional weight, and I had no connection to anything that was going on there.

Posted by: SciVo at February 11, 2026 02:10 AM (Sy6m/)

339 >>Why does pot smell like skunk now? It didn't use to and I should know.
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Good question! I have no idea. Sucks.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)

340 Its only 2:12?

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 02:12 AM (Ia/+0)

341 Why does pot smell like skunk now? It didn't use to and I should know. Is there a reason? Granted I am not smoking anything ever again unless I knew who grew it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2026 02:08 AM (WONhk)

Because its goooood. lol

Not the crap from yesteryear .

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 02:15 AM (snZF9)

342 . I don't really think it matters if indian sold out as long as parts stay available. There isn't many places that work on them anyway, so if you're nowhere near a dealer you're fucked anyway.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

From Las Cruces, El Paso has both dealerships so that's 50 MI. Then there's Albuquerque that's 3 hours and then there's Tucson and that's 4 hours. I consider all of those options as being soundly fucked. The good news is we haven't really solid Harley/ Indian independent shop here in Las Cruces.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 02:17 AM (8ZVmQ)

343 Why does pot smell like skunk now?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2026 02:08 AM (WONhk)
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This may explain it:

https://tinyurl.com/4y4my7ru

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 11, 2026 02:20 AM (gK5jz)

344 >>Because its goooood.
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Yeah, yeah, that's all we hear -- about how POTENT it is now. Great!

But *what* did they do to it?

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

345 Bass. Specifically electric bass.
Did you ever hear of Charles Berthoud?
He has a pretty successful ewetoob channel, and he does perform live as well.
Good intro in a couple of minutes:
https://youtu.be/y9UTShorzKQ

Posted by: buddhaha at February 11, 2026 02:21 AM (wTg85)

346 I got bored at 10:30. I went down to the pub for a beer. And now I'm back. And the cops still haven't come up with living Nancy Guthrie. This is not a good sign. Whoever that dude is the cops picked up is literally having the worst night of his life. The good news, If he is the perp and he most likely is, it's all downhill from here.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 02:22 AM (8ZVmQ)

347 Cross-posted with BD... Thank you.

Doesn't explain *how* they did it, but yeah. Guess it's just GMO?

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

348 When you get a craving, don't smoke it, chew on it.
The unpleasantness will jolt that crave right out of you.
Posted by: Unhelpful advice from Pavlov's cat
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Love makes the world go.round.
But, then again, so does a good swallow of tobacco juice.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 11, 2026 02:25 AM (wTg85)

349 Sweet dreams Horde, I have been lurking about for a while and I must get horizontal. Got lost in a ton of music tonight, it is snowing outside. I love you guys.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 11, 2026 02:26 AM (0nHVk)

350 >>>But *what* did they do to it?
Posted by: JQ
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It's that old priest and his pollen work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 02:26 AM (/LXUT)

351 THC must stink?

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

352 Why does pot smell like skunk now? It didn't use to and I should know. Is there a reason? Granted I am not smoking anything ever again unless I knew who grew it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2026 02:08 AM (WONhk)

Well, we may have to parse things out by the decade. Skunkweed was for sure a thing by the '90s; it is not new. But of course it was cheap, since no one would pay a premium to smell bad. What is the context? If it's street people, there you go.

Posted by: SciVo at February 11, 2026 02:27 AM (Sy6m/)

353 It's that old priest and his pollen work.
Posted by: Braenyard
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And that's *all* that happened? Just hybridizing? I guess after so many decades...

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:29 AM (rdVOm)

354 Yeah, yeah, that's all we hear -- about how POTENT it is now. Great!

But *what* did they do to it?

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

Stuff that friends of mine grew 40 years ago smelled like skunk and would knock you on your ass. I think the word we're looking for is fresh. When I was in school weed was crap, probably wasn't even grown here. There was some better stuff, but usually it was crap. Probably came from some ditch in mexico. No care in the growing, harvesting, curing, zip, nada. These days its an art form.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 02:32 AM (snZF9)

355 (I do not actually know if it was cheap; I have no personal financial transactions in the '90s to base that on, just supposition based on people with money preferring to smell good.)

Posted by: SciVo at February 11, 2026 02:32 AM (Sy6m/)

356 First time I encountered a skunky-smelling weed, was about 1979 or 80.

One of the people I smoked it with, was allergic to belladonna and was hospitalized shortly after smoking it.

I've wondered ever since, if there was some factor other than breeding involved.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)

357 I've wondered ever since, if there was some factor other than breeding involved.
Posted by: JQ

I'm guessing you are referring to a preference to wearing overalls without a shirt type of breeding involvement.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 11, 2026 02:34 AM (8ZVmQ)

358 Bers @354--

Now THAT is the closest thing to a reasonable explanation that I've read! Thank you. Makes sense.

Still, I keep thinking about that friend and his allergy...

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:35 AM (rdVOm)

359 I'm guessing you are referring to a preference to wearing overalls without a shirt type of breeding involvement.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Sorry if I used the wrong word.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:35 AM (rdVOm)

360 Dr. Brae says, stress test and associated CT Scan with and without contrast. If your cardiologist does not order that. Get another cardiologist.
Post haste.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 02:38 AM (/LXUT)

361 Scuuuuuuuuse me!

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:38 AM (rdVOm)

362 Dr. Brae says, stress test and associated CT Scan with and without contrast. If your cardiologist does not order that. Get another cardiologist.
Post haste.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Noted. Thank you!

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

363 Bers @354--

Now THAT is the closest thing to a reasonable explanation that I've read! Thank you. Makes sense.

Still, I keep thinking about that friend and his allergy...

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:35 AM (rdVOm)

The other thing is the crap weed from years ago had seeds, lots of seeds. Thats from slobs not killing off the male plants in time, and there were always more male than female plants for some reason. Once they pollinate the female plants the females start making seeds and stop growing buds, or the basically the buds stop growing. Friends of mine that had large females years ago ended up with super weed, not the commercial crap that was around back then. We had shit from california one time that was off the charts, because the growers knew their shit. Its not like this super weed is new, its just waaaay more common now. Breeding definitely has improved and growers are constantly coming up with new strains. It most likely is definitely improved, but its much closer to shit that was grown the right way years ago compared to the crap.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 11, 2026 02:45 AM (snZF9)

364 I learned a long time ago, that weed was dioecious & male plants were ripped out with extreme prejudice, LOL. But didn't know anyone personally what grew.

Still-- the *freshness* angle makes a lot of sense. Now that one can just go to a store instead of making a few calls and driving across town and hoping to buy some stuff that was smuggled from who knows where, who knows when...

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:53 AM (rdVOm)

365 Guess what we got on that fateful day, was some fresh homegrown crap that was *enhanced* for cred & future sales. (?)

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

366 I just saw the video of the guthrie suspect. Ain't no way that's an American carrying a gun that way. That's a Mexican thing. Hispanic, I should say. Could it be cartel related?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 11, 2026 02:59 AM (Ezs10)

367 So anyway..

Yay! I'm not nicotine free YET, but am on the way to better health.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2026 02:59 AM (rdVOm)

368 I mean, I wouldn't think they'd want to get involved with a celebrity, but maybe they didn't know, just noticed sn elderly lady living alone? Or could someone in the family be in debt to them, or screwed them over somehow?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 11, 2026 03:01 AM (Ezs10)

369 To cap off the evening, a highly unusual FAA shutdown of airspace over El Paso and a part of southern NM for *10 days*, already in effect, no prior notice (reportedly) to civilian or military aviation. National security rationale, unspecified.

Will enjoy seeing what this is all about.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 11, 2026 03:02 AM (U/Byj)

370
[Top photo: Matterhorn, Switzerland]

The Anti-Matterhorn is located at the antipode of the Matterhorn.

Oh, sure, it's beneath the Pacific Ocean but nevertheless, it is there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 11, 2026 03:04 AM (xG4kz)

371
Will enjoy seeing what this is all about.
Posted by: rhomboid
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It's Alteria and that Indian.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 03:07 AM (/LXUT)

372 Posted by: rhomboid at February 11, 2026 03:02 AM (U/Byj)

You always have the most interesting information.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 11, 2026 03:08 AM (Ezs10)

373 RE: El Paso

MAGSx702@MAGSx702 . 6m . Replying to AZ_Intel_

In Arizona

Guthries Mom gets kidnapped

Law Enforcement helicopter gets shot down and 2 Officers died

2 Feds get shot the next day

Now in El Paso there is an airspace shutdown?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 03:14 AM (/LXUT)

374 Now in El Paso there is an airspace shutdown?
....................................
Awiens

Posted by: Cute fuzzy kitten at February 11, 2026 03:24 AM (sAmhv)

375 Couldn't find anything on a helicopter or two feds getting shot.

Air confirmation from AZ intel, OSINTtechnical.
Mexico is excluded.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 03:25 AM (/LXUT)

376 It's from the surface to 17,999 feet.
It's all photo copies no text.
It's got the FAA Seal on the notification.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 03:31 AM (/LXUT)

377 It appears that a plane may route over El Paso as long as it stays above 17999 ft.
Why didn't they say 18000 ft.?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 03:38 AM (/LXUT)

378 Is there a lot of cartel traffic through El Paso/Juarez?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 11, 2026 03:42 AM (Ezs10)

379 The helicopter incident was up north near Flagstaff, iirc. Last week.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 11, 2026 03:43 AM (Ezs10)

380 Only cat naps since 2:15

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 03:45 AM (Ia/+0)

381 So they're worried about smaller planes, I assume? Not big commercial types?

How high does something like a Lear jet go?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 11, 2026 03:45 AM (Ezs10)

382 I'll look but off hand close to 30K.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 03:58 AM (/LXUT)

383 Search Assist

Lear jets typically cruise at altitudes around 41,000 to 51,000 feet, depending on the specific model and flight conditions. Flying at these altitudes helps improve fuel efficiency and avoid commercial air traffic.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 04:01 AM (/LXUT)

384 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2026 04:05 AM (Ia/+0)

385 Isn't 51K ft close to leaving the atmosphere?\

Search Assist

The Kármán line, widely accepted as the boundary of space, is at 100 kilometers (62 miles) above sea level, which is much higher than 51,000 feet (about 9.7 miles). Therefore, 51,000 feet is not close to leaving the atmosphere.
Wikipedia

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2026 04:06 AM (/LXUT)

386 There's no such thing as a mentally ill, homicidal tranny.

Only vampires. Get with the program!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 11, 2026 04:17 AM (xFfhU)

387 ... a grenade launching gun...

The technical term is "line-thrower".

Posted by: waepnedmann at February 11, 2026 05:35 AM (+3lgn)

388 last night I was watching the skiing competition and NBC breaks in with announcement of a person of interest by the Pima County people NBC spent alot of minutes discussing what this means. they were so careful to note it is not the FBI just the local sheriff and also they did not ARREST the suspect just a person of interest detained for questioning. my reaction is this I had absolutely no idea who Nancy Guthrie is prior to this event and Savannah Guthrie is a morning time host but married to a fixer public relations firm Michael Feldman. There are dozens of stories that occur worldwide 24/7 why THIS STORY is the one they fixate on?

Posted by: paulnjax at February 11, 2026 07:06 AM (PPnyU)

389 Sen Mullin must ensure that those here illegally with minors face the same penalties as citizen paremts who immerse their children in a life of crime. That would include being supervised by caseworker and facing charges for corrupting their minors.
Also, the minor should not be able to sponsor the criminal parent.

Posted by: Augusto Perez at February 11, 2026 10:27 AM (Dtw1z)

Playtime Cafe

"Pebble" the Turtle, aura-farming

Now sand-crabs are out of control. (Bears remain fully out of control.)

I hate fake-out jump scares, especially when it turns out it's just a cat.

Dogs want to make friends with inanimate objects.

Cat would like to play now please and thank you.

Big dog teaches tiny puppy how to play with a ball.

Dark sentinel of the night.

Cats being caught just as they're about to do a great evil.

Where'd it go..🐕🐕😅 pic.twitter.com/8ZBIAnA43N
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) February 10, 2026

I believe I can fly..🐈🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/VnBHBTBgOm
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) February 10, 2026

Golden times..wait for it..✨🐾😊

📹secretkeepers pic.twitter.com/PbFSP84rF9
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) February 10, 2026

Elephants reaction to seeing a caretaker who helped them raise..🐘🥺🙏❤️ 🔊⬆️🆙

📹saveelephantfoundation pic.twitter.com/quWCyKJBi0
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) February 10, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)

2 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Cafe! Woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:32 PM (Cjt/F)

4 I love the videos now where dogs think TVs are noisy windows.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:32 PM (6ydKt)

5 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies! They really want you to!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 07:32 PM (68lhN)

6 That turtle has been eating too much microplastics.

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 07:33 PM (vFG9F)

7 Motoko from Love Hina would be freaking out about Pebbles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 07:33 PM (2GVsD)

8 okay, that golden and the mannequin is funny!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:33 PM (Cjt/F)

9 An elephant never forgets!

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 07:34 PM (0KSrI)

10
It's Mitch McConnell's baby picture!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 07:35 PM (n7rxJ)

11 It's Mitch McConnell's baby picture!

Can't be, not a cave painting.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 07:36 PM (2GVsD)

12 Sadly the woman was left with nothing but her bones after the Golden Retriever attack

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:36 PM (Ia/+0)

13 Protip: It is important to also protect your kidneys when being mobbed by a pack of golden retrievers.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 07:37 PM (rbvCR)

14 An orgy of Goldens.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m)

15 Golden Retrievers are also organ-leggers?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 07:37 PM (2GVsD)

16 "Pebble" the Turtle is a sculpture.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 07:37 PM (uvB+6)

17 but the woman being golden-mobbed is even better!
(not to mention the soundtrack)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:38 PM (Cjt/F)

18 I love the videos now where dogs think TVs are noisy windows.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:32 PM (6ydKt)

I made the mistake of running a video of birds and squirrels to one of the young cats, and now she wants to interact with the computer screen on every video I watch

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 07:38 PM (rbvCR)

19 Can't be, not a cave painting.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 07:36 PM (2GVsD)

I'd at least expect a Daguerreotype.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:38 PM (6ydKt)

20 Golden Retrievers are also organ-leggers?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 07:37 PM (2GVsD)

No, just clumsy

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 07:39 PM (rbvCR)

21 The cats getting caught video was funny

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 07:39 PM (lJ0H4)

22 Yo check out my new album "Straight Outa Toronto" featuring these steamy hot tracks:

Who Birch Dis Is?
Lodge Yur Complaint
(gettin) Lucky Wit Bucky
Surprise Otter Daughter
Dub Dam Jam
That's Not Cheese
Mama's A Merkin
I Like Flat Tails
Puta Penguin
Bad Snatch Fever

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

23 I made the mistake of running a video of birds and squirrels to one of the young cats, and now she wants to interact with the computer screen on every video I watch

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 07:38 PM (rbvCR)

Must be a high refresh screen.
That's all it takes for pets to see it better.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:40 PM (6ydKt)

24 It's turtles all the way down.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 07:41 PM (JkO4W)

25 "Pebble" the Turtle

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Reminds me of Bill Bixby turning into The Hulk.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:43 PM (0Eh0f)

26 One of my cats likes to sit on the couch with me and will react to interesting video on the TV screen.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 07:44 PM (dhHpw)

27 22 Yo check out my new album "Straight Outa Toronto" featuring these steamy hot tracks:

Who Birch Dis Is?
Lodge Yur Complaint
(gettin) Lucky Wit Bucky
Surprise Otter Daughter
Dub Dam Jam
That's Not Cheese
Mama's A Merkin
I Like Flat Tails
Puta Penguin
Bad Snatch Fever
Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

Hahahaha! I can't even pick a favorite. Those are all hits.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 10, 2026 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

28 Cats getting caught was too funny

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

29 Why is the dog in the clothing store? Troublemakers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 07:46 PM (xFfhU)

30 Evenin’, All. Happy Wednesday Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 07:47 PM (77rzZ)

31 When first moved here I had made the end wall in basement all mirrors. Later we got our two cats so they always had mirrors from the beginning. Don't remember much odd events with them

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)

32 It's turtles all the way down.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 07:41 PM (JkO4W)

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Reminds me of the great book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" (1979) by Douglas Hofstadter.

Was just beginning my 25-year (disappointing & disillusioning) career as a software systems analyst & engineer over 40 years ago -- and hobby of studying various philosophies.

It would be interesting to re-read it now as my jaded & cynical self ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:49 PM (0Eh0f)

33 Cute turtle up top. Even got that nice little smile.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 07:50 PM (QVmho)

34 Happy-ish Tuesday Cafe!

Nice selection, ace ...

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Wisdom & Folksy Sayings Critic . . . Old Wives Tales Kicked In for Free at February 10, 2026 07:50 PM (3ZUWJ)

35 I love the videos now where dogs think TVs are noisy windows.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:32 PM (6ydKt)

I made the mistake of running a video of birds and squirrels to one of the young cats, and now she wants to interact with the computer screen on every video I watch
Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 07:38 PM (rbvCR)

Back in the day on some kitten videos my old lady cat at the time used to start hunting for the meowing kittens by triangulating the sound. I had to calm her down on some of them. She was a sweet girl.

My current female cat will sometimes swipe video cats on the tail. She's sweet but a bit of a stinker.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 07:50 PM (8avO+)

36 No Gay Day at Disney

OK I was at a Gay Day at six flags years ago as my daughter and I always went to Six Flags in the Day before School starts (usually a Wed) and I ask them why today.
Why today?
They could not answer.
Because it was the last day of the summer pass for local kids.
Most Gays did not know that.
Who did??????

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:51 PM (gbOdA)

37 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 07:51 PM (SRRAx)

38 It's turtles all the way down.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Reminds me of the great book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" (1979) by Douglas Hofstadter.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness

It's a Candy Making Cookbook !!!

Posted by: Damn Knight Tried to Warn Us . . . at February 10, 2026 07:52 PM (3ZUWJ)

39 When first moved here I had made the end wall in basement all mirrors. Later we got our two cats so they always had mirrors from the beginning. Don't remember much odd events with them

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)

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Now I'm imagining Skip as Bruce Lee in "Enter The Dragon."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:52 PM (0Eh0f)

40 Sand crabs? On the SE coast those are called 'Fiddler Crabs'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 07:52 PM (XeU6L)

41 Cats getting caught was too funny
Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoUEQYjYgf4

the despair in the lady's voice is too much for me.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 07:53 PM (8avO+)

42
Pork ribs, loaded potatoes and baked beans for dinner. Super excellent. The house dogs got to clean plates, dishes and bowls.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 07:54 PM (tgvbd)

43 That top photo may be the cutest turtle ever. Love that turtle smile.

Posted by: JTB at February 10, 2026 07:55 PM (yTvNw)

44 199 Do you want your kids to grow up without any knowledge of what privacy means?
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It's OK, everybody does it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 07:56 PM (/LXUT)

45 I saw The Fiddler Crabs open for Blue Öyster Cult at Stillwaters in '90.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:57 PM (0Eh0f)

46 The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday, in another setback for the technology that’s been a target of some Trump administration health officials.

It is not a VAX.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:57 PM (gbOdA)

47 When first moved here I had made the end wall in basement all mirrors. Later we got our two cats so they always had mirrors from the beginning. Don't remember much odd events with them

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)

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Now I'm imagining Skip as Bruce Lee in "Enter The Dragon."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:52 PM (0Eh0f)

I have had cats that would dig at the base of the big bathroom mirror to try and 'get into' the extra room but they always knew who the cat was opposite them.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 07:57 PM (8avO+)

48
I love the videos now where dogs think TVs are noisy windows.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

They are Power Windows.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 08:00 PM (Cqx++)

49 "Dog wants to make friends with inanimate objects."

Before I clicked the link, I thought, "I bet it is a Golden Retriever."

I clicked, it was a Golden Retriever.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 10, 2026 08:01 PM (HlyYF)

50 No Gay Day at Disney

Oh My!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at February 10, 2026 08:01 PM (Ksqrb)

51 My pup doesn't seem to see anything on the TV. Ever. Just looks past like not even there.

Posted by: Sil at February 10, 2026 08:01 PM (hyQrc)

52 Most dogs I've had dismiss TVs right off as some stupid human thing not worth bothering with.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

53 Wait, is aura farming just another word for cute?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

54 Most dogs I've had dismiss TVs right off as some stupid human thing not worth bothering with.
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

Mine have looked at themselves in the reflection when the TV is off or reacted to sounds from the TV.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

55 Getting some warmer days, so the dogs are really enjoying their "outside time", lying in the good sunbeams.

Went out to check on the oldest dog ... and our outdoor cat had squeezed through the fence so she could also hang out in a warm patch with her three dog buddies.

She had plenty of other good spots available. However, I guess hanging with your buddies is the #1 priority.

I really kind of wonder if they all just hid their beer bottles when they heard me going out the door?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 10, 2026 08:06 PM (HlyYF)

56 I aura a farmer uaura a farmer weaura all farmers.

Posted by: A farmer at February 10, 2026 08:07 PM (vFG9F)

57 Old tube tvs supposedly most dogs really couldn't see, digital I think is different

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 08:07 PM (Ia/+0)

58 Do you want your kids to grow up without any knowledge of what privacy means?

No, especially since my folks would bust through my bedroom door whenever they felt like it, and would ransack my shit when I wasn't home. I once locked my bedroom door which resulted in it being pounded on like it was the fucking cops. So having mine trampled on throughout growing up has made be rather sensitive to that.

Posted by: Boundaries motherfucker do you speak it at February 10, 2026 08:07 PM (TbWk/)

59 That cat that's just about to chomp down on that juicy plant, realizes he's nailed, and turns it into a yawn.

He's trouble. Big trouble.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 08:09 PM (dIske)

60 I made the mistake of running a video of birds and squirrels to one of the young cats, and now she wants to interact with the computer screen on every video I watch

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 07:38 PM

1.) Get a touch screen computer

2.) Teach her how to use all of the MS Works programs

3.) Profit!!!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 10, 2026 08:09 PM (HlyYF)

61 51 My pup doesn't seem to see anything on the TV. Ever. Just looks past like not even there.

Posted by: Sil at February 10, 2026 08:01 PM (hyQrc)
52 Most dogs I've had dismiss TVs right off as some stupid human thing not worth bothering with.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

Dogs and cats eyes are built better than ours (predators primed to see fast movement easily) so they don't see regular 60hz refresh TVs like we do.

Newer monitors and TVs (the more expensive types made for gaming and faster motion clarity like OLEDs for example) get to 120 Hz and much higher. Pets can see what's on those TVs quite easily and will notice other animals, etc.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 08:09 PM (6ydKt)

62
Seeing a report that there is "activity " happening in the bitcoin account in the Guthrie case.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 08:09 PM (3ek7K)

63 "1.) Get a touch screen computer

2.) Teach her how to use all of the MS Works programs

3.) Profit!!!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot"

The cat might prefer Word Purrfect.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

64 46 The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday, in another setback for the technology that’s been a target of some Trump administration health officials.

It is not a VAX.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:57 PM (gbOdA)

Of course it's a vaccine, it says so right there! Trust SCIENCE™ not facts!

Posted by: Things I learned here, oddly enough at February 10, 2026 08:12 PM (TbWk/)

65
I can't conjure up any interest, let alone enthusiasm, in watching the Olympics. If I have it on, it's while I'm reading and I have it muted.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:13 PM (tgvbd)

66 Better turn this off.
Everyone I hope has a good night.

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 08:14 PM (Ia/+0)

67 63 "1.) Get a touch screen computer

2.) Teach her how to use all of the MS Works programs

3.) Profit!!!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot"

The cat might prefer Word Purrfect.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:10 PM

That is an excellent suggestion.

I heard that all of the smart pussies try to avoid any interactions involving Bill Gates.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 10, 2026 08:15 PM (HlyYF)

68 Do you want your kids to grow up without any knowledge of what privacy means?

No, especially since my folks would bust through my bedroom door whenever they felt like it, and would ransack my shit when I wasn't home. I once locked my bedroom door which resulted in it being pounded on like it was the fucking cops. So having mine trampled on throughout growing up has made be rather sensitive to that.

Posted by: Boundaries motherfucker do you speak it at February 10, 2026 08:07 PM (TbWk/)

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I remember the first time I felt my privacy "violated" -- my single mom would have her mom come look after me and my two younger brothers during summers.

My first crush was on a girl in 5th grade (who asked her best friend to ask my best friend if I wanted to "go steady" -- ha, so grown-up and what a laugh!). She gave me this really nice card on Valentine's Day that year, and I hid it under my mattress so I could pull it out and look at it before going to bed each night.

One day I get home from school and my grandmother accosts me holding this card, scolding & embarrassing me, and asking me why I had hidden it under my mattress!

Ugh, why would you do that to a child?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 08:17 PM (0Eh0f)

69 The cats getting caught video was funny
Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 07:39 PM

Reminds me of Ozzy Man's "Cats Being Dodgy" videos.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 08:17 PM (Wnv9h)

70 "Two teachers unions bosses were sentenced to PRISON after stealing $2.6 million in union funds."

Posted by: 13times at February 10, 2026 08:18 PM (459EB)

71
"Two teachers unions bosses were sentenced to PRISON after stealing $2.6 million in union funds."

Posted by: 13times at February 10, 2026 08:18 PM (459EB)

_________

$2.6 million? (*low whistle*) For union officials, they're almost honest.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:19 PM (tgvbd)

72 Of course it's a vaccine, it says so right there! Trust SCIENCE™ not facts!
Posted by: Things I learned here, oddly enough at February 10, 2026 08:12 PM (TbWk/)

They changed the definition to cover this one. Would they have done this if this wasn't a vaccine? *scoffs*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 08:20 PM (zZu0s)

73 Two teachers unions bosses were sentenced to PRISON after stealing $2.6 million in union funds

..."that otherwise would have gone to the Democrats"
They did nothing wrong

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 08:21 PM (gKWVE)

74 Of course it's a vaccine, it says so right there! Trust SCIENCE™ not facts!
Posted by: Things I learned here, oddly enough at February 10, 2026 08:12 PM (TbWk/)

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You forgot to add the obligatory FASCIST!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 08:23 PM (JkO4W)

75 Two teachers unions bosses were sentenced to PRISON after stealing $2.6 million in union funds

..."that otherwise would have gone to the Democrats"
They did nothing wrong
Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 08:21 PM (gKWVE)

Or it would have been gifted by any number of liberal parasites in the chain

Yeah, it hard to throw too much shade on this one. They just stole before anyone else could.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

76 I am going to cross the streams in the comments.

My favorite cartoon during Covid, showed a little medical glass vial on a table, labeled "Covid", and cat with a paw curled up (just like tonight's videos) about to knock the vial on the floor.

The punch line was something like, "How the pandemic really got started."

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 10, 2026 08:24 PM (HlyYF)

77 $2.6 million? (*low whistle*) For union officials, they're almost honest.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:19 PM (tgvbd)

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Seriously. We have no room in this great nation for persons of such limited vision.

Posted by: The Kwality Learing Center at February 10, 2026 08:24 PM (JkO4W)

78 If they had stolen 26MM, they could have bought the AG.
Pikers.

Posted by: Accomack at February 10, 2026 08:28 PM (8jVAy)

79 My Golden has been sleeping outside nearly every night. It was a low as 3 degrees last week, and I couldn't get him to come in.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 10, 2026 08:28 PM (3ImbR)

80 Do you want your kids to grow up without any knowledge of what privacy means?
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Wasn't blessed with any children of my own, but: I would definitely want them to learn about privacy and to respect others' personal space.

Like "Boundaries" posted above, my parents also sifted through my room whenever I was gone, usually blaming my younger brother & sister if I mentioned noticing. (Yeah, as if a 2- or 5- year old could reach certain places to rat around AND then put things back!)

They were paranoid, I guess, based on Mom working part time at the HS and seeing some of my classmates' behavior. I remember getting chewed out for *being in on* something another girl did... "Why didn't you tell anyone?!" She screamed at me. "Well, because that girl isn't one of my friends and I don't know anything about her besides her name." (which wasn't a good enough answer, btw)

*shrug*

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 08:29 PM (rdVOm)

81
They are Power Windows.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 08:00 PM (Cqx++)

Rush completely outdid themselves on this album. Manhattan Project followed by Marathon and Territories? Damn!

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 08:30 PM (hJH5n)

82 I understood I had no right to privacy when I was a kid living in my parent's house . That said I can't recall ever having my 'privacy' invaded.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 10, 2026 08:31 PM (cwGMH)

83 The news today, (don't hate, i was watching the local weather and couldn't change it quick enough) showed that Nancy Guthrie's ring door bell video was released.
• she didn't have a subscription, so video was NOT saved
• now the video thatwasn't saved is being used to ID the kidnappers

Moral - get rid of your Bezos nanny camera because they'll give that shit to the cops anyway.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 08:31 PM (QVmho)

84
Sam Darnold will lose $71,000 for winning the Super Bowl. His $178,000 winners share will be more than eaten up by California taxes of $249,000.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:33 PM (tgvbd)

85 "Sam Darnold will lose $71,000 for winning the Super Bowl. His $178,000 winners share will be more than eaten up by California taxes of $249,000.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

How does that work?

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:34 PM (vFG9F)

86 73 Two teachers unions bosses were sentenced to PRISON after stealing $2.6 million in union funds

..."that otherwise would have gone to the Democrats"
They did nothing wrong
Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 08:21 PM (gKWVE)

Sometimes the solutions in life are simple!

End teacher's unions. If you take a paycheck from any government entity, you have no business being in a union.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 08:36 PM (hJH5n)

87
I shared a small bedroom with my two sisters until the day I got married.

There wasn't any privacy and no room to hide anything. We shared one dresser and one small closet .

We could barely move around in there, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 08:37 PM (3ek7K)

88 Funny.

https://tinyurl.com/2792d52f

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)

89 "Jock taxes, according to news analysis, apply to athletes in jurisdictions where they play or practice. The Seahawks spent about eight “duty days” in California, triggering taxes on a prorated share of Darnold’s annual compensation under his three-year, $105 million contract."

Posted by: Nova Local at February 10, 2026 08:38 PM (tOcjL)

90 How does that work?
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:34 PM (vFG9F)

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I'll assume the guy owed a lot of back taxes so the apparatchiks swung in. Even CA doesn't tax at 140%.

Yet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 08:38 PM (JkO4W)

91 "How does that work?"

Communism.

Posted by: davidt at February 10, 2026 08:39 PM (Q+gd/)

92 Privacy is an illusion. Most people should have learned that when you had to shower with 30 other people after your physical education class in middle school.

Even the concept of private property is a fallacy when you can be doxxed in the middle of the night and dragged out in your pajamas.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 08:40 PM (xFfhU)

93
How does that work?

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:34 PM (vFG9F)

__________

As far as I can tell, he spent eight days in CA getting ready for the game. California imposes a "jock tax" on a prorated annual amount of the player's contract. Darnold is making $105 million over three years.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:41 PM (tgvbd)

94
Conclusion: do not visit California.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:42 PM (tgvbd)

95 57 Old tube tvs supposedly most dogs really couldn't see, digital I think is different
Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 08:07 PM (Ia/+0)

The way I’ve seen it described is that dogs and cats see a 60 Hz TV is like we see a strobe-light effect. They see images mixed in with black frames and so they don’t think it’s real and ignore it most of the time. You may get a dog or cat that will look at ot but they aren’t seeing what we do.

Most newer iPhones and higher end Samsung and other Android phones have 120 Hz screens on them in recent years so anybody who has one can check it out with their pets by showing them a full screen YouTube video of cats or something and see how they react to it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 08:42 PM (6ydKt)

96 "As far as I can tell, he spent eight days in CA getting ready for the game. California imposes a "jock tax" on a prorated annual amount of the player's contract. Darnold is making $105 million over three years.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

Ha ha ha. That is so f'd up. Lol.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:43 PM (vFG9F)

97 84
Sam Darnold will lose $71,000 for winning the Super Bowl. His $178,000 winners share will be more than eaten up by California taxes of $249,000.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:33 PM (tgvbd)

I'm surprised SCOTUS hasn't ruled these state jock taxes un-Constitutional. Ha! I denounce myself for being surprised by a SCOTUS inaction.

Does California tax non-jocks for time worked in California by non-CA residents? Does anyone know if the Seahawks and Patriots coaches, trainers, and advance staff are also being made to pay California state income tax? Jeez, what next from the elected thieves in Sacramento? Make vacationers pay time-stayed CA state income tax based on their salaries or pensions?

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 08:44 PM (5rh/l)

98 I wasn't hiding anything. Was a good student and tried to stay out of trouble.

Privacy was never discussed openly-- there was never any *understanding* one way or the other about it, except that I learned I was perpetually under surveillance (and not only by my evil older brother who was always watching in hopes of tattling every tiny or perceived infraction.)

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 08:46 PM (rdVOm)

99 It is not a VAX.
Posted by: r hennigantx

That caused me to find: "VX, short for "Venomous Agent X", is one of the best known of the V nerve agents..."

Posted by: t-bird at February 10, 2026 08:46 PM (k55di)

100 Elephant man is pretty brave.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 08:46 PM (snZF9)

101
Jeez, what next from the elected thieves in Sacramento? Make vacationers pay time-stayed CA state income tax based on their salaries or pensions?

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 08:44 PM (5rh/l)

___________

Don't give them ideas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:47 PM (tgvbd)

102 Jeez, what next from the elected thieves in Sacramento? Make vacationers pay time-stayed CA state income tax based on their salaries or pensions?

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Hold up while we get a fresh pen.

Posted by: The CA Legislature at February 10, 2026 08:48 PM (JkO4W)

103 >>Does California tax non-jocks for time worked in California by non-CA residents?

Yes, but it is income based. If you make a lot of money and spend some time in CA earning money you could have CA tax liability.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:50 PM (viF8m)

104 My third Heap of Amelia memes collection is now up. Includes link to 70 (!) Amelia memes

https://bit.ly/amelia-memes-03

Previously:
https://bit.ly/amelia-memes-01
https://bit.ly/amelia-memes-02

I may have to just quit collecting. There's some good ones, though.

Posted by: mindful webworker - you're shaking my confidence daily at February 10, 2026 08:51 PM (kqXjy)

105 Does the NFL itself pay this special CA Tax on its super bowl income?

Posted by: davidt at February 10, 2026 08:52 PM (Q+gd/)

106
But why not tax tourists? By existing in California they are a potential burden to services like police, fire and water. So they should pay.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:52 PM (tgvbd)

107 106
But why not tax tourists? By existing in California they are a potential burden to services like police, fire and water. So they should pay.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:52 PM (tgvbd)

Have we met?

Posted by: State Sales Taxes at February 10, 2026 08:53 PM (hJH5n)

108 106
But why not tax tourists? By existing in California they are a potential burden to services like police, fire and water. So they should pay.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:52 PM (tgvbd)

This is why San Antonio loves us!

Posted by: Hotel Motel Taxes at February 10, 2026 08:53 PM (hJH5n)

109 Love the golden retriever vids. Neighbors had 2, what fun they were!

Old doggo went to the rainbow bridge, so they got another pup-- not a golden but still a sweet boy-- and the fun continues.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 08:54 PM (rdVOm)

110
Someone is pushing Her Majesty to acquire one of their Whippets. I love the breed, but we had bad luck with the ones we had.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:56 PM (tgvbd)

111 108 106
But why not tax tourists? By existing in California they are a potential burden to services like police, fire and water. So they should pay.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 08:52 PM (tgvbd)

This is why San Antonio loves us!
Posted by: Hotel Motel Taxes at February 10, 2026 08:53 PM (hJH5n)

As a native San Antonian, I want to thank all tourists for boosting the economy there, and for filling the city's tax coffers. I do profoundly apologize for the city's dumb as fuck mayor and city council.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 08:56 PM (hJH5n)

112 mindful webworker - you're shaking my confidence daily

Thank you.

Been spreading your links to the good people around here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 08:57 PM (u82oZ)

113 Semi-related, I like how some countries view tourists or visitors from an insurance standpoint. Regardless of who is at fault, the tourist or visitor is held to be responsible for any collision, on the concept that if they weren’t in their country, the accident wouldn’t have occurred in the first place.

Not going to say I agree with it, but I can see the logic. It should be applied to illegal aliens and visa holders and the rest of it.

Any mayhem or costs incurred on America should be billed to their country, or lopped off any “foreign aid”. America is like the kid who gets beat up and his lunch money stolen for 50 years running.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 08:59 PM (itAZI)

114

Posted by: Mitch McConnell vents at February 10, 2026 08:59 PM (jc0TO)

115 Isolation is more objective. Privacy is subjective. You are being surveilled 24/7, but who cares?

Hook me up with a date if you're so concerned.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:02 PM (xFfhU)

116 That top photo may be the cutest turtle ever. Love that turtle smile.
Posted by: JTB

"Pebble" the Turtle is a sculpture.
Posted by: pawn

pawn is correct. Source here:
https://is.gd/CLE8Em

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 09:03 PM (VHUov)

117 Any mayhem or costs incurred on America should be billed to their country, or lopped off any “foreign aid”. America is like the kid who gets beat up and his lunch money stolen for 50 years running.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 08:59 PM (itAZI)

I would just be happy if passports were checked, coming AND going, to make sure they left.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 09:04 PM (hJH5n)

118
Semi-related, I like how some countries view tourists or visitors from an insurance standpoint.

________

I did not know that. Another reason never to travel abroad. That and I don't go where I'm unwelcome.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 09:04 PM (tgvbd)

119 I did not know that. Another reason never to travel abroad. That and I don't go where I'm unwelcome.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Which explains why I have never visited one of my sisters.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 09:06 PM (cYBz/)

120
Someone is pushing Her Majesty to acquire one of their Whippets. I love the breed, but we had bad luck with the ones we had.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Whippet not good?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 09:09 PM (Cqx++)

121
Whippet not good?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 09:09 PM (Cqx++)

___________

Health problems

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 09:10 PM (tgvbd)

122
68 Do you want your kids to grow up without any knowledge of what privacy means?”

Our obsession with privacy is really pretty recent, something previous generations never knew. Growing up, I always shared a room with my brother who was 2 years younger than me. In college I had roommates in small apartments and we slept 2, sometimes 3 to a room. I never had a private bedroom til I was 22 years old; and then I got married in a few months and that was over.

Privacy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You can live without it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 10, 2026 09:12 PM (gCFgr)

123 Old tube tvs supposedly most dogs really couldn't see, digital I think is different
Posted by: Skip

The refresh rate was too slow for dogs. Humans with their slower eyes and longer persistence-of-vision would see NTSC/PAL TV as a motion picture. Dogs would see a slideshow. And not a good one, since old CRTs were interlaced; they drew all the even-numbered lines in one frame, then all the odd-numbered lines in the next.

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 09:12 PM (VHUov)

124 The digital Panopticon is practically complete.

The question therefore isn’t whether we live in a police state or not, the question is why is there so much crime?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:12 PM (itAZI)

125
The question therefore isn’t whether we live in a police state or not, the question is why is there so much crime?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:12 PM (itAZI)

_____________

It's easier to punish law-abiding citizens.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 09:15 PM (tgvbd)

126 Privacy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You can live without it.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I can live without *others* ransacking my stuff.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 09:17 PM (rdVOm)

127 I briefly though that those Golden Retrievers was a pride
of Lions and she was committing some ritual form of suicide. Bad thoughts

Posted by: javems at February 10, 2026 09:17 PM (zFsEm)

128 Yeesh

@BNODesk 6m
BREAKING: Canadian police confirm 7 people killed, 25 injured after school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC. 2 others found dead at a home. Suspect also dead.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 09:20 PM (diia5)

129 Damn. Sam will be taxed $249,000 by the state of California?
Talk about "pay to play". Wonder what other states tax pro athletes?

Posted by: Case at February 10, 2026 09:21 PM (E7+ue)

130
@BNODesk 6m
BREAKING: Canadian police confirm 7 people killed, 25 injured after school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC. 2 others found dead at a home. Suspect also dead.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 09:20 PM (diia5)

_____________

There are no guns in Canada.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 09:22 PM (tgvbd)

131 BREAKING: Canadian police confirm 7 people killed, 25 injured after school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC. 2 others found dead at a home. Suspect also dead.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

To ensure it never happens again many law-abiding Canadians will be disarmed.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2026 09:22 PM (/lPRQ)

132 BREAKING: Canadian police confirm 7 people killed, 25 injured after school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC. 2 others found dead at a home. Suspect also dead.
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I was reliably informed, that *only the USA* has mass sh00tings...

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 09:24 PM (rdVOm)

133 And some people wanted to make B.C. a state.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 09:26 PM (/LXUT)

134 The question therefore isn’t whether we live in a police state or not, the question is why is there so much crime?

Posted by: Common Tater

With political motivation the police state is highly effective -
- Prosecuting nobodies for J6, and on the flip side,
- SWAT Armored Vehicles Deployed in Nancy Guthrie Abduction Case

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2026 09:27 PM (/lPRQ)

135 Talk about "pay to play". Wonder what other states tax pro athletes?
Posted by: Case
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Get a list & lets see some players refuse to play in those states. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 09:27 PM (rdVOm)

136
BREAKING: Canadian police confirm 7 people killed, 25 injured after school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC. 2 others found dead at a home. Suspect also dead.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 09:20 PM

it obviously happened because of the lax gun laws in Gary, Indiana

obviously

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 10, 2026 09:27 PM (tljrc)

137 Canadian police confirm 7 people killed, 25 injured after school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC.

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More people shot than their whole army could have done. Make whoever did it a Canadian General.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 09:28 PM (BI5O2)

138 Amelia as Aragon was a good show.

Thanks, mindful webworker.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 09:29 PM (u82oZ)

139 >>> Drag Queen Rejects Bill and Defends Shows for Minors

That's one degenerate that should be slowly lowered into an industrial shredder.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2026 09:30 PM (/lPRQ)

140 Drug abuse is a disease of capitalism. If you think you know someone who died from it, it was probably just a lightning strike.

--- CPSU(b)

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 09:31 PM (BI5O2)

141 Michael Ruiz
@mikerreports
·
6m
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: A law enforcement source tells me they have one person in custody but have not found Nancy Guthrie.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 10, 2026 09:33 PM (3ImbR)

142 125
The question therefore isn’t whether we live in a police state or not, the question is why is there so much crime?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:12 PM (itAZI)

_____________

It's easier to punish law-abiding citizens.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 09:15 PM (tgvbd)

Bingo.

Posted by: Catching criminals is HAAAARRRD at February 10, 2026 09:35 PM (TbWk/)

143 @BNODesk 6m
BREAKING: Canadian police confirm 7 people killed, 25 injured after school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC. 2 others found dead at a home. Suspect also dead.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 10, 2026 09:20 PM (diia5)
~~~~~

Surely Tumbler Ridge must be in U.S., not BC. I've been reliably informed that these school shootings only happen in the U.S.

Oh, Canada.

*Prayers for all victims*

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 10, 2026 09:37 PM (3ImbR)

144 The whole Nancie Guthrie thing pisses me off

I’m sad a person is missing SHE IS NOT SPECIAL. SHE DOES NOT DESERVE FBI, FEDERAL INTERVENTION OR MENTION FROM THE POTUS.

Whatever. There are thousands of people who go missing every year.

She is not special. I don’t care.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 09:38 PM (IhIKR)

145 Well, at least they found the killer. Now they can bury the old woman, hopefully along with the story. I don't need to hear anymore about Savannah Guthrie or her family problems.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 09:38 PM (BI5O2)

146 FOX now reporting that a person has been detained in Guthrie case.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 10, 2026 09:38 PM (3ImbR)

147 Right there with ya, Nurse!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 09:39 PM (rdVOm)

148 Whatever. There are thousands of people who go missing every year.
She is not special. I don’t care.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 09:38 PM (IhIKR)
~~~~~

You are right, nurse. Just yesterday I posted on X a list of all the people just in AZ who have gone missing in the last two weeks--I believe it was 5, with 2 of them being children. But we don't even know their names.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 10, 2026 09:40 PM (3ImbR)

149 Well no, catching criminals is not hard, not any longer. That’s my point. It’s damn near trivial in many cases.

It’s curious to me that right as society reached this point, where stealing a pack of gum can be documented, in places like California, they decided that they were simply no longer going to prosecute crimes, forcing retailers to eat those costs, and cost-shift rampant theft to everyone else.

They lock up the toothpaste, instead of the crooks

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:42 PM (19v1I)

150 They lock up the toothpaste, instead of the crooks
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:42 PM (19v1I)
---
Toothpaste doesn't vote.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 09:48 PM (ESVrU)

151
79 My Golden has been sleeping outside nearly every night. It was a low as 3 degrees last week, and I couldn't get him to come in.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 10, 2026 08:28 PM

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Is there a shelter out fhere?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 10, 2026 09:48 PM (pW3IX)

152 Pebble the smiling turtle is adorable.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 09:50 PM (NFX2v)

153 On the bright side, Slick Willie never had to worry about Epstein taking advantage of his underage daughter at Pedo Island. She was the most homely daughter to ever grace the White House and drool like an untamed, feral beast.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:59 PM (xFfhU)

154 Had no idea...

ABC 15, PHOTOS: Arizonans recently reported missing
More than 1,000 people in Arizona are currently listed as missing on the NamUS database. Here are 100 of the most recently reported missing person cases in our state. If you have any information about any of these cases, please contact the authorities.

OMG that's so terrible, even without the missing small children. (Wikipedia, Disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 09:59 PM (NFX2v)

155 The real question is why do they want you to care about it so much?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 09:59 PM (RIvkX)

156 Toothpaste doesn't vote.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 09:48 PM (ESVrU)

*long bong hit*

Duuuude...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 10:00 PM (0aYVJ)

157 Guthrie knocks off Gutfeld.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 10:01 PM (Cqx++)

158 Smiling Turtle:
Yes, this image appears to be AI-generated. The turtle's anthropomorphic smile (with lip-like curves and an expression that's unusually human-like for a reptile) is a common hallmark of AI creations, as real turtles have rigid beaks that don't form such expressions. The overall texture and lighting also show subtle inconsistencies typical of generative AI, like overly smooth skin and shell details that blend unnaturally with the background. Similar smiling turtle images are frequently produced by AI tools, as seen in various online galleries and generators.

Posted by: docweasel at February 10, 2026 10:59 PM (EEXyX)

Email: Epstein Hid Cameras In Kleenex Boxes and All Around His Palm Beach Home

I know yesterday I said there was no evidence of an Epstein blackmail operation but I'm going to exercise the Democrat Denialist Maneuver of declaring "I never said that nor held that position."

If you contradict me I will call you a Far Right Extremist.

NYT:

Jeffrey Epstein directed one of his aides to obtain hidden video cameras, apparently to be set up in his home in Palm Beach, Fla., according to a recently released 2014 email.
The purpose of the cameras was not clear, but a number of Mr. Epstein's victims have said they suspected they were being recorded. That has fueled speculation that he was collecting compromising information on his powerful acquaintances, though no evidence has emerged to prove those claims.
"Lets get three motion detected hidden cameras, that record," Mr. Epstein wrote to Larry Visoski, his longtime pilot, who has said he at times set up audio and video equipment for Mr. Epstein in his residences.
Mr. Visoski replied that he had already purchased two motion-sensor cameras from a store that sold surveillance equipment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and was in the process of figuring out how they worked. "Its amazing how small they are," he wrote, adding that they could record for 64 hours. "I'm installing them into Kleenex boxes now. I'll bring them by later today."
Mr. Visoski did not respond to a request for comment.
The February 2014 email, which was previously reported by The Telegraph, is the latest indication that Mr. Epstein installed surveillance cameras inside his homes. Last summer, The New York Times published photos that showed a camera mounted in the corner of the master bedroom in his palatial Upper East Side townhouse. Another was nestled in the moldings of an adjoining room. The Times also reviewed a photo that showed a camera near a suite of bathrooms on the same floor as Mr. Epstein's bedroom.
The presence of those cameras conflicts with what federal law enforcement officials have said in the past.
Last March, for example, federal prosecutors in Manhattan provided top F.B.I. officials with a description of the video evidence that investigators had recovered from Mr. Epstein's properties. The email said that when F.B.I. agents raided his New York and U.S. Virgin Islands homes after he was charged with sex trafficking in July 2019, they searched for surveillance cameras.
"My understanding from the case agent is that there were no cameras found inside any bedrooms or living areas of either residence," read the email, which was recently released by the Justice Department. The email added that the only cameras the F.B.I. found were near the residences' entryways.

Uh, have you considered he might have taken them down?

...
In 2005, as the police in Palm Beach were investigating Mr. Epstein for raping and sexually abusing girls, detectives searched his home. A police official later wrote in an incident report that he "located two covert (hidden) cameras." Both were stashed inside clocks, one in Mr. Epstein's garage and the other beside his desk.

Note that the FBI didn't deny that there were videos of people in compromising situations. They said there were no videos of people in compromising situations except for Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

It's possible this pervert was making unconsented-to pornographic videos of people he was having sex with.

It's also possible he was collecting, as Chuck Todd likes to say, kompromat. (At least he likes to say that when he's speculating about Trump involved in seedy sexual scenarios with Russian Pee-Prostitutes.)

Relatedly, Ghislaine Maxwell has pled the fifth in a House Oversight Committee hearing, but she's trying to conjure herself a Get Out of Free Card by saying she will testify about what she knows if and only if Trump commutes her sentence. She says she will clear Trump -- um, the police records have already done that -- and also clear Bill Clinton.

Pass. I know you're lying based on that last claim.

"I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence," Maxwell, speaking from prison, repeatedly stated more than a dozen times during Monday's closed-door virtual deposition, refusing to answer any questions on the panel's investigation into Epstein, the late sex offender.
...
The video of the deposition shows Maxwell declining to answer if she was a close friend of Epstein.
"I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question and any related questions. My habeas petition is pending in the Southern District of New York. I therefore invoke my right to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution," Maxwell responded.
Maxwell refused to say if she was involved in trafficking of young women or girls and if she ever coerced any young women or girls to provide sexual favors to Epstein.
She refused to provide the committee names of any additional co-conspirators, or to answer if she was aware that Epstein was sexually abusing minors and adult women, and whether she ever participated in sexual abuse of any minor or adult woman.
Maxwell's lawyer, David Markus, said during the deposition, "If this committee and the American public truly want to hear the unfiltered truth about what happened, there is a straightforward path. Ms. Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump."
"For example, both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing," the lawyer said. "Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to hear that explanation."

It killed ABC to write this. pic.twitter.com/vInXEBwMqX
— Morning Glory 🇺🇸🌼🇺🇸 (@DoryBeutel) February 10, 2026

Even Epstein's attorney clears Trump along the same line. pic.twitter.com/WxwlKw0lLg
— Bonewitz🇺🇸🇺🇸Space-X🇺🇸🇺🇸X - AI🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@bonewitz_SPBG) February 10, 2026

I�m sure they will be reporting as little of this as possible, after all there is much more pressing news pic.twitter.com/bzJo6GWJrc
— Logic Police (@logicpolice45) February 10, 2026

Trump needs to start suing all of these people. This statement was made outside of Congress. Leftwing judges have extended congressional immunity to statements made outside of Congress supposedly "in the conduct of their congressional duties," but this a simple political slander.

Rep. Stansbury: �The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.� pic.twitter.com/8JMVE1MRr9
— Molly Ploofkins (@Mollyploofkins) February 9, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 It's all a big mess. We'll never know the whole truth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 06:32 PM (ExV1e)

2 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 06:32 PM (ExV1e)

3 When does Billy Jeff tell us it’s all our fault?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 10, 2026 06:33 PM (Lnnib)

4 Kleenex boxes? Probably a few HIPAA violations too.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 10, 2026 06:34 PM (Lnnib)

5 Oh hell yes, give her a full pardon; let's hear the whole story!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:34 PM (Cjt/F)

6 More examples that nobody can handle carnal knowledge outside of matrimony.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 10, 2026 06:35 PM (Lnnib)

7 If you contradict me I will call you a Far Right Extremist.

All good.
I'm used to it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt)

8 "Email: Epstein Hid Cameras In Kleenex Boxes and All Around His Palm Beach Home
—Disinformation Expert Ace"

Ace if this is true then epstein was in fact running an op using young girls as bait.

I have no idea who he was working for but if he was recording everything he was working for someone or selling that info to someone.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 06:36 PM (0N4FZ)

9 about damn time someone starts flipping on the organization, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:36 PM (Cjt/F)

10 Wonder when Stansbury met Epstein? It usually turns out that those who are slinging the arrows end up trying to duck them.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 10, 2026 06:37 PM (XPM1I)

11 Ace, you are an expert.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 10, 2026 06:37 PM (Lnnib)

12 Maybe somebody should look in Stansbury's closet.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:37 PM (0KSrI)

13 You don't have to blackmail people if they want to do the things you're trying to blackmail them with. Maybe Epstein just liked to watch people fuck, or try to fuck, in Bill Gates case.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 10, 2026 06:37 PM (MZ+PY)

14 It's all Kleenex and baby oil until somebody ends up hanged.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:38 PM (AhDDR)

15 It’s funny how the Dems can claim that Trump is engaged in a cover up when they had years to unleash all of this and are only seeing it now thanks to Trump.

This country needs a massive reset.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2026 06:38 PM (KbCG3)

16
A RAPIST AND CONVICTED 34 TIMES!!!

Sue the bastards, Mr. President.

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 06:38 PM (Y8DZL)

17 Mr. Visoski replied that he had already purchased two motion-sensor cameras from a store that sold surveillance equipment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and was in the process of figuring out how they worked. "Its amazing how small they are," he wrote, adding that they could record for 64 hours. "I'm installing them into Kleenex boxes now. I'll bring them by later today."
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So did nobody use Kleenex at the Epstein estate? Or were the cameras literally *in* the box - as in, in the cardboard and the Kleenex were still usable?

Because runny noses aren't that weird and it would have to be a *damn* small camera to not be noticed when someone went for a tissue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2026 06:38 PM (ojr4c)

18 Any clearance by President Trump will just bring out more false charges on him

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)

19 If you contradict me I will call you a Far Right Extremist.

Worse, you will have disappointed Ace.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 10, 2026 06:39 PM (0sNs1)

20 Yeah, I'm not buying that Epstein wired up every place he stayed with pictures and sound but somehow decided that Little St. James was a no-go zone.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:39 PM (6ydKt)

21 Sketchy dude does sketchy shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 06:39 PM (KN2gu)

22 Listen, we know what Epstein was, I don’t really care anymore.

It’s just noise at this point.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 06:40 PM (XV/Pl)

23 Uh, have you considered he might have taken them down?
++++
Or the more likely possibility: it's a straight-up lie.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2026 06:40 PM (ojr4c)

24 The Epstein Truthers are gonna use a lotta Kleenex over this news, IYKWIMAITYD

Also, somehow, this proves Trump lied.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 06:40 PM (HXT0k)

25 Sketchy dude does sketchy shit.
Posted by: rickb223 at

More at 11?

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 10, 2026 06:40 PM (MGB5H)

26 Check out Noam Chomsky getting laughed out of the room in comments on... Znetwork
tinyurl.com/yc7jyauj
Unlike Trump, Chomsky was sucking up to Epstein in 2015.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 06:40 PM (gKWVE)

27 I always figured there is video we will never see.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

28
"and Donald Trump is right at the center of it."

Yep, he was. As the virtuous white knight who fought the dragon.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 06:41 PM (y9nCu)

29 I asked my retarded aunt why she believes any of the fucking bullshit on the news.

"Because".

Well, that fucking settles it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 10, 2026 06:41 PM (wOO3z)

30 She looks like she records herself saying " traffic me daddy" . There , I have as much evidence against her as she has against Trump.

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2026 06:41 PM (YwEeS)

31 I bought a game camera a few years back to see what was moving around in my attic. Rodents Of Unusual Size. But since then I've thought about setting them up in my back yard to get pictures of the deer and foxes that walk through.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2026 06:42 PM (3uBP9)

32 The whole Mandelson wasn't about sex but imparting inside information about banking deals. Mandelson already had his freak flag on.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:42 PM (0KSrI)

33 I bet there is video of Clinton on an SD card somewhere.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:42 PM (vFG9F)

34 Can this “stansbury” creature be sued due to the fact she isn’t formally speaking on the US House floor? So sick of these rancid people.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 06:42 PM (2+BP2)

35 asked my retarded aunt why she believes any of the fucking bullshit on the news.

"Because".

Well, that fucking settles it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I was often told by my parents that "because is not a reason"

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 10, 2026 06:42 PM (MGB5H)

36
Because runny noses aren't that weird and it would have to be a *damn* small camera to not be noticed when someone went for a tissue.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2026 06:38 PM (ojr4c)

I don't think those Kleenex boxes were intended for "runny noses".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM (y9nCu)

37 Wait. Isn't there something in the fine print about disabling the showercam?

Posted by: Dindoo Nuffin at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM (2Ez/1)

38 I saw Rodents Of Unusual Size open for Deer in the Headlights at Red Rock.

Posted by: davidt at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM (Q+gd/)

39 Yes, sue all of them

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM (Hkcdp)

40 So did nobody use Kleenex at the Epstein estate? Or were the cameras literally *in* the box - as in, in the cardboard and the Kleenex were still usable?

Because runny noses aren't that weird and it would have to be a *damn* small camera to not be noticed when someone went for a tissue.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Don't need a jerk sock if you have a jerk Susie or jerk Steevy.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM (KN2gu)

41 I saw Rodents of Unusual Size open for Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Ames Civic Center in ‘94

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM (2+BP2)

42 Statue of Wojtek the Army Bear.
https://is.gd/qa4sB8

Why? Because finding out about Wojtek the Army Bear is the second best thing to happen today. The first is the US Women's Hockey Team pounding Canadian Beavers enter submission.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM (8ZVmQ)

43 Stansbury is a white version of Crockett. Say the most outrageous, stupid thing for attention

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 06:44 PM (yI5mB)

44 I bet there is video of Clinton on an SD card somewhere.
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:42 PM

* SHUDDER *

Oh, you meant Bubba. Carry on, then.

Posted by: Huma at February 10, 2026 06:44 PM (0sNs1)

45 40 Hey!

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2026 06:44 PM (YwEeS)

46 Fire and BBQ sauce both cover up a lot of mistakes.

Fire. Money. Time. All working against this coming out.

No way we are ever going to know how bad this was or how far it spread.

Trump could take his suit jacket off and unfold angel wings and reveal himself to be the Archangel Michael at a press conference and the Dems would still hunt his scalp.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:44 PM (AhDDR)

47 I bet there is video of Clinton on an SD card somewhere.
Posted by: fd

I bet there is video of Clinton on an STD card somewhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 06:45 PM (KN2gu)

48 Disinformation Ace is the best Ace. 🙂 I'm glad you are covering these stories and I hope all the evil pedos and pedo adjacent are brought to justice.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 10, 2026 06:45 PM (RkOfE)

49 I would be proud to be called a far right extremist.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 06:46 PM (dhHpw)

50 42, I missed that! thx A P!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:47 PM (Cjt/F)

51 Sketchy dude does sketchy shit.
Posted by: rickb223 at

More at 11?
Posted by: BruceWayne

More like 24/7.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 06:47 PM (KN2gu)

52 "My understanding from the case agent is that there were no cameras found inside any bedrooms or living areas of either residence," read the email, which was recently released by the Justice Department. The email added that the only cameras the F.B.I. found were near the residences' entryways.

Uh, have you considered he might have taken them down?
----

Or that the fbi are lying liars who lie?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 10, 2026 06:47 PM (RkOfE)

53 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 06:47 PM (SRRAx)

54 We are being told to ignore common sense. Occam's Razor clear up all this shit.

Trump didn't out smart them, he just a decent guy. With faults of course, like all of us.

That is why we love him. He is one of us, not a lawyer who is dependent on ignoring a moral compass for their own well being.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 06:48 PM (uvB+6)

55 Because runny noses aren't that weird and it would have to be a *damn* small camera to not be noticed when someone went for a tissue.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

It could be set under a false bottom of cardboard and stuffing the tissues back in.

You'd have to see the camera lens on the outside to be suspicious, and the pilot said they were tiny.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:48 PM (6ydKt)

56 Trump could take his suit jacket off and unfold angel wings and reveal himself to be the Archangel Michael at a press conference and the Dems would still hunt his scalp.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:44 PM (AhDDR)
------------
They'd fall to the flaming sword.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 06:48 PM (bxiOq)

57 Cameras? Not surprised, just wonder why it took so long to come out.

Cameras did not have to catch everyone, just enough to build a bit of protection. Which most likely severed him well in the first round of charges with minimal punishments.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 10, 2026 06:48 PM (w3u3d)

58 54, exactly right!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:48 PM (Cjt/F)

59 I've known about Wojtek for many years, he's the original out of control bear.

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2026 06:49 PM (YwEeS)

60 I would be proud to be called a far right extremist.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

I am leaning into being a called a Wojtek the Army Bear fan.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 10, 2026 06:49 PM (8ZVmQ)

61 @47

>> I bet there is video of Clinton on an STD card somewhere

No doubt.

Epstein didn’t really like Bill Clinton, there is an interview of Epstein where he blames Clinton for the 2008 housing meltdown.

In fact, there are a lot of interviews of Epstein that have been buried with him talking about all kinds of random stuff.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 06:49 PM (XV/Pl)

62 Who says TV has gone downhill? I just saw a commercial for a show called "Strange Obsessions." Upcoming episode of a very ugly black woman who is addicted to eating toenails. The preview shows her with some foot in her mouth while she gnaws away on the person's toenails.

Oh, SMOD, where art thou???

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 06:50 PM (qBdHI)

63 Trump could take his suit jacket off and unfold angel wings and reveal himself to be the Archangel Michael at a press conference and the Dems would still hunt his scalp.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:44 PM (AhDDR)

If Trump were the Archangel Michael, he could draw his sword and slaughter them for the minions of Satan they are.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 06:50 PM (dhHpw)

64 Buy one today:
https://tinyurl.com/yck9u4s9

Posted by: Four hundred bucks at February 10, 2026 06:50 PM (2Ez/1)

65 33 I bet there is video of Clinton on an SD card somewhere.
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:42 PM (vFG9F)

I bet Anthony Weiner's laptop has the good stuff.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 10, 2026 06:50 PM (0bjKf)

66 Hi Teresa

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 06:51 PM (Ia/+0)

67 I bet Anthony Weiner's laptop has the good stuff.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 10, 2026 06:50 PM (0bjKf)
------------
For certain values of "good."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 06:51 PM (bxiOq)

68 I design security systems for a living. If it exists, you can put a camera in it.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:51 PM (AhDDR)

69 Trump didn't out smart them, he just a decent guy. With faults of course, like all of us.

That is why we love him. He is one of us, not a lawyer who is dependent on ignoring a moral compass for their own well being.
Posted by: pawn

And he still gets the prom queen.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 06:51 PM (KN2gu)

70 LOL Ghislane claims she can clear Bill Clinton? this is just an attempt to get both parties to work to give her a deal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 06:52 PM (PYyV9)

71 Where are all the charges of kidnapping and rape? I haven't heard much about it because I presume these young ladies aren't coming forward.

We need to release the footage of Slick Willie letting his freak flag fly, baby!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 06:52 PM (xFfhU)

72 The Archangel Donald wields a flaming defamation lawsuit.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:53 PM (AhDDR)

73 I design security systems for a living. If it exists, you can put a camera in it.

Posted by: sifty boones

That taxidermy squirrel mount on the wall? Don't check out his butt too closely.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 06:53 PM (KN2gu)

74 If it exists, you can put a camera in it."

The Paolo, he is...hmm.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 06:54 PM (XuXeR)

75 62 Who says TV has gone downhill? I just saw a commercial for a show called "Strange Obsessions." Upcoming episode of a very ugly black woman who is addicted to eating toenails. The preview shows her with some foot in her mouth while she gnaws away on the person's toenails.

Oh, SMOD, where art thou???
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 06:50 PM (qBdHI)

Hey, now - some of us are getting ready to have dinner!

Or "were", anyway....🤢🤢🤢

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 06:54 PM (SRRAx)

76 Say whatever happened to the Weiner/Huma laptop?
It's go time Donald; destroy your enemies now or they will finish you. God spared you to serve Him.

Posted by: kingsman at February 10, 2026 06:54 PM (ehY6c)

77 Interesting how Maxwell's lawyer demonstrates the existence of a moral compass when he states, both ". . . President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing." Yet the lawyer seeks Maxwell a free pass even though she would be admittedly someone who [is] not innocent of any wrongdoing. . . ." How do these people even sleep at night?

Posted by: -DC at February 10, 2026 06:54 PM (i3jTa)

78 Rep. Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

She a New Mexico representative. You sort of have to cut these idiots some slack because they come from a completely inconsequential state and they have to parrot the party line loud and proud so they can get invited to the martini parties. If she didn't do this, everybody would be asking her when did Mexico become a state.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 10, 2026 06:54 PM (8ZVmQ)

79 73. He knows what he did to get on that wall.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:54 PM (AhDDR)

80 Epstein didn’t really like Bill Clinton

Everyone Epstein dealt with was an asshole. At least, so Epstein assumed. Because who else but an asshole would want to contact Epstein for favors.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 06:54 PM (gKWVE)

81 It all depends upon what the meaning of the word "is" is.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 06:55 PM (Cqx++)

82 Teresa, your upbeat posts always make me smile. I know you're going through so much, yet you're always upbeat here. It's inspirational. {{hugs}}

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 06:55 PM (qBdHI)

83 68 I design security systems for a living. If it exists, you can put a camera in it.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:51 PM (AhDDR)

They make some really microscopic spy cams nowadays.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:55 PM (6ydKt)

84 You don't have to blackmail people if they want to do the things you're trying to blackmail them with. Maybe Epstein just liked to watch people fuck, or try to fuck, in Bill Gates case.
-
Maybe it was an insurance policy (that apparently didn't work out).

Posted by: Methos at February 10, 2026 06:55 PM (vSvIl)

85 Trump is truly a fascinating study. He could have run on a dem ticket , gotten 100 million votes, moved centrist and been hailed as the second coming.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:55 PM (0KSrI)

86 82, endorsed!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:57 PM (Cjt/F)

87 83.

I seen shit that would turn you white!

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:57 PM (AhDDR)

88 Is it just me, or are all these pics of Trump with JE from the same event? Trump’s pink tie, JE’s black shirt…

Posted by: Euro at February 10, 2026 06:57 PM (6En8V)

89 Random nuttery:

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A Wyoming man is accused of intentionally hitting a woman with his truck while she was saving a parking space at Costco.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 10, 2026 06:57 PM (42yrw)

90 You don't have to blackmail people if they want to do the things you're trying to blackmail them with. Maybe Epstein just liked to watch people fuck, or try to fuck, in Bill Gates case.

Epstein would supply them young girls to let them fly their freak flag, then he'd tell them he needs $50 million as a donation for the DNC. You can bet that's how he was blackmailing people.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 06:58 PM (KN2gu)

91 82.
Amen!

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:58 PM (AhDDR)

92
"They make some really microscopic spy cams nowadays."

Like this one in a Kleenex box:

https://tinyurl.com/yck9u4s9

Posted by: I'm the internet. Just ask me. at February 10, 2026 06:58 PM (2Ez/1)

93 85 Trump is truly a fascinating study. He could have run on a dem ticket , gotten 100 million votes, moved centrist and been hailed as the second coming.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:55 PM (0KSrI)

It's saying something that a man who was a life-long New Yorker who voted for, donated to, and was friends with many Democrats, eventually couldn't stand them so much he chose to either run as a Reform Party candidate or Republican.

Hillary will never get over it.
She'll be complaining to the Devil in Hell that Trump stole 2016 with Putin's help.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:59 PM (6ydKt)

94 93.
When? - The Waco Kid

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 07:01 PM (AhDDR)

95 1 It's all a big mess. We'll never know the whole truth.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Wait -- are you talking about the Epstein scandal, or the entirety of human history?

Posted by: zombie at February 10, 2026 07:01 PM (se8lQ)

96
With all the spy cameras I don't know why people stay in Airbnbs.

I think those places must have cameras everywhere.

There is no privacy anymore.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 07:01 PM (3ek7K)

97 One good bit of news that a lot of people will probably like. I think Trump is going to announce the end of the engine idler cut-off mandate this week. At least according to L. Zeldin on teh twitters.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2026 07:01 PM (3uBP9)

98 Trump's attorney needs to deliver a letter to Stansbury threatening to sue, and film the delivery.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 07:01 PM (2WIwB)

99 >Hillary will never get over it.
She'll be complaining to the Devil in Hell that Trump stole 2016 with Putin's help.
++++++++
What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Stan's response at February 10, 2026 07:01 PM (2Ez/1)

100 92
"They make some really microscopic spy cams nowadays."

Like this one in a Kleenex box:

https://tinyurl.com/yck9u4s9

Posted by: I'm the internet. Just ask me. at February 10, 2026 06:58 PM (2Ez/1)

A steal at $389.95

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:02 PM (6ydKt)

101 Statue of Wojtek the Army Bear.
https://is.gd/qa4sB8

Why? Because finding out about Wojtek the Army Bear is the second best thing to happen today. The first is the US Women's Hockey Team pounding Canadian Beavers enter submission.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM

I hate to break your bubble but the story of Wojtek the Army bear was greatly embellished by the troops that adopted him.

One of the original soldiers in that unit spilled the beans decades after the war when the bear went to live in a zoo in Scotland after the war. While he did serve with the Polish unit that adopted him as a mascot he never really carried ammunition crates in battle or fought in any way. They just made that part up and it became legend.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 07:02 PM (0N4FZ)

102 It's all a big mess. We'll never know the whole truth.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Wait -- are you talking about the Epstein scandal, or the entirety of human history?
Posted by: zombie

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 07:02 PM (KN2gu)

103 "There is no privacy anymore."

If you haven't already, put opaque tape over your laptop and smartphone cams, when not using them. Not kidding.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 07:02 PM (N8ZBc)

104 >>>I know yesterday I said there was no evidence of an Epstein blackmail operation . . . .

There was no evidence known to us at the time, which makes that statement correct to the best of our knowledge.

*wipes brown nose*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (dK+Kv)

105 Since the rich and powerful, including a lot of politicians, haven't changed, it makes ya wonder who is feeding their perversions today?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (2WIwB)

106 Hey zombie! So nice to see you posting.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (42yrw)

107 82 Teresa, your upbeat posts always make me smile. I know you're going through so much, yet you're always upbeat here. It's inspirational. {{hugs}}
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 06:55 PM (qBdHI)

Awww, thank you!

So much nicer than the vaunted "compassionate" liberal on our neighborhood FB page who was happy to read that I have had so much "misery" in my life. He/she can't wait for my unsympathetic ass to die so that there will be one less person like me in the world. 🙄🙄🙄

On the other hand, this afternoon I was able to tell the person who texted me from the Texas Majority PAC (a Soros-backed group hoping to turn Texas blue) that the number 1 reason that I voted the way that I did in our recent primary was because I wanted to elect "anyone but a Democrat".

Somehow, I don't think they are gonna be putting me on their mailing list any time soon 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (SRRAx)

108 Think about how much of a freak you have to be to be considered a freak in Palm Beach.

We're way beyond flamingos and pineapples here.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (AhDDR)

109 "I think Trump is going to announce the end of the engine idler cut-off mandate this week."

Hear, hear!

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (N8ZBc)

110 Stansbury is a pimple on the ass of the Universe.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (0KSrI)

111
gp,

Yep. Everything is spying on us.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (3ek7K)

112 "There is no privacy anymore."

If you haven't already, put opaque tape over your laptop and smartphone cams, when not using them. Not kidding.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 07:02 PM (N8ZBc)

What if you like showing off your 12 pack and your fat ass? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM (dK+Kv)

113 83 68 I design security systems for a living. If it exists, you can put a camera in it.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:51 PM (AhDDR)

They make some really microscopic spy cams nowadays.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Now you know why I'm smiling all the time.

Posted by: zombie's left bicuspid at February 10, 2026 07:04 PM (se8lQ)

114 It's Been *0* Days Since GOP Last F****ed Us

Posted by: Always Zero Days at February 10, 2026 07:04 PM (qUkBO)

115 If you haven't already, put opaque tape over your laptop and smartphone cams, when not using them. Not kidding.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 07:02 PM (N8ZBc)

Most newer laptops have Privacy Shutters and Mic Off switches.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:05 PM (6ydKt)

116 Maxwell is refusing to say anything negative about the Clintons because she doesn't want to "commit suicide".

I'm sure she has already been "contacted" in jail.

If people can't see this then they are really stupid.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 07:05 PM (uvB+6)

117 Fancy people have elegant, decor-matching boxes for their facial tissue. The bottom is open, so they can put it over the declasse paperboard container, and the top has a slit to pull the tissue through. They're a bit oversized (being one-size-fits-all), so there's room for miniature electronics. I assumed he was speaking of wooden (or bamboo grass) Kleenex box covers, where it would be easy to drill a discrete hole for a camera, but what do I know?

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 07:05 PM (Sy6m/)

118 Always check into an AirBnB knowing you are on camera. They are gonna see you screw. Just try to make sure they get your good side.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 07:05 PM (AhDDR)

119 Now you know why I'm smiling all the time.

Posted by: zombie's left bicuspid at February 10, 2026 07:04 PM (se8lQ)

I hope you don't turn it on while you're eating.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:06 PM (6ydKt)

120 Stansbury is a pimple on the ass of the Universe.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 07:03 PM

Whew!

Posted by: Zeta Tau VII at February 10, 2026 07:06 PM (0sNs1)

121 To me the most interesting time in the Epstein story was 1978-1982. I argue he was valuable to Bear Stearns not because he invented tax deals that 45-year old $1000/hr tax lawyers could not think of.

It was because he bonded over Zionism with clients like Bronfman and Wexner and others. I suggest he was kicked out of Bear not for Reg D but because they were using disguised trades to fund ISR intel ops. Epstein afterward remained close with Ace Greenberg but Ace could not allow him to risk the broker license, so Epstein left and carried on independently.

This slush fund structure Epstein came up with was later repurposed in Iran-Contra when he was working with Ehud Barak, Doug Leese and Kashoggi. Not Mossad but ISR military intel. That's when Epstein became protected by the US IC.

Posted by: TITP at February 10, 2026 07:06 PM (6Q9y6)

122 "I think Trump is going to announce the end of the engine idler cut-off mandate this week."

Hear, hear!
Posted by: gp

Someone said earlier today, 'hello diesel Toyota Hiluxes!'

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 07:06 PM (KN2gu)

123 Most newer laptops have Privacy Shutters and Mic Off switches.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:05 PM

* smiles *

Posted by: Bob from NSA at February 10, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

124 Aldi has '1000-day old gouda' cheese. It's very dense and brittle. It looks a lot like old-timey lebanese hashish. Nothing on the package warns against smoking it. There's your next Tik-Tok dare.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 07:07 PM (N8ZBc)

125 124, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:08 PM (Cjt/F)

126 * smiles *

Posted by: Bob from NSA at February 10, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

I guess it's possible they could still get the mic to work but I don't know how they'd get through a piece of plastic in front of the lens.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:08 PM (6ydKt)

127 I hate to break your bubble but the story of Wojtek the Army bear was greatly embellished by the troops that adopted him.

One of the original soldiers in that unit spilled the beans decades after the war when the bear went to live in a zoo in Scotland after the war. While he did serve with the Polish unit that adopted him as a mascot he never really carried ammunition crates in battle or fought in any way. They just made that part up and it became legend.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 07:02 PM (0N4FZ)

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend" - John Ford

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 07:08 PM (SRRAx)

128 Some years ago, when I was still gainfully employed, we found a secret camera in a 12v powersupply for some device.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 07:10 PM (jc0TO)

129
Husband rented a car when he was in Charlotte a few weeks ago. The car had the stupid cutoff thing. He is old, lol, and thought the car was breaking down.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 07:10 PM (3ek7K)

130 Someone said earlier today, 'hello diesel Toyota Hiluxes!'

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 07:06 PM (KN2gu)

That'd be me. It's optimistic, yeah. But it's Trump.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 07:10 PM (dK+Kv)

131 "One good bit of news that a lot of people will probably like. I think Trump is going to announce the end of the engine idler cut-off mandate this week. At least according to L. Zeldin on teh twitters."

If Trump wants to go down in history as the Great Liberator all he has to do is get rid of the intrusive TSA inspections at airports.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 07:10 PM (uvB+6)

132 Screw dogs, eat others toenails, keep a used toilet paper collection for 30 years, keep 50 cats in a one bedroom apt with no litter box.

It's humanity's finest.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 10, 2026 07:11 PM (NSrIQ)

133 "There is no privacy anymore."

Pfffft. I don't do anything illegal, or even mildly entertaining. And the day that I do, it will be on the 6 o'clock national news, because I will have cut fences and started shortening my list.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 07:12 PM (KN2gu)

134 Ace, if there ever was a time for you to break your mysterious silence about the Amelia meme, this is that moment: Someone has created a music video starring Amelia that is absolutely outstanding in several ways:

-- It changes the narrative to be upbeat, friendly and helpful -- encouraging our "friends" to "remigrate" back to their sunny homelands. Out: Mean-spirited and racist. In: I want to help you have a better life.

-- The song, according to a lot of people, is better than most songs in the Top 20 at the moment -- very catchy indie-rock ballad. I myself assumed it was a famous song repurposed for the video, but to my shock learned it was an original song (written by AI !!!) created specifically for the video. It will stick in your mind.

-- Amelia has never been cuter -- getting kind of scary how attractive she is. Manic Pixie Dream ~~girl~~ goddess.

Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSm3zQG5K2g

Posted by: zombie's left bicuspid at February 10, 2026 07:12 PM (se8lQ)

135 I like the tape; Scotch 33 is hard to beat.

and I have devices that have had the mic removed with a small, sharp chisel.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:12 PM (Cjt/F)

136 "Listen, we know what Epstein was, I don’t really care anymore."

I never did. We all know if they had anything on Trump, the Biden administration would've released it.

This is just another hoax like the Russia, Russia, Russia bullshit and only stupid people believe any of it.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 10, 2026 07:12 PM (pE12i)

137 McConnell has always had a lot of horse racing/breeding money behind him. If you don't think that's a big deal in Kentucky, you've never been to Louisville.

==
I saw something similar, all the retarded , intrusive, "environmental" regulations that made our lives difficult. Apparently will save Americans trillion + dollars.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 07:12 PM (g47mK)

138 Clinton would be easier to clear if he hadn't tried to fuck anything that had breath.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 07:13 PM (9WUCB)

139 oh , wrong cut and paste ! that was supposed to be about Zeldin!

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 07:13 PM (g47mK)

140 Oh, and people are trying to get it to actually chart on the real music download charts. Make it happen!

Posted by: zombie at February 10, 2026 07:13 PM (se8lQ)

141 rickb223, my foxhole is your foxhole.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 07:13 PM (0KSrI)

142 all the retarded , intrusive, "environmental" regulations that made our lives difficult. Apparently will save Americans trillion + dollars.
Posted by: runner

Green Collar Jobs!!

Posted by: Van Jones at February 10, 2026 07:13 PM (gKWVE)

143 Jeffrey Epstein is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a used condom.

Posted by: Zombie Winston Churchill, WhoreMonger at February 10, 2026 07:14 PM (Ksqrb)

144 "eat others toenails"

Yuck. I would never eat any toenails but my own.

Gemini sez: 'Chitin is a natural, biodegradable, and renewable amino-polysaccharide, recognized as the second most abundant polymer on Earth after cellulose. '

IDNKT.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 07:14 PM (N8ZBc)

145 put opaque tape over your laptop and smartphone cams...
--

Smartphone?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 07:14 PM (XeU6L)

146 Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSm3zQG5K2g

Posted by: zombie's left bicuspid at February 10, 2026 07:12 PM (se8lQ)

Showed up in my feed the other day.

It's not bad at all for music, I think, is AI generated.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:14 PM (6ydKt)

147 America is still waiting for someone to make a meme with the punch of the whole Amelia thing. I hope we get one soon!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:15 PM (Cjt/F)

148 Random nuttery:

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A Wyoming man is accused of intentionally hitting a woman with his truck while she was saving a parking space at Costco.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Poor guy. Probably had to drive down from Cheyenne to Fort Collins, Colorado. In Wyoming, dead varmints, like coyotes, are hung over the barbed wire fences along the highway. In his mind,
if we're being culturally sensitive, bumping a jackass guarding a parking spot at a Costco, another form of varmint, with his truck probably seemed like a pretty reasonable thing to do.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 10, 2026 07:15 PM (8ZVmQ)

149 Husband rented a car when he was in Charlotte a few weeks ago. The car had the stupid cutoff thing. He is old, lol, and thought the car was breaking down.
Posted by: fourseasons

I bought a unit off of Amazon, that plugs in line and turns that on off switch to the off position and keeps it that way. Ever since I installed it, I haven't had to play with that button at all. It remembers the last setting, so if it was turned off when I turned the truck off, it turns itself off when I turned the truck back on.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 07:15 PM (KN2gu)

150 119 Now you know why I'm smiling all the time.

Posted by: zombie's left bicuspid at February 10, 2026 07:04 PM (se8lQ)

I hope you don't turn it on while you're eating.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Depends on your definition of "eating."

Posted by: zombie at February 10, 2026 07:16 PM (se8lQ)

151 I would be proud to be called a far right extremist.
-----

Just by coming here you already are being called that. Most of the search and "information" sites classify AoS, Insty, GP, Rantburg, etc as "far right" because they can't bother to tell the truth about anything political.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 07:16 PM (TN0g+)

152 Read tonight a record Congressmen are giving up seats, 20 Democrats and 30 or more Republicans

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:16 PM (Ia/+0)

153 Mike Benz says he doesn't believe the Epstein sex-recording operation was for blackmail purposes, because if Epstein ever cashed in a blackmail video as a penalty, no one else powerful would associate with him again.

That makes sense but that was not the operation. Benz is assuming the island was a spider web that attracted the already wealthy and powerful. That's not what it was.

Epstein and his handlers are the ones who elevated the semi-successful into A-listers, and the sex videos were an insurance file that clients willfully agreed to as part of the deal. The clients entered the contract with Epstein KNOWING they were being recorded. It was part of playing ball, as was reading their left-wing scripts when needed.

Posted by: Brisco County Sr at February 10, 2026 07:16 PM (A/tlT)

154 Ace, if there ever was a time for you to break your mysterious silence about the Amelia meme, this is that moment: Someone has created a music video starring Amelia that is absolutely outstanding in several ways:

Some of it is pretty good. I am not fond of the smoking purple-haired girl as a conservative icon but England really needs it right now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 07:16 PM (PYyV9)

155 unitalic

Posted by: zombie at February 10, 2026 07:16 PM (se8lQ)

156 Husband rented a car when he was in Charlotte a few weeks ago. The car had the stupid cutoff thing. He is old, lol, and thought the car was breaking down.
Posted by: fourseasons

My mom's Mercedes had that. The first time I drove it I thought the same thing. It was really annoying.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 07:17 PM (lJ0H4)

157 Diesel Hiluxes will never be sold in the US.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 07:17 PM (XV/Pl)

158 I'm leaning towards another post...

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 07:17 PM (TN0g+)

159 That'd be me. It's optimistic, yeah. But it's Trump.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Honestly, that would be cool. I'd love to have one. With or without hard points.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 07:17 PM (KN2gu)

160 zombie, will you check the fluids while you are in there?

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

161 The only references I get to Zeta Tau are to the ZTA "Fraternity", which is made of women, and get to be a Fraternity because they didn't call upon a male fraternity to form their charter.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 07:17 PM (gKWVE)

162 Hangs head in shame. Now I'm filming the ground.

Posted by: zombie at February 10, 2026 07:17 PM (se8lQ)

163 Zombie - Uh,oh...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 07:18 PM (XeU6L)

164 "I bought a unit off of Amazon, that plugs in line and turns that on off switch to the off position and keeps it that way."

There's probably a car firmware patch somewhere that does the same thing without installing or changing actual parts.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 07:18 PM (N8ZBc)

165 There is a report in the Epstein files from a person who said he met Ghislaine Maxwell in the fall of 1982 at a candidate event for Bill Richardson in Albuquerque. She was 20 at the time.

She introduced him to her boyfriend Jeffrey. She was talking about going to a ranch near Santa Fe. The person passed on the ranch visit but was told by someone a week later to be careful that Ghislaine was a spy.

Per wikipedia, her father Robert Maxwell allegedly sold the bugged Israeli version of PROMIS to Los Alamos National Laboratory sometime in this period.

Perhaps Epstein encountered Robert Maxwell while still at Bear and got mixed up at that time with father and daughter.

This all goes way back.

Posted by: TITP at February 10, 2026 07:18 PM (6Q9y6)

166 "For example, both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing," the lawyer said. "Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to hear that explanation.

====

I think that translates as "We're keeping our mouths shut, Hillary. Please don't suicide me."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 10, 2026 07:18 PM (8AONa)

167 Looks like the barrel is doubling up as a coffin tonight

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 07:18 PM (gKWVE)

168 Oh, zombie....

Posted by: The Barrel at February 10, 2026 07:18 PM (Wnv9h)

169
Son is driving from Wyoming to Salt Lake City tomorrow for a meeting, so I know he wasn't the idiot at Costco today, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 07:19 PM (3ek7K)

170 Remember - two squares only!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at February 10, 2026 07:19 PM (0sNs1)

171 How telling that most iconic figure for brit salvation is a purple haired AI generated meme. Manky gits.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 07:20 PM (0KSrI)

172 If you contradict me I will call you a Far Right Extremist.

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

Ace, you need to change your nic from Disinformation Expert Ace to Lamont The Big Dummy!

j/k

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:20 PM (0Eh0f)

173 I contradict you!... please, call me a Far-Right Extremist! Please! Please!

Posted by: Matt Harris at February 10, 2026 07:20 PM (Ow+M6)

174 Remember - two squares only!
Posted by: Sheryl Crow

I thought Sheryl was a one square gal.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 07:21 PM (lJ0H4)

175 Some of it is pretty good. I am not fond of the smoking purple-haired girl as a conservative icon but England really needs it right now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 07:16 PM (PYyV9)

Taking a government invented character who represents their targets and turning her into an icon was quite the move.

That she's a 'modern' type attractive girl who'll even make some real girls think more about their own futures is a decent bonus.

Also takes the heat off of people spreading the message as how can you stop a meme effectively?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

176 I quite like the Amelia videos, she's fetching and likable. Her appearance belies her nature.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 07:22 PM (PYyV9)

177 Both were stashed inside clocks, one in Mr. Epstein's garage and the other beside his desk.

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

"Why are the eyes on your cuckoo clock following me?"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:22 PM (0Eh0f)

178 This is actually becoming more and more hysterically funny when you think about it. I'm also more and more convinced Trump was the REASON Epstein was investigated and caught.

And, on top of that, congressional democrats, who saw all this evidence DARED to suggest Trump was the bad guy. Such scum bags. I think they assumed that the actual information they were seeing would never be released, so they could just lie about it.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 07:22 PM (tV890)

179 Also takes the heat off of people spreading the message as how can you stop a meme effectively?

Yeah they were limited in their character design by the awful graphics of that clunky, cringy game. But they cannot arrest Amelia, just the people who post her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 07:23 PM (PYyV9)

180 So much nicer than the vaunted "compassionate" liberal on our neighborhood FB page who was happy to read that I have had so much "misery" in my life. He/she can't wait for my unsympathetic ass to die so that there will be one less person like me in the world.

--

Omg, what a horrible person!! They will reap what they sow.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 07:23 PM (qBdHI)

181 93/comments to 85.

Trump could never be the Democratic candidate. In 2008 the party split between the House of Clinton and the rebels. The rebels won and the Obama group came into being. He could not get into either group as an outsider.

The post 2008 Peace Deal (for 2012 support), gave Hillary her shot. A little late since 2008 was going to be a Democratic win no matter who they ran, (Bush had no successor and the country had enough of country club republican rule).

Trump's path was through the disorganized Republicans.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 10, 2026 07:23 PM (w3u3d)

182 If it wasn't blackmail, it had to be get into their inner circle

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 07:24 PM (Ia/+0)

183 And, on top of that, congressional democrats, who saw all this evidence DARED to suggest Trump was the bad guy.

"Trump's name shows up over a million times in the files!"
--every single leftist at the same time on X

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 07:24 PM (PYyV9)

184 I mean - this is exactly the Adam Schiff model - keep saying you saw things in the evidence and assume the evidence will never be released.

Og course Schiff was never punished for his serial lying and continues to do it with impunity.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 07:24 PM (tV890)

185 Blackmail can take many forms. You can tell someone you have damaging information even if you don't.

Or everything was destroyed when Epstein first got indicted.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 07:25 PM (tV890)

186 Check out the Amazon page on Hidden Cameras:

https://is.gd/6tTlp7

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 07:26 PM (dhHpw)

187 I mean - this is exactly the Adam Schiff model - keep saying you saw things in the evidence and assume the evidence will never be released.

Their current attempt at that is to claim the files prove that Epstein wasn't banned from Mar-a-Lago. Each time they do this, its proved that either they are hilariously misinterpreting it, or taking someone's third hand claim as proof.

Like using Epstein saying "I heard someone say that Trump acts like he has alzheimers" as proof that Trump has alzheimers LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 07:26 PM (PYyV9)

188 She says she will clear Trump -- um, the police records have already done that -- and also clear Bill Clinton.

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Hoping to avoid the future headline: "Ghislaine Maxwell Shoots Herself in The Back of The Head Twice and Flings Herself In Front of A Train in Rural Arkansas."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:26 PM (0Eh0f)

189 Never really cared if someone wanted to observe while I'm lathering up my scrotum in the shower.

If there's any shame left in the world it should be with the voyeur who spies on other people.

'Skinny dipping' in natural hot springs seems to have cured me of any shyness.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 07:27 PM (xFfhU)

190 Simply put, you will get more (and more accurate) information on Jeffrey Epstein if you pay attention to the details surrounding his initial arrest in 2008. More specifically, you can deduce the purpose and establishment of the events of Epstein Island, but the behavior, leniency, and unexplained actions of the Federal prosecutor involved in that initial arrest.

If the House Committee is even remotely serious about understanding the whole issue, then put Rene Alexander Acosta under oath.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)

191 Check out the Amazon page on Hidden Cameras

"Those are security cameras! For your protection!"
--Hidden camera salesman

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 07:28 PM (PYyV9)

192 I bet ABC hates reporting that Trump is the hero of the story, not the villain.

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The Lunatic Left: "Trump Was Just Fabricating An Alibi For Himself -- It's Like He Actually IS Playing Eleven-Dimensional Chess! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 07:29 PM (0Eh0f)

193 I could see cameras if you have kids.

Not only Nannycams, but just for the future when you're kids start arguing over who broke or stole the other's stuff you'll have some proof on hand over who went in the other's room.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:30 PM (6ydKt)

194 One square only, Vasily.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 07:30 PM (dhHpw)

195 194, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:30 PM (Cjt/F)

196 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:31 PM (Cjt/F)

197 "I could see cameras if you have kids.

Not only Nannycams, but just for the future when you're kids start arguing over who broke or stole the other's stuff you'll have some proof on hand over who went in the other's room."

Public school classrooms. Let everybody monitor the shit they teach, and the atrocious student behavior they tolerate. Once people see enough of that, those problems will get fixed.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 07:31 PM (N8ZBc)

198 Nood

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

199 Do you want your kids to grow up without any knowledge of what privacy means?

That they can't even trust their parents?

This is how you create a generation of sociopaths.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 07:35 PM (uvB+6)

200 >>There is a report in the Epstein files from a person who said he met Ghislaine Maxwell in the fall of 1982 at a candidate event for Bill Richardson in Albuquerque.

Convicted Pedo and Best Buddy of Bill Clinton.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2026 07:37 PM (gH8T+)

201 You can turn off the engine idler on my 2024 Toyota Tundra, but you have to turn it off again each time you turn the ignition on. It defaults to being on each time you restart. I’m in the habit of turning it off as part of my startup routine.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 07:38 PM (dhHpw)

202 178 This is actually becoming more and more hysterically funny when you think about it. I'm also more and more convinced Trump was the REASON Epstein was investigated and caught.

And, on top of that, congressional democrats, who saw all this evidence DARED to suggest Trump was the bad guy. Such scum bags. I think they assumed that the actual information they were seeing would never be released, so they could just lie about it.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 07:22 PM (tV890)

Wrong, it was a High School fight between 2 girls, she had 300 dollars on her and was called a Whore or Prostitute, Sheriff found the money the girl confessed that she got it from Jeffery Epstein and started the ball rolling

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 10, 2026 07:39 PM (FCrpy)

203 -- Amelia has never been cuter -- getting kind of scary how attractive she is. Manic Pixie Dream girl goddess.

Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSm3zQG5K2g
Posted by: zombie's left bicuspid at February 10, 2026 07:12 PM (se8lQ)

Here's one in French with a Amelie - a French Amelia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4yn-8CBbk

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 07:41 PM (8avO+)

204 202 178 This is actually becoming more and more hysterically funny when you think about it. I'm also more and more convinced Trump was the REASON Epstein was investigated and caught.

Stated long ago,
FACT: Trump exposed Epstein after he was outbid Esptein on a property, with the inglorious bastardhood he is known for, and enabled with.

No one likes a sore loser, but in this case the only real loser was ALL NORMAL PEOPLE who were Manifestly lied to and Cheated out of a future worth having.

forWAR'd !!! It's time to clean house, now or never.

LIB's what price their vision, $22Trillion and going up.
And it's still not enough for them, success, yes, but only on their terms, only when the wealth of the nation is held by its leaders so that they can perpeuate the forever war and forever treason that began so long ago with both Clinton(s) while a vocal few measured the size and power and made the decision: to stand and fight, or bow to the will of a fearsome enemy...
whodat?

LIBs plead for a Morality which holds COMPROMISE as its standard of Value, making it possible to judge Virtue on the basis of the number of Values which one is willing to Betray.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 10, 2026 08:50 PM (xS4HP)

205 I am sure that Ace said the FBI never lied to us and jews like Epstein would never be part of a blackmail operation.

Posted by: Killy litter box at February 11, 2026 12:57 AM (Ys9Hz)

RINOs in Retreat: Conservatives Take Lead for Cornyn's, McConnell's Seats

Ken Paxton has moved ahead of lifetime liberal and backstabber John Cornyn for Senator from Texas.

Patrick Svitek
@PatrickSvitek
New #TXSEN poll from @HobbySchoolUH:
Paxton 38
Cornyn 31
Hunt 17
Crockett 47
Talarico 39
(Jan. 20-31; each primary sample 550 LVs and +/-4.18%)

LOL, Jasmine Ratchet is leading too.

Paxton dominates on favorability inside the Republican electorate. Seventy-two percent of likely GOP primary voters say they view him favorably, compared to 22 percent unfavorable -- a margin that reflects his strong standing with the party's grassroots base.
Hunt also posts solid personal numbers, with 70 percent favorable and just 10 percent unfavorable.
Cornyn, however, lags well behind both challengers.
Only 61 percent of respondents say they hold a favorable view of the incumbent senator, while 30 percent view him unfavorably -- a dangerous position in a primary environment that has grown increasingly hostile to long-tenured Senate leadership.
The poll surveyed 550 likely Republican primary voters and 550 likely Democrat primary voters between January 20 and January 31, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.53 percentage points.
Paxton seized on the results Monday, framing them as a referendum on Cornyn's weakening grip on the base.

With McConnell retiring, we might finally have an actual conservative elected senator from Kentucky. (I don't consider Rand Paul a conservative and he self-defines as a not-conservative as well.)

TPUSA and Elon Musk have both endorsed Nate Morris. He's not exactly winning, but he's in the hunt. Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron is winning in one poll, and a Google AI search for "conservative or not" claims he's also a MAGA, "Trump-aligned," America First conservative.

But I'll just be honest with you guys, if either of these fellows turned out to be a Circus Bear wearing a Human Suit I wouldn't be over-surprised, because I just heard of them five minutes ago.

Andrew Surabian
@Surabees
NEW: KY Senate Poll from Tony Fabrizio shows Charlie Kirk & @elonmusk backed @NateMorris surging DOUBLE DIGITS and more than tripling his position on the ballot
3 way ballot:
Cameron 31
Barr 24
Morris 21
With voters who have an opinion of all 3:
Morris 28
Cameron 26
Barr 25

A new survey shows Nate Morris gaining ground rapidly in the Republican Senate primary as voters learn who he is and where he stands, while his two better-known opponents -- both closely tied to McConnell's political network -- show signs of stalling.

Is that true? I don't know. Again, if you told me he was actually a Circus Bear, I'd say "Neat, that will attract moderates. Does he have any military experience?"

The poll, conducted by Fabrizio Lee & Associates, finds former Attorney General Daniel Cameron leading the full three-way ballot with 31 percent, followed by Rep. Andy Barr at 24 percent and Morris at 21 percent.
But the topline numbers don't tell the real story of the race.
Among Republican primary voters who say they have an opinion of all three candidates -- a far more meaningful universe -- Morris moves into first place with 28 percent, edging Cameron at 26 percent and Barr at 25 percent. As voters get past name recognition and begin making an actual choice, support consolidates around Morris.

I just want McConnell out. He is a sinister Satanic figure. He has fought conservatives for 40 years and won most of those battles. He has recruited and funded most of the other Democrat-aligned "Republican" Senators who plague us.

How bad is the Luciferian McConnell? The Federalist reports he's scheming to block the SAVE Act from a vote to get vengeance on Trump.

As Sen. Mitch McConnell prepares to ride off into the congressional sunset, the Kentucky Republican is said to be sticking it to President Donald Trump one more time. And the sticking this time, not surprisingly, involves one of Trump's most urgent concerns: election integrity.
"Oh, yeah, that's what McConnell is doing. Personally speaking, I think it still stems from Jan. 6 (2021 Capitol riots)," a top congressional aide told The Federalist on Thursday afternoon, as the battle over the SAVE Act ground down to trench warfare.
"Of course, Trump hasn't had nice things to say about McConnell, and vice versa, but I think it's personal, no matter what (McConnell) says," the aide added.
The 83-year-old former Majority Leader's latest trip to the hospital this week for "flu-like" symptoms has slowed the pace even more so on whatever version of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) the listless GOP majority believes can squeak through. But McConnell's intransigence on a bill that humbly asks for proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in U.S. elections has been felt over the nearly 300 days since the Republican-controlled House passed the measure.
To say House Republicans have had it, doesn't quite say enough.
"I just sent a letter to Mitch McConnell asking his committee to stop stalling the SAVE Act," Texas Rep. Brandon Gill wrote on X earlier this week. "The House did its job. The Senate needs to do theirs."

Meanwhile, the Democrat Party in Virginia is so pro-democracy and so pro-"representation" that they are passing a new gerrymandered congressional map that will make a state that went Democrat by only 53-47 send a single Republican to Congress, along with ten Democrats.

After weeks of buildup and a missed self-imposed Jan. 30 deadline, Virginia Democrats on Thursday evening finally released their long-awaited revised congressional map, proposing an aggressive 10--1 configuration that would tilt 10 of the state's 11 U.S. House districts toward their party.
The proposed congressional map leaves several of Virginia's largest districts visually intact while concentrating most of its changes in Northern and central Virginia.

Look at the proposed, soon-to-be-passed, 7th district.

Why is it shaped so strangely? Because they took a chunk of highly-populated, ultra-left-wing northern DC-suburb Virginia and are using all of those AWFULs to overwhelm the conservative voters in more central, rural parts of the state.

The pink color is appropriate:

House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, echoed that message, saying the General Assembly has been working for weeks to prepare the maps for public release. "Virginia to the rescue," he said.
A 10--1 map "levels the playing field, and we're ready to move forward," Scott said. "We'll get those maps released and put them out in the open and allow them to be debated the way they should be in a democracy."
Republican leaders denounced the plan Thursday morning and said their counterparts aren't concentrating on solutions to the financial strain many Virginians are facing.
"Democrats are focused on political gerrymandering instead of focusing on affordability," said Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover.
"The bills they are moving through the legislature are going to cost Virginians more money. It is taking money out of their pocket. But they're more worried about political gerrymandering games and not Virginians, not the struggles that they are going through."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 Talarico. That some kind of hot sauce or something? Is it better than Cholula?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 05:32 PM (0aYVJ)

2 I still say if Cornyn makes the runoff then Democrats will cross over and support him.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 10, 2026 05:32 PM (GD2xa)

3 Accidental first. I make it a point to never be first, but there I was.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 05:34 PM (0aYVJ)

4 If you got bad news
You wanna kick them blues
Cocaine
When your day is done
And you wanna run (run)
Cocaine
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Cocaine

Posted by: Mitch the Bitch MCcdonalds at February 10, 2026 05:34 PM (NtVYv)

5 Affordability? They just outlawed looking at a crooked election you retards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

6 Say what you want about Entropy, but the bitch is undefeated.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:34 PM (MgVzy)

7 Meanwhile, the Democrat Party in Virginia is so pro-democracy and so pro-"representation" that they are passing a new gerrymandered congressional map that will make a state that went Democrat by only 53-47 send a single Republican to Congress, along with ten Democrats.
________
Fortunately, Republicans in state legislatures are above such evil tactics.

I wonder if they WANT to follow the British Tories into oblivion.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 05:35 PM (AlhUl)

8 Cameron in Kentucky ran for Governor last time out. He's OK. Not too inspiring.

But then again he's better than Paul and McConnell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

9 In all honesty, I would vote for a Panserbjørne if one were on the ballot.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

10 The VA map may just be a dummymander.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 10, 2026 05:36 PM (MGB5H)

11 2 I still say if Cornyn makes the runoff then Democrats will cross over and support him.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 10, 2026 05:32 PM (GD2xa)
_______
Only if it's on a different day than the primary for the beauteous Ms Crockett.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 05:36 PM (AlhUl)

12 1 Talarico. That some kind of hot sauce or something? Is it better than Cholula?
Posted by: Pug Mahon
=====
He is the white savior type that has a warped idea of Christianity and race. Crockett beating his ass would be most amusing. I prefer entertaining minority Dem candidates instead of their awful smarmy white passive aggressive white males left in their party. Tossof, Swallowell, Greasy Gavin, and Talarico are all examples of the New Left Man. Deballed, petty and malicious, traitorous and deceitful, and cowardly in the face of danger.

Walz is the perfect example of them. To quote John Randolph, "Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not even when Caligula's horse was made Consul."

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:36 PM (2swu2)

13 Talarico - Tapatio 2026

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:37 PM (MgVzy)

14 McConnell is still alive?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 10, 2026 05:37 PM (Nbak7)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell endorses Daniel Cameron at February 10, 2026 05:37 PM (jc0TO)

16 "highly-populated, ultra-left-wing northern DC-suburb Virginia"

Adjacent to super-ultra-left-wing DC, an irredeemable hive of scum villainy. (Which is why I wish DJT would stop redecorating it with arches and shit. An admittedly very minor quibble I have.)

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (N8ZBc)

17 I'm not a yuge fan of Rand Paul, but at least he does seem to have some principles. That's better than Mitchie Mitch.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (AlhUl)

18 "Does he have any military experience?"

That really doesn't tell us much anymore about where a candidate stands politically.

And, yes, I clicked on the link. It's about a bear.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (Y1sOo)

19 Why is it shaped so strangely? Because they took a chunk of highly-populated, ultra-left-wing northern DC-suburb Virginia and are using all of those AWFULs to overwhelm the conservative voters in more central, rural parts of the state.
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This is an excellent excuse to fire another quarter million federal employees and depopulate that area.

Posted by: Methos at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (vSvIl)

20 Cornyn, however, lags well behind both challengers ...
a dangerous position in a primary environment that has grown increasingly hostile to long-tenured Senate leadership.

Fun Facts:

• Cornyn has been in Congress since 2003
• The National Debt has grown by $35T since 2003

We can't afford him.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (xE0sV)

21 I'm surprised VA couldn't flag pole gerrymander to make it 11-0

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (n5tGW)

22 Here's the "danger" I see in KY: every Kentuckian I've ever met, and there have been many, I was born there and still have family there, has been a purely mercenary pork-barrel voter.

Without the Senate's most powerful Democrat being a member of the KY GOP, they won't be able to deliver on that pork anymore. If Dems have half a brain, they'll tell the voters exactly that and say "if you elect Democrats we will deliver you a reduced pork pile, but still more than they can or will."

But it's still not exactly a "danger" because any junior Democrat who gets his seat will be far, far less powerful and destructive than McConnell.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 05:39 PM (OpG39)

23 Valentina > Cholula

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:39 PM (N8ZBc)

24 McConnell's power as leader was (comfortably) supported by the GOP caucus throughout his misrule. Like Mitch, most of them comfortably re-elected over and over by GOP voters. 2010 and Trump are phenomena that were/are always available to voters, who almost always choose another path.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2026 05:39 PM (U/Byj)

25 2 I still say if Cornyn makes the runoff then Democrats will cross over and support him.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis

Some states do not permit that. You vote in one party primary then you canot vote in the other during a runoff. Texas is one of them.

From Ballotpedia,
"Congressional and state-level elections
In Texas, any registered voter can vote in the primary of their choice. They may not vote in more than one party's primary during a single voting year. Texas law requires voters to sign the following pledge before voting in a primary: "I am a (insert appropriate political party) and understand that I am ineligible to vote or participate in another political party's primary election or convention during this voting year."[1] In the case that no candidate receives a majority vote, the top two candidates proceed to a runoff election.[2]"

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:39 PM (2swu2)

26 Eh, if voting is real and not a figment of a bygone era, then this is what Virginia voted for.

The main problem is that I expect the Donks to convert more of their gerrymandered seats than the GOP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 05:39 PM (XV/Pl)

27 "virginia to the rescue", eh?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 05:40 PM (Cjt/F)

28 Valentina > Cholula
Posted by: gp

This is known.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 05:40 PM (cYBz/)

29 There were bears with military experience. They used bears to test the egress systems on F111s. I bet it was a real treat recovering them after getting punched out at speed and altitude.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 10, 2026 05:40 PM (gm9Sb)

30 I've saud it before and I'll say it again: I think Talarivo might be a vessel for an actual demon. Vibes. Really bad vibes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 05:41 PM (OpG39)

31 Rand Paul and the Paul Bearers.

Splitters!

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:41 PM (MgVzy)

32 Ass cancer is too good for McConnell.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 10, 2026 05:41 PM (abIsI)

33

These old disgusting cunts are angry and wanting vengeance against what Trump represents.

They are everywhere.

Vile subhumans.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at February 10, 2026 05:41 PM (et1vG)

34 How bad is the Luciferian McConnell? The Federalist reports he's scheming to block the SAVE Act from a vote to get vengeance on Trump.

==

I think it is something else - the McConnell machine consists of many dead voters casting ballots for McConnell. That is how he was able to be so "successful "to the point of intransigence - "go ahead and run against me" kind of thing. He thought that even if he retired , he'd be able to manipulate Kentucky politics till the end. With the Save Act , death certificate IS NOT, I repeat IS NOT a valid for of ID. SO he is squirming.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 05:42 PM (g47mK)

35 21 I'm surprised VA couldn't flag pole gerrymander to make it 11-0
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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They are taking a big risk for 2026 as a 53-47 state with the Democrats already making themselves obnoxious on the state level after the election with taxes, and firearm laws, that trying to crack, pack, and stack that many districts means a lot of them are going to be diluted to the extent a wave election sweeps out a lot of those House members.

I think some of the party wants to run CIA Barbie on the national ticket in 2028 is why.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:42 PM (2swu2)

36 Didn't every Army unit have a bear in the 1940s?
I was under the impression they were standard issue back then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 05:42 PM (6ydKt)

37 32. Ass Cancer watches its diet so it doesn't catch Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:42 PM (MgVzy)

38 I still say if Cornyn makes the runoff then Democrats will cross over and support him.

Smart Demoniacs will cross over on Day 1 and vote for Cornhole so that there wouldn't be a run-off.

Whoever wins the GOP primary wins the General.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 05:43 PM (xE0sV)

39 *for = form

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 05:43 PM (g47mK)

40 Valentina > Cholula
Posted by: gp

This is known.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 05:40 PM (cYBz/)

Thanks. I will look for it. I love a good hot sauce.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 05:43 PM (0aYVJ)

41 Collins (ME) is running for a sixth term. The last time I saw her on video she was shaking like the paint mixer down at Ace Hardware. What is wrong with these people?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 10, 2026 05:43 PM (abIsI)

42 Only if it's on a different day than the primary for the beauteous Ms Crockett.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 05:36 PM (AlhUl)

Democrat (2 way for Senate) and Republican (3 way for Senate) primaries will be on the same day. Since it's a 2 way the Democrats will not have a runoff.

If one of the 3 Republicans doesn't win a majority, then it goes to a 2 way runoff on another day, and Democrats will have nothing to do that day but cross over and vote Republican.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 10, 2026 05:43 PM (GD2xa)

43 My friend had a Maserati Talarico for a while. It spent more time in the shop than on the road.

Posted by: far cry at February 10, 2026 05:43 PM (1mJ/e)

44 These gerrymandered maps, with the ex-burbs reaching into the urban areas to grab some leftwing voters remind me of Chinese around a buffet dish full of chicken wings.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 05:44 PM (mymNa)

45 If VA is 53-47 aren't they in danger of turning a bunch of those seats R if the Republicans do better in '26 then they did in '24?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 05:44 PM (sKqQm)

46 'Didn't every Army unit have a bear in the 1940s?'

"Inglourius Basterds" (2009).

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:44 PM (N8ZBc)

47 I don’t believe these new maps in heavily blue states.

If they could have gerrymandered that many blue seats, they would have done it already. The idea that these fuckface scumbags suddenly realized after TX redistricted that “hey, we can add some more of our own seats,” seems … wrong.

Democrats have been playing hardball to win on districting for decades. Sadly, the GOP has been playing to get their perfumed asses fucked deep.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 10, 2026 05:44 PM (ZmaZ9)

48 How bad is the Luciferian McConnell? The Federalist reports he's scheming to block the SAVE Act from a vote to get vengeance on Trump.

Ahh, the McCain Maneuver.
I suppose that means he'll give a thumbs down on SAVE, and die a few months later with his funeral ending sometime in 2029?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 05:45 PM (6ydKt)

49 As a Senator, McConnell has always been shifty, grifty, backstabbing, lying etc., etc. Now, had he not been a Senator he would have been the all time great parliamentarian. Crooked bastard does know his stuff in that regard.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 10, 2026 05:45 PM (gm9Sb)

50 I expect personal tragedies in many of these cases causing candidates to withdraw.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 05:45 PM (xcxpd)

51 I actually appreciated the link about the bear. Seems preferable to many animals in government. .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 05:45 PM (rZCVI)

52 That bear is a Jew!

Posted by: Ich bin Uberman at February 10, 2026 05:45 PM (jc0TO)

53 If VA is 53-47 aren't they in danger of turning a bunch of those seats R if the Republicans do better in '26 then they did in '24?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 05:44 PM (sKqQm)

They know they'll cheat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:47 PM (zZu0s)

54 McConnell is probably in bed with the CCP.

Like his wife and her father.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 05:47 PM (RIvkX)

55 I've saud it before and I'll say it again: I think Talarivo might be a vessel for an actual demon. Vibes. Really bad vibes.

I know you don't care for the NT, but the Apostle Peter wrote about Talarivo in his second letter, second chapter.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 05:47 PM (nCgQz)

56 A 10--1 map "levels the playing field, and we're ready to move forward," Scott said.

Dumbass has never used a level in his life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 05:48 PM (6ydKt)

57
Collins (ME) is running for a sixth term. The last time I saw her on video she was shaking like the paint mixer down at Ace Hardware. What is wrong with these people?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Maybe she has an internally useable Sybian? Because no one sane would fuck that, even with Fetterlump's dick.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 05:49 PM (QVmho)

58 24 McConnell's power as leader was (comfortably) supported by the GOP caucus throughout his misrule. Like Mitch, most of them comfortably re-elected over and over by GOP voters. 2010 and Trump are phenomena that were/are always available to voters, who almost always choose another path.
Posted by: rhomboid

McConnell got greedy and by 2020, his time as GOP senate leader was fading. He did too many shitty things during the Trump years and his craven behavior cost a lot of his Bush era cronies their seats. The main thing keeping him as majority leader and being punished for his interference in GOP state primaries for his cronies came from campaign funding from the Senate Campaign Fund. That led few to want to challenge him and his flunkies for the job.

Rick Scott's leadership challenge, though abortive, started the end of McConnell and his glitches sealed it. He is a flaccid bitter old fart that will probably die soon after he leaves office as I suspect, like Grassley, the office is the only thing keeping them alive at this point. Like Thurmond at the end, they run because they cannot conceive of quitting and their hideous staffs egg them on for employment stability.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:50 PM (2swu2)

59 If only Mitch had been out driving with his sister-in-law the night she drove her Tesla into the pond.

Posted by: Turtles Can Swim Though at February 10, 2026 05:50 PM (oftw2)

60 McConnell has 1000 +1 reasons not to want any kind of quality controls for voting.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 05:50 PM (g47mK)

61 Haven't heard a summary of where we stand on the redistricting wars in a while. Seems like, with CA and VA plus a few other blue states, the Dems will actually gain more seats than Reps unless FL comes through (and I'm sensing they won't). And it seems that Dems are gerrymandering everything up the wazoo, while the Grand Old Pussies are settling for half measures.

Posted by: Indiana GOP Sucks Balls at February 10, 2026 05:50 PM (qUkBO)

62 Democrats have been playing hardball to win on districting for decades. Sadly, the GOP has been playing to get their perfumed asses fucked deep.

New England is 21-0 Donk even though it is around a 60-40 region.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 05:50 PM (sKqQm)

63 McConnell has always had a lot of horse racing/breeding money behind him. If you don't think that's a big deal in Kentucky, you've never been to Louisville.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 10, 2026 05:50 PM (gm9Sb)

64 57. Anyone spelunking in that is committing a war crime.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:50 PM (pJRUM)

65 >>> I'm not a yuge fan of Rand Paul, but at least he does seem to have some principles. That's better than Mitchie Mitch.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (AlhUl)

Mavericks** like Rand or Massie in the house are probably even better for graft. Because they can always pull for some oddball thing that only one money man wants and people will chock it up to a maverick maverickin'.

**(T)(C) McCain

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2026 05:51 PM (3uBP9)

66
She don't lie
She don't lie
She don't lie
It's clap

Posted by: Marian Berry at February 10, 2026 05:51 PM (VV2ns)

67 45 If VA is 53-47 aren't they in danger of turning a bunch of those seats R if the Republicans do better in '26 then they did in '24?
Posted by: 18-1
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Yes. And the sheer magnitude of it may cause issues, the redistricting plan has to be approved like California's by a popular referendum as it changes constitutional law on the topic.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:51 PM (2swu2)

68 McConnell has always had a lot of horse racing/breeding money behind him. If you don't think that's a big deal in Kentucky, you've never been to Louisville.

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equine drug testing!

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 05:52 PM (g47mK)

69 McConnel voted for FACE

He's always been an asshole

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 05:52 PM (sKqQm)

70 Hmmm. Not sure what to make of the discord story. Could be good as I have heard there is a lot of shady shit there. But they are also just essentially bending everyone over and plowing in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

71 66. I hear Epstein can get you something for that so the wife won't even know.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:52 PM (pJRUM)

72 Willowed: Ohio candidate

A former write-in GOP gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ohio Republican party allegedly attempted to raise a "posse" to kidnap Gov. Mike DeWine (R), try him over his decision to implement pandemic-related health restrictions, and sentence him to either exile or death, the Ohio Capital Journal reported. Renea Turner's alleged plan was discovered after one of the people she reportedly contacted to join the posse notified law enforcement.

I know I'm supposed to this is wrong...but I like where her thinking is going. No politician has paid for the pain, suffering, and destruction of our constitutional rights that Americans went through during Covid.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 05:53 PM (gWBY1)

73 Murk from Alaska is a no vote on SAVE. Obviously I'm shocked, but even if Mitch took the dirt nap she'd still wouldn't go against him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 05:53 PM (yI5mB)

74 Collins (ME) is running for a sixth term.
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I just heard a debate snippet from the 90s, when Collins was first running for the Senate, and, in response to a question about term limits, she committed to only serving two terms.

Posted by: Her Vergina Done Dried Right Up, Closed Like at February 10, 2026 05:53 PM (qUkBO)

75 It could be worse, and I am hoping things get worse with the gerrymandering.

Theoretically, a fully gerrymandered state would have all districts for the majority party, no matter how small the margin is. (A requirement for districts to be contiguous might pose a problem in some states though.)

That is the endpoint that gerrymandering ultimately leads to. This is of course contrary to our Republic system of government and organization, but it is only obvious with extreme gerrymandering.

The solution is districts based on fixed, existing, geographic entities, like counties. This violates "equal representation" according to Reynolds v. Simms, which was a very bad SCOTUS ruling. The way to walk back from that is to push it to the extreme, admit that the founders never intended a pure democracy, so the solution must be fixed districts of unequal population -- just like the states and how they vote on the federal level.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 05:54 PM (mymNa)

76 At some point the Dems will just send loudmouths to Washington without election for "fairness" or something. I'm starting to enjoy it.

Posted by: Editor at February 10, 2026 05:54 PM (bbqkM)

77 If someone is trying to kidnap and execute cucks, she's got my vote.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 05:55 PM (OpG39)

78 72, they can say anything. me believe it? not so much.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 05:55 PM (Cjt/F)

79
Does McConnell actually do anything, or is it just his staff claiming he's doing things, while he lives in a mindless senile haze?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 10, 2026 05:56 PM (HLgI3)

80 Yes. And the sheer magnitude of it may cause issues, the redistricting plan has to be approved like California's by a popular referendum as it changes constitutional law on the topic.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:51 PM (2swu2)

Again, they plan to cheat. They just blatantly got away with it by Spanburger. They managed to get a guy who wanted to torture little kids elected. Then they outlawed examining an election. No one did a thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:56 PM (zZu0s)

81 As a Senator, McConnell has always been shifty, grifty, backstabbing, lying etc., etc. Now, had he not been a Senator he would have been the all time great parliamentarian. Crooked bastard does know his stuff in that regard.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 10, 2026 05:45 PM (gm9Sb)
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Rules Lawyering is apparently how things *actually* get done in the Senate. The best Rules Lawyer wins.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 05:57 PM (ESVrU)

82 Ass cancer is too good for McConnell.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Thank you.

Posted by: ass cancer at February 10, 2026 05:57 PM (VHUov)

83 74 Collins (ME) is running for a sixth term.
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I just heard a debate snippet from the 90s, when Collins was first running for the Senate, and, in response to a question about term limits, she committed to only serving two terms.

Posted by: Her Vergina Done Dried Right Up, Closed Like at February 10, 2026 05:53 PM (qUkBO)

Political power is a highly addictive drug.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 05:57 PM (5rh/l)

84 It would be both hilarious & awesome if someone being charged for a murder plot against an establishment Republican won the GOP nomination as a write-in.

Make it happen, Ohio!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 05:57 PM (OpG39)

85 34 How bad is the Luciferian McConnell? The Federalist reports he's scheming to block the SAVE Act from a vote to get vengeance on Trump.
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Vengeance on Trump? How petty, if true. Trump will be fine either way.

It's actually vengeance on Trump's voters, and the other non-Trump voters who together make up the estimated 80% of the country that want it.

Why does McConnell hate 80% of the country?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 05:57 PM (Dv3i1)

86 Nate Morris has released a barrage of ads here in KY. The dude has a freakishly huge head. Really strange looking.

I've seen a few Barr ads. None for Cameron.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 05:58 PM (XvL8K)

87 crockett is going to win the dem primary for the senate seat. She will not win the general.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 05:58 PM (0N4FZ)

88 74 Collins (ME) is running for a sixth term.
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I just heard a debate snippet from the 90s, when Collins was first running for the Senate, and, in response to a question about term limits, she committed to only serving two terms.
Posted by: Her Vergina Done Dried Right Up, Closed Like

Yup. She's a g*d damn liar and a generally disgusting person.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 10, 2026 05:58 PM (abIsI)

89 The same people that were fine with attacking conservative utahs trying to collect signatures to keep our districting maps as they are--the people who claim those maps are gerrymandered--will be fine with the blatantly gerrymandered new map.

Rural Virginia hates the city Virginians, and especially the DC Virginians. The DC Virginians act like the capitol in hunger games, and rural VA is district 12. They are like two different species.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 05:59 PM (gWBY1)

90 Exile?

How?

Where?

Send him to Australia?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:59 PM (zZu0s)

91 Hello Indiana Republicans. Glad you elected such a slate of pussies.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

92 85.

I've been convinced for years that GOP politicians hate conservatives more than Democrats hate us.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:00 PM (pJRUM)

93 McConnell - the one thing he has done right in years was on judges. Everything else he has been too eager to please the Ds.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 06:00 PM (tV890)

94 I think some of the party wants to run CIA Barbie on the national ticket in 2028 is why.
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She, as far as I can tell, is a younger version of Hillary.

I also like the retort to "how could she put forth all these insane bills, she campaigned as a moderate!"

She is the moderate Democrat.

Think about that nasty cow that is the VA senate leader?
Republicans in VA have been making deals with her vile bitch ass for how F'ing long?
They know damned good and well who they've been selling out to; I'll take none of their complaints on how suddenly radical the Dems are seriously.

Let them all be wiped out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 06:00 PM (HXT0k)

95

But can the Circus Bear "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT" [TM] and yet achieve nothing of value?

--RINO squish

Posted by: imp at February 10, 2026 06:01 PM (g6TN6)

96 77 If someone is trying to kidnap and execute cucks, she's got my vote.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Me too. I would consider gifting her an 8K video camera to record the events.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 10, 2026 06:01 PM (abIsI)

97 "91 Hello Indiana Republicans. Glad you elected such a slate of pussies.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 05:59 PM (TN0g+) "

they elected turncoat pence; kinda says it all right there.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:01 PM (Cjt/F)

98 >>> The solution is districts based on fixed, existing, geographic entities, like counties. This violates "equal representation" according to Reynolds v. Simms, which was a very bad SCOTUS ruling. The way to walk back from that is to push it to the extreme, admit that the founders never intended a pure democracy, so the solution must be fixed districts of unequal population -- just like the states and how they vote on the federal level.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 05:54 PM (mymNa)

Has the, "we'll let them win so bad it will shame everyone!" technique ever worked for any of us in your lifetime?

Posted by: banana Dream - No it didn't work for them but it might for us at February 10, 2026 06:02 PM (3uBP9)

99 McConnell’s wife is not often mentioned. I have always viewed her with suspicion.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:02 PM (pDt9x)

100 95.

It has all become downright treygowdian.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:02 PM (pJRUM)

101 Are there any better Republican candidates for Senate in Maine than Collins? She's a RINO but the best you can get

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 06:02 PM (yI5mB)

102 87 crockett is going to win the dem primary for the senate seat. She will not win the general.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 05:58 PM (0N4FZ)

When she loses she'll denounce Hispanics as you-know-what. She'll also denounce black men, using TBD insulting term.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 06:02 PM (5rh/l)

103 People on the senate are saying McConnell is going to pull a McCain, shit on the floor and tank the SAVE Act. Because Trump.

Can someone please smother that guy with a pillow in the cloakroom. Thanks.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:03 PM (pkv3v)

104 Our goal is to become New Jersey.

Posted by: Virginia at February 10, 2026 06:03 PM (2Ez/1)

105 "How bad is the Luciferian McConnell? The Federalist reports he's scheming to block the SAVE Act from a vote to get vengeance on Trump."

He is acting no different than john "maverick" mccain when he blocked the repeal of obamacare. Anything to fvck over the Trump base.

mcconnel does deserve a small thumbs up for blocking merrick garland from SCOTUS. His refusal to bring him up for a vote has given SCOTUS at least a 10 year conservative majority.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 06:03 PM (0N4FZ)

106 Crockett is in it for the Benjamins, and also a recurring guest appearance on MSnow and CNN.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:04 PM (pDt9x)

107 Didn’t Cameron get creamed in the governors race or something?

Why do we keep running failed retreads?

Am I thinking of the right guy?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:04 PM (pkv3v)

108 19 Why is it shaped so strangely? Because they took a chunk of highly-populated, ultra-left-wing northern DC-suburb Virginia and are using all of those AWFULs to overwhelm the conservative voters in more central, rural parts of the state.
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This is an excellent excuse to fire another quarter million federal employees and depopulate that area.
Posted by: Methos at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (vSvIl

^^^^^^
THIS!

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 10, 2026 06:04 PM (w3u3d)

109 I imagine the McConnell funeral will last at least four months longer than the McCain funeral and feature far more clowns.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:04 PM (pJRUM)

110 Blades of glory >> lgbt figure skater that hates America.

There is a history of pixie baby skaters somehow pulling it off and winning gold over the favorites. Tara lipinski did that against Michelle kwan. I'm really hoping somehow Gracie Gold snatches her namesake color as a prize, beating the skater that hates America. If you are putting in the USA uniform, the Stars and Stripes needs precedence in your heart over the rainbow.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 06:05 PM (gWBY1)

111 I check Crockett 's fec filings every month and for her being the presumptive candidate there isn't a ton of money being dumped into her campaign yet.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:05 PM (0KSrI)

112 I don’t get this whole “I’m gonna die on the senate floor, but before I do I’m gonna stick it to the country for my petty personal battle” thing.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:06 PM (pkv3v)

113 111 I check Crockett 's fec filings every month and for her being the presumptive candidate there isn't a ton of money being dumped into her campaign yet.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:05 PM (0KSrI)

I think you ended with the pertinent word.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:06 PM (pDt9x)

114 Cute story about Wojciehowicz.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 06:07 PM (Cqx++)

115
Can McConnell even talk, in whole coherent sentences? When was the last he was recorded doing that?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 10, 2026 06:07 PM (HLgI3)

116 114.

I miss Max Gale

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (pJRUM)

117 tubal, true but the money she has on hand isn't going to go very far.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (0KSrI)

118 Remember when “Independents” bought the whole “spambooger is a moderate” thing?

Don your gimp suits.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (pkv3v)

119 Just search "Mitch McConnell's w..." and see what comes up

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (RIvkX)

120 101 Are there any better Republican candidates for Senate in Maine than Collins? She's a RINO but the best you can get
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I'm convinced the voters in Maine eat so much shellfish and wood chips that their brains are rotted. Maine people are generally dumb, like the voters in Minnesota.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (abIsI)

121 Has the, "we'll let them win so bad it will shame everyone!" technique ever worked for any of us in your lifetime?
Posted by: banana Dream -
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The majority of the country was against "deport them all" until Biden opened the border

I think you could make the same argument on gun control -- they got all the gun control they wanted in NE liberal states, and it didn't work, and now even inner city residents want guns for self defense.

The abortion at any age policies convinced a lot of people that maybe we needed some restrictions.

Drug policies are being tightened because even Dem cities understand that the libertarian ideal does not work.

CA pulled back on their "theft below $950 is legal" policies.

I think we even have a majority for voter ID, now that people understand how bad things got.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (mymNa)

122 I grieve for the Virginia of my youth, when Northern Virginia was solid Republican. Yes, I'm more like 29 1/2.

Posted by: bluebell at February 10, 2026 06:09 PM (79pEw)

123 120 101 Are there any better Republican candidates for Senate in Maine than Collins? She's a RINO but the best you can get
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I'm convinced the voters in Maine eat so much shellfish and wood chips that their brains are rotted. Maine people are generally dumb, like the voters in Minnesota.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (abIsI)

Now do Virginia and New York.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:09 PM (pDt9x)

124 104 Our goal is to become New Jersey.

Posted by: Virginia at February 10, 2026 06:03 PM (2Ez/1)

I hate to break it to you, but you already are.
The Northern part is hopelessly far-left while the rest of the state, outside of the cities, are left shaking their heads at what the idiots in the metro areas are doing to a once great state.

Just like NJ.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:09 PM (6ydKt)

125 Just search "Mitch McConnell's w..." and see what comes up
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (RIvkX)
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Not gonna do it. I know your sense of humor.

Posted by: bluebell at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (79pEw)

126 Cute story about Wojciehowicz.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Gesundheit.

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (VHUov)

127 112 I don’t get this whole “I’m gonna die on the senate floor, but before I do I’m gonna stick it to the country for my petty personal battle” thing.
Posted by: Marcus T

Who said this - "the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor"

[ ] Saruman
[ ] John McCain

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (Dv3i1)

128 I don’t get this whole “I’m gonna die on the senate floor, but before I do I’m gonna stick it to the country for my petty personal battle” thing.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:06 PM (pkv3v)
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It probably comes from the staff of the Senate Republicans.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (RIvkX)

129 114 Cute story about Wojciehowicz.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,

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And Barn, I didn't see the plane landing until I hit it!

Posted by: Wojo at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (mymNa)

130 Not gonna do it. I know your sense of humor.
Posted by: bluebell at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (79pEw)

*busted*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 06:11 PM (RIvkX)

131 From Alexandria to Fair Oaks will be a journey 30 minutes or 5 congressional districts.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 10, 2026 06:11 PM (H4+uf)

132 Gemini sez "Protein bread generally offers 10–15g of protein per serving, roughly triple the 2–5g found in regular bread, by incorporating ingredients like soy, whey, seeds, or legumes."

Hmm, IDNKT. Well, I paid $2.99 for the loaf, so I guess I'll eat it anyway.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 06:11 PM (N8ZBc)

133 Any very large concentration of people yields Leftists.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:11 PM (pDt9x)

134 mmm, Point Bock beer!

earlier today a 6er just happened to catch my eye at a KwikTrip a few counties closer to Stevens Point.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:11 PM (Cjt/F)

135 mcconnel does deserve a small thumbs up for blocking merrick garland from SCOTUS. His refusal to bring him up for a vote has given SCOTUS at least a 10 year conservative majority.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 06:03 PM

Or the weasel figured that Hillary would win, and either Garland or someone worse would be nominated. He gets to play hero for votes, then shrug when Hillary wins. Well...I tried...vote for me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 06:11 PM (Wnv9h)

136 Dems rolled Byrd into the chamber in a hospital bed to make sure he voted.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:11 PM (0KSrI)

137 >>> I don’t get this whole “I’m gonna die on the senate floor, but before I do I’m gonna stick it to the country for my petty personal battle” thing.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:06 PM (pkv3v)

Malignant narcissists don't truly care if they are generating negative or positive feedback as long as the effects of their power are easily noticed. They want to see the force of their authority reflected back strongly for them to admire and enjoy.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2026 06:12 PM (3uBP9)

138 McConnell is just following orders, just as McCain did.

Posted by: davidt at February 10, 2026 06:12 PM (Q+gd/)

139 From Alexandria to Fair Oaks will be a journey 30 minutes or 5 congressional districts.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 10, 2026 06:11 PM (H4+uf)
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*shuffles next to Jinx and weeps for our once-beautiful state*

Posted by: bluebell at February 10, 2026 06:13 PM (79pEw)

140 "I don’t get this whole “I’m gonna die on the senate floor..."

+++
It's really pretty simple...

Posted by: The ghost of Strom Thurmond at February 10, 2026 06:13 PM (2Ez/1)

141 136 Dems rolled Byrd into the chamber in a hospital bed to make sure he voted.
___

Grand Exalted Kleagle Robert Byrd of the KKK? That guy?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:13 PM (Dv3i1)

142 Cute story about Wojciehowicz.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,

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

And Barn, I didn't see the plane landing until I hit it!
Posted by: Wojo at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (mymNa)
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For some reason that even she cannot explain, my wife HATES Max Gail. I found him funny.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 06:13 PM (0aYVJ)

143 Who said this - "the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor"

[ ] Saruman
[ ] John McCain

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (

Solzhenitzen

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 06:13 PM (Wnv9h)

144 From Ballotpedia,
"Congressional and state-level elections
In Texas, any registered voter can vote in the primary of their choice. They may not vote in more than one party's primary during a single voting year. Texas law requires voters to sign the following pledge before voting in a primary: "I am a (insert appropriate political party) and understand that I am ineligible to vote or participate in another political party's primary election or convention during this voting year."[1] In the case that no candidate receives a majority vote, the top two candidates proceed to a runoff election.[2]"
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:39 PM (2swu2)

Thanks for the info. Is that pledge enforced by the honor system or some other means?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 10, 2026 06:13 PM (GD2xa)

145 138 McConnell is just following orders, just as McCain did.
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Orders from who? Stan?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)

146 My list above can be argued over, but the main point is that we need to undue Reynolds v. Simms, and I can't see any other way to do it.

I am not saying give up -- that battle is already lost as you can see above. I am just saying that having lost, it opens up an opportunity.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (mymNa)

147 99 McConnell’s wife is not often mentioned. I have always viewed her with suspicion.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:02 PM (pDt9x)

You should have.

Only person I know who got cabinet jobs in multiple administrations just to bribe Mitch into doing his job.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (6ydKt)

148 535 elected officials have voted us into 38 trillion dollars in debt. Fuck each and every one of them

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (0KSrI)

149 I check Crockett 's fec filings every month and for her being the presumptive candidate there isn't a ton of money being dumped into her campaign yet.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:05 PM

She won't start the big buck grifting until she wins the primary and then the $$$$ will flow into her campaign from all over the world.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (0N4FZ)

150 John Mofo Wayne McCornholeyn

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (gbOdA)

151 Solzhenitzen
Posted by: RedMindBlueStat

Correct!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)

152 136 Dems rolled Byrd into the chamber in a hospital bed to make sure he voted

They did the same for Kennedy and DiFi if memory serves.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (abIsI)

153 Solzhenitsyn.

I can't spell.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 06:15 PM (Wnv9h)

154 Chuck Martel, that's the one.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:15 PM (0KSrI)

155 I dunno. If I’m that close to my appointment with God, I’m on my best behavior. I don’t want to cross over and the first thing I see is God with a Spock eyebrow.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:16 PM (pkv3v)

156

The whole point of Cocaine/CCP Mitch McConnell is obstruction. He insists upon himself in that way.

Posted by: imp at February 10, 2026 06:16 PM (g6TN6)

157 149 Go long on hair weave/wig/nail salons in Crockett's district. Don't leave out Nike stores and spinner rims shops.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 10, 2026 06:16 PM (gm9Sb)

158 Thanks for the info. Is that pledge enforced by the honor system or some other means?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 10, 2026 06:13 PM

In Texas your vote is tracked from the minute they scan your DL when you come to vote so the tracking is pretty good. Austin and Houston are under the AG microscope so they can't get away with much cheating.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 06:16 PM (0N4FZ)

159 148 535 elected officials have voted us into 38 trillion dollars in debt. Fuck each and every one of them
Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (0KSrI)

Tax Revenues are not the issue.
It is Spending.
Just go back to 2020 levels.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 06:16 PM (gbOdA)

160 @107

>> Am I thinking of the right guy?

Yes.

But his story is strange, he was popular, he was able to get over 900k votes in an off year AG race but somehow couldn’t scrape together 700k votes in the Governors Race.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 06:16 PM (XV/Pl)

161 They did the same for Kennedy and DiFi if memory serves.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

"DiFi", "memory serves"? I applaud your cruelty.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:17 PM (Dv3i1)

162 99 McConnell’s wife is not often mentioned. I have always viewed her with suspicion.

Posted by: tubal

Chao was Secy of Transportation under Trump 1.0

Even with that, her decrepit and corrupt husband has it out for Trump. Truly scum of the Earth.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 10, 2026 06:17 PM (abIsI)

163

It was great when he stopped Garland, and frankly made almost all of this garbage we're going through now worthwhile. If Garland had gotten on the Supreme court, we would all be toast.

Posted by: imp at February 10, 2026 06:17 PM (g6TN6)

164 >>> Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 06:08 PM (mymNa)

That's a lot of things you'd like to happen, maybe hope will happen, all associated with a whole lot of concrete bad things that did actually happen.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2026 06:18 PM (3uBP9)

165 The turtle and Cornyn stabbed Joe Miller in Alaska senate race, allowing the murcow to win the seat as an independent. It ain't hate, it's loathing for these rumpswabs.

Posted by: kingsman at February 10, 2026 06:18 PM (ehY6c)

166 Always wondered if Mitch shivved Garland due to personal vendetta.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:18 PM (pDt9x)

167 Thanks for the info. Is that pledge enforced by the honor system or some other means?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 10, 2026 06:13 PM (GD2xa)

SC is open primary, too, and I'm not entirely sure how its enforced here, either.

I think the parties themselves run the primaries here so maybe they have lists to check?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:18 PM (6ydKt)

168 Well a few billion went to theft and looting

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)

169 "DiFi", "memory serves"? I applaud your cruelty.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:17 PM

Well, this is AoSHQ.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 06:19 PM (Wnv9h)

170 Tax Revenues are not the issue.
It is Spending.
Just go back to 2020 levels.
Posted by: r hennigantx

We couldn't possibly go back to 2020 levels. We have 50 million more illegals getting benefits than we did all the way back then. Think of the chaos.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:19 PM (Dv3i1)

171 McConnell torpedoed Garland because SCOTUS is the last line of defense for GOPe. SCOTUS isn't majority conservative, it's majority GOPe.

Posted by: davidt at February 10, 2026 06:19 PM (Q+gd/)

172 I can say this: Nate Morris' ads are so prevalent here I can see them in my dreams. I haven't seen a single one from Cameron.

Posted by: American Hawkman at February 10, 2026 06:20 PM (rM26B)

173 We have a fine old American tradition of funding our destructors.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:20 PM (pDt9x)

174 Chao was Secy of Transportation under Trump 1.0

Even with that, her decrepit and corrupt husband has it out for Trump. Truly scum of the Earth.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

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

She is straight up CCP.

They denied this for a while, because she is from Taiwan and her family runs a Taiwanese shipping business. But there are a lot of CCP in Taiwan and no one runs ships to Chinese ports, and has a major Chinese shipping company without being hard core CCP.

So it's the power couple of traitors advancing CCP goals.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 06:20 PM (mymNa)

175 >>> >>> I don’t get this whole “I’m gonna die on the senate floor, but before I do I’m gonna stick it to the country for my petty personal battle” thing.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:06 PM (pkv3v)

McConnell is seeing how petty McCain was, and raising him. Meanwhile, they both throw these tantrums over signature Democrat legislation.

Screwing Americans by keeping Obamacare and voter fraud. Lincoln would slap them.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 06:20 PM (gWBY1)

176 didn't you mean trillion, Skip?

a few billion is a years take from a single state ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:21 PM (Cjt/F)

177 r henningan, yes it is the spending and they voted to spend it.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:21 PM (0KSrI)

178 Meanwhile Indiana “Republicans” are holding each others dicks instead of creating their own gerrymandered seats.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 06:21 PM (Eh6IB)

179 Well a few billion went to theft and looting
Posted by: Skip

The word begins with a "t".

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 10, 2026 06:21 PM (wOO3z)

180 Have you guys seen the latest James O'Keefe video?

Former Project Veritas Board Member Matthew Tyrmand Admits To Being An FBI/SDNY Informant Against Conservative Organizations, James O’Keefe, Threatens to Murder O'Keefe

http://tiny.cc/mwsy001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2026 06:22 PM (Yp6az)

181 The bitch, the bitch, the bitch is back
Bitch MCconnnel and his saggy sack.

I can bitch, I can bitch

Posted by: Mitch the Bitch MCcdonalds at February 10, 2026 06:22 PM (NtVYv)

182 For folx like me who've paid zero attention to the Guthrie story, Megyn sums it up in under 20 mins, with a f-bomb or two:
youtube.com/watch?v=TedR7YyfgTM

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 06:22 PM (N8ZBc)

183 178 Meanwhile Indiana “Republicans” are holding each others dicks instead of creating their own gerrymandered seats.
Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 06:21 PM (Eh6IB)

They are the collegial Republican breed.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 06:22 PM (pDt9x)

184 170 Tax Revenues are not the issue.
It is Spending.
Just go back to 2020 levels.
Posted by: r hennigantx

We couldn't possibly go back to 2020 levels. We have 50 million more illegals getting benefits than we did all the way back then. Think of the chaos.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 06:19 PM (Dv3i1)

I would go back to at least 2019, anyhow.

Seems we spent a few extra trillion $ that year on fighting the CCP Flu and I'd hate to have that as the baseline.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:23 PM (6ydKt)

185 McConnell torpedoed Garland because SCOTUS is the last line of defense for GOPe. SCOTUS isn't majority conservative, it's majority GOPe.

Posted by: davidt at February 10, 2026 06:19 PM

If SCOTUS was gop(e) then they would not have over turned roe vs. wade or affirmed that the 2nd amendment is an individual right and ruled that an AR-15 is a sporting rifle and not a "weapon of war".

As it stands right now SCOTUS has a slim conservative majority.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 06:23 PM (0N4FZ)

186 "Tax Revenues are not the issue.
It is Spending.
Just go back to 2020 levels."

2000 levels. It was 9-11 that kicked off these decades of crazy overreaction to every crisis, with accompanying exigent and stupid spending. Eveything's an emergency now; there's no time for fiscal mgmt!

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 06:25 PM (N8ZBc)

187 150 John Mofo Wayne McCornholeyn

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 06:14 PM (gbOdA)

He magically appears on TV and radio every six years, for about ten months, January through November. He is seen and heard the most during January through early March during that period. Come early November of the year he appears, he magically vanishes for five years.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 06:25 PM (5rh/l)

188 As it stands right now SCOTUS has a slim conservative majority.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

Which can change with a pillow-smothering.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 10, 2026 06:25 PM (wOO3z)

189 Bush/Barky bailouts added a trillion to the baseline budget and Congress didn't do shit about changing that.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:26 PM (0KSrI)

190 Well, Trump and the GOP kind of opened this bag of worms on redistricting, it's not like we didn't know the Dems were going to respond in kind where they could, and they have.

Maybe this will entice some more GOP in states to go ahead and make some lopsided maps themselves.

If it's an arms race then actually race instead of standing on the side of the track debating the principles of racing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:27 PM (6ydKt)

191 The Bitch didn’t torpedo Garland for as a conservative heroic move. He did it because he wanted to give Hillary the nomination. First woman appointed justice!!

He’s scum through and through. May he be ass raped by satan with barbed wire cock for all of eternity.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 06:27 PM (Eh6IB)

192 Certainly in history a trillion easily walked out the door

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 06:27 PM (Ia/+0)

193 165 The turtle and Cornyn stabbed Joe Miller in Alaska senate race, allowing the murcow to win the seat as an independent. It ain't hate, it's loathing for these rumpswabs.
Posted by: kingsman at February 10, 2026 06:18 PM (ehY6c)

Got a phone call that year wanting us to donate to Cornyn and the Senate Republican coffers.

Told them we would vote for the republican candidate in Texas in the general, but after their traitorous behavior with the Republican Senate candidate in Alaska, there was no way in Hell that they were going to receive one red cent from our house.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 06:27 PM (SRRAx)

194 Some states do not permit that. You vote in one party primary then you canot vote in the other during a runoff. Texas is one of them.

I’m pretty sure that there is one caveat to this: voters can vote in a runoff of their choice if they didn’t bother to vote in the primary—and didn’t sign any petitions for put a candidate on a particular primary ballot.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 10, 2026 06:28 PM (EXyHK)

195 As it stands right now SCOTUS has a slim conservative majority.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

It has a moderate majority of 4, and 2 conservatives

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 06:28 PM (mymNa)

196 O, I'm'a SO get more of this Point Bock this weekend.

old-school Wisconsin bock beer

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:28 PM (Cjt/F)

197 2000 levels. It was 9-11 that kicked off these decades of crazy overreaction to every crisis, with accompanying exigent and stupid spending. Eveything's an emergency now; there's no time for fiscal mgmt!

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 06:25 PM (N8ZBc)

Reinforced in 2008, when they started writing checks to cover Wall Street's exposed asses.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:29 PM (6ydKt)

198 195 As it stands right now SCOTUS has a slim conservative majority.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

It has a moderate majority of 4, and 2 conservatives
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

We only think it is conservative because it has been left leaning for so long. It is now moderate on most issues.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 06:30 PM (mymNa)

199 197 Exactly!

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 06:30 PM (N8ZBc)

200 Any day now I think we can expect to hear Miss Lindsey call for a national ban on abortion. Burps that out every couple of years before elections and then dies nothing in the interim

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 06:30 PM (yI5mB)

201
Have you guys seen the latest James O'Keefe video?

Former Project Veritas Board Member Matthew Tyrmand Admits To Being An FBI/SDNY Informant Against Conservative Organizations, James O’Keefe, Threatens to Murder O'Keefe

http://tiny.cc/mwsy001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2026 06:22 PM (Yp6az)

This is my surprised face.

Although it's pretty funny that Veritas forced O'Keefe out and then expected him to go quietly without running ops against them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 06:31 PM (y9nCu)

202 So, based on all that I've been reading, it sounds like the SAVE Act, the thing the majority of the country wants, will not pass. I'm so comforted knowing these worthless pieces of garbage in Congress are representing the people who put them there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 06:31 PM (qBdHI)

203 as Salvor Hardin (mayor of Terminus) said
(or was it Hober Mallow?)
i disremember ...

"It's a poor atom-blaster that won't point both ways."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:32 PM (Cjt/F)

204 If it has legs, then it might make "RINO" a real thing.

I've long hated the term, because for at least the past decade or two, it's been made abundantly clear that it's inaccurate. What the base derisively calls "RINO" are in fact the essence of the Republican Party Man. Far from "in name only," the so-called RINOs are the Party ideal. They are not RINOs, but rather RIGS - Republicans In Good Standing." It's *you* - the rube in the base who doesn't dig the Party's ambitions, goals and desires - who are the RINO.

If enough old-guard RIGS fall to conservatives, then the party itself might show enough change that "RINO" *could* apply to the McConnells of the world.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2026 06:32 PM (ojr4c)

205 Nood. Epstein stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 06:32 PM (ExV1e)

206 "exigent and stupid spending"

That was maybe Osama bin Laden's greatest victory from 9-11: sending us on a certain path to national bankruptcy.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 06:32 PM (N8ZBc)

207 189 Bush/Barky bailouts added a trillion to the baseline budget and Congress didn't do shit about changing that.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 06:26 PM (0KSrI)

Amen. If you ever hear any House or Senate candidate campaign on ending Federal baseline budgeting, you'll know snow has started falling in Hell.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 06:32 PM (5rh/l)

208 No, McConnel nuked Garland as some red meat for the base during the election because he was CERTAIN Hillary would win - hence the bullshit "election year" reasoning he used for it.

That was the clear signal - "I need this right now, but you have a clear path through my cucks in a few months."

He never gave a crap about a """conservative""" SC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 06:33 PM (BI5O2)

209 Boy oh boy I'm sure glad those Indiana so-called 'Republicans' didn't pass a gerrymander because they thought Trump was mean.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at February 10, 2026 06:33 PM (lCHt6)

210 If VA is 53-47 aren't they in danger of turning a bunch of those seats R if the Republicans do better in '26 then they did in '24?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 05:44 PM (sKqQm)

Yes, that is how the Dems flipped NC to GOP back in the 80s/90s. They wanted all black districts and gerrymandered the crap out the districts

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 06:34 PM (8avO+)

211 122.

If you hooked Washington's bones to a dynamo you could power every data center on earth at this point.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 06:34 PM (AhDDR)

212 So, based on all that I've been reading, it sounds like the SAVE Act, the thing the majority of the country wants, will not pass. I'm so comforted knowing these worthless pieces of garbage in Congress are representing the people who put them there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 06:31 PM

It can't be allowed to pass, it's as simple as that. Even if 95% of the country wanted it can't be passed because at this point in time only a few states control who wins the presidency. If the cheat is removed or severely reduced then democrats will never win another election for president.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 06:35 PM (0N4FZ)

213 Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday said he supported the SAVE America Act, but that there is not enough support in the Senate to change the filibuster and clear a path for the controversial bill.

Really? Name names.

I can guess a few right off the bat.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:35 PM (6ydKt)

214 163 It was great when he stopped Garland, and frankly made almost all of this garbage we're going through now worthwhile. If Garland had gotten on the Supreme court, we would all be toast.
Posted by: imp at February 10, 2026 06:17 PM (g6TN6)

To be honest, I don't think Mitch did it for the Republicans. He did it because he was PO'd at Shurmer for gutting the filibuster rule to force through DC Fed. court nominations, which took away some of his clout.

Mitch was showing him who was boss now.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 10, 2026 06:38 PM (w3u3d)

215 May my State Rep, Ken King of Canadian (TX), be swept out in the primary.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 06:38 PM (hJH5n)

216 Yeah sure im positive that cuck Thune toooootally supports it but you know, woe is he. Heavy is the head the head that wears the gimp mask.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 06:39 PM (BI5O2)

217 Elaine Chao also served as the 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush, 2001 to 2009.

But as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation under Trump, she resigned on January 7, 2021, following the Capitol 'riot,' citing it as a "traumatic and entirely avoidable event."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 06:43 PM (NFX2v)

218 I love getting rid of rinos, but I love getting rid of democrats more. Best be careful that we don’t put someone in the race that cannot beat the democrat socialist:

Posted by: Danny Mitchell at February 11, 2026 02:22 AM (Q0olq)

Trump Renews Call for SAVE Act to Keep Illegal Aliens (and Dead Citizens) from Voting as the Spanish Left Legalizes Illegal Alien Voting

Yes!

With high-stakes midterms approaching, Trump has urged GOP lawmakers to stop dithering and move legislation he says is essential to securing U.S. elections. The president has called for mandatory voter ID, proof of citizenship, and a rollback of mass mail-in voting, arguing that states have failed to protect the integrity of federal elections.
In recent remarks and social media posts, Trump said elections must be conducted "legally and honestly" -- and warned that if states can't do that, the federal government should step in. He has repeatedly pushed Congress to act, calling for passage of the SAVE America Act while demanding tighter standards for who can vote and how ballots are cast.
The SAVE America Act would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Acceptable documentation would include a passport, a REAL ID-compliant identification showing citizenship, a military ID with proof of U.S. birth, or a government-issued photo ID paired with a birth certificate or naturalization papers. The bill also directs states to ensure only citizens are registered and requires in-person verification for mail-in applicants.
It does not ban mail-in voting outright, nor does it change who counts ballots -- points Democrats and voting-rights groups have seized on as Trump continues to call for broader reforms.

In Spain, the socialists and communists felt their Phony-Baloney jobs in jeopardy, so they said the Quiet Part Out Loud and actually passed the Quiet Part into law -- the legalized voting for illegal aliens and foreigners in hopes that 500,000 foreign voters would save them.

Apparently the socialist government offered citizenship to illegals... if they just showed up to vote.

Which they did. In hordes, of course.

Yossi BenYakar
@YossiBenYakar

Chaos in Spain after the government approved the option to obtain citizenship in exchange for a vote in the elections.
Crowds of migrants are heading there after hearing that all they need to do is vote for the far left to receive Spanish citizenship in return.

They still suffered a defeat in the regional elections.

[Brussels Signal EU:]
Spain's ruling Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) suffered a crushing setback in the snap regional elections in Aragón.
In the ballot yesterday, it slumped to one of its worst historical performance, losing ground amid a surge by the right-wing Vox party.
Provisional results from the Government of Aragón and the National Electoral Commission, with more than 98 per cent of votes counted, show the centre-right People's Party (PP) emerging as the largest force with 26 seats in the 67-seat Cortes of Aragón. That is down two from its 2023 tally, despite topping the poll with around 34 per cent of the vote.
The PSOE, led by former minister Pilar Alegría, collapsed to 18 seats, down five, equalling its all-time low from 2015. It secured 24.3 per cent of the vote in what analysts describe as a humiliating defeat for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's party.
Vox delivered the night's clearest winner, more than doubling its representation from seven to 14 seats and claiming nearly 18 per cent of the vote, a sharp rise that cements its role as kingmaker in any right-wing coalition.

Note that a far-left government official admitted -- declared proudly -- that she "hopes for a replacement theory," whereby native Spanish "fascists and racists" are replaced by foreign migrants.

She says this straight up.

And Google's AI still claims "replacement theory" is a "white nationalist conspiracy theory," despite an actual government official in a left-wing government declaring for all to hear that that is precisely the left's master plan:

Spain's former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has publicly stated that she hopes for the "great replacement" theory to take place in Spain.
During an event, Montero, a leader of the far-left Podemos party, stated: "Of course I hope for 'replacement theory,' I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants. Whatever their skin color, whether 'Chinese, Black, or Brown'".
The "great replacement" theory is a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims white populations are being intentionally replaced by non-white immigrant populations, often through deliberate political action. Montero's statement has sparked significant debate, with critics warning against endorsing a conspiracy theory considered dangerous, while her supporters call for dialogue on the topic of population changes and political dynamics.

Here's the video of this Spanish left-wing government official endorsing the "white nationalist conspiracy theory."

Spanish Feminist: "I hope for 'replacement theory,' I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants..."

The Woke are fascists. pic.twitter.com/K5S2HwltWP
— Men Are Human (@men_are_human) February 1, 2026

Step 1: It's not really happening

Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal

Step 3: It's a good thing, actually

Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) June 14, 2021

Babe wake up new entry on the It�s Not Happening meme just dropped https://t.co/PctgfxI3Uw pic.twitter.com/7LkSXRnXC2
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1 Boned!

Posted by: Max Bone at February 10, 2026 04:28 PM (jc0TO)

2 Yay! Woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 04:29 PM (Cjt/F)

3 !

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 10, 2026 04:29 PM (ewuvP)

4 Doubt we have the votes

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5 Good to "see" you back...

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6 Sponge?

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7 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:30 PM (KN2gu)

8 Repost (please don't ban me!!!)

Olympics update!

Don't know where to drop this, but....

US Womens Hockey Team is FARRRRRR superior to US Women's Soccer Team!!!!!

US -5
Can - ZERO!!!!!!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 10, 2026 04:30 PM (7kJyR)

9 Rookie f'n mitsake. Read the post.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (KN2gu)

10 wow the It's Not Happening meme is spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (Cjt/F)

11 Mesa worried about Ace.

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (P0Z/H)

12 Too bad the GOPe will fight it tooth and nail.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (zjgNU)

13
I'm glad Trump clarified that VOTER ID is IDENTIFICATION, because otherwise people would just show their id, their ego, and their superego and demand a ballot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 04:32 PM (n7rxJ)

14 USA

Posted by: doug at February 10, 2026 04:32 PM (Hy+R4)

15 >>Apparently the socialist government offered citizenship to illegals... if they just showed up to vote.

Freedom! I approve

Posted by: Goth Fonzie at February 10, 2026 04:32 PM (mymNa)

16 Smoking asses on Fb. All those leftists saying it's raciss to make people get id's.

I simply tell them, "go ahead and say it. You know you want to. Black people are too stupid to get id".

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:33 PM (KN2gu)

17 Read the whole thing.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:33 PM (y6810)

18 Where I live i have to show a photo ID and a voter registration card.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:33 PM (BI5O2)

19 Casey Putsch. Dunno anything about her other than she is not Vivek.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (2swu2)

Carried over...

Casey Putsch, aka "The Car Guy", likely doesn't use 'her' as his pronoun.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

20 "stop dithering and move legislation he says is essential to securing U.S. elections."

Hear, hear! Require voter ID! Legislate it!

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:34 PM (N8ZBc)

21 What blackmail material do they have on Thune, that he refuses to get the SAVE act passed? It's like he is trying to protect the left, so they can survive this fall's midterms and impeach Trump again. Or does he just have TDS like most establishment GOP?

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 04:34 PM (gWBY1)

22 Man. I hope Trump twists the GOPe senators’ arms so hard that they come out of their sockets.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 04:34 PM (jbnUc)

23 The problem with the Spanish Civil War was that they didn't kill enough commies. The Spanish will be pining for old Franco soon enough.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 10, 2026 04:34 PM (XMwZJ)

24 Apologies: I thought I published this an hour ago. Sorry, I got out for a run for the first time in two weeks and I guess my head was little goofy.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

I don't think the "runner's high" does that.... maybe some OTHER kind of high...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 04:34 PM (zjgNU)

25 Many seem unaware of a recent development in language. "Conspiracy theory" now means "incontestable fact."

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (AlhUl)

26 Before I expandified the post I had a vision in my head of what a leftoid Spaniard female would look like and boy was I spot on.

Yet another mid whose shrill, loud ass couldn't get laid on a troop train.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (5aZAZ)

27 It would entertain me if the anger over the 500,000 illegals given voting rights in Spain continues to build over the next months through the further regional elections. Spanish elections seem to be quite weird...

Anyway...

If the 500,000 illegals activates millions more Spaniards to say "fuck the socialists," it would amuse me.

Let it be done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

28 There’s zero chance this happens. No dem senators will vote for it. Only way is to nuke the filibuster. So as I said zero chance it happens.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (y6810)

29 All throughout the civilized world, stupid young, radical women like this dolt will, ironically, bring about the end to the civilized world.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (qBdHI)

30
Apologies: I thought I published this an hour ago. Sorry, I got out for a run for the first time in two weeks and I guess my head was little goofy.

======

"And I thought I was a knucklehead."
-Tim Walz

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

31 "Travel"???

No, you don't get to vote by mail just because you're on vacay. This is the exception that swallows the rule. Entire cemeteries of Democrat voters will be "traveling.'

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (ujXVj)

32 OMG, US Women's Hockey Team is not giving up, just 1 minute left and they are still ATTACKING!!!!

THIS IS THE WAY!!!!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (7kJyR)

33 "All those leftists saying it's raciss to make people get id's."

That's the stupidest talking point they ever stuck to.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (N8ZBc)

34 33 "All those leftists saying it's raciss to make people get id's."

That's the stupidest talking point they ever stuck to.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (N8ZBc)

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Which they earnestly believe. They think black people are too stupid to get IDs. I've gotten one to admit it fully to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

35 If the 500,000 illegals activates millions more Spaniards to say "fuck the socialists," it would amuse me.

Let it be done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

Does Spain have an Islamist Party?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

36 REAL ID-compliant identification showing citizenship,

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Real ID compliant =/= citizenship ! it's just legal status! so a green card holder can get that little star on the DL

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:36 PM (g47mK)

37 34 Cripes.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (N8ZBc)

38 I'd imagine Trump has kompromat on all the GOP fucktards. Same for the leftists... but they probably don't give a shit either way.

I'd suggest he use it. Now. Openly. And frequently.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (jtM2q)

39 Women’s hockey is stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (W2Pud)

40 12 Too bad the GOPe will fight it tooth and nail.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

But they have a problem. All the election fraud shit is about to hit the fan and most of them have already mouthed support at one time or another for Voter ID laws. This is going to put them on the defensive, especially the GOPe shitheads in the Senate.

If Thune is forced into a talking filibuster, I can imagine no better fate for the GOPe senators than having to listen to about two months worth of debate about voter ID and immigration enforcement and no better fate for the Dems that will likewise have to spend time talking about how Voter ID and kicking criminal illegals out is a bad thing for two months or so.

DHS funding being tied to the SAVE Act would be a chef's kiss. Let the Dems argue why voter ID is bad, non citizens can vote, and opposing deporting useless mouth breathing criminals.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (2swu2)

41 sorry this post is so late, I thought I posted it with my phone while out but I guess all I did was turn off the alarm telling me to post it. I'm out of practice being out of doors.

Posted by: ace at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)

42 21 What blackmail material do they have on Thune, that he refuses to get the SAVE act passed? It's like he is trying to protect the left, so they can survive this fall's midterms and impeach Trump again. Or does he just have TDS like most establishment GOP?
Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 04:34 PM (gWBY1)

No blackmail is needed to make people do what they want. Thune doesn’t want this because he is fine with fraud that helps democrats. Just like McConnell before him. And Boehner and Ryan and every Republican “leader” for the past 30 years.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (y6810)

43 The problem with the Spanish Civil War was that they didn't kill enough commies. The Spanish will be pining for old Franco soon enough.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 10, 2026 04:

It's never a one-off. It's like mowing the lawn, it has to be maintained.

This is why I endorse the idea of having a massive quadrennial Jubilee with all kinds of fun activities, capped off with a midnight massacre of Leftists by a priestly class armed with golden-bladed bone saws.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (BI5O2)

44 All throughout the civilized world, stupid young, radical women like this dolt will, ironically, bring about the end to the civilized world.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (qBdHI)

I'm starting to understand why 1300 years ago muslims lost their shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (snZF9)

45 US Womens Hockey Team is FARRRRRR superior to US Women's Soccer Team!!!!!
Well, who isn't? They can't even compete with an under-15 boys team.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (XMwZJ)

46 39 Women’s hockey is stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (W2Pud)

BITE THY TONGUE!!!!!

Tis far better than the WNBA, ... at a minimum....

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (7kJyR)

47 This is like the trans issue -- they have taken such absurd and extreme positions that they can never back down.

If they admit that they planned a "replacement" (And lets call it what it is -- white genocide,) then that justifies ethnic cleansing of Europe and USA of all these incompatible immigrants (I am thinking mostly the muslims.) Not all, enough that the existing culture can survive.

There is a long long history of kicking incompatibles out of your country -- It has occured everywhere throughout history. That is the one thing they never wanted to "normalize," but they already have by saying whites need to be marginalized in their own countries.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (mymNa)

48 Renea Turner is running for GOP governor against Ramaswamy -
Report -
A former write-in GOP gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ohio Republican party allegedly attempted to raise a "posse" to kidnap Gov. Mike DeWine (R), try him over his decision to implement pandemic-related health restrictions, and sentence him to either exile or death, the Ohio Capital Journal reported. Renea Turner's alleged plan was discovered after one of the people she reportedly contacted to join the posse notified law enforcement.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (Dv3i1)

49 I'm so glad you got out for a run Ace!

I took the dogs out for a walk. I still thought it was hella cold tbh

they liked it tho

USA girls just won hockey vs Canada they looked GOOD

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (emBoF)

50 Which they earnestly believe. They think black people are too stupid to get IDs. I've gotten one to admit it fully to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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But deeper than that, the only reason they want illegals voting along with retarded people, those with mental illness or dementia is because of team blue. It ain't compassion but political power they seek.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:38 PM (2swu2)

51 40 DHS funding being tied to the SAVE Act would be a chef's kiss. Let the Dems argue why voter ID is bad, non citizens can vote, and opposing deporting useless mouth breathing criminals.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (2swu2)

====

Murk came out in opposition.

But, it needs to be remembered that DHS funding not appropriated through 2028 is really limited to the TSA and a couple of other things. All deportation functions were budgeted and appropriated in the OBBB last year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

52 Fvck Spain. These hypocrites recognize Gaza as a state while suppressing Basque and Castilian nationalists.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 04:39 PM (RIvkX)

53 I doubt the Spanish feminist has thought this whole thing through. It might dawn on her when she fleeing rapey immigrants. Might, not even guaranteed then

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 04:39 PM (yI5mB)

54 There’s zero chance this happens. No dem senators will vote for it. Only way is to nuke the filibuster. So as I said zero chance it happens.
Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (y6810)

Ackshully, there was something from the MR about this. They could require an actual filibuster, using the Senate's current debate rules, and get it up for a vote.

That's not likely to happen because a number of GOP Senators don't want the SAVE Act and will use the Democrats intransigence to allow them to hide that fact from their voters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

55 Fun fact. Ferdinand and Isabella financed Columbus as a part of the celebration of the Muslims being kicked out of Spain so America was founded on removing Islam. Now America will be lost on importing Islam.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 04:39 PM (J+Psw)

56 That a large swath of the Spanish spent several centuries under Islamic rule and spent another century battling to take it back means nothing to this left-wing agitator who hates her own people so much she’d rather see them replaced by anybody who can make it across the border.

I’m starting to understand why the Spanish Civil War was such a bloody affair, and why their radical left had to be beaten into submission by Franco for four decades.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 04:39 PM (6ydKt)

57 46 39 Women’s hockey is stupid.

dude you don't watch it I guess

it's GOOD

way better than ... I mean it's better than womens' version of tennis (which is different but good). it's pretty much just like mens hockey

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 04:40 PM (emBoF)

58 Wymynses hockey like wymynses sorcerer is filled with angry lesbians who hate America.

I’m cheering against them.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:40 PM (y6810)

59 "They think black people are too stupid to get IDs."

Most of them are 1000X more skillful than I am at using smartphones; I see it daily. If they can master smartphones, they can get a f'n ID.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:40 PM (N8ZBc)

60 > I'm out of practice being out of doors.

You went OUTSIDE!?!

All hail Ace, the bravest of us all!!

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2026 04:40 PM (Yp6az)

61
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the brain.

The lady is calling on that reliably left-wing "working people" to replace "the scroungers" -- by bringing in immigrants.

I don't know what's going on in Spain, but their scroungers and working people seem to be the reverse of ours.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 04:40 PM (n7rxJ)

62 Which they earnestly believe. They think black people are too stupid to get IDs. I've gotten one to admit it fully to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

The AWFLs certainly think that because of their white savior complex.

The higher ups know that this seriously damages their fraud operation.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 04:40 PM (zjgNU)

63 Real ID compliant =/= citizenship ! it's just legal status! so a green card holder can get that little star on the DL
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:36 PM (g47mK)

But the green card holder would be unable to register to vote as that requires proof of citizenship (in the Act).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 04:40 PM (ExV1e)

64 Ooof....type this in GOOGLE:

"What is the friendliest US State?"

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 04:41 PM (dIske)

65 If Thune is forced into a talking filibuster, I can imagine no better fate for the GOPe senators than having to listen to about two months worth of debate about voter ID and immigration enforcement and no better fate for the Dems that will likewise have to spend time talking about how Voter ID and kicking criminal illegals out is a bad thing for two months or so.

DHS funding being tied to the SAVE Act would be a chef's kiss. Let the Dems argue why voter ID is bad, non citizens can vote, and opposing deporting useless mouth breathing criminals.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (2swu2)

Saw an article abount this. Film ALL the Dems opposing the SAVE Act and use that against them in elections ads.

Make them defend their own words!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 10, 2026 04:41 PM (7kJyR)

66 I like how Trump has leftists insisting some races are too stupid to get IDs while also defending actual child molesters while simultaneously arguing it's a bridge too far to not be able to personally identify the ICE agents arresting their pets.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 10, 2026 04:41 PM (AywZy)

67 58 Wymynses hockey like wymynses sorcerer is filled with angry lesbians who hate America.

wtf no

mostly just college players

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 04:41 PM (emBoF)

68 Missing from the report is this normalization was done by decree not legislation.

So much for "democracy" amirite?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 04:42 PM (RIvkX)

69
For LOLs, I once whipped out my driver's license to vote when I lived in SoCal. The desiccated hippy who was checking off names on the list recoiled from my photo ID like Dracula having a crucifix shoved into his face. Funny as hell.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 04:42 PM (y9nCu)

70 Murk came out in opposition.

--

Good G*D, will AK not rid us of this infected pustule of a senator?!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 04:42 PM (qBdHI)

71 What was on your playlist for the run, Ace?

Also, we're due for a mystery click.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 04:42 PM (XvL8K)

72 53 I doubt the Spanish feminist has thought this whole thing through. It might dawn on her when she fleeing rapey immigrants. Might, not even guaranteed then
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Just lie still and close your eyes, dear, and think of Al-Andalus.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)

73
How many illegals have Real ID?

Surely that will have an effect on voting numbers.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 04:42 PM (3ek7K)

74 "I once whipped out my driver's license to vote when I lived in SoCal. The desiccated hippy who was checking off names on the list recoiled from my photo ID"

Happened to me too. They would NOT look at it.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:42 PM (N8ZBc)

75 These Olympians hate America. They shouldn't be wearing its flag. I'm not proud of their win, and I wish Canada had beat them like a rented mule.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:43 PM (BI5O2)

76 Murk came out in opposition.
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Make her defend her position.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

77 The problem with the Spanish Civil War was that they didn't kill enough commies. The Spanish will be pining for old Franco soon enough.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Mr. we could use a man like 'Cisco Franco again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 04:43 PM (J+Psw)

78 There’s a video on Eww-Tube of a guy asking black people in Harlem if they had ID. And they all like yeah of course I have ID everyone does, what a dumb thing to ask.

Same guy goes to Brooklyn and asks white people if voter ID should be the law.. The whites in Brooklyn say no that’s racist, black people don’t know how to get ID. One even said black people have trouble reading so they don’t understand instructions on how to get ID.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:44 PM (y6810)

79 "wymynses sorcerer is filled with angry lesbians who hate America."

If they're sorcerers you should stay away from them anyway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 04:44 PM (8Xy/A)

80 SLV

Stevie Lay Vaughn! Favolite guitar prayer!

Posted by: Confused Japanese guy at February 10, 2026 04:44 PM (TbWk/)

81
I think we can settle this whole controversy of Women's Hockey with one question:

Do all the women Hockey players have all their teeth?

If yes, illegit.

If no, legit.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 04:44 PM (iJfKG)

82 The Fulton County FBI affidavit has been unsealed.

Not a hint of corruption.

https://tinyurl.com/5ams7jd8

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 04:44 PM (viF8m)

83 28 There’s zero chance this happens. No dem senators will vote for it. Only way is to nuke the filibuster. So as I said zero chance it happens.
Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (y6810)
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Not true.

The R's in the Senate could, if they wanted to, simply force the D's to engage in a talking filibuster instead of the gay-ass "silent filibuster" that has been in practice in the Senate since the 70's.

Make all those old fucks stand in the well and orate for days on end and grind the business of the Senate to a halt. Requires zero rule changes and doesn't "nuke" anything. It just returns the Senate to Regular Order ante the stupid introduction of the concept of a cloture vote on literally everything.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 04:44 PM (5aZAZ)

84 better question is how many non-citizens have Real IDs....probably most of them

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:45 PM (g47mK)

85 'Goofy head'?

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

86 I doubt the Spanish feminist has thought this whole thing through.

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She doesn't do thinks. She does feelz.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 04:46 PM (J+Psw)

87
No, you don't get to vote by mail just because you're on vacay. This is the exception that swallows the rule. Entire cemeteries of Democrat voters will be "traveling.'
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete

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I'm pretty sure you can vote at a US embassy if you're traveling that far.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 04:46 PM (n7rxJ)

88 My black daughter has like 7 or 8 IDs. All of them are mine.

She will find it wherever I put it, and then it joins her collection. I suspect in the floor vent.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:46 PM (BI5O2)

89 So they legalized 500k illegals to vote for them and STILL lost?

If I lived in Spain, I'd be getting my militia ready to hunt down those leftist shitheads. Who knows, maybe we will see a huge red tide in Europe?

Speaking of which, whatever happened to those 8 AFD members in Germany? Were they killed?. Did they just "disappear"? Why is this not discussed on the "world stage"

It's a fucking stage alright..

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 10, 2026 04:46 PM (XLfSN)

90 Note that a far-left government official admitted -- declared proudly -- that she "hopes for a replacement theory," whereby native Spanish "fascists and racists" are replaced by foreign migrants.

She says this straight up.
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The Re-Reconquistadores she's keen on importing are 1) among the most racist people on the planet and 2) will implement sharia law as soon as they have enough of a minority to do so. (They don't need a majority--fear of beheading will keep the kafir in line.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 04:46 PM (ESVrU)

91 74 I showed the ID because there's always a hassle about my sloppily written signature; it comes out different every time I write it.

To hell with signature verification when everybody already has Real IDs now. Assuming not too many Real IDs have been issued to ineligible voters; a terrible assumption, but it's all I got.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:46 PM (N8ZBc)

92 >>>I'm so glad you got out for a run Ace!
I took the dogs out for a walk. I still thought it was hella cold tbh
they liked it tho

thanks. I was thwarted because the trails I wanted to walk were, of course, still covered in snow. I don't know why I expected them to have cleared. but I walked and ran on the streets and sidewalks a bit.

Posted by: ace at February 10, 2026 04:47 PM (1wjle)

93 Murk get paid in bitcoin and coke.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:47 PM (g47mK)

94 As Golden State lawmakers push a proposed 5% tax on the ultra-wealthy Billionaires, they are moving in droves to Florida in DROVES.

To remedy the exodus of wealth to Florida, Gov. Newsome now proposes a "Thousand-aire Tax" on people that earn more than $100K per year.

California needs money desperately to feed children of color that Trump is starving from the Big Beautiful Bill.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 10, 2026 04:47 PM (J9q9v)

95 Is Red China taking any colored folks in yet?

Posted by: Nanga Eboko, exchange student from Cameroon at February 10, 2026 04:47 PM (TmfuF)

96 Fetterman has already said he will vote for voter ID.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 04:47 PM (viF8m)

97 But, it needs to be remembered that DHS funding not appropriated through 2028 is really limited to the TSA and a couple of other things. All deportation functions were budgeted and appropriated in the OBBB last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Murcow may oppose the SAVE act but Fetterman's Lump says he supports Voter ID, even trade there.

And yes, I know that the DHS funding charade only deals with a fraction of the department which is why it may continue for awhile. Use to happen all the time in the 70's with little notice of 'shutdowns'. People might actually cheer TSA not being around.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:48 PM (2swu2)

98 Note that a far-left government official admitted -- declared proudly -- that she "hopes for a replacement theory," whereby native Spanish "fascists and racists" are replaced by foreign migrants.
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Obviously reasonable people in Spain should recognize that there is no possibility of living in peace with the Left and take the appropriate defensive measures.

Posted by: Methos at February 10, 2026 04:48 PM (vSvIl)

99 75 These Olympians hate America. They shouldn't be wearing its flag. I'm not proud of their win, and I wish Canada had beat them like a rented mule.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:43 PM (BI5O2)
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Hard to be surprised that a women's hockey team would all be Subaru drivers.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 04:48 PM (5aZAZ)

100
Same guy goes to Brooklyn and asks white people if voter ID should be the law.. The whites in Brooklyn say no that’s racist, black people don’t know how to get ID. One even said black people have trouble reading so they don’t understand instructions on how to get ID.
Posted by: Really??

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Those idiot whites were at Berkeley.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 04:48 PM (n7rxJ)

101 They think black people are too stupid to get IDs.

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You know, like wymyns.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 04:48 PM (J+Psw)

102 Which they earnestly believe. They think black people are too stupid to get IDs. I've gotten one to admit it fully to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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But deeper than that, the only reason they want illegals voting along with retarded people, those with mental illness or dementia is because of team blue. It ain't compassion but political power they seek.
Posted by: whig

The powers that be know that.
The lofo's honestly believe the bullshit that they're too stupid to get ID.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:49 PM (KN2gu)

103 "I'm so glad you got out for a run Ace!"

Going outside is one of my velleities. Not enough volition to carry out the task I claim I want to accomplish. Back in the 1980s-1990s, it was my favorite thing. Nowadays, all the fun is indoors.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:49 PM (N8ZBc)

104 REAL ID can be obtained by non citizens. Not just green card holders but also “refugees” and those with “temporary” status. So all the Haitians here on TPS could get one.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:49 PM (y6810)

105 Ugly white women's thirst for immigrant dick has killed more people and caused more misery than the malaria mosquito.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 04:49 PM (MgVzy)

106 To hell with signature verification when everybody already has Real IDs now. Assuming not too many Real IDs have been issued to ineligible voters; a terrible assumption, but it's all I got.
Posted by: gp

Electronic signature verification is a joke for the most part as people's signatures vary quite a bit on e sign versus paper and pen. And different styluses , touchpads, etc. make e-signatures a stupid indicator of voter fraud.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:50 PM (2swu2)

107 What blackmail material do they have on Thune, that he refuses to get the SAVE act passed? It's like he is trying to protect the left, so they can survive this fall's midterms and impeach Trump again. Or does he just have TDS like most establishment GOP?
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Don't discount a whole bunch of limp-wrist GOPe types still--STILL--at this day, insisting that we can find a common ground, a reasonable compromise with the left if we'd just calm down, tone down the heated rhetoric and listen.

That if we end the filibuster, it will be the complete and total end of the Republic, America and apple pie.

That, just because it's absolutely, 100% guaranteed the Dems will end it on Day One if they ever gain the Senate, is no reason to not hold on and appeal to the better angels of their nature then.

And securing our elections from massive fraud is not a good reason to upset the comity and unity of the Senate.

Or you know:
F you idiot citizens--we Senators are the important people and don't have to listen to you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 04:50 PM (HXT0k)

108 sorry this post is so late, I thought I posted it with my phone while out but I guess all I did was turn off the alarm telling me to post it. I'm out of practice being out of doors.
Posted by: ace at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)
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I believe that bright white ball up in the sky is called "The Sun."

But I could be wrong.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 04:51 PM (ESVrU)

109 I think we can settle this whole controversy of Women's Hockey with one question:

Do all the women Hockey players have all their teeth?

If yes, illegit.

If no, legit.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 04:44 PM (iJfKG)
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They all wear full-face cages and there is no checking in women's hockey so it quite honestly sucks. The threat of physical injury because some other person hit you at 20mph on ice skates is what makes hockey fun.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 04:51 PM (5aZAZ)

110 Murk get paid in bitcoin and coke.
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:47 PM

but mostly...

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:52 PM (jc0TO)

111 'REAL ID can be obtained by non citizens. Not just green card holders but also “refugees” and those with “temporary” status. So all the Haitians here on TPS could get one.'

Another problem that Congress ought to try to fix. They should have been working on this election security stuff from the very beginning of the session, not beginning eight months before the next election.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:52 PM (N8ZBc)

112 I hope Ace runs serpentine like Sheldon. We need Ace around as a force for Good.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 04:52 PM (MgVzy)

113 The Re-Reconquistadores she's keen on importing are 1) among the most racist people on the planet and 2) will implement sharia law as soon as they have enough of a minority to do so. (They don't need a majority--fear of beheading will keep the kafir in line.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 04:46 PM (ESVrU)

She seems the type to be OK with that as long as her hated capitalist fascist racists have been defeated.

You can always count on a demented communist female cult member to be in the “If I cant’t have it, and control it, then let it all burn” camp.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 04:52 PM (6ydKt)

114 The powers that be know that.
The lofo's honestly believe the bullshit that they're too stupid to get ID.
Posted by: rickb223

The lower downs know at a deep level that their side cheats and they are okay with it. A lot of it is like sports fans, it is okay when we cheat to win but those other bums are CHEATING us of victory.

It has been pretty much that way all teh way back. James Madison lost a race for Virginia because he did not feel that liquoring up his supporters and then marching to the polls en masse was quite cricket. The other guy didn't have those scruples and won.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:53 PM (2swu2)

115 >>Electronic signature verification is a joke for the most part as people's signatures vary quite a bit on e sign versus paper and pen. And different styluses , touchpads, etc. make e-signatures a stupid indicator of voter fraud.

I just electronically signed for my plumber. At the best of times it looks nothing like my signature with pen and paper and these are not the best of times for me.

I would never pass if that was the test.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 04:53 PM (viF8m)

116 I’d bet $1000 a random boys HS hockey team from upstate NY could beat the wymynses Olympic team. By at least 5 goals.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:53 PM (y6810)

117 82 The Fulton County FBI affidavit has been unsealed.

Not a hint of corruption.

https://tinyurl.com/5ams7jd8
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 04:44 PM (viF8m)
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Five separate defects and discrepencies....any one of which could account for the difference between the winner and the runner-up easily.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 04:53 PM (dIske)

118 It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:53 PM (jc0TO)

119 I'm supposed to get my driver's license renewed this year. I'm debating if I should get the Real ID version. Probably should if the SAVE act passes.

Last time I tried to get it I was turned away because the utility bill I brought to prove my residency in Missouri was "too old." (It was from 2 months or so prior to my renewal.)

I was too lazy and frustrated to bother getting them the most recent utility bill. Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 04:54 PM (ESVrU)

120 She seems the type to be OK with that as long as her hated capitalist fascist racists have been defeated.

You can always count on a demented communist female cult member to be in the “If I cant’t have it, and control it, then let it all burn” camp.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Her party has no seats now in the regional Parliament of which she was a candidate. So that particular asshole has nothing in front of her but failure.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:54 PM (2swu2)

121 They all wear full-face cages and there is no checking in women's hockey so it quite honestly sucks. The threat of physical injury because some other person hit you at 20mph on ice skates is what makes hockey fun.

there's plenty of checking in women's ice hockey

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 04:54 PM (emBoF)

122 It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

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Charles Dickens ???

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:54 PM (g47mK)

123 112 I hope Ace runs serpentine like Sheldon. We need Ace around as a force for Good.
Posted by: sifty boones

I picture more of a "sashay" than a run.

Posted by: NTTAWWT at February 10, 2026 04:55 PM (oftw2)

124
Apparently the socialist government offered citizenship to illegals... if they just showed up to vote.

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That's like offering $500 to anyone who will kick you in the ass.

What monstrous assholes socialists are. They are opening the final battle for Europe.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 10, 2026 04:55 PM (azNOR)

125 Thune: We can’t nationalize elections
Other Republicans: Let’s pass this bill that overrides state’s rights and imposes national requirements for elections.

I don't think it has any chance of passing the Senate. Republicans need 60 votes in the Senate, which they don't have. Alternatively, they could kill the filibuster, but once that rubicon is crossed there's no going back.

A lot of Democratic women are ready to make changes and do what they can to vote, but this would also knock out a lot of Republican women who are not ready to do that. Might this backfire on Republicans?

There's a section that would require all states to verify US citizenship prior to issuing drivers licenses. That would make it so pending status immigrants couldn't legally drive!

This is a wishlist disguised as a bill. Throw every grievance into one document and call it reform so no one can argue the details without looking defensive. this bill will be useful to the GOP even if it fails, because if it fails the GOP can use it as ammunition against the Democrats. They'll claim Democrats let immigrants vote or something, even though it never really happens.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 04:55 PM (JCZqz)

126 118 Sans-culottes. In the 1970s terrorist movies, the tactical response team catchphrase was always 'shoot the female terrorists first.'

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 04:55 PM (N8ZBc)

127 123 112 I hope Ace runs serpentine like Sheldon. We need Ace around as a force for Good.
Posted by: sifty boones

I picture more of a "sashay" than a run.
Posted by: NTTAWWT at February 10, 2026 04:55

Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 10, 2026 04:55 PM (AywZy)

128 Last time I tried to get it I was turned away because the utility bill I brought to prove my residency in Missouri was "too old." (It was from 2 months or so prior to my renewal.)

I was too lazy and frustrated to bother getting them the most recent utility bill. Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 04:54 PM (ESVrU)

But if No First Name Given shows up he gets a CDL no questions asked at the same DMV.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:55 PM (y6810)

129

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:55 PM (g47mK)

130 Only way is to nuke the filibuster.

As ballistic wrote, one way is to bring back the filibuster. Or a compromise filibuster. Let them perform a fake filibuster for one or two days. Then they have to really stand up and talk and show they mean it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 10, 2026 04:56 PM (EXyHK)

131 Last time I tried to get it I was turned away because the utility bill I brought to prove my residency in Missouri was "too old." (It was from 2 months or so prior to my renewal.)

I was too lazy and frustrated to bother getting them the most recent utility bill. Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Get it or get the passport card along with a passport. The passport card issued by State Dept is good for limited travel to Mexico, Canada, and perhaps the Bahamas, but just fine as domestic id for air travel, etc. In some ways, better than Real ID.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:56 PM (2swu2)

132 121 They all wear full-face cages and there is no checking in women's hockey so it quite honestly sucks. The threat of physical injury because some other person hit you at 20mph on ice skates is what makes hockey fun.

there's plenty of checking in women's ice hockey
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 04:54 PM (emBoF)
______________________________

I understand that playing Japan is a bitch. Lots of "Tune in Tokyo" going on. (Note: Boob Reference)

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 04:56 PM (dIske)

133 “Why did it take Thomas Massie and me… going to the Justice Department to get these six men’s identities to become public? If we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in three million files?” he continued.

Blanche, however, stressed the DOJ was “hiding nothing” given that both their names appeared elsewhere in the cache of files.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 04:56 PM (enSNT)

134 A lot of Democratic women are ready to make changes and do what they can to vote, but this would also knock out a lot of Republican women who are not ready to do that. Might this backfire on Republicans?

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What changes? Lol

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:57 PM (y6810)

135 Do you know where your birth certificate is ??

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:57 PM (g47mK)

136 95 Is Red China taking any colored folks in yet?
Posted by: Nanga Eboko, exchange student from Cameroon at February 10, 2026 04:47 PM (TmfuF)

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I’ve occasionally seen a report where they have imported some low-skill labor (think janitors and the like) from Africa.

They are treated by the Chinese exactly as you would expect. Kinda similar to the way Arabs treat their imported Philipinos.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 04:57 PM (6ydKt)

137 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 04:55 PM (JCZqz)

Every single poll I have seen is overwhelmingly for voter ID including Dem voters by a wide margin...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 04:57 PM (HbB1p)

138 >>Do you know where your birth certificate is ??

Yes.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 04:58 PM (viF8m)

139 Yet another mid whose shrill, loud ass couldn't get laid on a troop train.
Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (5aZAZ)

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read this. One of the best put-downs I've heard in years. I'm going to steal this.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at February 10, 2026 04:58 PM (va0Yo)

140 Every single poll I have seen is overwhelmingly for voter ID including Dem voters by a wide margin...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 04:57 PM (HbB1p)

Adorable you think politicians care what people want.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:58 PM (y6810)

141 Do you know where your birth certificate is ??
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:57 PM

I have two copies. (I misplaced it once and ordered a replacement)

I once used my baptismal certificate as ID to get a DL.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:58 PM (jc0TO)

142 The lower downs know at a deep level that their side cheats and they are okay with it. A lot of it is like sports fans, it is okay when we cheat to win but those other bums are CHEATING us of victory.

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At least the base anyway.

I was talking to an AWFL years ago, who was elated, like nearly dancing a jig about the Mueller Report coming out (she didn't know I supported Trump).

I told her I thought she would be disappointed because the investigation didn't turn anything up, and the initial predicate was obviously fabricated.

She said she knew that, but it didn't matter so long as Mueller got him out of office, and then we were going to a Trumpless Promised Land.

When they don't know you're not one of them, they'll say what they *really* think.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:58 PM (BI5O2)

143 I just electronically signed for my plumber. At the best of times it looks nothing like my signature with pen and paper and these are not the best of times for me.

I would never pass if that was the test.
Posted by: JackStraw

Where I lived, until computers improved things, we used paper and pen ledgers to sign into vote and you can readily see if your signature was incorrect because there was the whole trail of past signatures in the bound volume. E signatures vary way too much and we should really scrap them for credit cards, hospitals, etc. for some other id verification scheme.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:59 PM (2swu2)

144 131.

Unless you get a TSA goon that can't read. I had one call his supervisor over to explain to him what a US Passport Card was. I thought he was shittin me.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 04:59 PM (MgVzy)

145 Spain's former Minister of Equality ...

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... Equality In Misery, Poverty, & Premature Death.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 04:59 PM (3jBMv)

146 I still have my original social security card.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:59 PM (jc0TO)

147 146 I still have my original social security card.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:59 PM (jc0TO)

Me too...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 05:00 PM (HbB1p)

148 I’m starting to understand why the Spanish Civil War was such a bloody affair, and why their radical left had to be beaten into submission by Franco for four decades.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 04:39 PM (6ydKt)

It's beginning to start in earnest here. Wait for warmer weather plus the World Cup in the summer.

Posted by: RickZ at February 10, 2026 05:00 PM (gKDq2)

149 sorry this post is so late, I thought I posted it with my phone while out but I guess all I did was turn off the alarm telling me to post it. I'm out of practice being out of doors.
Posted by: ace at February 10, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)

howard stern is that you ?

Posted by: alpine_beer at February 10, 2026 05:00 PM (van9r)

150 I miss Women's Beach Volleyball.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 10, 2026 05:00 PM (iMotb)

151 Well I've been watching the men's figure skating short program all day. I know a lot of the guys here think it's faggy but some of those men, especially the American Ilia Malinin, can throw off those quad jumps like they're nothing. Malinin is particularly amazing. The costumes can get a faggy though.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 05:01 PM (lJ0H4)

152 150 I miss Women's Beach Volleyball.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 10, 2026 05:00 PM (iMotb)

Mighty cold there for that

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 05:01 PM (HbB1p)

153 "Do you know where your birth certificate is?"

I had to drive out of state to get mine, to use for CMP purchases.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:01 PM (N8ZBc)

154 141 Do you know where your birth certificate is ??
Posted by: runner
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Hell yes. And I have multiple sealed copies. I know where my social security card is, etc. Doesn't take much organization at all to at least secure important documents like deeds to property, car titles, etc.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:01 PM (2swu2)

155 Does anybody knows if any Medels has been win by any Gay asteletes in the Olympeks yet ??

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 10, 2026 05:01 PM (pqu8b)

156 "I still have my original social security card."

Me too. Signature is completely faded.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:01 PM (N8ZBc)

157 I support anything that suppresses the right of stupid people to vote.

Not sorry at all. If you can't do basic paperwork and manage your life on an adult level, I don't want you voting.

Educate yuseff. Manage yuseff. Support yuseff.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:02 PM (MgVzy)

158 >>I still have my original social security card.

Me too. I know where that is as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 05:02 PM (viF8m)

159 The population of Spain has increased form about 40 million in 2000 to 49.5 million today. Almost entirely due to third world immigration. So around 19% of the population is foreign born and at least another 10% are their offspring. Meanwhile Spanish women are averaging 1.1 babies, half needed for replacement.

That is more than alarming. Worse than England and Germany. They are good and screwed.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 05:02 PM (GUOwU)

160 152 150 I miss Women's Beach Volleyball.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 10, 2026 05:00 PM (iMotb)

Mighty cold there for that....

EXACTLY CORRECT, IT SHOULD BE COLD TO "PERK" THINGS UP !!!!

Posted by: Jackson at February 10, 2026 05:03 PM (J9q9v)

161 Electronic signature is a joke, it might as well be a monkey doing it

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 05:03 PM (Ia/+0)

162 If my trailer park cracker ass can keep my original birf serdificut and sosal securidy card, anyone can.

Been in the same ammo can for 40 years. It's not rocket surgery.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:04 PM (MgVzy)

163 When they don't know you're not one of them, they'll say what they *really* think.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I got that shit all the time as a professor. True confessions and former students used to be the way I kept up with politics outside of the papers at the state and local levels. Due to my subject, most of my students worked in government or politics.

A lot of people cannot keep their mouths shut which is how O'Keefe made himself a career from leftist knobs trying to impress sex partners. Thirsty males in particular admit stupid thoughts if they think they will get laid.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:04 PM (2swu2)

164 I still have my original underwear when I had my first wet dream about Whoopie Goldberg.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 10, 2026 05:04 PM (38587)

165 160.

I fully support the Boise Beach Volleyball League Championships in March.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:05 PM (MgVzy)

166 I'm an outlaw. I laminated my Social Security Card.

Posted by: Livin' On The Edge at February 10, 2026 05:05 PM (oftw2)

167 Meanwhile Spanish women are averaging 1.1 babies, half needed for replacement.

That is more than alarming. Worse than England and Germany. They are good and screwed.
Posted by: Ripley
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Apparently not.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 05:05 PM (XvL8K)

168 I still have my original social security card.

Unfortunately not. But I do still have the original cardstock page that it came out of, with the text “Detach your card and sign it immediately. Carry it in your purse or wallet.”

Which is why I don’t have the original card.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 10, 2026 05:05 PM (EXyHK)

169 I'm an outlaw. I laminated my Social Security Card.

==

Dad ?!

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 05:06 PM (g47mK)

170 They don't think black people are too stupid to get id. They just want to cheat. Simple as.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:06 PM (zZu0s)

171 136 95 Is Red China taking any colored folks in yet?
Posted by: Nanga Eboko, exchange student from Cameroon at February 10, 2026 04:47 PM (TmfuF)

—

I’ve occasionally seen a report where they have imported some low-skill labor (think janitors and the like) from Africa.

They are treated by the Chinese exactly as you would expect. Kinda similar to the way Arabs treat their imported Philipinos.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 04:57 PM (6ydKt)
______________________________

The media ignores it, but they use slave labor on their illegal fishing fleets. Also, indentured servitude, and some of those lucky chaps are from North Africa.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 05:06 PM (dIske)

172 I have all my ball jersey's since college. I doubt I could fit in any of them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 05:06 PM (jc0TO)

173 there's plenty of checking in women's ice hockey
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 04:54 PM (emBoF)
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Body checking is officially prohibited in Olympic women's hockey under IIHF rules, which define illegal hits as those meant to separate an opponent from the puck. However, intense physical contact, including pushing, shoving, and incidental body contact while playing the puck, is permitted and often allowed to be quite physical.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 05:06 PM (5aZAZ)

174 164.

Ted Danson has a lot of explaining to do.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:06 PM (MgVzy)

175 164 I still have my original underwear when I had my first wet dream about Whoopie Goldberg.
Posted by: Joe Biden

!?!?!?

(Insert Jim Carrey Dumb and Dumber puking meme)

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 10, 2026 05:06 PM (JCZqz)

176 "I support anything that suppresses the right of stupid people to vote.

Not sorry at all. If you can't do basic paperwork and manage your life on an adult level, I don't want you voting."

'Poll tests' are so Officially Odious in our Establishment History Books, I don't think we'll ever go back; never be able to persuade the judiciary. But yeah, I agree.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:07 PM (N8ZBc)

177 The great replacement theory was also the topic of the book The Emerging Democratic Majority in 2002 written by two of the Democrat Party's top strategists.

This is easily the dumbest "but its a conspiracy theory!" bullshit the left has ever gone on to claim

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

178 Almost all my jerseys are #9. I played for two teams where nine was already taken but it seems it is not that popular a number.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 05:08 PM (jc0TO)

179 I'm an outlaw. I laminated my Social Security Card.

Posted by: Livin' On The Edge at February 10, 2026 05:05 PM

I did the same with both my original social security card and draft card. Never had anyone including both the US Army and US Navy refuse to accept my SS card.

I still have both. One day I need to burn my draft card, maybe when I turn 70 next year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 05:08 PM (0N4FZ)

180 Women's Beach Handball is a very scenic sport, especially when Norway plays Denmark or Holland plays Sweden.

Posted by: Rabid Fan! at February 10, 2026 05:08 PM (oftw2)

181
Do you know where your birth certificate is ??
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:57 PM

6 feet away in a lock box in my file cabinet.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 05:08 PM (y9nCu)

182 A few of us male commenters here should start an NGO where we tour the world knocking up women in these low birthrate countries.

It's a mission we can get all behind.

Imma call USAID and pitch it.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:09 PM (MgVzy)

183 Does everyone really not know this ? Or do they think women and minorities don't vote at all in 36 states?
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As of now, 24 states require voters to present photo identification in order to vote at the polls. Additionally, 12 states require non-photo identification, while 14 states do not generally require any identification to vote.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 05:09 PM (Dv3i1)

184
As ballistic wrote, one way is to bring back the filibuster. Or a compromise filibuster.

Bring back Mister Smith Goes To Filibuster.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 05:09 PM (Cqx++)

185 151 Well I've been watching the men's figure skating short program all day. I know a lot of the guys here think it's faggy but some of those men, especially the American Ilia Malinin, can throw off those quad jumps like they're nothing. Malinin is particularly amazing. The costumes can get a faggy though.
Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 05:01 PM (lJ0H4)
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Malinin is gayer than five guys blowing six guys but that doesn't mean he's not a hell of an athlete.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 05:09 PM (5aZAZ)

186 They don't think black people are too stupid to get id. They just want to cheat. Simple as.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:06 PM (zZu0s

And. Embrace it.

They just want to cheat, but find that to be a reasonable fig leaf because they know all those black people (who they've never encountered outside of the upper class blacks educated by Progressive white saviors), are too stupid to do anything.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 05:09 PM (BI5O2)

187 ... for some other id verification scheme.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:59 PM (2swu2)

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Whatever happened to retinal scans a la "Minority Report?"

[BTW, retinal scans can still be used for those blind or with ]an eye disease, but their effectiveness depends on the specific condition and the type of scan used.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 05:10 PM (3jBMv)

188 A few of us male commenters here should start an NGO where we tour the world knocking up women in these low birthrate countries.

It's a mission we can get all behind.

Imma call USAID and pitch it.
Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:09 PM

I call dibs on Eastern Europe, and Burma.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 05:10 PM (jc0TO)

189 This is a wishlist disguised as a bill.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Tell me this is the first bill you've read without telling me this is the first bill you've read.

Posted by: mikeski knows they didn't really read it at February 10, 2026 05:10 PM (VHUov)

190 "One day I need to burn my draft card"

I did, long after VietNam war was over. The card was surprisingly flammable. Poof! (If I did get called up, I planned to comply. I was just very drunk at a party.)

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:10 PM (N8ZBc)

191 I don't even bother trying to do a real signature on a touchpad; mostly I do a Wash Irving (like Yossarian) lately, using index finger nail .
no one cares.
shouldn't be legally acceptable, yet here we are ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 05:11 PM (Cjt/F)

192 Still have my original SS card.
Did one of those homemade lamination jobs on it when it started to fray in middle school.

I remember one girl I knew told me I couldn’t do that when she saw me take it out my wallet one day.

“Well, I did, what are they going to do, tame it back?”

Never had a problem with it being laminated.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)

193 However, intense physical contact, including pushing, shoving, and incidental body contact while playing the puck, is permitted and often allowed to be quite physical.
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Let's get physical!

Posted by: Olivia Newton-John at February 10, 2026 05:11 PM (Dv3i1)

194 Does that socialist Spanish bint think she will be wielding any power once those swarthy enrichers replace the native Spaniards?

Posted by: Butch at February 10, 2026 05:11 PM (98xTj)

195 188.
I'll take Japan and Australia.

It's tentacles, giant robots, and koalas all the way down.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:12 PM (MgVzy)

196 I sign with a legible first character and then a squiggly. Doctors say 'Whoa now' when they see my scrawl.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 05:12 PM (jc0TO)

197 174 164.

Ted Danson has a lot of explaining to do.
Posted by: sifty boones

In his defense (God, I can't believe I'm here), he dated her for just under two years in the early 90s. Here's Whoopi from the 1993 Oscar's https://tinyurl.com/55pyxep3 (no, not a trap this time)

She's....as cute as Michael Obama? Maybe Ted had a kink, and made her wear her Sister Act habit?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 10, 2026 05:12 PM (JCZqz)

198 Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read this. One of the best put-downs I've heard in years. I'm going to steal this.
Posted by: Retired, thank God at February 10, 2026 04:58 PM (va0Yo)
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*fistbump*

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 05:13 PM (5aZAZ)

199 My grandfather had a number of quirks. One was that he had an engraved brass SS card made to carry in his wallet, so it would never wear out. Never had a problem with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 05:14 PM (BI5O2)

200 178 Almost all my jerseys are #9. I played for two teams where nine was already taken but it seems it is not that popular a number.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Ted Williams and Roger Maris wore #9, and Reggie Jakson did for much of his career.

Posted by: #9 Dream at February 10, 2026 05:14 PM (oftw2)

201 197.

She was funny and cool for about 12 minutes. Shame the brain worms got her.

Now, shithouse rats get restraining orders against her.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:14 PM (MgVzy)

202 Malinin is gayer than five guys blowing six guys but that doesn't mean he's not a hell of an athlete.
Posted by: ballistic

My gaydar didn't sound when I heard him interviewed but it's been faulty before so I'll take your word for it.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 05:15 PM (lJ0H4)

203 'She was funny and cool for about 12 minutes.'

I remember one of her early stand-up bits that was actually anti-abortion.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:16 PM (N8ZBc)

204 Does that socialist Spanish bint think she will be wielding any power once those swarthy enrichers replace the native Spaniards?

This is what I don’t get. I keep going back to the line in Cabaret: “Do you still think you can control them?”

Do they really look at the nations that have already gone down this path, and see the ruins of even the villas of the rich, and think it’s not going to happen to them?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 10, 2026 05:17 PM (EXyHK)

205 Ted Danson got together with Whoopi when they did the movie Made In America in the early 90s.

Never did quite figure out how he got there but maybe they hit it off between takes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

206 Whatever happened to retinal scans a la "Minority Report?"

[BTW, retinal scans can still be used for those blind or with ]an eye disease, but their effectiveness depends on the specific condition and the type of scan used.]
Posted by: ShainS
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I think they are still in use for really top security. Nowadays, probably an e-palm print would be fine.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:17 PM (2swu2)

207 This is what happens when you have an "elite" that has no business being an elite and are fully aware of it but absolutely cant bear the idea of giving up the positions and perks. Nothing matters to them except they stay where they are.

Posted by: Azjaeger at February 10, 2026 05:17 PM (ipAbj)

208
Never did quite figure out how he got there but maybe they hit it off between takes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026

Lost a big bet to a mafia bookie who made him do it as penance when he couldn't pay.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 05:18 PM (BI5O2)

209 My gaydar didn't sound when I heard him interviewed but it's been faulty before so I'll take your word for it.
Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 05:15 PM (lJ0H4)
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Dude has gay face like whoa

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 05:18 PM (5aZAZ)

210 there's plenty of checking in women's ice hockey
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026

Bitch checked me up!

Posted by: Marian Berry at February 10, 2026 05:18 PM (VV2ns)

211 I still don’t understand how they think they are going to rule over barbarians.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 05:19 PM (XV/Pl)

212 Lost a big bet to a mafia bookie who made him do it as penance when he couldn't pay.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Tony, please! Break my knees or something!!

Posted by: Ted Danson at February 10, 2026 05:20 PM (JCZqz)

213 "This is what happens when you have an "elite" that has no business being an elite and are fully aware of it but absolutely cant bear the idea of giving up the positions and perks. Nothing matters to them except they stay where they are."

A lot of folks in private sector employment too. They need the job so desperately that they'll set aside any ethical considerations to keep it.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:20 PM (N8ZBc)

214 Do they really look at the nations that have already gone down this path, and see the ruins of even the villas of the rich, and think it’s not going to happen to them?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 10, 2026 05:17 PM (EXyHK)
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They are completely ignorant of history, otherwise they wouldn't be slavish adherents to the same lame, lazy, bullshit ideology that has resulted in nothing but death and destruction 100% of the times it's been tried.

They are also too stupid to have any sense of self-preservation.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 05:20 PM (5aZAZ)

215 203 'She was funny and cool for about 12 minutes.'

I remember one of her early stand-up bits that was actually anti-abortion.
Posted by: gp

I was sure I had read she engaged in prostitution at one time, but can't find any evidence. She did say, in her 1997 book "Book", that she did phone sex for a while and made good money.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 10, 2026 05:22 PM (JCZqz)

216 The left doesn't want to give up power because that's how they make their money

Yes they know the long term results of what they are doing is bad for their countries but the leaders believe "generational wealth" will protect them and the street level thugs do not care about the future as long as they are getting paid NOW

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 05:22 PM (sKqQm)

217
Do you know where your birth certificate is ??
Posted by: runner

Yep. All three of ours are in the safe deposit box. I looked at them when I retrieved the title for the car I sold on Friday.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 05:22 PM (QVmho)

218 Nordic skiing is as expected now really good, with lots of cameras (and now drones). Biathlon the best, because the lead can change dramatically throughout the race depending on performance at shooting. Mixed biathlon relay was Sunday, very good. Looking into those Anschutz rifles just out of curiosity. They seem to start around $5K.

Targets are disks the size of a CD 2 50M. Decent challenge when you're in the middle of the most aerobic exercise there is. Especially in the standing shooting segment.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2026 05:23 PM (U/Byj)

219 214.

The childless and Godless have no legacy to protect. They think only of growing their comfort and power while mortal and spare no thought for the future.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:23 PM (MgVzy)

220 Esure Spain, the alligator will eat you last, like a little tapa

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2026 05:23 PM (NtVYv)

221 "size of a CD @ 50M"

Of course the special skill in biathlon is regulating your effort and lowering your heart rate before each range session.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2026 05:24 PM (U/Byj)

222 BTW, retinal scans can still be used for those blind or with an eye disease, but their effectiveness depends on the specific condition and the type of scan used.

The two most common are iris and retinal, where iris is the one that most of us are familiar with in real-life, and retinal we mostly encounter seeing in movies.

Iris is in your phones, airports, and other venues where non-invasive biometric identity is required. Takes maybe a second or two to do.

Retinal scans requires close alignment to the scanner eyepiece and takes ten or more seconds to perform.

Retinal works because it maps the blood vessels in the back of the eye, so it doesn't care about blindness or dark eye color, but iris does care in visible light imaging (blue has higher accuracy, brown less so) but eye color has less effect in near IR lighting.

In a system I built for the military, we used powerful near IR because we were simultaneously capturing three modalities, finger, face and iris all with cameras. (yes, capturing fingerprints with cameras)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 05:25 PM (xE0sV)

223 I suspect it's a subconscious urge and desire for death and destruction (as opposed to say "homicidal-suicidal empathy").

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 05:25 PM (3jBMv)

224 El Cid shouldn't have bothered.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:25 PM (MgVzy)

225 Biathlon is one of the best Winter Olympic sports there is. Hard as shit and anything can happen with the shooting segments.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 05:25 PM (5aZAZ)

226 "They are completely ignorant of history"

They think every idea that pops into their heads is novel, never thunk of or tried before.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:25 PM (N8ZBc)

227 226.

Solomon had a few things to say about this in that one book I read.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 10, 2026 05:26 PM (MgVzy)

228 All these gimmick 'sports,' but they still refuse to put bobsleds on the ski jump tower and see how far they could fly.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 10, 2026 05:28 PM (A+7oL)

229 Ace went out running again? He's making me tired

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:29 PM (N8ZBc)

230 The two Dutch 1000 meter speed skating ladies are very nice.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2026 05:29 PM (NtVYv)

231 nood

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:29 PM (N8ZBc)

232 "They are completely ignorant of history"

They think every idea that pops into their heads is novel, never thunk of or tried before.
Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 05:25 PM (N8ZBc)

And thatbis intentional on the part of their teachers. We have created a generation of cannon fodder who does not aee anyone who disagrees with them as worth living.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 05:29 PM (zZu0s)

233 208
Never did quite figure out how he got there but maybe they hit it off between takes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Beards are quite common in Hollyweird world.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 05:30 PM (2swu2)

234 Too bad. I traveled throughout Spain and it was great. Barcelona is rocking, yo. Lotsa hot chicas too.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 10, 2026 05:30 PM (ZmaZ9)

235 All these gimmick 'sports,' but they still refuse to put bobsleds on the ski jump tower and see how far they could fly.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 10, 2026 05:28

Dude, building a roll-cage skinned in metal and impact resistant glass to be shaped like .50cal boattail and launching off a ski jump would be freaking awesome. You're onto something here.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 05:31 PM (OpG39)

236 The two Dutch 1000 meter speed skating ladies are very nice.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2026 05:29 PM (NtVYv)

The whole women's speed skating team is nice looking

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2026 05:31 PM (NtVYv)

237 Desperately wanted to get into biathlon years back but you have to live in the mountain West or upper New England to do it. Ditto for serious nordic skiing in general.

Was once skiing at a large great layout near Winter Park (YMCA of the Rockies) and there was a guy skiing with a biathlon rifle. He wasn't doing any shooting of course, but he was stopping at the range, mimicking a session, then doing a penalty lap before getting back on the main trail. I talked with him and he said he did it as part of a recreational club, some of the younger guys aimed at the Olympic team. Still remember thinking "damn, some places I could do biathlon as a hobby". Oh well.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2026 05:31 PM (U/Byj)

238 Pennsylvania once during a primary required a ID, the Democrats got that blocked. That had to be over 10 years ago

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)

239 The ski jumpers are right. I injected hyaluronic acid today before my my bike ride and I shaved 3 minutes off my usual time.

Posted by: Aerodynamism On Display at February 10, 2026 05:33 PM (oftw2)

240 I am duty-bound to inform the Horde of a nood.

It's cool to follow the rules.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 10, 2026 05:33 PM (0aYVJ)

241 I think (retinal scans) are still in use for really top security. Nowadays, probably an e-palm print would be fine.

Multi-modality provides better security, that is, match face, iris and fingerprint (8 out of 10 since thumbs are harder to capture on cameras)

With this one caveat: the blood vessel network at the back of the eye is incredibly stable and about as difficult as it can get for spoofing. So if foiling duplication is a premium and user friendliness is not even a factor, retina is still king.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 05:33 PM (pUU4E)

242 234 Too bad. I traveled throughout Spain and it was great. Barcelona is rocking, yo. Lotsa hot chicas too.
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Yeah, we know you're a swarthy and hirsute fan.

Posted by: More Nordics For Me at February 10, 2026 05:36 PM (oftw2)

243 Count me as one who likes women's hockey. As an aside the goalies look almost square in their equipment.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 10, 2026 05:36 PM (Nbak7)

244 People are in my X feed saying if it costs you anything out of pocket to register to vote or procure an ID, that's an unconstitutional poll tax.

They're whackadoo about it. If you have to drive to your voting location your gas consumed is a poll tax. If you have to stand in line so long it costs you in unrealized income, it's a poll tax.

If we arrange for you to vote in the comfort of your own home, so you don't have to drive or take off from work, then the money you spend making your place habitable is a poll tax.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 10, 2026 05:38 PM (GD2xa)

245 239 The ski jumpers are right. I injected hyaluronic acid today before my my bike ride and I shaved 3 minutes off my usual time.
Posted by: Aerodynamism On Display

Just keep it away from the spokes. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 05:40 PM (Dv3i1)

246 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- The Washington Post is Dying in Darkness at February 10, 2026 05:43 PM (3jBMv)

247 There are plenty of blonde Spaniards and Northern Italians.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 10, 2026 06:51 PM (JuSDn)

Irish Illegal Alien Who Dodged Deportation for 20 Years Will Finally Be Kicked Out of Country;
Supposedly "anti-Racist" Libertarian Nick Gillespie Says We Shouldn't Deport Him, Because He's White Like Us

Of course.

Nick Gillespie will claim that he made his racist plea of special privilege only because he assumes that we're the Real Racists Here and will keep this White Criminal in the country because he's white, but I don't know man, this attempt at Judo Reverse Racism just sounds like plain old racism to me.

Libertarians are just nasty 1960s "Hey man" hippies with a strong streak of racism.

Here are the facts, via Twitchy's JustMindy:

The Irish Times
@IrishTimes
Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, "not even a parking ticket"

His criminal record is 20 years long. 20 years of illegal visa overstaying plus the crimes we know he must have committed, including identity theft and illegally working under a fraudulent Social Security number.

He was ordered to leave and said "F*** you."

He overstayed a visa, was told to leave, refused to leave even when offered a trip back to his home country and so he was detained, but this apparently is communism or something.

Susan Glasser, an egregious communist propagandist at the New Yorker and wife of nasty liberal Peter Baker of the New York Times, goes immediately into AWFUL Meltdown Mode:

Susan Glasser
@sbg1
Kafka meets ICE

Gerard Baker
@gerardtbaker
Oh please. He was admitted on a 90 day visitor's visa 20 years ago and never left. He was offered instant deportation to Ireland last year and declined so he�s awaiting his case in a detention center. His choice. Kafka? You undermine your own argument with such hyperbole.

The only argument in favor of keeping this guy around is that he 1, applied for a Green Card and is here provisionally while his case is considered and 2, he got married to a US citizen.

But here's the thing: He only took those two steps when he was about to be deported.

The left, and Nick Gillespie, are claiming "he has a valid work permit."

But that was only issued on the basis of his sudden application for a green card.

Which he only applied for in 2025, when Trump was about to deport him.

What did he do for the 20 years prior as far as work or money?

Did he work illegally using someone else's social security number? Did he just sit on welfare for 20 years?

Did he, perhaps, engage in an actual criminal trade?

But we have to pretend his entire record began exactly when he took two desperate, last minute steps to confabulate a fraudulent set of facts to avoid deportation.

Remember yesterday, I mentioned the Fifth Circuit approving Trump's new policy of detailing deportable aliens until they exhaust their last legal challenge? But offering to let them out of detention if they agree to finally get on a plane and GTFO?

Well, this poor poor man has the same standing offer.

Supposedly, his ICE detention is an "absolute hell" -- but one he voluntarily agrees to remain in, instead of JUST GOING BACK TO HIS HOME COUNTRY.

Boy Ireland must be like, Hell Squared or something. It's Gaza of the North Atlantic.

HoodlumDoodlum
@HoodlumDoodlum
Also he has been in detention that long ONLY because he wants to fight his deportation. We would have been happy to deport him back months ago.

His "valid work permit" was temporary and issued as part of his green card application in April 2025 (after he'd been here illegally for 19 years).
A final removal order obviously supersedes a temporary work permit! He has no legal standing to stay; he will be deported. pic.twitter.com/d4xINmZakj
— HoodlumDoodlum (@HoodlumDoodlum) February 10, 2026

So now comes libertarian racist Nick Gillespie-- Goth Fonzie wears a black leather jacket to show he's not like those other pundits! -- to argue that "heritage Americans" should agree to let this 20-year deportation-dodger stay... because he's white.

This is appalling and I hope cuts through to the 'heritage American' types who otherwise could care less about due process for immigrants:
'Culleton said he was carrying a Massachusetts driving licence and a valid work permit issued by the US government when he was pulled over�
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) February 9, 2026

Oh, his work permit was a temporary one, issued only after he finally engaged with the immigration system and applied for a green card in 2025 -- when he knew he was about to be deported.

He also, coincidentally, got "married to a US citizen" that year, when he was about to be deported.

According to CNN's Abby Philip, this was in no way a sham marriage quickly arranged to give him cover from Trump's deportation.

No, Abby Phillip tells us, it's a time-honored lawful tradition for an illegal alien to "rectify his immigration status" through a quickie and almost certainly fraudulent marriage:

Phillip: Like this irishman who has been in the country for 20 years with a valid work permit, who was months away from a green card interview

Rantz: This guy from Ireland who overstayed a 90 day Visa since 2009

Phillip: That's an administrative infraction. And under U.S. Law� pic.twitter.com/W5RgIlCHR7
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 10, 2026

"Rectify" is the new "clarify." Be the first Cook Kid on your block to use it.

Michael MacNeil
@Mike_OMac
1h
He intentionally overstayed his tourist Visa?
He didn't apply for a Green Card for 17 years?
He didn't marry until he applied for a Green Card?
I have little sympathy.

Oh yes, this is all totally legitimate. As a "Heritage American," I want to keep this white criminal in the country forever because his skin matches my Heritage.

I saw someone sum up the reaction on Twitter in about this way:

Nick Gillespie: Checkmate, racists! Now that a white man of your Heritage is about to be deported, you see the evil of your racist ways!

Twitter MAGA types: No, no race-based inconsistency, we want his "potato-gobbling" ass deported back to Ireland too.

Nick Gillespie: Wait you racists don't even have mercy for Your Own Kind? You're not just racists, you're the worst kind of racists -- race-traitor racists!!!

Philosophy PhD btw https://t.co/tdVVXHesSQ pic.twitter.com/yKMkrZ1hsb
— Pay Roll Manager Here (@UsingLyft) February 10, 2026

Oh, by the way, Goth Fonzie wants you know he's not racist, he totally loved the Bad Bunny Super-Bowl show with all of the twerking anal-sex-simulation for children, and what he really objects to are the F-35s overflying the stadium in a show of "paid patriotism."

But in this, Goth Fonzie was just part of a larger movement of Old White Guys virtue-signalling -- and even more embarrassingly, Youth-Signalling -- that they are Totally Down with This Energetic Minority They Just Heard of Ten Seconds Ago.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 That's mighty white of him.

Posted by: XTC at February 10, 2026 02:32 PM (6Uni8)

2 Slan, douchebag.

And take your potatoes with you.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:33 PM (klxjG)

3 And John Kasich speaks Spanish? I doubt it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 02:33 PM (8Xy/A)

4
He may be "white like us," but he's Irish. Out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 02:34 PM (tgvbd)

5 I hope Bad Bunny did a land acknowledgement before his show.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

6 Not surprised but still WOW!

James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII
2h

We have footage of an individual who has gotten to the top of various conservative organizations in order to take them down. He admits he was an informant to the SDNY/FBI. I confront this individual. He threatened to kill me.

Tune in at 1 PM.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (Hbs7G)

7 Just curious. Did he pay taxes? Because not paying adds to the list of charges.

BTW, did they throw out the milky white guy thinking we would demur? Hahahahaha.

How’s that detention food, Mickey?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (klxjG)

8 We obviously need to treat them more harshly while in detention, so they'll take the free trip back home.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (vbXSk)

9 I may have a biased sample, but when I lived in NYC area in the 90s, it seems like you could not swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting an illegal immigrant Irishman.

They were all illegal, and laughing. (This was before the Irish tech boom) and seemed to think they would never get caught. They mostly worked bars and clubs, so I assume off the books.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (mymNa)

10 Welp, back from the dentist. A lot more pleasant than this morning's Art Thread visit to the barber.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

11 "Boy Ireland must be like, Hell Squared or something. It's Gaza of the North Atlantic."

IIRC, Ireland, just like everywhere else in the Western world, has its own problems with "refugees".

Posted by: Thrawn at February 10, 2026 02:36 PM (9Ovst)

12
I'm getting the impression, based on no data at all, that there are a yuuuuuge number of Irish here who have "overstayed" their visas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 02:36 PM (tgvbd)

13 We're still not taking the Irish!

Posted by: Blazing Saddles, Sorta! at February 10, 2026 02:36 PM (n1OCj)

14 Jon Kasich speaks in Gimp.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:36 PM (klxjG)

15 The left (including the "libertarians" who pretend they aren't on the left) thinks the right is uniformly racist.

And is continually angry when we don't act the way they expect because we're just hiding our racism.

(Like with police bodycams, the thought that they might be wrong never shakes their faith.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:38 PM (zjgNU)

16 8 We obviously need to treat them more harshly while in detention, so they'll take the free trip back home.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (vbXSk)

Surely, any random supermax can lend out Big Black Bubba or White Power Bill to... do what they do...

Posted by: XTC at February 10, 2026 02:38 PM (6Uni8)

17 Kick him out. And take his coat.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv)

18 The sad part is legal admission for Irish applicants with clean records is fairly high. But this guy couldn’t be bothered. He just cut the line and flipped the bird.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:38 PM (klxjG)

19 Boy Ireland must be like, Hell Squared or something. It's Gaza of the North Atlantic.

I have been told numerous times that shipping illegals back to their home countries is just like sending them to a Nazi death camp.

Mexico must be like Mordor, only worse.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2026 02:38 PM (n1OCj)

20 I dunno. The way things are going on the UK and Ireland, he may want to wait and apply under a new TPS program as the muslim hoard takes over.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:39 PM (klxjG)

21 Is David Byrne next? We can dream.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 10, 2026 02:40 PM (trQM9)

22 "Ireland must be like, Hell Squared or something. It's Gaza of the North Atlantic."

Well nowadays...Yes. Thank you Commie politicians!

Posted by: purely an academic question at February 10, 2026 02:40 PM (F/35S)

23 Remember yesterday, I mentioned the Fifth Circuit approving Trump's new policy of detailing deportable aliens until they exhaust their last legal challenge? But offering to let them out of detention if they agree to finally get on a plane and GTFO?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM

Man, they get 3 meals a day AND a thorough cleaning!?

Trump's a monster.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:40 PM (zjgNU)

24 WTF is an illegal alien getting a temporary work permit in the first place? We have the most idiotic immigration laws. He’s an illegal. Deport him. Period.

This is like robbing a bank and afterwards going oh let me open a checking account at the bank. See I didn’t rob the bank I just made withdrawal.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 02:41 PM (y6810)

25 I dunno. I thought we said deport all people here illegally. When did we put the imaginary brackets around that? It couldn’t be liberal inventing them. That can’t be.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:41 PM (klxjG)

26 Note to goth Fonzie, it's couldn't care less. You'd think a fancy writer would have caught that.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 10, 2026 02:41 PM (AywZy)

27 "But I put some bullshit slapdash extra credit assignment in the morning grades came out! You can't flunk me!"

Posted by: Alec Leamas at February 10, 2026 02:41 PM (ssz2a)

28 The wife is kinda hot. I’ll give the Mic some credit.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 02:42 PM (y6810)

29
he�s awaiting his case in a detention center.

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

What "case"? Does every illegal alien in detention get to go before a judge, with a taxpayer-supplied defense lawyer, to make a "case"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:44 PM (n7rxJ)

30 I really love Kari Lake. lol.

When a woman calls you a pussy. Lololol.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (klxjG)

31 Did you know that Hispanics are white?

They're from Hispaniola. Which is Spain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

32 25 I dunno. I thought we said deport all people here illegally. When did we put the imaginary brackets around that? It couldn’t be liberal inventing them. That can’t be.
Posted by: Marcus T

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Worse than a liberal, a libertarian.
Goth Fonzie wants NO borders. He is a libertarian-utopianist who wants free movement across borders until all people below his socioeconomic status are poor serfs.

This is just a ploy to get MAGA to hesitate, not understanding that our rejection of illegals has nothing to do with race, and is about economics, costs to society, wages, welfare, culture, ....

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (mymNa)

33 This has to be so frustrating for the amnesty pushers. They finally think they've got us, because we won't be willing to expel the white guy. Our refusal to meet their expectations is driving them batty.

Posted by: Hillary at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (Riz8t)

34 Somehow, over and over again, all these "been here for decades" illegals seem to have done fck-all to become legal.
Despite having multiple opportunities and methods easily available to become legal.

But they really, really want to be part of America.

Just not the part that requires you to follow the rules.

That stupid bullshit is for suckers and losers.
You know, citizens.

But, when they finally, finally get snatched up for their decades-long crime spree, we're supposed to feel sorry for them?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (HXT0k)

35 >> The wife is kinda hot. I’ll give the Mic some credit.

She’s gonna have some free time and a hankering. IM her.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (klxjG)

36 Send them ALL HOME

Yes including the Irish ones.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

37 We have footage of an individual who has gotten to the top of various conservative organizations in order to take them down. He admits he was an informant to the SDNY/FBI.

I don't much mind "informants". If they are advocating illegal acts, they should be reported. Don't the cobs report posts like that in here?
By that token, if this asshole threatened to kill O'Keefe, it is time he was reported to the FBI.

Sidenote, we should assume that the Dems and antifa have many moles in "conservative" orgs. Including the Senate, looking at you Tim Scott.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (gKWVE)

38 I thought we called Gillespie 'Gay Libertarian Fonz wannabe'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)

39 Hello, fellow students!

Posted by: John Kasich at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (Riz8t)

40 what the actual ...

DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (emBoF)

41 11 "Boy Ireland must be like, Hell Squared or something. It's Gaza of the North Atlantic."

IIRC, Ireland, just like everywhere else in the Western world, has its own problems with "refugees".

Posted by: Thrawn at February 10, 2026 02:36 PM (9Ovst)

======

I was technically an illegal immigrant in Italy from 2008-09.

Had a job, got paid under the table.

If the Carabinieri had decided to pay attention to me and deport me? I would have been pretty okay with it. I didn't expect to build a life in Italy while living "in the shadows".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

42 I'm convinced 90% of X accounts aren't real people.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 02:47 PM (y9ksN)

43 32 Worse than a liberal, a libertarian.
Goth Fonzie wants NO borders. He is a libertarian-utopianist who wants free movement across borders until all people below his socioeconomic status are poor serfs.

This is just a ploy to get MAGA to hesitate, not understanding that our rejection of illegals has nothing to do with race, and is about economics, costs to society, wages, welfare, culture, ....

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (mymNa)

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When a Democrat is in charge, it's regulation that's the most important issue. When a Republican is in charge, it's spending that's the most important issue.

When Trump is in charge, it's open borders that's the most important issue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

44 Mexico must be like Mordor, only worse.

it's so awful I go their for vacation

it's corrupt, but then again so are we

looks to me like the main difference is the welfare giveaways

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (emBoF)

45 Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025,

Let him stay but he has to give us his pot o’ gold.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (jbnUc)

46 The wife is kinda hot. I’ll give the Mic some credit.

She’s gonna have some free time and a hankering. IM her.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (klxjG)

'I don't need a baked potato on the nightstand to get it up, baby.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (zZu0s)

47 A "grand slam home run"?

Did he also shoot a swish basket and a field goal score kick?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (sSB0N)

48 I heard that James O'Keefe went undercover (as "James O'Keefe") on a dinner date with the illegal Irishman to prove that the illegal Irishman's marriage was fraudulent.

It was the patriotic thing to do. Plus, the free steak was awesome!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (trQM9)

49 Worse than a liberal, a libertarian.
Goth Fonzie wants NO borders. He is a libertarian-utopianist who wants free movement across borders until all people below his socioeconomic status are poor serfs.

This is just a ploy to get MAGA to hesitate, not understanding that our rejection of illegals has nothing to do with race, and is about economics, costs to society, wages, welfare, culture, ....
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (mymNa)

My favorite is when you confront them with their god, Milton Friedman, saying that you cannot have open borders coexist with a welfare system, they just brush it off.

They insist that once we get fully open borders THEN they'll focus on the welfare system.

(No, they aren't disingenuous, they are actually that stupid and cannot connect that "open borders" means "more votes for the welfare system.")

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (zjgNU)

50 he should claim refugee status since Ireland has become a cross between Bangalore and Karachi these days

Posted by: brak at February 10, 2026 02:49 PM (jGJov)

51 "But he even had a driver's license!"

Yeah, Muhammad Atta had a driver's license as well.

I also like the part where he should get to stay because he "may" apply for asylum.
Asylum from the hellscape shithole that is ... Ireland.

"I was gonna give the money back, I promise: I didn't really mean to rob the bank!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 02:49 PM (HXT0k)

52 Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025,

Let him stay but he has to give us his pot o’ gold.

What about his lucky charms?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 02:49 PM (Riz8t)

53 May I suggest the next “worksite raid” for ICE after Home Depot? How about Irish Pubs?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:49 PM (klxjG)

54 She’s gonna have some free time and a hankering. IM her.

They are at a Patriots game. However hot she is she probably has a Boston accent.

Don't go there...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

55 it's so awful I go their for vacation

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (emBoF)

I think this is missing a period. 🤣

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:50 PM (sSB0N)

56 I never saw the romcom Green Card, where a sham marriage to keep someone in the US turns to love, was it any good?

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:50 PM (gWBY1)

57 Seamus Culleton

==

That's his real name??

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 02:50 PM (g47mK)

58 56 I never saw the romcom Green Card, where a sham marriage to keep someone in the US turns to love, was it any good?

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:50 PM (gWBY1)

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A Peter Weir joint. Minor Weir.

It's nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:50 PM (GBKbO)

59 56 I never saw the romcom Green Card, where a sham marriage to keep someone in the US turns to love, was it any good?

it was cute I guess? I dimly remember it.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (emBoF)

60 "Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, "not even a parking ticket""

Not even a parking ticket? 8 USC 1182 begs to differ, he is committing a felony every day he over stayed his visa.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (0N4FZ)

61
Remember yesterday, I mentioned the Fifth Circuit approving Trump's new policy of detailing deportable aliens until they exhaust their last legal challenge?

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

I gather from the evidence that "their last legal challenge" is theoretically NEVER exhausted.

By the way, that smirking Turkish bitch from Tufts is staying in the US for now thanks to a judge's order. It was DHS that tried to deport her, but I don't get why Rubio can't do it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (n7rxJ)

62 So, I had to take a nap and missed the end of the curling finals. Who won? That Bad Bunny fellow?

Posted by: Confused Old Retured Guy at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (sFNX2)

63 Is Seamus' wife leaving too? Because, if not, she looks available.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (Kmu/P)

64 Willowed Olympics:
Why did Lindsey Vonn compete again this year? She's as narcissistic as Tom Brady. Is the US ski team so pathetic that she's their only shot for a medal? A geriatric skier known to get hurt right before every Olympics. Our best and brightest.

Oh, and US women's hockey is pounding the beaver 2-0!

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (gWBY1)

65 There always after me lucky charms

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (yI5mB)

66 never saw the romcom Green Card

==

Is that the one with Andie MacDowell ?

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)

67 66 never saw the romcom Green Card

==

Is that the one with Andie MacDowell ?

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)

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And Gerard Depardieu.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

68 "Man, they get 3 meals a day AND a thorough cleaning!?
Trump's a monster."

They should get one meal a day (OMAD) and fasting once a week ... For Their Own Good.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2026 02:51 PM (vbXSk)

69 For anyone going "Why did he have a drivers license?" he lived in MA. It's a sanctuary state. Officially, illegals can't get DIs. Unofficially, all bets are off.

Posted by: Gaff at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (EqzMw)

70 62 So, I had to take a nap and missed the end of the curling finals. Who won? That Bad Bunny fellow?

the Swedish brother and sister team narrowly beat the two Corey team (USA)

it was exciting!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (emBoF)

71 Gérard Depardieu. Hardest working man in French cinema. before he turned into Jabba the Hutt

Posted by: brak at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (jGJov)

72 71 Gérard Depardieu. Hardest working man in French cinema. before he turned into Jabba the Hutt

Posted by: brak at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (jGJov)

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Quite good in Manon of the Spring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

73 It's funny, I grew up around a lot of Irish extraction people, and they were all OK. Good peeps. Mostly conservative and rational, productive, and loving the USA and liberty.

But I look at Ireland today, and I kind of understand the English looking down on them -- what a mess. What a bunch of despicable people - loving Gaza, hating MAGA, all in on socialism... they seem deranged. And so fucking hung up on hating the English.

Did all the sane ones emigrate?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (mymNa)

74 I don't know the provenance of "Goth Fonzie" but I read it here first and now it really is a thing, and it's perfect for that effing clown.

All of those cork soakers at "Reason" are nothing but bad faith jagoffs.

Wonder if the Koch's think they're getting their money's worth....

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (Iwv3U)

75 No Irish.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (b4o9z)

76 I had a bit of a shock when my crystal/Gaia worshiping, earth mother, hippie sister got all bent out of shape when we were selling my Mom's house which were were left when she passed away.

WE had gotten an offer from a really nice black couple that I actually liked. I don't really like most people, period.

She was absolutely insistent that we didn't sell it to "those people". I told her it was against the law to discriminate based on skin color and she said it wasn't racism because she didn't want to sell it to Hispanics either.

That gave here a pass in her mind.

Posted by: pawn at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (uvB+6)

77 Seamus Culleton looks like a paddy wanker. I'll bet he likes dick too.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

78 Rectify is the new clarify
--------

I much prefer to be rectified.

Posted by: Jonah G at February 10, 2026 02:53 PM (sSB0N)

79 "You people are racist because you only want brown people deported. Cry about this Irishman!"

"No. Deport him."

"You racist!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

80
I never saw the romcom Green Card, where a sham marriage to keep someone in the US turns to love, was it any good?

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

I thought it was a typically stupid and predictable 1990s romcom.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)

81 Libertarians are just nasty 1960s "Hey man" hippies with a strong streak of racism.

I thought Libertarians just wanted to ingest byproducts of the combustion of the Devil's weed?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (0sNs1)

82 >>Let him stay but he has to give us his pot o’ gold.

And his Lucky Charms.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)

83 14% of the illegals deported are arrested for serious crimes. That is seven out of fifty for assault, rape, murder, killing someone driving drunk. That is a really high number, about 10x the number for the general population.

Slavery is not worth that level of criminal behavior

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (rbvCR)

84 That's his real name??
Posted by: runner

Hey, Culleton Man!

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

85 A 3 score hat trick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (sn5xH)

86 * what rhymes with Seamus ??

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (g47mK)

87 The difference is, identity politics no longer work.

Oh and we do have principals. Unlike the left which has endless fits of rage with zero sanity.

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (61TgR)

88 81 Libertarians are just nasty 1960s "Hey man" hippies with a strong streak of racism.

I thought Libertarians just wanted to ingest byproducts of the combustion of the Devil's weed?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (0sNs1)

======

The Libertarian Party ethos comes down to:

"Conservatives are icky. Democrats, please think I'm cool."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

89 Ten pound sack of potatoes and a one-way ticket to Dublin. Best and final offer.

Posted by: Back to the auld sod, Paddy! at February 10, 2026 02:55 PM (TbWk/)

90 Beyond marrying an American you have to provide proof that it's not a sham. That means family photos with the in-laws during holidays and keeping diaries.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 10, 2026 02:55 PM (wBaIH)

91 So close to St Patrick's day?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 02:55 PM (Kt19C)

92
Yet again, the anti-MAGA gang fails to understand their "enemy."

Clue: We mean what we say.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:55 PM (n7rxJ)

93 Quite good in Manon of the Spring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

Also the Empire Strikes Back. Wasn't as good in A New Hope, though.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:55 PM (zjgNU)

94 You know who else wanted to get rid of some white people?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (sSB0N)

95 If that's really his wife, I wouldn't want to leave either. And going back to Ireland these days? Imagine the US if Cackling Kamala had won. That's the Emerald Island.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (MZ+PY)

96 Nick Gillespie is an insufferable little shit, and this kind of retardation is typical for him.

But... he's right about the flyovers.

I shouldn't be paying money to an exceedingly wealthy for-profit business for the privilege of using our own airspace.

Unconscionable. If I were in charge of this the conversation would go like this:

"We'd like to do a flyover."

"Pay us."

"Do it for free. It's added value for your fans and us."

"Pay us."

"Fine. I'm pre-empting you, closing the airspace, and doing it without your approval. Enjoy halftime, you might want to push back the onfield entertainment a few minutes."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (BI5O2)

97 it really IS Trumpmas every day, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (Cjt/F)

98 92
Yet again, the anti-MAGA gang fails to understand their "enemy."

Clue: We mean what we say.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:55 PM (n7rxJ)

======

"America will be a hellscape with only 150,000,000 people in it!"

"It wasn't."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

99 86 * what rhymes with Seamus ??
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (g47mK)

Heinous? Defame us? Entertain us? Inflame us?

Posted by: Spitballing doesn't rhyme at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (TbWk/)

100 My favorite is when you confront them with their god, Milton Friedman, saying that you cannot have open borders coexist with a welfare system, they just brush it off.

They insist that once we get fully open borders THEN they'll focus on the welfare system.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

--------------
Exactly!

They never fight for reduced welfare state. This gives away the game - they want to stratify the country and think they will always be on top, just like the commies.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (mymNa)

101 Everyone that tried to block that cop car was pear shapped.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (b4o9z)

102 Don't expect this to go anywhere or be remembered, its about a white guy being deported and the narrative demands it is only racists deporting brown people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (PYyV9)

103 I always liked 'The Devils Cabbage' said with an irish or australian accent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (zZu0s)

104 You know what sounds logical when you're high on weed?

EVERYTHING

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (sSB0N)

105 "Alright. We'll give some land to the niggers and the chinks. But we don't want the Irish!"

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

106 The only thing I've ever seen Gérard Depardieu in was that miniseries in the 80s where he played Columbus.

Faye Dunaway was Queen Isabella.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

107 This does remind me how much I still yearn for Kathy Ireland, however. I wonder if she returns to hydrogen squeaky mode in the throes of passion though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (PYyV9)

108 I had a friend living in a US port town that would only date "fresh off the boat" irishmen. Not Irish Americans, nor Americans of Irish descent, only the ones that just got here. She swore they had a different attitude and mindset than the ones born and bred here.

She was also a bisexual Latina. But those native Irish men really luckied her charms for some reason.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (gWBY1)

109 >>*Are you fucking kidding me? What federal law grants anonymity to law enforcement? Hot take: masking = quartering. Where my 3A peeps at?

How do you know they are ICE until they identify themselves?
So you should be able to demand ID of every person you come across...

Posted by: Operator Error at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (YZMsH)

110 >>>Quite good in Manon of the Spring.

He was in Jean de Florette, the first part IIRC

Posted by: brak at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (jGJov)

111 "But we don't want the Irish!"[/]

And no Methodists!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 02:58 PM (PYyV9)

112 I like all the mental contortions the asshole left has to go to in order to decrypt the secret motivations behind support for immigration enforcement.

It's like a reverse Occam's Razor:
Having first discarded the most likely, obvious and reasonable motivation--equal enforcement of all laws--they always land on: It must be racism!!!

Along comes this leather-coat Sherlock gazing through his giant magnifying glass:
"Holmes! A white man! Now we will discover the secret racist motivations these deplorables sought to conceal!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 02:58 PM (HXT0k)

113 So this guy is appealing to the PM of Ireland that he should be allowed to stay in the United States.

Good play, Seamus.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 02:58 PM (RIvkX)

114 Goth Fonzie and his crew of gays and soon to be out of the closet gays don't have actual libertarian "principles." COVID-19 showed them for what they are - junior partners in the ruling class who are much more concerned about having their sense of status demoted by the Left than they are about violations of civil liberties (again, See COVID-19). During COVID it was low status to question the diktats of the government in the grubby hands of Anthony Fauci, so the Reason crowd went along with gross rights violations. That's all these frauds are.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at February 10, 2026 02:58 PM (ssz2a)

115 >>For anyone going "Why did he have a drivers license?" he lived in MA. It's a sanctuary state. Officially, illegals can't get DIs. Unofficially, all bets are off.

Nope. MA passed a law a couple of years ago allowing anyone, regardless of immigration status, to get a drivers license. MA has gone full commie.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 02:58 PM (viF8m)

116 My father was a male man. But I would have loved him every bit as much if she had been a female man.

Posted by: Little Johnny Kasich at February 10, 2026 02:59 PM (9FEtL)

117
Anyway, the Irish Times doesn't seem to know the proper graphic conventions. Seamus should be wearing a sweater and gazing out a window.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:59 PM (n7rxJ)

118 Heritage American. So he means white, yes?

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 02:59 PM (pDt9x)

119 Worse than a liberal, a libertarian.
Goth Fonzie wants NO borders. He is a libertarian-utopianist who wants free movement across borders until all people below his socioeconomic status are poor serfs.

This is just a ploy to get MAGA to hesitate, not understanding that our rejection of illegals has nothing to do with race, and is about economics, costs to society, wages, welfare, culture, ....
Posted by: bob
=======
The entire Reason crew and Cato Institute are infested with aging 90's era hipsters whose vapid thoughts are out of touch with reality. They might as well be dancing around like troons doing the Time Warp in Rocky Horror Picture Show.

All they care about nowadays is getting paid by their sugar daddies for advocating what teh sugar daddies want. Same with NR and the spiraling down the toilet types at Bulshit Bulwark and the Lincoln Man Love Boy Project.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:59 PM (2swu2)

120 110 >>>Quite good in Manon of the Spring.

He was in Jean de Florette, the first part IIRC

Posted by: brak at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (jGJov)

=======

I consider it one work and refer to the whole thing as Manon of the Spring!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

121 So, he paid some THOT to marry him.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 02:59 PM (Y1sOo)

122 The Libertarian Party ethos comes down to:

"Conservatives are icky. Democrats, please think I'm cool."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM

"That's our shtick. They should stay in their lane."
-- GOPe

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 10, 2026 03:00 PM (0sNs1)

123 James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII
2h
We have footage of an individual who has gotten to the top of various conservative organizations in order to take them down. He admits he was an informant to the SDNY/FBI. I confront this individual. He threatened to kill me.
Tune in at 1 PM.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (Hbs7G)

Anglea McArdle, the former Chair of the Libertarian National Committee had a number of feds show up getting into the leadership roles at the state level LP parties. She posted that she was doing a deeper review since the party always seemed snakebit.

I would not be at all surprised at feds getting in control positions with conservative movements

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 03:00 PM (rbvCR)

124 This does remind me how much I still yearn for Kathy Ireland, however. I wonder if she returns to hydrogen squeaky mode in the throes of passion though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Kathy is good people. She's been married to the same guy forever, and a few year ago led the opposition to that horrible abortion law they passed in California.

And she's still a 1.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

125 Who the fuck is Nick Gillespie? Sounds like a wanker.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

126 Toss his Irish ass back to Donegal.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (pDt9x)

127 So, he paid some THOT to marry him.

Hey, THOTs gotta eat, too

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (PYyV9)

128 122 The Libertarian Party ethos comes down to:

"Conservatives are icky. Democrats, please think I'm cool."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM

"That's our shtick. They should stay in their lane."
-- GOPe

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 10, 2026 03:00 PM (0sNs1)

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Nah. The GOPe is "I fucking hate conservatives and take Democrat dick in my ass to make me feel better about saying shit I hate at election time."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

129 The Libertarian Party ethos comes down to:
"Conservatives are icky. Democrats, please think I'm cool."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM

It is cute that you think the Libertarians have a single unifying ethos. Half of them think Rothbard was a traitor.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (rbvCR)

130 This marriage sounds an awful lot like "The Proposal." Great movie, by the way.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not The Official AoSHQ Movie Critic at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (Wt5PA)

131 Why is it taking 5 months to get his pasty white ass out of here ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (HbB1p)

132 Did all the sane ones emigrate?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM (mymNa)

The Old Country looks much better from an ocean away.
Not exclusive to the Irish.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (Hx0tZ)

133 130 This marriage sounds an awful lot like "The Proposal." Great movie, by the way.
Posted by: pookysgirl, not The Official AoSHQ Movie Critic at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (Wt5PA)

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this story

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (HbB1p)

134 OMG. ITS LIKE YOU PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SEEN THE PROPOSAL. 👫

Posted by: Liberal Woman Hysteria at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (6rdCx)

135 I hope John Kasich is tweeting to stay relevant for a 2028 run. He's so pathetic it has to be a troll job, right?

Posted by: Wally at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (65cLN)

136
Don't expect this to go anywhere or be remembered, its about a white guy being deported and the narrative demands it is only racists deporting brown people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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Oh this one carries its own burial order thanks to the way it defeats the raayyciss argument.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (n7rxJ)

137 131 Why is it taking 5 months to get his pasty white ass out of here ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (HbB1p)

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He didn't sign the waiver and probably tried to fight it legally.

Average deportation time is down to about 45 days now.

He just ended up wasting, most likely, tens of thousands of dollars to fight the inevitable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

138 131 Why is it taking 5 months to get his pasty white ass out of here ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (HbB1p)

Could be worse. Could be Abrego Garcia. He got untossed.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (pDt9x)

139 This marriage sounds an awful lot like "The Proposal." Great movie, by the way.
Posted by: pookysgirl, not The Official AoSHQ Movie Critic at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (Wt5PA)

NOOOOOO. NO IT'S NOT.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (BI5O2)

140 While it popped back up in my brain... Billie Eilish is of Irish descent. When she performed in Ireland last year, she said it was touching to see so many white people.

"As you guys know, I'm Irish, so it's cool to be here." ... "Obviously, I am not from here, but it's really cool to come somewhere and, like, everybody looks exactly like you, and you're all just as pasty as me, I love it". She added that it made her feel "so seen".

White supremacist! It's not ok to be white! Burn the witch!

(She was cracking a joke. But the woke rules are the woke rules!)

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 03:03 PM (gWBY1)

141 So, he paid some THOT to marry him.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 02:59 PM (Y1sOo)

Listen.........

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:03 PM (sSB0N)

142 what rhymes with Seamus ??"

Ah, "dickhead"?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 03:04 PM (XuXeR)

143 The GOPe is "I fucking hate conservatives and take Democrat dick in my ass to make me feel better about saying shit I hate at election time."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

I mean, if the shoe fits

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:04 PM (sSB0N)

144 He was ordered to leave and said "F*** you."

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Sounds like the Super Bowl halftime show.

Alternate Headline: "Texas Man" Ordered Released From ICE Detention and To Be Provided Free Margaritas for Life by US District Clown Judge in 5 .. 4 .. 3 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 03:04 PM (nXRBt)

145 That's all these frauds are.
Posted by: Alec Leamas

I am amused that one of Insty's vapid law prof friends who is still at Reason. When he comes onto Insty, increasingly rarely these days, he posts the most brain dead unaware parody of a libertarian stuck in the 90's so that the regulars there point and laugh at his spiel in the comments.

His particular grifting gig is trying to eliminate all zoning laws so that massive apartment complexes could be set up in quiet and peaceful neighborhoods undoubtedly exposing residences and their schools to diversity in all its vibrance.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:04 PM (2swu2)

146 Could be worse. Could be Abrego Garcia. He got untossed.
Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (pDt9x)

But the Maryland Dad is Hispanic.. This is a white guy....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 03:04 PM (HbB1p)

147 Why did John Kasich use a baseball metaphor to praise Bad Bunny. Is it because.. he's Puerto Rican???

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 03:04 PM (Sy6m/)

148
This does remind me how much I still yearn for Kathy Ireland, however. I wonder if she returns to hydrogen squeaky mode in the throes of passion though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 02:57 PM (PYyV9)

I can tell you from personal knowledge that when you wake her up at 3am, her voice is throaty and sleepy. Not squeaky at all.

Just like anyone else who's woken up by their burglar alarm at 3am and having to talk to Cur and give her security code when he's working for her alarm company in their monitoring station....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 03:04 PM (y9nCu)

149 Nick Gillespie always looks like he has a woodchuck on his head. You're bald libertarian boy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 03:05 PM (yI5mB)

150 Deport every last person who is here illegally.

Their kids, their dogs and their cats too.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 03:05 PM (W2Pud)

151
"Like this irishman who has been in the country for 20 years with a valid work permit"

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What was "valid" about the work permit? Just because some bureaucrat stamped it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:05 PM (n7rxJ)

152 get his pasty white ass out of here ?"

Not!

/taint tanning club

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 03:05 PM (XuXeR)

153
Kathy is good people. She's been married to the same guy forever, and a few year ago led the opposition to that horrible abortion law they passed in California.

And she's still a 1.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:00 PM

She was my friend's babysitter.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 10, 2026 03:05 PM (AywZy)

154 This Massachusetts Man (TM) should consider himself lucky he didn't get to experience a Bill "The Butcher" Irish welcome. This guy should be perp walked in chains through airport on his way back to Ireland.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:06 PM (8ZVmQ)

155 "Although the judge noted numerous irregularities on Ice’s court documents, she ultimately sided with the agency." Fucking excuse me?! They falsified their evidence, and he got a "so sorry too bad", AND there's no recourse??

tldr: married to a us citizen, has a valid work permit, was picked up by ice and shipped to buffalo, pressured to sign deportation docs against his will, ice agents the forged his signature, and now he’s stuck because the courts cant decide if ice is actually lying

"See! We're not racist!" - ICE, probably. Immigration in this country is a profoundly broken system and instead of actually providing substantive change, this administration is just disappearing people and violently reacting to protesters.

The goal is to scare citizens, including white citizens, into compliance. It's all absolutely barbaric.

Irish embassy should be making a stink about this

The article says he been offered to be deported voluntarily, and he keeps declining. What's the option for ICE here? Just release him?

Yes, for fuck's sake! he took the steps to become legal, is documented and has a current work visa!!!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 03:06 PM (JCZqz)

156 Yeah don’t care what color they are, an illegal is an illegal. Toss them out.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 03:06 PM (pDt9x)

157 Kathy is good people. She's been married to the same guy forever, and a few year ago led the opposition to that horrible abortion law they passed in California.

Yeah she's genuinely a good person and fairly smart, especially for a model. She used her money wisely and is quite well set up as well. And it pretty clear that she and her husband love each other very much and I wish them all the best even is she should have fallen for me instead.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:06 PM (PYyV9)

158
the 'heritage American' types

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Who's he quoting?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (n7rxJ)

159 Finally, the damn is breaking. The CCP is been funding leftist agitators in the US for a long time.

@FoxNews

>>Investigators say Singham sits at the center of a network that allegedly uses nonprofits to produce research, media, and social messaging that later fuels coordinated protests in the U.S.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (viF8m)

160 131 Why is it taking 5 months to get his pasty white ass out of here ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Becuz appeals but the district judge's decision above is pretty clear. And a recent fun sue and settle agreement bans US government from paroling illegals into the country for fifteen years.

Trump's immigration people and their DoJ lawyers are doing yeoman work in the courts and winning all kinds of precedents that will force rebel district courts to knuckle under.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (2swu2)

161 I want to know what super-valuable, job-no-one-else-will-do that mandates he stay in the US.

I bet he was on the cusp of curing cancer AND solving world hunger before he was violently and rudely abducted by ICE.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (HXT0k)

162 I mean, if the shoe fits"

Wow. I mean "ouch"

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (XuXeR)

163 She was my friend's babysitter.

What a story to tell about your childhood

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (PYyV9)

164 She was my friend's babysitter.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Is your friend male or female?

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

165 135 I hope John Kasich is tweeting to stay relevant for a 2028 run. He's so pathetic it has to be a troll job, right?
Posted by: Wally at February 10, 2026 03:02 PM (65cLN)

I think Kasich just likes the humiliation. An elderly white guy like him - so white that vanilla ice cream is spicy by comparison - professing his admiration of some ethnic weirdo who despises him is like wearing a cockcage for public display. He probably has one of those hippy bracelets with the letters spelling out "Choke me harder, daddy."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (9FEtL)

166 "anti-Racist" Libertarian Nick Gillespie Says We Shouldn't Deport Him, Because He's White Like Us

Nick Gillespie,
As a 100% White Guy Chicagoan, permit me to say this to Seamus Culleton:

Na, Na, Na, Na,
Na, Na, Na, Na,
Hey, Hey, Hey
Goodbye

Posted by: Chuck C at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (D0HYP)

167 There once was a man named Seamus
Who had no respect for his penis
He married a thot
To share his sad lot
And now he'll be tossed like detritus !

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (g47mK)

168 Listen, just bounce the guy, get all of these goofballs out of the country whether they are a Mic or a S**c.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (XV/Pl)

169 155 tldr: married to a us citizen, has a valid work permit, was picked up by ice and shipped to buffalo, pressured to sign deportation docs against his will, ice agents the forged his signature, and now he’s stuck because the courts cant decide if ice is actually lying

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 03:06 PM (JCZqz)

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There is a visa process for marrying an American citizen by a non-citizen.

You have to go back to your home country and apply for a spousal visa. It's shall issue, and the administration just grants it once the marriage is proven. If the marriage is real, the actual process is fairly immaterial outside of the going back home for a couple of months thing.

It's not automatically given. In fact, not getting it doesn't shield you from deportation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

170
So, he paid some THOT to marry him.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 02:59 PM (Y1sOo)

Probably one of the regulars at the Irish pub he bartends at.

Every Irish pub I'd ever walked into had Irish illegal aliens working behind the bar who were open about being illegals. Almost proud of it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (y9nCu)

171 Could be worse. Could be Abrego Garcia. He got untossed.

Is his status final? What grounds did a judge argue he can stay in the US?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

172 Investigators say Singham sits at the center of a network that allegedly uses nonprofits to produce research, media, and social messaging that later fuels coordinated protests in the U.S.

And this is why the left is screaming PEDO and yelling about PEDO PROTECTORS and rioting in the streets. they are fighting back with all the weapons they have, including bullets and bombs, against being stripped of their entire power structure.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (PYyV9)

173 For anyone going "Why did he have a drivers license?" he lived in MA. It's a sanctuary state. Officially, illegals can't get DIs. Unofficially, all bets are off.

Posted by: Gaff at February 10, 2026 02:52 PM

connecticut started giving drivers licenses to illegals back in 2013 when we lived there. It was supposed to bring them out of the shadows and let them be able to function in society without fear of legal consequences.

It wasn't 10 minutes after the first illegal got their DL that they started voting in elections.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (0N4FZ)

174 Why did John Kasich use a baseball metaphor to praise Bad Bunny. Is it because.. he's Puerto Rican???
Posted by: SciVo

He's just mailing it in.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (sn5xH)

175 164 She was my friend's babysitter.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Is your friend male or female?
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

Female and she has a sister that's two years younger.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (AywZy)

176 Some asshole on door camera with a gun hanging on Guthries door.
Totally masked up.
If he is an illegal this kidnapping story will disappear.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (jZ3ZM)

177 155 The article says he been offered to be deported voluntarily, and he keeps declining. What's the option for ICE here? Just release him?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 03:06 PM (JCZqz)

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It's the forcibily deport him and bar him from re-entry to the US ever again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

178 "He was in Jean de Florette, the first part IIRC"

I think he died at the end of "Jean". In the sequel, "Manon" his hot daughter torments her dead father's despicable frog killers until they off themselves.

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (sFNX2)

179 Oh, and impound all of his US owned assets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

180 I think this poofter's case was a coordinated op to trick MAGA into opposing deportation for a white guy. The left would then scream, "we told you MAGA just hates brown people!"

Of all the people in the country in ICE detention, somehow this gay leprechaun gets elevated to national news? Come on now. The left was looking for some (very) white guy facing deportation to highlight his case, hoping MAGA would step on their dicks.

But MAGA wants all these illegal parasites out of the country. Black, brown, white -- it don't matter. GTFO!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

181 In all honestly putting aside what a lousy choice for husband I'd be for Kathy Ireland, she is one of those girls so incandescently gorgeous it would be honestly very tough to be around her too long. Like a moth flying to the sun.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:11 PM (PYyV9)

182 171 Could be worse. Could be Abrego Garcia. He got untossed.

Is his status final? What grounds did a judge argue he can stay in the US?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

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Latest I see is that he had his habeus petition granted, and Xenis put up some order protecting him from deportation while the process continues to play out.

Oh, and DHS has forcibly deported 700,000 people since the end of last January.

Garcia is a sideshow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

183 All these illegal wankers make the German POW who evaded capture for 40 years look like a real law abiding American.

George Gaertner had been captured in North Africa in 43. He escaped in Sept 1945 fearing he would be deported to his hometown which was now part of Communist Poland. Finally in 1984 with the threat of divorce from his wife he finally confessed to her his real past. But because he had been a POW and his escape happened after the war ended, the FBI decided not to prosecute him. In 2009 Gaertner finally became a US citizen. He passed away in 2013 in the US.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 03:11 PM (2GVsD)

184 Oh, and impound all of his US owned assets."

I thought we already covered his lucky charms

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 03:11 PM (XuXeR)

185 135 I hope John Kasich is tweeting to stay relevant for a 2028 run. He's so pathetic it has to be a troll job, right?
Posted by: Wally
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Nah, I think he is just missing the limelight of attention and withdrawal from losing any sort of power. A lot of politicians are attention whores just like Hollyweird. If they are not in the limelight, then they get down and depressed.

These are by and large broken people as a class and many have to take the ticket in order to stay relevant just like Hollyweird. It really is Hollywood for ugly people.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:11 PM (2swu2)

186 Oh, and impound all of his US owned assets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

Lad, you will take this here empty bottle of Jameson's from my cold dead hands, you will!

Posted by: Seamus at February 10, 2026 03:11 PM (g47mK)

187 180
But MAGA wants all these illegal parasites out of the country. Black, brown, white -- it don't matter. GTFO!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Without him, where will America go to get Guinness from a tap?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

188 I am of 100% Irish extraction and have been there several times. I have exactly zero fucks to give for somebody who probably looks a lot like me, who cheated our system for two decades, and is getting deported back to a lovely country that invented whiskey and brews a proper beer.

Posted by: BrianOnTheBay at February 10, 2026 03:12 PM (lhcSJ)

189 The Bad Bunny propaganda event was produced by Jay-Z. Jay-Z started producing the Super Bowl half time shows in 2019 and a has a contract through 2029 or 2030. It seems reasonable to expect more of the same type of cultural enrichment in the future.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:12 PM (8ZVmQ)

190 Why did John Kasich use a baseball metaphor to praise Bad Bunny. Is it because.. he's Puerto Rican???

He probably asked ChatGTP to write him a tweet praising a singer that was at a sporting event

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:12 PM (PYyV9)

191 Abrego Garcia is the laser pointer while everyone else gets deported.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 03:12 PM (2GVsD)

192 I don't know nuttin from nuttin, but if he's married to a US citizen (albeit it could be argued as shady) now, there's his Golden Willy Wonka Ticket. Incidentally, my neighbors are from Germany. They've been here about 7 years while he worked at BMW. During that time, they went through the proper process and obtained green cards to permanently reside here. Why couldn't this guy have worked out his immigration red tape in 20 years' time? Sympathy? Little to none. Ah, heck: none.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 03:13 PM (qBdHI)

193 191 Abrego Garcia is the laser pointer while everyone else gets deported.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 03:12 PM (2GVsD)

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A quality analogy.

Buy yourself a new plane model in celebration!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

194
he took the steps to become legal, is documented and has a current work visa!!!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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And I took the steps to get rich. Now why hasn't the bank transferred a million dollars into my account?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:13 PM (n7rxJ)

195 think Kasich just likes the humiliation. An elderly white guy like him - so white that vanilla ice cream is spicy by comparison - professing his admiration of some ethnic weirdo who despises him is like wearing a cockcage for public display. He probably has one of those hippy bracelets with the letters spelling out "Choke me harder, daddy."
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At his age, he has to go for increasing levels of humiliation in a desperate bid for tumescence.

Posted by: I saw desperate bid for Tumescence open for the wiggles at February 10, 2026 03:14 PM (6rdCx)

196 George Gaertner had been captured in North Africa in 43. He escaped in Sept 1945 fearing he would be deported to his hometown which was now part of Communist Poland. Finally in 1984 with the threat of divorce from his wife he finally confessed to her his real past. But because he had been a POW and his escape happened after the war ended, the FBI decided not to prosecute him. In 2009 Gaertner finally became a US citizen. He passed away in 2013 in the US.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Wow, that's quite the story, Anna. Thanks for sharing that.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:14 PM (77rzZ)

197 There is a visa process for marrying an American citizen by a non-citizen.

You have to go back to your home country and apply for a spousal visa. It's shall issue, and the administration just grants it once the marriage is proven. If the marriage is real, the actual process is fairly immaterial outside of the going back home for a couple of months thing.
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I think there is also some sort of length of the marriage requirement.
And also a sort of probation, like I think they have to stay married for 2 years after the visa. Or maybe longer, IDK.
I also think you grant them the right to randomly show up at your home to prove the marriage.

Despite being the plot of many a H-wood production, they're pretty good at keeping marriage visa fraud from happening.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:14 PM (HXT0k)

198
I don't know nuttin from nuttin, but if he's married to a US citizen (albeit it could be argued as shady) now, there's his Golden Willy Wonka Ticket.

Posted by: Lady in Black

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No. It doesn't guarantee anything.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:14 PM (n7rxJ)

199 I never understand the " but he/she has been here 20 years" defense. That only makes it worse.

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2026 03:14 PM (YwEeS)

200 Oh, and DHS has forcibly deported 700,000 people since the end of last January.

Garcia is a sideshow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

People should consider it more like a war, deporting particular assholes may be a battle lost time to time but the deportations move on and the precedents are being created at the appellate level to expedite the removals beyond resistance judges' abilities to stop it.

And by the way, Boasberg's rulings, aka demands, to bring the Venezuelans deported under the Alien Enemies Act and to expedite due process is being defied by the Trump admin.

This is teeing up an repeat of the Alien Enemies Act at Scotus revisit and I think Boasberg is going to get a chapped ass from that.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:15 PM (2swu2)

201 Irish embassy should be making a stink about this

The article says he been offered to be deported voluntarily, and he keeps declining. What's the option for ICE here? Just release him?

Yes, for fuck's sake! he took the steps to become legal, is documented and has a current work visa!!!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 03:06 PM (JCZqz)
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Screw sending him to Ireland. I bet we could add another $10K to the bill and ship his ass to El Salvador.

Posted by: mrp at February 10, 2026 03:15 PM (rj6Yv)

202 "Live here illegally for two decades" is the first of the steps one takes to live here legally?

Huh.

I mean, I know the law is a ass and all, but that still seems strange to me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:15 PM (06Hmj)

203 Deport him to London. That would be fun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:15 PM (06Hmj)

204 I don't know nuttin from nuttin, but...
Posted by: Lady in Black

Nutting from nutting? Sounds awesome, or really painful. Tell me more!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 10, 2026 03:16 PM (JCZqz)

205 That's a fine working family there. Hands off and give them more aid. /jk

It's now wall to wall in this country, probably the East and West Coasts in particular.

More examples: A New Jersey shop owner or resident, such as in cases involving Ming Xi Zhang or the Emanet family (who, bless their hearts, look to have had an autistic son born in the US), who overstays a visa for 20 years faces mandatory removal proceedings, 10-year inadmissibility bars, and potential criminal charges for violating immigration law.

ICE often targets such sorry individuals, even those with community support, leading to detention and possible deportation.
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Locally, "associates" with children and/or grandchildren are marrying felon material men with records of not just decades long overstays in the US but also theft*, fleeing across country, gun and dope stops and charges, and more.

But they believe in decency and, after all, we're a nation of immigrants.

(Allegedly, the men had been hungry, or the police stopped the wrong guy, or picked up the wrong person. They wind up sitting in metal health day care to avoid ICE until legal aid comes.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 03:16 PM (NFX2v)

206 201 Irish embassy should be making a stink about this

The article says he been offered to be deported voluntarily, and he keeps declining. What's the option for ICE here? Just release him?

Yes, for fuck's sake! he took the steps to become legal, is documented and has a current work visa!!!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 03:06 PM (JCZqz)

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Why would Ireland object to taking back one of their great, law-abiding, business building citizenry?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

207 Hey California Morons (first, you have my condolences)....my question:

Is Steve Hilton the real deal? The guy says all the right things, and he's got a literal Trump card. When the Minnesota fraud popped up on the radar, he took the initiative and immediately set up a tip line and claims that just through that, they think they've documented over $250 Billion in fraud (and he isn't even in office). If the timing works out California votes in May, and if the fraud is nailed down in the meantime, he gains a resonating campaign issue across the state.

I had heard of the guy before, but didn't know he was a Brit. California only votes for Republicans if they have a unique quality....like a weight lifter that can't even pronounce the name of the state properly.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 03:16 PM (dIske)

208 Your honor, my client has been robbing liquor stores for twenty years, you can't convict him now!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:16 PM (06Hmj)

209 Kasich features in one of my all time favoritest tweets.

https://x.com/i/status/991880567057764358

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:16 PM (BI5O2)

210 George Gaertner was not an illegal alien because he was brought here as a POW, so he didn't illegally enter the US

Posted by: Chuck C at February 10, 2026 03:16 PM (D0HYP)

211 USA scores its third goal on the Beavers by shoving the puck over the goal line in what is best called on orgy of bodies in the crease. The Beavers lost the challenge and were assessed a penalty for being dicks. 18:42 2nd.

USA 3
Canada 0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:17 PM (8ZVmQ)

212 He could have pled his case from Ireland instead of being detained.

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2026 03:17 PM (YwEeS)

213 “Irish need not apply.”

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 10, 2026 03:17 PM (FUi+p)

214 Not defending Nick but things were so lax for so long (before Obama and Biden) that negligence was almost the norm. I know a guy, been here since he was a baby, no accent, his parents have green cards, he screwed up in high school and never straightened it out.

He's as American as apple pie, worked - good job, married a friend, has a child Nobody Knew - he never thought about it UNTIL he got a traffic ticket and they ran a check BINGO!

Here's a kicker. His mom went with him to Mexico to help him become oriented to the culture.
Mel Brooks, where are you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:17 PM (y79kU)

215 "Live here illegally for two decades" is the first of the steps one takes to live here legally?

yeah I cannot figure out how people think this is some sort of compelling argument. "But he broke the law for 20 straight years!" Yeah, that makes it even worse, dude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:18 PM (PYyV9)

216 199 I never understand the " but he/she has been here 20 years" defense. That only makes it worse.
Posted by: steevy
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Because it is an emo argument, not one based on actual law or logic. The dude is also a liar based on the judge's ruling in his case. He claims he was not served and that was not his signature on a form and the evidence clearly points otherwise.

My guess is he is in fact a useless lying pos wanker that got here illegally, stayed here illegally, and either did identity theft to work, worked off the books with no taxes, or collected welfare illegally.

Send him back the Ireland COD.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:18 PM (2swu2)

217 The Guthrie suspect when caught will contest Google providing the video of him based on expectation of privacy.

Posted by: Unkaren at February 10, 2026 03:18 PM (cDrfF)

218 Like, from my understanding, an immigrant getting married to a citizen is basically presumed to be a fraud.

And the law places multiple burden on the couple to prove it's not.

Almost to the point that it's easier to just apply for citizenship without relying on the marriage.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:18 PM (HXT0k)

219 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 03:04 PM (y9nCu)

You worked for her alarm company and didn't.... nevermind

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:19 PM (sSB0N)

220 209 Kasich features in one of my all time favoritest tweets.

https://x.com/i/status/991880567057764358
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:16 PM (BI5O2)

Bill Kristol looks like the journey to Mordor was really hard on him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 03:19 PM (9FEtL)

221 Jay-Z started producing the Super Bowl half time shows in 2019 and a has a contract through 2029 or 2030. It seems reasonable to expect more of the same type of cultural enrichment in the future.
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Robert Kraft introd him to Goodell. This was on the heels of the not drafting Kapernick bullshit. The goal was to have the half time shows do outreach. Of course you are turning production over to a horrible person. Also Dan Snyder blackmail powerpoint leading to leaked NFL emails, mostly blowing up on Grudin. But no, billionarres dont do weird sex stuff like pimp out their cheerleading squad.....

Posted by: I saw desperate bid for Tumescence open for the wiggles at February 10, 2026 03:19 PM (6rdCx)

222 Your honor, my client has been robbing liquor stores for twenty years, you can't convict him now!

Exactly, what kind of argument is that to try??? Its only worse, not better. Every day he is here compounds his lawbreaking. Saying "well he didn't break any other laws significantly all that time" is not a defense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:19 PM (PYyV9)

223
I don't get these driver's licenses for illegals. Even in California it's theoretically illegal, per the Real ID Act.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:19 PM (n7rxJ)

224 What I really resent about Goth Fonzie's tweet is the insinuation that the Irish are white!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 03:20 PM (9FEtL)

225 I just see the list of names that Massie got unredacted from the Epstein files and outside of Epstein and Maxwell its a bunch of people I've never heard of - not pols, not celebs.

Are these other Epstein fixers like Sarah Kellen?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

226 Sorry, Pookygirl. I missed your question last thread.

Forgive my ignorance, but who is Wexner?
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to be put some knowledge at February 10, 2026 02:21 PM (Wt5PA)

Billionaire businessman - Bath & Body Works, The Limited, Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret, etc.

Epstein was his "financial manager" for about 20 years. There was some hinky goings on with a house he owned on the upper east side and Epstein.

Posted by: Ann at February 10, 2026 03:21 PM (w9jrX)

227 At the White House Religious Liberties Commission meeting this morning, one of the attendees, Carrie Prejean Boller, aggressively defended Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson while confronting Seth Dillon

Boller, who said she watches Owens everyday, demanded that Dillon stop calling Owens an "antisemite". She also wore a pin of the U.S. flag and the Palestinian flag.
. . .
Boller: "I don't know why you keep bringing her up and Tucker"

Dillon: "Well, because they're the two most famous antisemites" (crowd cheers)

Dillon explained that Owens "goes far beyond not merely supporting Zionism", noting that she often denigrates Jews directly

Dillon later asks Boller if she thinks anything Owens has said is antisemitic

Boller responds: "No I don't. ... I have not heard one thing out of her mouth that I would say is antisemitic"

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Not one damn antisemitic thing!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 03:21 PM (J+Psw)

228 My guess is he is in fact a useless lying pos wanker that got here illegally, stayed here illegally, and either did identity theft to work, worked off the books with no taxes, or collected welfare illegally.
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Again: what job was the work permit for?

Tell us what valuable contribution he was making to the fabric of America.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:22 PM (HXT0k)

229 I'm really beginning to hate Lolbertarians. Especially Massie...he turned out to be a real douchebag.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 10, 2026 03:22 PM (EXiAQ)

230 I met Nick Gillespie, not a Libertarian, just a garden variety twat.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 10, 2026 03:22 PM (Seukk)

231 FWIW, here is the complete text, not the meaningless snippets of the habeas ruling deporting the Irish asshole Culleton.

https://tinyurl.com/Culleton-Deportation-Ruling

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:22 PM (2swu2)

232 Almost to the point that it's easier to just apply for citizenship without relying on the marriage.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:18 PM (HXT0k)

BiL spent a disgusting amount of time with and money on lawyers and trips to go get interviewed by whatever agents they are when he married my sister.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:23 PM (06Hmj)

233 The Original Kasich Patch doll but available now with woke insanity module.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2026 03:23 PM (xvV+O)

234 Keep that antisemitism out yo mouf

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:23 PM (sSB0N)

235 I also think you grant them the right to randomly show up at your home to prove the marriage.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:14 PM

Show us the bedsheets!

Posted by: INS at February 10, 2026 03:23 PM (jc0TO)

236 There used to be this website/community called visajourney.com that would help people with the US visa and immigration process. I used it when I was getting the fiancee visa for my now wife in 2006. They had forums going back to the late 90s about people getting deported for random crap. A lot of the fiance/marriage issues were like this guys situation. Overstayed visa and never made it legal. Holy cow would that be easy to fix with a competent attorney. The only issue would be that he would have to go back to ireland for some time.

Posted by: mishdog at February 10, 2026 03:23 PM (sqiOS)

237 230 I met Nick Gillespie, not a Libertarian, just a garden variety twat.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 10, 2026 03:22 PM (Seukk)

Any pundit with a gimmick is a twat by default.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:24 PM (06Hmj)

238 Roger Goodell.does not get the negative attention he richly desrves.

Posted by: I saw desperate bid for Tumescence open for the wiggles at February 10, 2026 03:24 PM (6rdCx)

239 Kick them all out; black, brown, red, green, yellow and white.

Posted by: Purple People Eater at February 10, 2026 03:24 PM (TmfuF)

240 Tell us what valuable contribution he was making to the fabric of America.

Probably not an aspiring rapper, although House of Pain...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:25 PM (PYyV9)

241 199 I never understand the " but he/she has been here 20 years" defense. That only makes it worse.
Posted by: steevy
===

Agree.

I've been raping and murdering for over 20 years. I should be allowed to continue raping and murdering because of my long standing illegal actions that have not been punished.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2026 03:25 PM (xvV+O)

242 Next Week's News:

"Ireland demands extradition of their national being held by ICE as he is wanted in the Republic of Ireland for a string of crimes in the early 2000's"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:25 PM (06Hmj)

243 Whatever Goodell's problem is he's no Bud Faggot Selig

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:25 PM (sSB0N)

244 If you actually believed the things that big L Libertarians claim to believe you'd want an electorate that would vote for them

Yeah fine you believe people have the right to cross borders but since you aren't an idiot you know that in every western country that has had massive immigration the immigrants vote for an anti-libertarian political platform.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

245 This is an...interesting graph:

@PpollingNumbers
Money is the one thing Republicans won't be short on heading into the midterms, they're outraising Democrats and sitting on a massive cash advantage (NYT)

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/
status/2021309176169791787

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

246

Again: what job was the work permit for?

Tell us what valuable contribution he was making to the fabric of America.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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He got the work permit in 2025 upon applying for green card status. His entry visa twenty years ago would have been something else and it explicitly did not allow contesting his deportation by law if he overstayed his 90 day original visa.

Read the habeas ruling link I posted above. It has the details and the guy is a lying pos that we simply do not need here.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (2swu2)

247 What I really resent about Goth Fonzie's tweet is the insinuation that the Irish are white!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 03:20 PM

They're honorary whites, like Poles.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (jc0TO)

248 the real reason this leprechaun is being deported is he won't give us his pot-o-gold.

Out! Ye deceitful bastard!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (HXT0k)

249
Hey California Morons (first, you have my condolences)....my question:

Is Steve Hilton the real deal?

Posted by: Orson

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

Probably, but he has the personality of a shortbread cookie and he would be running against 1) a loud-mouthed overweight woman, 2) some Hispanic, 3) Eric Swalwell (now endorsed by Adam Schiff), or 4) someone even more dishonest and "marginalized."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (n7rxJ)

250 Despite being the plot of many a H-wood production, they're pretty good at keeping marriage visa fraud from happening.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:14 PM (HXT0k)

That's the ironic thing about "The Proposal." Margaret actually admits that the whole thing is a sham in front of God, Andrew's family, and the immigration official. And then, of course, Andrew's rant at her afterwards is so epic.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not The Official AoSHQ Movie Critic at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (Wt5PA)

251 I know it doesn't fit this illegal, but...we do we even deport rapists? So they can rape more in their homeland, til they get back here to rape some more,the next time a dem prez is in office? What is wrong with jailtime for violent illegals?

Posted by: zigggggy at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (EDeJ/)

252 This is even more retarded than those police videos of trespassing arrests.

You need to leave the property.
No.
Leave the property now, or you're be placed under arrest.
No.
You're now under arrest.
Okay, okay, I'm going....hey, why are you grabbing me?!? Help!!!!

Because this guy still hasn't reached the last stage where, once caught, he retroactively tries to self-deport.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (JCZqz)

253 Hitler was an immigrant

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (sSB0N)

254 With all the discussion was his occupation ever mentioned?

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (cwGMH)

255 >> Julio Rosas
@Julio_Rosas11
Rep. LaMonica McIver asks Acting ICE Director Lyons:

"How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"

Lyons: "I'm not going to entertain that question."

"Of course not. Do you think you're going to hell?"

When called out by Chairman Garbarino, McIver defended her questions.

"Mr. Chairman, I'm just asking a question. You guys are always talking about religion and the Bible..."

Democrats will even malign God. They have no shame.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (hLZfT)

256 245 This is an...interesting graph:

@PpollingNumbers
Money is the one thing Republicans won't be short on heading into the midterms, they're outraising Democrats and sitting on a massive cash advantage (NYT)

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/
status/2021309176169791787
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=========
What will be interesting is how Act Blue contributions are up or down to launder funds from shady locations or to avoid contribution limits. Ironically, it appears that teh GOP started doing that shit too with WinRed for specific individuals like Lady Lindsay.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (2swu2)

257 I've been raping and murdering for over 20 years. I should be allowed to continue raping and murdering because of my long standing illegal actions that have not been punished.

Hot Damn! I like rape!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (TmfuF)

258 "Okay, we'll take the Ni@@ers and the Chicks, but not the Irish!"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (qFwJc)

259 Kick them all out; black, brown, red, green, yellow and white.
Posted by: Purple People Eater

Well played.

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (5ClO2)

260 251 I know it doesn't fit this illegal, but...we do we even deport rapists? So they can rape more in their homeland, til they get back here to rape some more,the next time a dem prez is in office? What is wrong with jailtime for violent illegals?

Posted by: zigggggy at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (EDeJ/)

=====

I'd rather not pay for their housing.

Also, "We can't do this because Democrats will undo it," is just so deeply uninteresting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

261 Some of the funnier ones would be people panic posting about crimes! they had committed and asking if that would prevent them from getting a green card. German guy " I'm here on a fiance visa and I was arrested for wreckless driving and then I was arrested for running a red light on a suspended license. Will I still get a green card?" At the time (2007ish) I thought that would be a slam dunk NO....but now that German guy maybe a politician or CDL holder here....damn.

Posted by: mishdog at February 10, 2026 03:28 PM (sqiOS)

262 I don't even see why we should permit marriage to non-US citizen. If your so hot for foreign ass that you can't even wait for it to become American, go to whatever Hibernian holler he lives in, and see if you can pry him off his jar of poteen.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)

263 I don't get these driver's licenses for illegals. Even in California it's theoretically illegal, per the Real ID Act.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

As I understand matters, states are free to issue non-Real ID DLs that are only legal in the issuing state. These state DLs are accepted as government issued IDs for just about everything including voting. It is the least we can do for our newly arrived American citizens.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:28 PM (8ZVmQ)

264 206. Why would Ireland object to taking back one of their great, law-abiding, business building citizenry?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook

CBS, 2025, 'Irish, undocumented, and unsure of their future in Trump's America.'

But why should they skate, as do the Dreamers?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 03:28 PM (NFX2v)

265 Democrats will even malign God. They have no shame.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (hLZfT)

Didn't they boo God?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:28 PM (sSB0N)

266 I've been raping and murdering for over 20 years. I should be allowed to continue raping and murdering because of my long standing illegal actions that have not been punished.
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Was it rape-rape? Murder in the commission of a vient felony?

Posted by: The Hon. Whoopie Goldberg at February 10, 2026 03:29 PM (6rdCx)

267 The Great Melt has begun. It's glorious.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:29 PM (77rzZ)

268 Kick them all out; black, brown, red, green, yellow and white.

"Wait, what?"
--Orion Girl on Star Trek

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:29 PM (PYyV9)

269 256 What will be interesting is how Act Blue contributions are up or down to launder funds from shady locations or to avoid contribution limits. Ironically, it appears that teh GOP started doing that shit too with WinRed for specific individuals like Lady Lindsay.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 03:27 PM (2swu2)

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I've never assumed WinRed didn't do it, to be honest.

But, the difference of cash on hand is orders of magnitude, not just some few millions of dollars.

USAID, other grant cuts, and the rescissions in the OBBB followed by...this cash on hand situation. It feels like too much too be just coincidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

270 223
‘ I don't get these driver's licenses for illegals. Even in California it's theoretically illegal, per the Real ID Act.’

Yeah. All that does is make it easier for an illegal to vote and get a job. Why does California do that? It’s so baffling.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 03:29 PM (jbnUc)

271 Probably, but he has the personality of a shortbread cookie and he would be running against 1) a loud-mouthed overweight woman, 2) some Hispanic, 3) Eric Swalwell (now endorsed by Adam Schiff), or 4) someone even more dishonest and "marginalized."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:26 PM (n7rxJ)
_________________________

Just heard him interviewed on "Clay and Buck" and he sure sounded resolute, charismatic, and fired up. Maybe he took some acting lessons. Every question, he was right on it, and provided examples. He was so impressive in that interview that Clay actually commented on it and confirmed for the audience they didn't prep the interview. He was even pointing out the cost of gas in different parts of the state and why. BTW LA is not flirting with $7.00 a gallon.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 03:30 PM (dIske)

272 All that does is make it easier for an illegal to vote and get a job. Why does California do that? It’s so baffling.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 03:29 PM (jbnUc)

You answered your own question!

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:30 PM (sSB0N)

273 Didn't they boo God?
==
Three times. Publicly.

😈

Posted by: The Hon. Whoopie Goldberg at February 10, 2026 03:30 PM (6rdCx)

274 What an idiot who apparently cannot read English for 20yrs...such as the date his visa expired.

I've been to Kilkenny and it was lovely. Far better than the weird lands of Somolia. I would have said, ok! And left. It's far nicer than Boston (no offense to MA Morons).

He could have easily gone back with his American gf and applied for her visa or married her or whatever they do in Ireland. Should have obeyed our law.

Instead he'd rather be a pasty white martyr in jail. Got it!

Did he vote in any elections? D for Dims?
Does he have a fake SS card milking the system?
Does he pay taxes like the rest of us?
Does he have insurance for car and business?
Health insurance or "free" ED healthcare?
How long as he been married?

He can be a "plasterer" just as easily in Ireland but not stopped to chat due to his cute accent in American pubs. Kiss my Blarney Stone!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 10, 2026 03:30 PM (WONhk)

275 >>With all the discussion was his occupation ever mentioned?

Home contractor. Plasterer. Which means cash under the table.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (Y1sOo)

276 Interesting. This wanker came to the country under the VWP statute (basically 90-day tourism). Under that statue, however, you can not rely on a marriage to a US citizen to remain in the country. The sole basis to remain would be an application for asylum. I assume that's because the tourist program would otherwise be overrun with fraud.

So the guy's (fake) marriage is completely irrelevant.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

277 @EndWokeness
·
32m
Jasmine Crockett on James Talarico:

"Even the most well-intentioned White folk might be saying [racist] things" in private

=======

Oh, lord...the black ladies of the Democrat Party are not going to let up on the failures of their white, especially male, allies anytime soon.

This is gonna be great!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

278 I don’t care what they look like or where they are from.

You violate the terms of the visa or don’t get one at all by crossing the border between PoEs? You can get kicked out of the country, immediately.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (O3dBq)

279 276 Interesting. This wanker came to the country under the VWP statute (basically 90-day tourism). Under that statue, however, you can not rely on a marriage to a US citizen to remain in the country. The sole basis to remain would be an application for asylum. I assume that's because the tourist program would otherwise be overrun with fraud.

So the guy's (fake) marriage is completely irrelevant.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

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But he has a good heart, Elric!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

280 Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is married to Michiel Vos, a Dutch-born journalist and lawyer. The couple married in June 2005 and have two sons. Vos became a naturalized U.S. citizen after marrying into the family, a journey documented in Alexandra's 2011 HBO documentary, Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip.

Take a good look at Congress. They're often protecting themselves and their families when they pretend to plead for decency and blindness for illegal immigration.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 03:32 PM (NFX2v)

281 The question I want answered is this:

"Is there any illegal that the left won't defend? They have tried to block deportations of human trafficker, child molesters, rapists, murderers, gang banger, drug traffickers, and worse. WHO WON'T YOU ARGUE SHOULD NOT BE DEPORTD?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:32 PM (PYyV9)

282 But he has a good heart, Elric!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM

in a jar, under the floorboards.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

283 So if I got this correct the Federal government decided to not enforce any laws related to immigration for decades.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2026 03:33 PM (20t9f)

284 The article first says he claims to talk by phone to his mother in Ireland "most days." Then, later, claims he talks to her "everyday."

Mic can't lie very well.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 03:33 PM (Y1sOo)

285 Are Irish jokes suddenly racist?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:33 PM (8ZVmQ)

286
Click on that photo of Seamus to expand it. His shoes must cost $300. What's his source of income?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:33 PM (n7rxJ)

287 Funny how all the leftists say illegal immigration is not a crime, just administrative. The word illegal apparently means allowed.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 03:33 PM (n5tGW)

288 Democrats malign and lie about God every chance they get.

>> For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 03:34 PM (hLZfT)

289 So the guy's (fake) marriage is completely irrelevant.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

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But he has a good heart, Elric!
==
Its true love. It was a sham at first, but they got to know each other under difficult circumstances and it really pulled them together!

Posted by: Ryan Reynolds at February 10, 2026 03:34 PM (6rdCx)

290 Mick can't lie very well.

He does not have the gift of blarney?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:34 PM (PYyV9)

291 Apparently the Bad Bunny Super-Bowl show was the most watched half time show in the history of ever. Meh. That used to matter. Not so much anymore. With AI, bots, and the general degradation of society, it doesn't surprise me.

'Cheer up, for the worst is yet to come'. :-)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 10, 2026 03:34 PM (sAmhv)

292 262 I don't even see why we should permit marriage to non-US citizen. If your so hot for foreign ass that you can't even wait for it to become American, go to whatever Hibernian holler he lives in, and see if you can pry him off his jar of poteen.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)

Ok, ok, but here me out, during the Bush administration it took us about 15 months or so from start to finish to get my wife's fiance visa started September 06 and got her here December 07. So it took a while, and nothing was guaranteed then.

Posted by: mishdog at February 10, 2026 03:34 PM (sqiOS)

293 Goth Fonzie is a "Reason Magazine" libertarian (otherwise known as a "Chamber of Commerce" libertarian). Has no understanding of sovereignty rights, which should be fundamental to any libertarian philosophy. He and his leftist Reason pals are for open borders because their Koch money tells them to be for open borders and immigrant slavery.

Gillespie is not a libertarian.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (3kVUX)

294 Oddly, I am jonesing for some scones.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (jc0TO)

295 Are Irish jokes suddenly racist?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Well, the Irish are the blacks of Europe. So, yeah.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

296 I am still waiting for the TSA to announce that Real ID DLs from NYS and Cali are no longer sufficient to board a commercial airline flight because Real ID in the states is compromised.

I am not holding my breath

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (qFwJc)

297 273 Didn't they boo God?
==
Three times. Publicly.

😈
Posted by: The Hon. Whoopie Goldberg

Come on! It happens to the best of us!

Posted by: Peter at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (JCZqz)

298 285 Are Irish jokes suddenly racist?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:33 PM (8ZVmQ)
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What's a seven-course meal for an Irishman?

A six-pack and a potato.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (5aZAZ)

299 I am jonesing for some scones.

I have some dried mud, same flavor and texture

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (PYyV9)

300 Click on that photo of Seamus to expand it. His shoes must cost $300. What's his source of income?
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Under the table construction work. The occasional armed robbery. Have you not seen The Town?

Posted by: Ryan Reynolds at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (6rdCx)

301 Click on that photo of Seamus to expand it. His shoes must cost $300. What's his source of income?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:33 PM (n7rxJ)

I'm that came out of Irish Times' photography budget. They couldn't very well have their martyr show up barefoot, wearing a potato sack.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:36 PM (BI5O2)

302 I thought Libertarians just wanted to ingest byproducts of the combustion of the Devil's weed?

Decriminalize prostitution. Remove Age of Consent. Open the Borders

Do you see a pattern?

They want to get high while they lawfully bang trafficked children

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 03:36 PM (BvPIe)

303 USA got the puck in the Beaver's box for the 4th time. 7:02 2nd.

USA 4
Canada 0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:36 PM (8ZVmQ)

304 What's a seven-course meal for an Irishman?

A six-pack and a potato.
Posted by: ballistic

LOL

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:36 PM (77rzZ)

305 Something going on in Italy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

306 FWIW, here is the complete text, not the meaningless snippets of the habeas ruling deporting the Irish asshole Culleton.

https://tinyurl.com/Culleton-Deportation-Ruling
Posted by: whig
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This is amazing.
He really is a lying silver-tongue Irish devil.

At some point, one of these illegals is going to sue their lying shitbag attorney's for making them think if they fight, they'll win.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:37 PM (HXT0k)

307 Did you know?

You can generally be added to your US citizen spouse’s employer-provided health insurance plan, and your non-citizen status usually does not disqualify you from coverage. Marriage is a qualifying life event allowing for special enrollment within 60 days. While immigration status may be requested for Marketplace plans, employer plans typically do not require citizenship, though a Social Security Number (SSN) may be required for processing.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 03:37 PM (NFX2v)

308 296 I am still waiting for the TSA to announce that Real ID DLs from NYS and Cali are no longer sufficient to board a commercial airline flight because Real ID in the states is compromised.

I am not holding my breath
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 03:35 PM (qFwJc)

It took them 20 years to implement Real ID. When I got my DL renewed in TX I had to take my passport with me to DPS. All for something that ultimately means nothing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 03:37 PM (O3dBq)

309 This is the same old "what would Jesus say?" ploy. Old and tired. Principles are not conditional or situational; they stand alone on their own merits. I don't care where you are from, if you are in the country illegally, then you got to go. Period.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at February 10, 2026 03:37 PM (4b7CV)

310 USA got the puck in the Beaver's box for the 4th time...

They'll probably be a little sore tomorrow.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 10, 2026 03:37 PM (JCZqz)

311 When a woman calls you a pussy. Lololol.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (klxjG)

In this instance, "deranged Commie faggot" would have been more appropriate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 03:38 PM (8zz6B)

312 306 This is amazing.
He really is a lying silver-tongue Irish devil.

At some point, one of these illegals is going to sue their lying shitbag attorney's for making them think if they fight, they'll win.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:37 PM (HXT0k)

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"Sue me from Ireland, dumbass."
-lawyer, taking his $20,000

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

313 Not one damn antisemitic thing!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 03:21 PM (J+Psw)
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Who bitch dis is?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 03:38 PM (RIvkX)

314 This is why I want CBP checking passports coming AND going, to make sure the terms of the visa are met. The Schengen Zone, Japan, the ROK and Australia among others check your passport when you leave for that very reason. We need to be doing that here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (O3dBq)

315 I have a suspicion that there's something else going on here. I'm guessing that he's an IRA gunrunner.

Posted by: Paul at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (aVf49)

316 Oh, the marriage was a scam too? He popped the question as he was about to be deported?

Take your L like a true Irishman and begone, your new missus with you.

Posted by: Random PJ at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (+jscL)

317 Something going on in Italy?

I assume Italians are reproducing if thats what your asking

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (Ia/+0)

318 Bad Bunny hit a grand slam home run? At a football game?
You really ARE a pussy.
lol

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (UjdFS)

319 Kari was cheated twice, no?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (sSB0N)

320 He owns a drywall business. No doubt he's employing other similar individuals and everyone is in a union.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (NFX2v)

321 I wonder what Irish MS-13 is called. We'll know it soon when it inevitably comes out that Seamus is a member of it and wanted by Interpol for child murder.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (BI5O2)

322
It took them 20 years to implement Real ID. When I got my DL renewed in TX I had to take my passport with me to DPS. All for something that ultimately means nothing.
Posted by: Cow Demon

'bama made me and Smash bring in our dd-214, passport, olde driver's license, and a damned utility bill to verify the address. Then they verified the damned utility bill account owner and address. NYS and CA can kiss my ass.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (QVmho)

323 319 Kari was cheated twice, no?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (sSB0N)

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The second loss was...decisive.

I think she was cheated only once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

324 Oh, lord...the black ladies of the Democrat Party are not going to let up on the failures of their white, especially male, allies anytime soon.

This is gonna be great!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

I saw Goody Schumer dancing with the racism.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:40 PM (06Hmj)

325 Bad Bunny hit a grand slam home run? At a football game?
You really ARE a pussy.
lol

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (UjdFS)

Right before the three point field goal and the first place gold medal

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:40 PM (sSB0N)

326
Per the sob story, he owns a plastering business in the Boston area and he was pulled over by Ice on the way home from work in September.

Of course it's all under the table.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:40 PM (n7rxJ)

327 321 I wonder what Irish MS-13 is called. We'll know it soon when it inevitably comes out that Seamus is a member of it and wanted by Interpol for child murder.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (BI5O2)

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Sinn Fein?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

328 I am still waiting for the TSA to announce that Real ID DLs from NYS and Cali are no longer sufficient to board a commercial airline flight because Real ID in the states is compromised.

How about felony charges against those who issued out the fraudulent documents?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 03:40 PM (U4c/V)

329 308 296 I think those states that actually verify identity and citizenship should refuse to acknowledge the personal credentials of anyone from a sanctuary state, county or city.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at February 10, 2026 03:41 PM (4b7CV)

330 lol. You think the Arizona elections have been- clean?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 03:41 PM (hLZfT)

331 nick has long been wrong…going back to his redeye days.

just like the kat chick

Posted by: cherries in season at February 10, 2026 03:41 PM (//2Io)

332 209
Kasich features in one of my all time favoritest tweets.

https://x.com/i/status/991880567057764358
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
.......

Behold the power of the shirt buttons.

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 03:42 PM (UjdFS)

333
More comedy gold from the Irish Times sob story:

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp.

“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Please, please I want details!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:42 PM (n7rxJ)

334 "Susan Glasser
@sbg1
Kafka meets ICE"

That makes no sense. Something like illegal aliens being protected and given priority by the govt. over normal, tax-paying citizens trying to protect their country and culture who are told to shut-up and sit down is Kafkaesque. But that would probably escape her deep insight.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 03:42 PM (GUOwU)

335
I think those states that actually verify identity and citizenship should refuse to acknowledge the personal credentials of anyone from a sanctuary state, county or city.
Posted by: ErikInTexas

Oh hell yes!

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 03:42 PM (QVmho)

336 The second loss was...decisive.

I think she was cheated only once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

Which was the one where she ran against the person in charge of elections?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:43 PM (sSB0N)

337 Last time I renewed my ID in Oregon, I had to bring a birth certificate*, proof of residence, and several other piece of information. And I didn't even get RealID. It should be impossible for illegals to get ID or licenses here but they still do, and everyone who gets ID is automatically registered to vote.

*Its not the actual certificate, its the document issued my parents but people generally call that the birth certificate

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:43 PM (PYyV9)

338 I really don't care were the Illegals are from
Toss them out

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 03:43 PM (Ia/+0)

339 Lake is not doing a good job at USAGM. For example Voice of America Persian is a shitshow - pushing anti-Shah, pro-Commie Islamist propaganda. Which is at odds with the Trump administration agenda...From what I hear from those who listen to that kind of thing....

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 03:43 PM (g47mK)

340
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Please, please I want details!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:42 PM (n7rxJ)

hahaha

Seriously.

The hell you think we pay them for, cupcake?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:43 PM (06Hmj)

341 “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
--------

Yes yes, the staff is very much capable of how you say anything

Posted by: Paolo at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (sSB0N)

342 If I were you, Seamus, I'd be

*flicks open knife to clean fingernails*

leaving. *hard glare*

Posted by: Meaner Dude at the Dexter Lake Club at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (wVcYX)

343 Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025,

Let him stay but he has to give us his pot o’ gold.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (jbnUc)

If you put him in a PMITA prison, with a white Bubba, and a black Bubba, and an hispanic Bubba, you would have the "United Bullers of Culleton".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (8zz6B)

344 Bad Bunny hit a grand slam home run? At a football game?

I liked how he associated "wonderful Latino culture" with cross-dressing and glorifying depraved sex.

Definitely a Hole in One!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (U4c/V)

345 Maybe Lake, while loyal to Trump, is just not that good ?

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (g47mK)

346 “It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp.

LOL I will never understand this kind of thing. Because a detention center is supposed to be a great place? A resort?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (PYyV9)

347

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp.

“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Please, please I want details!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

If the ginger wetback is getting his ass stomped by the staff, how does a normie civilian buy into this ass enstompening action, as a stomper?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (QVmho)

348 Deport the little leprechaun. The only relevant fact is he's an illegal alien.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (OR60z)

349 They'll probably be a little sore tomorrow."

*insert "weren't you a little hard on the beaver" joke here*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 03:44 PM (XuXeR)

350 I’m Irish American. Parents born and raised in the old sod. I have relatives who have lived in the USA. If they were here illegally, I would walk them to the plane to send them back home. They know better. If I was in Eire illegally they would not hesitate to throw my Paddy ass out.

Posted by: RobertM at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (btIS/)

351 272
‘ You answered your own question!’

I’m not actually confused about why California facilitates cheating. I’m confused that someone else would be confused.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (jbnUc)

352 Nick is just a normal lolbertarian. i.e. a stoner who gets stoned and starts having really profound thoughts and super valid points with his stoner buddies as they pass the bong.

I'm sure he thought the point he was trying to make in that tweet was just gold.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (5aZAZ)

353 336 Which was the one where she ran against the person in charge of elections?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:43 PM (sSB0N)

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The first. Hobbs became governor.

The second, Trump ran 6 points ahead of her on the same ballot.

"We can cheat enough to beat Lake, but we won't try it on Trump for president" doesn't pass the smell test.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

354
Asked what his message to Irish politicians would be, he said: “Just try to get me out of here and do all you can please. It’s an absolute torture, psychological and physical torture. I just want to get back to my wife. We’re so desperate to start a family”.

“I’d be so grateful if we could just end this. I’ve been detained now for five months. It’s just a torture, I don’t know how much more I can take,” he said, as his voice broke on the line.

He would like the Taoiseach to bring up his release on his upcoming St Patrick’s Day visit to meet Trump in Washington, he said.

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

On what planet do you beg the leader of your country to get you citizenship in another country?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (n7rxJ)

355 Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, "not even a parking ticket"

His criminal record is 20 years long. 20 years of illegal visa overstaying plus the crimes we know he must have committed, including identity theft and illegally working under a fraudulent Social Security number.

14,600 violations. 20x365=7,300 for illegal visa overstay & 7,300 violations for fraudulent use of a ss number.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (KN2gu)

356 Big or small, deport them all.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (Dv3i1)

357 Many years ago at the shore, Irish could be found owing and running lovely candy shops on the boardwalk. And guns.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (NFX2v)

358 “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
......

That's what you get for going commando under your kilt.

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (UjdFS)

359 There's more to this wanker's story than is being told.

If you read the order of deportation whig linked above, you'll find that ICE arrested him "after local police ran a license plate check on his vehicle outside a Home Depot in Massachusetts."

Huh? In blue Massachusetts? Something put this scumbag on the local police or ICE radar.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

360 MN cartel judge has pulled out his magic dictionary and rules that "return to the custody of" DHS does not mean they can be detained.

Whatever retard school you went to, obviously you aren't Harvard-Smart or you'd understand.

He also pulled out the "and besides, it's always been done this way" secret law.

LOL, he's about to get curb-stomped by the reasoning of the 5th.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:46 PM (HXT0k)

361 Which was the one where she ran against the person in charge of elections?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:43 PM (sSB0N)

=====

The first. Hobbs became governor.

The second, Trump ran 6 points ahead of her on the same ballot.

"We can cheat enough to beat Lake, but we won't try it on Trump for president" doesn't pass the smell test.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM

I believe that a lot of women won't vote for a pretty woman. It's not overwhelming but in a close race, it makes a difference.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 03:46 PM (jc0TO)

362 I’m afraid of the staff"

The Paolo, he smiles

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 03:47 PM (XuXeR)

363
If the ginger wetback is getting his ass stomped by the staff, how does a normie civilian buy into this ass enstompening action, as a stomper?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: BifBewalski

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

Heh, I'd like to know what percentage of the staff is Black or Hispanic?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:47 PM (n7rxJ)

364 Last time I renewed my ID in Oregon, I had to bring a birth certificate*, proof of residence, and several other piece of information. And I didn't even get RealID. It should be impossible for illegals to get ID or licenses here but they still do, and everyone who gets ID is automatically registered to vote.

*Its not the actual certificate, its the document issued my parents but people generally call that the birth certificate
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:43 PM (PYyV9)

You didn't get Real ID from DMV in Oregon because Oregon was still having trouble not issuing it to illegals. I doubt they have solved that problem.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 03:47 PM (rbvCR)

365 Bad Bunny hit a grand slam home run? At a football game?
You really ARE a pussy.
lol

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 03:39 PM (UjdFS)

Right before the three point field goal and the first place gold medal
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:40 PM (sSB0N)

That's a wicked googly on the chukker!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2026 03:47 PM (wVcYX)

366 Nick is just a normal lolbertarian. i.e. a stoner who gets stoned and starts having really profound thoughts and super valid points with his stoner buddies as they pass the bong.

New York Times put out a story about how pot use has skyrocketed while booze use is down (as I noted when the report about less drinking among younger generations). Twixxer has exploded with potheads and weed advocates spewing nonstop nonsense and cheering.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:47 PM (PYyV9)

367 Ace, call up Cal and Niner! Football Fans For Truth has some more work to do...

Posted by: Stumbo at February 10, 2026 03:47 PM (38jsa)

368 361
I believe that a lot of women won't vote for a pretty woman. It's not overwhelming but in a close race, it makes a difference.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 03:46 PM (jc0TO)

=====

Also, she had lost a statewide election 2 years prior. Running recent losers is generally a losing proposition. There are exceptions (Trump), but it's probably safe to assume that most aren't the exception.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

369 “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Make him feel safe and comfy and give him the same staff that tortured the J6 political prisoners.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 03:48 PM (pUU4E)

370 “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Please, please I want details!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:42 PM (n7rxJ)

This is quite true in the federal pen.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

371 Ok, I didn't read any of the content, so probably covered. Can't he just leave detention whenever he wants, as long as he gets on the plane bound for home? His wife can visit him on tourist visa and apply for citizenship in Ireland, no?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)

372 I’m not actually confused about why California facilitates cheating. I’m confused that someone else would be confused.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (jbnUc)

That's good because I was confused about you being confused. But now that I know you weren't confused, I'm definitely less confused.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (sSB0N)

373 He would like the Taoiseach"

Is that near the Sarrlac?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (XuXeR)

374 “It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp.

“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
---
In the background, Sarah McLauchlin start wailing "In the arms of the angles ...."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (HXT0k)

375 You didn't get Real ID from DMV in Oregon because Oregon was still having trouble not issuing it to illegals.

well that and I didn't want to pay the extra fifty bucks since I won't be flying anywhere.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (PYyV9)

376 “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

--

If he's that fearful, how about, oh, I don't know, going back to Ireland?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (qBdHI)

377 What's a good slur for an illegal Irishman?

... Woolback?

I mean, we went through a whole phase of the bastards moving here and nobody liking it, and yet the only slurs that survived are "Mick" (real creative, guys. Phbhhthbbhtt.) and "Paddy", which isn't even a fucking slur, it's just "Hey you're probably named Patrick aren't you" and they're like "O aye how'd ya gess?" because they actually are all named fucking Patrick by law or some shit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (06Hmj)

378
We’re so desperate to start a family” he tells the Irish Times.

How desperate? Because I think procreating is legal in... IRELAND. Assuming his wife is allowed to go there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)

379 I think Lake messed up on abortion if I remember. She backed down when she should have stood firm.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:50 PM (sSB0N)

380 I don't understand what John Kasich is trying to do with his recent torrent of cringey X posts. So weird. His wife(1) seems like a perfectly normal person. Well, except that she married John Kasich

Posted by: Oglebay at February 10, 2026 03:50 PM (GPa4z)

381 Wonder if he filed taxes for his "drywall business", because I'm doing those bastardized forms now.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 03:50 PM (n5tGW)

382 In the background, Sarah McLauchlin start wailing "In the arms of the angles ...."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (HXT0k)

Or the arms of a saxon for all I care, whatever, just get him the hell outta here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:50 PM (06Hmj)

383 The USA woman's hockey team is beating up on the Canuks. What is weird is none of the women have an adam's apple. So the question I have is are they real woman or the kind that confuse Democrats?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:50 PM (8ZVmQ)

384 378
We’re so desperate to start a family” he tells the Irish Times.

How desperate? Because I think procreating is legal in... IRELAND. Assuming his wife is allowed to go there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)

=====

"Have you seen Ireland's immigration laws?!"
-leftist trying to move out of America because of the racist immigration laws

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

385 We’re so desperate to start a family” he tells the Irish Times.

Anchor baby

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 03:51 PM (VE6XX)

386 Deport every last person who is here illegally.

Their kids, their dogs and their cats too.
Posted by: nurse ratched

And the dumbass "spouses" who are enthusiastic participants in their fraudulent attempts to stay here.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 10, 2026 03:51 PM (a+4eV)

387 What's a good slur for an illegal Irishman?

A Bushmill's

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 03:51 PM (KN2gu)

388 If the ginger wetback is getting his ass stomped by the staff, how does a normie civilian buy into this ass enstompening action, as a stomper?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Is there a pay-per-view opportunity?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 10, 2026 03:51 PM (JCZqz)

389 I managed to not learn the winner of the Fuzzy Bunny SB game for maybe 20 hours I cared so less

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 03:51 PM (Ia/+0)

390 New York Times put out a story about how pot use has skyrocketed while booze use is down (as I noted when the report about less drinking among younger generations). Twixxer has exploded with potheads and weed advocates spewing nonstop nonsense and cheering.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:47 PM (PYyV9)
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IMO it's because alcohol is mostly a social substance unless you have a bad relationship with it...meaning it used to be that young people would go out to bars and have a few and interact with each other.

Social media and dating apps ruined that, so now all the kids sit around smoking grass by themselves because weed makes you want to become your couch while eating funyuns.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (5aZAZ)

391 We’re so desperate to start a family” he tells the Irish Times.

--

Quite the sob story! *wipes tear*

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (qBdHI)

392 We’re so desperate to start a family” he tells the Irish Times.

How desperate? Because I think procreating is legal in... IRELAND. Assuming his wife is allowed to go there.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)

Does he know about flipping her over? 'Cause that's the key, I'm told.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (wVcYX)

393 In the background, Sarah McLauchlin start wailing "In the arms of the angles ...."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:49 PM (HXT0k)

Or the arms of a saxon for all I care, whatever, just get him the hell outta here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Everybody forgets about us.
-- the Jutes

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

394
"Have you seen Ireland's immigration laws?!"
-leftist trying to move out of America because of the racist immigration laws
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't one of the fat cow leftists find that out?
Rosie O?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (KN2gu)

395 Anchor baby

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 03:51 PM (VE6XX)

There it is.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (sSB0N)

396 We’re so desperate to start a family” he tells the Irish Times.

How desperate? Because I think procreating is legal in... IRELAND. Assuming his wife is allowed to go there.

---
I read Johnathan Swift.
You know what they do to babies in Ireland?!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (HXT0k)

397 "It's just an administrative overstay!"

Yes. So was Mohamed Atta.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (gPsAl)

398 383 The USA woman's hockey team is beating up on the Canuks. What is weird is none of the women have an adam's apple. So the question I have is are they real woman or the kind that confuse Democrats?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Is there a biologist in the house?

Posted by: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (JCZqz)

399 "I’m not actually confused about why California facilitates cheating. I’m confused that someone else would be confused.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 03:45 PM (jbnUc)

That's good because I was confused about you being confused. But now that I know you weren't confused, I'm definitely less confused."

How the hell am I supposed to assemble a workable quote out of this drivel?

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (UwzVt)

400 He would like the Taoiseach to bring up his release on his upcoming St Patrick’s Day visit to meet Trump in Washington, he said.

-------

Taoiseach: we are prepared to pay a cartload of Kerrygold for our wayward fuckwit.

Trump: not enough! Not nearly enough!

Taoiseach: we will lash Rosie to the churn and she will be told she is churning it for you personally. YMCA will be played at top volume the whole time.

Trump: Love it! Art of the Deal! Gift of gab, I've heard ofbthat!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (BI5O2)

401

I'm not actually confused about why California facilitates cheating. I’m confused that someone else would be confused.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
=====
That's good because I was confused about you being confused. But now that I know you weren't confused, I'm definitely less confused.
Posted by: ...

Totes not socking TJM

... I don't get it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (QVmho)

402 Oh there's a whole host of slurs for Irish, the Brits spent centuries coming up with them like Bogtrotter, Bogjumper, Carrot, Cat-lick, Clover, Green n****r, Pogue, Potato Breath, etc.

And here we are in our culture where I can fire off ten different racial slurs, but have to censor one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (PYyV9)

403 Did the Irishman register for Selective Service? Even if a male is here illegally he must register. Seamus was 22 when he overstayed his visa.

Failure register is a felony.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (cA9ON)

404 , and is getting deported back to a lovely country that invented whiskey and brews a proper beer.

-----

Inshallah.

Posted by: Mohammed O'Muhammed at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (EXiAQ)

405 Quite the sob story! *wipes tear*
Posted by: Lady in Black"

I know, huh?
/Italian Iron eyes Cody

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (XuXeR)

406 394
"Have you seen Ireland's immigration laws?!"
-leftist trying to move out of America because of the racist immigration laws
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't one of the fat cow leftists find that out?
Rosie O?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (KN2gu)

=====

She did actually move. She's there. But she's famous and famous people get special visas because they bring "special skills" with them even though she just sits at home and Zooms with Jim Acosta.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

407
Can't he just leave detention whenever he wants, as long as he gets on the plane bound for home? His wife can visit him on tourist visa and apply for citizenship in Ireland, no?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

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

Yes to the first, we don't know to the second. If she can't just stroll in and get permanent residence, free healthcare and housing and a welfare check, we'd like to call your attention to that squirrel over there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (n7rxJ)

408 See ya white boy!!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 10, 2026 03:54 PM (uI8hj)

409 If you read the order of deportation whig linked above, you'll find that ICE arrested him "after local police ran a license plate check on his vehicle outside a Home Depot in Massachusetts."

Huh? In blue Massachusetts? Something put this scumbag on the local police or ICE radar.

ALPRs run automatically for as long as there is something to scan, they will scan. Mounted ALPR cameras are always on and often police will just drive through high opportunity parking lots like hotels, interstate proximate restaurants and LowesDepot just to scoop up plates and see if there is a hit, then wait for the driver to emerge.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 03:54 PM (pUU4E)

410 Everybody forgets about us.
-- the Jutes
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

yes, yes, yet another culture entwined in the fabric of England.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:54 PM (06Hmj)

411 I believe the Internet Racial Slur Database is still online, if you're in need of name to call the Irish .

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 03:54 PM (HXT0k)

412 New York Times put out a story about how pot use has skyrocketed while booze use is down (as I noted when the report about less drinking among younger generations). Twixxer has exploded with potheads and weed advocates spewing nonstop nonsense and cheering.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:47 PM (PYyV9)
------
IMO it's because alcohol is mostly a social substance unless you have a bad relationship with it...meaning it used to be that young people would go out to bars and have a few and interact with each other.

Social media and dating apps ruined that, so now all the kids sit around smoking grass by themselves because weed makes you want to become your couch while eating funyuns.
Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (5aZAZ)
_______

Also weed is being heavily promoted by Big Weed as an almost wonder drug, while all the downsides are swept under the rug. Weed is a $50 billion business now.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

413 I laughed at "Bogtrotter"

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 03:55 PM (5aZAZ)

414 How the hell am I supposed to assemble a workable quote out of this drivel?
Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn"

Do it like i do. Just post away on the internet

Posted by: Abe Lincoln at February 10, 2026 03:55 PM (XuXeR)

415 Speaking of dropping a dime on Epstein:

Trump became away Epstein was running girls when he became aware Epstein was doing it in his club.
Ruh Roh.

As the maître d' once said, 'this is a high class joint, we don't do that here.

The effrontery, the level of offense astounding.
Well, of course, offense enough to bust him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:55 PM (y79kU)

416 Deport every last person who is here illegally.

Their kids, their dogs and their cats too.
Posted by: nurse ratched
......

If they don't eat them first.

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 03:55 PM (UjdFS)

417 The USA woman's hockey team is beating up on the Canuks.

USA Women's Hockey is taking the Canadian Beavers to pound town.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 03:56 PM (KN2gu)

418 Everybody forgets about us.
-- the Jutes
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

yes, yes, yet another culture entwined in the fabric of England.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

But the Muslims hate the Joooots.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:56 PM (77rzZ)

419 Did the Irishman register for Selective Service? Even if a male is here illegally he must register. Seamus was 22 when he overstayed his visa.

Failure register is a felony.

America's most notable illegal alien, Barack Obama, never registered for Selective Service.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 03:56 PM (pUU4E)

420 Also weed is being heavily promoted by Big Weed as an almost wonder drug, while all the downsides are swept under the rug. Weed is a $50 billion business now.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)
-------
Hell yeah it is! Ask me how I know!

Posted by: John Boehner at February 10, 2026 03:56 PM (5aZAZ)

421 413 I laughed at "Bogtrotter"
Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 03:55 PM (5aZAZ)

And "potato breath".

I mean, at some point, it ain't even a slur anymore, it's just plain old name-calling.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 03:56 PM (06Hmj)

422 359 There's more to this wanker's story than is being told.

If you read the order of deportation whig linked above, you'll find that ICE arrested him "after local police ran a license plate check on his vehicle outside a Home Depot in Massachusetts."

Huh? In blue Massachusetts? Something put this scumbag on the local police or ICE radar.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

Someone upthread posited that he was likely wanted in Ireland for crimes against the state of some sort. Anecdotal, but I was coming back from Galway to Dublin and a bloke (it seems the best term for him) jumped on the train at one of the multitude of stops along the way. When we arrived in Dublin, he asked me to have a pint with him. After a few minutes of chatting, he asked if I would marry him so he could go to the US, since he had "issues" in the Isles. I excused myself to go to the restroom and grabbed a taxi to get the heck out of there. Soooo, based on that, and visa work, my guess is the detained Irish fellow is wanted in two or more countries and gave some gal a chunk of cash to marry him tout de suite.

Posted by: moki at February 10, 2026 03:57 PM (wLjpr)

423 "Have you seen Ireland's immigration laws?!"
_____

I think if you arrive by boat, have no papers, cover your face and other exposed parts with burnt cork, you become a citizen and get money for lodging, car, phone. It's a litlle unorthodox for a somewhat civilized country's immigration laws, but they do things different over there.
.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 03:57 PM (Dv3i1)

424 Social media and dating apps ruined that, so now all the kids sit around smoking grass by themselves because weed makes you want to become your couch while eating funyuns.

You are probably on to something there. Booze interferes with gaming reflexes too. Pot might not, unless you have a lot of it. Plus edibles let you eat candy to get high.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:57 PM (PYyV9)

425 If you read the order of deportation whig linked above, you'll find that ICE arrested him "after local police ran a license plate check on his vehicle outside a Home Depot in Massachusetts."

Huh? In blue Massachusetts? Something put this scumbag on the local police or ICE radar.

ALPRs run automatically for as long as there is something to scan, they will scan. Mounted ALPR cameras are always on and often police will just drive through high opportunity parking lots like hotels, interstate proximate restaurants and LowesDepot just to scoop up plates and see if there is a hit, then wait for the driver to emerge.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 03:54 PM (pUU4E)
_______

Well yea, but a hit on what? It's not like your license plate is tied to your legal status. Something popped up on the guy that caused the police to arrest him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

426 I laughed at "Bogtrotter"
Posted by: ballistic

Weren't they the team that Washington always lost to?

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

427 As Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was fond of saying...

With Great Power Comes Great Opportunity.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 03:57 PM (XV/Pl)

428
"Have you seen Ireland's immigration laws?!"
-leftist trying to move out of America because of the racist immigration laws
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't one of the fat cow leftists find that out?
Rosie O?
Posted by: rickb223

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

What Rosie found out is that the Irish countryside is boring. No parties, no red carpets, no premieres, no fans mobbing her in the streets, no excuse to keep a stylist on staff, no Broadway plays or pubs or t.v. studios. She complained about it in a xeet or something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:58 PM (n7rxJ)

429 417 The USA woman's hockey team is beating up on the Canuks.

USA Women's Hockey is taking the Canadian Beavers to pound town.
Posted by: rickb223

The American women are really roughing up those Canadian beavers!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 10, 2026 03:58 PM (JCZqz)

430 I mean, at some point, it ain't even a slur anymore, it's just plain old name-calling.

Yeah its my observation that slurs used on white people aren't so much fighting words or offensive so much as they are silly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:58 PM (PYyV9)

431 428 What Rosie found out is that the Irish countryside is boring. No parties, no red carpets, no premieres, no fans mobbing her in the streets, no excuse to keep a stylist on staff, no Broadway plays or pubs or t.v. studios. She complained about it in a xeet or something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 03:58 PM (n7rxJ)

======

It's my understanding that she's still there.

It's Ellen, who had decamped to the English countryside, who came back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

432 The USA woman's hockey team is beating up on the Canuks.

USA Women's Hockey is taking the Canadian Beavers to pound town.
Posted by: rickb223

Elite Women's is just excellent; they are ruthless and great athletes. This stands in stark contrast for what passes as "pro level" basketball in the WNBA.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 03:59 PM (8ZVmQ)

433 yes, yes, yet another culture entwined in the fabric of England"

"Jutes"...

*golf clap*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:00 PM (XuXeR)

434 Throwin away a perfectly good white boy....

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 04:00 PM (sSB0N)

435 "tater tot" for an Irish kid just cracks me up, how is that even offensive? Its kinda cute.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 04:00 PM (PYyV9)

436

What ever happened to an Irish Goodbye?

Posted by: imp at February 10, 2026 04:00 PM (g6TN6)

437 It's my understanding that she's still there."

She's been making noises about moving back. "For the fans" or something...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:01 PM (XuXeR)

438
It's my understanding that she's still there.

It's Ellen, who had decamped to the English countryside, who came back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Oh that's right, it was Ellen who got bored. I bet Rosie is also bored, just not publicly bitching yet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 04:01 PM (n7rxJ)

439 Our beavers are better

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 04:01 PM (sSB0N)

440 "Have you seen Ireland's immigration laws?!"
-leftist trying to move out of America because of the racist immigration laws

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Just pass through Damascus. All is good.

Posted by: Mo Beniz at February 10, 2026 04:01 PM (yFLFB)

441 but one he voluntarily agrees to remain in, instead of JUST GOING BACK TO HIS HOME COUNTRY.

We haff goood place for heem!

Posted by: The Front Lines of Ukraine at February 10, 2026 04:02 PM (1hcLc)

442 437 It's my understanding that she's still there."

She's been making noises about moving back. "For the fans" or something...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:01 PM (XuXeR)

======

Fans? Her illegal immigrant slaves she forgot she left chained in her basement?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

443 yes, yes, yet another culture entwined in the fabric of England"

"Jutes"...

*golf clap*
Posted by: man

Oh shit. I completely missed that one. Well done.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

444 Fans? Her illegal immigrant slaves she forgot she left chained in her basement?"

Potato, tomato...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:04 PM (XuXeR)

445 Wow! Kari Lake off the top rail with an elbow to Kasich. He'll be picking up chicklets for an hour.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 10, 2026 04:04 PM (gLikB)

446 I hope Michael Walsh is reading this!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 04:04 PM (n9ltV)

447 What ever happened to an Irish Goodbye?
Posted by: imp

A Car Bomb?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:05 PM (KN2gu)

448 The Irish countryside isn't boring, it's breathtaking, but if you are a black hole for attention with no inner life to sustain you, I bet it really sucks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:05 PM (BI5O2)

449 "Jutes"...

"Did you say Two yoots??"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 04:06 PM (PYyV9)

450 Mick called. He says you left your wheelchair at the pub again.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at February 10, 2026 04:06 PM (jc0TO)

451 You gotta love it when Ace drops a thread and then wanders off. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:06 PM (KN2gu)

452
Kurt Cobain's death suspected as homicide after forensic investigation.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 04:07 PM (3ek7K)

453 Jack-booted stormtroopers always allow you to call your mommy everyday.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 04:07 PM (Y1sOo)

454 >>> But she's famous and famous people get special visas because they bring "special skills" with them even though she just sits at home and Zooms with Jim Acosta.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

To be fair, the immigration system is dumb unless you have money. Apparently we are letting female OnlyFans legally immigrate to America. Sigh.

But Nicki Minaj for her gold immigrant card, and was flashing it around and super happy. She's from Trinidad and Tobago. Came here illegally as a kid. So that's another reason the left hates her. A woman once illegal that loves Trump. She's a traitor to them.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (gWBY1)

455 I think ace fell asleep.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (zjgNU)

456 101 Everyone that tried to block that cop car was pear shapped.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2026 02:56 PM (b4o9z)

The last guy that waddled in frame to stop the car has me wondering when they started making bandanas the size of tablecloths so this round Guatemalan can wear one like a poncho.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

457 You gotta love it when Ace drops a thread and then wanders off"

Shelves won't mount themselves...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (XuXeR)

458 You gotta love it when Ace drops a thread and then wanders off. LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:06 PM

Hey, man, you don't talk to Ace. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (jc0TO)

459 Kurt Cobain's death suspected as homicide after forensic investigation.

Posted by: fourseasons

Definitely had that on my bingo card.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (KN2gu)

460 rickb223: "USA Women's Hockey is taking the Canadian Beavers to pound town."

They really are. They are excellent. It's about as good a game of hockey as I've seen. Great pace and consistency. They simply aren't making mistakes and are just a level above everyone they've played so far. If anyone wants an intro to hockey, this has been the time to watch.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (gLikB)

461 when Ace drops a thread and then wanders off

------

That's not a thread you're smelling bruh

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (BI5O2)

462 One of the reasons and Irish Citizenship is so difficult to acquire, is because the Irish passport gives you VISA free access to nearly 200 countries.

You'll see a lot of bankers pining for one. In fact, Mark Carney (Canada) has a dual citizenship with Ireland.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 04:09 PM (dIske)

463 Grand Slam is the perfect metaphor to use for a Super Bowl halftime show. What a dweeb.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+)

464 >>> Kurt Cobain's death suspected as homicide after forensic investigation.

Now tell us... his wife still the #1 suspect?

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 04:09 PM (gWBY1)

465 Headline (Wall Street Journal):

"Life in Cuba is grinding to a halt under US oil blockade"

Excerpt:

"Lizzel Jimenez, 64 years old, can no longer travel to work. Even if she wanted to, her job at the Department of Agriculture—which pays 4,000 pesos a month, or less than $10— has been frozen until further notice."

Posted by: mrp at February 10, 2026 04:09 PM (rj6Yv)

466 Reason turned into The New Republic with a couple of conservative fiscal positions after PDT was elected. The TDS ran through like wildfire.

Posted by: quite a sight at February 10, 2026 04:09 PM (TbWk/)

467
I just saw aa great new virtue signaling sign people are sticking in front of their houses:

"Fight For Those Who Don't Have Your Privilege"

It made me eyes roll so hard, they popped out of my head and rolled down to Jack-in-the-Box for an order of jack Tacos.

So, many people need their taints kicked, repeatedly, but there's just not enough time.

And then there's the questionable legality of taint kicking.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 04:10 PM (iJfKG)

468 No. Anything but the cockatoo!

Posted by: Maybe a Punchline at February 10, 2026 04:10 PM (sSB0N)

469 Kurt Cobain's death suspected as homicide after forensic investigation.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 04:07 PM (3ek7K)

We knew that....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 04:10 PM (HbB1p)

470 PJ O'Rourke on the Irish: The principle delights of the Irish are quarreling, and fighting, and killing each other with bombs. They can be trained to nothing more useful that a dray horse can't accomplish in half the time, and they spew out a continuous stream of mumbles and grunts which they fancy to be "poems." They sell their children for whiskey.

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 10, 2026 04:10 PM (sFNX2)

471 I mean sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just ignore your comment, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll say, "Do you know that 'fuck' is the middle word in 'go fuck yourself'?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:10 PM (jc0TO)

472 As marketing people start speaking up on the Bugs Bunny halftime show, some interesting numbers are emerging. 46.5 million households watched the game, but then almost a quarter of those homes changed the channel or turned off their TV when the halftime show came on. But, for the NFL, it gets worse...

https://tinyurl.com/vamk3mrb

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 04:11 PM (n+Zyl)

473 The Irish on X tell me all the time I'm an ignorant Yank because I don't see Hamas (or Sinn Fein, for that matter) as noble freedom fighters. You'd think this dude would be thrilled to leave racist Trumpist Ameriva amd return to Green Progressive Paradise.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 10, 2026 04:11 PM (azbh7)

474 Kurt Cobain's death suspected as homicide after forensic investigation.

Posted by: fourseasons

Definitely had that on my bingo card.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (KN2gu)

or as my mother would say- no shit sherlock, where did you park your bus.

Not exactly sure what it meant, but she said it a lot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 04:11 PM (snZF9)

475 Now tell us... his wife still the #1 suspect?
Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 04:09 PM (gWBY1)

He was a rich junkie. A lotnof motive for a lot of people junkies hang around with.

But yeah, that would be my first guess, too. Courtney Love is... unseemly.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:11 PM (BI5O2)

476 I would love a cockatoo!

Posted by: Kamala at February 10, 2026 04:11 PM (sSB0N)

477 You'll see a lot of bankers pining for one"

And a fjord?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:11 PM (XuXeR)

478 Good points: Many Irish are dead.

Proper Forms of Address: Bog-mouth, peat-face, Mr. Potato Head, num-buns, dumb Mick

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 10, 2026 04:12 PM (sFNX2)

479 458 You gotta love it when Ace drops a thread and then wanders off. LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:06 PM

Hey, man, you don't talk to Ace. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:08 PM (jc0TO)

We are the hollow Ewoks. We are the stuffed Ewoks.

Posted by: Water buffalo decapitation at 11. Bring friends! at February 10, 2026 04:13 PM (TbWk/)

480 Let's be hones, any Irish worth anything and with any kinda brains left Ireland for American or Australia over 100 years ago.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:13 PM (g47mK)

481 You'll see a lot of bankers pining for one. In fact, Mark Carney (Canada) has a dual citizenship with Ireland.
Posted by: Orson

What kind of 3rd world country allows their PM to be a dual citizen? He can screw the place up so badly that even the stupid NPC Liberals could come at him with pitchforks and he can use the escape hatch and thumb his nose and do that stupid elbows up thing to taunt those idiots from his safe perch in Ireland.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 04:13 PM (Dv3i1)

482 275 >>With all the discussion was his occupation ever mentioned?

Home contractor. Plasterer. Which means cash under the table.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 03:31 PM (Y1sOo)

I would not be the least bit surprised if it turned out to be a euphemism for bartender, getting people plastered.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 04:13 PM (Sy6m/)

483 Ace might be humping Rubio's trash again...

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 10, 2026 04:13 PM (azbh7)

484 This post might be a fine time to raise a pint to the All-Time Big Daddy OG of air rage, Mr. Gerard Finneran.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 04:14 PM (iFTx/)

485 I just saw aa great new virtue signaling sign people are sticking in front of their houses:

"Fight For Those Who Don't Have Your Privilege"

It made me eyes roll so hard, they popped out of my head and rolled down to Jack-in-the-Box for an order of jack Tacos.

So, many people need their taints kicked, repeatedly, but there's just not enough time.

And then there's the questionable legality of taint kicking.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 04:10 PM (iJfKG)

Tell them get a time machine, go back to nazi germany, stand in front of auschwitz, spit on the SS and tell them they're a bunch of meanies. See how far it gets them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 04:14 PM (snZF9)

486 You are probably on to something there. Booze interferes with gaming reflexes too. Pot might not, unless you have a lot of it. Plus edibles let you eat candy to get high.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 03:57 PM (PYyV9)

From my MMO experience the edibles definitely affect gameplay, I've had to baby a user through trivial issues when they were on them. Like a toddler, but probably taller.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

487 475 Now tell us... his wife still the #1 suspect?
Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 04:09 PM (gWBY1)

He was a rich junkie. A lotnof motive for a lot of people junkies hang around with.

But yeah, that would be my first guess, too. Courtney Love is... unseemly.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:11 PM (BI5O2)

And yet, I have a really hard time believing she had him killed.

Dude was messed up. Serious stomach issues on top of the drugs. He was never meant to live a long life.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2026 04:15 PM (KbCG3)

488
I would love a cock~~atoo~~ or two!
Posted by: Kamala

Fixed it for you Kum Dumpster

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 04:15 PM (QVmho)

489 Beauty queen from the land down under.

https://is.gd/nzRrCg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 04:15 PM (J+Psw)

490 Carney meant elbows up to describe his preferred fist depth, but dumb Canadians all thought it was a hockey thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:15 PM (BI5O2)

491 Kurt Cobain's death suspected as homicide after forensic investigation.

That is an interesting thought, but wouldn't surprise me.

Related, Twixxer is tough to read sometimes, like when the coroners for Goode and the other person were ruled homocide. Dozens of people screamed I KNEW IT WAS MURDER WHEN WILL ICE PAY THE PRICE AND TRUMP BE IMPEACHED???!?!!?!???

Homicide simply means "death at the hands of another" it has nothing to do with legality, murder, or implications of why it happened. Its opposed to suicide, natural causes, or unknown causes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 04:16 PM (PYyV9)

492 Beauty queen from the land down under.

https://is.gd/nzRrCg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 04:15 PM (J+Psw)
_____

"I'd fuck her"

-- Jabba the Hutt

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

493 The Irish on X tell me all the time I'm an ignorant Yank because I don't see Hamas (or Sinn Fein, for that matter) as noble freedom fighters. You'd think this dude would be thrilled to leave racist Trumpist Ameriva amd return to Green Progressive Paradise.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 10, 2026 04:11 PM (azbh7)

Those noble freedom fighters couldn't have done crap without UK welfare keeping them and their gals and kids afloat. And most of the crap they did was killing other Irish.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:17 PM (8avO+)

494 No Garrett either?

Weird

Posted by: Kratwurst at February 10, 2026 04:17 PM (C362Q)

495 485 I just saw aa great new virtue signaling sign people are sticking in front of their houses:

"Fight For Those Who Don't Have Your Privilege"

The privilege of paying for their food, lodging, healthcare and lawyers if they get nabbed ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 04:18 PM (HbB1p)

496 From my MMO experience the edibles definitely affect gameplay

Yeah I have noticed that people who talk about being stoned tend to suck at play, but I have no experience with how they are when not stoned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 04:18 PM (PYyV9)

497 495 485 I just saw aa great new virtue signaling sign people are sticking in front of their houses:

"Fight For Those Who Don't Have Your Privilege"

The privilege of paying for their food, lodging, healthcare and lawyers if they get nabbed ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 04:18 PM (HbB1p)

I notice the sign doesn't say, "Trade Places With..."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2026 04:19 PM (KbCG3)

498
Hey, we worked hard for our privilege and never took tax money.

Assholes

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 04:19 PM (3ek7K)

499 Beauty queen from the land down under.

"That's not a sheila, that's a bloke"
--Mick Dundee

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2026 04:19 PM (PYyV9)

500 489 Beauty queen from the land down under.

https://is.gd/nzRrCg
____

Strange lady is making me nervous. I chundered a little bit.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 04:19 PM (Dv3i1)

501 They finally got ace!!

You know... They.

The Jews.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (sSB0N)

502
Strange lady is making me nervous. I chundered a little bit.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 04:19 PM (Dv3i1)

Did she make you breakfast ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (HbB1p)

503 Beauty queen from the land down under.

https://is.gd/nzRrCg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 04:15 PM (J+Psw)
_____

"I'd fuck her"

-- Jabba the Hutt

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

Jabba wouldn't fuck that Palpatine's dick and Boba fett pushing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (snZF9)

504 Holy shit, the 9th Circuit sided with Trump on the “temporary” protected status issue. Turns out 16 years isn’t “temporary” after all.

It’s a temporary decision (ha) but they said the govt. is likely to win and has allowed Tru p to do his thing for now.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (y6810)

505 Let's be hones, any Irish worth anything and with any kinda brains left Ireland for American or Australia over 100 years ago.
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:13 PM (g47mK)

Our family legend was the ancestor left when he found someone starved to death in his yard during the Potato famine. The German ancestor left when his side lost one of the civil wars in 1848. He joined the Union army in 1861 in an artillery battery with other Germans in Ohio.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

506
Homicide simply means "death at the hands of another" it has nothing to do with legality, murder, or implications of why it happened. Its opposed to suicide, natural causes, or unknown causes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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

Homicide is the official cause of death in legal executions, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (n7rxJ)

507 Kasich as been the very definition of squishy wanker for a long time. That this guy was ever considered "conservative" is an embarrassment.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 10, 2026 04:21 PM (XMwZJ)

508 Strange lady is making me nervous. I chundered a little bit."

She take you in and gave you breakfast?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:21 PM (XuXeR)

509
Isn't Ace of Irish extraction?

Maybe he ran down to the local ICE station to show solidarity for a brother of the Auld Sod, by throwing potatoes and cans of Pringles at the officers.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 04:21 PM (iJfKG)

510 507 Kasich as been the very definition of squishy wanker for a long time. That this guy was ever considered "conservative" is an embarrassment.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 10, 2026 04:21 PM (XMwZJ)

=====

Ohio's grand and successful history of electing incredible governors means it's impossible for Vivek to win the governor's mansion!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

511 LOL, he's about to get curb-stomped by the reasoning of the 5th.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
=====
8th Circuit most likely. Law from other circuits is treated as quasi authoritative. Law from your own circuit binds lower court judges. And Scotus binds them all in the darkness with the one ring of judicial power.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (2swu2)

512 I see zuckerburg is leaving CA for FL because of the wealth tax... it's almost like he understands who gets elected might matter.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (n5tGW)

513 489 Beauty queen from the land down under.

https://is.gd/nzRrCg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 04:15 PM (J+Psw)

Tasmania has a lot of crazies.

Most Ozzies won’t even claim them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

514 Strange lady is making me nervous. I chundered a little bit.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 04:19 PM (Dv3i1)

Did she make you breakfast ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (HbB1p)

Bets they win?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (8avO+)

515 Our family legend was the ancestor left when he found someone starved to death in his yard during the Potato famine. The German ancestor left when his side lost one of the civil wars in 1848. He joined the Union army in 1861 in an artillery battery with other Germans in Ohio.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

Ah, family lore! the best !

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (g47mK)

516 512 I see zuckerburg is leaving CA for FL because of the wealth tax... it's almost like he understands who gets elected might matter.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (n5tGW)

======

"This proves that FL is going blue!"
-person who lived through FL going deep red through the Great Migration

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

517 Holy shit I think they deported ace back to Endor

Posted by: Imperial Customs Enforcement at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (TbWk/)

518 Dahmer committed homocide

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 04:23 PM (sSB0N)

519 the All-Time Big Daddy OG of air rage, Mr. Gerard Finneran.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 04:14 PM (iFTx/)

I can't believe I missed that when it happened. Wow.

As a frequent air traveler, I doff my cap to this gentleman of distinction.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:23 PM (BI5O2)

520 Oh fuck me not the Courtney killed Kurt stuff again. It’s like I’m back to the 90s. Wait that’s a good thing.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:23 PM (y6810)

521 507 Kasich as been the very definition of squishy wanker for a long time. That this guy was ever considered "conservative" is an embarrassment.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 10, 2026 04:21 PM (XMwZJ)
__________________

I particularly am impressed by his grasp of pop culture and sports. I mean, using a baseball metaphor to make a point about the Super Bowl was inspiring.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 04:23 PM (dIske)

522 Olympics update!

Don't know where to drop this, but....

US Womens Hockey Team is FARRRRRR superior to US Women's Soccer Team!!!!!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 10, 2026 04:23 PM (7kJyR)

523 In a combi full of zombies?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:23 PM (XuXeR)

524 >>> some interesting numbers are emerging. 46.5 million households watched the game, but then almost a quarter of those homes changed the channel or turned off their TV when the halftime show came on. But, for the NFL, it gets worse...

About the same number that dropped watching the official halftime show watched the alternate halftime show. they should hire Nicki Minaj for the one next year!

I finally watched the BunBun halftime show. If it has been a part of the upcoming LA games, as one of many sketches showing the unique fabric of American culture, and they cleaned up the lyrics, I might have adored it. But it was otherwise for an Americana event, very exclusionary.

I saw a comment from someone that said hey I'm Puerto Rican, and even I can't understand him! His voice is very slurry on a good day.

The opening of the halftime show did make me want coco frio! Suck it from a straw right from the coconut. Yum.

They had a bunch of Latinos dressed as sugar cane. Parts of PR grow sugar which is back breaking labor. Somehow I think If the same scene had been done for a southern black rapper, dress black people up as props in cotton plants, it would not have gone as well.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 04:24 PM (gWBY1)

525 USA viciously penetrated the Beaver's box again! 7:55 3rd. The USA woman's hockey team is excellent.

USA 5
Canuks 0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 04:24 PM (8ZVmQ)

526
What's a good slur for an illegal Irishman?

A Bushmill's
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 03:51 PM (KN2gu)

Fookin' Protestant swill

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 04:24 PM (y9nCu)

527 Our family legend was the ancestor left when he found someone starved to death in his yard during the Potato famine. The German ancestor left when his side lost one of the civil wars in 1848. He joined the Union army in 1861 in an artillery battery with other Germans in Ohio.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

Mine left when nunzio looked up and said I dona trust-a dat tower, she's all a crook. Well, that and mussolini.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 04:24 PM (snZF9)

528 Ohio's grand and successful history of electing incredible governors means it's impossible for Vivek to win the governor's mansion!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
========
Recent polling show Vivek fading and his GOP female primary challenger rising. Vivek has said a lot of shit over the years that doesn't play well outside the GOPe tent. Reminds me a lot of Bobby Jindal so if Vivek does win the governorship, I don't think it will go well with him.

DeWino had the advantage of a lot of peeps in the state GOP party owing him due to his long political career including the Senate and he was still a useless twat. Vivek won't.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:24 PM (2swu2)

529 I see zuckerburg is leaving CA for FL because of the wealth tax... it's almost like he understands who gets elected might matter.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (n5tGW)

He’ll still donate $50M to progressive causes though. As will Bezos and the rest of Florida’s billionaire class.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:24 PM (y6810)

530 I've never heard of a "plasterer" when we built our house. Drywall guys, yes. Did they look like the Grateful Dea doing acid on ladders? Yes, but they seemed to know their stuff and no complaints. So I am glad we did not tell our contractor to look for "plasterers." He would have wondered, and I hounded him to near insanity anyway due to a deadline of moving.

Is an Irisman who drinks too much plastered? Yes, among other things like peeing in the wind. A Drunk Irishman. Perhaps this is what he meant by "occupation" but I will never know.

On the dark side maybe he helped plaster bodies into walls, that even now, people think hold dead rats.

First of all, Seamus, you should have changed your bloody name to Sean. I am sure I don't say it correctly anyway, but I am thankful I am not married to a Seamus.

Secondly, learn to read! There was a date on your visa 20yrs ago! Find a calendar and circle that number with the addess of where you needed to go. Was this hard for you? Maybe ask your girlfriend, who you maybe married for the anchor baby, to help you remember. Oh? You only met her a month ago or in 2025 when you got your deportation order. Nevermind!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 10, 2026 04:25 PM (WONhk)

531 Our family legend was the ancestor left when he found someone starved to death in his yard during the Potato famine. The German ancestor left when his side lost one of the civil wars in 1848. He joined the Union army in 1861 in an artillery battery with other Germans in Ohio.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

Ah, family lore! the best !
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 04:22 PM (g47mK)

His battery commander won a medal of Honor at Chancellorsville. About a 1 of 6 chance he was with him doing it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:25 PM (8avO+)

532 523 In a combi full of zombies?
Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:23 PM (XuXeR)

Fried-out combi on a hippie trail.

Posted by: Who moved my Vegemite sandwich? at February 10, 2026 04:25 PM (TbWk/)

533
You'd think this dude would be thrilled to leave racist Trumpist Ameriva amd return to Green Progressive Paradise.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&

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

All of them. Why don't they all want to escape this intolerant, racist hellhole and return to their welcoming, diverse countries of origin?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)

534 Ummm...didn't see a lot of hot chicks in Tasmania when I was there (back in the mid 80's), but the Australian chicks are smokin' hot.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 10, 2026 04:25 PM (XMwZJ)

535 528 Recent polling show Vivek fading and his GOP female primary challenger rising. Vivek has said a lot of shit over the years that doesn't play well outside the GOPe tent. Reminds me a lot of Bobby Jindal so if Vivek does win the governorship, I don't think it will go well with him.

DeWino had the advantage of a lot of peeps in the state GOP party owing him due to his long political career including the Senate and he was still a useless twat. Vivek won't.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:24 PM (2swu2)

=====

Just poking fun at the idea that Ohio Republicans would be aghast at not electing a true conservative Republican to the gorvenor's mansion since they've...never done that before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

536 Was breakfast a vegamite sandwich?

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 10, 2026 04:27 PM (azbh7)

537 517 Holy shit I think they deported ace back to Endor
Posted by: Imperial Customs Enforcement
=====
Well Ace came to us as a refugee from the Star Wars in the 2000's but never got around to getting the paperwork to stay here.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:27 PM (2swu2)

538 Left: every place is better than here

Also left: if you deport someone from here back to their better place you’re a Nazi

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:27 PM (y6810)

539 I forgot about that smarmy dork Jindal. Wish I hadn't remembered.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 04:27 PM (BI5O2)

540 Our family legend was the ancestor left when he found someone starved to death in his yard during the Potato famine. The German ancestor left when his side lost one of the civil wars in 1848. He joined the Union army in 1861 in an artillery battery with other Germans in Ohio.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

Mine were here before the revolution, and we have no lore to explain the arrival.

Although at least one side of my family, they were either "transported" here or fled criminal charges, given the history I know of the family.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 04:27 PM (zjgNU)

541 Fried-out combi"

Were there really that many VW busses (T2) there?
Hmm.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:28 PM (XuXeR)

542 Recent polling show Vivek fading and his GOP female primary challenger rising.

--

Who is the woman running?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 04:28 PM (qBdHI)

543 Just poking fun at the idea that Ohio Republicans would be aghast at not electing a true conservative Republican to the gorvenor's mansion since they've...never done that before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania were the core machine states for the GOP during and after the Civil War. They haven't changed much.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:28 PM (2swu2)

544 nudity

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 04:29 PM (jc0TO)

545 vegamite sandwich"

Hey, I thought it was ok. Marmite, too...

*shrugs*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 04:29 PM (XuXeR)

546 Nood SAVE ACT

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 04:29 PM (KN2gu)

547 539 I forgot about that smarmy dork Jindal. Wish I hadn't remembered.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
======
He broke Louisiana during his terms in office. Course it was already prebroken but Jindal didn't do much for them as his eyes were already on the presidency.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:29 PM (2swu2)

548 There’s some car enthusiast YouTuber running in the Ohio primary as well. He’s maga, supposedly.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 04:29 PM (y6810)

549 Who is the woman running?
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 04:28 PM (qBdHI)
______________________

Jim Traficant's scalp merkin?

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske)

550
I get a lot of texts from Vivek begging for money.

I didn't know who he was, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 04:30 PM (3ek7K)

551
Ace came to us as a refugee from the Star Wars in the 2000's but never got around to getting the paperwork to stay here.
Posted by: whig

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

But he was taking steps to get his citizenship and he runs a bodega that employs 10 Naboolians.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 04:30 PM (n7rxJ)

552 Casey Putsch. Dunno anything about her other than she is not Vivek. State AG is running too but seems not to be getting much traction.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (2swu2)

553
Vivek a strange case.

He was smart enough to play Bombay Trump.

But, so dumb, he started mouthing off on immigration stuff that was the polar opposite of Trump's political appeal.

Weird dude.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (iJfKG)

554 But he was taking steps to get his citizenship and he runs a bodega that employs 10 Naboolians.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Heh.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (2swu2)

555 Mine were here before the revolution, and we have no lore to explain the arrival.

Although at least one side of my family, they were either "transported" here or fled criminal charges, given the history I know of the family.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 04:27 PM (zjgNU)

Signing up to work for a term to pay for passage was also pretty common in those days.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:32 PM (8avO+)

556 I've never heard of a "plasterer" when we built our house. Drywall guys, yes. Did they look like the Grateful Dea doing acid on ladders? Yes, but they seemed to know their stuff and no complaints. So I am glad we did not tell our contractor to look for "plasterers." He would have wondered, and I hounded him to near insanity anyway due to a deadline of moving.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Plasterers and drywall guys are 2 different things. Plasterers are artists, drywall dudes are on vacation. I know how to do both. I would rather tape a room than plaster. Plaster is a bitch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 04:32 PM (snZF9)

557 "His battery commander won a medal of Honor at Chancellorsville. About a 1 of 6 chance he was with him doing it."

Thomas Jackson's attack that rolled up the Union right at Chancellorsville was initially launched on a German artillery unit. Apparently, they did not speak a lick of English, and were laughing at all the wildlife coming out of the brush until all the Johnny Rebs came running next,

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 10, 2026 04:32 PM (sFNX2)

558
Our family legend was the ancestor left when he found someone starved to death in his yard during the Potato famine. The German ancestor left when his side lost one of the civil wars in 1848. He joined the Union army in 1861 in an artillery battery with other Germans in Ohio.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

Family legend on the Mexican side of the family is that my great great grandfather was killed by Pancho Villa himself in Durango, which was frankly, bullshit. Villa was actually far to the north in Chihuahua at the time, but he'd sent a force through S Chihuahua and Durango to pillage the countryside and embarrass the local powers that be.

My GGGF sent the kids to stay with family over the border into Texas in 1910 when he saw the Revolution coming. He stayed in Durango because he worked for the railroad and owned a small silver mine. He was checking on the mine when Villa's men came through. They gut shot him after a short gunfight and left him in the mine to die slowly.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 04:35 PM (y9nCu)

559 "His battery commander won a medal of Honor at Chancellorsville. About a 1 of 6 chance he was with him doing it."

Thomas Jackson's attack that rolled up the Union right at Chancellorsville was initially launched on a German artillery unit. Apparently, they did not speak a lick of English, and were laughing at all the wildlife coming out of the brush until all the Johnny Rebs came running next,
Posted by: Martin Tell at February 10, 2026 04:32 PM (sFNX2)

Dilger's Battery I first Ohio Light was on the road to the south of that. Dilger had ridden forward and spotted the attack forming up, reported it to HQ which dismissed the warning. When the lines dissolved around him, Dilger kept the Rebs off the road by bouncing cannonballs down it and blasting the foliage to the sides. He then would drop back a bit and repeat. After a bit he sent all but one cannon to the rear and continued to delay until it was dark.

The unit also did delays at 2nd Bull Run and Gettysburg. Legend says they also potted Confederate Gen. "Bishop" Polk with the third shot before Kennesaw Mt in Georgia.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:40 PM (8avO+)

560 Could be that this Irishman was IRA but I think he's too young. Many people tho are escaping justice for one crime or the other by coming to the US, and he seems desperate enough to be one of those.

Posted by: Random PJ at February 10, 2026 04:41 PM (+jscL)

561 Having quite a few Irish relatives by marriage, understand the horror of being surrounded by them.

"Send back them!" Latino president once said on CNN.

Posted by: Don Lemon Needs to be sent to Gaza at February 10, 2026 05:00 PM (9A/Bk)

562 The Potato Famine has been over for 150+ years. Time to go home. Or as Olson Johnson said "We'll take the n****** and the c*****, but we don't want the Irish."

Posted by: Stacy0311 at February 10, 2026 05:04 PM (///6J)

563 The left again accidentally exposing itself whilst thinking it has a 'gotcha'.
It's like watching Wile.E.Coyote repeatedly running off that cliff.

Posted by: stv at February 10, 2026 05:26 PM (XMeSM)

564 Lets deport Gillespie with him so he can have Company on the way back

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 10, 2026 05:35 PM (wGqjj)

565 Plasterers and drywall guys are 2 different things. Plasterers are artists, drywall dudes are on vacation. I know how to do both. I would rather tape a room than plaster. Plaster is a bitch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 04:32 PM (snZF9)

Ah, thanks. Welp, he has two choices: to go plaster in Ireland (and that part of Ireland is gorgeous), or plaster in prison.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 10, 2026 05:42 PM (WONhk)

566 send him back to Ireland...with his new wife.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 05:48 PM (tV890)

567 558 Our family legend was the ancestor left when he found someone starved to death in his yard during the Potato famine. The German ancestor left when his side lost one of the civil wars in 1848. He joined the Union army in 1861 in an artillery battery with other Germans in Ohio. Posted by: Oldcat at February 10, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

Our family left when someone tried to put a bullet in the head of my grandfather. It grazed his skull instead.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 05:51 PM (tV890)

568 Easy solution here - he agrees to go home, and the U.S. agrees to process his applications. In a year or so he comes back legally.

By the by, the total number of illegal Irish arrested is around 8. Out of 10,000 suspected to be here.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 05:59 PM (tV890)

569 553
Vivek a strange case.

He was smart enough to play Bombay Trump.

But, so dumb, he started mouthing off on immigration stuff that was the polar opposite of Trump's political appeal.

Weird dude.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 04:31 PM (iJfKG)

It is stereotypical for people with "identity complications" to be unable to get past it. They can perfectly understand how the Peace of Westphalia worked, why coherent nation-states are so important to world peace and human thriving -- and then their brains short-circuit and they demand an exception for them and theirs to have unrestricted access to other people's countries, because otherwise they would have to face an unpleasant truth, that they're the ones stomping on others' ability to live by their own culture and values.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 06:24 PM (Sy6m/)

Newsom's Lawless "Law" Presuming to Strip ICE Agents of Their Masks So That His Anatifa Paramilitaries Can Bomb Their Houses Rejected by Even a Left-Wing Judge

Even a Clinton judge understands that until the left finds its courage and simply declares, like the Confederacy, that they are separating from the US, states are still bound by federal law in federal matters.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi
@AGPamBondi
ANOTHER key court victory thanks to our outstanding @TheJusticeDept attorneys.
Following our arguments, a district court in California BLOCKED the enforcement of a law that would have banned federal agents from wearing masks to protect their identities.
These federal agents are harassed, doxxed, obstructed, and attacked on a regular basis just for doing their jobs. We have no tolerance for it.
We will continue fighting and winning in court for President Trump's law-and-order agenda -- and we will ALWAYS have the backs of our great federal law enforcement officers.

This isn't as clear a victory as Bondi suggests, unfortunately. The judge does rule partly in favor of the Insurrectionist Left and says she might allow the law to be enforced, if it's enforced against all law enforcement officials.

That's nuts. Newsom does not have power over federal agents. He cannot direct them, he cannot hire or fire them, he cannot dictate how they do their jobs.

A federal judge on Monday blocked California from enforcing a new law that would have barred federal immigration agents from covering their faces during enforcement operations, handing the Trump administration a clear courtroom win and halting a Democrat-led attempt to rein in ICE and Border Patrol.
U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder ruled the mask ban cannot take effect because it exempted state and local law enforcement while singling out federal agents -- a distinction she said unlawfully discriminates against the federal government.

This is an error. Newsom also can't dictate how federal agents perform their jobs even if he extends this "law" to state agents.

The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall after a summer of high-profile ICE operations in Los Angeles, had been set to take effect earlier this year before the Trump administration sued.
Federal officials argued the measure would strip agents of basic safety protections amid rising harassment and threats tied to immigration enforcement. Snyder agreed, siding with Washington's position that California lacks the authority to selectively regulate how federal officers perform their duties.

"Selectivity" has noting to do with it. If George Wallace got a law passed that said neither federal nor state agents could integrate schools in the 1960s, the courts would not have said "Yes he can block federal judge-ordered integration, so long as he bars both state and federal agents from doing it."

It's absurd. The left is suddenly very States Rights and very neo-Confederate.

...
The judge blocked the mask ban itself -- which would have prohibited masks, neck gaiters, and other facial coverings -- but allowed a separate requirement to stand forcing officers, including federal agents, to wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number while on duty. Snyder also left Democrats a narrow path to try again, writing that California could pursue a mask ban if it applied equally to all law enforcement agencies.

Can't antifa track agents by badge number? Doesn't that defeat the entire point of protecting agents' identities?

If the left wants to go extra-judicial, well: We can go extra-judicial, too.

Do you like Right-Wing Death Squads? Because this is how you get Right-Wing Death Squads.

Meanwhile:

Remember when the left demanded all cops wear body cameras in the mentally-ill delusion that cops were randomly target Innocent Black Citizens and executing them for no good reason?

Well, that didn't turn out to be true. In fact, the BLM/antifa left has been very frustrated that cops' wearing of body cameras disprove almost all of their attempts to gin up a violent race-revolution with lies about cops just murdering people "for being black or brown."

And they've had a very hard time getting their new Race Hoaxes to go viral.

So you'll never guess what the left has decided:

That's right, cops must stop wearing body cameras, because body cameras invade the privacy of innocent black and brown people (and frustrate their efforts to hatch new race hoaxes).

Liberals are against body cameras now? Wasn't this an Obama thing after Ferguson. Why are body cameras bad especially if ICE are the gestapo...? pic.twitter.com/4G0D7ViiWf
— stricture (@bog_beef) February 4, 2026

🚨#BREAKING: Tennessee Highway Patrol has just released dashcam footage after a TN legislator claimed a person was "run over" by a state trooper during an anti-ICE protest.

However, the footage shows 3 people jumping in front of a police car and 1 person flopping onto the hood� pic.twitter.com/kCMGImlENd
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) February 5, 2026

A Muslim Somali monster spat on ICE agents and got arrested. She then claimed they "assaulted" her, "kidnapped" her, and kept calling her the n-word.

The bodycam video disproved this attempt to start a race war just to get out of a month's maximum time in county jail.

Body cameras also expose how racist and extremist white antifa members are:

Breaking Minneapolis: Rabid Responder unleashes "You're next N*GGER!" at a black ICE agent.

Vile racism pouring out the second they're challenged. Left's true colors on blast.

Minorities nothing but pawns for white Democrat overlords. Vote accordingly. pic.twitter.com/KnH3rhCEzJ
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) February 5, 2026

ICE agent to protester: �are you a man?�

😂😂😂😂 As if they know!!!

But the response is to call this black ICE agent the n word- with a hard R.

The left is full of deviants and racists. pic.twitter.com/o6kU9ZjwAe
— Kentucky Girl (@Notwokenow) February 3, 2026

This is one of the fastest Lib Virtuous Thing You Must Support Or You Are Bad to Actually, the Former Virtuous Thing Is Bad Now shifts I've ever seen. https://t.co/ziI5TyLQ52
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 9, 2026

They have no principles, only psyops.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:32 PM

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1 He’ll be back with something equally stupid.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (u73oe)

2 If you’re not FIRST, you’re last

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

3 Called em

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (u73oe)

4 Bwahaha

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2026 01:34 PM (u73oe)

5 "We really shouldn't have won AZ v USA, should we?"
-the Democrat Party

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

6 That's nuts. Newsom does not have power over federal agents. He cannot direct them, he cannot hire or fire them, he cannot dictate how they do their jobs.

Well, maybe he can't...

Posted by: Hawai at February 10, 2026 01:34 PM (wGerL)

7 "Newsom's Lawless "Law" Presuming to Strip ICE Agents of Their Masks So That His Antifa Paramilitaries Can Bomb Their Houses Rejected by Even a Left-Wing Judge"

Not today, Satan.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2026 01:34 PM (vbXSk)

8 Boned!

Posted by: Max Bone at February 10, 2026 01:34 PM (Mo3R6)

9 I could hear more about right wing death squads...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (xcxpd)

10 "In fact, the BLM/antifa left has been very frustrated that cops' wearing of body cameras disprove almost all of their attempts to gin up a violent race-revolution"

People who hadn't noticed things before, now notice them.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (N8ZBc)

11 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (kgE5c)

12 My sock fell off.

Posted by: Hawaiian judge at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (wGerL)

13 Ancient Bacon Status:

[X] Delicious
[_] Other than Delicious

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:36 PM (jc0TO)

14 Everything Dims do are psyops. They are corporate libertarians who also love government spending because it creates sinecure jobs. That's it. Their deranged supporters may think the revolution is around the corner, and those supporters might try to start said revolution in some blue shithole, but the politicians have no intention of doing anything but continuing to grift.

The definition of fascist economics by the way is for government and big business to work together (usually crushing small competitors along the way). This makes Dims fascistic even while they cling to pointless government jobs like they work at Gosplan in 1989.

Posted by: the lower depths at February 10, 2026 01:37 PM (Dg7ng)

15 Is it wrong to say Gavin Newsom should choke on a fvcking mask?

Wear the mask! Don't wear the mask!

How about I shove the mask down your throat?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 01:38 PM (RIvkX)

16 Body cameras likely encourage reasonable police behavior and save most cops from false allegations that otherwise would be swearing matches. The left hates them for the same reason they hate crime statistics and refuse to engage in transparent crime reporting in the news anymore. Everyone sees the elephant in the room.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 01:38 PM (9FEtL)

17 Do you like Right-Wing Death Squads? Because this is how you get Right-Wing Death Squads.

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I have seen no indication that the Right in the USA has the cahoonies to do "death squads".

You might get the occassion lone wolf killer but they are always immediately denounced by conservatives.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2026 01:39 PM (Vh9CX)

18 I don't see how body cameras could be banned. They are worn in public, for the most part, and you have no right to privacy in a public place. I think the democrats have hoist themselves once again.

Posted by: huerfano at February 10, 2026 01:39 PM (98kQX)

19 Mary Katharine Ham
@mkhammer
This is one of the fastest Lib Virtuous Thing You Must Support Or You Are Bad to Actually, the Former Virtuous Thing Is Bad Now shifts I've ever seen.
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This. They think everyone is too stupid to see the hypocrisy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 01:40 PM (RIvkX)

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18 I don't see how body cameras could be banned. They are worn in public, for the most part, and you have no right to privacy in a public place. I think the democrats have hoist themselves once again.

Posted by: huerfano at February 10, 2026 01:39 PM (98kQX)

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The left are dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

21 The first rule of right wing death squads is...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 01:40 PM (Cqx++)

22 Newsom: California! Cup your hands! I have to pee!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 01:40 PM (Kt19C)

23 2 If you’re not FIRST, you’re last

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

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Well, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

24 MSN News has reported that they have found no confirmation from ICE or Minneapolis police that a number of Minneapolis police officers have resigned from the force to work for ICE.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 01:41 PM (rbvCR)

25 I did not know ICE agents did not have body cameras on them.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:41 PM (g47mK)

26 The first rule of right wing death squads is...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 01:40 PM

Wear balaclavas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:41 PM (jc0TO)

27 Old: Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
New: Turn that off, my scabies is showing.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 10, 2026 01:42 PM (bNf8H)

28 Bodycam vids show how people really handle stressful situations, better than any psychologist could explain or demonstrate it. They are the closest thing to true anthropological research I can think of.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:42 PM (N8ZBc)

29 2 If you’re not FIRST, you’re last

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

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Well, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:41 PM

That aged...poorly.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 01:42 PM (kgE5c)

30 25 I did not know ICE agents did not have body cameras on them.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:41 PM (g47mK)

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Body cameras have real limitations.

Mostly, they film where the torso is facing, not what the officer is looking at.

That's why the DHS officer interacting with Good was using his phone to record her license plates. Also...he didn't have a body cam, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

31 That aged...poorly.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 01:42 PM

unlike bacon.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:43 PM (jc0TO)

32 Following our arguments, a district court in California BLOCKED the enforcement of a law that would have banned federal agents from wearing masks to protect their identities.

Damn. When you've even lost a left wing Kalifornicating judge...

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:43 PM (KN2gu)

33 Wait... I thought the left wanted us to ask their gender?

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 10, 2026 01:43 PM (9DoQP)

34 Never fail. The Schumer Shutdown Part II is headed your way. This is one of the demands from Democrats.

Congress should learn to just smoke these m’fr’s.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 01:43 PM (Py+sj)

35 oh well! the Cory's didn't quite make it. Silver for the USA, gold for the Swedish brother/sister duo in curling

fun match tho!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 01:43 PM (emBoF)

36 This isn't as clear a victory as Bondi suggests, unfortunately. The judge does rule partly in favor of the Insurrectionist Left and says she might allow the law to be enforced,

if it's enforced against all law enforcement officials.

SWAT & local drug cops just quit.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:44 PM (KN2gu)

37 If you’re not FIRST, you’re last
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

Please turn off the lights before you leave.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 01:44 PM (8Xy/A)

38 That aged...poorly.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 01:42 PM

unlike bacon.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:43 PM (jc0TO)

Aged bacon does not exist.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 01:44 PM (dK+Kv)

39 34 Never fail. The Schumer Shutdown Part II is headed your way. This is one of the demands from Democrats.

doesn't really matter

maybe it will shut down the TSA which everyone will enjoy

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 01:44 PM (emBoF)

40 32 Following our arguments, a district court in California BLOCKED the enforcement of a law that would have banned federal agents from wearing masks to protect their identities.

Damn. When you've even lost a left wing Kalifornicating judge...

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:43 PM (KN2gu)

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In other crazy CA court news, the 9th Circuit struck down a ruling from a district court saying that Trump couldn't let TPS expire on some previous classes at issue (I can't remember the countries involved off the top of my head) in the last few days.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

41 A Muslim Somali ~~monster~~ spat on ICE agents and got arrested

Omit needless words

Posted by: Strunk and White at February 10, 2026 01:44 PM (D0HYP)

42 2 If you’re not FIRST, you’re last
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Well, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

He was the first to be the last.

Posted by: Cheap Trick at February 10, 2026 01:45 PM (5ClO2)

43 There's been a change, First! is really the red number in this box.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 01:45 PM (n5tGW)

44 42 2 If you’re not FIRST, you’re last
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Well, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

He was the first to be the last.

Posted by: Cheap Trick at February 10, 2026 01:45 PM (5ClO2)

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Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

45 2 If you’re not FIRST, you’re last

Last!

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 01:45 PM (Y1sOo)

46 In other crazy CA court news, the 9th Circuit struck down a ruling from a district court saying that Trump couldn't let TPS expire on some previous classes at issue (I can't remember the countries involved off the top of my head) in the last few days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:44 PM (GBKbO)
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Was it about the new cover sheets?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 01:46 PM (bxiOq)

47 Bodycams also reveal that our population is poorly educated in the law. Too many people fallaciously think they have a right to refuse to get out their car when ordered, and a right to resist lawful arrest. That shit should be taught in elementary and high schools.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:46 PM (N8ZBc)

48 Bodycam vids show how people really handle stressful situations, better than any psychologist could explain or demonstrate it. They are the closest thing to true anthropological research I can think of.
Posted by: gp

That's why the left at the local level doesn't favor them anymore. Seems it was showing "their people" in a piss poor light.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:46 PM (KN2gu)

49
The judge does rule partly in favor of the Insurrectionist Left and says she might allow the law to be enforced, if it's enforced against all law enforcement officials.

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

Really stupid ruling but a loss for Newsom in practice.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 01:46 PM (n7rxJ)

50 I don't understand the fabric of Newsom's effort. He's attempting to force Federal Law Enforcement not to wear masks while the state 100% accepts anyone wearing surgical masks (for whatever reason since COVID isn't the exclusive reason for this).

In fact, in some settings, California is still strongly encouraging people to wear masks. Am I to understand that the "intent" of wearing a mask can be legislated?

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 01:47 PM (dIske)

51 46 In other crazy CA court news, the 9th Circuit struck down a ruling from a district court saying that Trump couldn't let TPS expire on some previous classes at issue (I can't remember the countries involved off the top of my head) in the last few days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:44 PM (GBKbO)
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Was it about the new cover sheets?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 01:46 PM (bxiOq)

======

The old ones certainly look better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

52 So, the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.

Posted by: Jesus on Internet Commenting Especially at February 10, 2026 01:47 PM (9FEtL)

53 I don't understand the fabric of Newsom's effort. He's attempting to force Federal Law Enforcement not to wear masks while the state 100% accepts anyone wearing surgical masks (for whatever reason since COVID isn't the exclusive reason for this).

In fact, in some settings, California is still strongly encouraging people to wear masks. Am I to understand that the "intent" of wearing a mask can be legislated?
Posted by: Orson

Wear a mask. Open carry into a bank. What a country!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (KN2gu)

54 This is a bigger victory than it appears. Yes, the slimy judge left openings to try again. But CA agreed not to enforce the law while the case was pending, and now they lose the point.

So the ban on masks was never enforced, and now can't be enforced. By the time CA amends the law to try again, the left will have moved on to something newer and dumber.

As for the badge numbers, I think they are already wearing them, or at least they are in the vids I've seen. But the badge numbers are of limited value. It's the masks that were the big play, and CA lost.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

55 >> Bodycam vids show how people really handle stressful situations,

Somebody was allegedly once caught on a helmet cam wondering if underneath a burka some chick had a nice behind. A whole conversation ensued from there. Allegedly.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (Py+sj)

56 The old ones certainly look better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
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Bill Lumbergh hardest hit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (bxiOq)

57 "Bodycams also reveal that our population is poorly educated in the law."

Trespassing. Too many people believe that a property owner has to have a good reason to trespass somebody. Nope, they can do it for ANY reason. This crops up over and over on bodycams. Teach it in the schools, for cripes sake.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (N8ZBc)

58 Mostly, they film where the torso is facing, not what the officer is looking at.

the threads always end up talking about boobs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (n5tGW)

59 It's not just first and last, it's also somewhat. And maybe. And just about

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (yI5mB)

60 Blessed are the cheesemakers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (jc0TO)

61 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

The saga on our neighborhood FB page continues....

Apparently, I am a weirdo because I don't condone people defacing public property by affixing stickers with the word "ICE" under the word "STOP" on stop signs around the neighborhood.

I keep trying to tell these idiots that allowing "small" things like that to go unchallenged only leads to neighborhood decay - like it was when we first moved into this neighborhood.

It took a LOT of vigilance by us old-timers who have been here for 40+ years to bring this neighborhood to a desirable location to live and raise families. We didn't allow defacement of public or private property to happen - we nipped it in the bud whenever we saw it starting to take hold.

But apparently I am the bad guy because I support ICE - or as these yabows refer to them "kidnappers and murderers" - and not property crime.

I would argue further with them, but it's like talking to a brick wall. Their "feelz" are more important than my facts.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 01:49 PM (SRRAx)

62 18 I don't see how body cameras could be banned. They are worn in public, for the most part, and you have no right to privacy in a public place. I think the democrats have hoist themselves once again.

Posted by: huerfano at February 10, 2026 01:39 PM (98kQX)

Body cameras worn by law enforcement officers can be banned via law or policy order. Same way they were required to be worn. You can bet your bottom dollar that if a Democrat wins the White House the DHS Secretary will immediately issue a policy directive that ICE and Border patrol are required to wear body cams during certain duties, and prohibited doing so during other duties. To protect Democrat client groups in both cases.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 01:49 PM (5rh/l)

63 >>They have no principles, only psyops.

The Argument of Utility is Weaksauce.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2026 01:49 PM (gH8T+)

64 Bodycams and dashcams have been most revealing. The criminal element of all races is off the hook and in nearly every case POs do the best job they can. The BLM Summer of Hate made many black folks think they can lie, steal, resist, with impunity. The pendulum has swung back the other way and Fatigue is growing. Miscreants are still making terrible choices and in places where the judges are competent, their actions are bearing the diseased, rotten fruit they deserve.

Posted by: Der Spiegel at February 10, 2026 01:49 PM (oftw2)

65 It's Taser Tuesday on Shane's Dumb Criminals!

https://youtu.be/BDJiT0dkHgY

Shane's commentary adds that je ne sais quoi.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2026 01:49 PM (wVcYX)

66 In other crazy CA court news, the 9th Circuit struck down a ruling from a district court saying that Trump couldn't let TPS expire

Did it have the coversheet?

Posted by: Bill Lumbergh at February 10, 2026 01:50 PM (D0HYP)

67 Willow'd (I don't know why it's called that)

335 Bad news for Sparkle Beach Ken.

Is it? Schiff and Swalwell are both creeps. This is like "Dahmer endorses Gacy".
Newsom isn't a creep, or at least is a sight better at hiding it than those two.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (gKWVE)

Gavin Newsom has the micro-expressions of a stone-cold sociopath -- which is to say, none. When he debated Ron DeSantis in 2023, that was the one thing that stuck out the most: no matter what Ron said, Gavin had a perfectly frozen smile that never reached his eyes.

I was actually relieved by this, because I hadn't really watched him before, and I was afraid he was slicker than that. A full-blown personality disorder is a disability that its holder cannot pause at will, and I think that a lot of normies (of both sexes) will be more creeped out the more they watch him. That was the moment where I decided that he would probably not be able to make the leap to national politics, unless as a foil and a footnote.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 01:50 PM (Sy6m/)

68 "Hands UP!"

"Don't Film Me, Bro!"

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2026 01:50 PM (gH8T+)

69 Some states have laws against filming people without their consent. You could very well be recording your own crime

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 01:52 PM (Py+sj)

70 The bodycam issue proved that the Left does not live in reality.

They thought it would OBVIOUSLY show how racist the police are.

And now, when faced with actual evidence, do they address their priors and change their position?

HEAVENS NO!! The answer is we must get rid of the cameras that provide the evidence against their idea that the police are always racist.

If only we had a word for someone whose belief will not be shaken EVEN when faced with contrary evidence...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 01:52 PM (zjgNU)

71 In the end, what all this body cam footage over the past few years has shown is that cops should be shooting a lot more people than they do.

Posted by: Dirty Henry at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (qUkBO)

72 The issue is never the issue.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (BI5O2)

73
Federal agencies have to simply ignore state laws that conflict with federal law, no matter what temporary support a low level judge provides.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (azNOR)

74 Willow'd (I don't know why it's called that)

It was named for a very nice poster by the handle of "Willow" who inevitably would both just after we got a new thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (8Xy/A)

75 The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (jc0TO)

76 Willow'd (I don't know why it's called that)

Willow was a commenter who was famous for posting a remark RIGHT AFTER a nood was called. So bringing over that last two or three comments immediately from the last thread became to be known as Willowed.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (KN2gu)

77 I saw Right Wing Death Squad open for Rammstein in 96 at The Roxy

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (/6GbT)

78 "60 Blessed are the cheesemakers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (jc0TO) "

All of Wisconsin agrees!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (Cjt/F)

79 The left pushing for all cops to wear body-worn cameras is probably the biggest political own goal in history.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (5aZAZ)

80 Jinx.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (jc0TO)

81 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (8Xy/A)

Meant that she would post after a new thread was called.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (8Xy/A)

82 79 The left pushing for all cops to wear body-worn cameras is probably the biggest political own goal in history.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (5aZAZ)

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Nah.

The 1986 amnesty signed by Reagan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

83 But how will I feel when State antifa paramilitaries start "enforcing" Democrat Law while masked? I suppose we cross that chicken when it gets to the bridge.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (sSB0N)

84 >>>The Trump administration is planning to wipe away the foundation that supported Obama-era regulations on greenhouse gasses, according to a new report.

>>>According to The Wall Street Journal, the so-called “endangerment finding” of 2009 that labeled six greenhouse gasses as a threat to public health and welfare will be overturned.

- TGP

Hello, diesel hiluxes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 01:55 PM (dK+Kv)

85 Trump needs to respond by executive order outlawing the use of Hair Gel in public in California.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at February 10, 2026 01:55 PM (ssz2a)

86 Some states have laws against filming people without their consent. You could very well be recording your own crime
Posted by: Marcus T

Don't need consent if in public.
1st Amendment. All day, every day.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:55 PM (KN2gu)

87 The left pushing for all cops to wear body-worn cameras is probably the biggest political own goal in history.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (5aZAZ)

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Nah.

The 1986 amnesty signed by Reagan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at Februar

Nah. Stealing 2020 and reenergizing The Trumpinator while giving him 4 years to plan his response.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:56 PM (sSB0N)

88 One of the most enjoyable hobbies in the modern era is watching any of the thousands of police bodycam videos posted to youTube every day. it's unreal, mind-boggling. The bodycams reveal that the people they're arresting are crazy, evil, retarded and brimming with high-self-esteem, sanctimonious rage, violence, hatred and just all-around horribleness.

The stuff cops have to deal with on an hourly basis would drive most normal people to become Travis Bickles.

What always makes me laugh is when the criminal finally gets cuffed (after doing everything possible to resist), and then (inevitably) goes on a mile-a-minute explosive tirade hurling triumphant declarations of victory combined with vicious abuse at the cops:

"You white-ass-cracker! That';s all you got? What's your badge number? I'm suing y'all I CAN'T BREATHE! I'll get you for murder, you small-dick loser! Took cops to cuff me -- y'all are weak? Take these off and we'll see who's in charge! I'll be out in an hour, and my homies will take you out! Imma rape your wife! Hahahahaha! You can't do shit to me!!!"

Nearby every video has a tirade like that. The cops just sit there and take it silently.

Posted by: zombie at February 10, 2026 01:56 PM (se8lQ)

89 Body cameras have real limitations.

Mostly, they film where the torso is facing, not what the officer is looking at.

That's why the DHS officer interacting with Good was using his phone to record her license plates. Also...he didn't have a body cam, of course.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

compared with nothing it is an improvement

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:56 PM (g47mK)

90 The left pushing for all cops to wear body-worn cameras is probably the biggest political own goal in history.
Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (5aZAZ)

It's a bad one for sure - but I'm going with "setting up Trump to be killed in a Serpico-style hit, failing at that, then doing a palace coup at the last minute to install the Bay Area blow job queen at the top of the ticket" as the worst one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 01:56 PM (BI5O2)

91 83 But how will I feel when State antifa paramilitaries start "enforcing" Democrat Law while masked?
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Antifa is just an idea. (Smug.)

Posted by: Fey Wray at February 10, 2026 01:56 PM (qUkBO)

92 I always wanted to invent a Penis Cam. You know, put a little helmet cam on that sucker and let him go wild. You could do a whole YouTube channel. Send him on a bunch of exploits. Maybe do movie reviews. Hell that would be better than TJM, but that’s not a high bar. Lolololol. Jk relax.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (7S15B)

93 Do you like Right-Wing Death Squads? Because this is how you get Right-Wing Death Squads.

Antifa and BLM have murdered people. The right has done nothing extra judicial about it and honestly won't.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (sKqQm)

94 87 Nah. Stealing 2020 and reenergizing The Trumpinator while giving him 4 years to plan his response.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:56 PM (sSB0N)

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What would America be like today if Reagan had rejected the amnesty in toto and said, "I'm deporting everyone instead"?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

95 But the judge allowed the state to enforce a separate law that requires all law enforcement officers, including federal ones, to display visible identification. Was the mask portion a naive miscalculation? Hard to believe if they purposefully targeted ICE.

It's because 98% of LEOs aren't cosplaying in balaclava like they're the terrorists in Counter-strike. Can't tell ICE from ISIS these days.

Are you fucking kidding me? What federal law grants anonymity to law enforcement? Hot take: masking = quartering. Where my 3A peeps at?

You'd have to be either stupid AF or in someone's pocket to allow law enforcement agents to not identify themselves.

this sorta looks like a 10th amendment issue. There's nothing at the federal level permitting federal agents to operate anonymously. The masks are not a required component of any uniform. And anti-mask laws have been in place for decades without challenge. So, it would seem that this judge is just straight up blocking the state's power to execute their own laws. The most I can find to the contrary is ice policy. But since when has policy trumped law?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (JCZqz)

96 I could hear more about right wing death squads...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (xcxpd)

Back in the Obama days someone on the .03 slice of the internet posted a story that posited that 1000 people disappearing from America would solve 90 percent of our problems.
I never looked to see if there was a "list" of sorts because you had to suspect glowies online even in the wayback when glowies wasn't a term.

Looking in the rearview, I suspect the list may have had more than its fair share of Jooooos in it.

Posted by: Michael Stipe at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (Hx0tZ)

97 Trump needs to respond by executive order outlawing the use of Hair Gel in public in California.

Have ICE raid the French Laundry. That hits Newsom where it hurts.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (2ocoG)

98 Women's Hockey. USA vs. Beavers in a Group A match starts in about 10 minutes. If the USA wins they will be 4-0 leaving Canada 2-1 with one game left to play.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (8ZVmQ)

99 All this and this last weekend I was in San Francisco so missed some things like the congress asshole telling minorities they were in the majority so go take things over.
Am I right? Did some shit really say that?
These asshats will push and push.
They want a Kent State moment.
What they're going to get is a Ft Sumpter moment.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

100 That was the moment where I decided that he would probably not be able to make the leap to national politics, unless as a foil and a footnote.
Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 01:50 PM (Sy6m/)
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Election fraud + right flight makes all Dem politics local

Posted by: mrp at February 10, 2026 01:58 PM (rj6Yv)

101 Nah.

The 1986 amnesty signed by Reagan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't think that qualifies as an own goal. Reagan got outmaneuvered and straight-up lied to by the democrats. That was an offensive goal by the Dems due to poor defense by the R's.

In the case of body-worn cameras, the left explicitly argued for them because they just KNEW it would prove that cops go out hunting black folk for sport, and the cameras have proved basically the opposite.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:58 PM (5aZAZ)

102 >>> Can't antifa track agents by badge number?

Not if you each agent a 6+ digit badge number that changes with every missuon every day.
HQ, if guven the date and badge number, knows who was there.

Everybody else? Fvck you.

Posted by: Operator Error at February 10, 2026 01:58 PM (YZMsH)

103 I miss Willow

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 01:58 PM (xcxpd)

104 95 this sorta looks like a 10th amendment issue. There's nothing at the federal level permitting federal agents to operate anonymously. The masks are not a required component of any uniform. And anti-mask laws have been in place for decades without challenge. So, it would seem that this judge is just straight up blocking the state's power to execute their own laws. The most I can find to the contrary is ice policy. But since when has policy trumped law?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (JCZqz)

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"I've never read the 10th Amendment."
-a translation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

105 57 "Bodycams also reveal that our population is poorly educated in the law."

Trespassing. Too many people believe that a property owner has to have a good reason to trespass somebody. Nope, they can do it for ANY reason. This crops up over and over on bodycams. Teach it in the schools, for cripes sake.
Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:48 PM (N8ZBc)
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The confusion surfaces based on the premise of the property. Some locations will have an invitee status, and trespassing doesn't apply until they exceed their permissions. That's a debatable situation. And, in many cases it is implied. Not always easy to prove. Minors are genuinely excluded from understanding of private property tresspassing up to a certain age.

What I'm saying is that trespassing isn't a black and white issue at all. For example, going into an open store is invitee status with permissions. Wandering back into the "employees only" room is trespassing. But, it must be proved. That's a whole lot of paperwork for a misdemeanor that might have been someone looking for the restroom.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 01:58 PM (dIske)

106 Back in the Obama days someone on the .03 slice of the internet posted a story that posited that 1000 people disappearing from America would solve 90 percent of our problems.

In most cities if you could lock up maybe 150 people crime would drop to 1950s levels. Soros DAs and judges of course have the specific job of keeping those people on the streets.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 01:58 PM (2ocoG)

107
What would America be like today if Reagan had rejected the amnesty in toto and said, "I'm deporting everyone instead"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

Not much different. When every member of both parties wants something like a fat kid wants cake, it's going to happen. It might have bought a few years, no more.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 01:59 PM (BI5O2)

108 Death Squads -

Do not confuse police death squads with right wing death squads.

Posted by: Operator Error at February 10, 2026 01:59 PM (YZMsH)

109 One of the most enjoyable hobbies in the modern era is watching any of the thousands of police bodycam videos posted to youTube every day.

When having cops where bodycams was first discussed it was generally anti-police people demanding them and pro-police people not wanting them.

The general belief was that it would paint cops in a bad light. Now, its not that police have never gotten in trouble for what's shown on their body cams, but as you note overwhelmingly it is has been actually proving that cops are generally doing a better job then people thought...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

110 But how will I feel when State antifa paramilitaries start "enforcing" Democrat Law while masked?

All I will feel is a little recoil.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 01:59 PM (2WIwB)

111 96 I could hear more about right wing death squads...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (xcxpd)

Back in the Obama days someone on the .03 slice of the internet posted a story that posited that 1000 people disappearing from America would solve 90 percent of our problems.
I never looked to see if there was a "list" of sorts because you had to suspect glowies online even in the wayback when glowies wasn't a term.

Looking in the rearview, I suspect the list may have had more than its fair share of Jooooos in it.
Posted by: Michael Stipe at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (Hx0tZ)

Long ago, Col. Krautman said (IIRC) that removing about 5k bad actors would mend the problems America was experiences. That number is probably a lot higher now, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 02:00 PM (xcxpd)

112 101 I don't think that qualifies as an own goal. Reagan got outmaneuvered and straight-up lied to by the democrats. That was an offensive goal by the Dems due to poor defense by the R's.

In the case of body-worn cameras, the left explicitly argued for them because they just KNEW it would prove that cops go out hunting black folk for sport, and the cameras have proved basically the opposite.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:58 PM (5aZAZ)

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Reagan's signature was the final kick into the goal that ended up counting massively against the GOP, creating a wholescale incentive structure for people to come and just wait for the next amnesty.

It's honestly amazing we never got another one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

113 What would America be like today if Reagan had rejected the amnesty in toto and said, "I'm deporting everyone instead"?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

Hard to say. There was plenty of time to reverse. Look at what "Biden" did in just four years. 2020 was an epic own goal and they could have just left it and let 2nd term Trump twist and wither away on the back of covid and all their other bs while keeping Albatross Pence and Barr around his neck.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:00 PM (sSB0N)

114 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM

More proof that Peak Stupid will never be reached.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 02:00 PM (kgE5c)

115 Its kind of funny, has anyone mentioned the story about a ring door camera commercial for the superpower that was a bit too Big Brother?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:00 PM (zZu0s)

116 But how will I feel when State antifa paramilitaries start "enforcing" Democrat Law while masked?

All I will feel is a little recoil.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 01:59 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 02:00 PM (jc0TO)

117 Their "feelz" are more important than my facts.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

One of the most succinct definitions of leftist "thought" I've ever seen.

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2026 02:01 PM (5ClO2)

118 overwhelmingly it is has been actually proving that cops are generally doing a better job then people thought...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

Or it's making them do a better job......

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:01 PM (sSB0N)

119 Are you fucking kidding me? What federal law grants anonymity to law enforcement? Hot take: masking = quartering. Where my 3A peeps at?

This has to be the dumbest take on policing, the 3A, or law in general I've ever seen.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

120 Wait.
I thought the Current Thing was Old Lady Guthrie.
What happened to her?

Posted by: Just got here at February 10, 2026 02:01 PM (blb7N)

121 88 One of the most enjoyable hobbies in the modern era is watching any of the thousands of police bodycam videos posted to youTube every day.
Posted by: zombie at February 10, 2026 01:56 PM (se8lQ)
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Donut Operator is one of my favorite channels.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 02:01 PM (5aZAZ)

122 >> All I will feel is a little recoil.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 01:59 PM (2WIwB)

During the wounding phase. Once the metal rod comes out, the workout begins.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 10, 2026 02:02 PM (7S15B)

123 Or it's making them do a better job......

That is possible as well, though my memory on the use of workplace cams in general is that they only produce a short term increase in due diligence...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:02 PM (sKqQm)

124 EFF, June 2025, Criminalizing Masks at Protests is Wrong

In part, "Moreover, wearing a mask is a perfectly legitimate surveillance self-defense practice during a protest. There has been a massive proliferation of surveillance camera networks, face recognition technology, and databases of personal information. There also is a long law enforcement’s history of harassing and surveilling people for publicly criticizing or opposing law enforcement practices and other government policies. What’s more, non-governmental actors may try to identify protesters in order to retaliate against them, for example, by limiting their employment opportunities.

All of this may chill our willingness to speak publicly or attend a protest in a cause we believe in. ..."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 02:02 PM (NFX2v)

125 I'm trying to figure out how a body camera is a hands-free killing tool. How exactly does someone kill somebody with a body camera?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 10, 2026 02:02 PM (FMtrg)

126 It's because 98% of LEOs aren't cosplaying in balaclava
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Mmmmmmm, balaclava......

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:03 PM (sSB0N)

127 I don't think that qualifies as an own goal. Reagan got outmaneuvered and straight-up lied to by the democrats. That was an offensive goal by the Dems due to poor defense by the R's.

In the case of body-worn cameras, the left explicitly argued for them because they just KNEW it would prove that cops go out hunting black folk for sport, and the cameras have proved basically the opposite.
Posted by: ballistic
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Republicans were in on the Simpson Mazzoli bill. The Senate was Republican at the time (the Simpson in the bill was Alan Simpson from WY who was majority whip for the GOP) and Reagan coming from California which even then had a fair chunk of the illegals, did not view them as a particular threat. There was, as always, a demand for illegals for crops, etc. in California, TX, AZ, etc. so the cheap labor Chamber types wanted it.

Like Reagan as governor signing onto an abortion bill in CA, Reagan was complex and often did things in hindsight that were as GOPe as anything else was during the period.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:03 PM (2swu2)

128 this sorta looks like a 10th amendment issue.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (JCZqz)

"This sorta looks like a vagina."
- Some Reddit neckbeard that has never seen a vagina

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 02:03 PM (5aZAZ)

129
In the case of body-worn cameras, the left explicitly argued for them because they just KNEW it would prove that cops go out hunting black folk for sport, and the cameras have proved basically the opposite.

Posted by: ballistic

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Further proof of their stupidity. They really don't know their "enemy." Another reason why Jussie Smollett's story was so bad. "This is MAGA country!" + a noose. Suuuure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:04 PM (n7rxJ)

130 I would argue further with them, but it's like talking to a brick wall. Their "feelz" are more important than my facts.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 01:49 PM (SRRAx)

14% of the illegals deported are arrested for serious crimes. That is seven out of fifty. That is a really high number, about 10x the number for the general population. Slavery is not worth that level of criminal behavior

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 02:04 PM (rbvCR)

131 Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:02 PM (sKqQm)

It was worth noting, the bottom line is the Left lies about everything and is wrong 99% of the time. Overall the whole brutality and especially racism shit was always a big nothing burger in the modern era.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:04 PM (sSB0N)

132 It's because 98% of LEOs aren't cosplaying in balaclava
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Mmmmmmm, balaclava......
Posted by: ...

Too many l's & aww, nevermind.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 02:04 PM (KN2gu)

133 61
The saga on our neighborhood FB page continues....

Apparently, I am a weirdo because I don't condone people defacing public property by affixing stickers with the word "ICE" under the word "STOP" on stop signs around the neighborhood

Maybe you should get some of those same stickers and put them on the bumpers of the offenders' cars. Seems like the same exact crime, so they shouldn't complain about it

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 10, 2026 02:04 PM (aVO1v)

134 119 Are you fucking kidding me? What federal law grants anonymity to law enforcement? Hot take: masking = quartering. Where my 3A peeps at?

This has to be the dumbest take on policing, the 3A, or law in general I've ever seen.
Posted by: 18-1
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It is because most people view documents now as Pez dispensers. You shake it up and get a random nugget to throw out there. Same with the Bible. I despise people like that.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:05 PM (2swu2)

135 71 In the end, what all this body cam footage over the past few years has shown is that cops should be shooting a lot more people than they do.

Posted by: Dirty Henry at February 10, 2026 01:53 PM (qUkBO)

The Libtards expected white cops wearing body cams would continue the brutal, raycisss, murderous, acts that Libtards KNEW they were routinely committing. They apparently believed white cops would be unable to stop their lawless ways against blacks.

They think they know everything about human behaviors. They were once again shown to be idiots, much more stupid than the cops they h@ted. They failed to realize most people, when knowing they are observed and recorded, take care to act within terms of employment and laws.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 02:05 PM (5rh/l)

136 Can't remember where the article was from, so I'll summarize: Sob story after sob story about how people's "worst moments" are being monetized on YouTube by body/dash cam channels. Pretty much over a thousand words of "Oh no! The consequences of my own actions!"

Posted by: pookysgirl is still trying to teach her kids cause and effect at February 10, 2026 02:05 PM (Wt5PA)

137 I was watching the body cam video of the cops getting in a gun fight with the "afghan refugee" from the spring of last year.

The cop pulled the guy over for expired registration and notes the Afghani has a gun. He calmly asks for license and registration which the Afghani refuses to give - instead he listed all of his problems - taxes, government paperwork, the cost of living, and claims it is all the cop's fault for bringing him here to the US.

Eventually the refugee reaches for his gun and dies when the cops return fire. But it was the most restrained and polite policing I've ever seen to that point. If I had a jihadi figdeting with a gun and saying all his problems were my fault I would just keep polity asking for his ID...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

138 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 02:05 PM (Ia/+0)

139 When the Left hunted people (J6ers) for Federal punishment -

The Role of "Sedition Hunters"
Citizen Investigators: A group of online, often anonymous, volunteers—sometimes called "sedition hunters"—have used open-source intelligence (OSI), such as videos and social media posts, to identify participants in the Jan. 6th attack.
Assistance to FBI: These individuals create dossiers, including identifying information and locations, and provide this evidence directly to the FBI. The FBI has acknowledged that this public assistance has been significant.
Motivations: Supporters of this approach argue it is necessary for accountability and to "hold people responsible."

(AI Overview, in part)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 02:06 PM (NFX2v)

140 Further proof of their stupidity. They really don't know their "enemy." Another reason why Jussie Smollett's story was so bad. "This is MAGA country!" + a noose. Suuuure.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at Februar

The Dave Chappelle skit on this really is perfect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

141 I’m betting all the white people can turn that little Chinese guy from Texas making threats into a bag a pot stickers before he even gets started.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 10, 2026 02:06 PM (7S15B)

142 Did Antifa have to unmask as well?
I bet not

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 02:06 PM (Ia/+0)

143 Are you fucking kidding me? What federal law grants anonymity to law enforcement? Hot take: masking = quartering. Where my 3A peeps at?

This has to be the dumbest take on policing, the 3A, or law in general I've ever seen.
Posted by: 18-1

More proof that Peak Stupid will never be reached.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I got all those unbelievably stupid comments from just one moderate-sized thread of about 100 comments, and there were at least a dozen to choose from. It was from r/law "a place to discuss developments in the law and the legal profession." Experts and those interested in the law. And they love Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson lol.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 02:06 PM (JCZqz)

144 What would America be like today if Reagan had rejected the amnesty in toto and said, "I'm deporting everyone instead"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
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RR didn't open the borders to each and all. The Mexican drug cartels were in their infancy, and the US economy was booming by 1984. Globalization was just gathering steam and the main trade deficit villain was Japan. A different time with different faces.

Posted by: mrp at February 10, 2026 02:07 PM (rj6Yv)

145 Can't remember where the article was from, so I'll summarize: Sob story after sob story about how people's "worst moments" are being monetized on YouTube by body/dash cam channels.

I get the notion that people shouldn't be perma-cancelled for doing something stupid one time.

But if it reaches the point where its on a cop bodycam haven't we gone from something small and stupid to something more significant?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:07 PM (sKqQm)

146 This is MAGA country!" + a noose. Suuuure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:04 PM (n7rxJ)

The whole point of that op - would you believe - was to turn the word MAGA into an easy slur for the election.

Up to that point the Left had had a hard time branding us and Trump because he was so slippery, and his slogan at that poont was inimitably cool.

By globally deploying the phony visual of that word (which had hardly been used by them at the time to describe us) associated with a noose and bleach going around a random black person's neck was perfect.

And it stuck - even though the whole thing was very obvious bs. They are still riding the high off it. They didn't have the easy pigeonhole for us until then. The words of the hoax were chosen very carefully by some focus group somewhere. Jussie was Kamala's boy.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:08 PM (sSB0N)

147 143 Are you fucking kidding me? What federal law grants anonymity to law enforcement? Hot take: masking = quartering. Where my 3A peeps at?

This has to be the dumbest take on policing, the 3A, or law in general I've ever seen.
Posted by: 18-1

I would like to subscribe to that gentlepersyn's newsletter.

Posted by: Justice Jumanji at February 10, 2026 02:08 PM (9FEtL)

148 Speaking of masks, the FBI released photos of the Guthrie kidnapper...

It's hard to tell if it's a female trying to be a male or a male...but there should be identifying weapon, clothes, and possibly glasses...

Although Ring coughing up footage that shouldn't exist without paying for the service is a thing that some subscribers might want to know. Apparently, they turn off your service, but they don't turn off your service all the way...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 10, 2026 02:09 PM (tOcjL)

149 Hmmm ... the links in the post above are making a very odd argument about why body cams are a bad idea. Insane, even.

The links seem to think that if police aren't wearing bodycams, they will be holding camera phones to record. They will thus have at least one less hand to beat the shit outta brown people with. But wearing bodycams means they can record video with both hands free to do their dastardly violence.

No, I'm serious. This is their argument. See the link above: bodycam "equates to a chest mounted phone case so that ICE agents can brutalize while filming hands-free."

These people are seriously mentally ill.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

150 And they love Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson lol.

Fundamentally the left approaches law with an take that purely looks at the ends.

They want illegals to be allowed to stay, collect welfare, and vote. So if they can reduce the effectiveness of ICE by any means then that's what they'll claim the law is.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:09 PM (sKqQm)

151 Just woke up from my nap and missed the earlier threads.

In my understanding of the latest tranche of released Epstein documentation our 'dintdunuffin' friend has come up:

A file lists Wexner as a possible "co-conspirator" or "secondary co-conspirator" in Epstein's 2019 trafficking investigation. It notes "limited evidence" of his involvement and mentions he was served a subpoena. This document was highlighted after Rep. Massie (R-KY) pointed out redactions; Deputy AG Todd Blanche quickly unredacted Wexner's name on February 10, 2026, stating it already appeared thousands of times in the files and "DOJ is hiding nothing."

Documents discuss Wexner's attempts to hire defense counsel in 2019, bank records from JPMC showing ties extended beyond the 2007 severance date he previously claimed, and notes on his cooperation with investigators. Wexner's name appears unredacted over 1,000 times across the files.

No proof of guilt of course BUT more than a few of us have been pointing this finger for a long, long time.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 02:09 PM (cYBz/)

152 I laughed at the police body cam footage of the girl shoplifting at a mall, then as she ran away she looked back and accidentally smacked her face right into a pole. Fell over like a sack of meat. Knocked two of her teeth out.

Relatives came once she got arrested, and you could tell they were SO hoping they could sue for police brutality and claim the cop smacked her down. Sadly for them it was all on camera.

I don't usually laugh at other people in pain. But the way she fell like a sack of potatoes after running to
To the pole... it was like a comedy sketch. Like something Chris Farley would have done.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:09 PM (gWBY1)

153 "If the police gotta come after you, you can be sure - they're gonna bring an ass whipping with 'em."

Posted by: Wisdom from Chris Rock at February 10, 2026 02:09 PM (blb7N)

154 I would argue further with them, but it's like talking to a brick wall. Their "feelz" are more important than my facts.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 01:49 PM (SRRAx)
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Yeah. I really want to dive into a group chat I'm in with some people who have convinced themselves that Trump is a pedo and he was Epstein's right hand man in the kiddie diddling industry and club them over the head with today's drop saying that no, Trump actually dimed Epstein out to the cops...but it's just an exercise in futility. I've quit arguing with anyone vaguely on the left because they already have their minds made up.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (5aZAZ)

155 ACE,
I have a gift for you for an afternoon thread - exciting dashcam video from Chile

https://tinyurl.com/mwenac5h

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (42yrw)

156 Hard to say. There was plenty of time to reverse. Look at what "Biden" did in just four years. 2020 was an epic own goal and they could have just left it and let 2nd term Trump twist and wither away on the back of covid and all their other bs while keeping Albatross Pence and Barr around his neck.
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:00 PM (sSB0N)

They thought after losing he'd go away.

Remember, they also thought the police bodycams would support them in wanting to abolish the police.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (zjgNU)

157 Isn't the Epstein-Wexner connection well established by this point?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

158 How do they go about banning body cams? Strikes me it would be a hard sell.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (AlhUl)

159 I’m wondering who they’re gonna send after us and ICE? I mean, whose gonna pluck us off the street and take us to the gulag, those people shit posting from their moms basement? The trannies?

Posted by: Vengeance at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (7S15B)

160 Can't remember where the article was from, so I'll summarize: Sob story after sob story about how people's "worst moments" are being monetized on YouTube by body/dash cam channels.
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Cops has been on the air since what, the 80s?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)

161 There was, as always, a demand for illegals for crops, etc. in California, TX, AZ, etc. so the cheap labor Chamber types wanted it.

Like Reagan as governor signing onto an abortion bill in CA, Reagan was complex and often did things in hindsight that were as GOPe as anything else was during the period.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:03 PM (2swu2)
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Cesar Chavez was strongly opposed to illegal immigration, as it greatly weakened the bargaining power of his farm workers' union.

Posted by: mrp at February 10, 2026 02:11 PM (rj6Yv)

162 "More proof that Peak Stupid will never be reached. "

it's logically absurd, like saying "almost to infinity."

innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 02:11 PM (Cjt/F)

163 I guess Antifa has a “right” to wear masks and riot, but federal law enforcement conducting legitimate operations does not.

What kind of logic is that, white man?

Posted by: Vengeance at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (7S15B)

164 156 They thought after losing he'd go away.

Remember, they also thought the police bodycams would support them in wanting to abolish the police.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (zjgNU)

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Well, the legal battles weren't just hoping he would go away. It was making him go away by trying to put him in prison.

I do think the GOP leadership thought the intraparty politics would instantly snap back to 2003, though. Because they are genuinely stupid and don't understand politics in the least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

165 128 this sorta looks like a 10th amendment issue.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026
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Only if you never read the debates at the Constitution and the First Congress regarding the Bill of Rights. McCulloch v. Maryland put the stamp on it. States cannot put restrictions on federal agents doing their federal duties.

Since the Convention, immigration and naturalization is explicitly a power of Congress to regulate, not any state. Even the worst of the Confederates did not contend that Congress did not have the power to ban imports of slaves in 1807. So the power to regulate means the powers to enforce those statutes e.g. federal law enforcement under the direction of the president.

Congress may, if it so choose do something like 287(g) where fedgov and a locality enter into an agreement allowing jails to screen and call ICE for pickup of criminal illegals. Probably kosher if Congress allowed states to enforce federal immigration laws as is common in some other areas like the Clean Air and Clean Water statutes.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (2swu2)

166 "The video shows two men, including presumably the person the legislator identified, running into the cruiser on their own accord."
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I object! That's no man. That's a doughnut wearing a "Where's Waldo?" hat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (FgifN)

167 If I'm being honest, beating up actors, taking their sandwiches, pouring hot sauce on them, and screaming "This is MAGA country" would be a fairly hilarious crime if true. Not guilty by reason of being just plain funny.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (9FEtL)

168 It's because stupid isn't a peak it's a trough

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (sSB0N)

169 overwhelmingly it is has been actually proving that cops are generally doing a better job then people thought...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

Or it's making them do a better job......
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:01 PM (sSB0N)

While possible, the numbers of people killed during police apprehension has not really changed.

That suggests that bodycams haven't made a difference to police behavior around shooting people.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (zjgNU)

170 RR didn't open the borders to each and all. The Mexican drug cartels were in their infancy, and the US economy was booming by 1984. Globalization was just gathering steam and the main trade deficit villain was Japan. A different time with different faces.

Posted by: mrp

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Fair points, but one of the, if not THE, core issues - the illegals were line-jumping those who were trying to enter legally - was part of the conversation.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (Vrf7V)

171 Speaking of Reddit neckbeards... I love them. They're so fucking dumb all I can do is laugh and laugh.

My favorite one last week was on a thread where people were talking about silver premiums in their areas and on different websites.

One guy chimes in saying he wanted to sell his right away, at a local shop. A bunch of people advised him to hold off til this volatility cools off, or at least don't sell to a local.

This dude freaks out... "BUT I HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO SURVIVE IN TRUMP'S AMERICA REEEEEEEE!!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (BI5O2)

172 Just remember, the same people screaming about ice being masked would have been flicking their beans at the though of jack boots kicking down doors of J6 families in the dead of the night.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (zZu0s)

173 If I'm being honest, beating up actors, taking their sandwiches, pouring hot sauce on them, and screaming "This is MAGA country" would be a fairly hilarious crime if true. Not guilty by reason of being just plain funny.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (9FEtL)
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Maybe not intended as an instruction manual, but just as good as one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (FgifN)

174 I do think the GOP leadership thought the intraparty politics would instantly snap back to 2003, though. Because they are genuinely stupid and don't understand politics in the least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The end of the party for the invade the world and invite the world was not in their fortune cookies. Nor was removal of a servile cheap labor class.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (2swu2)

175 16 Body cameras likely encourage reasonable police behavior...

Posted by: bear

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This is a key right here.
- Body cams document the violent behavior of people the police encounter
- But they also keep the police in check from abusing their authority.

Removing the bodycams will both
(a) create doubt that the Left can exploit to accuse police of wrongful acts that they have not done, and
(b) allow some abusive acts by police, usually when the person they encounter needs a bit more force than the law strictly allows.

They crave abuse of power because it justifies their actions against police. They want to tear down the normal checks on society because they want to tear down civilized society and create chaos.

Posted by: Tucker and Candice at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (mymNa)

176 Cesar Chavez was strongly opposed to illegal immigration, as it greatly weakened the bargaining power of his farm workers' union./i]

Supply and demand, the more of something you have, the less price it can demand.

So if you import millions of low skilled workers then the price of low skilled labor will go down.

Though our policy has been even dumber then this because we also put most of those illegals on welfare too.

My rough estimation is about 10% of illegals are working in some non-crime related field like agriculture (and there are only about 1M farmhands in the US anyway)

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (sKqQm)

177 don't forget media manipulation of images. George Hernandez after /Travon Martin-here's the white hispanic walking thru the police station. He looks fine! Here he is about to be interviewed; (ignore the broken nose,never seen him before). Did we miss the overhead shot of the obvious wound, matted blood on the back of his head? Oopsies...Kyle Rittenhouse? Hd footage-oopsies...

Posted by: pahound at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (eyOo6)

178 157 Isn't the Epstein-Wexner connection well established by this point?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

Yes, that's why Massie provided the name.

Posted by: Ann at February 10, 2026 02:14 PM (w9jrX)

179 >> The end of the party for the invade the world and invite the world was not in their fortune cookies. Nor was removal of a servile cheap labor class.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (2swu2)

Or gardeners to please mommy while daddy was also doinking him on the back door.

We call that double dipping.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 10, 2026 02:15 PM (7S15B)

180 174 The end of the party for the invade the world and invite the world was not in their fortune cookies. Nor was removal of a servile cheap labor class.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (2swu2)

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Second generation party bosses do not have the same skillset as first generation party bosses.

Second gen don't know how to appeal to people to gain political power. They know how to manipulate levers of established power to influence those already in power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

181 Have ICE raid the French Laundry. That hits Newsom where it hurts.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Right in the silky thong.

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 02:15 PM (UjdFS)

182 They want to tear down the normal checks on society because they want to tear down civilized society and create chaos.
Posted by: Tucker and Candice at February 10, 2026 02:13 PM (mymNa)

Well said, Tucker and Candy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:15 PM (zZu0s)

183 This dude freaks out... "BUT I HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO SURVIVE IN TRUMP'S AMERICA REEEEEEEE!!"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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I find Reddit as a retarded version of Usenet.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:16 PM (2swu2)

184 >> I'm trying to figure out how a body camera is a hands-free killing tool. How exactly does someone kill somebody with a body camera?

I never allow my photograph to be taken. Cameras steal your soul.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)

185 I’m wondering who they’re gonna send after us and ICE? I mean, whose gonna pluck us off the street and take us to the gulag, those people shit posting from their moms basement? The trannies?
Posted by: Vengeance at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (7S15B)
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I think you might be getting so worked up you are ignoring the power of middle-aged AWFL's, and teachers unionists.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 02:16 PM (FgifN)

186 These federal agents are harassed, doxxed, obstructed, and attacked on a regular basis just for doing their jobs. We have no tolerance for it.

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The agents' families are also threatened by the leftist brownshirt domestic terrorists (BIRM thrice) -- while being encouraged & celebrated by virtually every Democrat-Communist pol & MDM-MSM talking head..

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 02:16 PM (k1X1R)

187 RR didn't open the borders to each and all. The Mexican drug cartels were in their infancy, and the US economy was booming by 1984. Globalization was just gathering steam and the main trade deficit villain was Japan. A different time with different faces.
Posted by: mrp at February 10, 2026 02:07 PM (rj6Yv)

Now, I look for "Made in Japan" labels because I know it will be quality and they don't hate me like the Chinese government does.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:16 PM (zjgNU)

188 I don't usually laugh at other people in pain. But the way she fell like a sack of potatoes after running to
To the pole... it was like a comedy sketch. Like something Chris Farley would have done.
Posted by: LizLem

I did that when I was little. About six or seven. At aunt and uncle's house one Christmas. Us kids were playing in the basement chasing each other. I turned to grab a cousin and wham. Knocked my ass down and out. Turns out I hit a cast iron drainpipe going up to the kitchen so everyone upstairs heard it and came running. Put an egg on my forehead, but didn't cut it.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 02:17 PM (KN2gu)

189 When having cops where bodycams was first discussed it was generally anti-police people demanding them and pro-police people not wanting them

The bodycams have probably increased the "here's your ticket" vs "slow it down. here's a warning" ratio simply because someone without a life is monitoring and marking down demographics and ignoring driver attitude.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 10, 2026 02:17 PM (D0HYP)

190 171 Speaking of Reddit neckbeards... I love them. They're so fucking dumb all I can do is laugh and laugh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (BI5O2)
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All of it is so predictable as to be tiresome, from my perspective.

Reddit is basically a microcosm of how the world would be if the left ruled it. A bunch of shrill faggots whining about literally anything and everything, and any reason or dissenting voice immediately squelched by some other faggot with a thimble full of authority so that the echo chamber persists.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (5aZAZ)

191 Judges are indeed stupid.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (cS1cw)

192 190 Reddit is basically a microcosm of how the world would be if the left ruled it. A bunch of shrill faggots whining about literally anything and everything, and any reason or dissenting voice immediately squelched by some other faggot with a thimble full of authority so that the echo chamber persists.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (5aZAZ)

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Reddit is Canada.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

193 183 This dude freaks out... "BUT I HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO SURVIVE IN TRUMP'S AMERICA REEEEEEEE!!"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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I find Reddit as a retarded version of Usenet.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:16 PM (2swu2)

At least on Usenet you could grab software, albeit pirated. So it had a purpose.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (N39Ws)

194 Second generation party bosses do not have the same skillset as first generation party bosses.

Second gen don't know how to appeal to people to gain political power. They know how to manipulate levers of established power to influence those already in power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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This has been going on longer than 2003. To wit, GHWB in 1988 decided like the elitist he was, to destroy the US in service of globalism.

Whatever their problems were on the domestic level, Ike, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan never bought into the bullshit. Their administrations were populated by realists, not fey dreamers of End of History bullshit.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (2swu2)

195 USA Woman's hockey team scores at 16:15 in the 1st!

USA 1 - Beavers 0.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (8ZVmQ)

196 Wait.
I thought the Current Thing was Old Lady Guthrie.
What happened to her?
Posted by: Just got here

Zed's dead, baby.

Posted by: Butch Coolidge at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (UjdFS)

197 You shake it up and get a random nugget to throw out there. Same with the Bible. I despise people like that.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:05 PM (2swu2)
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Gentlemen. I despise each and every one of you!

Posted by: Michael Stipe at February 10, 2026 02:19 PM (Hx0tZ)

198 At least on Usenet you could grab software, albeit pirated. So it had a purpose.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (N39Ws)

Nekkid women- but it was Russian roulette.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:19 PM (zZu0s)

199 "BUT I HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO SURVIVE IN TRUMP'S AMERICA REEEEEEEE!!"

There are some number of people that are so heavily leveraged into investing into specific things they have no emergency funds. So...this guy has money, he used it to buy a bunch of silver after all...but he doesn't have an emergency fund in a HYSA or something similar?

Again, I get if you don't have any extra money you might not be able to deal with an emergency, but if you do have extra money you should leave some where you can get to it if you need to.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

200 When I was a kid I ran into a metal poll with my head back feeling the wind on my beautiful face like an imbecile. It was like being hit by Mike Tyson. Or a truck.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:19 PM (sSB0N)

201 At least on Usenet you could grab software, albeit pirated. So it had a purpose.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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Usenet was not infested with Millennial techies. Old school and severe, but Usenet forums often had pretty harsh beatdowns on idiots spouting crap.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:19 PM (2swu2)

202 Whoopsie. Left my smelly socks from last thread on

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 02:20 PM (Hx0tZ)

203 Well, the legal battles weren't just hoping he would go away. It was making him go away by trying to put him in prison.

I do think the GOP leadership thought the intraparty politics would instantly snap back to 2003, though. Because they are genuinely stupid and don't understand politics in the least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

I stand with your correct estimation of the GOP leadership's relationship with reality.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:20 PM (zjgNU)

204 194 This has been going on longer than 2003. To wit, GHWB in 1988 decided like the elitist he was, to destroy the US in service of globalism.

Whatever their problems were on the domestic level, Ike, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan never bought into the bullshit. Their administrations were populated by realists, not fey dreamers of End of History bullshit.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (2swu2)

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I was thinking squarely of Mitch and his obvious assumption that once Trump was out of office, his entire influence on the party would be over. Hence, his interview in late January 2021 where he said...exactly that (which he reversed about a week later).

Mitch knew how to manipulate the powerful. He had literally no idea how to appeal the actual electorate. The closes he could do was holding up a rifle and not saying anything at the NRA conference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

205 Nekkid women- but it was Russian roulette.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Hot Estonian chick or babushka.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 02:20 PM (KN2gu)

206 Reddit is Canada.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:18 PM (GBKbO)
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Accurate!

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 02:20 PM (5aZAZ)

207 sock off, and another thing...

The protesters won't stop recording, so it will also shift the editing power to them. Look at the recent Good and Pretti disasters where they made claims but there was enough footage to show those two as the violent instigators.

How does that work -- "I can record you, but you can't record me"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 10, 2026 02:20 PM (mymNa)

208 203 I do think the GOP leadership thought the intraparty politics would instantly snap back to 2003, though. Because they are genuinely stupid and don't understand politics in the least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

I stand with your correct estimation of the GOP leadership's relationship with reality.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 02:20 PM (zjgNU)

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It helps the understanding since Mitch essentially admitted to it in an interview.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

209 I saw Silky Thong open for Wormtongue at The Troubadour in '89.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 02:21 PM (k1X1R)

210 Usenet was not infested with Millennial techies. Old school and severe, but Usenet forums often had pretty harsh beatdowns on idiots spouting crap.
Posted by: whig

tx.guns. You'd better bring 'receipts'.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 02:21 PM (KN2gu)

211 Isn't the Epstein-Wexner connection well established by this point?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

Yes, that's why Massie provided the name.

Posted by: Ann at February 10, 2026 02:14 PM (w9jrX)

Forgive my ignorance, but who is Wexner?

Posted by: pookysgirl needs to be put some knowledge at February 10, 2026 02:21 PM (Wt5PA)

212 I don't think the left really understands just how insulting it is to even think that Newsome should be a candidate..

Who looks at that failed, corrupt pile of garbage (him and the state) and says, we should spread this carnage to rest of the country?

He exudes failure and narcissism, complete with the faggy limp wrists and perrrrfect hair.

Fuck you Vidal Sasoon.. you belong behind the counter at Burger King.

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 10, 2026 02:22 PM (61TgR)

213

Posted by: Mitch McConnell explains at February 10, 2026 02:22 PM (jc0TO)

214 Gentlemen. I despise each and every one of you!
Posted by: Michael Stipe
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It is more forgive them Father for they know not what they do. I despise the casual laziness of abusing a recognized authority in order to support their point when it is really just an opinion.

If they want to state it as their opinion, then fine, but when they distort the Bible or the Constitution out of context, they are being intellectually dishonest. Which the left has to be in order to believe such idiotic ideas.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:22 PM (2swu2)

215 Ha! Take that, Canada! Our lesbians are better than your lesbians!

Posted by: Wally at February 10, 2026 02:22 PM (65cLN)

216 Hot Estonian chick or babushka.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 02:20 PM (KN2gu)

Well, it might well be porn- but it might not be the porn you were looking for IYKWIMAITYD. Or strictly speaking legal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:22 PM (zZu0s)

217 "I stand with your correct estimation of the GOP leadership's relationship with reality."

Somebody convinced RDS to run for prez last cycle.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 10, 2026 02:23 PM (cS1cw)

218 Funny how so many cops hate being filmed in public as intensely as Antifa does. Per their own mantra if they have nothing to hide they should have nothing to fear.

Posted by: Going full pan in the panopticon at February 10, 2026 02:23 PM (TbWk/)

219 "Second generation party bosses do not have the same skillset as first generation party bosses.

Second gen don't know how to appeal to people to gain political power. They know how to manipulate levers of established power to influence those already in power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:15 PM (GBKbO) "

That is some real deep insight into basic truth, there!

thinking about it, I watched that happen in realtime last century, in Chicago; the transition from Hizzoner da (late) Mare to , well, a pack of wastrels, capped by Richie (who was too dumb for a career in politics according to his father).
& now, look all around, you can see that everywhere.
Thx, TJM!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 02:23 PM (Cjt/F)

220 Forgive my ignorance, but who is Wexner?
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to be put some knowledge at February 10, 2026 02:21 PM

Wasn't he the bad guy in Resident Evil?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 02:23 PM (jc0TO)

221 212 I don't think the left really understands just how insulting it is to even think that Newsome should be a candidate..

Who looks at that failed, corrupt pile of garbage (him and the state) and says, we should spread this carnage to rest of the country?

He exudes failure and narcissism, complete with the faggy limp wrists and perrrrfect hair.

Fuck you Vidal Sasoon.. you belong behind the counter at Burger King.

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 10, 2026 02:22 PM (61TgR)

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I don't understand why people think that accomplishments, intelligence, or rates of failure has anything to do with appealing to Democrat voters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

222 Forgive my ignorance, but who is Wexner?
Posted by: pookysgirl

The Les Wexner made his fortune via Victoria's Secret and other retail establishments. And he has some pretty skeezy Ohio stories floating around about his rise and perhaps mob money being laundered to get Victoria's Secret started.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM (2swu2)

223 Forgive my ignorance, but who is Wexner?
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to be put some knowledge at February 10, 2026 02:21 PM (Wt5PA)
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Ohio based retaining entrepreneur, probably best known for "Victoria's Secret" stores.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM (FgifN)

224 "Retailing", not "retaining"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM (FgifN)

225 219 That is some real deep insight into basic truth, there!

thinking about it, I watched that happen in realtime last century, in Chicago; the transition from Hizzoner da (late) Mare to , well, a pack of wastrels, capped by Richie (who was too dumb for a career in politics according to his father).
& now, look all around, you can see that everywhere.
Thx, TJM!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 02:23 PM (Cjt/F)

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The Obama machine is going through this right now, by the way.

Their current crop only know two things: racial animus and corruption. Every attempt at another Obama fails because the machine simply doesn't understand why Obama gained popularity in the first place.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

226
I don't think the left really understands just how insulting it is to even think that Newsome should be a candidate..

Who looks at that failed, corrupt pile of garbage (him and the state) and says, we should spread this carnage to rest of the country?

He exudes failure and narcissism,

Posted by: melodicmetal

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Add to that the fact that he's neck-in-neck with Kamala in the polls.

Is it possible that we'll lose to this in 2028?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM (n7rxJ)

227 I don't understand why people think that accomplishments, intelligence, or rates of failure has anything to do with appealing to Democrat voters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

Or climbing the corporate ladder, for that matter.

Posted by: Perception beats competence every time at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM (TbWk/)

228 why Obama gained popularity in the first place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM

He was clean and articulate. Textbook, man.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 02:26 PM (jc0TO)

229 226
Add to that the fact that he's neck-in-neck with Kamala in the polls.

Is it possible that we'll lose to this in 2028?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM (n7rxJ)

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They're not neck and neck.

Kamala beats him all the time. If they were neck and neck, Newsom would be ahead at least some of the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

230 "Do you like Right-Wing Death Squads? Because this is how you get Right-Wing Death Squads."

The infamous El Salvador deaths squads kept the country from becoming a Cuba style socialist paradise in the 70s/80s. Bloody and ruthless but better than the alternative.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 02:26 PM (GUOwU)

231 A Socialist city councilwoman in Portland now intends to ban Ring cameras, since that allows too-accurate tracking of ne'er-do-wells wandering through neighborhoods.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2026 02:26 PM (n1OCj)

232 >>Forgive my ignorance, but who is Wexner?

Les Wexner of the Limited Group (Clothing; Victoria's Secret, Limited, etc.)

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2026 02:26 PM (gH8T+)

233 >>> The bodycams have probably increased the "here's your ticket" vs "slow it down. here's a warning" ratio simply because someone without a life is monitoring and marking down demographics and ignoring driver attitude.

There's a city that will mail out tickets using the intersection cameras. They only photograph the back of the car and the back plate.

They used to photograph the front of the cars too and who is driving. Until the mayor was caught running a red light with his mistress next to him. And the ticket was mailed to his house. And his wife got the mail first. So, they changed the law you can't take pics of the front seats any more! Imagine that.

Heard that directly from a cop working in that town.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:27 PM (gWBY1)

234 Curling was not even considered an Olympic sport until 1998- Nagano. Whoever decided that was most likely bribed by Canada!

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 02:27 PM (g47mK)

235 The Cali Dems have a solution to Newsom: follow him with Swalwell, not as pretty and twice as stupid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 02:27 PM (yI5mB)

236 228 why Obama gained popularity in the first place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM

He was clean and articulate. Textbook, man.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 02:26 PM (jc0TO)

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An empty suit against a deeply unpopular party that had tried to stab its own voters in the back with amnesty. The story of the rise of Obama is no different than the story of the hatred the GOP has for its own base and nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

237 I never allow my photograph to be taken. Cameras steal your soul.
Posted by: JackStraw

I didn't know the Amish loved to sail. LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 02:27 PM (cYBz/)

238 Les Wexner is a billionaire who made his money founding and running companies like Victoria Secrets, Bath & Body works and others. He was one of Epstein's original financial godfathers and among other things gave Epstein his multimillion dollar brownstone in NYC.

His connection with Epstein has been known for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 02:28 PM (viF8m)

239 I didn't know the Amish loved to sail. LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 02:27 PM

No auxillary engines though. It's all oars.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 02:28 PM (jc0TO)

240 When I was a kid I ran into a metal poll with my head back feeling the wind on my beautiful face like an imbecile. It was like being hit by Mike Tyson. Or a truck.
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:19 PM (sSB0N)
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I did that Sunday night. More into my shoulder than my face.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 02:28 PM (RIvkX)

241 tx.guns. You'd better bring 'receipts'.
Posted by: rickb223

I was a long time poster on firearms websites and involved in 2A activism for a time at the state level. Later was briefly an admin at a such a place. Got sick of it--you have the lefty trolls trying to do Moby shit to damage the rep of the place and then you had the ones that wanted to post brags about illegal actions, endless factless constitutional and legal discourses, and kill everyone you meet types. Got doxxed as an admin for probably doing something to piss someone off an admin and quit as it affected my dayjob.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:28 PM (2swu2)

242 I saw a video where a lefty complained that the only reason why urban groups are arrested at a higher rate is "overpolicing"

But this is an odd way to look at it. The cops can only arrest people who commit a crime* and "underpolicing" wouldn't decrease the number of crimes, just the number of arrests. And honestly there are way more unsolved crimes in urban areas then suburban/rural one.

*Unless you want to argue massive numbers of people are falsely arrested and the police making up the robberies, rapes, and murders...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

243 Do you like Right-Wing Death Squads? Because this is how you get Right-Wing Death Squads."

This won't happen because our side thinks there are still rules. The Trump administration should have "Sicario" style CIA teams rendition Antifa people to some black site in the North Atlantic.

Posted by: UGAdawg at February 10, 2026 02:29 PM (SurNx)

244 At some point, there will be an individual or group of people that will no longer tolerate Antifa turning their cities to shit. I bet good money that the "black community" is fed the fuck up with White liberals.

I can't wait for that moment. It's only a matter of time

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 10, 2026 02:29 PM (61TgR)

245 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Sorry. I was hung over. at February 10, 2026 02:29 PM (blb7N)

246
Every attempt at another Obama fails because the machine simply doesn't understand why Obama gained popularity in the first place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Mamdani is another Obama. I bet he has a future in electoral politics well beyond NYC mayor.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:30 PM (n7rxJ)

247 61
The saga on our neighborhood FB page continues....

Apparently, I am a weirdo because I don't condone people defacing public property by affixing stickers with the word "ICE" under the word "STOP" on stop signs around the neighborhood

Maybe you should get some of those same stickers and put them on the bumpers of the offenders' cars. Seems like the same exact crime, so they shouldn't complain about it
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 10, 2026 02:04 PM (aVO1v)

I'm halfway tempted to get stickers printed up that say, "Illegal Aliens" and slap those up on all of the stop signs around here.

Somehow, I don't think these people would think something like that was okay in "their" neighborhood....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 10, 2026 02:31 PM (SRRAx)

248 Y'know who doesn't get chased by the police? People who stand still.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 02:32 PM (w/O5Q)

249 Although Ring coughing up footage that shouldn't exist without paying for the service is a thing that some subscribers might want to know. Apparently, they turn off your service, but they don't turn off your service all the way...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 10, 2026 02:09 PM (tOcjL)
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You screwed a surveillance camera to your house in an era of pervasive surveillance. Of course that's what it is going to do. Whether you're paying for the service or not determines your ability to access the footage, not theirs.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 02:32 PM (Hx0tZ)

250 The story of the rise of Obama is no different than the story of the hatred the GOP has for its own base and nation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The GOP always had a class problem in the 20th century in that the corporate class expected and demanded that regular GOP voters had to accept their leadership. And most of that leadership was progressive other than anti-Communism, anti-union, and taxes. Even now, you still see that play out in local and state party organizations. The insiders that promptly spread their networks for grifting and influence peddling versus the outsiders. Some of the outsiders get coopted but most are driven away if possible.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:32 PM (2swu2)

251 A Lex Wexner?
Sure.
We've got quite a few in stock.
What color and size?

Posted by: Bond Villains R Us at February 10, 2026 02:32 PM (blb7N)

252 Y'know who doesn't get chased by the police? People who stand still.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 02:32 PM (w/O5Q)

Yeah, cops are just like T-Rex's that way.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 02:33 PM (Hx0tZ)

253 Y'know who doesn't get chased by the police? People who stand still.

Saw a video a while back with a couple of female bobbies trying to arrest some scrawny stoned guy. He didn't realize what they were doing until they got his arms behind him but then he turned and pushed he bobby away with one arm. Then he just slowly jogged off.

Both bobbies tried to give chase but being rotund his slow jog was too much for them and they shortly gave up...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:34 PM (sKqQm)

254 2 If you’re not FIRST, you’re last
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

You don’t win silver. You lose gold.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 02:34 PM (zgWR7)

255 The infamous El Salvador deaths squads kept the country from becoming a Cuba style socialist paradise in the 70s/80s. Bloody and ruthless but better than the alternative.
Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 02:26 PM (GUOwU)

A friend's brother wound up emigrating to Sweden because he was on the wrong side of that little war.
It turned into MS-13 themed hellscape anyways.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 02:34 PM (rbvCR)

256 I didn't know the Amish loved to sail. LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 02:27 PM

No auxillary engines though. It's all oars.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 02:28 PM (jc0TO)

Hate keeps a man alive, Hezekiah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:34 PM (zZu0s)

257 >>> Ohio based retaining entrepreneur, probably best known for "Victoria's Secret" stores.

There was a period in my twenties when it seemed like everyone wore their fragrances. Like how in high school, everyone wore scents from Gap, and lotion from Bath and Body Works.

Then they became not edgy. And they ended their runway shows and that was the kiss of death for them.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (gWBY1)

258
Kamala beats him all the time. If they were neck and neck, Newsom would be ahead at least some of the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I just checked it out, and he does beat her in some polls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (n7rxJ)

259 Speaking of him cameras - are there any off the shelf brands that DO NOT store your data on the internet? It always seemed insane to me that people would pay to have a camera installed on/in their house that they don't really control...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

260 McCain ran against white guilt and was a obvious backstabbing cunt without principles. Had his own people sabotage his own VP because she stood for what he claimed to, and was more popular than him. Bastard.

The slavery guilt game would probably only work once though.

But "my friendsh you have nothing to fear with Obama in the WH" still stands as the most pussy bullshit I've ever seen a politician say. What an imbecile.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (sSB0N)

261 Donut Operator is one of my favorite channels.
Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 02:01 PM

Midwest Safety brings the subtle snark. Anyone who comes up with funny subtitles for the K9 barking gets my vote.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (kgE5c)

262 Equal rights and equal lefts.

Posted by: As Steve Inman would say at February 10, 2026 02:37 PM (blb7N)

263 I think Silver is the saddest medal. Gold is gold. Bronze...made it on the podium. But Silver..is just sad.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 02:37 PM (g47mK)

264 >>I didn't know the Amish loved to sail. LOL

It's the way of my people.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 02:37 PM (viF8m)

265 249 Although Ring coughing up footage that shouldn't exist without paying for the service is a thing that some subscribers might want to know. Apparently, they turn off your service, but they don't turn off your service all the way...
Posted by: Nova Local
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Buy Eufy or some other brand that has local storage rather than the cloud and don't allow it access to the internet without setting permissions in your router.

Basically, the fed courts have expanded the case involving pen registers to include every single transaction and tech item not requiring a warrant. Like your car, cellphone, Ring cameras, etc. 4th Amendment requires taking positive steps to purposefully deny as much of that third party data to anyone, not just the feds. Basically, if anyone can buy or get your data, then it is not protected in any real sense from the 4th Amendment. As in two can share a secret if one of them is dead.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:37 PM (2swu2)

266 And Trump proved beyond all doubt that the Palin supporters were right. She kept that election from being a total wipeout. I don't care what the "VP doesn't matter" people say. Every rule has its exception and due to a confluence of events she very obviously mattered.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:37 PM (sSB0N)

267 263 I think Silver is the saddest medal. Gold is gold. Bronze...made it on the podium. But Silver..is just sad.
Posted by: runner

Silver is acceptable if the gold set a record.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 02:37 PM (W2Pud)

268 Mamdani is another Obama. I bet he has a future in electoral politics well beyond NYC mayor.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 02:30 PM (n7rxJ)

He is going to have to do something about the coming rat plague, first.
My bet is by the end of his term, NYC will have devolved into separate cities along borough lines

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 02:38 PM (rbvCR)

269 So...this guy has money, he used it to buy a bunch of silver after all...but he doesn't have an emergency fund in a HYSA or something similar?

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Eh, smart people largely view it a store of value -a savings account that will consistently beat inflation and usually yield more than the typical savings rate - that's it. So an emergency is a legit reason to liquidate some or all of it.

But this was a not a smart person. I suspect he was trying to day trade the shit like he's a crypto bro, and fucked himself over.

Or, more likely, he's a degenerate neckbearded indigent looking to unload grandma's flatware to pay for monkeypox salve.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 02:38 PM (BI5O2)

270 260 McCain ran against white guilt and was a obvious backstabbing cunt without principles. Had his own people sabotage his own VP because she stood for what he claimed to, and was more popular than him. Bastard.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:35 PM (sSB0N)
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Having met and interacted with McCain in person, I can say that he did me one favor: Disabusing me as a young man of the notion that the politician you see smiling on TV is likely not that person in real life.

He was a fucking asshole, and I reserve that vitriol for very few people. If his grave was on fire, I wouldn't walk three steps to piss on it.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 02:38 PM (5aZAZ)

271 "...has never seen a vagina."

The first time can be quite traumatic.

https://tinyurl.com/3jnckcjh

Posted by: Stewie Griffin at February 10, 2026 02:39 PM (Y1sOo)

272 A year in to "ICE is kidnapping innocent people!" and the left has yet to find one single person who was legally permitted to be here who has been deported.
Or detained longer than was necessary to determine status.

Yet, they are still accusing ICE of deporting innocent people.
And demanding they "identify" themselves because somehow all these "innocent" people have no reason to know why they are being arrested by ICE.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 02:39 PM (HXT0k)

273 Eh the Olympic silver medal is extremely cool.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:39 PM (sSB0N)

274 But this was a not a smart person. I suspect he was trying to day trade the shit like he's a crypto bro, and fucked himself over.

It is very hard to generate consistent high short term earnings with investments...especially commodities (hi Hillary!).

The stock market is sort of like gambling with the house slightly in your favor at least...but commodities? Not so much...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:40 PM (sKqQm)

275 If you weren’t expected to be in the top ten, silver is a win.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 02:40 PM (W2Pud)

276 Bronze kind of sucks. No one wants to know if you got Bronze.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:40 PM (sSB0N)

277 I miss the good old days, when "Idiocracy" was a comic movie and not a description of Portland or Minneapolis

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 02:40 PM (Kmu/P)

278 259 Speaking of him cameras - are there any off the shelf brands that DO NOT store your data on the internet? It always seemed insane to me that people would pay to have a camera installed on/in their house that they don't really control...
Posted by: 18-1

There are models including the older ones like Swann, etc. that use cabled cameras. But you should never store any information on the cloud that you want protected because the tech industry does not give one shit about protecting client's privacy. Eufy is a popular and fairly easy to install camera that gives you a choice for local storage and it is better probable than Arlo. I've set up Swann (installation pain but effective) and Eufy. Eufy is easier. Arlo had a spotty rep for quality and I started small with a doorbell camera versus the system I installed for my mother back in the day (Swann).

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:41 PM (2swu2)

279 I think Silver is the saddest medal. Gold is gold. Bronze...made it on the podium. But Silver..is just sad.
Posted by: runner

Silver is acceptable if the gold set a record.
Posted by: nurse ratched

New England won Silver in the Super Bowl.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 02:41 PM (8ZVmQ)

280 A year in to "ICE is kidnapping innocent people!" and the left has yet to find one single person who was legally permitted to be here who has been deported.
Or detained longer than was necessary to determine status.

I saw an infographic that showed that Obama apparently incorrectly deported 4 people while president - someone posted this to a leftist arguing that "Obama did it better!"

But the Trump score on that so far is 0 which is impressive.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

281 Ben Ogden of US won US first country skiing medal in 50 years. Silver is just fine

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 02:42 PM (yI5mB)

282 He was a fucking asshole, and I reserve that vitriol for very few people. If his grave was on fire, I wouldn't walk three steps to piss on it.
Posted by: ballistic
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I knew him as an incoming House member and you are right, piece of shit personally. He replaced a nice guy, John Rhodes who retired.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 02:42 PM (2swu2)

283 Do you like Right-Wing Death Squads? Because this is how you get Right-Wing Death Squads."

This won't happen because our side thinks there are still rules...
Posted by: UGAdawg at February 10, 2026 02:29 PM (SurNx)

You're right. Many of us still believe there exists a social contract that comes with easy-to-follow rules. Further, good people refrain from violence not just because they're good but because they have jobs and families and plans for the future. They have a stake in keeping things stable and secure. However, if you threaten those fundamental, foundational anchors or even take them, tear them away, you'll see things (and people) change with a quickness.

Posted by: troyriser at February 10, 2026 02:42 PM (DPeYO)

284 >>He is going to have to do something about the coming rat plague, first.
My bet is by the end of his term, NYC will have devolved into separate cities along borough lines

After the first snowstorm some of his supporters were crowing on X that Mamdani got the streets plowed! What a hero.

Now the snow is piling up and so is the garbage and they aren't so talkative. But at least they have free buses that aren't free.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 02:43 PM (viF8m)

285 >>> He is going to have to do something about the coming rat plague, first

He has to keep his homeless death count down. He has at least 12 at this point?

He won't force homeless to shelters when it's below freezing. It's their choice. Eric Adams was screaming at him that he needs to move them inside even if they don't want to.

Mamdami is, of course, going to lose no sleep over their deaths. And the legacy media won't hound him. The great commie hope of NYC God that he is cannot be seen bleeding.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:43 PM (gWBY1)

286 Idiocracy wasn't a documentary, it was a fantasy.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 02:43 PM (sSB0N)

287 USA scores a second time on the Beavers. 2:42 1st.

USA 2
Canada 0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 02:44 PM (8ZVmQ)

288 There was an Irish guy i saw mentioned twice today who had overstayed a tourist or school visa by 20 years.

Oh, libertarian fonzie tweeted rhe story out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:44 PM (zZu0s)

289 @285 18 dead homeless due to exposure in last two weeks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 02:45 PM (yI5mB)

290 "but commodities...not so much"

If you know what you're doing, there's money in frozen concentrated orange juice

Posted by: Mortimer and Randolph at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (65cLN)

291 Nood. I was prophetic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)

292 >>> 281 Ben Ogden of US won US first country skiing medal in 50 years. Silver is just fine

Why did Lindsey Vonn compete again this year? She's as narcissistic as Tom Brady. Is the US ski team so pathetic that she's their only shot for a medal? A geriatric skier known to get hurt right before every Olympics. Our best and brightest.

Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (gWBY1)

293 I saw Monkeypox Salve open for Finger Eleven at the Double Door in '98.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 02:47 PM (nXRBt)

294 He has to keep his homeless death count down. He has at least 12 at this point?
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18, as of yesterday

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 02:47 PM (Kmu/P)

295 292 >>> 281 Ben Ogden of US won US first country skiing medal in 50 years. Silver is just fine

Why did Lindsey Vonn compete again this year? She's as narcissistic as Tom Brady. Is the US ski team so pathetic that she's their only shot for a medal? A geriatric skier known to get hurt right before every Olympics. Our best and brightest.
Posted by: LizLem at February 10, 2026 02:46 PM (gWBY1)

She got a new knee in 2024 and thought she could make a comeback...she actually did this season and was a medal favorite...blowing out her knee 1 week before the games meant we couldn't replace her spot anyway.

And we did have a female unheralded ski team get bronze today and Breezy Johnson win downhill...so our newbies are winning (while Shiffren, our liberal choker, is not)...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 10, 2026 02:48 PM (tOcjL)

296 He has to keep his homeless death count down. He has at least 12 at this point?
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18, as of yesterday

He has a VERY long way to go to match Cuomo numbers

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 02:53 PM (kHd4y)

297 In regard to silver: Judas thought a lot of it

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 10, 2026 02:54 PM (LdBR/)

298 Their current crop only know two things: racial animus and corruption. Every attempt at another Obama fails because the machine simply doesn't understand why Obama gained popularity in the first place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
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Barry was carefully groomed by Thomas and Billy Ayers. Everything in his life was carefully prepped and greased, all the way through Harvard. Editor of the Harvard Law Review without a single published contribution? No prob. Upstart candidtate against an established Dem state senator? No prob. Unseal divorce records to tank a GOP opponent's election chances? No prob.

Dems don't have the political infrastructure to make that happen anymore. The activist coalition structure is no more. The Communist patronage is no more. The legacy MSM is a shadow of its former self. The Dems have been reduced to a type of criminal syndicate.

Posted by: mrp at February 10, 2026 03:01 PM (rj6Yv)

299 Late to the topic, but I thought I read that the Clinton judge also cited the Supremacy clause, indicating that there was basis for turning that law over BESIDES just the exemption of state and local officials?

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 04:23 PM (TN0g+)

300 Governor New Scum should be deported from America lets send him to China where is ilk is welcomed

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 10, 2026 05:37 PM (wGqjj)

EPSTEIN FILES BOMBSHELL SHOWS TRUMP'S CONNECTION TO THE CONVICTED PEDOPHILE!
And That Connection Is: Trump Dropped Dime on Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and Urged Police to Investigate Them

Sorry to scare you with the red font headline, but that's how the " " " Mainstream " " " media is playing this story and I want to prove I'm a Real Journalist Too.

Trump did know Epstein socially. A bit. They were both rich people who lived in Palm Beach. Of course they crossed paths.

And when he found out more about Epstein, he did what we'd hope he'd have done: He called the cops.

Newly unsealed Department of Justice documents reveal that in July 2006, then businessman Donald Trump was one of the first to call police to warn them about sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
The documents include a previously unreported 2019 FBI interview summary with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter. Trump had contacted the department shortly after reports of Epstein's criminal sex investigation became public.
The future president contacted Reiter to express relief that authorities were finally acting, suggesting his associates in New York had described Epstein's behaviors as "disgusting," and advised investigators to focus on Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he described as "evil."
...
"Thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known he's been doing this," Trump reportedly told the Palm Beach Police Department.
"TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting. TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN's operative, 'she is evil and to focus on her,' the report continues.
The president also noted that he had witnessed Epstein in the presence of teenagers and was apparently dismayed by what he saw and "got the hell out of there."

The left will claim that the fact Trump knew enough about Epstein to report him to the cops somehow proves that Trump was diddling children with him, without ever explaining why a child-diddler would report a co-conspirator.

And I have to ask:

Did Bill Clinton ever call the cops on Epstein?

Did Hillary Clinton?

Did Charles Schumer?

Did Bill Gates?

I have long had a theory that what embarrasses Trump about Epstein is that he was an informer on Epstein. You might wonder, what's embarrassing about that?, but informers are regarded by some, especially on the criminal left, as like the worst thing possible.

I think it's pretty obvious Trump is a major, major gossip -- how many times have you heard him taunt a political opponent by hinting he knows "very bad things, very bad" about him? -- and likes hearing and spreading dirt about his enemies. He may be sensitive about this tendency.

But whether that's true or not, informing on a pedophile is a good and righteous thing and it proves, conclusively, that Trump was not involved in Epstein's nefarious child sex trafficking. Kiddie-diddlers do not call the cops on the Top Diddler who provided him with kiddies to diddle.

Prepare to hear a lot of claims from vicious, mentally-sick left-wing propagandists claiming "Uhhh, akkkshually, kiddie diddlers spontaneously call the cops on other diddlers all the time, akkkshually."

For example, from Rusty Weiss at Red State:

The media, of course, is framing the latest revelation not as 'Trump tried to warn authorities' but rather, as 'this contradicts the president's previous claims.'
From the Miami Herald:

That stands in sharp contrast to what Trump told reporters in July 2019 when he was asked if he had any knowledge that Epstein had molested girls.
�No, I had no idea. I had no idea,� Trump said at the time.

Even with Trump calling the cops on Epstein, they're still trying to insinuate that akkkshually Trump must have been in on it, because he previously said "I had no idea."

That's not a "sharp contrast." It's not even a contrast. Someone can have suspicions without having actual knowledge.

And even though the media is now in the business of public defamation, Trump might have decided, as many people involved in these matters have decided, that it is legally dangerous to name names or accuse people of specific crimes without actual proof to back up those claims. The famous "20 Epstein Victims," for example, continue to say that they'd like to release the names but won't release the names because of fear of legal consequences.

The radical Democrats, Thomas Massie, and MTG have spent the last year trying to link President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.

According to the FBI at the time he was the hero of this story "Thank goodness you're stopping him"

This is the biggest political backfire in history! pic.twitter.com/h9DzuHSFdW
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 10, 2026

The Democrats' Trump-Epstein smear just collapsed. pic.twitter.com/CEqRn8uRiJ
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) February 10, 2026

Meanwhile, the Epstein files implicate another Democrat who didn't drop dime on Epstein so much as she offered political favors for cash: And yet the " " " mainstream " " " media writes no stories about the Strong Black Woman Pedophile-Enabler Stacey Plaskett.

Democratic Rep Stacey Plaskett Pressed Jeffrey Epstein To Fund Project That Would Allow Her To 'Completely Outperform' Opposition

Emails show that Plaskett, using the pseudonym 'LeRoy Daughter,' asked Epstein to fund a one-year project to 'create a new voter file' for the Virgin Islands

...
"This project would allow us to completely outperform anyone in any race," wrote Plaskett. "Jeffrey, would really appreciate your support in the project and thoughts on our home and national scene."
It is unclear why Plaskett used an alternative email account in the exchange with Epstein.

Chuck Ross is being careful not to assert facts he cannot prove, but he knows the reason just as all of you do: Democrats routinely use these dummy email addresses to conduct their nefarious business so that their names are difficult to find when you search someone's correspondence in compliance with a court-issued subpoena.

As I've said, when you subpoena documents, you are not given free access to the other party's files. Instead, a judge orders you, the subpoenaed person, to conduct a search on your own documents, searching for highly-specific keywords and names (which are argued about by lawyers until a judge agrees on a tight list).

By simply always sending emails from pseudonymous accounts and deliberately misspelling keywords, you can defeat 90% of all court-ordered searches on your documents, telling the court, "Gee, I tried and tried, but could find no documents talking about bribes from Ukraine."

Because you know you deliberately misspelled all references to "bribes" as "Burisma salary" and all references to Joe Biden as "The Big Guy."

And we've seen FBI Straight-Shooting Democrat Operatives deliberately misspelling all key words in their emails in order to defeat a court-ordered search of their records.

The pseudonymous account, which appears to be a reference to Plaskett's father, LeRoy Plaskett, is copied on a July 11, 2018, email in which Plaskett invited Epstein to a campaign fundraiser in New York City.
The email adds to an existing pile of evidence that Plaskett was far closer to Epstein, both personally and politically, than she has conceded publicly. In November, Plaskett defended revelations that she exchanged text messages with Epstein during a February 2019 congressional hearing, describing the exchange as correspondence with a "constituent" who had sent her unsolicited messages. She denied that she had "a friendship" with Epstein, who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting a minor for prostitution.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM

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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 12:10 PM (zjgNU)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

3 Top ten!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (NFX2v)

4 Trump, the hero of The Epstein Novel.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (vbXSk)

5 THAT WAS ALL JUST A COVER!

TRUMP KNEW THE POLICE WERE CLOSING IN SO HE JUST TRIED TO SAVE HIMSELF!

/all the TDS people

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

6 Who is this Epstein?

MSM

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (u73oe)

7 I have to say, I like Trump. He's an ass and can be arrogant, but.

He seems to actually be a decent human being. Which is rare these days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:12 PM (bss/y)

8 Jumpscare!

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 12:13 PM (jc0TO)

9 The left has figured out that their best soldiers are the sexually deviant.

So OF COURSE they have no problems, whatever the deviancy is.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 12:14 PM (zjgNU)

10 Odd comments just paused.

Are you nancy boys reading the content?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)

11 "It doesn't matter. HE'S A PEDO AND A BUDDY OF EPSTEIN! THIS PROVES NOTHING!!!"

At least that's what the leftist on my FB feed are probably going to say. They want him on trial until the "correct" verdict is reached and we're marched to the gallows.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 12:14 PM (lXoJ5)

12 Heh. This should have been a nonstarter issue for the globalist Left. Trump’s preferences in women have always been for grown up women. They are a dumb lot.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 12:14 PM (pDt9x)

13 >Mirror Now, Epstein Files Row: Trump & Co. Walks Free While European Elites Caught In Whirlwind, How?

Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but his shadow is shaking Europe’s political and elite class. Two weeks after sealed files were released, the fallout has hit London, Oslo and Paris—not Washington. In Europe, proximity equals accountability: resignations, investigations and collapsing careers follow mere association. In Britain, PM Keir Starmer faces a crisis over Peter Mandelson’s appointment. By contrast, the US remains largely unmoved. Fixed terms, partisanship and scandal fatigue blunt consequences, allowing Epstein’s American connections to absorb the shock while Europe burns.

>France 24, Epstein taints European governments and royalty, US corporate elite
Paris (France) (AFP) – Nearly seven years after his death by suicide in a New York prison, sex offender tycoon Jeffrey Epstein is still tarnishing the reputations and careers of those he was in contact with.

😉

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:14 PM (NFX2v)

14 Yeah, I hate a snitch, and I don't talk to the 5-0, ever.

My general attitude is that I don't much care about people's crimes, so long as they keep me out of it.

That ends at physical abuse of a child. THAT has to be stopped immediately, and I don't want to go to prison for doing it myself.

Keep your goddamn cotton-picking fingers off of kids, and you'll never have any problem from me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 12:15 PM (voQc3)

15 I am dead....let it go already.

Jeez...

Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Epstein at February 10, 2026 12:15 PM (hXJe5)

16 15 I am dead....let it go already.

Jeez...
Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Epstein at February 10, 2026 12:15 PM (hXJe5)

Heh. Probably troll. Doesn't mean it's not funny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:16 PM (bss/y)

17 Hey... what's going on with Savannah Guthries Mommy?

Posted by: MSM at February 10, 2026 12:16 PM (affD0)

18 By contrast, the US remains largely unmoved. Fixed terms, partisanship and scandal fatigue blunt consequences, allowing Epstein’s American connections to absorb the shock while Europe burns.

and the fact that all the perps are from the opposition party.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 12:16 PM (jc0TO)

19 Afternoon Ace.
I have no doubt the left would run with a "Trump's a rat" narrative.
They wouldn't think about what he was informing about .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 12:16 PM (yI5mB)

20 Oh wow it actually kind of makes sense now.

They *literally* don't even know what learning is. As a concept. You don't know something. Then you learn it. Now you know it.

But that's ridiculous. Saying you once didn't know something that you know now? What does that even mean, man? If there's a thing to know, you know it forever, duh. I'm not some basic bitch walking around not knowing things. It all sounds like some kind of MAGA retard Q anon shit to me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:17 PM (JwNbV)

21 You know who else called in the cops for person like Epstein...

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 10, 2026 12:18 PM (affD0)

22 It is comical how the FNM goes back and forth between:

There were no Epstein client or list. Why do you people think everyone you don't like is a pedo?

and

Of course Trump is an Epstein client...look here are pictures of them at the same party in NYC! And a picture of Trump with a pretty young girl *

*its his daughter

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

23 It gets better. Epstein found out Trump reported him. So Epstein then made it his life to get Trump, including many fabrications as revenge. Those emails are also out there. Gee, I wonder why the media and democrats leaked those before this.

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 10, 2026 12:18 PM (EJWxb)

24 Seems they believe they've caught a live one.

CNBC, Politics
Trump Commerce Sec. Lutnick admits visiting Epstein island during family vacation
Published Tue, Feb 10 2026

Points
-Trump administration Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he and his family had lunch on the private island of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years earlier.
-“We had lunch on the island, that is true, for an hour,” Lutnick said in Senate testimony.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:18 PM (NFX2v)

25 Keep your goddamn cotton-picking fingers off of kids, and you'll never have any problem from me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

We need to punch back hard against people who want perversion like that normalized.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 12:18 PM (lXoJ5)

26 19 Afternoon Ace.
I have no doubt the left would run with a "Trump's a rat" narrative.
They wouldn't think about what he was informing about .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 12:16 PM (yI5mB)

It was the primary problem I had with Scent of a Woman.

A 'rat' is not the worst thing you can be. A man stands for things and calls out those who go against that. This is not the left's posturing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y)

27 Trump has repeatedly shown himself to be a highly ethical and classy guy who will not back down from a fight and that pisses the left wing liberal criminals off to the point of insanity.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 10, 2026 12:19 PM (pLaQB)

28 It appears that the Epstein files may cause political hell for European leftist elite. Schadenfreude on steroids and human growth hormone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (yI5mB)

29 Hey... what's going on with Savannah Guthries Mommy?
Posted by: MSM
......

They'll never find the body.

Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (UjdFS)

30 17 Hey... what's going on with Savannah Guthries Mommy?
Posted by: MSM

She's hangin' out in Tel Aviv with Jeffrey Epstein.

Turns out they both knew too much about Matt Lauer.

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (Y8DZL)

31 *hic* *shart* *cackle*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (xFfhU)

32 Hey... what's going on with Savannah Guthries Mommy?
Posted by: MSM at February 10, 2026 12:16 PM (affD0)

This is a very complicated case, MSM. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head.

Posted by: The Dude at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (hXJe5)

33 Sorry to scare you with the red font headline, but that's how the " " " Mainstream " " " media is playing this story and I want to prove I'm a Real Journalist Too.

Wouldn't standing on a street corner in fishnet stockings and hot pants be quicker?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

34 being trump: if you were accused of committing a crime in nyc last wednesday and you could prove you were in texas all week, there are people who would still say you didn't prove you were innocent to their satisfaction

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (CWTWj)

35 I'll rat a bitch out every day of the week.

Don't shit up my planet with your bullshit. If I gotta follow the rules, you do to, motherfucker.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (JwNbV)

36 On X there was a democrat voter that insisted that the Epstein files prove that Trump not only diddled babies, he ate them when he was through with them. TDS is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)

37 Strong Black Woman Pedophile-Enabler

STRONK!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Kt19C)

38 Yay, PDT! That's my President.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (+YA9H)

39 This just in: NOBODY can handle carnal knowledge of another outside matrimony.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (YlWIZ)

40 Now we know why Biden didn't release them.....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (HbB1p)

41 29 Hey... what's going on with Savannah Guthries Mommy?
Posted by: MSM
......

They'll never find the body.
Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (UjdFS)

You want a toe? I can get you a toe. *With* nail polish.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (JwNbV)

42 Another thing with all this the reason you are seeing the Trump-Epstein stuff isn't because they believe Trump was a client - remember the same people saying that now said there were no clients under the Biden Junta - its because they believe saying leftists were Epstein clients hurt Dem candidates in the last several elections and they want to do the same to Trump/MAGA candidates

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)

43 Being a "rat" is only dishonorable if you're a worthless damned crook yourself, which itself is dishonorable.

To hell with the "honor" of scumbags.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:22 PM (JwNbV)

44 >>>And I have to ask:

Did Bill Clinton ever call the cops on Epstein?

Did Hillary Clinton?

Did Charles Schumer?

Did Bill Gates?

Don't try to change the subject! We all know Trump is guilty (of what we cannot say, to preclude Trump suing us for lying)!!!

Posted by: Every member of the Democrat-Media Complex at February 10, 2026 12:23 PM (5rh/l)

45 Willowed

234 Canada's flop over to Swedish multi-role jets makes North American air defense more complicated than necessary. It's a poke in the eye. Trump's eye.
_____

It's a poke in America's eye. Not criticizing this post, I just want to point out that when Trump is trying to Make America Great Again, he's trying to help the US citizen. So when countries "get back at Trump" for something he is trying to do, I take it personal. It isn't Trump that is being harmed, he'll be fine no matter.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 12:23 PM (Dv3i1)

46 They'll never find the body.

Chainsaw and chipper.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 12:23 PM (Kt19C)

47 Nothing to see here, move along.

Look! Squirrel!!!

Posted by: Dems and MSM at February 10, 2026 12:23 PM (w9Wax)

48 I'm surprised we haven't heard more about Lindsey and Johnny McMaverick.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 10, 2026 12:23 PM (xFfhU)

49 They need to search the files for Leroy Jenkins.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (n5tGW)

50 29 Hey... what's going on with Savannah Guthries Mommy?
Posted by: MSM
......

They'll never find the body.
Posted by: wth at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM (UjdFS)

Tucson's only about - what - 50 miles from the Messican Border....I wonder if they spirited her away over there....?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (QGaXH)

51 First you dig a deep grave..

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (jc0TO)

52 Being a "rat" is only dishonorable if you're a worthless damned crook yourself, which itself is dishonorable.

Yeah! Wait...what?

Posted by: Blue Wall of Silence at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (TbWk/)

53 Another -

CNN, 2 hours ago, 'Chappell Roan leaves Casey Wasserman talent agency after Epstein files revelations'

That was the vampiric looking woman at the awards ceremony with her nipple rings holding up thin material.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (NFX2v)

54 Tucson's only about - what - 50 miles from the Messican Border....I wonder if they spirited her away over there....?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (QGaXH)

That's what I was thinking.. Cartel related

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (HbB1p)

55 I tried to tell some dems two weeks ago, "do you know why everyone suddenly quit talking about the Epstein files? It's because it was all Bill Vlinton all the time."

If course they don't want to talk about it.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (KN2gu)

56 49 They need to search the files for Leroy Jenkins.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (n5tGW)

GodDAMMIT Leroy!

Posted by: I don't even have chicken at February 10, 2026 12:25 PM (TbWk/)

57 Everyone knows only bad people are narcs. Good people keep their pieholes shut about the crimes they've seen.

Posted by: Democrats everywhere at February 10, 2026 12:25 PM (9DoQP)

58 36 On X there was a democrat voter that insisted that the Epstein files prove that Trump not only diddled babies, he ate them when he was through with them. TDS is a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)

TDS worse than bath salts/pcp.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:25 PM (QGaXH)

59 "informers are regarded by some, especially on the criminal left, as like the worst thing possible."

Exhibit A: Linda Tripp. The left used every means to tear her down, every media tool they had.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 12:26 PM (N8ZBc)

60 Again, if Trump had any real exposure, it would have been dropped a decade ago, and certainly when the Junta seized control.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)

61 First you dig a deep grave..
Posted by: toby928(c)

FIRST you call 811, then you dig.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:26 PM (KN2gu)

62 The famous "20 Epstein Victims," for example, continue to say that they'd like to release the names but won't release the names because of fear of legal consequences.

This is all bullshit. Truth is the defense to a defamation charge and Musk has already pledged to pick up their legal tab. Besides, what retard wants to sue for defamation and open up Discovery?

If they are still in fear of legal consequences, its because if they named names, they would be lying. These women are likely frauds.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 12:26 PM (9Hs2w)

63 53 Another -

CNN, 2 hours ago, 'Chappell Roan leaves Casey Wasserman talent agency after Epstein files revelations'

That was the vampiric looking woman at the awards ceremony with her nipple rings holding up thin material.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:24 PM (NFX2v)

I looked her up yesterday, I think. I said then that she looks exactly like a saloon whore with syphilis from the 1800s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)

64 60 Again, if Trump had any real exposure, it would have been dropped a decade ago, and certainly when the Junta seized control.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)

This. Completely this.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

65 I kinda miss the "reporting" style of the MSM from the Trump 45 years.

Bombshell!
Beginning of the end!!
The walls are closing in!!!!

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:27 PM (B4Se1)

66 Being a "rat" is only dishonorable if you're a worthless damned crook yourself, which itself is dishonorable.

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Sure. But when so many cops, DAs and judges are also criminals, snitching is basically inserting yourself into a melee between rival gangs.

None of my bidness.

But I draw the line at child abuse. That's worth getting involved in all that seamy shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 12:27 PM (BI5O2)

67 Headline:

Trump pounced and seized on Ghislaine Maxwell

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 12:27 PM (XeU6L)

68 Varney Trivia Question this morning:

Who was first president born in 20th Century?

Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

69 Epstein taints European governments and royalty, US corporate elite

Phrasing?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 10, 2026 12:28 PM (w9Wax)

70 Democrats are getting ahead of this to shape the narrative on it. They'll just keep throwing out accusations about Trump so that, no matter what comes out about a Democrat, their voters will think "but Trump..."

Posted by: 29Victor at February 10, 2026 12:28 PM (0MjtC)

71 Again, if Trump had any real exposure, it would have been dropped a decade ago, and certainly when the Junta seized control.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

If Trump had any real exposure, that syphilitic whore Nanzi Pelosi would have had every media conglomerate in her office.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:28 PM (KN2gu)

72
Democrats: Trump is a Pedophile

Also Democrats: We Must Sexualize All Children Immediately

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:28 PM (sSB0N)

73 Please excuse Jeffrey from prison today. He's not feeling well.

Posted by: Epstein's mother at February 10, 2026 12:28 PM (blb7N)

74 The famous "20 Epstein Victims," for example, continue to say that they'd like to release the names but won't release the names because of fear of legal consequences.

This is all bullshit. Truth is the defense to a defamation charge and Musk has already pledged to pick up their legal tab. Besides, what retard wants to sue for defamation and open up Discovery?

Interestingly Virginia Guiffre made her claims and you'll note no one sued her...

But perhaps more to the point she did die unexpectedly after a really odd car accident.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

75 I MIGHT be on the list... maybe

Posted by: Brian Dennehy at February 10, 2026 12:29 PM (affD0)

76 Another reason (besides Bibi telling him not to) Trump decided not to release the files after campaigning on full transparency is because he realized how many big shots were connected to Epstein.

Trump likes to co-opt the elites when he can such as Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates, even the Hollywood studio slime. He even tried to charm and co-opt Mamdami after the election. He supposedly said to Marjorie Taylor-Greene that he didn't want to hurt his friends by releasing the files.

Trying to suppress the files backfired on him in that sense.

Posted by: Henry Jarecki's Jiggly Man Boobs at February 10, 2026 12:29 PM (80kdn)

77 Wouldn't standing on a street corner in fishnet stockings and hot pants be quicker?
Posted by: Archimedes

Going for the DOCTOR Jill Biden Christmas Card look?

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (Y8DZL)

78 g gordon liddy refuses to talk about watergate to prosecutors: he's like a mobster

susan mcdougal refuses to talk to prosecutors about whitewater: she's heroic

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (CWTWj)

79 "That was the vampiric looking woman at the awards ceremony with her nipple rings holding up thin material"

That was one hideous dress.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (8Xy/A)

80 I'm not a syphilitic whore.
I'm a Chlamydic whore.

Posted by: San Fran Nan at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (blb7N)

81 If I felt like discussing this with the left, I'd ask why they so desperately want a man they hate to be a pedo since the view that perversion as a valid lifestyle choice.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (lXoJ5)

82 My theory is that the IC is now burning down the rich, the powerful and the influential to hide the money laundering and the drug trafficking networks set up to evade Congressional and judicial oversight of the planning, execution and funding of covert action and other forms of sort of espionage.

They are sacrificing all the contractors and ride-along personalities to save their necks.

At some point this may not fly anymore, because the powerful and rich sometimes dislike being targeted for destruction

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (rbvCR)

83 My favorite misleading headline is "Bush Aide Convicted"

"Convicted of mail fraud and perjury for leaking Bush campaign materials to Al Gore's campaign during the 2000 presidential election"

Posted by: Chuck C at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (D0HYP)

84 redrum

Posted by: Oglebay at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (GPa4z)

85 "That was the vampiric looking woman at the awards ceremony with her nipple rings holding up thin material"

That was one hideous dress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (8Xy/A)

The dress itself wasn't hideous. On the right person...

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (B4Se1)

86 I liked Epstein

Posted by: Vinny Barbarino at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (affD0)

87 79 "That was the vampiric looking woman at the awards ceremony with her nipple rings holding up thin material"

That was one hideous dress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (8Xy/A)

If it somehow got pulled down maybe when sitting.. Ouch...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (HbB1p)

88 MTG is a full-of-shit grifter and retard.

Whatever may or may not be going with Epstein or anything else, MTG's input is never useful. She's a person can be categorically disregarded.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (BI5O2)

89 Who the hell is Chappell Roan, and, who cares?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (XeU6L)

90 61 First you dig a deep grave..
Posted by: toby928(c)

FIRST you call 811, then you dig.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:26 PM (KN2gu)

I think you can use IR or other hyper spectral imaging to find recently disturbed earth from above.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (QGaXH)

91 susan mcdougal refuses to talk to prosecutors about whitewater: she's heroic

If you recall her husband cooperated with the investigators and unexpectedly died of a heart attack

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)

92
I think you can use IR or other hyper spectral imaging to find recently disturbed earth from above.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (QGaX

And Cadaver dogs

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 12:32 PM (HbB1p)

93 So with this announcement, is our resident troll Alias on suicide watch? As in "Watch him end his life"?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 12:32 PM (lXoJ5)

94 I see No Name Commenter Number One Billion always has the scoop on the Trump Epstein coverup

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:32 PM (sSB0N)

95 It's sort of like the "Me Too" movement which began in 2006, but finally exploded in 2017 following the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations.

🎍 (👈 closest found to a potted plant)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (NFX2v)

96 I think it is funny that Whoopie Goldberg requested to use Epstein's plane and have him fly her to Europe. Because of course she has been claiming Trump was Eppy's client for years.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (n5tGW)

97 One version of the Report had Reiters name redacted so people could not research to claim.
It appears in 2019 the Police Chief confirmed the story.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (gbOdA)

98 JFK was 46 when he became president in 1961.

Do the math, if you dare!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (w9Wax)

99 And Cadaver dogs

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 12:32 PM (HbB1p)

Too soon

Posted by: Kristi Noem at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (sSB0N)

100 If you recall her husband cooperated with the investigators and unexpectedly died of a heart attack

Funny, that.

Posted by: Hillary at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

101 What if Maxwell had her father and Epstein 'retired'???

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 12:34 PM (2GVsD)

102 100 If you recall her husband cooperated with the investigators and unexpectedly died of a heart attack

Funny, that.
Posted by: Hillary at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

Arkancide

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 12:34 PM (gbOdA)

103 I think you can use IR or other hyper spectral imaging to find recently disturbed earth from above.

That is why you dig the hole like you are sinking a post and place the subject head-first into the hole since the organs are closer to the head and will be further from the surface when they bring out cadaver dogs.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 12:34 PM (9s47C)

104 Nothing to see here, move along.

Look! Squirrel!!!
Posted by: Dems and MSM at February 10, 2026 12:23 PM (w9Wax)
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Don't bring me into this!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 12:34 PM (ESVrU)

105 Anti-Semites inserted more 11k references to the Rothschild name in the Epstein files!

Posted by: Sultain Ahmed bin Sulayem's Camel Toe Examiner at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (80kdn)

106 Both Horshack and Epstein died in the same year-2012. Coincidence, or something else?

Posted by: Seasoned Theorist at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (oftw2)

107 For some reason I have been like a monkey on Crack with this Savannah Guthrie story. I didn't even know who she was, I never watch TV, but its so sad and bizarre. Like reading a mystery novel and waiting for the next chapter to come out.

Posted by: Megthered at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (7kCyy)

108 It's sort of like the "Me Too" movement which began in 2006, but finally exploded in 2017 following the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations.

The left heavily publicized the PoundMeToo movement in 2015/16 to try and get Trump.

Rose McGowan saw the opportunity to use it against a guy that had actually done the sorts of things they were supposedly rallying against

The professional feminist left though was fine letting the Weinsteins of the world do their thing as long as they could get President Hillary

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (sKqQm)

109 That is one weird kidnapping, gotta say. My ridiculous theory is that the old lady died on their hands from whatever reason so they just shrugged their shoulders and moved on.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (pDt9x)

110 98 JFK was 46 when he became president in 1961.

Do the math, if you dare!
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (w9Wax)

Key...rect!!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (QGaXH)

111 I have long had a theory that what embarrasses Trump about Epstein is that he was an informer on Epstein. You might wonder, what's embarrassing about that?, but informers are regarded by some, especially on the criminal left, as like the worst thing possible.
=
That would actually explain a lot.

Posted by: Methos at February 10, 2026 12:36 PM (vSvIl)

112 >>> I liked Epstein

Posted by: Vinny Barbarino

>Like Bad Bunny, only Jewish?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 10, 2026 12:36 PM (xFfhU)

113 For them, the only good snitch is a snitch who's lying.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:36 PM (JwNbV)

114
when you subpoena documents, you are not given free access to the other party's files. Instead, a judge orders you, the subpoenaed person, to conduct a search on your own documents, searching for highly-specific keywords and names

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

What an utter joke. How do we change this? Oh right, we don't, because the people who make the rules and the laws are also protected by this charade.

I know that in some cases, feds pick up hard drives. What does it take to permit that?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 12:36 PM (n7rxJ)

115 Get bent

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:37 PM (NFX2v)

116 Both Horshack and Epstein died in the same year-2012. Coincidence, or something else?
Posted by: Seasoned Theorist at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (oftw2)

***

I was there...

Posted by: Brian Dennehy at February 10, 2026 12:37 PM (affD0)

117 For some reason I have been like a monkey on Crack with this Savannah Guthrie story. I didn't even know who she was, I never watch TV, but its so sad and bizarre. Like reading a mystery novel and waiting for the next chapter to come out.
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I saw a story somewhere indicating that Nancy Guthrie's social media was chock-full of anti-Trump material.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 12:38 PM (TN0g+)

118 OT rat stuff: I've been watching a lot of Sammy Gravano's youtube channel. He's a good storyteller with a lot of details on his murders. Claims he's now a born again Christian, but I'm not buying it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 12:38 PM (XvL8K)

119 CNBC, Politics
Trump Commerce Sec. Lutnick admits visiting Epstein island during family vacation
Published Tue, Feb 10 2026

Points
-Trump administration Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he and his family had lunch on the private island of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years earlier.
-“We had lunch on the island, that is true, for an hour,” Lutnick said in Senate testimony.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:18 PM (NFX2v)
********
And had a meeting with Saint Pope John Paul II.
Howard Lutnick does not need to resign over this.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 12:38 PM (NpAcC)

120 Trump is that rarity in both real estate and politics - a good man.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 10, 2026 12:38 PM (42yrw)

121 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (XeU6L)

Apparently she's a camp and Drag Queen influenced singer. I think she was really born as woman though. She's just a weirdo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 12:39 PM (8Xy/A)

122 72
Democrats: Trump is a Pedophile

Also Democrats: We Must Sexualize All Children Immediately

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:28 PM (sSB0N)

Looking back at the past 10+ years, it seems to me all the Dem-Media accusations against Trump were designed to force non-Leftists to feel ashamed for even thinking about voting for Trump.

The problem with that strategy is, it can be near-impossible to force people to feel shame. As Leftists should know all too well, given their shameless lying, thieving, and whoring.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 12:39 PM (5rh/l)

123 she looks exactly like a saloon whore with syphilis from the 1800s.

On today's Gunsmoke, doc treats Kitty for hemeroids.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 12:39 PM (Kt19C)

124 I think you can use IR or other hyper spectral imaging to find recently disturbed earth from above.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (QGaX

And Cadaver dogs
Posted by: It's me donna

I only need long enough to get them in the ground since I'm using Garrett's backyard.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:40 PM (KN2gu)

125 I'll say this again, the Left is PAGAN.

Eyes Wide Shut as imagined by 13-year-olds.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 12:40 PM (2GVsD)

126 95 It's sort of like the "Me Too" movement which began in 2006, but finally exploded in 2017 following the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations.

🎍 (👈 closest found to a potted plant)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:33 PM (NFX2v)

Another great back-fire that I never see any discussion of was California passing a Proposition that allowed employees to sue for wage discrimination if they suspected unfairness, presumably to rectify unfairness to women. This is back around 2010 +/- as I dimly recall. First thing they did - marched Google right into court. Outcome - Google had to increase the salary of MALE engineers because they were paying the women more than the men.

Never heard another thing about Proposition after that....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:40 PM (QGaXH)

127 Claims he's now a born again Christian, but I'm not buying it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 12:38 PM (XvL8K)

Third time's the charm?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:40 PM (JwNbV)

128 I hope they catch the kidnappers/killers. But there's nothing remotely interesting about that story. The mother of a wealthy, lying pigdog whore is being held for ransom. It's literally the "local crime story" being inverted into a national one, because one of the media's own fellow pigs is caught up in it and they view media pigs as a higher and much more important lifeform than anyone else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 12:40 PM (BI5O2)

129 But perhaps more to the point she did die unexpectedly after a really odd car accident.

That's not exactly a "fear of legal consequences" that is fear of a Fixer clearing the Prosecutor's witness list.

We had that problem in Afghanistan where officers who swore out search warrants were dead before trial.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 12:40 PM (rgGn5)

130 I think you can use IR or other hyper spectral imaging to find recently disturbed earth from above.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (QGaX

And Cadaver dogs

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 12:32 PM (HbB1p)

Concrete shoes FTW.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 12:41 PM (dK+Kv)

131 I continue to believe that Epstein is a net negative for Trump. This is true regardless how obvious it is that Trump not only had nothing to do with his perversions, but Trump called the cops on him.

People have made up their minds about Epstein -- for better or worse -- and no force on Earth can change their minds even in the slightest.

My view on Epstein is the same as that Bad Bunny dick-centric dick-riding creep: I'd rather never think about him ever again.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

132 Hear this in Stacy Keach's voice quoting it on Unsolved Mysteries when someone gets charged with the murder:

103 I think you can use IR or other hyper spectral imaging to find recently disturbed earth from above.

That is why you dig the hole like you are sinking a post and place the subject head-first into the hole since the organs are closer to the head and will be further from the surface when they bring out cadaver dogs.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 12:34 PM (9s47C)

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 10, 2026 12:41 PM (YlWIZ)

133 But Thom-ass M-ass-ie has found NEW NAMES in the unreleased files!

And REDACTIONS!!!

What are they HIDING?!!!!

lol, he's such a fucking retard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 12:41 PM (HXT0k)

134 I am not terribly concerned about where Donald Trump registers on my Good-O-Meter. He does lots of stuff that I like and that needs to be done. Works for me.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 12:41 PM (pDt9x)

135 Trump is that rarity in both real estate and politics - a good man.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Trump - do it legal and run balls to the wall and we never have to look over our shoulder or worry.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:42 PM (KN2gu)

136 Guthrie had her own mother kidnapped. That would make a CSI episode.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 12:42 PM (2GVsD)

137 The problem with that strategy is, it can be near-impossible to force people to feel shame. As Leftists should know all too well, given their shameless lying, thieving, and whoring.

The FNM: Trump is despicable. Do you know he once said the word p*ssy?!?

Also the FNM: Bad Bunny is a true groundbreaking hero. When he sang Me gusta la chocha de Puerto Rico we knew he was a great rockstar!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

138 This just in Epstein emailed Schumer a recipe for BABY BACK RIBS!!!!!

Posted by: REEEE at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (6rdCx)

139 On today's Gunsmoke, doc treats Kitty for hemeroids.

--

Sadly, Kitty (Amanda Blake) died of AIDS in real life.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (qBdHI)

140 "The media, of course, is framing the latest revelation not as 'Trump tried to warn authorities' but rather, as 'this contradicts the president's previous claims."

MSM: Trump is a snitch!

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (GUOwU)

141 I think you can use IR or other hyper spectral imaging to find recently disturbed earth from above.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:31 PM (QGaX

And Cadaver dogs
Posted by: It's me donna

I only need long enough to get them in the ground since I'm using Garrett's backyard.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:40 PM (KN2gu)
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Make sure you get some of the dirt on Garrett's crocs. The devil is in the details...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (ESVrU)

142 107 For some reason I have been like a monkey on Crack with this Savannah Guthrie story. I didn't even know who she was, I never watch TV, but its so sad and bizarre. Like reading a mystery novel and waiting for the next chapter to come out.
Posted by: Megthered at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (7kCyy)

Savannah obviously stumbled upon information that will lead finally to the arrest and conviction of Hildabeast....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (QGaXH)

143 Dems always accuse their opponents of doing what they are doing themselves.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (kIJ/b)

144 Unfortunately everyone reads headlines nobody reads the story.

Headlines are; Trump did something bad

Story is: well he actually did something good

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (y6810)

145 119. And had a meeting with Saint Pope John Paul II.
Howard Lutnick does not need to resign over this.
Posted by: redridinghood

An Amen then.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (NFX2v)

146 The emails have been organized into gmail inbox form and can be sifted through and read chronologically at jmail dot world.

Posted by: Jepprey Efstein's Cheese Pizza Delivery Service at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (80kdn)

147 I only need long enough to get them in the ground since I'm using Garrett's backyard.

You may want to do some more prep on the body, like stabbing it dozens of times around the genitals and anus.

Homicide scene investigators often encounter such horrific treatment of the corpse when it involves jilted homosexual lovers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 12:44 PM (rgGn5)

148 139 On today's Gunsmoke, doc treats Kitty for hemeroids.

--

Sadly, Kitty (Amanda Blake) died of AIDS in real life.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (qBdHI)

I read that too. Married to a homosexual I think.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 12:44 PM (pDt9x)

149 saw a story somewhere indicating that Nancy Guthrie's social media was chock-full of anti-Trump material.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 12:38 PM (TN0g+)

There was a time people didn't give a shit what people thought and felt but the Left has made it mandatory we find out. Sad. Easiest way to divide people is, amazingly, force them to pick a side.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:44 PM (sSB0N)

150 I don't know where the pussy of puerto rico is, but the asshole is definitely in Barceloneta.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:44 PM (JwNbV)

151 36 On X there was a democrat voter that insisted that the Epstein files prove that Trump not only diddled babies, he ate them when he was through with them. TDS is a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)

Given the tendency of Democrats to accuse others of what the Dems themselves are actually doing. Let's just put a pin in that and hope we never have to come back to it. Also, can we get an RFP for trebuchets out to potential vendors?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 12:45 PM (w/O5Q)

152 OT rat stuff: I've been watching a lot of Sammy Gravano's youtube channel. He's a good storyteller with a lot of details on his murders. Claims he's now a born again Christian, but I'm not buying it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Me, either.

Posted by: JC at February 10, 2026 12:45 PM (yFLFB)

153 This just in Epstein emailed Schumer a recipe for BABY BACK RIBS!!!!!
Posted by: REEEE

Step 1: Turn on the f'n grill!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:45 PM (KN2gu)

154 138 This just in Epstein emailed Schumer a recipe for BABY BACK RIBS!!!!!
Posted by: REEEE at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (6rdCx)

LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

155 For some reason I have been like a monkey on Crack with this Savannah Guthrie story. I didn't even know who she was, I never watch TV, but its so sad and bizarre. Like reading a mystery novel and waiting for the next chapter to come out.
Posted by: Megthered at February 10, 2026 12:35 PM (7kCyy)

Fuck her. She is (was?)a rabid TDS sufferer. As is the daughter. They both hate you and want you dead. Give them zero sympathy.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 12:45 PM (y6810)

156 Howard Lutnick does not need to resign over this.
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We'll see. I don't trust anything related to the Epstein stories.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 12:45 PM (TN0g+)

157 Wait, ribs should be able to be kosher, right?

Or is it the 'baby' part?

Which lane are we picking here?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:46 PM (bss/y)

158 On X there was a democrat voter that insisted that the Epstein files prove that Trump not only diddled babies, he ate them when he was through with them. TDS is a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)

TDS worse than bath salts/pcp.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:25 PM (QGaXH)
*****
Ridiculous. Trump only eats McDonald's hamburgers and their Filet-O-Fish.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 12:46 PM (NpAcC)

159 138 This just in Epstein emailed Schumer a recipe for BABY BACK RIBS!!!!!
Posted by: REEEE

St. Louis or North Carolina style? This will determine my level of outrage.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 12:46 PM (lXoJ5)

160 Question was first born in twentieth century. LB J, 1908.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 10, 2026 12:46 PM (sl73Y)

161 157 Wait, ribs should be able to be kosher, right?

Or is it the 'baby' part?

Which lane are we picking here?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:46 PM (bss/y)

The part where he uses a plastic knife and fork?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:47 PM (JwNbV)

162 Bury her in the forest.

Then she would be Woody Guthrie.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 10, 2026 12:47 PM (w9Wax)

163 Ridiculous. Trump only eats McDonald's hamburgers and their Filet-O-Fish.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 12:46 PM (NpAcC)

Sadly, The Filet-o-Fish is the best of the fast food fish sandwiches (it's a low bar.)

Although, I seem to remember at one time, the Burger king fish was not bad. (Maybe two decades ago.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

164 The part where he uses a plastic knife and fork?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:47 PM (JwNbV)

Heh. How gauche.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:48 PM (bss/y)

165 "Mr. Snowdon, why has there been no dirt leaked about Trump?" "Because there isn't any."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 10, 2026 12:48 PM (YlWIZ)

166 Sadly, Kitty (Amanda Blake) died of AIDS in real life.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (qBdHI)

I read that too. Married to a homosexual I think.
Posted by: tubal

IMDb says Aids related hepatitis. She was only 60.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:48 PM (KN2gu)

167 Trump has given up more to advance our movement and beat back the demonic commie movement than anyone in my lifetime. Whether he's done it out of a true compass, a calling or because it suited his selfish desires to do it, I don't care.

BTW our entire political class are the ones who act and speak because it suits their selfish desires. Watch how fast Hero Rubio fucks you over the moment he gets the chance. There was a time when Pence was very highly regarded too. Hell, there was a time Rubio was highly regarded. Fool us once, right?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:48 PM (sSB0N)

168 Rep. Stansbury:

“The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 12:49 PM (gbOdA)

169 It appears that the Epstein files may cause political hell for European leftist elite. Schadenfreude on steroids and human growth hormone
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 12:20 PM
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Weird because I remember when Europe could give a fig about infidelity and sexual deviancy.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 10, 2026 12:49 PM (9DoQP)

170 162 Ha!

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)

171 Guthrie had her own mother kidnapped. That would make a CSI episode.

Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Priory School"
Nancy Drew: "The Clue in the old Album", "The Clue of the Tapping Heels"
Hardy Boys: "The Disappearing Floor", "The Flickering Torch Mystery", "The Hooded Hawk Mystery"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 12:49 PM (xE0sV)

172 Sadly, The Filet-o-Fish is the best of the fast food fish sandwiches (it's a low bar.)

Although, I seem to remember at one time, the Burger king fish was not bad. (Maybe two decades ago.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
_________

Get thee to Culvers. You won't regret it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 12:49 PM (XvL8K)

173 We're never going to know what was really going on with Epstein - ever. You may recall me saying that back when Trump was campaigning on it, and that hasn't changed.

But now we have proof of the one thing that was manifestly obvious all along: that Trump’s hands are clean.

Good. Now that this is established, I'm done caring about this story. Everyone got away with it, they'll continue to, and Epstein's IC handlers will see to it that we never even know the truths that no law enforcers would even act upon. Another day, another massive, unpunished crime by our ruling class, the American Way.

This thing is a wrap, AFAIC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 12:50 PM (BI5O2)

174 162 Bury her in the forest.

Then she would be Woody Guthrie.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 10, 2026 12:47 PM (w9Wax)

Good post.
Ace considers clocking out for the day.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 10, 2026 12:50 PM (YlWIZ)

175 160 Question was first born in twentieth century. LB J, 1908.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 10, 2026 12:46 PM (sl73Y)

Question was who was the first president to be born in 20th century.

Kennedy preceded Johnson.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:50 PM (QGaXH)

176 I'm not looking for Trump to be my hero.

He just needs to keep kicking asses on both sides of the aisle.

And the UN. And NATO. And the EU. And globally.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 12:50 PM (xFfhU)

177 Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 10, 2026 12:47 PM (w9Wax)

Damn

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:50 PM (sSB0N)

178 Well... Everyone Knows Trump only did that to make himself look innocent.
[Whoopi nods sagaciously in agreement]

Posted by: Joyless Behar at February 10, 2026 12:50 PM (7Q0e+)

179 I have a theory about Trump. I think consent is important to his relationships with women. I'd pontificate further, but I gotta go be a mom.

Posted by: pookysgirl just ran out of apple juice at February 10, 2026 12:50 PM (Wt5PA)

180 Was there ever any hint of Miss Kitty servicing Johns in that old series? It was a saloon/ whorehouse? Did she have working girls around?

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (pDt9x)

181 Again, for the dick head Thomas Massie, literally everything Jeffrey Epstein did occurred before Trump was President, if there was any there-there, Obamas jack boots would have used it in the 2016 campaign, and then when the Russia-Russia-Russia Collusion fiasco was taking place, it would have been added to the clusterfuck, and then when The Junta seized power in 2020, and where systemattically trying to take out Trump, they would have surely did it then.

THERE IS NOTHING THERE WITH REGARDS TO TRUMP AND EPSTEIN.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (XV/Pl)

182 "Also the FNM: Bad Bunny is a true groundbreaking hero. When he sang Me gusta la chocha de Puerto Rico we knew he was a great rockstar!
Posted by: 18-1"

I have been reliably informed by media experts that his performance was all about Puerto Rico culture tradition and family so it is all good. Especially with the numerous mentions of 'puta' which I think means gramma right?

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (GUOwU)

183 Trump snitched because he made a deal for pedo immunity!!!!

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (sSB0N)

184 "That was the vampiric looking woman at the awards ceremony with her nipple rings holding up thin material"

That was one hideous dress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (8Xy/A)

The BK Whaler was tasty!

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (B4Se1)

185 Fool us once, right?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:48 PM (sSB0N)

Then fool us again and again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (dK+Kv)

186 No worries, by noon tomorrow this story will be shit-canned and the media will move on to the next shiny new thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (2WIwB)

187 126. Never heard another thing about Proposition after that....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)

You're right there!

California (well, the West Coast states) has had a terrible 'habit' of doubling down on Federal laws and then making a huge mess for itself in areas such as employment.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:52 PM (NFX2v)

188 Guthrie had her own mother kidnapped. That would make a CSI episode.

Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Priory School"
Nancy Drew: "The Clue in the old Album", "The Clue of the Tapping Heels"
Hardy Boys: "The Disappearing Floor", "The Flickering Torch Mystery", "The Hooded Hawk Mystery"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Nancy Drew: F it. Where's Peppermint Patty?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:52 PM (KN2gu)

189 None of the Epstein Truthers will ever explain their conspiracy theories.

Nor will any of the Epstein Truthers ever explain why each new revelation always keeps undermining their cockamamie bullshit.

But the Epstein Truthers always have a New! and Improved! theory as to WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WAS.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 12:52 PM (HXT0k)

190 Sadly, The Filet-o-Fish is the best of the fast food fish sandwiches (it's a low bar.)

Although, I seem to remember at one time, the Burger king fish was not bad. (Maybe two decades ago.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

HAHAHA! Horrible copy/paste fail at 184

THIS is what was supposed to precede my comment about the BK Whaler

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:52 PM (B4Se1)

191 I stand by my previous assumption that Trump being publicly wishy-washy about releasing the Epstein files was a long-game Rope-a-Dope to get the democrats to screech to high heaven about releasing them until they finally did, and now Trump comes in with a devastating right cross for the KO.

I don't subscribe to the 11th dimension chess stuff very often but I feel like in this case this was Trump playing the left like a Stradivarius.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 12:52 PM (5aZAZ)

192 If Trump had done it for immunity, ie like a mob "snitch", that would be embarrassing potentially. OTOH I doubt he's embarrassed about blowing the whistle on sexual abuse just because the guy was an acquaintance or even a friend. I fucking wouldn't be.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:53 PM (sSB0N)

193 The Arby's fish sandwich on the Kings Hawaiian is really good surprisingly.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 12:53 PM (n5tGW)

194 In my life there have been 13 Presidents I think

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 12:53 PM (gbOdA)

195 Question was who was the first president to be born in 20th century.

Kennedy preceded Johnson.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:50 PM (QGaXH)

What is the hottest place in the whole world?

...

The core

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:54 PM (JwNbV)

196 Ahah hah hah hah!
Get fucked, Democrats.

Posted by: cheshirecat at February 10, 2026 12:54 PM (TwA+r)

197 puta = chocha = the word that Trump said that made Ann Althouse hate him.

I'm too lazy to see what she said about Bad Bunny but I'm guessing not nearly as upset as she was about Trump...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

198 So Trump saw Epstein with really young women/girls. He had his suspicions and disassociated himself from Epstein. But suspicions aren't facts so that is the best he could do. However, knowing Trump, he probably did more than that, like low key warn friends he knew to avoid Epstein

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2026 12:54 PM (Vh9CX)

199 My theory is that the IC is now burning down the rich, the powerful and the influential to hide the money laundering and the drug trafficking networks set up to evade Congressional and judicial oversight of the planning, execution and funding of covert action and other forms of sort of espionage.

They are sacrificing all the contractors and ride-along personalities to save their necks.
=
You are quite the optimist! I hope you are correct. The more damage done to the psychopaths in the IC the Better. Spies are not nice people. James Bond is a fiction. You have to have some extremely based virtuous people riding shotgun on those assholes or you get total fcking chaos. Those asholes are convinced they are entitled to Everything.

Posted by: George Smiley at February 10, 2026 12:54 PM (6rdCx)

200 THIS is what was supposed to precede my comment about the BK Whaler
Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:52 PM (B4Se1)

Heck, here I thought you had just invented a whole new stratum of snarky obtuseness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (JwNbV)

201 AIDS infected blood killed a lot of people (transfusions) before medical researchers figured out what was going on. John Fogerty’s brother Tom iirc.

The politics of buggery are such that they demand the right to donate infected blood, and California decriminalized spreading AIDS. Truly insane

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (gUqk9)

202 191 I stand by my previous assumption that Trump being publicly wishy-washy about releasing the Epstein files was a long-game Rope-a-Dope to get the democrats to screech to high heaven about releasing them until they finally did, and now Trump comes in with a devastating right cross for the KO.

I think it was more that some names will come up that really didn't do anything bad just business acquaintances and they will be dragged into being guilty of child molestation...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (HbB1p)

203 And get fucked Euros, too.

Posted by: cheshirecat at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (TwA+r)

204 Someone can have suspicions without having actual knowledge."

Suspicious minds?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (cGjQu)

205 Volunteering to coach my kids' teams this spring and I just had to do two trainings. One was for sexual conduct.

The rule is that you report immediately when you have reason to believe.

It's a freaking rule for Little League and rec soccer.

Trump followed it for Epstein. The left will never accept it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (KbCG3)

206 >>>"The media, of course, is framing the latest revelation not as 'Trump tried to warn authorities' but rather, as 'this contradicts the president's previous claims."

They will have to double-down on their accusation that if Trump waited to much as a micro-second to call the cops once he knew of or suspected what Epstein and Maxwell were doing, Trump is totally guilty of aiding and abetting their pedo and white slavery crimes!!!

That is now all they have remaining to throw at President Trump.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 12:56 PM (5rh/l)

207 184 "That was the vampiric looking woman at the awards ceremony with her nipple rings holding up thin material"

That was one hideous dress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (8Xy/A)

The BK Whaler was tasty!
Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (B4Se1)

Banana.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:56 PM (bss/y)

208 Yeah it's always been obvious.

If they had Trump implicated here, why would they have tried framing him for piss hookers?

None if it ever made any sense.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 12:56 PM (BI5O2)

209 139. Sadly, Kitty (Amanda Blake) died of AIDS in real life.
Posted by: Lady in Black

I thought she was so beautiful when I was a kid, plus she had that copper bathtub.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 12:56 PM (NFX2v)

210 Hmmm... I think Gunsmoke was a one whore town.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 12:57 PM (n5tGW)

211 On today's Gunsmoke, doc treats Kitty for prostate cancer "

FIFY

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 12:57 PM (cGjQu)

212 You know who associated with Epstein and continued to associate with Epstein until the day of Epstein's arrest ?? Steve Bannon.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 12:57 PM (g47mK)

213 The politics of buggery are such that they demand the right to donate infected blood, and California decriminalized spreading AIDS. Truly insane

--

It's much better to have people die from AIDS-related blood transfusions than to dare contemplate stigmatizing the gheys. Everybody knows that!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 12:57 PM (qBdHI)

214 193 The Arby's fish sandwich on the Kings Hawaiian is really good surprisingly.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 12:53 PM (n5tGW)

But it seems inconsistent. One year, their fish will be good. The next two years, crap.

At least McDonald's is consistent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:57 PM (bss/y)

215 Sadly, The Filet-o-Fish is the best of the fast food fish sandwiches (it's a low bar.)
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Strangely enough Arby's makes good fish sandwiches.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 12:58 PM (TN0g+)

216 What is the hottest place in the whole world?
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A Karen Gillan and Sydney Sweeney sandwich? Or have I said too much

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:58 PM (sSB0N)

217 Someone can have suspicions without having actual knowledge."

Every married man knows at least one woman who specializes in this.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 12:58 PM (9s47C)

218 If you see something, say something.

Posted by: PSA at February 10, 2026 12:58 PM (Q+gd/)

219 THIS is what was supposed to precede my comment about the BK Whaler
Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:52 PM (B4Se1)

Heck, here I thought you had just invented a whole new stratum of snarky obtuseness.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (JwNbV)

I outdid myself on the obtuseness scale!

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:58 PM (B4Se1)

220 I have been reliably informed by media experts that his performance was all about Puerto Rico culture tradition and family so it is all good. Especially with the numerous mentions of 'puta' which I think means gramma right?
Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (GUOwU)

And AOC. She is a real Puta Riqueña, just like Bad Bunny claims

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 12:58 PM (rbvCR)

221
It appears that the Epstein files may cause political hell for European leftist elite. Schadenfreude on steroids and human growth hormone
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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

I haven't paid attention beyond the headlines, but what is bringing them down? It seems Epstein was not pimping underage girls to his clients, so why are these Euro elites getting canceled over?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 12:59 PM (n7rxJ)

222 White Castle makes the best fish sandwich.

They also make the 2nd best chicken sandwich behind Chik-Fil-A.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 12:59 PM (XV/Pl)

223 Frisch's used to have a great fish sandwich.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 12:59 PM (qBdHI)

224 'Strangely enough Arby's makes good fish sandwiches.'

They have two gyros, a regular and a Greek. Get the Greek.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 12:59 PM (N8ZBc)

225 THIS is what was supposed to precede my comment about the BK Whaler
Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:52 PM (B4Se1)

Heck, here I thought you had just invented a whole new stratum of snarky obtuseness.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I outdid myself on the obtuseness scale!
Posted by: Doof

I read that and immediately associated it with Boston Whaler and was wondering why you were talking about boats.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:00 PM (KN2gu)

226 Kennedy preceded Johnson.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (

Concede. Too lazy to check.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 10, 2026 01:00 PM (sl73Y)

227 But it seems inconsistent. One year, their fish will be good. The next two years, crap.

At least McDonald's is consistent.

Because they don't use actual fish?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 01:00 PM (9s47C)

228 I think Gunsmoke was a one whore town.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Was Miss Kitty the Ghislaine Maxwell of Dodge City?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 10, 2026 01:00 PM (w9Wax)

229 111 I have long had a theory that what embarrasses Trump about Epstein is that he was an informer on Epstein. You might wonder, what's embarrassing about that?, but informers are regarded by some, especially on the criminal left, as like the worst thing possible.

=
That would actually explain a lot.

Posted by: Methos at February 10, 2026 12:36 PM (vSvIl)

Would love to give Trump the benefit of the doubt on this but can't. Sure, maybe he didn't want to look like a rat, but I think it's more that he was protecting some people. He was friends with the Clintons long after 2006.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2026 01:00 PM (KbCG3)

230 Volunteering to coach my kids' teams this spring and I just had to do two trainings. One was for sexual conduct.

The rule is that you report immediately when you have reason to believe.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (KbCG3)

Good on you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 01:00 PM (dK+Kv)

231 Remember:
The same people who "want justice for Epstein's victims" laughed and laughed and laughed when Carville called the victims of Clinton's sexual assaults $100 trailer park whores.

So, I really don't fucking care about the $1000 island whores.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (HXT0k)

232 Fish sandwiches in Bermuda are incredible. Most are served on raisin bread. Sounds weird, but it's REALLY good!

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (B4Se1)

233 Arby's is on my shit list.

I went there for a fish sandwich, when I got it they forgot to give me tarter sauce, it told them they forgot to give me tarter sauce, they said it would cost 50 cents for a tarter sauce.

NEVER AGAIN.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (XV/Pl)

234 BK Whaler

A whale is not a fish.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (Kt19C)

235 Fish Olympics so far:
Arby's 2
McDonald's 1
White Castle 1
Burger King 0

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (n5tGW)

236 "Get the Greek"

Oh my!

Posted by: George Takai at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (kIJ/b)

237 "JFK was 46 when he became president in 1961"

I looked it up--trick question, or ambiguous.

Johnson was born in 1908, Kennedy in 1917, but Kennedy served in the office first.

Posted by: barbarausa at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (enw9G)

238 They also make the 2nd best chicken sandwich behind Chik-Fil-A.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 12:59 PM (XV/Pl)
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Popeye's, Wendy's.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:02 PM (5aZAZ)

239 "Arby's is on my shit list."

I only go when I get the coupons in the mail.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:02 PM (N8ZBc)

240 201 AIDS infected blood killed a lot of people (transfusions) before medical researchers figured out what was going on. John Fogerty’s brother Tom iirc.

The politics of buggery are such that they demand the right to donate infected blood, and California decriminalized spreading AIDS. Truly insane
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 12:55 PM (gUqk9)

Which could have been curtailed if not for ghey bathhouse enthusiast Fauci insisting it was an equal-opportunity disease and fueling the myth of a heterosexual AIDS epidemic to cover for the bathhouse buggerers taking 40+ random dicks in the ass on an average weekend.

Posted by: A public health debacle, but not like ACTUP claimed at February 10, 2026 01:02 PM (TbWk/)

241 What's tarters, Precious?

Posted by: Gollum at February 10, 2026 01:02 PM (Q+gd/)

242 235 Fish Olympics so far:
Arby's 2
McDonald's 1
White Castle 1
Burger King 0
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (n5tGW)

Arby's for sure. Their tartar sauce tasted unlike any other tartar sauce I've ever had.

I shan't ask why.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2026 01:02 PM (KbCG3)

243 >>I don't subscribe to the 11th dimension chess stuff very often but I feel like in this case this was Trump playing the left like a Stradivarius.

I don't think it was 11th dimension chess. I think more Americans need to look at the fallout that is happening around the world. Trump isn't just POTUS he is the leader of the free world and a lot of allies and so called allies are getting exposed in the UK, Norway and other countries.

And when people get tired of the sex stuff and find out what Epstein was really doing with the US and foreign intel communities things will get very spicy. Epstein was a protected CIA asset and it was because he was a rich pervert.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:02 PM (viF8m)

244 232 Fish sandwiches in Bermuda are incredible. Most are served on raisin bread. Sounds weird, but it's REALLY good!
Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (B4Se1)
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Yeah that sounds about up the alley of British "cuisine" so it tracks.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (5aZAZ)

245 231 Remember:
The same people who "want justice for Epstein's victims" laughed and laughed and laughed when Carville called the victims of Clinton's sexual assaults $100 trailer park whores.

So, I really don't fucking care about the $1000 island whores.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (HXT0k)

======

The victims are all known and already got multi-million dollar payouts from Epstein's estate and from Deutsche Bank.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

246 AoSHQ. Come for the Arby's. Stay for the AIDS infected blood.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (sSB0N)

247 BK Whaler

A whale is not a fish.

--

All I can think of are those two geeky twins in Fast Times who can't decide what to get at the fish restaurant Judge Reinhold works at..."Get a whaler!" as they push each other in the booth.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (qBdHI)

248 That is why you dig the hole like you are sinking a post and place the subject head-first into the hole since the organs are closer to the head and will be further from the surface when they bring out cadaver dogs.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 12:34 PM (9s47C)

**scribbles notes on napkin**

Posted by: Vinnie Boombatz Jr at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (5xuJ/)

249 Damn.. They released photos' of the potential kidnapper of Guthrie... Heavily masked and gloved and you can't tell much.. Now this will be run all day long.. Hopefully it doesn't preempt Gutfeld...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (HbB1p)

250 wasn't not was

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (viF8m)

251 "Arby's is on my shit list."

Arby's gave me the shits.

Seriously.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (KN2gu)

252 What is all this about? I've been busy all morning watching the curling finals. USA! USA!

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (sFNX2)

253 There was a time when Pence was very highly regarded too
——-

For what, maybe 30 seconds? All I needed to learn was he folded like a cheap suit when Indiana had some kerfluffle, school prayer or something like that. He might have looked like Race Bannon but he was standard issue RINO failure theater squish.

Barr was another saviour on a white horse. Then we learned he was counsel for one of the federal agents that wasted Vickie Weaver out in Idaho several decades back. A company man, so to speak. I mean, everyone had high hopes - but we’ve seen this movie before. Many times.

Whatever happened to Bobby Jindahl? He was gonna fix all this stuff, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (gUqk9)

254 I wonder if news like this penetrates the bubbles of the LIVs. I'm often shocked by what normal people think are facts.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (FMtrg)

255 In my life there have been 13 Presidents I think
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 12:53 PM (gbOdA

Does Trump count as one or two?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 01:04 PM (y9ksN)

256 253 Whatever happened to Bobby Jindahl? He was gonna fix all this stuff, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (gUqk9)

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Minority. Wonk. Governor of a sort of swing state (in state politics).

NRO splooged over him for years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

257 All of this is very easy. If the Dems had any of the slightest evidence that Trump was actually engaging in sex or what looked liked fooling around with underage "looking" barely legal girls, this would have been used a long time ago to thwart him ever being elected POTUS. They had diddly squat. Same with all of the felonious deeds he was supposedly committing along with pushing old women off of cliffs in their wheelchairs, tying children to railroad tracks, kicking puppies, and teasing Rosie O'Donnell. Okay, the last one is true.

Posted by: Cheri at February 10, 2026 01:04 PM (oiNtH)

258 Does Trump count as one or two?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 01:04 PM

Three

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:04 PM (HbB1p)

259 252 What is all this about? I've been busy all morning watching the curling finals. USA! USA!
Posted by: Martin Tell at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (sFNX2)

HARD! HARD! HARD! HARD! HARD!

Posted by: Every curling event ever at February 10, 2026 01:05 PM (O3dBq)

260 And also, the same people that "want justice for the Epstein victims" because those teenagers may have had sex with adults, want to 9 year old kids to chop off their dicks because "their body, their choice."

And they defend hiding abortions of 12 year olds from their parents because, again, "their body, their choice."

So, I really don't fucking care about the $1000 island whores.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 01:05 PM (HXT0k)

261 Bobby Jindal must've gone in the Witness Protection Program. He literally disappeared off the face of the political earth.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:05 PM (qBdHI)

262 232 Fish sandwiches in Bermuda are incredible. Most are served on raisin bread. Sounds weird, but it's REALLY good!
Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (B4Se1)
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Cool. Now I can convince people I'm well-traveled by making fish sandwiches "Bermuda style" (between 2 slices of raisin bread).

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 10, 2026 01:05 PM (36PRH)

263 252 What is all this about? I've been busy all morning watching the curling finals. USA! USA!
Posted by: Martin Tell at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (sFNX2)
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Right there with you. USA!

Posted by: WisRich at February 10, 2026 01:05 PM (G0vdT)

264 Epstein supposedly made his millions/billions as a hedge fund manager on Wall Street. Oddly, nobody on Wall Street ever remembers working with him.

Where did all of his money come from?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:05 PM (viF8m)

265 Does Trump count as one or two?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 01:04 PM (y9ksN)

Two.

Posted by: Department of State at February 10, 2026 01:06 PM (O3dBq)

266 My wifes says they are showing photos of the kidnappers on NewsMax.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:06 PM (jc0TO)

267 261 Bobby Jindal must've gone in the Witness Protection Program. He literally disappeared off the face of the political earth.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:05 PM (qBdHI)

======

Pretty sure he ran for president in 2016.

Like everyone else.

But "amnesty but with a brown face" sells just as well in the GOP as "amnesty but with a white face".

He dropped out before Iowa, in November of 2015.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

268 All of this is very easy. If the Dems had any of the slightest evidence that Trump was actually engaging in sex or what looked liked fooling around with underage "looking" barely legal girls, this would have been used a long time ago to thwart him ever being elected POTUS.

Yet not even a yawn from the same people when its discovered that Bill Clinton is featured in two volumes of photos and incriminating notes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 01:06 PM (9s47C)

269 266 My wifes says they are showing photos of the kidnappers on NewsMax.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:06 PM (jc0TO)

Scary looking.. Might be a Woman ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:06 PM (HbB1p)

270 My first take was those could be a woman's eyebrows visible under the mask.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:07 PM (jc0TO)

271 or a tranny.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:07 PM (jc0TO)

272 68 Varney Trivia Question this morning:

Who was first president born in 20th Century?

Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

Kennedy, then LBJ (1917, 1908 respectively)

Posted by: Department of State at February 10, 2026 01:07 PM (O3dBq)

273 268 Yet not even a yawn from the same people when its discovered that Bill Clinton is featured in two volumes of photos and incriminating notes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 01:06 PM (9s47C)

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"Bill Clinton is yesterday's news. No one is going to vote for Bill Clinton again. Also, Trump, who is never going to run for election again, must be held accountable for the crimes I invented in my head."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

274 Damn.. They released photos' of the potential kidnapper of Guthrie... Heavily masked and gloved and you can't tell much.. Now this will be run all day long.. Hopefully it doesn't preempt Gutfeld...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (HbB1p)

Maybe they can do a "gait analysis"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR)

275 Those aren't raisins.

Posted by: George Takai at February 10, 2026 01:07 PM (PNDTF)

276 Scary looking.. Might be a Woman ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:06 PM

Jinx.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (jc0TO)

277 Out damn sock

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (O3dBq)

278 Heh, the cluelessness here. Someone actually thinks fast food "tartar sauce" is actually tartar sauce!

Posted by: Once Bitten at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (oftw2)

279
The politics of buggery are such that they demand the right to donate infected blood, and California decriminalized spreading AIDS. Truly insane

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It's much better to have people die from AIDS-related blood transfusions than to dare contemplate stigmatizing the gheys. Everybody knows that!
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 12:57 PM (qBdHI)

Teh gheys love their bug parties, they just want to share the joy with everyone else, regardless of provincial old customs like "consent".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (y9nCu)

280 Did Bill Gates?

I called the police to report that my sad, flaccid, drooping chesticles are "disgusting," suitable only for displaying and viewing on German fetish sites, like MannMilchers.Org.

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (9FEtL)

281 Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 01:03 PM (gUqk9)

There was a LOT of Pence worship. He seemed the good soldier, said the right things, but he had showed what he was as governor. I said from jump that Pence was Trump's HW and that he was potentially even forced upon him (or more likely Trump was given a silly shortlist).

Rubio is bad news. Good for now. Kind of this term's Nikki.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (sSB0N)

282 > Also the FNM: Bad Bunny is a true groundbreaking hero. When he sang Me gusta la chocha de Puerto Rico we knew he was a great rockstar!

Bad Bunny has exposed the psyop to normies. I've seen several posts on X by people whose elderly mothers are suddenly Bad Bunny superfans. They're noting how completely out of character that is and when they ask things like, "What's your favorite song?" or "When did you start listening to Bad Bunny?" they have no answer.

The normies are noticing the only reason their elderly, white, boring mothers are claiming to like Bad Bunny is because the TV told them to.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (Yp6az)

283 Heh, the cluelessness here. Someone actually thinks fast food "tartar sauce" is actually tartar sauce!
Posted by: Once Bitten at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM

It's mayo with relish.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (jc0TO)

284 White Castle Fish Nibbers.

Yes, please. And Thank You. More.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (DgMqy)

285 Where did all of his money come from?

Les Wexner was one client, but that wouldn't have given Epstein the income he had alone.

And how the hell did a random former teacher end up managing the funds of a guy like Wexner?

This is another item that shows Epstein was working with someone. Yes you can make relatively easy money managing funds but how do you get clients if you are a nobody?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

286 Bad news for Sparkle Beach Ken.

Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
News - Sen. Adam Schiff has endorsed Rep. Eric Swalwell in California’s governor’s race

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (J+Psw)

287 Epstein supposedly made his millions/billions as a hedge fund manager on Wall Street. Oddly, nobody on Wall Street ever remembers working with him.

Where did all of his money come from?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:05 PM (viF8m)

Adnan Khashoggi, for one.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

288 Why was Jeffrey Epstein working as a financial fixer for Adnan Khashoggi, one of the biggest arms traders in the world?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (viF8m)

289 286 Bad news for Sparkle Beach Ken.

Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
News - Sen. Adam Schiff has endorsed Rep. Eric Swalwell in California’s governor’s race

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (J+Psw)

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Why is that bad news for Newsom? He's not running for re-election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

290 @264

>>Where did all of his money come from?

It came from you and me funneled through NGO's/Shells and other off the books slush funds the LE/IC's use for their contractors, cutouts and assets.

Of which Ol' Jeff was surely one.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (XV/Pl)

291 Does Trump count as one or two?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 01:04 PM (y9ksN)

Always thought it was stupid to count Cleveland as two separate Presidents merely because his terms were non-consecutive.

HOWEVER---
I'm throwing out a new(?) idea regarding the 2028 election. Since Trump 45 is considered a different President than Trump 47, I'm making the case that Trump 47 is serving his first term and is therefore eligible to serve another term. My legal interpretation is as valid as any garden variety Hawaiian judge!

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (B4Se1)

292 Who was the last president born in the 19th century?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 01:10 PM (y9ksN)

293 HARD! HARD! HARD! HARD! HARD!
Posted by: Every curling event ever

Yeah, we get that a lot.

Posted by: Canadian Women's Curling Team at February 10, 2026 01:10 PM (w9Wax)

294 Epstein was a protected CIA asset and it was because he was a rich pervert.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:02 PM (viF8m

If I nick myself shaving that is also the CIA’s fault, right?

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:10 PM (O3dBq)

295 166 Sadly, Kitty (Amanda Blake) died of AIDS in real life.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 12:43 PM (qBdHI)

I read that too. Married to a homosexual I think.
Posted by: tubal

IMDb says Aids related hepatitis. She was only 60.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 12:48 PM (KN2gu)

Shit happens ...

Posted by: zombie Arthur Ashe at February 10, 2026 01:10 PM (3sXRv)

296 Governor Swallowswell? Could CA get any worse than it is now? Why yes, yes it can.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:11 PM (qBdHI)

297 >>Adnan Khashoggi, for one.

Nice set up.

And of course Khashoggi was working with the CIA after the Church Commission drove a lot of their work underground.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:11 PM (viF8m)

298 Who was the last president born in the 19th century?

Eisenhower, October 14, 1890

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 01:11 PM (PVBkQ)

299 I don't believe the media anyway, especially when they accuse Trump for something. We all know most of the media are left wing assholes that work for left wing assholes. And they will bend over backwards to protect the Clinton's, Obama, and Biden's. The media take us for fools. Well we are not fools. Why do you think so many Americans have stopped listening to the leftist media?

Posted by: Case at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (E7+ue)

300 Yeah, we get that a lot.
Posted by: Canadian Women's Curling Team at February 10, 2026 01:10 PM (w9Wax)

Back in 2010 the Canadian women’s skip was Cheryl Bernard of Grande Prairie, AB.

HOT.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (O3dBq)

301 > Who was the last president born in the 19th century?

Eisenhower. 1890

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (Yp6az)

302 It's mayo with relish.
Posted by: toby928(c)

That's what YOU think.

Posted by: Rendered Raccoon Fat And Curdled Milk at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (oftw2)

303 @288

>>Why was Jeffrey Epstein working as a financial fixer for Adnan Khashoggi, one of the biggest arms traders in the world?

As has been noted, there are bookends to Jeffrey Epstein's life, one bookend begins when Donald Barr hires him to teach math to kids at a swanky private school, the other bookend is dying in a prison run by his son Bill Barr.

Somewhat Ironic, don't you think?

Between that is a whole lot of corruption and criminality that a great many people do not want explored or answered for.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (XV/Pl)

304 My wifes says they are showing photos of the kidnappers on NewsMax.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Saw one on local news at lunch a few minutes ago. Looked like a Labrador in a hoodie.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (KN2gu)

305 >>If I nick myself shaving that is also the CIA’s fault, right?

No, that's your own dumbass fault.

But Epstein was indeed a protected CIA asset no matter how sad that makes you.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (viF8m)

306 Finally, pictures from Nancy Guthrie's home showing a masked person tampering with the door camera at night.

WTH?

Many of my friends have their cellphones synched to their parents' homes so they can see deliveries outside and if the parent or parents are moving about inside every once in a while.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 01:13 PM (NFX2v)

307 speaking of Trump ...and bad bunnies , can't stop laughing!

https://tinyurl.com/4husa66v

El Conejo Desagradable !

😂😂😂

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:13 PM (g47mK)

308 Damn, Brit Lass said Swalwell was a rising star (as Democrats go) like 8 years ago. I kind of didn't buy it but she's good at that so you kind of have to. Makes sense to me that he's next pussy up in Cali.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (sSB0N)

309 232 Fish sandwiches in Bermuda are incredible. Most are served on raisin bread. Sounds weird, but it's REALLY good!
Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 01:01 PM (B4Se1)

Your check is in the mail

Posted by: Big Raisin at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (3sXRv)

310 Bad Bunny has exposed the psyop to normies. I've seen several posts on X by people whose elderly mothers are suddenly Bad Bunny superfans. They're noting how completely out of character that is and when they ask things like, "What's your favorite song?" or "When did you start listening to Bad Bunny?" they have no answer.

The normies are noticing the only reason their elderly, white, boring mothers are claiming to like Bad Bunny is because the TV told them to.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (Yp6az)

Bad Bunny is a con artist and definitely not a musician in any sense.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (O3dBq)

311 Minority. Wonk. Governor of a sort of swing state (in state politics).

NRO splooged over him for years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

Then he flamed out doing one of those response to a SOTU(?) Had the charisma of a tuna sandwich left on the counter overnight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (bss/y)

312 You can't tell me Schumer wasn't a diddler

Posted by: Seed of Chucky at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (FxINA)

313 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (g47mK)

314 Love the red, Ace!

I knew this would happen. The red faces are also Dims who are not insane, about 0.01%.

If they had anything at all on Donald Trump in 2016 they would have used it. Hag Hillary would have been spewing & whipping her head around like the demonic girl on the Exorcist.

Instead they dreamed up the gold showers lie with !Russia!

It was foretold in my mind & I lived to see it. I am apparently a seer.

I never worried about this but tired of it. Like 9th grade algebra, the only class I flunked, due to a witch of a teacher hag. No worries in 9th grade because my parents understood after speaking to her raspy & evil self. I took it again, made a B, figured I did not need it as a flight attendant that I never became. Passed again in college & an A in trig. Never used either that I can recall in life.

The Clintons, however, should worry. I want to ask Bill Gates how he thought he could get his wife to take antibiotics without her knowing. Was he going to mix them with her wine or booze? Inject penicillin in her sleep? This is the only thing I have wondered about.

Regarding the pedo stuff, they will all go to hell with millstones around their necks in the lake of fire.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (WONhk)

315 Damn.. They released photos' of the potential kidnapper of Guthrie... Heavily masked and gloved and you can't tell much.. Now this will be run all day long.. Hopefully it doesn't preempt Gutfeld...
Posted by: It's me donna

https://is.gd/Fm0NRz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (J+Psw)

316 If they had anything with Epstein on Trump D's would have amplified the story instead of covering it up for decades.

Remember all the investigations the Biden admin didn't do?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (sSB0N)

317 311
Then he flamed out doing one of those response to a SOTU(?) Had the charisma of a tuna sandwich left on the counter overnight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (bss/y)

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The narratives around bad SOTU responses are overblown.

What killed him nationally is that he was...boring. He said nothing out of step with anyone else he was up against other than, "Well, I can say that in more detail."

And then he was just in lock step on the border with 14 other GOP nominees in 2016, leaving the open ground for Trump and, to a lesser extent, Cruz, to just stomp over all the sameness of the whole field.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

318 Rat turds are the same size and shape as raisins and probably taste better.

Posted by: Figgy Puddin' at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (oftw2)

319 This Guthrie kidnapping is straight out of Fargo.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 01:17 PM (XV/Pl)

320 316 If they had anything with Epstein on Trump D's would have amplified the story instead of covering it up for decades.

Remember all the investigations the Biden admin didn't do?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (sSB0N)

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Biden protected pedophiles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

321 AN ICE AGENT!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:17 PM (bss/y)

322 Why was Jeffrey Epstein working as a financial fixer for Adnan Khashoggi, one of the biggest arms traders in the world?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:09 PM (viF8m)

Bear Stearns was doing essential money laundering for BCCI. It all goes back to gun running and trafficking drugs.
I lost some friends - some died and some became druggies with different friends - during the war on drugs. The most horrific thing is that Nancy Reagan was out preaching "just say no" while Ronny was in the back room with Bush Senior and the CIA agreeing that drug trafficking was the only way to fund the arms sales to our declared enemies the Dems didn't want to fund.
To be charitable, Just Say No was the only drug prevention tactic they left themselves.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

323 305 >>If I nick myself shaving that is also the CIA’s fault, right?

No, that's your own dumbass fault.

But Epstein was indeed a protected CIA asset no matter how sad that makes you.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (viF8m)

Everything to you if the fault of the two thins you hate the most:

1) the United States
2) the CIA

It makes you angry that I see through your bullshit, and, well, so be it. The truth ain’t nothing but the truth.

Continue blaming everything on this country and the CIA. By the way, either the CIA is worthless and incompetent, or so powerful and masterful it is at the center of every imaginable conspiracy. Which is it?

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:17 PM (O3dBq)

324 Kennedy preceded Johnson.
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Yes, LBJ took over after LBJ participated in Kennedy's assassination.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 01:18 PM (TN0g+)

325 Everything to you if the fault of the two thins you hate the most:

1) the United States
2) the CIA

I would add the FBI to my hate list.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:18 PM (jc0TO)

326 What killed him nationally is that he was...boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

You did read the part of my comment where I said he had the charisma of week old milk, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:18 PM (bss/y)

327 318 Rat turds are the same size and shape as raisins and probably taste better.
Posted by: Figgy Puddin' at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (oftw2)

This calumny shall not stand.

Our attorneys have been made aware of your statements sirrah ...

Posted by: Big Raisin at February 10, 2026 01:18 PM (3sXRv)

328 If I nick myself shaving that is also the CIA’s fault, right?
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:10 PM (O3dBq)

It is if you shoot up with heroin to ease the pain.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM (rbvCR)

329
But Epstein was indeed a protected CIA asset no matter how sad that makes you.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:12 PM (viF8m)

I have it on good authority that the IC, LE and defense establishment are Top Men and if you don't like them then you are a Code Pink pacifist who wants America to be weak.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM (BI5O2)

330 326 What killed him nationally is that he was...boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

You did read the part of my comment where I said he had the charisma of week old milk, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:18 PM (bss/y)

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Nope!

Illiterate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

331 There was a LOT of Pence worship. He seemed the good soldier, said the right things, but he had showed what he was as governor. I said from jump that Pence was Trump's HW and that he was potentially even forced upon him (or more likely Trump was given a silly shortlist).

Rubio is bad news. Good for now. Kind of this term's Nikki.
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:08 PM (sSB0N)
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Pence also suckered in a lot of the religious right with his meek pious bullshit, let's be honest.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM (5aZAZ)

332 Stayed up all night working on electronic hobby stuff. The tyranny of OCD and caffeine. Feel like crap today.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM (N8ZBc)

333 9th grade algebra, the only class I flunked, due to a witch of a teacher hag.

Girl next to me asked question I was going to.
Teacher's answer? Slapped her smartly across her face.
Taught me well, don't ask questions!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM (Kt19C)

334
Rat turds are the same size and shape as raisins and probably taste better.
Posted by: Figgy Puddin' at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (oftw2)

Everything will be all right once the cream custard arrives....

Posted by: Captain Darling at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM (y9nCu)

335 Bad news for Sparkle Beach Ken.

Is it? Schiff and Swalwell are both creeps. This is like "Dahmer endorses Gacy".
Newsom isn't a creep, or at least is a sight better at hiding it than those two.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (gKWVE)

336 Wait, are people being pro or anti deep state now?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (bss/y)

337 Yum, Yum
Bermuda Fish Sandwiches
In my mouth

Posted by: Something ASS might say at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (w9Wax)

338 What killed him nationally is that he was...boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

You did read the part of my comment where I said he had the charisma of week old milk, right?

--

Like the guy who wore sweater vests all the time? Out of WI, I think? So boring I can't even remember his name.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (qBdHI)

339
It makes you angry that I see through your bullshit, and, well, so be it. The truth ain’t nothing but the truth.

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LOL

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (BI5O2)

340 Girl next to me asked question I was going to.
Teacher's answer? Slapped her smartly across her face.
Taught me well, don't ask questions!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM

Did she ask if the teacher was a dyke?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (jc0TO)

341 The BK Whaler was tasty!

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (B4Se1

Popeyes Classic Flounder Fish Sandwich for the win.

Posted by: javems at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (zFsEm)

342 Illiterate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

Own damn fault.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (bss/y)

343 Boy, all of a sudden, the Democrats have found Jesus.

Rep. LaMonica McIver-- currently under indictment for assaulting ICE agents-- tells ICE Director Todd Lyons that he's going to hell:

"How do you think Judgement Day will go for you with so much blood on your hands? You think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (J+Psw)

344 338 Like the guy who wore sweater vests all the time? Out of WI, I think? So boring I can't even remember his name.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (qBdHI)

======

Scott Walker sat on a throne of skulls!

Until he had to open his mouth on immigration, then he became a mealy mouthed retard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

345 I have long had a theory that what embarrasses Trump about Epstein is that he was an informer on Epstein. You might wonder, what's embarrassing about that?, but informers are regarded by some, especially on the criminal left, as like the worst thing possible.

I have an alternate theory that Trump knows that the case provides an unwelcome distraction from his accomplishments. He understands marketing and every headline on Epstien is a headline he doesn't get on the economy and other initiatives..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (nbLIj)

346 My wife has two pounds of bacon in the oven.

I may go mad.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (jc0TO)

347 >>Everything to you if the fault of the two thins you hate the most:

>>1) the United States
2) the CIA

Yea, you caught me. I hate the US.

Go take your meds.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (viF8m)

348 It wasn't Scott Walker, TJM. I'll have to search around and try to remember who it was.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (qBdHI)

349 Like the guy who wore sweater vests all the time? Out of WI, I think? So boring I can't even remember his name.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:20 PM (qBdHI)

No different boring guy...

F something? The left came at him a bunch of times and we built him into a folk hero.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (bss/y)

350 The whole Guthrie case is weird from the outset. To kidnap an elderly person is a whole lot of trouble that I don't see kidnappers wanting to deal with. Also, not sending a ransom note for two days is weird and wanting money in bitcoin which is highly traceable is foolish. Add to that from what we've been told, no proof of life has ever been offered yet the demand has gone from 1 to 6 million.

I'm thinking that this was never a kidnapping.

Posted by: Cheri at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (oiNtH)

351 The photos of the masked man at Nancy Guthrie's look like Mark Kelly. AZ Senator.

Which makes sense now, as he is who Savannah called first before the cops.

This is my new theory.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (WONhk)

352 "How do you think Judgement Day will go for you with so much blood on your hands? You think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM

I would say that I don't respond to lectures from pagans.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (jc0TO)

353 Ahh, it was Rick Santorum.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (qBdHI)

354 343 Boy, all of a sudden, the Democrats have found Jesus.

Rep. LaMonica McIver-- currently under indictment for assaulting ICE agents-- tells ICE Director Todd Lyons that he's going to hell:

"How do you think Judgement Day will go for you with so much blood on your hands? You think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (J+Psw)

=======

"I am sending brown people out of racist, capitalist America where brown people are hunted for sport and there is no single payer healthcare because of the greed of corporations. I think I'm going to heaven."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

355 Scott Walker is who I meant. LOL.

But Bobby Jindal is who I was saying was boring first.

In this thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (bss/y)

356 I guess what could be bad news is that Newsom may feel pressure to endorse Fang Fang's mark. If I had to endorse Swalwell for party unity I'd have to wash my own mouth out with soap afterward.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (gKWVE)

357 "Boy, all of a sudden, the Democrats have found Jesus."

Jesus would have opposed ICE. He was an illegal alien himself. Plus he tore up a place of worship.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (GUOwU)

358 353 Ahh, it was Rick Santorum.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (qBdHI)

THAT boring retard was Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (bss/y)

359 Again, it is known that Bear Stearns put Epstein on the troubled asset detail because he had a knack for making bad paper go away.

He obviously started his career as a guy who could move money and make bad paper go away in the time before the internet, and that's what his main job was for the LE/IC/MIC apparatus.

The problem is he had a kiddy-diddling predaliction, so the people monitoring and controlling him had there work cut out for him.

Once money began being tracked better with things life SWIFT and other financial tracking systems, the Op moved to getting the creme de la creme to fund him, and in turn this funding probably flowed into IC/LE black Ops and other things.

His game was compromat and blackmail to get the movers and shakers funding him and to zipping their lips.

The problem is we are never going to definatively prove this but this is what the game was.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (XV/Pl)

360 "But Doof says the BK Whaler is tasty,
and Doof is an honourable man."

This should remain an all-purpose comment for some time.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (zdLoL)

361 351 The photos of the masked man at Nancy Guthrie's look like Mark Kelly. AZ Senator.

Which makes sense now, as he is who Savannah called first before the cops.

This is my new theory.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 10, 2026 01:22 PM (WONhk)

Mark Kelly is definitely plumper.. This kind of looks like a woman

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (HbB1p)

362 306 Finally, pictures from Nancy Guthrie's home showing a masked person tampering with the door camera at night.

WTH?

Many of my friends have their cellphones synched to their parents' homes so they can see deliveries outside and if the parent or parents are moving about inside every once in a while.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 01:13 PM (NFX2v)
_________________________________

This is all going to wind down to a real estate matter. Whoever has their developer eyes on that land area hired a third party to speed up the process and get past some obstacles. Happens all the time. Usually it's just threats and creative encouragement. Sometimes it's worse. And, Catalina Foothills is nothing but developments surrounding that area.

I hope the FBI has the smarts to go looking at recently sold property surrounding Guthrie's land.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (dIske)

363 Bad Bunny is a con artist and definitely not a musician in any sense.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:14 PM (O3dBq)

Bad Bunnny got his start be being funded by the ex-vice minister of the Venezuelan Ministry of the Interior, Rafael Ricardo Jiménez Dán.

If you are wondering, the Ministry of the Interior in Venezuela does not do the National parks or agriculture, it is the ministry for internal security

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (rbvCR)

364 why do people blame their drug habits on everyone but their own selves ? get your shit together, don't smoke pot , make excuses for it, and then when you develop a coke habit blame it on someone else. fuck off, weakling. "CIA did it to me!!! " no, loser, you did it to you.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (g47mK)

365 Girl next to me asked question I was going to.
Teacher's answer? Slapped her smartly across her face.
Taught me well, don't ask questions!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

There may be no such thing as a stupid question but there are definitely unwise questions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (J+Psw)

366 I haven't paid attention beyond the headlines, but what is bringing them down? It seems Epstein was not pimping underage girls to his clients, so why are these Euro elites getting canceled over?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 10, 2026 12:59 PM (n7rxJ)

Well, three things. One, even if he was the only one using the girls that Ghislaine trafficked to him, Epstein was still an unsavory character. Two, even if he wasn't literally a pimp selling ass for cash money, that doesn't mean he was the only one using them; he was a dealmaker and they were mood boosters -- maybe eye candy, or maybe party favors, so there's a cloud of suspicion. Three, even if they almost certainly didn't use the girls themselves, that doesn't mean they weren't corrupt; for example, there is a homo close to Queer Starmer who gave Epstein non-public foreknowledge of England's imminent bailing out of their banks in the housing crash, and coincidentally he and "his husband" (as the legal fiction goes) received money from Epstein.

Whether or not they were dipping their wicks on the side of a sleazy deal, they shouldn't have been engaging in sleazy deals or even associating with a sleazy dealmaker.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (Sy6m/)

367 Boy, all of a sudden, the Democrats have found Jesus.

Rep. LaMonica McIver-- currently under indictment for assaulting ICE agents-- tells ICE Director Todd Lyons that he's going to hell:

"How do you think Judgement Day will go for you with so much blood on your hands? You think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
------

Well, if THEY want to have theological discussions Lyons should have responded with "Tell us what God will have to say to you regarding your support of abortion?"

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (TN0g+)

368 It is not Rafael Ricardo Jiménez Dán's fault if I cut myself shaving, but a lot of people are political prisoners because of him

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (rbvCR)

369 294 Epstein was a protected CIA asset and it was because he was a rich pervert.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:02 PM (viF8m

If I nick myself shaving that is also the CIA’s fault, right?
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:10 PM (O3dBq)

There's only two possibilities, either he was run by the CIA or he was run by someone else. Unless someone wants to argue that the whole thing wasn't an intelligence op?

If he's CIA, they are playing Home Games, and that's a big no no. If he's not CIA, then they should have at least known about it enough to prevent the penetration of US gov't and power elites by a foreign power.

The CIA either ran this op or failed utterly to protect us from it. They're dipped in shit either way.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (w/O5Q)

370 "Boy, all of a sudden, the Democrats have found Jesus."

Two things happened after CK assassination. 1) A lot of podcasters suddenly began basing their arguments on Christian principles, where they hadn't before. 2) They started calling MAGA 'America First.' They subtly rename it now.

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:25 PM (N8ZBc)

371 Flaming Scalp Weasel-Worthy!

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 01:25 PM (7HFJp)

372 366 Whether or not they were dipping their wicks on the side of a sleazy deal, they shouldn't have been engaging in sleazy deals or even associating with a sleazy dealmaker.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (Sy6m/)

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I think the Epstein thing has taken down more politicians in Europe than the Panama Papers did.

And the Panama Papers were much, much worse. They just didn't include the sex angle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

373 >>"But Doof says the BK Whaler is tasty,
and Doof is an honourable man."

This should remain an all-purpose comment for some time.

Considering who determines Comments of the Week - not sure which of the two (if not both) will score.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 10, 2026 01:25 PM (NcvvS)

374 Go take your meds.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (viF8m)

He's not crazy. Just in love with anyone who draws a green Treasury check, especially if they are big strong men with badges and guns. They are Better Class of People than dirty Americans who might like a say in what they do, and if you don't get that then you're un-American.

These people used to be the majority of the Right, but it becoming rare and confusing to see them in the wild.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 01:25 PM (BI5O2)

375 "I'm thinking that this was never a kidnapping.
Posted by: Cheri "

You are suppose to kidnap the kids of the rich and famous, not the parents. None of it makes sense, I'm starting to think Savannah Guthrie is somehow involved, maybe to get attention?

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 01:26 PM (GUOwU)

376 How do you think Judgement Day will go for you with so much blood on your hands? You think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 01:21 PM (J+Psw)

Demons know scripture better than believers

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:26 PM (sSB0N)

377 By the way, either the CIA is worthless and incompetent, or so powerful and masterful it is at the center of every imaginable conspiracy. Which is it?

The CIA is the epicenter of the Deep State. They're startlingly incompetent at their officially assigned job, but they balance that out by being really good at pushing gay race communism around the world, money laundering, gun and drug running, and a number of other things.

Pull up your favorite podcast app and search Joe Rogan's backlog for Mike Benz's appearances. He's got all the receipts on the un-intelligent community.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 01:26 PM (2ocoG)

378 "Trump dropped a dime? I prefer dropping deuces."

-- Jerry Nadler

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

379 Trump only called the police after the story went public! Obviously he was trying to create distance between himself and Epstein in order to cover his tracks! It's an old trick I saw on Murder, She Wrote! Which means Trump is totally a pedo!

Posted by: Anne I. Diot, Marshfield, MA at February 10, 2026 01:26 PM (qUkBO)

380 My new email

Sendyourdonationstome@gmail.com

Please make a note of it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 01:27 PM (RIvkX)

381 Mark Kelly is definitely plumper.. This kind of looks like a woman
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (HbB1p)

Newest theory: a plump trans who looks like Mark Kelly.

The photo with the masked marvel with the picked flowers now baffles me. Holding them up to the camera.

I now will meditate on this as I do productive things.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 10, 2026 01:27 PM (WONhk)

382 380 My new email

Sendyourdonationstome@gmail.com

Please make a note of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 01:27 PM (RIvkX)

Are you Nigerian Royalty ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:27 PM (HbB1p)

383 s Lyons should have responded with "Tell us what God will have to say to you regarding your support of abortion?"

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (TN0g+)

No because that would seem like an equivocation to enforcing immigration law

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:28 PM (sSB0N)

384 >>There may be no such thing as a stupid question but there are definitely unwise questions.

'There is no such thing as a stupid question, but there are inquisitive idiots' - J. Ringo.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 10, 2026 01:28 PM (NcvvS)

385 "CIA GAVE ME AIDS!!"

---Bathhouse Collective

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:28 PM (g47mK)

386 John Brennan helped run the Russia hoax when he was Director of the CIA. He was assisted by Comey when he was Director of the FBI. That is flat out treason. And that is just the tip of the iceberg of the nefarious shit they were doing.

Anyone who believes the rot in those agencies started with them knows nothing about the history of either agency. They put the deep in Deep State.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 01:28 PM (viF8m)

387
The photo with the masked marvel with the picked flowers now baffles me. Holding them up to the camera.

I now will meditate on this as I do productive things.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 10, 2026 01:27 PM (WONhk)

Looks like he/she/it was moving a hanging plant out of the way to me...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:29 PM (HbB1p)

388 Then fool us again and again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 10, 2026 12:51 PM (dK+Kv)

Spoiler tag that shit, bro

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 01:30 PM (sSB0N)

389 Watching Bassem Yousef laugh and joke with Candace Owens about Charlie's murder. Sickening.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 01:30 PM (RIvkX)

390 I've had no interest in this Guthrie story, but how did this bandit abduct this woman? Did he break into the home or no signs of forced entry?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:30 PM (qBdHI)

391 Ah, the bacon is explained. This is more of the ancient bacon, presumably the last, from the bottom of the deep freeze.

Best by: Jun 7, 2011.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (jc0TO)

392 390 I've had no interest in this Guthrie story, but how did this bandit abduct this woman? Did he break into the home or no signs of forced entry?
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:30 PM (qBdHI)

From what I gathered forced entry

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (HbB1p)

393 I think the Epstein thing has taken down more politicians in Europe than the Panama Papers did.

And the Panama Papers were much, much worse. They just didn't include the sex angle.
------------------------------------------
European elites are even worse than ours (probably because they aren't constrained by anything as well-written as our Constitution). They tolerate so much mediocrity that there's a surfeit of them all jostling for position. The Epstein thing is a rare situation that annoys people across the political spectrum, and allows some elites to force out other ones, thinning the herd, so to speak and slightly lowering popular annoyance with their incompetence.

Posted by: the lower depths at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (Dg7ng)

394 Gold Metal Match: The USA mixed doubles curling team dropped a power play on Sweden in the 7th end which resulted in the USA team being up by one. The carnage was ruthless and brutal.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (8ZVmQ)

395 On the one hand, nothing about the Guthrie kidnapping makes sense. On the other hand, criminals are not deep thinkers for the most part. So who knows. We're probably two weeks out from Guthrie Seen Partying with Jonbenet Ramsey and Batboy in Vegas articles.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (9FEtL)

396 I'll just cook some Gordon fish sticks in the air fryer and make my own tartar sauce from mayo and relish mixed together. Put it between two slices of white bread with a slice of American cheese. It's just as good as any fast food fish sandwich. All with a side of Kraft Mac and Cheese.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (Vh9CX)

397 speaking of Trump ...and bad bunnies , can't stop laughing!

https://tinyurl.com/4husa66v

El Conejo Desagradable !

😂😂😂
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:13 PM (g47mK)
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So can we call the President Donald Doc?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (Hbs7G)

398 Boy, all of a sudden, the Democrats have found Jesus.

Rep. LaMonica McIver-- currently under indictment for assaulting ICE agents-- tells ICE Director Todd Lyons that he's going to hell:

"How do you think Judgement Day will go for you with so much blood on your hands? You think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

Many Leftists throw Christian lingo or Bible quotes at conservatives, when they don't have any legal or logical arguments to use. The purpose is to label evil MAGA people as religious hypocrites. The leftist drones eat it up.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (5rh/l)

399 The CIA is good at being the CIA Guardians of the State. The suck at the job they are supposed to be doing, getting info to protect the nation

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 01:32 PM (yI5mB)

400 Are you Nigerian Royalty ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 01:27 PM (HbB1p)
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Heh if I was I wouldn't be living in this third world sh*thole.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 01:32 PM (RIvkX)

401 394 Gold Metal Match: The USA mixed doubles curling team dropped a power play on Sweden in the 7th end which resulted in the USA team being up by one. The carnage was ruthless and brutal.

this is SO STRESSFUL

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 10, 2026 01:32 PM (emBoF)

402 So can we call the President Donald Doc?

==

He obviously prefers to be called Donald !

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:32 PM (g47mK)

403 why do people blame their drug habits on everyone but their own selves ? get your shit together, don't smoke pot , make excuses for it, and then when you develop a coke habit blame it on someone else. fuck off, weakling. "CIA did it to me!!! " no, loser, you did it to you.
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:24 PM (g47mK)

You were a sheltered little boy. I wish more children could grow up like you, unfortunately they don't. They grow up with pain, shame and fear.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 01:32 PM (rbvCR)

404 F something? The left came at him a bunch of times and we built him into a folk hero.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Fred. Phelps, maybe?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 10, 2026 01:32 PM (a+4eV)

405 380 My new email

Sendyourdonationstome@gmail.com

Please make a note of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 01:27 PM (RIvkX)

It bounced

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (/6GbT)

406 400 Heh if I was I wouldn't be living in this third world sh*thole.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 01:32 PM (RIvkX)

======

Ontario?

No...Louisville...

No, wait...it's gotta be Paris, Texas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

407 396 I'll just cook some Gordon fish sticks in the air fryer and make my own tartar sauce from mayo and relish mixed together. Put it between two slices of white bread with a slice of American cheese. It's just as good as any fast food fish sandwich. All with a side of Kraft Mac and Cheese.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2026 01:31 PM (Vh9CX)

Same here, except I use Gorton's Fish Sandwich Filets.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (5rh/l)

408 Rockford Files > X-Files > Epstein Files

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (9DoQP)

409 nood

Posted by: gp at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc)

410 You're not really Nigerian unless you end everything with "remain blessed."

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (qBdHI)

411 357 "Boy, all of a sudden, the Democrats have found Jesus."

Jesus would have opposed ICE. He was an illegal alien himself. Plus he tore up a place of worship.
Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 01:23 PM (GUOwU)

Jesus was a Roman citizen in the Roman Empire. Stop huffing glue and think. You already know this stuff. If you've had a massive head injury seek medical help, don't post here.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 01:34 PM (w/O5Q)

412 Same here, except I use Gorton's Fish Sandwich Filets.
Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 01:33 PM (5rh/l)

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Sometimes I'll do that and use hotdog buns.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (Vh9CX)

413 The CIA is one horrible agency, no question about it. It needs to be gutted. But the FBI is the truly monstrous intelligence agency. Monstrous isn't even a strong enough word. Those people need to be judicially executed for healing to begin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (BI5O2)

414 Loser thinks that snorting coke is an achievement ??
🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 01:35 PM (g47mK)

415 Why did this Guthrie woman call US Senator Mark Kelly before she called the police? Probably nothing terribly nefarious, but it obviates the unhealthy connections between media figures and shady politicians.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at February 10, 2026 01:36 PM (4b7CV)

416 You are suppose to kidnap the kids of the rich and famous, not the parents. None of it makes sense, I'm starting to think Savannah Guthrie is somehow involved, maybe to get attention?
Posted by: Ripley

There's a theory that it was her sister and brother in law who were the last to see her that night. BIL took her home, a fight ensued, probably over money, things got out of hand, and she's dead. They take her out of the house resulting in the blood drops outside the front door and the camera being removed and bury/hide the body somewhere. Also, they removed her Apple Watch that recorded her pace maker, etc. and let events play out. Weird but not too far fetched IMO. The news media blasts it all over and some opportunists send a ransom note/s which explains the delay in sending a note. Oh well, we'll see I think eventually.

Posted by: Cheri at February 10, 2026 01:36 PM (oiNtH)

417 Jesus was a Roman citizen in the Roman Empire.

Mein Fuhrer ... Jesus ...

Posted by: toby928(c) tugs collar at February 10, 2026 01:38 PM (jc0TO)

418 390 I've had no interest in this Guthrie story, but how did this bandit abduct this woman? Did he break into the home or no signs of forced entry?
Posted by: Lady in Black

Some evidence that the crime scene was staged but like most things it is muddled. Statistically speaking though, it is very possible that someone intimately related to the family murdered the poor woman and concocted the evidence to point the finger of accusation away from them.

See this dynamic often in situations where the wife (and rarely the husband) disappears.

Two criminal defenses anyone should be away of are a) TODDI, the other dude did it (when two or more perps are involved in a crime) and b) SODDI, some other dude did it. B) is the choice for criminals when they try to point the finger at other unknowable perps.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 01:38 PM (2swu2)

419 Learned from reading the emails on jmail dot world:

Alex Acosta would not return the calls of Epstein's lawyers and seemed to want nothing to do with the case, presumably after being told to back off, Epstein belongs to intel.

The dealings Epstein's lawyers had were with Mark Filip and others at Main Justice.

Posted by: Lawrence Krauss's Galactic Probe at February 10, 2026 01:40 PM (NBTu1)

420
Many Leftists throw Christian lingo or Bible quotes at conservatives, when they don't have any legal or logical arguments to use. The purpose is to label evil MAGA people as religious hypocrites. The leftist drones eat it up.
Posted by: Gref
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Because to them is the Bible is a ridiculous Sky God myth so they feel free to do such ludicrous quotations out of context. In reality, they worship themselves and there is no truth in them, only expediency and lies.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 01:42 PM (2swu2)

421 What is the hottest place in the whole world?
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A Karen Gillan and Sydney Sweeney sandwich? Or have I said too much
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2026 12:58 PM (sSB0N)
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Haven't said enough

Posted by: Michael Stipe at February 10, 2026 01:43 PM (Hx0tZ)

422 417 Jesus was a Roman citizen in the Roman Empire.

Mein Fuhrer ... Jesus ...
Posted by: toby928(c) tugs collar at February 10, 2026 01:38 PM (jc0TO)

I feel like I should follow this, but I don't. Did I step on a land mine somewhere? Enlighten me.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 01:45 PM (w/O5Q)

423 Donald Trump knew Epstein in when he lived in New York in the 1980's.
Ivana, Donald's first wife, ran around with Ghislaine a lot in the 1980's. There are a lot of photographs of them together.
Again, they ran in the same social circles.
Which proves nothing that Donald or Ivana knew what either of them were actually up to.

Just to illustrate what the social life was in the 80's and 90's in New York City, there was a scene at the Christmas Party at the beginning of "Eyes Wide Shut" where look-alikes of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein pass by in the background. Kubrick had a research assistant that worked for the New York Post, and he suggested that they be in the shot, because even then there were suspicions about the two of them.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at February 10, 2026 01:45 PM (vcOmj)

424 Sweden pulled out the win over the USA on the last rock of the Gold Medal Curling Match. The match was clearly rigged in favor of the Swedish team.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 10, 2026 01:45 PM (8ZVmQ)

425 380 My new email
Sendyourdonationstome@gmail.com
Please make a note of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Not without your promise to triple fund my donation.

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 01:51 PM (Y8DZL)

426 Jesus was not a Roman citizen.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 01:52 PM (jc0TO)

427 426 Jesus was not a Roman citizen.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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It should also be noted that moving about the Roman Empire from one region to another was not what we think of as refugees in the modern sense. His family left one Roman jurisdiction for another.

So it would be more like moving from California to Arizona. Different state but same country.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2026 01:56 PM (2swu2)

428 Maybe I'm senile, but we've known this for years. Right?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (w6EFb)

429 "TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting. TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN's operative, 'she is evil and to focus on her,' the report continues."

This is interesting. Trump had suspicions. heard things. Then saw some stuff, that, while not illegal, was questionable.

I'd go a bit further - Trump and Epstein were business rivals. Trump outbid Epstein for a home in Palm beach in 2004. Spreading rumors about Epstein is well within Trump's business ethics for a business rival. Tie Epstein up with the cops, maybe there is something there, maybe not. Either way that distracts Epstein.

Turns out his suspicions were correct.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 02:29 PM (tV890)

430 I do wonder - was this trump's plan all along. Look, it took a fucking act of congress to get all this released. The only way to get that was to get the Dems on board. The only way to get the Dems on board was to convince them Trump's name was in the files.

So, act reluctant, get people mad, act guilty, get the Ds out over their skis, demanding the release, then give them exactly what they want. Something very Trump about that.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 10, 2026 02:32 PM (tV890)

431 Two things: first, is speaks to the animus Epstein had for Donald Trump, an animus that was only equaled by one other person, Stormy Daniels. It begs the question if Epstein was the one who sent Stormy Daniels to dawg on Trump at that golf tournament.
The second thing is the five year gap in the files SDNY held on Epstein. From 2013-2018 there is very little on Epstein, to the point of nothingness. His activity is only picked up in Hoffman's emails about the Roy Moore fraud.

Posted by: wferrin at February 10, 2026 02:40 PM (lCdHU)

432 Duly enlightened. Still not illegal.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 04:26 PM (w/O5Q)

433 But you guys are smart enough to know this already.
"This is old information (document is from 2019 and recounts events from 2006) but in the current context it actually makes Trump look worse.

What it says is that Trump spoke to the then-police chief Michael Reiter AFTER the investigation had gone public. The investigation started in 2005.

Note that there is no official police report of this call. Only the 2019 FD-302 in which Reiter recalls 2006 events.

Trump said that "Everyone has known he’s been doing this"

Which actually contradicts Trump’s July 2019 testimony when he said he had "No idea" about Epstein’s crimes.

More importantly, if Trump knew all about Epstein in 2006, why did he refuse to release the files, tell the country that the Epstein Case was unimportant and to “move on” now?

Either way, Trump did not “blow the whistle” on Epstein. Any contact came well after the investigation was underway and already public."

Posted by: foolotto at February 10, 2026 05:15 PM (928Rt)

434 Worms and Rats, As well as Liberal Democrats, so vile Vultures don't like them and rats cant stand him

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 10, 2026 05:41 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Rant

The petulance of Trump Derangement Syndrome is embarrassing, but in most cases it is childish political entitlement masquerading as "speaking truth to power," or some such nonsense. But when it crosses the line into geopolitical reality, TDS is costly and dangerous.

We can criticize the F-35 program on multiple fronts, but what it does superbly is mesh multiple different forces into an integrated response. It is simply better at its job than any other platform. The recent attack on Iran by Israel's F-35s is an excellent example of its superiority. It is the most modern war plane on earth, and there is no getting around that fact.

For Canada to consider a clearly inferior platform because of its economic battles with the Trump administration is short-sighted in the extreme. We will have to step in and buttress Canada's already pathetic armed forces if they choose the clearly inferior Swedish plane. But TDS is all-encompassing, even if it means jeopardizing the national security of Canada!

Why Experts Say Canada's Plan to Ditch the F-35 Is a Strategic Disaster

In 2022 Ottawa selected the U.S. Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II – a fifth-generation, stealth multirole fighter – committing to 88 aircraft to meet agreed NORAD, NATO, and Arctic security requirements. The F-35’s advanced sensor fusion capabilities and deep strike profile were seen as essential to defending vast northern airspace alongside U.S. forces.
However, that consensus about what it takes to meet these requirements appears to have evaporated. After Prime Minister Mark Carney ordered a review of the F-35 contract in 2025 amid escalating U.S.–Canada trade tensions, Ottawa signalled interest in alternative options – notably Sweden’s Saab JAS-39 Gripen E, a 4.5-generation fighter pitched with the promise of 12,600 Canadian industrial assembly and jobs.
In response to reports that Ottawa is on the verge of siding with Saab, U.S. ambassador Pete Hoekstra warned that a pivot away from the F-35 would strain or “alter” the NORAD framework, likely forcing the U.S. to deploy its own fighters more often into Canadian airspace if interoperability is lost.
Carney’s stance on the situation is undeniably political, reflecting ongoing friction with Washington over tariff disputes and rhetoric seen in Ottawa as unpredictable. Those problems have contributed to the growing unease among Canadian policymakers over a perceived over-reliance on U.S. defense systems.

I am not sure why relying on American military systems is a bad thing. We share a continent, a border, a language, and even some culture. Canada simply isn't big enough, rich enough, or technologically advanced enough to go it on their own.

Canada and Carney remind me of the joke about the mouse that creeps up to an elephant and begins to hump its leg. The elephant looks down, the mouse looks up and says, "Don't worry, I'll be gentle."

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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1 Mornin' again.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 OK

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (48ipd)

3 3rd

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (QVmho)

4 Willowed:

Hoppes #9, just a dab behind the ear.

Like the rest of us Real Men.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Ballistol is right out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (KN2gu)

5
ESPONJA!!11!!1!1

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (tljrc)

6 Corgis called.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (O7YUW)

7 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (kgE5c)

8 Carney’s stance

Wide stance.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (Kt19C)

9 Surprised he did not try to go for the Chinesium fighter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:02 AM (bss/y)

10 Being anti-Trump is not a personality, Canadians.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:02 AM (bss/y)

11 Canadian policymakers over a perceived over-reliance on U.S. defense systems."

Yeah. And we do it out of love for our neighbors.

Here canuks, pull the other one.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 11:02 AM (XuXeR)

12 Surprised he did not try to go for the Chinesium fighter.

The Chinese stuff is probably better than the Russian stuff, but neither is really capable at this point of going up against our best stuff. Not that that really matters to Carney. Flipping off Trump is apparently his primary motivation.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

13
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 11:04 AM (y9nCu)

14 Carney’s stance

Wide stance.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

*makes "call me" gesture*
-- Larry Craig

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

15 I understand Iran has a homegrown fighter derived from the cutting-edge Northrop F-5. Carney should buy some of those.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 11:04 AM (JkO4W)

16 I am not sure why relying on American military systems is a bad thing. We share a continent, a border, a language, and even some culture.

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LOL.

The Canadian military is effectively a subsidiary unit of NORTHCOM. For all practical purposes, it's under US command.

This is pointless virtue signaling.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 11:04 AM (voQc3)

17 Carney is a globalist tool.
Good luck with that attitude, buddy.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (48ipd)

18 Isn’t Canada a client state of China now?? Surprised that the Celestials are not insisting on dumping their Acme planes on them.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (pDt9x)

19 Good post.

Chinese influence in Canada?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (NFX2v)

20 Ok, y'all. Gotta run.

Who knew that late Middle Ages dentistry could be that fun?

Yikes.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (XuXeR)

21 Carney's last job was at the Bank of England. Imagine putting Jay Powell in charge of defense.

This is so silly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (8UiBJ)

22
From the sidebar....

I see TJM is now imploring us.

Hmmmm.

I think I'll hold out for beseeching.

Yes, definitely...beseeching is the thing.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (iJfKG)

23 The Chinese stuff is probably better than the Russian stuff, but neither is really capable at this point of going up against our best stuff. Not that that really matters to Carney. Flipping off Trump is apparently his primary motivation.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

He probably is also able to get more graft by 'exploring other options' as well.

Fuck, it's all graft at this point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)

24 The F35 is the best multi-role fighter in the world. Like the F15E, but with stealth.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:06 AM (jc0TO)

25 When did Canada become such a clown show?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM (JkO4W)

26
Years ago the Cannucks built the "Arrow", a fighter they regularly bragged about being the best in the world, until the Diefenbaker regime closed down their fighter plane business.

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM (Y8DZL)

27 Carney’s stance on the situation is undeniably political, reflecting ongoing friction with Washington over tariff disputes and rhetoric seen in Ottawa as unpredictable. Those problems have contributed to the growing unease among Canadian policymakers over a perceived over-reliance on U.S. defense systems.

I can sympathize with other countries. Nobody wants their foreign affairs policies to be dictated by reliance on another country. That certainly includes us.

India is developing its own aircraft carriers, and the planes to go on them. No, they won't be world class, not even close, but they're really anxious to have an indigenous weapons capability. It's hard to blame them, but sometimes you just have to accept that you don't have the tech base to be world class.

China has dumped untold amounts of money into their MIC, because they DO have the tech base, and they want to develop it further. They accept that much of their stuff isn't quite there yet, but they're willing to continue dumping money into it because they can't really depend on anyone else.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

28 Chinada est morte.

Posted by: Jacque LeFucked at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM (qUkBO)

29 24 The F35 is the best multi-role fighter in the world. Like the F15E, but with stealth.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:06 AM (jc0TO)

Purpose built is probably F-22.

But everyone wants a swiss army knife now.

I always hated swiss army knives to actually carry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)

30 Except for the small one to trim nails with.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:08 AM (bss/y)

31 Canadian policymakers over a perceived over-reliance on U.S. defense systems."

Suck my balls!

Posted by: Terrence and Phillip at February 10, 2026 11:08 AM (P7vXf)

32 Canada needs the jobs. And they need hordes of muslim immigrants (who would never wander south of the border) to take those jobs.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 10, 2026 11:08 AM (GPa4z)

33 Canada picking a fight with the USA is kinda like me picking a fight with Mike Tyson in his prime… just why???

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:09 AM (fQqaC)

34 Purpose built is probably F-22.

But everyone wants a swiss army knife now.

I always hated swiss army knives to actually carry.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)
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Your time is coming, my man.

F-47. Soon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:09 AM (8UiBJ)

35 Purpose built is probably F-22.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM

And that was designed in the 1980s yet still rocks. specialization is a thing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:09 AM (jc0TO)

36 Canada simply isn't big enough, rich enough, or technologically advanced enough to go it on their own.

But TRUMP! makes things worse!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (lXoJ5)

37 India is developing its own aircraft carriers,

Like their TATA car, there will be only one hatch on their aircraft carriers. It saves money.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (iJfKG)

38 Well, the F-35 will likely be obsolete by the time Canada takes delivery. Why not get the gen 4.5 Gripen, which is already obsolete? Brilliant, when you stop to think about it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (8zz6B)

39 Not a pound for air to ground!

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (jc0TO)

40 China's new "6th gen" fighter is too big to fit on the elevators of their brand new carrier, the Fujian, because their engine tech isn't there yet, so it has to have 3 engines, and is enormous.

There are just so many things one has to keep track of.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

41 Canada is a load. I'm ok with them having weak and lame weapons systems. They're more likely to ally with China than against them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (xcxpd)

42 Carney is busy putting Canada on the MaiD protocol.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (8UiBJ)

43 33 Canada picking a fight with the USA is kinda like me picking a fight with Mike Tyson in his prime… just why???

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:09 AM (fQqaC)

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Their GDP for Q4 2025 was 0.0.

Our final numbers aren't out yet, but it's going to be 5%+.

And Canada hasn't slowed down its immigration policies while America has deported so many people (including self-deportations) that there are concerns that overall population in the country may...outright decline.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

44 I am old enough to remember when Canada had an aircraft industry.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:11 AM (jc0TO)

45 36 Canada simply isn't big enough, rich enough, or technologically advanced enough to go it on their own.

But TRUMP! makes things worse!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (lXoJ5)

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"If we're going to be servile to strong men, it's going to be to China!"
-pro-Canada poster

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

46
The Chinese stuff is probably better than the Russian stuff, but neither is really capable at this point of going up against our best stuff. Not that that really matters to Carney. Flipping off Trump is apparently his primary motivation.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

Surprisingly, the Russian aircraft are almost certainly superior. The ChiComs still have to buy Russian engines to stuff into their home-built airframes if they want them to have any reliability or performance. Their huge J20 stealthcrap airframe didn't start shipping with Chinese engines until about 2-3 years ago.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 11:11 AM (y9nCu)

47 The F-35 was a boondoggle in its development but we can make up for it in volume while we advance the next generation. It's like crack cocaine, and they all want it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 11:11 AM (xFfhU)

48 22
From the sidebar....

I see TJM is now imploring us.

Hmmmm.

I think I'll hold out for beseeching.

Yes, definitely...beseeching is the thing.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (iJfKG)

If you love good cinematography, I'll add a beseech.
Mind you...he does get a little beyond the pale in subject matter.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (xcxpd)

49 33 Canada picking a fight with the USA is kinda like me picking a fight with Mike Tyson in his prime… just why???
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Envy, leftist superiority complex, little brother syndrome.

Why do so many of 'em pick Cuba as a vacation spot?

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (Y8DZL)

50 Canada and military.
Those two words can’t go together without laughter.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (y6810)

51 The F35 is the best multi-role fighter in the world. Like the F15E, but with stealth.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:06 AM (jc0TO)

Purpose built is probably F-22.

But everyone wants a swiss army knife now.

I always hated swiss army knives to actually carry.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)

In my little corner of the engineering world we hold to the maxim that any system with multiple capabilities might be able to do all its roles decently… but it won’t be the best at any one of them. Optimization for a single mission is a real thing…. It’s a whole other question as to whether we need optimized single-mission systems at this point. I suspect we don’t but don’t know for sure…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (fQqaC)

52 Why do so many of 'em pick Cuba as a vacation spot?
Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM

Teen prostitutes, of both sexes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (jc0TO)

53 Your time is coming, my man.

F-47. Soon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:09 AM (8UiBJ)

Clean sheet from Boeing?

Those are going to take 25 years to make and cost $1B each.

Posted by: Sjg at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (aqZN1)

54 A country that destroyed the CF-105 Arrow can't be trusted to defend themselves.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 11:13 AM (y9ksN)

55 China’s Sixth-Gen Jet Faces Fatal Flaws, Can’t Fit Aircraft Carriers, 10 Years for Tech Breakthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlwkIuvIvlA

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

56 Well, after learning of this, it's clear to me we must conquer Canada.

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2026 11:14 AM (ZxPkt)

57 Purpose built is probably F-22.

But everyone wants a swiss army knife now.

I always hated swiss army knives to actually carry.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)

That's why I carry two knives. One for cutting, one for misc tools. Swiss army knives are good for that. Unless you need pliars.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:14 AM (xcxpd)

58 Why do so many of 'em pick Cuba as a vacation spot?
Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM

To show support for fellow Comrades.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 11:14 AM (y6810)

59 The F-35 have some level of ability to control UAV's. Armed drones. The pilot would have some autonomy over how those UAV's are used.

As a (potential) force multiplier, that's significant.

But it's very risky to have UAV's and manned aircraft in the same physical airspace, separated by less than a mile if you're not 100% confident in the system as a whole.

Trust... is what we're working on right now. The tech's already there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2026 11:14 AM (jtM2q)

60 Surprisingly, the Russian aircraft are almost certainly superior. The ChiComs still have to buy Russian engines to stuff into their home-built airframes if they want them to have any reliability or performance. Their huge J20 stealthcrap airframe didn't start shipping with Chinese engines until about 2-3 years ago.

For some values of superior, I suppose that's true.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

61 There is an argument that quantity has a quality all it's own. The counter argument is that there is a level of advantage that renders your opponent irrelevant.

The the F15 is 106-0 in air-to-air.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:15 AM (jc0TO)

62 49 33 Canada picking a fight with the USA is kinda like me picking a fight with Mike Tyson in his prime… just why???
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Envy, leftist superiority complex, little brother syndrome.

Why do so many of 'em pick Cuba as a vacation spot?
Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (Y8DZL)

The weather's nice and Cuban women are busty and amazing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:15 AM (xcxpd)

63 Why does canada bother buying ships and planes and submarines and other weapons of war. Red China conquered them by giving them trinkets and playing on the canadians oversized and huge white guilt.

Posted by: Dudley Dowrong at February 10, 2026 11:15 AM (hXJe5)

64 Canada committed suicide long ago with “free” health care and open borders. Toronto and Vancouver are not Canadian cities anymore. They’re Chinese/Indian cities with a few white English speaking Canadians sprinkled around.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 11:16 AM (y6810)

65 The F35 is a really expensive, armed wifi router and access point.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 11:16 AM (5aZAZ)

66 Your time is coming, my man.

F-47. Soon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:09 AM (8UiBJ)

Clean sheet from Boeing?

Those are going to take 25 years to make and cost $1B each.
Posted by: Sjg at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (aqZN1)
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So, I guess you aren't buying the Air Force mutterings that developmental versions are flying now?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:17 AM (8UiBJ)

67 I keep hoping that Canada will snap out of it soon. The countries of Europe appear to be waking up, so why not them?

The Socialists in Spain just got reamed in the new elections. Apparently the people of Spain are not on board with the Socialists giving citizenship to 1/2M Africans so they'd vote for them.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

68
‘Why Experts Say Canada's Plan to Ditch the F-35 Is a Strategic Disaster’

The only thing Canada could ever do that could rise to the level of strategic disaster would is allow their territory to be a base to some country like China.

In which case, I hope they have been explicitly threatened with invasion.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

69 Ballistol is right out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
——
Ballistol will attract the ladies, too. Where ever you might he using it in the house, she is sure to comment.

Usually something like “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SMELL!!??”

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:18 AM (s3dxE)

70 Canada is a Commonwealth country like Australia and NZ. Its physical location is much less important than its cultural and strategic ties.

Carney was previously a Governor of the Bank of England. There has never been nor will there ever be a US citizen who holds that position.

The idea that NATO is one big happy alliance is a myth. We are on our own.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 11:18 AM (viF8m)

71 If you love good cinematography, I'll add a beseech.
Mind you...he does get a little beyond the pale in subject matter.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (xcxpd)

That was just a joke, a jape, a frippery if you will.

I've been watching ~~Ding Bang-Ow~~ Park Chan-wook for years and years ever since I saw "Oldboy".

I like him, but I don't love him like TJM. I find his output a pretty mixed bag.

After a recent rewatch of "Lady Vengeance", I now consider that his best movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 11:18 AM (iJfKG)

72 It's actually quite scary given the possible increased burden on NORAD.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 11:19 AM (NFX2v)

73 Trump ain't bridging peace with Canada:

https://t.co/JPYUGl46hj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 11:19 AM (Hbs7G)

74 I keep hoping that Canada will snap out of it soon. The countries of Europe appear to be waking up, so why not them?

—

They’re so far gone I don’t think it’s possible. The entire identity of Canada is we’re not American. So they do shit like cozy up to the CCP to prove how not American they are. They’d rather be poor and miserable and not American than rich and prosperous but like Americans.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 11:20 AM (y6810)

75 Well, after learning of this, it's clear to me we must conquer Canada.
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Eh, if we conquer it we'd have to occupy it.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:21 AM (TN0g+)

76 Oh yeah, this discussion reminds me of another reason to hate Iran. The US Phoenix missile had a near 100% success rate before the Iranian revolution. After the Mullahs took over, they gave some of their US supplied Phoenix missiles to the Soviets. The Soviets were then able to spoof the Phoenix and that required a complete redesign to make the Phoenix guidance work again, and even then, it is not as effective as it was before.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:21 AM (jc0TO)

77 71 If you love good cinematography, I'll add a beseech.
Mind you...he does get a little beyond the pale in subject matter.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (xcxpd)

That was just a joke, a jape, a frippery if you will.

I've been watching Ding Bang-Ow Park Chan-wook for years and years ever since I saw "Oldboy".

I like him, but I don't love him like TJM. I find his output a pretty mixed bag.

After a recent rewatch of "Lady Vengeance", I now consider that his best movie.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 11:18 AM (iJfKG)

I haven't watched then all yet, I have an order of DVDs coming from, but I think Sympathy for Mister Vengeance might be his best drama. Lady Vengeance has the best scene transitions I think I've seen in a movie though.

Korean cinema is really underrated. It's better than Hollywood in everything but SFX and better than Japanese cinema made in the past 30 years.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

78 It behooves one to remember that Reddit is a real country, and it's called Canada.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

79 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 11:21 AM (/rdnj)

80 Why do so many of 'em pick Cuba as a vacation spot?
Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM

Teen prostitutes, of both sexes.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (jc0TO)

Unsurprisingly, AIDS is now a big problem on Cuba.

CUBA
Come for the Rum and Cigars, Stay for the AIDS!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 11:21 AM (iJfKG)

81 Trump ain't bridging peace with Canada:

https://t.co/JPYUGl46hj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 11:19 AM (Hbs7G)

"Free" paywall. Nope, Epoch Times, fuck you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 11:21 AM (8zz6B)

82 When did Canada become such a clown show?

* waves *

Posted by: Trudeau, no not that one at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM (Fs0KI)

83 Willowed from Art Thread:

359
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There is a town just north of Vero, whose name I can't recall off hand, whose "welcome" sign said "Welcome to a town of nice people and six grumpy old men".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 10:53 AM (K3qLL)

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The town is Sebastian. My folks lived there from 1985 until 2012 when they had to move to Melbourne for assisted living care.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM (QGaXH)

84 69 Ballistol is right out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
——
Ballistol will attract the ladies, too. Where ever you might he using it in the house, she is sure to comment.

Usually something like “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SMELL!!??”
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:18 AM (s3dxE)

hint: it smells like cat pee

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM (xcxpd)

85 Your time is coming, my man.

F-47. Soon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:09 AM (8UiBJ)

That thing is intense. I'm waiting for the X-wing. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM (snZF9)

86 There was some fighter that McNamara and the bean counters forced on the services. Neither the Air Force nor the Navy wanted it, it had to be capable of carrier landings, which the Air Force didn’t need or want, that kind of thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM (5dzh4)

87 Trade Canada to Scandinavia for Greenland and a first-round female Olympic curling draft pick.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM (0Eh0f)

88 Yeah, I could have used a condom but hey!, when will I ever be in Cuba again?

Posted by: Bad Idea Jeans at February 10, 2026 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

89 26
‘ until the Diefenbaker regime closed down their fighter plane business.’

And Diefenbaker was an anti-American twat just like Carney. Coincidence?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 11:23 AM (jbnUc)

90 "Surprisingly, the Russian aircraft are almost certainly superior. The ChiComs still have to buy Russian engines to stuff into their home-built airframes if they want them to have any reliability or performance. Their huge J20 stealthcrap airframe didn't start shipping with Chinese engines until about 2-3 years ago.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 11:11 AM (y9nCu)"

Even if the PRC can't make jet engines for shit (performance and uptime is really important), I would suspect Chinese avionics are better as Russian semiconductor mfg. is still, what, late 90s level? Though Russians take ECM way more seriously than anyone else.

This may be irrelevant anyways with PRC advantages in manufacturing in general, and drones in particular.

Posted by: heya at February 10, 2026 11:24 AM (neSLO)

91
We will have to step in and buttress Canada's already pathetic armed forces if they choose the clearly inferior Swedish plane.

Here's a thought: no, we won't.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 11:24 AM (xG4kz)

92 Hmm. So, we're finished with the morning's ablutions.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

93 My guess is Canada being a Socialism country spends much more handouts than their military gets

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 11:25 AM (/rdnj)

94 Hmm. So, we're finished with the morning's ablutions.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 11:24 AM

Dolphin smooth.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:25 AM (jc0TO)

95 Hai Karate: Be careful how you use it!

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:25 AM (5dzh4)

96 Ballistol is right out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
——
Ballistol will attract the ladies, too. Where ever you might he using it in the house, she is sure to comment.

Usually something like “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SMELL!!??”
Posted by: Common Tater

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 11:25 AM (KN2gu)

97 There was some fighter that McNamara and the bean counters forced on the services. Neither the Air Force nor the Navy wanted it, it had to be capable of carrier landings, which the Air Force didn’t need or want, that kind of thing.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM

F111, right?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

98 There was some fighter that McNamara and the bean counters forced on the services. Neither the Air Force nor the Navy wanted it, it had to be capable of carrier landings, which the Air Force didn’t need or want, that kind of thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM (5dzh4)

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The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark, developed under the Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) program.

The Navy's variant, the F-111B, was intended for carrier operations but proved too heavy and unsuitable, leading to its cancellation after trials.

The Air Force adopted the F-111A as a strike bomber but didn't need or want the naval features like reinforced structure for carrier landings, which added unnecessary weight and complexity.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 11:26 AM (0Eh0f)

99 "Free" paywall. Nope, Epoch Times

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 11:21 AM (8zz6B)
-

WH Rapid Response X account:

https://tinyurl.com/2zbptbed

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 11:26 AM (Hbs7G)

100 In the mid-aughts I was friends with a dude from Canuckistan. He got married back home and invited me to the wedding. I was one of only a handful of Yanks there. This during the Iraq war.

Other guests there would find out I’m American and immediately go to Bush and the war as a topic of conversation. I’m like fuck dude, I don’t want to talk about Bush or the war or anything political. I’m here to have a good time at a wedding. It was relentless and really annoying.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 11:27 AM (y6810)

101 The F35 is a really expensive, armed wifi router and access point.

Posted by: ballistic at February 10, 2026 11:16 AM (5aZAZ)

And that makes it incredibly good at BVR engagements. Dogfight performance just doesn't matter when fighter engagements are happening >100 miles out.

Most of the marketing for the F-47 is pushing its capability to be a forward drone controller.

Posted by: Sjg at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM (aqZN1)

102 When did Canada become such a clown show?
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[looks around current U.S.]

I wouldn't become too uppity about it...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM (XeU6L)

103 On the other hand, Canada isn't looking to go it alone; it's weighing its Sugar Daddy options. If they choose to be a Chinese satrapy, it would be all for the best if they did not have F-35s to hand over to the CCP for performance testing and reverse-engineering.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM (Sy6m/)

104 In which case, I hope they have been explicitly threatened with invasion.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

At that point, invading Canada is moot.

We'd have to invade West Taiwan.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM (JwNbV)

105 "notably Sweden’s Saab JAS-39 Gripen E, a 4.5-generation fighter pitched with the promise of 12,600 Canadian industrial assembly and jobs"

It's that last part that is really what's going on here. Plus, I'm sure the Saab is much cheaper. Why should Canada spend any money on defense? Who is gonna invade it? Greenland? Us?

I personally think the age of hyper-expensive hyper-fighters is over. It's an obsolete or near-obsolete concept in the new drone era.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

106 Has anybody tried to use Ballistol instead of Glide for sex?

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM (0Eh0f)

107
The entire identity of Canada is we’re not American.

The "good" whities?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM (Cqx++)

108 They’re so far gone I don’t think it’s possible. The entire identity of Canada is we’re not American. So they do shit like cozy up to the CCP to prove how not American they are. They’d rather be poor and miserable and not American than rich and prosperous but like Americans.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 11:20 AM (y6810)

We're not going to put up with the fucking chinese on our northern border. Canada is being really fucking stupid.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 11:29 AM (snZF9)

109 92 Hmm. So, we're finished with the morning's ablutions.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

On to the boobs!

https://tinyurl.com/5xear26u

Sidenote: it is becoming impossible to find on a quick search an image that is not either outright AI or might as well be because of all the filtering.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:29 AM (bss/y)

110 Noted above, but yeah Canada is selling out to China, I don't think we want them having some of our best stuff to hand over to their overlords.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at February 10, 2026 11:29 AM (fgmuN)

111 So, If we conquer Canada and send the Canadians to reservations, can we finally put an end to "white guilt"?

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at February 10, 2026 11:30 AM (EcHpA)

112 69
‘ Where ever you might he using it in the house, she is sure to comment.

Usually something like “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SMELL!!??”’

What the hell kind of women are you dating?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 11:30 AM (jbnUc)

113 On to the boobs!

https://tinyurl.com/5xear26u

Sidenote: it is becoming impossible to find on a quick search an image that is not either outright AI or might as well be because of all the filtering.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:29 AM (bss/y)

hot and busty

And I'm ok with AI boobs, it's all fictional online hotness at this point anyway. Unless you can capture a pair in the wild...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

114 I personally think the age of hyper-expensive hyper-fighters is over. It's an obsolete or near-obsolete concept in the new drone era.

I tend to agree, but the transition will be very tricky. Pilots do have some advantages. Thus, for awhile, we'll have both.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

115 >>It's that last part that is really what's going on here. Plus, I'm sure the Saab is much cheaper. Why should Canada spend any money on defense? Who is gonna invade it? Greenland? Us?

Take a trip to Vancouver and other areas in BC and you'll see who has already invaded them, round eye.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 11:31 AM (viF8m)

116
When did Canada become such a clown show?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM

the late 1700s / early 1800s?

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 10, 2026 11:31 AM (tljrc)

117 On the other hand, Canada isn't looking to go it alone; it's weighing its Sugar Daddy options. If they choose to be a Chinese satrapy, it would be all for the best if they did not have F-35s to hand over to the CCP for performance testing and reverse-engineering.
Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM (Sy6m/)

Canada's more or less chosen to be a Chinese satrapy with their signing of that weird treaty that allows China to land military on their shores and fight if China considers any Chinese population or interests or property at risk.

That's what we in the world of poker call a tell.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 11:31 AM (iJfKG)

118
"Free" paywall. Nope, Epoch Times

Just click "continue without registration."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 11:31 AM (Cqx++)

119 And I'm ok with AI boobs, it's all fictional online hotness at this point anyway. Unless you can capture a pair in the wild...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

I disagree. They (meaning women) are hotter if they are real.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:32 AM (bss/y)

120
When did Canada become such a clown show?

SCTV

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2026 11:32 AM (Cqx++)

121 Canada and the UK are both "fighting" (politically and geopolitically) with the US.

Canada's flop over to Swedish multi-role jets makes North American air defense more complicated than necessary. It's a poke in the eye. Trump's eye.

UK and their dicking around with the islets that Diego Garcia is on, tossing them into China's sphere of influence is another poke in the eye.

Both designed to "punish" the US (but mostly Trump) for not doing what those politicos in the UK and Canada wanted him to do.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2026 11:32 AM (jtM2q)

122 Canada's more or less chosen to be a Chinese satrapy with their signing of that weird treaty that allows China to land military on their shores and fight if China considers any Chinese population or interests or property at risk.

The Chinese might find that a bit more difficult than they anticipate.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

123 sorry to OT, but Archimedes, was that you on the food thread Sunday talking about prosecco/affordable champagne for a family wedding?
I read the thread after it was dead, and have been looking to tell you to try Freixenete Cordon Negro.
Spanish Champagne, I like both the Brut and the Extra Dry, very affordable, and very good IMO.
Depending on prices in your area, should be between $10-15 ($11-12 where I am) per bottle, so give it a go if you like.

Posted by: barbarausa at February 10, 2026 11:33 AM (enw9G)

124 Wouldn't put it past the Canadian government has the same fraud going that we have.

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 11:34 AM (/rdnj)

125 So, I guess you aren't buying the Air Force mutterings that developmental versions are flying now?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:17 AM (8UiBJ)

Having a prototype and having a running production line are two very different things.

Boeing has had cost overruns and massive delays on all their recent military contracts and none of those were even clean sheet designs. Miniscule chance the F-47 arrives on time or on budget.

Posted by: Sjg at February 10, 2026 11:35 AM (aqZN1)

126 The Chinese might find that a bit more difficult than they anticipate.

I do wonder if the recent contretemps with Gen. Zhang Youxia, the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and Gen. Liu Zhenli, Chief of the Joint Staff Department wasn't really about them trying to seize power so much as them telling Xi that his plans for conquering Taiwan and other places are insane.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

127 67. The Socialists in Spain just got reamed in the new elections. Apparently the people of Spain are not on board with the Socialists giving citizenship to 1/2M Africans so they'd vote for them.
Posted by: Archimedes

MADRID — The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez endured a major defeat on Sunday in an election in the Spanish region of Aragón, while the far right made substantial gains. Politico, Feb. 8

Aragon regional vote. Perhaps fighting back against the EU's great replacement 'theory.'

And there's also: The JP, January 2026, Spain: The first case of state antisemitism in the EU
What began as street-level hostility toward Jews has metastasized into the normalization of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric at the highest levels of government.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

128 When did Canada become such a clown show?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 10, 2026 11:07 AM

1783. When all of our Tories fled there.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

129 If you took the total armed forces of the UK, France, Germany and Canada I strongly suspect they’d be way short of US armed forces…. We probably have a lot more ammo in stock as well…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:36 AM (fQqaC)

130 To be fair, despite the horrid rancid odor, Ballistol is an ingenious product. Excellent for cleaning firearms cut 50/50 with water, that had corrosive ammunition. Also a fine preservative for leather slings, boots, and wood gunstocks. Non-toxic, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:36 AM (5dzh4)

131 And furthermore, I will not allow the bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit to be named the Gordie Howe Bridge. Gordie was Canadian. It will be named the Mike Modano Bridge because Mike is a Great American and was born in the metro Detroit area. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

-PDJT

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 11:36 AM (Y1sOo)

132 The entire identity of Canada is we’re not American.

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This is SO TRUE.

Confirmed via Y-DNA testing that my paternal grandfather was a Scot from Nova Scotia. I was able to connect with a couple of third cousins online at the testing site -- and one invited me to come visit and show me around our ancestral lands back in 2018.

He was a wonderful guy, but here are the first three things he had to tell this American (I was wearing a baseball cap with an American flag on it) when we met:

(1) don't forget that the British burned down The White House in 1814;

(2) you're not gonna be popular around here wearing that hat; and

(3) we all hate Trump (and when one of his friends asked me "What's one good thing about Trump?" -- I replied "He doesn't give a shit what anybody thinks about him!", to which the dude paused ... and said "I guess you're right").

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 11:36 AM (0Eh0f)

133 sorry to OT, but Archimedes, was that you on the food thread Sunday talking about prosecco/affordable champagne for a family wedding?
I read the thread after it was dead, and have been looking to tell you to try Freixenete Cordon Negro.
Spanish Champagne, I like both the Brut and the Extra Dry, very affordable, and very good IMO.

That was me. Thanks for the tip.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

134 104
‘ At that point, invading Canada is moot.

We'd have to invade West Taiwan.’

It took me a second then I chuckled.
Yes, we should help Taiwan recover their renegade province. The ghost of MacArthur approves.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 11:37 AM (jbnUc)

135 Newly unsealed Department of Justice documents reveal that in July 2006, then businessman Donald Trump was one of the first to call police to warn them about sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 11:38 AM (gbOdA)

136 Canada is like that cousin who has bad breath and is overly familiar, who won't leave you alone at family functions.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 10, 2026 11:38 AM (wBaIH)

137 Serious question: Why do extremely expensive super platforms like the F35 matter in a world where even poor Ukraine can stream thousands of inexpensive drones onto the battlefield?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:38 AM (fQqaC)

138 You're welcome! Glad it was you--been waiting to tell whoever it was, lol

Posted by: barbarausa at February 10, 2026 11:38 AM (enw9G)

139 121 Canada and the UK are both "fighting" (politically and geopolitically) with the US.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Or Canada and the EU.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 11:39 AM (NFX2v)

140 Canada is like that cousin who has bad breath and is overly familiar, who won't leave you alone at family functions.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 10, 2026 11:38 AM (wBaIH)

Cousin Eddie?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:39 AM (fQqaC)

141 The town is Sebastian. My folks lived there from 1985 until 2012 when they had to move to Melbourne for assisted living care.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 11:22 AM (QGaXH)
================
That's it!

Always trust that horde knowledge will come through

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:39 AM (MZ6Is)

142 Tobacco and sandalwood on a man makes my knees go weak.

I have a couple of scented candles in that combination. Love love love it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 11:39 AM (W2Pud)

143 Now THIS feels like a military blog. Even the boobs.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 10, 2026 11:41 AM (g8Ew8)

144 ... wasn't really about them trying to seize power so much as them telling Xi that his plans for conquering Taiwan and other places are insane.
Posted by: Archimedes
_________

That's what scares me about atheist commies with nukes. What do they care if they take a few billion with them when they go out?

Posted by: George Costanza at February 10, 2026 11:41 AM (XvL8K)

145 And furthermore, I will not allow the bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit to be named the Gordie Howe Bridge. Gordie was Canadian. It will be named the Mike Modano Bridge because Mike is a Great American and was born in the metro Detroit area. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

-PDJT

Posted by: one hour sober

=====

What a brilliant idea!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 10, 2026 11:41 AM (Vrf7V)

146 I thought this was America!

Colorado police tell unicyclist he can no longer juggle fire in the crosswalk

https://is.gd/17DdR69

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:41 AM (rC33A)

147 And there's also: The JP, January 2026, Spain: The first case of state antisemitism in the EU
What began as street-level hostility toward Jews has metastasized into the normalization of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric at the highest levels of government.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

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"Pikers."

-- The F. Joe Mugabe AutoPen Empire

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 11:42 AM (0Eh0f)

148 137 Serious question: Why do extremely expensive super platforms like the F35 matter in a world where even poor Ukraine can stream thousands of inexpensive drones onto the battlefield?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:38 AM (fQqaC)

good question, mostly the F35 will live because of its EM and air superiority capabilities. Right now, drones can't challenge the F-35 but the F-35 can control drones and carry broad spectrum jammers that can disable most cheap drones.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:42 AM (xcxpd)

149 Serious question: Why do extremely expensive super platforms like the F35 matter in a world where even poor Ukraine can stream thousands of inexpensive drones onto the battlefield?

Because taking out ground troops is only one aspect of warfare. We're going to need both autonomous systems for a variety of roles, but also platforms with a human in the loop, at least for awhile. There will be an ever-present danger that the enemy will figure out how to disrupt our communications with the platforms, or in the case of full autonomy, scramble its "thinking".

The biggest danger, IMHO, is the ability to park a pedestrian container full of attack drones somewhere near large military and infrastructure assets. It doesn't matter how good your platform is if it's a pile of smoking slag in a hangar.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

150
Colorado police tell unicyclist he can no longer juggle fire in the crosswalk
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An affront to our Precious Democracy!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 11:43 AM (XeU6L)

151 With regards to Park-Chan-Wook...

It is to my great shame that I did not destroy the masters and all associated materials for Farenheit 9/11 when I had the opportunity, and it, instead of OldBoy won the Palm d'Or.

I will take this shame to my grave.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 11:43 AM (XV/Pl)

152 The CBS story focused on the fact that "only" 14 percent of deportees have been charged with or convicted of a violent crime. As the Department of Homeland Security explained, "Drug trafficking, Distribution of child pornography, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation of a minor, human smuggling are all categorized as 'non-violent crimes.'" When that category is included, the number leaps to nearly 70 percent.

Child porn
Solicitation of Minor
Human Smuggling
Seems like them illegals do like fuckn the chillrens

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 11:43 AM (gbOdA)

153
Where in Canada did my hot A.I. girlfriend move to?

I was really getting excited to introduce you to her next year.

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:44 AM (Y8DZL)

154 I thought this was America!

Colorado police tell unicyclist he can no longer juggle fire in the crosswalk

https://is.gd/17DdR69

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:41 AM (rC33A)

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Next you'll be telling me they're mandating helmets for unicyclists.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 11:44 AM (0Eh0f)

155 WH Rapid Response X account:

https://tinyurl.com/2zbptbed
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 11:26 AM (Hbs7G)

Heh! Thank you, BD! A local Ontario matter, made worse by Ontario's "conservative" Premier, Blubber Dougie. Alberta has 5 or 6 land crossings into Montana. We don't need no steenkin' bridges.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 11:44 AM (8zz6B)

156 130 To be fair, despite the horrid rancid odor, Ballistol is an ingenious product. Excellent for cleaning firearms cut 50/50 with water, that had corrosive ammunition. Also a fine preservative for leather slings, boots, and wood gunstocks. Non-toxic, too.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 11:36 AM (5dzh4)

yes, and it makes a fine general lubricant too. I have replaced all my other non-gun oils with Balistol to fix creaking doors, sticky windows, etc. Good product, smells terrible.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:45 AM (xcxpd)

157 Well, I'm glad that's settled.

Jasmine Crockett: “I’ve always been someone who has been intellectual.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:45 AM (rC33A)

158 If you took the total armed forces of the UK, France, Germany and Canada I strongly suspect they’d be way short of US armed forces…. We probably have a lot more ammo in stock as well…
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According to AI, the United States has the most military aircraft at just over 13,000. Nations 2-10 have a COMBINED total of 17,505.

Posted by: Crusader at February 10, 2026 11:46 AM (TN0g+)

159 Farm Project tested all the CLPs and recommended Clenzol

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 10, 2026 11:46 AM (wBaIH)

160 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:41 AM (rC33A)

Link won't open on my Kindle. What town is it? I always like to know if my hometown has done something cringe worthy lately.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 10, 2026 11:46 AM (lFFaq)

161 I bet the Cubans would trade a few planes for some jet fuel.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 11:47 AM (w/O5Q)

162 > Serious question: Why do extremely expensive super platforms like the F35 matter in a world where even poor Ukraine can stream thousands of inexpensive drones onto the battlefield?
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Because the generals don't trust the drones enough. I suspect that's changing, slowly.

But I think the larger issue is what to do with a huge military/industrial complex sitting on trillions of dollars of assets (and costs) just to switch over to $1200 drones that are probably manufactured in China. (That trust issue again.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2026 11:47 AM (jtM2q)

163 157 Well, I'm glad that's settled.

Jasmine Crockett: “I’ve always been someone who has been intellectual.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:45 AM (rC33A)

'The Juwes are the men who will not be blamed for nothing!'

Coincidence?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:47 AM (bss/y)

164 Jasmine Crockett: “I’ve always been someone who has been intellectual.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:45 AM (rC33A)
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She's a proud graduate of The Learing Center.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 11:47 AM (Hbs7G)

165 Not to mention over reliance of US protection.

I am against protecting a CCP satellite country like canada, YMMV.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2026 11:47 AM (xvV+O)

166 159 Farm Project tested all the CLPs and recommended Clenzol
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 10, 2026 11:46 AM (wBaIH)

I like Project Farm and his rigor but for my uses, CLP Break Free and Hoppe's work best for gun cleaning/lube. And Ballistol for misc lubrication and protection.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

167 The CBS story focused on the fact that "only" 14 percent of deportees have been charged with or convicted of a violent crime. As the Department of Homeland Security explained, "Drug trafficking, Distribution of child pornography, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation of a minor, human smuggling are all categorized as 'non-violent crimes.'" When that category is included, the number leaps to nearly 70 percent.

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Then account for the fact that for every "charged" or "convicted" crime committed, there are like 20+ more crimes most criminals have committed and for which they are NOT charged.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 11:48 AM (0Eh0f)

168 Honestly, given how Canada's rulers want to get into bed with China, it's probably best that they have as few of our useful military products as possible.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 10, 2026 11:49 AM (zjgNU)

169 A drone cannot carry enough payload and ordnance, nor does it have the range.

Drones have their place but not in large scale warfare.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 11:49 AM (XV/Pl)

170 Meh. I'm sure the Saab is a fine fighter. Russia doesn't seem all that militarily. The threat of them invading Canada is zero.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2026 11:50 AM (Vh9CX)

171 169 A drone cannot carry enough payload and ordnance, nor does it have the range.

Drones have their place but not in large scale warfare.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 11:49 AM (XV/Pl)

I'd say it would depend on the situation. Same as anything else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:50 AM (bss/y)

172 Not to mention over reliance of US protection.

I am against protecting a CCP satellite country like canada, YMMV.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2026 11:47 AM

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"Next you'll want to stop protecting a CCP satellite state like Califzuela." -- Gov. Gruesome Newscum

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 11:50 AM (0Eh0f)

173 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:41 AM (rC33A)

Link won't open on my Kindle. What town is it? I always like to know if my hometown has done something cringe worthy lately.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

"The intersection of US-85 and 60th isn't exactly the Las Vegas Strip… or is it?

"We got numerous calls the other day when drivers were treated to a little stoplight entertainment courtesy of this fire-juggling unicyclist."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:51 AM (rC33A)

174
But I think the larger issue is what to do with a huge military/industrial complex sitting on trillions of dollars of assets (and costs) just to switch over to $1200 drones that are probably manufactured in China. (That trust issue again.)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2026 11:47 AM (jtM2q)

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We talk about the gigantic fraud in HHS but the DoD is certainlu just as vast.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2026 11:51 AM (Vh9CX)

175 151 With regards to Park-Chan-Wook...

It is to my great shame that I did not destroy the masters and all associated materials for Farenheit 9/11 when I had the opportunity, and it, instead of OldBoy won the Palm d'Or.

I will take this shame to my grave.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 11:43 AM (XV/Pl)

There's nothing I can say that you have not already thought of. What could have been....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:52 AM (xcxpd)

176 What began as street-level hostility toward Jews has metastasized into the normalization of reruns of Hardcore Pawn.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 11:52 AM (Kt19C)

177 {{{ nurse ratched }}}

Makes a note of this for next MoMeet supplies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 11:53 AM (u82oZ)

178 @171

>>I'd say it would depend on the situation. Same as anything else.

Drones are really good for guerilla actions and quick surprise strikes on limited target sets.

But like how you can't win a war with air power alone, this is exponentially true of drones.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 11:53 AM (XV/Pl)

179 Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

The Left wants slaves. They should be much more careful what they wish for.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 11:53 AM (u82oZ)

180 49 33 Canada picking a fight with the USA is kinda like me picking a fight with Mike Tyson in his prime… just why???
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Envy, leftist superiority complex, little brother syndrome.

Why do so many of 'em pick Cuba as a vacation spot?

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:12 AM (Y8DZL)

Magik 8-Ball says: Fewer will be vacationing in Cuba.

Cuba warns airlines they can’t refuel amid Trump tariff threat
https://tinyurl.com/5drjfay5

"The communist government warned international airlines they can no longer refuel at its main airport in Havana for the next month after Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any nation that supplies Cuba with oil. A-1 jet fuel won’t be available at Jose Marti International Airport beginning Tuesday through March 11, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice Sunday."

"Canada’s flagship carrier said Monday it was halting flights to Cuba effective immediately, though it plans to send empty planes to bring back about 3,000 vacationers currently on the island. Air Canada “will continue to monitor the situation to determine an appropriate restart of normal service” at a future date, the Montreal-based company said."

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 11:54 AM (5rh/l)

181 If you feel we're living in troubled times have a listen to Gordon Sinclair's 'The Americans' on ewe toob. I remember when it was playing all over the local AM radio stations in Florida in the early '70's. Maybe it's a little dated but still uplifting.

Maybe the Canadians should listen to it too. Not the Horde Canadians - the other ones.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 10, 2026 11:54 AM (QGaXH)

182 According to a recent report, if Russia were to invade the EU, Germany would fall in about a week. GB only has enough ammo for eight days of fighting.

Posted by: Old Blue at February 10, 2026 11:54 AM (up14Y)

183 Apparently, I upgef*credit the unicycle link so try this.

https://is.gd/17DdR6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:54 AM (rC33A)

184 OT

One armed rows suck.

That is all.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:55 AM (bss/y)

185 182 According to a recent report, if Russia were to invade the EU, Germany would fall in about a week. GB only has enough ammo for eight days of fighting.
Posted by: Old Blue at February 10, 2026 11:54 AM (up14Y)

Not surprising. It's all a grift on us. ALL of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:55 AM (bss/y)

186 If Siberia was full of hosers, this is Canada. Good luck with that, eh?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 11:55 AM (xFfhU)

187 A drone cannot carry enough payload and ordnance, nor does it have the range.

Drones have their place but not in large scale warfare.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 11:49 AM (XV/Pl)

Let's define what people think a drone is.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 10, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

188 182 According to a recent report, if Russia were to invade the EU, Germany would fall in about a week. GB only has enough ammo for eight days of fighting.
Posted by: Old Blue at February 10, 2026 11:54 AM (up14Y)

"How many bullets do they got? OK, how many humans live in Russia? Ok, divide by.... carry the one.... Yup. Eight days."

This is fun! Reports are easy!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 11:56 AM (JwNbV)

189 But like how you can't win a war with air power alone, this is exponentially true of drones.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 11:53 AM (XV/Pl)

Oh, absolutely, but for playing havok on supplies/lines and causing chaos?

Think about if you used drones to deploy anti-personnel mines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:56 AM (bss/y)

190 One armed rows suck.

That is all.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:55 AM (bss/y)

Because you go in circles?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:56 AM (ZCxQ+)

191 159 Farm Project tested all the CLPs and recommended Clenzol

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 10, 2026 11:46 AM (wBaIH)

AoSHQ Rules Mandatory Response -

Clenzol! It's a gun cleaner! No, it's a dessert topping!

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 11:57 AM (5rh/l)

192 Beseeching is more dignified than groveling.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 11:58 AM (qFwJc)

193
The eight day Russian conquest timeline was quoted a lot in 2022 as well...

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 11:59 AM (Y8DZL)

194 I can't think of a single person of even the slightest intellectual bent who would ever describe themselves as "intellectual".

It's so Dunning-Krueger it hurts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 11:59 AM (JwNbV)

195 @187

>>Let's define what people think a drone is.

The US has 300 Reaper Drones, so with duty cycle, maintaniance and and inoperation, there are roughly 75 available for combat usage at any time.

That's not going to cut it in a large scale war, for onesy, twosey operation it's fine.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 11:59 AM (XV/Pl)

196 Think about if you used drones to deploy anti-personnel mines.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:56 AM (bss/y)

The Ukrainians already do this, probably also the Russians.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at February 10, 2026 11:59 AM (EcHpA)

197 At this point, Putin could probably stroll into London, naked on horseback, and Queer Starmer will surrender.

Posted by: XTC at February 10, 2026 12:00 PM (6Uni8)

198 Serious question: Why do extremely expensive super platforms like the F35 matter in a world where even poor Ukraine can stream thousands of inexpensive drones onto the battlefield?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:38 AM (fQqaC)

More advanced radars and sensors give you more capabilities to track and intercept drones. You also need a fighter that can effectively engage enemy fighters that are hunting your drone killers.

You could employ a bunch of F-4s to hunt enemy drones, but you'll quickly run out of pilots to fly them, and once your ground based radars are destroyed and AWACS is shot down they're going to struggle to even spot drones.

Posted by: Sjg at February 10, 2026 12:00 PM (aqZN1)

199 Because you go in circles?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:56 AM (ZCxQ+)

I kept telling reef to stay back (he kept wanting to get right under the weight) and finally just let him get bonked in the head once. He stopped doing that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:00 PM (bss/y)

200 I was actually thinking about that the other day - we've reached a strange place where Ukraine has a powerful military than anyone in Western Europe. He'll, Montenegro probably does by now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 12:00 PM (voQc3)

201 192
‘ Beseeching is more dignified than groveling.’

Groveling bespeaks poltroonery.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 12:00 PM (jbnUc)

202 A drone cannot carry enough payload and ordnance, nor does it have the range.

Drones have their place but not in large scale warfare.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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I'd call the Fritz X a drone, albeit guided. It took out the Italian battleship Roma in WWII. And almost the Warspite too. That's some payload.

Posted by: George Costanza at February 10, 2026 12:01 PM (XvL8K)

203 Here are some interesting statistics from back in April of 2025:

--64% of Canadians think they should stop buying all military equipment from the US immediately.

-- 65% of Canadians think they should spend more on Canada's expense than it does

-- 32% of Canadians would support a new $100 tax to increase the Military budget

-- 60% of Canadians have a positive opinion of their Armed Forces

AND, here's the best one:

-- 50% (half of the population of Canada) of Canadians believe that Canadian Armed Forces can effectively defend Canada

________

My point is that it's not just TDS. Most Canadians are unaware of their current situation. They have no concept of their degraded military branches or their outdated, and outright non-existent m military apparatus. Unfortunately, Canada's Constitution bars individual provinces from purchasing their own military equipment. It would have been funny to sell F-35's to Alberta and Saskatchewan individually to see Ottawa have a coronary.

Posted by: Orson at February 10, 2026 12:01 PM (dIske)

204 Black [chick] judge cuts black man's rape sentence in half, despite violent outbursts at trial, because he's "experienced this society" 🤡

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What remorse did he exhibit at sentencing?

"'Off the record, the defendant was speaking to Ms. Zgonjanin and stated, ‘I will see you in 20 years, b****,'" Judge Davis read aloud. "On the record, in front of the entire court, he stated, ‘D**** s*****, f**** y'all kids, and f**** y'all's dead loved ones.' In addition to that, speaking directly to the court, he said, ‘Eat my d****, b****. I'm going to pop your *** and s*** my d***, b****.'"
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I'm not sure what all those "*" mean but I am sure he deeply regrets any harm he may have caused.

https://is.gd/5LdFP9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 12:02 PM (rC33A)

205 Yudhishthira's Dice

Poland would beg to differ with you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 12:02 PM (u82oZ)

206 I personally think the age of hyper-expensive hyper-fighters is over. It's an obsolete or near-obsolete concept in the new drone era.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 10, 2026 11:28 AM

Maybe tactical air and ground support but, drones aren't going to punch a hole in peer air defenses and let bombers through to pound major sites.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 12:03 PM (jc0TO)

207 Serious question: Why do extremely expensive super platforms like the F35 matter in a world where even poor Ukraine can stream thousands of inexpensive drones onto the battlefield?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:38 AM (fQqaC)

How many inexpensive drones have made air-to-air kills of Uke and Russian high-performance fighter and attack aircraft?

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 12:04 PM (5rh/l)

208 Everyone's thinking wrong about how to counter this new terrifying drone threat.

Two words:

Kevlar.

Umbrellas.

To anyone at the DoD right now, please make the check out to Waraiotoko Smith. Yeah. Ess. Em. Aye. Tee.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:04 PM (JwNbV)

209 A drone is a male bee that after servicing the queen is killed.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 12:04 PM (qFwJc)

210 Poland would beg to differ with you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 12:02 PM (u82oZ)

That's not Western Europe. My point is that, to the extent Europe has any future, it now belongs to the Slavs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 12:05 PM (voQc3)

211 129 If you took the total armed forces of the UK, France, Germany and Canada I strongly suspect they’d be way short of US armed forces…. We probably have a lot more ammo in stock as well…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 11:36 AM (fQqaC)

I think it gets even worse for them when actual combat readiness is taken into account. The corruption in Europe is so bad, even when they had plenty of time -- not pressed by enemy forces, just sending war machines to Ukraine at their leisure -- a lot of them were unusable, and just went straight to the "cannibalize for parts" section.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 12:05 PM (Sy6m/)

212 I can't think of a single person of even the slightest intellectual bent who would ever describe themselves as "intellectual".

It's so Dunning-Krueger it hurts.

It sounds like she has become aware of how much everyone laughs at her.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)

213 Can Germany put more than a dozen fighters in the air?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

214 George Costanza

Today the Fritz X would probably be classified as a glide bomb. In addition to the Roma and Warspite, the USS Savannah (CL-42) was hit, and put out of the war.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 12:07 PM (u82oZ)

215 213 Can Germany put more than a dozen fighters in the air?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

*pictures fifteen dudes in liederhosen carrying MP5s sitting in the bucket of a trebuchet*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:08 PM (JwNbV)

216 toby928(c)

No.

The German Defense Secretary responsible is now in charge of the EU. She failed upward.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 12:08 PM (u82oZ)

217 How many inexpensive drones have made air-to-air kills of Uke and Russian high-performance fighter and attack aircraft?

How many Russian ground, air, and naval platforms have the Ukes destroyed with drones? There's a reason the Russians can no longer keep a serious Navy in the Black Sea and they're running out of their AWACS. Russia is even running out of tanks. Russia.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

218 209 A drone is a male bee that after servicing the queen is killed.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 12:04 PM (qFwJc)

I think the left loves the idea of drones in the same way they envision a civil war where they get to menace children and old folks.

Just remember kids. You have to sleep. You have to go somewhere to sleep. Drone operators have to sleep. And have families.

Sleep tight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:08 PM (bss/y)

219 The webz says that Canada has 90 Hornets. So I guess they could field about 45-55 for at least one strike mission.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 12:09 PM (jc0TO)

220 Can Germany put more than a dozen fighters in the air?

Sure, but the Albatross is no longer a cutting edge fighter.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

221 I can't think of a single person of even the slightest intellectual bent who would ever describe themselves as "intellectual".
_________

I'd bet some of those MENSA types do a little peacocking. If you're willing to take the effort to join, there's a decent chance you'll boast about it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 12:09 PM (XvL8K)

222 Every province in Canada is like a separate country. What's holding them together? Ottawa? King Charles? Harry and his hootchie mama? Socialism?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 12:10 PM (xFfhU)

223 212
‘ It's so Dunning-Krueger it hurts.

It sounds like she has become aware of how much everyone laughs at her.’

She’s ign’nt.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 10, 2026 12:10 PM (jbnUc)

224 Ace nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 10, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)

225 Biff Pocoroba

I don't want to belong to any club that would have me for a member.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (u82oZ)

226 Nood. Epstein.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (bss/y)

227 When the topic of drones is raised I often think of Michael Crichton’s novel Prey… which dealt with swarms of nano bots…. If you could get non-nano ( regular sized) drones to do coordinated activities in large swarms (10,000 or more) I’d think that would be a very formidable destructive military force

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (fQqaC)

228 Canada used to be a player, but that ended in the late 1950s with the cancellation and destruction of the 17 CF-105 airframes.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (YXfnZ)

229 I'd bet some of those MENSA types do a little peacocking. If you're willing to take the effort to join, there's a decent chance you'll boast about it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 12:09 PM (XvL8K)

I would rank MENSA membership somewhere roughly in between people who do a Wordle every day, and people who bet on horses every day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (JwNbV)

230 The current average mission-capable rate of Canada's CF-18 fleet is approximately 40%, based on a February 2025 military readiness report obtained by CBC News. This means only about 40% of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) inventory, including the CF-18s, is considered serviceable and ready for action, with 60% deemed "unserviceable" due to aging airframes, maintenance shortages, and obsolete systems.

Some sources indicate mission-capable rates may have previously hovered around 36%, reflecting long-term sustainment challenges. The CF-18s, many nearing 45 years of service, are being kept operational through upgrades like the Hornet Extension Project (HEP), but structural fatigue and supply chain issues continue to constrain readiness. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at February 10, 2026 12:12 PM (jc0TO)

231 "The intersection of US-85 and 60th isn't exactly the Las Vegas Strip… or is it?

"We got numerous calls the other day when drivers were treated to a little stoplight entertainment courtesy of this fire-juggling unicyclist."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 11:51 AM (rC33A)

Looked it up. Would appear to be Commerce City.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 10, 2026 12:13 PM (lFFaq)

232 I think that at one time I could have passed the MENSA test. But when I found out how many of their members are in prison, I decided that I did not want to be associated with them.

Since then, the gray cells are dying off.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 12:14 PM (qFwJc)

233 182 According to a recent report, if Russia were to invade the EU, Germany would fall in about a week. GB only has enough ammo for eight days of fighting.
Posted by: Old Blue at February 10, 2026 11:54 AM (up14Y)

Even if they hadn't spent their arsenal in Ukraine. The Russians couldn't invade the rest of Europe. Their logistics would turn it into a turkey shoot. The different gauge rail lines would force large concentrations of material. The entire NATO war machine is built to blow up your stuff and deny it to you. The Russians still insist on running their army on big, rail based piles of stuff.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2026 12:15 PM (w/O5Q)

234 Canada's flop over to Swedish multi-role jets makes North American air defense more complicated than necessary. It's a poke in the eye. Trump's eye.
_____

It's a poke in America's eye. Not criticizing this post, I just want to point out that when Trump is trying to Make America Great Again, he's trying to help the US citizen. So when countries "get back at Trump" for something he is trying to do, I take it personal. It isn't Trump that is being harmed, he'll be fine no matter.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2026 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

235 217 How many inexpensive drones have made air-to-air kills of Uke and Russian high-performance fighter and attack aircraft?

How many Russian ground, air, and naval platforms have the Ukes destroyed with drones? There's a reason the Russians can no longer keep a serious Navy in the Black Sea and they're running out of their AWACS. Russia is even running out of tanks. Russia.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

Air-to-ground/sea kills. Different combat environment.

Posted by: Gref at February 10, 2026 12:17 PM (5rh/l)

236 SPINNING PLATES ON STICKS!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 12:17 PM (Kt19C)

237 Do Ukraine's long range drones use StarLink?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 10, 2026 12:19 PM (jc0TO)

238 When the topic of drones is raised I often think of Michael Crichton’s novel Prey… which dealt with swarms of nano bots…. If you could get non-nano ( regular sized) drones to do coordinated activities in large swarms (10,000 or more) I’d think that would be a very formidable destructive military force

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 12:11 PM (fQqaC)

Large swarms are no longer inexpensive.

Pakistan just recently sent over 1000 drones at India, and India appears to have very successfully defended themselves using AA and jamming.

Posted by: Sjg at February 10, 2026 12:30 PM (aqZN1)

239 This just in Epstein emailed Schumer a recipe for BABY BACK RIBS!!!!!

Posted by: REEEE at February 10, 2026 12:41 PM (6rdCx)

240 "'Off the record, the defendant was speaking to Ms. Zgonjanin and stated, ‘I will see you in 20 years, b****,'" Judge Davis read aloud. "On the record, in front of the entire court, he stated, ‘D**** s*****, f**** y'all kids, and f**** y'all's dead loved ones.' In addition to that, speaking directly to the court, he said, ‘Eat my d****, b****. I'm going to pop your *** and s*** my d***, b****.'"

Jeans? You're wearing jeans?

Posted by: Juding is Lonely Work at February 10, 2026 12:46 PM (zFsEm)

241 Late to the party but I’d argue Canada no longer shares a culture with the United States. They have cheerfully acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and are unfit to be free and incapable of self-government,

And you know why they rejected their liberty?

Because paying for a doctor was JUST TOO HARD.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 01:28 PM (O3dBq)

242 TBH, Canada isn't going to get the Gripen even if they cancel their F-35 order.

Because GE makes the Engines for them, and that gives the US ITAR control over who get the plane and who doesn't. So if Canada cancels the F-35 order, there's nothing they can do to stop the US from not sending Engines to Sweden to put in Canadian Gripens.

Sure, they can say they're going to use a Rolls Royce, or maybe a SNECMA, but that's not an easy switch.

Posted by: Andrew at February 10, 2026 02:12 PM (Pp3zn)

243 Hard disagree.
The Gripen is a more than capable platform for Canadas defence needs, especially when combined with the 6 Globaleye systems as part of the deal.

The Gripen is entirely compatible with NATOs modern data standards and has an excellent digital cockpit for handling that information, so they will be able to work with the 16 F-35s that Canada is committed to buying.

As for the Gripen's 'inferiority', the only thing it doesn't have is stealth but it will have much lower operating costs and proven capabilities in harsh conditions.
It has a good selection of integrated weapons an excellent AESA radar and already has greater combat range than the F-35 which will be extended further with the installation of the EJ200 engine.

The installation of EJ200 I suspect won't be a problem as SAAB had already done the design work before selecting the GE F414 when they re-engined the aircraft before.

I don't think you can accuse Canada of TDS. Trump's behaviour to Canada was idiotic. He has a habit of running his mouth and pushing allies away. Sometimes he needs to think more and talk less.

Posted by: stv at February 10, 2026 04:52 PM (XMeSM)

244 I saw an interview with Hoekstra and his comments were really just a mean spirited attempt at blackmail. He's talking pure nonsense.

Posted by: stv at February 10, 2026 04:54 PM (XMeSM)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Village Barber
Adriaen van Ostade

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 1st

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

2 Theodoric of York!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 09:30 AM (cYBz/)

3 I nooded.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

4 Floyd was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at February 10, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

5 So soon, Muldoon?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:31 AM (XuXeR)

6 Egads!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

7 Whew, that was a close shave.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 09:32 AM (0nHVk)

8 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 09:32 AM (R11M+)

9 So that's what it means to "cut one's teeth".

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 09:32 AM (AlhUl)

10 Barber! The hair is on the outside!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:33 AM (KN2gu)

11 Hmmm. Doubt it's a repeat. CBD usually keeps track. I must have seen it while looking something else up.

I like the lighting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:33 AM (bss/y)

12 The guy eventually died from an infected tooth because in the daze from the pain in his tooth he went to the barber and not to the dentist.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2026 09:33 AM (0N4FZ)

13 brazilian dentist

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 09:33 AM (R11M+)

14 What' Peter Dinklage doing there on the left?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 09:33 AM (bxiOq)

15 *Whew, that was a close shave.*

###
Babies kiss me.

Posted by: Burma at February 10, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

16 It's a cut-throat business.

Posted by: Sweeney Todd at February 10, 2026 09:34 AM (TezPK)

17 must be about 2:30.

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 09:34 AM (R11M+)

18 So, are they excising an incisor?

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

19 "short back and sides, please."

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 09:34 AM (R11M+)

20 must be about 2:30.
Posted by: cmeat

That's terrible!

(But I admit, I snorfled)

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 09:35 AM (cYBz/)

21 Ok, I like the lighting, but the faces are horrible.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:35 AM (bss/y)

22 They all look like they have Down’s Syndrome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 09:35 AM (IhIKR)

23 Looks like Herme, on the left, is still in the apprenticeship phase.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

24 Razor, scissors, or pliers today?

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (TezPK)

25 Is a haircut here $20, same as in Seville?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (0sNs1)

26 A bit on the crude side, but still effective.

Sit still, or you get Mr. Pokey again!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (DgMqy)

27 He should have flossed.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

28 *Whew, that was a close shave.*

Does your husband misbehave?
Grunt and grumble?
Rant and rave?
Shoot the brute some
Burma-Shave

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (ufSfZ)

29 20 chinese dentist joke.

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (R11M+)

30 100 comment rule [TJM]

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)

31 That haircut was so difficult it was like pulling teeth!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (Kmu/P)

32 You really need to click on the pic and embiggen to see all the details.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 09:37 AM (lJ0H4)

33 Reminds me that I have a dental appointment this afternoon.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

34 Some cute Burma Shave lines might be a fun alternative to limericks.

Posted by: Hint hint at February 10, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

35 100 comment rule [TJM]

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (TezPK)

36 "'e's Jack the Ripper 'e is!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (2GVsD)

37 I bet he doesn't get the roots. Probably just breaks the tooth off at the gum line.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

38 Pull it! It your best option. I have a dozen patients waiting outside.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (xFfhU)

39 Speaking of barbers and Burma-Shave, there's a lovely little book from 1979, Frank Rowsome Jrs The Verse by the Side of the Road, which is a friendly history of the B-S company and has a complete list of every roadside jingle.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (ufSfZ)

40 30, dang that was swift.

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 09:39 AM (R11M+)

41 You really need to click on the pic and embiggen to see all the details."

I did like hanging one's violin (to dry???)...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:39 AM (XuXeR)

42 100 comment rule [TJM]

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)

43 Molar opposites.

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:40 AM (TezPK)

44 Early days of Great Clips?

Posted by: dantesed at February 10, 2026 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

45 dang that was swift."

As in Tom?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:40 AM (XuXeR)

46 Pull the other one!

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:41 AM (TezPK)

47 The dude on the left seems weirdly enthused by the ordeal. "Master lets me keep all the best teeth!"

Some of these guys look like Leatherface's family and friends. It's very unsettling/off-putting.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 09:41 AM (CzMNg)

48 Barberian

Posted by: epador at February 10, 2026 09:41 AM (TRnzq)

49 Now, let's look at the art.

Bugs Bunny must be offscreen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)

50 This is a weird painting. I like the interior of the room with its realistic details, textures and colors. It is really well done. The people not so much. They appear cartoonish compared to the objects. It's an odd mix. And where would someone want to display this? Maybe it would be better as a book illustration, not standalone art.

Is it just me or do some of the figures look like Ralph Bakshi hobbits? Perhaps it is set in Bree where men and Hobbits coexist.

Or maybe I just need more coffee.

Posted by: JTB at February 10, 2026 09:42 AM (yTvNw)

51 Wonder what was on the paper tacked to the cabinet door? An early version of old, outdated magazines piled up for light reading?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:42 AM (XuXeR)

52 Molar opposites.
Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:40 AM (TezPK)
---
Just lost one three weeks ago. All healed up now, tho.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:42 AM (ZOv7s)

53 The gums were angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: Mr Wolf at February 10, 2026 09:43 AM (Ql26C)

54 I swear it's the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing more!

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:43 AM (TezPK)

55 If we can perform dental surgery anyone can!

Posted by: Moe, Larry, Curly at February 10, 2026 09:43 AM (oftw2)

56
Someone Has to Say It - a limerick

The old country barber Jack Brown
Was a stylist of certain renown
"I need a shave and a haircut, Jack
What d'you think that'll set me back?"

"That'll be two bits...same as in town!"

Posted by: muldoon at February 10, 2026 09:43 AM (qgHp7)

57 Sometimes these dental puns are a bridge too far.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:43 AM (xFfhU)

58 The people on the left, there was no bear baiting that day so had to seek their entertainment at the Barber's.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:43 AM (2GVsD)

59 Myranmar-Shave just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Name changes therefore, should not be undertaken without serious consideration.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:43 AM (09exb)

60 Please pause in your mastication for 48 hours.

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:44 AM (TezPK)

61 dang that was swift."

As in Tom?
Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:40 AM (XuXeR)

"I guess I've got to get this cavity filled," said Tom hollowly.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:44 AM (ufSfZ)

62 60 Please pause in your mastication for 48 hours.
Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:44 AM (TezPK)

YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:44 AM (bss/y)

63 Sometimes these dental puns are a bridge too far.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

The commenter who makes the best dental pun of the day should get a plaque.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

64 Sometimes these dental puns are a bridge too far."

Yeah. They gum up the works something fierce.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:45 AM (XuXeR)

65 63 Sometimes these dental puns are a bridge too far.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

The commenter who makes the best dental pun of the day should get a plaque.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ

Or a crown.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 09:45 AM (CzMNg)

66 Please pause in your mastication for 48 hours.
Posted by: Joe Mama

Motor-boating?

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

67 so many of these comments are so tongue-in-cheek...

Posted by: Mr Wolf at February 10, 2026 09:45 AM (Ql26C)

68 Being a molar is such a grind. Being a canine is closer to incisive.

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 10, 2026 09:46 AM (TezPK)

69 Is it safe?

Posted by: PabloD at February 10, 2026 09:46 AM (3VXNH)

70 Dental puns add bite to life.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:46 AM (2GVsD)

71 The Roman legionnaires preferred food was porridges of various types. Guess why.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 09:46 AM (pDt9x)

72 >>Sometimes these dental puns are a bridge too far.

Ain't that the tooth?!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 09:47 AM (48ipd)

73 Stop flossing around with the dental puns.

Posted by: dantesed at February 10, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

74 It'll always be Burma to me, Elaine.

Posted by: J. Peterman at February 10, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

75 Incisor commentary, as always.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 10, 2026 09:47 AM (NcvvS)

76 The Village Barber – Quick facts:
Artist: Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685)
Year: 1630–1635
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 34 cm × 41.3 cm (13 in × 16.3 in)
Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
=================
Would love to visit this museum.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 09:47 AM (/Z6GR)

77 Punds in the art thread?
You know the drill. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 09:48 AM (48ipd)

78 Twenty bucks. Same as in town.

Posted by: The Barber of De Drill at February 10, 2026 09:48 AM (vFG9F)

79 The comments have spiraled, like water in a commode.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 09:48 AM (pDt9x)

80 "The commenter who makes the best dental pun of the day should get a plaque."

And a tongue bath.

Posted by: Oof at February 10, 2026 09:49 AM (2Ez/1)

81 Twenty bucks. Same as in town.
Posted by: The Barber of De Drill at February 10, 2026 09:48 AM (vFG9F)
===============
lol

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 09:49 AM (/Z6GR)

82 If he pulls your tooth, does he give you a discount on your trim?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 10, 2026 09:49 AM (+u9S1)

83 The comments have spiraled, like water in a commode."

Northern or Southern hemisphere?

*yeah, I know. Still funny, tho*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:49 AM (XuXeR)

84 The Village Barber: Shaving, or extracting a tooth? You make the call!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:50 AM (wzUl9)

85 >>The commenter who makes the best dental pun of the day should get a plaque.

Can't brush off that achievement!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 09:50 AM (48ipd)

86 If he pulls your tooth, does he give you a discount on your trim?"

Shave and a haircut, two bits.

Dentistry? A bit more.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

87 59 Myranmar-Shave just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Name changes therefore, should not be undertaken without serious consideration.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:43 AM (09exb)

Since we've insisted on Mumbai, things are much better.

Posted by: guy who is taking a shit in the street at February 10, 2026 09:51 AM (CzMNg)

88 They all look like they have Down’s Syndrome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026

***
Same at the Walmarts around here

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)

89 I think he became a barber just for the jokes!

Posted by: Jerry at February 10, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

90 >>The comments have spiraled, like water in a commode."

Brace yourself - the worst is yet to come!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 09:51 AM (48ipd)

91 If you don't take care of your teeth, you'll be dentured for life.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:51 AM (xFfhU)

92 But one night in Bangkok still makes a hard man humble.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:51 AM (2GVsD)

93 We need to put a cap on the puns. No molar.

Posted by: The Barber of De Drill at February 10, 2026 09:51 AM (vFG9F)

94 I don't like the palate of this painting.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

95 Where is the dog? Where is the sniper? All we have is a lousy dwarf.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 09:52 AM (pDt9x)

96 OT:

Mmmmm. Bacon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:52 AM (bss/y)

97 Next you're going to say they should have their own schools!

Posted by: Kramer at February 10, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

98 Since we've insisted on Mumbai, things are much better."

"Beijing Duck" just doesn't have the same ring to it...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:52 AM (XuXeR)

99 The Roman legionnaires preferred food was porridges of various types. Guess why.
Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026

***
And being fed barley instead of wheat was considered a punishment.

On a related note, can you still buy Roman Meal bread?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:52 AM (wzUl9)

100 Some cute Burma Shave lines might be a fun alternative to limericks.

Shaving is a royal pain, Toots

You have to do it every day

I suggest: Pull 'em out by the roots

It's the long-lasting, manly way!

...PERMA SHAVE

Posted by: muldoon at February 10, 2026 09:53 AM (qgHp7)

101 The Roman legionnaires preferred food was porridges of various types. Guess why."

It wasn't too hot or cold? Just right?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:53 AM (XuXeR)

102 You don’t have to floss all your teeth. Just the ones you want to keep.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:53 AM (09exb)

103 I miss Roman's Frozen Pizza.

Posted by: Mama Celeste at February 10, 2026 09:54 AM (oftw2)

104 Chicken Kyiv > Beijing Duck

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

105 The patient/customer looks like he's leaking from the front of his pants. Incontinent because of the pain?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

106 Floyd's barber shop. The early days.

Posted by: Welcome to Mayberry at February 10, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

107 On a related note, can you still buy Roman Meal bread?

Yes, but it's not as available as it used to be.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:54 AM (ufSfZ)

108 Beijing Duck or Disco Duck?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:54 AM (2GVsD)

109 So much wisdom in today's comments.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 09:54 AM (Hbs7G)

110 You don’t have to floss all your teeth. Just the ones you want to keep."

WV, home of the tooth brush.

*get it? "tooth", not "teeth"

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:55 AM (XuXeR)

111 Bacon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:52 AM (bss/y)

Bacon is never off topic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 09:55 AM (n9ltV)

112 Twenty bucks. Same as in town.
Posted by: The Barber of De Drill at February 10, 2026

***
Twenty guilders?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

113 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: Burma Shaver at February 10, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

114 Which reminds me I should make some bread this weekend. A thick slice of toast with butter and a cup of tea on the side is lovely.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:55 AM (ufSfZ)

115 90 "brace yourself, colleen."
irish foreplay.

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (R11M+)

116 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies! You know they want it!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (IhIKR)

117 Roman Meal was a pretty decent sammich bread. It had a wide distribution, if it is still around now, it is tough to find. It was a fair bit more expensive than ordinary sandwich loaves.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (09exb)

118 Quit screaming, you're scaring the children. And button your trousers.

Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (LHPAg)

119 Peking Duck > Disco Duck > Howard the Duck

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (ufSfZ)

120 On a related note, can you still buy Roman Meal bread?
*
Yes, but it's not as available as it used to be.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026

***
I was never enough of a fan to seek it out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (wzUl9)

121 114 Which reminds me I should make some bread this weekend. A thick slice of toast with butter and a cup of tea on the side is lovely.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:55 AM (ufSfZ)

=======

I'm planning on making both of my sourdough starters into bread this week. I want to compare them side by side since they started with different flour types. Gotta feed them today, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (GBKbO)

122 I embiggened the pic.
Ugh. A grotesquerie of deformed mutants.
Would hang. With prejudice.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (Hx0tZ)

123
Barber:

"I think these things just pop off like the cap on a bottle of beer."

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

124 >>A thick slice of toast with butter and a cup of tea on the side is lovely.

Heaven!
The aroma from the baking bread makes it even better.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (48ipd)

125 122 I embiggened the pic.
Ugh. A grotesquerie of deformed mutants.
Would hang. With prejudice.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (Hx0tZ)

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In the mother-in-law suite?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

126 Are there a lot of midgets in this picture?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (sl73Y)

127 brace yourself, colleen."
irish foreplay."

Still deporting that Irish jackass?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (XuXeR)

128 90 "brace yourself, colleen."
irish foreplay.
Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026

***
The kind of joke Mrs. Wolfus No. 2, who was part Irish, would have loved.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (wzUl9)

129 Check out the smiles of people some time. Observe how bright and regular the teeth are. Consider how unlikely that nature bestows such symmetry and perfection.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (pDt9x)

130 > On a related note, can you still buy Roman Meal bread?

Twenty denari. Same as in Capernaum.

Posted by: Zebedee at February 10, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

131 99 great gramma fed the hunting dogs barley. a houseguest helped themselves to a bowl triggering uproarious laughter. to germans this was very funny.

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 09:58 AM (R11M+)

132 >>>The patient/customer looks like he's leaking from the front of his pants. Incontinent because of the pain?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

>That's just the floss from his sexy underpants.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:58 AM (xFfhU)

133 >>So much wisdom in today's comments.

The horde gets to the root if things.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 09:58 AM (48ipd)

134 Thick toast? I think WM carries something called Texas Toast. Though it might only be in the frozen bread section.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:58 AM (wzUl9)

135 I saw Grotesquerie of Deformed Mutants open for the Crash Test Dummies. It was a train wreck.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 09:58 AM (bxiOq)

136 Alternate title:

"A Picture From JRR Tolkien's Failed Sequel to Lord of the Rings, "The Retards of Hobbiton"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:59 AM (iJfKG)

137 On a related note, can you still buy Roman Meal bread?
*
Yes, but it's not as available as it used to be.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026

***
I was never enough of a fan to seek it out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM (wzUl9)

I used to see it in the local grocery all the time when I was a child. I hadn't thought about it in years until I saw a loaf in the kitchen of the sitcom Reba.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:59 AM (ufSfZ)

138 *adds another redhead laying about in bed to Tensor*

Methinks I should do other things.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 10:00 AM (2GVsD)

139 >>Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies! You know they want it!

Done!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 10:00 AM (48ipd)

140 Sorry, this showed up in my suggested:

https://tinyurl.com/u9nxyxnj

I think they are on to me...

Also, not really that sorry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:00 AM (bss/y)

141 Not sure I'd want that guy with a blade near my neck. Would hang the painting though.l
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 10:00 AM (yI5mB)

142 Alternate title:

"A Picture From JRR Tolkien's Failed Sequel to Lord of the Rings, "The Retards of Hobbiton"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026

***
More like the boggies of the Sty in Bored of the Rings: "They are a simple people, uncomfortable with tools more complex than a blackjack or a Luger."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:00 AM (wzUl9)

143 "A Picture From JRR Tolkien's Failed Sequel to Lord of the Rings, "The Retards of Hobbiton"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:59 AM (iJfKG)
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We boggies are a hairy folk
Who like to eat until we choke
Loving all like friend and brother
And hardly ever eat each other.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (bxiOq)

144 On a related note, can you still buy Roman Meal bread?

Twenty denari. Same as in Capernaum.
Posted by: Zebedee at February 10, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

If it's "Roman" meal, shouldn't the price be in sesterces?

(take note, kids - you don't get this kind of content on just any blog)

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (ufSfZ)

145 "A Picture From JRR Tolkien's Failed Sequel to Lord of the Rings, "The Retards of Hobbiton"

Actually how I always pretty much imagined LOTR...

Jackson's sets were too pretty.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (XuXeR)

146 132 >>>The patient/customer looks like he's leaking from the front of his pants. Incontinent because of the pain?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

>That's just the floss from his sexy underpants.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:58 AM (xFfhU)

Thongs were made from wool in those days...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (bss/y)

147 I saw Grotesquerie of Deformed Mutants open for the Crash Test Dummies. It was a train wreck.

The Aztek Hobbits closed that show.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (2GVsD)

148 Let's try to class things up here and stop acting like a bunch of canines.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (xFfhU)

149 DJIA on track for another record today.
Up 5% already for 2026. Odd since the entire msm is telling me we’re in a recession.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (y6810)

150 Check out the smiles of people some time. Observe how bright and regular the teeth are. Consider how unlikely that nature bestows such symmetry and perfection.

I read somewhere that the Brits consider the American smile full of perfectly braces-aligned teeth to be ridiculous and unattractive. Could they be making lemonade from lemons?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t)

151 A lot going on in this painting. Pity the details are so poorly done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:02 AM (8zz6B)

152 So much wisdom in today's comments.

The horde gets to the root if things.
Posted by: Lizzy

Yes,the horde is usually incisor this morning.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:02 AM (lJ0H4)

153 Would hang. In the waiting area of a pediatric dentist.

Posted by: Person with no kids at February 10, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)

154 138 *adds another redhead laying about in bed to Tensor*

Methinks I should do other things.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 10:00 AM (2GVsD)

The second one with the ponytail is nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:02 AM (bss/y)

155 In the mother-in-law suite?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

I meant the subjects of the picture not the actual picture.
That there is a three bagger

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 10:02 AM (Hx0tZ)

156 shouldn't the price be in sesterces?"

Signed bronze (IIRC)...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

157 Not sure I'd want that guy with a blade near my neck.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Always makes me nervous when the barber trims my ear hair. I sit super still so as not to get a perforated eardrum.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

158 155 In the mother-in-law suite?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

I meant the subjects of the picture not the actual picture.
That there is a three bagger

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 10:02 AM (Hx0tZ)

=====

I think my question is still relevant, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

159 I read somewhere that the Brits consider the American smile full of perfectly braces-aligned teeth to be ridiculous and unattractive. Could they be making lemonade from lemons?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t)

Normal shaped heads are too.

Posted by: Somalians at February 10, 2026 10:04 AM (CzMNg)

160 Howard McNear, the actor who played Floyd, was a prolific radio voice actor. Like the George Kennedy of radio. He was In everything. After the program it was customary to name the actors in that particular episode. If you don’t hear “Howard McNear” he must have been taking a rare vacation.

He was pretty one dimensional, he usually plays a bumbling absent minded type, though unlike Floyd, not always a nice guy. His career went all the way back to Speed Gibson radio serial of the 1930s.

Parley Baer played the Mayor on Andy Griffith, and he also had a very prolific radio career.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:04 AM (09exb)

161 A grotesquerie of deformed mutants.
Would hang. With prejudice.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
______

Looks like a bad Bruegel knockoff.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 10:04 AM (XvL8K)

162 Other than a thick dark dense loaf of bread, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Posted by: Monty Python at February 10, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

163 Not sure I'd want that guy with a blade near my neck. Would hang the painting though.l
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026

***
On a related note, I'm waiting for some new shaving cream, soap, and blades to arrive via USPS. The only decently-priced things you can buy at WM or the drugstore$$$ are shaving gels and foams in cans, and they dry my face out. And forget about finding double-edge blades. Bed, Bath, and Beyond carried Wilkinson blades, but their stores are gone.

(I know, Target has some blades, and a safety razor in that orange box.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:05 AM (wzUl9)

164 bad Bruegel "

That the latest Dutch singing and dancing sensation?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:05 AM (XuXeR)

165 My uncle Tony always told me and my cousins, "If you like a girl, make sure to check her teeth, you don't want a girl with bad teeth."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

166 I read somewhere that the Brits consider the American smile full of perfectly braces-aligned teeth to be ridiculous and unattractive. Could they be making lemonade from lemons?
Posted by: Archimedes

When my son and I went on a middle-school trip to the Galapagos in 2014, ALL of the middle-schoolers (including my son had braces.

"Braces -- those things that support your kid's teeth and your orthodontist's family."

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

167 "If you like a girl, make sure to check her teeth, you don't want a girl with bad teeth."

Well, don't look a gift h....

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:06 AM (XuXeR)

168 Howard McNear, the actor who played Floyd, was a prolific radio voice actor. Like the George Kennedy of radio. He was In everything. After the program it was customary to name the actors in that particular episode. If you don’t hear “Howard McNear” he must have been taking a rare vacation.

He was pretty one dimensional, he usually plays a bumbling absent minded type, though unlike Floyd, not always a nice guy. His career went all the way back to Speed Gibson radio serial of the 1930s.

Parley Baer played the Mayor on Andy Griffith, and he also had a very prolific radio career.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026

***
I spotted McNear in a similar role on a Peter Gunn from 1960, just before he started as Floyd.

Did someone mention Hal Smith too? He was Otis the town drunk, but he too was a busy voice actor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)

169 150 Check out the smiles of people some time. Observe how bright and regular the teeth are. Consider how unlikely that nature bestows such symmetry and perfection.

I read somewhere that the Brits consider the American smile full of perfectly braces-aligned teeth to be ridiculous and unattractive. Could they be making lemonade from lemons?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t)

Heh. Vast fortunes are spent on shiny teefus in America. Anything less is simply declasse. I have several friends who are dentists and they live large on the proceeds of the pursuit of dental perfection. The big thing now is dental implants, has been for a little while. Big money in implants.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:06 AM (pDt9x)

170 Other than a thick dark dense loaf of bread, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Posted by: Monty Python at February 10, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)
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Brought peace?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:07 AM (bxiOq)

171 The secret To Roman Meal Bread was adding the lava dust from Mt. Vesuvius, just like their concrete.

Posted by: Russian Hands, Roman Fingers at February 10, 2026 10:07 AM (oftw2)

172 Other than a thick dark dense loaf of bread, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Without them, we'd never have developed the roman a clef.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:07 AM (Riz8t)

173 Which reminds me I should make some bread this weekend. A thick slice of toast with butter and a cup of tea on the side is lovely.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:55 AM

Do eet!

I would, myself, but I'm traveling this weekend. Maybe Monday...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 10:07 AM (kgE5c)

174 "Braces -- those things that support your kid's teeth and your orthodontist's family."

"family"?

That's funny. It's "side piece" or "porsche dealer"

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:07 AM (XuXeR)

175 Critical Drinker's recent appreciation for the Helm's Deep battle, made us want to rewatch LOTR again.

Esp. now that we got a new snazzy OLED TV and sound system. OLED definitely makes movie watching 10x better.

What a great movie(trilogy)! Just draws you in. Watching the Extended version.

Tonight...."The Return of the King".

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (iJfKG)

176 157 love the dog begging by field's barber chair.

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (R11M+)

177 Big money in implants."

Is that's what's in there? Huh. Never knew that.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (XuXeR)

178 I read somewhere that the Brits consider the American smile full of perfectly braces-aligned teeth to be ridiculous and unattractive

That sounds like cope to me.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (cO6Mr)

179 175 Tonight...."The Return of the King".

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (iJfKG)

=====

"SPOILERS!"
-Tolkien

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

180 He was pretty one dimensional, he usually plays a bumbling absent minded type, though unlike Floyd, not always a nice guy.
Posted by: Common Tater

He makes a brief appearance as Jimmy Stewart's business partner in 1958's Bell, Book, and Candle.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

181 If we can perform dental surgery anyone can!
Posted by: Moe, Larry, Curly

I'm your huckleberry.
Posted by: Doc Holliday

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (KN2gu)

182 When my son and I went on a middle-school trip to the Galapagos in 2014, ALL of the middle-schoolers (including my son had braces.

"Braces -- those things that support your kid's teeth and your orthodontist's family."

I always told my wife that the likelihood of one's children needing braces is in direct proportion to one's bank account.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (Riz8t)

183 CORRUPTION: Days before the FBI’s raid of Fulton County’s election facility to seize 700+ boxes, the former head of the Atlanta FBI warned election officials about the raid and explained what they were looking for. As a result, only 656 boxes were found. What happened to the missing 44+ boxes?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (J+Psw)

184 People notice when your slack jaw becomes too loose.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (xFfhU)

185 In the mother-in-law suite?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

I meant the subjects of the picture not the actual picture.
That there is a three bagger
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 10:02 AM (Hx0tZ)
=====

I think my question is still relevant, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:03 AM (GBKbO)
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Sure. The MIL suite it is! (I don't have one of those nor a MIL so I think I'm off the hook here now)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (Hx0tZ)

186 Heh. Vast fortunes are spent on shiny teefus in America. Anything less is simply declasse. I have several friends who are dentists and they live large on the proceeds of the pursuit of dental perfection. The big thing now is dental implants, has been for a little while. Big money in implants.
Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:06 AM (pDt9x)

—-

Chris Rock on dentists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PcF7LDQ7M

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 10:09 AM (y6810)

187 Without them, we'd never have developed the roman a clef."

What a novel idea.

*tip your waitress*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:09 AM (XuXeR)

188 I know it's the hot topic this week, but I just can't bring myself to talk about a guy who calls himself "Bad Bunny," with a straight face. How puerile.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 10:09 AM (voQc3)

189 Anna, I missed it; do you have a link to your new Tensor work?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

190 Did someone mention Hal Smith too? He was Otis the town drunk, but he too was a busy voice actor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Nobody was on more radio shows than Bea Benaderet. She was sometimes on 5 or 6 different shows per day.

Posted by: Kate Bradley at February 10, 2026 10:09 AM (oftw2)

191 182 When my son and I went on a middle-school trip to the Galapagos in 2014, ALL of the middle-schoolers (including my son had braces.

"Braces -- those things that support your kid's teeth and your orthodontist's family."

I always told my wife that the likelihood of one's children needing braces is in direct proportion to one's bank account.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (Riz8t

NEEDING braces. yes indeed.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (pDt9x)

192 157 Not sure I'd want that guy with a blade near my neck.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Always makes me nervous when the barber trims my ear hair. I sit super still so as not to get a perforated eardrum.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
Was in kollege with a guy whose whole family was barbers. He trimmed the top off a drunk's ear off when he was a student barber. Just dabbed some styptic on it and said 'there you go, buddy,'.

Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (LHPAg)

193 Did someone mention Hal Smith too? He was Otis the town drunk, but he too was a busy voice actor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

He voiced Owl in the Disney Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

194 Heh. Vast fortunes are spent on shiny teefus in America. Anything less is simply declasse. I have several friends who are dentists and they live large on the proceeds of the pursuit of dental perfection. The big thing now is dental implants, has been for a little while. Big money in implants.

I have a dental implant for a tooth that split down to the root. I can't imagine going through all that for the sake of vanity, but obviously people do.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (Riz8t)

195 Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies! You know they want it!
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 09:56 AM

Give Lucy the Fink scritches from the Horde!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (Wnv9h)

196 Tonight...."The Return of the King".

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 10:08 AM (iJfKG)

I enjoy all three of those movies, although I will admit to zipping past a lot of the Frodo/Sam travel. Elijah Wood irritates the hell out of me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (n9ltV)

197 Bugs Bunny >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> Bad Bunny

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (bxiOq)

198 On a related note, I'm waiting for some new shaving cream, soap, and blades to arrive via USPS. The only decently-priced things you can buy at WM or the drugstore$$$ are shaving gels and foams in cans, and they dry my face out. And forget about finding double-edge blades. Bed, Bath, and Beyond carried Wilkinson blades, but their stores are gone.

Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (ufSfZ)

199 1958's Bell, Book, and Candle."

any relation to the 90's "Bell Biv DeVoe"?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM (XuXeR)

200 Other than a thick dark dense loaf of bread, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Posted by: Monty Python at February 10, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)
----------
Brought peace?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:07 AM (bxiOq)

Yes. The peace of the slave and the dead.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2026 10:11 AM (Hx0tZ)

201 Harry Bartel, William Conrad, Jack Webb, Barney Phillips, and just a handful others were in everything. Maybe film and screen was the same way, but in radio you get to notice the recycling after a while.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:11 AM (09exb)

202 When my son and I went on a middle-school trip to the Galapagos in 2014, ALL of the middle-schoolers (including my son had braces.

"Braces -- those things that support your kid's teeth and your orthodontist's family."

I always told my wife that the likelihood of one's children needing braces is in direct proportion to one's bank account.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026

***
I got so sick of hearing from my father how my parents spent $600 on my braces. In the 1960s, that wasn't cheap. (Worth it, of course.). But he continually brought it up, making me ungrateful as well as annoyed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:11 AM (wzUl9)

203 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?"

Pretty much, yeah.

Braun...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

204 "I have a dental implant for a tooth that split down to the root"

OMG. That must have hurt like heck.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (lJ0H4)

205 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM

No. No, you are not.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (Wnv9h)

206 "Heh. Vast fortunes are spent on shiny teefus in America. Anything less is simply declasse. I have several friends who are dentists and they live large on the proceeds of the pursuit of dental perfection. The big thing now is dental implants, has been for a little while. Big money in implants."

And YouTube clearly has a filter nowadays to do the same thing.
Uncanny how many females have suddenly gotten dazzling white smiles while pontificating from the driver's seat.

Posted by: It's blinding at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)

207 Parley Baer played the Mayor on Andy Griffith, and he also had a very prolific radio career.

He also played the mayor of whatever city the Addamses lived in; Gomez ran against him in the episode "Gomez, The People's Choice."

I've also seen him in at least one Hogan's Heroes episode.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (ufSfZ)

208 204 "I have a dental implant for a tooth that split down to the root"

OMG. That must have hurt like heck.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (lJ0H4)

======

Probably not if he rubbed some dirt on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

209 Probably not if he rubbed some dirt on it."

Add a hot iron for extra goodness...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:13 AM (XuXeR)

210 I read somewhere that the most peaceful time in history in Europe/Eurasia was the 1st century AD.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:13 AM (pDt9x)

211 "I always told my wife that the likelihood of one's children needing braces is in direct proportion to one's bank account."

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Ritalin at February 10, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

212 On a related note, I'm waiting for some new shaving cream, soap, and blades to arrive via USPS. The only decently-priced things you can buy at WM or the drugstore$$$ are shaving gels and foams in cans, and they dry my face out. And forget about finding double-edge blades. Bed, Bath, and Beyond carried Wilkinson blades, but their stores are gone.
*
Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026

***
Aside from me? Dunno. I seem to recall Oregon Muse mentioning on the blog years ago that he used a Gillette adjustable and Tabac soap.

I don't have the nerve to try a straight razor. Safety razors for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:13 AM (wzUl9)

213 210 I read somewhere that the most peaceful time in history in Europe/Eurasia was the 1st century AD.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:13 AM (pDt9x)

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"Archeological evidence of this twig suggests it was when Europe was ruled by black women."
-modern science

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

214 Barber Extracting a Tooth
Artist Adriaen van Ostade
Year c. 1630–1635
Medium oil on panel

Barber Extracting a Tooth is an oil-on-panel genre painting by Adriaen van Ostade, dated from c. 1630–1635. It is held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in Vienna.[1]

Description
The painting depicts a genre scene in a humble barbershop, where the village barber surgeon extracts a villager’s tooth under the gaze of several figures, some of whose faces appear slightly blurred. A shaft of light from the window illuminates the left side of the scene, a characteristic technique of the artist, while the right side remains in partial shadow. On the wall, a series of scissors alludes to the barbershop’s function. As was often the case, the painter favored popular themes, which he approached with great realism.[2][3] (Wikipedia)

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At first glance, I looked for more dwarves.

Interesting (and sort of cute) because it's realistic, at least in as far as the barbering and tooth pulling. However, I would pass hanging this particular painting. Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:14 AM (NFX2v)

215 >>>Just dabbed some styptic on it and said 'there you go, buddy,'.

Posted by: Eromero

>There's been more than a couple of times where I get home and see blood clots around my ears and neck.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:14 AM (xFfhU)

216 Good clean fun.

This Washington teen says a competitor purposely jammed fingers into her vagina [during a high school girls wrestling match]. She learned afterward that he is biologically male.

https://is.gd/1VOy2a

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 10:15 AM (J+Psw)

217 I read somewhere that the most peaceful time in history in Europe/Eurasia was the 1st century AD."

One Million Years BC was pretty bodacious...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:15 AM (XuXeR)

218 I know it's the hot topic this week, but I just can't bring myself to talk about a guy who calls himself "Bad Bunny," with a straight face. How puerile.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 10:09 AM (voQc3)

Word.

Posted by: zombie Jimmy Carter at February 10, 2026 10:15 AM (8zz6B)

219 I have a dental implant for a tooth that split down to the root"

OMG. That must have hurt like heck.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (lJ0H4)

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Probably not if he rubbed some dirt on it.

I went the "slap hot iron to it" route.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

220 I read somewhere that the most peaceful time in history in Europe/Eurasia was the 1st century AD.
Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026

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Gibbon opens his Decline and Fall with the observation that the period from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus (AD 96 to 180) was the best time in human history. That was just about one long human lifetime, or about three generations.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

221 Maybe I am in the minority, but modern dentistry and orthodontics is absolutely amazing.

I cannot imagine entering old age without all of my teeth! I plan on eating a nice juicy steak the day I die (hopefully in my 90s), and that will be a result of money well spent on my dentist's summer house!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 10:16 AM (n9ltV)

222 I was reading a book about the explosion of US Army Air Force airfields constructed in England during the war. The local kids got in the habit of asking the Americans - “Got any gum, chum?” in the hopes of scoring some candy. Sugar was rationed, along with everything else.

The proper rejoinder evolved to be “Got a sister, mister?” LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:16 AM (09exb)

223 I read somewhere that the most peaceful time in history in Europe/Eurasia was the 1st century AD.
Posted by: tubal
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Gibbons? - "If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 10:17 AM (XvL8K)

224 So the teachers in our school district are organizing a meeting with the local sheriff to express their concern about ICE operations. They want to pressure the sheriff to promise no cooperation with ICE so the poor kids who are worried about their parents being nabbed can focus studying physics and microbiology and West literature and preparing for successful careers.

They actually said something like that. By which I think they meant learning to read and do math at 3 grade levels below their age which will get them a B in the dumbed down curriculum and promoted to the next grade.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 10:17 AM (GUOwU)

225 220 Gibbon opens his Decline and Fall with the observation that the period from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus (AD 96 to 180) was the best time in human history. That was just about one long human lifetime, or about three generations.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

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"Life is easy, boy."
-a father to his son, circa 178

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

226 during a high school girls wrestling match"

Did I read that correctly? One hundred and ninety pound women's weight class?

One hundred and ninety pounds in High Skrool?

Better be 6'11"

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:17 AM (XuXeR)

227 I just read on Gateway that Trump was the whistleblower on Epstein in 2006.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 10, 2026 10:17 AM (BCuCF)

228 The first public demonstration of anesthesia was by an American dentist. Good teeth was a big thing in the 19th-cent. US because it was considered (rightly so) that a good smile was an asset in upward social mobility. Unlike those Brit aristocrats who didn't have to worry about such things.

Unfortunately, the dentist who performed that demonstration later became addicted to chloroform, lost his mind, and committed suicide.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

229 "Heh. Vast fortunes are spent on shiny teefus in America. Anything less is simply declasse. I have several friends who are dentists and they live large on the proceeds of the pursuit of dental perfection. The big thing now is dental implants, has been for a little while. Big money in implants."

Well, dental implants are incredibly easy to do. I mean, they require skill and common sense(which may or may not be in good supply with your dentist) but they're easy and almost always work, if the patient doesn't abuse the hell outta them.

The thing that made me laugh is now Endodontists are doing implants instead of root canals, cuz quick and easy.

If your Endo guy is flogging implants, you may be going to the wrong endo guy or you may not.

As always YMMV

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 10:18 AM (iJfKG)

230 Should have figured Aurelius or Aetius would beat me to it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 10:18 AM (XvL8K)

231 228 The first public demonstration of anesthesia was by an American dentist. Good teeth was a big thing in the 19th-cent. US because it was considered (rightly so) that a good smile was an asset in upward social mobility. Unlike those Brit aristocrats who didn't have to worry about such things.

Unfortunately, the dentist who performed that demonstration later became addicted to chloroform, lost his mind, and committed suicide.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

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Preston Sturges, of all people, made a movie about early anesthesia. The Great Moment.

Not his best film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

232 A dentist friend said the new trendy money maker is implanting posts into the jaw which will hold “ snap on” dental prostheses. Perfect smile snapons, which is what America WANTS!!! He drives a VERY nice car.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (pDt9x)

233 I was reading a book about the explosion of US Army Air Force airfields constructed in England during the war. The local kids got in the habit of asking the Americans - “Got any gum, chum?” in the hopes of scoring some candy. Sugar was rationed, along with everything else.

The proper rejoinder evolved to be “Got a sister, mister?” LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:16 AM (09exb)
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One of the heartwarming things I liked in "Masters of the Air" was the relationship between the airmen and the local kids who hung out at the airfield.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (bxiOq)

234 [Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear] Goes on "The View" to Promote Trans Ideology with Bible

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I didn't even know the Bible had a good and plenty clause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (J+Psw)

235 "Life is easy, boy."
-a father to his son, circa 178"

"Ah, a proper 1420, that was"

Tolkein...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (XuXeR)

236 Wolfus, Vermont Country store has double edged razor blades

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (0KSrI)

237 Maybe I am in the minority, but modern dentistry and orthodontics is absolutely amazing.

I agree with you, CBD. I had to have some implants last year and I was amazed at the speed and ease of the procedures (of the price, I was not so enthused).

This year I want to get a bleaching. Even with "stain removal" paste, my consumption of tea plays heck with my rarely-seen smile.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (ufSfZ)

238 A dentist friend said the new trendy money maker is implanting posts into the jaw which will hold “ snap on” dental prostheses. Perfect smile snapons, which is what America WANTS!!! He drives a VERY nice car.

Hunter Biden was probably his test case.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

239 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?"

Pretty much, yeah.

Braun...
Posted by: man at February 10, 2026

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I used a Braun electric shaver for some years, until I cut myself.

'Struth. The foil head split so a tiny spur of metal stuck up and scratched me. I bought a Norelco rotary head shaver the next day.

Then in 2012, bugging out for a hurricane, I forgot to pack the shaver. At Target I bought some disposable razors and a can of Barbasol, and had the best shave in years. Since then it's been safety razors, soap or cream, and a brush.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:20 AM (wzUl9)

240 One of the heartwarming things I liked in "Masters of the Air" was the relationship between the airmen and the local kids who hung out at the airfield."

The lonely Brit lasses over there....

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:20 AM (XuXeR)

241 Wolfus, Vermont Country store has double edged razor blades
Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026

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I get their catalogs all the time. I'll have to have a look. But there are more than a few online vendors with such shaving supplies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9)

242 You know something I was thinking about. Remember how 5th element was such an awesome movie except for the weird/insanely annoying Christ Tucker shit? Remember how he seemed to show up in a lot of movies during that brief span of time?

Chris Tucker was a frequent visitor of Epstein Island.

Well, well, well. My dislike of you has reached new heights.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:21 AM (bss/y)

243 188 i kept hearing "malo conejo at the tavern.

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 10:22 AM (R11M+)

244 Wolfus, Vermont Country store has double edged razor blades
Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (0KSrI)

In my area, nearly every drugstore carries double-edged blades.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:22 AM (ufSfZ)

245 [Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear] Goes on "The View" to Promote Trans Ideology with Bible

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I didn't even know the Bible had a good and plenty clause.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 10, 2026 10:19 AM (J+Psw)
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I think he's eliding over the whole "man and woman he created them" thing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:22 AM (bxiOq)

246 [Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear] Goes on "The View" to Promote Trans Ideology with Bible
__________

That makes no sense. Figured he'd be trying to position himself as a relatively sane alternative for '28.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 10:23 AM (XvL8K)

247 Kentucky is sort of a clown show, maybe.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:23 AM (pDt9x)

248 The thing that made me laugh is now Endodontists are doing implants instead of root canals, cuz quick and easy.

If your Endo guy is flogging implants, you may be going to the wrong endo guy or you may not.

As always YMMV
Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 10:18 AM (iJfKG)

Root canals can and do fail, as do crowns. Skip the bullshit, and go straight for the implant. Pay once, cry once.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:23 AM (8zz6B)

249 I read somewhere that the Brits consider the American smile full of perfectly braces-aligned teeth to be ridiculous and unattractive.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Wouldn't That Be Loverly - a limerick

An old British dentist named Keane
Did the worst work you ever have seen
At the end of the day
Every client walked away
With a mouth full of Boston baked beans

Posted by: muldoon at February 10, 2026 10:23 AM (qgHp7)

250 I like a barber with foam, a straight razor and a vacuum. But every now and then you get nicked.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:24 AM (xFfhU)

251 Chris Tucker was a frequent visitor of Epstein Island."

If true... not a surprise. Ah well.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:25 AM (XuXeR)

252 221 Maybe I am in the minority, but modern dentistry and orthodontics is absolutely amazing.

I cannot imagine entering old age without all of my teeth! I plan on eating a nice juicy steak the day I die (hopefully in my 90s), and that will be a result of money well spent on my dentist's summer house!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 10:16 AM (n9ltV)

I'll second this.

I remember a dozen years or so ago (Maybe more, I was in my 30s.) I went to the dentist and after the cleaning the dentist was checking the teeth out and mentioned, you seem to have a lot of wear. Asked me some more questions. Sounds like you're grinding your teeth at night. Might want to look at getting fit for a nightguard- you wouldn't want dentures by the time you're 50. *laughter*

I made the appointment with the receptionist right then. I come back about a week later and he says: Hey, I did not expect to see you so quick. I said: 'Doc, there are very few things that will get me more motivated than the word dentures.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:25 AM (bss/y)

253 Bad Bunny?

This is the script that seems to be appearing hither and yon:
'Review: Bad Bunny brought Puerto Rico’s history and culture to a revolutionary Super Bowl show.'

Oh, yes, that should be a State. The best and the brightest were here before BB was born. Cut it free.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:25 AM (NFX2v)

254 Seville has a history of fine barbers.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:25 AM (pDt9x)

255 I agree with you, CBD. I had to have some implants last year and I was amazed at the speed and ease of the procedures (of the price, I was not so enthused).

Speed? Perhaps you had a different procedure than I did. First, they had to drill out the fragments of my broken tooth. Then, they sliced open my gums and smeared a paste on the bone of my jaw to stimulate bone growth. After that, I waited for about 6 months for the bone to grow. Then, they reopened the initial wound, and tapped a thread into the new bone and installed the threaded stud. In the meantime, they had someplace off site make the new tooth (after lots of careful measurements, of course). After another few months, they put the new tooth on the stud. All told, I'd guess it took about a year.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)

256 [pi]
In my area, nearly every drugstore carries double-edged blades.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026

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Here there seems to be nothing but the multi-blade razors and refills. If a store does have double-edged blades, they are probably twice as much for five blades as you'd pay online.

The only drugstores we have here, aside from a couple of small independents, are Walgreens and CVS.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

257 Elizabeth Short, the infamous "Black Dahlia," had terrible teeth, by all accounts. She would melt paraffin wax and use it to fill up the visible holes in her smile.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:26 AM (ufSfZ)

258 That makes no sense. Figured he'd be trying to position himself as a relatively sane alternative for '28.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2026 10:23 AM (XvL8K)

247 Kentucky is sort of a clown show, maybe.
Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:23 AM (pDt9x)

Fucking three ring circus.

He probably figures he does not have enough nationwide street cred for the dem base.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:26 AM (bss/y)

259 Rationing in old Blighty didn’t end until 1955, during the war one was allowed three (3) eggs. A month. US Air crews got fresh eggs and bacon sometimes before going out on the bombing missions, but I suspect oftentimes many troops including airmen, their last meal was powdered eggs, and spam.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 10:26 AM (09exb)

260 Oh, yes, that should be a State. The best and the brightest were here before BB was born. Cut it free."

This. It's funny that the USGOV keeps prompting PR to vote on statehood... we don't get a say?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:26 AM (XuXeR)

261 1958's Bell, Book, and Candle."

any relation to the 90's "Bell Biv DeVoe"?
Posted by: man

I don't know that second one. But BB&C had peak Kim Novak.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

262 205 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM

No. No, you are not.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

That’s incredibly sexy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM (68lhN)

263 260 Oh, yes, that should be a State. The best and the brightest were here before BB was born. Cut it free."

This. It's funny that the USGOV keeps prompting PR to vote on statehood... we don't get a say?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:26 AM (XuXeR)

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Congress would get a say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

264 Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)
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Yeah, when I had to have an implant, it took several months for the entire process.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM (bxiOq)

265 Wolfus, if you want, I'll buy some double-edged blades and send them to you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM (ufSfZ)

266 255 I agree with you, CBD. I had to have some implants last year and I was amazed at the speed and ease of the procedures (of the price, I was not so enthused).

Speed? Perhaps you had a different procedure than I did. First, they had to drill out the fragments of my broken tooth. Then, they sliced open my gums and smeared a paste on the bone of my jaw to stimulate bone growth. After that, I waited for about 6 months for the bone to grow. Then, they reopened the initial wound, and tapped a thread into the new bone and installed the threaded stud. In the meantime, they had someplace off site make the new tooth (after lots of careful measurements, of course). After another few months, they put the new tooth on the stud. All told, I'd guess it took about a year.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)

Yes is normally takes months from start to finish. The bone grafting if necessary is a wait on it process. For the upper jaw sometimes a sinus lift is necessary.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:28 AM (pDt9x)

267 The only drugstores we have here, aside from a couple of small independents, are Walgreens and CVS.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:26 AM

Those usually carry double-edged blades. Not a wide variety, but they do have them. At least up here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 10:28 AM (kgE5c)

268 Congress would get a say."

So, not the public at large, then.

/heh

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:28 AM (XuXeR)

269 Root canals can and do fail, as do crowns. Skip the bullshit, and go straight for the implant. Pay once, cry once.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:23 AM (8zz6B)

Maybe.

Implants can and do fail. Mostly, because the patient aftercare sucks. They definitely need brushing, flossing, etc. You'll lose an implant much faster than a real tooth. They aren't magic.

There's a reason that a successful implant is considered one that lasts 2 years.

But, with proper care and placement, you may get a lifetime out of them.

Again, YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 10:28 AM (iJfKG)

270 I like a barber with foam, a straight razor and a vacuum. But every now and then you get nicked.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026

***
I've been wet-shaving, as it's called, since 2012. Still I zing myself from time to time. But it's rare, and a styptic pencil usually handles it.

When I shave I chase the cats off the bathroom counter. I don't want them startling me while I'm wielding a sharp implement near my own personal face.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:28 AM (wzUl9)

271 268 Congress would get a say."

So, not the public at large, then.

/heh

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:28 AM (XuXeR)

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Life in a constitutional republic, not a democracy, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

272 I've been sporting a down to the lower-sternum-length beard for many years now, so I don't need shaving products for that.

However, I do need shaving products for my head, which I shave with disposable razor every other day.

So yes, I look like a bearded, shaved-headed monk.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 10, 2026 10:29 AM (DgMqy)

273 a sinus lift "

Wait, what?

*new Beverly Hills stylish procedure comes to mind*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:29 AM (XuXeR)

274 I remember a dozen years or so ago (Maybe more, I was in my 30s.) I went to the dentist and after the cleaning the dentist was checking the teeth out and mentioned, you seem to have a lot of wear. Asked me some more questions. Sounds like you're grinding your teeth at night. Might want to look at getting fit for a nightguard- you wouldn't want dentures by the time you're 50. *laughter*

Ha. I just picked up my night guard yesterday. Amazing fitting technology. They stick this wand in your mouth and somehow make a 3D map of your teeth on the computer.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:29 AM (lJ0H4)

275 Wolfus, if you want, I'll buy some double-edged blades and send them to you.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026

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MP4, I appreciate your offer! But I have a solid inventory already. What brands do you see there?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)

276 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM

No. No, you are not.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

That’s incredibly sexy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM (68lhN)

**blushes**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:29 AM (ufSfZ)

277 Wolfus, we mostly have Wilkinson here, though I'm finishing a pack of Gillette right now.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:30 AM (ufSfZ)

278 I hate shaving. I only do it now if I've got a job interview. And then I usually let the barber do it.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

279 247 Kentucky is sort of a clown show, maybe.
Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:23 AM (pDt9x)

It seems that the Turtle might be doing everything he can to stop passage of the SAVE act, because his personal pique at Trump is more important than the future of the country.

Mitch McConnell Might Try To Smother The SAVE Act To Spite Trump

https://is.gd/F9Rxk4

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (Riz8t)

280 They stick this wand in your mouth and somehow make a 3D map of your teeth"

That's not a wand...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (XuXeR)

281 "100 comment rule [TJM]"
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Did I miss the announcement where CBD now has his own personal enforcer?

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (B4Se1)

282 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM
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No. No, you are not.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
*
That’s incredibly sexy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026

***
* Waves 1960s Gillette and badger brush * Don't forget me!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (wzUl9)

283 267 The only drugstores we have here, aside from a couple of small independents, are Walgreens and CVS.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:26 AM

Those usually carry double-edged blades. Not a wide variety, but they do have them. At least up here.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 10:28 AM

++++++

I'm right here.

Posted by: WallyMart at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)

284 There's a reason that a successful implant is considered one that lasts 2 years.
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Huh. I've had mine for well over a decade. Doesn't seem to be giving up.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (bxiOq)

285 However, I do need shaving products for my head, which I shave with disposable razor every other day.

**sings**

Skull Shaver, the time saver -
Ninety seconds and you're done!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (ufSfZ)

286 205 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM

No. No, you are not.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

That’s incredibly sexy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM (68lhN)
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Entire male horde now heads to CVS for shaving soap and a brush

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (lAk6g)

287 281 "100 comment rule [TJM]"
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Did I miss the announcement where CBD now has his own personal enforcer?
Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (B4Se1)

Code Name: Promethetard

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (bss/y)

288 That’s incredibly sexy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026

***
* Waves 1960s Gillette and badger brush * Don't forget me!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (wzUl9)
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*ponders using straight razor*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (bxiOq)

289 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
_______

Butter

Posted by: George Costanza at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (XvL8K)

290 Mitch McConnell Might Try To Smother The SAVE Act To Spite Trump"

"....
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..
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"

/M. McConnell

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (XuXeR)

291 A. H. Lloyd, can you repost the posts that were stricken for running afoul of the 100-comment rule? Looked like you were saying something interesting and worth reading.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

292 Wolfus, if you want, I'll buy some double-edged blades and send them to you.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM (ufSfZ)

They have to be forged from steel recycled from Naploeon Solo's pistol, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:33 AM (8zz6B)

293 The double razor blades I have and like a lot are the wal mart Van Hagen(?) Their shave butter smells good too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:33 AM (bss/y)

294 Did I miss the announcement where CBD now has his own personal enforcer?

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (B4Se1)

No...you didn't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 10:33 AM (n9ltV)

295 They have to be forged from steel recycled from Naploeon Solo's pistol, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:33 AM (8zz6B)

I use blades forged from meteorites.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 10:34 AM (n9ltV)

296 Mitch McConnell Might Try To Smother The SAVE Act To Spite Trump
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"Mitch McConnell" and "smother" in the same sentence caught my attention

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 10:34 AM (lAk6g)

297 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:10 AM

No. No, you are not.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

That’s incredibly sexy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2026 10:27 AM

See, MP4? There's hope for us old-school throwbacks!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 10:34 AM (kgE5c)

298 There's a reason that a successful implant is considered one that lasts 2 years.
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Huh. I've had mine for well over a decade. Doesn't seem to be giving up.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (bxiOq)

You're taking good care of it and the implant had good placement.

The two year thing is a result of the Wide World of Patient Intelligence and Compliance.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 10:35 AM (iJfKG)

299 TMZ on X

Who had the better halftime show?

Bad Bunny 16%

Kid Rock 84%

35,206 votes.

7:31 pm on 02-08-26

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 10:36 AM (KN2gu)

300 See, MP4? There's hope for us old-school throwbacks!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Where do you buy your spats?

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

301 218 I know it's the hot topic this week, but I just can't bring myself to talk about a guy who calls himself "Bad Bunny," with a straight face. How puerile.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 10:09 AM (voQc3)

Word.
Posted by: zombie Jimmy Carter at February 10, 2026 10:15 AM (8zz6B)

Satanic is the word you're looking for.

Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2026 10:37 AM (LHPAg)

302 You're taking good care of it and the implant had good placement.
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I went to a highly-recommended dental surgeon. She was a good-looking lady in her fifties and she had two very attractive female assistants. It was kind of nice to have them surrounding me when I was in the chair.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:37 AM (bxiOq)

303 "Mitch McConnell" and "smother" in the same sentence caught my attention"

I'd settle for "Mitch McConnell" and "aware of one's surroundings"...

My $.02 is that every bit of dreck from his office is staffer's work.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:38 AM (XuXeR)

304 Wolfus, we mostly have Wilkinson here, though I'm finishing a pack of Gillette right now.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026

***
I've been refusing to buy modern Gillette products ever since that anti-male ad campaign of some years ago. No Gillette-made blades or gels. My vintage Gillette razors do not put any money in Procter & Gamble's pockets, so I'm fine with those.

It's hard to avoid *all* P & G products, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:38 AM (wzUl9)

305 293 Their shave butter smells good too.

shave margarine is sustainable and better for the planet

Posted by: anachronda at February 10, 2026 10:38 AM (sGtp+)

306 On the subject of facial hair, I still haven't worked out how I'm moving forward. I used to use an electric--before that disposables but that's a prior century at this stage--but I fell out of the habit a while back. Now, though, my already not so great beard has parts missing thanks to last year's Fun With Radiotherapy. I joke about rocking "Belter Beard" per Larry Niven, but honestly it's just kinda annoying. Can't really even it up thanks to how the moustache would come out...so it's odd or gone, and I'm not sure I like either...an odd problem to have, but that's my life I guess.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 10, 2026 10:38 AM (OUMaO)

307 I sliced my finger open, bad, on a poorly designed straight razor handle and head. A well known brand too. But the way you replaced blades was borked.

And I borked myself, bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2026 10:38 AM (jtM2q)

308 Then in 2012, bugging out for a hurricane, I forgot to pack the shaver. At Target I bought some disposable razors and a can of Barbasol, and had the best shave in years. Since then it's been safety razors, soap or cream, and a brush.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
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I'm lazy, and bearded, and retired. I shave my neck once a week, before church. BIC disposables, Gillette foaming gel. A single razor lasts a couple of months.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:38 AM (XeU6L)

309 Where do you buy your spats?"

Same place I pick up plus fours...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:39 AM (XuXeR)

310 Did I miss the announcement where CBD now has his own personal enforcer?

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 10:31 AM (B4Se1)

No...you didn't.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 10:33 AM (n9ltV)

TJM is to CBD as Marty McSorely was to Wayne Gretzky!

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 10:39 AM (B4Se1)

311 >Entire male horde now heads to CVS for shaving soap and a brush
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 10:32 AM (lAk6g)

I enjoy the ritual of a proper shave. Mrs. Meta appreciates my face being as smooth as a baby's ass. Currently using Taylor of Old Bond Street sandlewood soap. Old time barbershop smell.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 10, 2026 10:39 AM (GTqXr)

312 I went to a highly-recommended dental surgeon. She was a good-looking lady in her fifties...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:37 AM (bxiOq)

I had a wisdom tooth extracted about 30 years ago. The oral surgeon was fine, but his assistant was a total smokeshow with an unbelievable body. Gorgeous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 10:40 AM (n9ltV)

313 The double razor blades I have and like a lot are the wal mart Van Hagen(?) Their shave butter smells good too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026

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That's the brand I see there and at Target. Never tried them; Personna, Rapira, Astra, and the Japanese brand Feather are my preferences. And Bic sells blades too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

314 Entire male horde now heads to CVS for shaving soap and a brush
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026

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If your stores have such things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

315 Checks razor. Philips Norelco, Wet&Dry. Yeah I’m good.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:41 AM (pDt9x)

316 260.
This. It's funny that the USGOV keeps prompting PR to vote on statehood... we don't get a say?
Posted by: man

And this is just a coincidence: The Hill, Puerto Rican statehood is a national security no-brainer, Feb. 9, 2026
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AI Overview:
Arguments for Statehood: Supporters argue it would provide full democratic rights (voting for President/Congress), increased federal funding ($10+ billion annually), and BETTER ACCESS to social programs like Medicare and SNAP. (Emphasis mine.)

Arguments Against/Concerns: Opponents fear the loss of Puerto Rican cultural identity, potential negative economic impacts of paying federal taxes, and the impact of federal laws on the local economy.

In other words, more $, yes; assimilation, a definite no.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

317 I enjoy the ritual of a proper shave. Mrs. Meta appreciates my face being as smooth as a baby's ass. Currently using Taylor of Old Bond Street sandlewood soap. Old time barbershop smell.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 10, 2026

***
The cream I have coming today (I hope) is a TOBS "tobacco leaf" aroma. Also a "barbershop scent" soap from Phoenix Shaving.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:42 AM (wzUl9)

318 The cream I have coming today (I hope) is a TOBS "tobacco leaf" aroma. Also a "barbershop scent" soap from Phoenix Shaving.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:42 AM (wzUl9)

Huh. I love the smell of tobacco. Let us know how that smells.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)

319 No Gillette-made blades or gels
It's hard to avoid *all* P & G products, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
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You've given me pause for thought. I doubt that the Gillette gel that I use is particularly better than other products. I'll keep that in mind when I restock.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:43 AM (XeU6L)

320 >That's the brand I see there and at Target. Never tried them; Personna, Rapira, Astra, and the Japanese brand Feather are my preferences. And Bic sells blades too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

I picked up a case of Astra blades for cheap. I'm good for a while. I may upgrade my razor to something a bit more aggressive.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 10, 2026 10:43 AM (GTqXr)

321 I'm lazy, and bearded, and retired. I shave my neck once a week, before church. BIC disposables, Gillette foaming gel. A single razor lasts a couple of months.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:38 AM (XeU6L)
That's me before you know it, Mike Hammer. I mean like PDQ.

Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2026 10:43 AM (LHPAg)

322 I joke about rocking "Belter Beard" per Larry Niven, but honestly it's just kinda annoying. Can't really even it up thanks to how the moustache would come out...so it's odd or gone, and I'm not sure I like either...an odd problem to have, but that's my life I guess.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 10, 2026

***
Did the Belters have asymmetrical beards too, or was that just the Wunderland colonists?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:43 AM (wzUl9)

323 >You've given me pause for thought. I doubt that the Gillette gel that I use is particularly better than other products. I'll keep that in mind when I restock.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:43 AM (XeU6L)

Creamo shave cream is a great option.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 10, 2026 10:44 AM (GTqXr)

324 There was, in the 1920s, a "straight razor" that was adapted to use double-edged blades. You can still buy them today.

https://tinyurl.com/4kbfm945

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:44 AM (ufSfZ)

325 I won’t need his services. The joys of being bald. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 10:44 AM (O3dBq)

326 Arguments Against/Concerns: Opponents fear the loss of Puerto Rican cultural identity, potential negative economic impacts of paying federal taxes, and the impact of federal laws on the local economy.

In other words, more $, yes; assimilation, a definite no.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

Once Cuba becomes free, let PR become a department of free Cuba. Keep the naval base and radio telescope, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:44 AM (8zz6B)

327 It's nice to exfoliate without the bloodshed. But if you slap on some skinbracer and it burns, you hit the right spots.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:45 AM (xFfhU)

328
You've given me pause for thought. I doubt that the Gillette gel that I use is particularly better than other products. I'll keep that in mind when I restock.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026

***
I used gels for a while in 2012-2014, but they always allowed some irritation. I've done vastly better with old-school soaps and creams that require a brush.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)

329 At least this has not devolved into comparing cologne and body washes - yet.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:45 AM (pDt9x)

330 Keep the naval base and radio telescope, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The Arecibo Observatory is no more. It collapsed several years ago.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

331
Rich Eisen was all-in for Bad Bunny like the good little NFL employee he is.

A big fan of Sherrone Moore, too, being a rabid Wolverine.

Posted by: Auspex at February 10, 2026 10:45 AM (Y8DZL)

332 >329 At least this has not devolved into comparing cologne and body washes - yet.
Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:45 AM (pDt9x)

How you doin'?

Posted by: Axe Body Spray at February 10, 2026 10:46 AM (GTqXr)

333 Now that I'm getting cataracts (I have a friend who retorts "You mean YOU HAVE cataracts!" -- but I presume they'll get worse), this is how blurry things appear at night, especially lights.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 10:46 AM (0Eh0f)

334 Once Cuba becomes free, let PR become a department of free Cuba. Keep the naval base and radio telescope, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:44 AM (8zz6B)
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I thought Arecibo was kaput after the antenna structure crashed into the bowl.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:46 AM (bxiOq)

335 Arguments Against/Concerns: Opponents fear the loss of Puerto Rican cultural identity, potential negative economic impacts of paying federal taxes, and the impact of federal laws on the local economy.

In other words, more $, yes; assimilation, a definite no.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

I don’t want another Quebec added to the country. I don’t want the United States to be another Belgium. PR should be independent.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 10:47 AM (O3dBq)

336 I picked up a case of Astra blades for cheap. I'm good for a while. I may upgrade my razor to something a bit more aggressive.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 10, 2026

***
"Slant" razors like my Fatip Lo Storto are quite efficient. They look odd, but they really work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:47 AM (wzUl9)

337
I've done vastly better with old-school soaps and creams that require a brush.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

This is the way.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 10:47 AM (QVmho)

338 333 Now that I'm getting cataracts (I have a friend who retorts "You mean YOU HAVE cataracts!" -- but I presume they'll get worse), this is how blurry things appear at night, especially lights.
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 10:46 AM (0Eh0f)

But how are your Teefus? Are they shiny and straight??

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:47 AM (pDt9x)

339 I thought Arecibo was kaput after the antenna structure crashed into the bowl.

That'll buff right out.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:48 AM (Riz8t)

340 Keep the naval base and radio telescope, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Vieques? Is there still a base there? For some reason I thought the island reverted to isolated nothing-to-see here status.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 10:48 AM (K3qLL)

341 Five spectators to watch a guy get a shave.

Must have been a boring village.

Posted by: Martbell at February 10, 2026 10:48 AM (as6X5)

342 The Arecibo Observatory is no more. It collapsed several years ago.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

Well keep the site anyway. It could be fixed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:49 AM (8zz6B)

343

The Arecibo Observatory is no more. It collapsed several years ago.
Posted by: Bulg

Pierce Brosnan blew it up to kill Sean Bean.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 10:49 AM (QVmho)

344 I don’t want another Quebec added to the country. I don’t want the United States to be another Belgium. PR should be independent.

Agree completely. Why should we import a Balkans problem?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:49 AM (Riz8t)

345 I'm retired and can't shave less than every two days, too itchy to go longer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 10:49 AM (RIvkX)

346 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:38 AM (XeU6L)
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That's me before you know it, Mike Hammer. I mean like PDQ.
Posted by: Eromero
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Fellow travelers. I meet with a very informal group of acquaintances once or twice a week for coffee. I refer to them as 'The Geezers'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:49 AM (XeU6L)

347 Yes, cut PR loose.

Then deport that super bowl queer back to his garbage pile.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 10:50 AM (voQc3)

348 Having vacationed in Venezuela, I would say cast them out.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:50 AM (pDt9x)

349 326. Once Cuba becomes free, let PR become a department of free Cuba. Keep the naval base and radio telescope, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

👍 Such a good mind for politics, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:50 AM (NFX2v)

350 Rich Eisen was all-in for Bad Bunny like the good little NFL employee he is.

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I gave up the NFL (and MLB and every other pro sport) in 2020 after the "Kill Whitey" endorsements swept the nation.

However, my cousin was drafted into the NFL last year, so I started listening to sports talk radio on occasion -- and most of those asshat commentators, even the conservative ones on Fox Sports Networks (FSN), justified the lewd disgusting anti-American halftime scumbag as "The NFL wasn't being political, only trying to expand their brand internationally."

lol gf

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 10:50 AM (0Eh0f)

351 I'm retired and can't shave less than every two days, too itchy to go longer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Stay with it! Stretch it to three days!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:51 AM (XeU6L)

352 PR, VI, Guam, Northern Marianas, Am. Samoa -- they should ALL be cut loose.

We should still control them militarily. But no more US welfare.

Same deal with Greenland.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

353 I buy a 2 year supply of Wilkinson blades on-line.
My son got me hooked on the soap and brush.

Posted by: MkY at February 10, 2026 10:52 AM (q6tQZ)

354 Paging TJM. TJM to the white courtesy phone, please.

Even MS NOW Mocks Kamala Harris's 'Headquarters' Reboot

When you're a Democrat who's lost MS NOW... no, wait... when you're a female Democrat who's lost MS NOW [record scratch] OK, last try... when you're a female Democrat of color and MS NOW sees right through your latest B.S. [there it is!] then it's obvious to everybody but you that you're not only drowning, but that new life preserver you just bought is actually a boat anchor.

https://is.gd/By1U8U

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:52 AM (Riz8t)

355 I'm not fully awake yet; I meant "rationalized" -- not justified in # 350.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 10:53 AM (0Eh0f)

356 5 I'm retired and can't shave less than every two days, too itchy to go longer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026

***
I've found that a 48-hour beard makes for a good shave experience. At 24 hours, my beard is bristly and close to the skin; 36 is not bad; 72 is good too, but I know I'll look dirty for the last third of that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:53 AM (wzUl9)

357 "The NFL wasn't being political, only trying to expand their brand internationally."

And now it's "Their appeal is becoming more selective."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 10:53 AM (lXoJ5)

358 >>>At least this has not devolved into comparing cologne and body washes - yet.

Posted by: tubal

>Does this mean manscaping is off of the table? Or is that a whole other art thread?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 10:53 AM (xFfhU)

359 Fellow travelers. I meet with a very informal group of acquaintances once or twice a week for coffee. I refer to them as 'The Geezers'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:49 AM (XeU6L)
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There is a town just north of Vero, whose name I can't recall off hand, whose "welcome" sign said "Welcome to a town of nice people and six grumpy old men".

That could probably describe a lot of towns buy I admire those folks for just putting it out there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 10:53 AM (K3qLL)

360 At least this has not devolved into comparing cologne and body washes - yet.

My body wash and cologne are classic Lagerfeld, with the sandalwood scent.

My after-shave slap-on is classic Old Spice.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (ufSfZ)

361 Supporters argue it would provide full democratic rights (voting for President/Congress), increased federal funding ($10+ billion annually), and BETTER ACCESS to social programs like Medicare and SNAP."

So, Scotland was a good observation...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (XuXeR)

362 354 Paging TJM. TJM to the white courtesy phone, please.

Even MS NOW Mocks Kamala Harris's 'Headquarters' Reboot

When you're a Democrat who's lost MS NOW... no, wait... when you're a female Democrat who's lost MS NOW [record scratch] OK, last try... when you're a female Democrat of color and MS NOW sees right through your latest B.S. [there it is!] then it's obvious to everybody but you that you're not only drowning, but that new life preserver you just bought is actually a boat anchor.

https://is.gd/By1U8U

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:52 AM (Riz8t)

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So, she's started losing in Democrat primary polls because of this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

363 359 Fellow travelers. I meet with a very informal group of acquaintances once or twice a week for coffee. I refer to them as 'The Geezers'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:49 AM (XeU6L)
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There is a town just north of Vero, whose name I can't recall off hand, whose "welcome" sign said "Welcome to a town of nice people and six grumpy old men".

That could probably describe a lot of towns buy I admire those folks for just putting it out there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 10:53 AM (K3qLL)

sounds like Monroe, speaking as one of the six.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (xcxpd)

364 One of the very sad side effects of menopause for us ladies is a tendency to grow coarse black hair on one's chin and upper lip. Shaving is one solution but I went with laser hair removal. Expensive but worth it.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (lJ0H4)

365 The straight razor with double-edged blades might be good. I just can't imagine how to hold it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (wzUl9)

366 357 "The NFL wasn't being political, only trying to expand their brand internationally."

And now it's "Their appeal is becoming more selective."
Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 10:53 AM (lXoJ5)

Yeah, expand by pissing all over the existing fans.

How's that going for Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (bss/y)

367 360 At least this has not devolved into comparing cologne and body washes - yet.

My body wash and cologne are classic Lagerfeld, with the sandalwood scent.

My after-shave slap-on is classic Old Spice.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (ufSfZ

Awesome!!!!

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (pDt9x)

368 Currently using Taylor of Old Bond Street sandlewood soap. Old time barbershop smell.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 10, 2026 10:39 AM

Trumper guy, myself, but I have used Taylor. Good stuff. For cologne, Truefitt & Hill 1805.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (kgE5c)

369 My after-shave slap-on is classic Old Spice.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Old Spice was always my go to, as well.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

370 IMHO, a man should smell of nothing...not soap, not aftershave, and for Gad's sake, no cologne.

Posted by: MkY at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (q6tQZ)

371 366
Yeah, expand by pissing all over the existing fans.

How's that going for Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (bss/y)

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"Please come to see Avengers Doomsday. We have Robert Downey Jr. again AND Patrick Stewart as Professor X!"
-Kevin Feige

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

372 I'm retired and can't shave less than every two days, too itchy to go longer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Stay with it! Stretch it to three days!
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I shave on Monday night/Tuesday morning. In the office Tue - Thur.

Good enough until next Mon/Tue.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 10:56 AM (KN2gu)

373 "The NFL wasn't being political, only trying to expand their brand internationally."

Which works well, because as every American idiot knows - all "not Americans" think exactly the same way...

*pounds head against keyboard*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:56 AM (XuXeR)

374 Bad Bunny and his sugarcane bushes; Harvey Weinstein and his potted plants.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:56 AM (NFX2v)

375 Old Spice was always my go to, as well.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
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Hai Karate!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:56 AM (bxiOq)

376 370 IMHO, a man should smell of nothing...not soap, not aftershave, and for Gad's sake, no cologne.

Posted by: MkY at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (q6tQZ)

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He should smell of the smoke of his hand-wrought fire and the blood of the kill he made to feed his family. A hint of paper from reading the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is allowed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

377 One of the very sad side effects of menopause for us ladies is a tendency to grow coarse black hair on one's chin and upper lip. Shaving is one solution but I went with laser hair removal. Expensive but worth it.
Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:54 AM (lJ0H4)

I thought you were supposed to hammer them in, and chew them off on the inside?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:57 AM (8zz6B)

378 Old Spice was always my go to, as well.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
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Hai Karate!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 10:56 AM

Brut! By Faberge...

Posted by: Eddie Murphy's Father at February 10, 2026 10:57 AM (kgE5c)

379 >> "The NFL wasn't being political, only trying to expand their brand internationally."

You could call it the Great Fan Replacement theory (tm)?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 10:57 AM (48ipd)

380 a man should smell of nothing...not soap, not aftershave, and for Gad's sake, no cologne."

Bay Rum?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:57 AM (XuXeR)

381 "Please come to see Avengers Doomsday. We have Robert Downey Jr. again AND Patrick Stewart as Professor X!"
-Kevin Feige
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

But that is after 5(?) years of just shitting and pissing on the existing audience.

I am also seeing speculation that they will never call Steve Rogers Captain America. I can see it.

And Falcon was a good character, well done. Better than the comics and they had to fucking ruin it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:57 AM (bss/y)

382 Who cares if they piss all over their existing fans? They do that constantly, and they don't stop tuning in. They never will. The NFL could try appealing to brain eating space aliens and their existing fans would start dutifully cutting off the tops of their skulls.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 10:57 AM (voQc3)

383
Hoppes #9, just a dab behind the ear.

Like the rest of us Real Men.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 10:58 AM (y9nCu)

384 Currently using Taylor of Old Bond Street sandlewood soap. Old time barbershop smell.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 10, 2026 10:39 AM

Trumper guy, myself, but I have used Taylor. Good stuff. For cologne, Truefitt & Hill 1805.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Tam Dao cologne by Diptyque is a wonderful sandalwood scent.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 10:58 AM (lJ0H4)

385 I like the brush/cup/straight razor shaves. But they take a long time. I'm usually in a hurry, so I go with 3 blade Chinese razors and Barbasol.

I like Sandalwood for cologne scents but I often default to Drakkar Noir because hot chicks still say I smell nice when I wear it. And no, not just when I'm sliding $5 bills into their g-strings.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 10:58 AM (xcxpd)

386 Bay Rum?
Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:57 AM (XuXeR)
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Pretty women...

Posted by: Sweeney Todd at February 10, 2026 10:58 AM (bxiOq)

387 IMHO, a man should smell of nothing...not soap, not aftershave, and for Gad's sake, no cologne.
Posted by: MkY

I knew a busty German gal who loved the smell of my Old Spice.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

388 Fellow travelers. I meet with a very informal group of acquaintances once or twice a week for coffee. I refer to them as 'The Geezers'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2026 10:49 AM (XeU6L)
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There is a town just north of Vero, whose name I can't recall off hand, whose "welcome" sign said "Welcome to a town of nice people and six grumpy old men".

That could probably describe a lot of towns buy I admire those folks for just putting it out there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Father-in-law would refer to the old goats he'd have coffee with as the Spit & Whittle Club.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 10:58 AM (KN2gu)

389 This is great. I love this place.

Posted by: tubal at February 10, 2026 10:58 AM (pDt9x)

390 https://is.gd/By1U8U

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:52 AM (Riz8t)

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So, she's started losing in Democrat primary polls because of this?

Dems are selected or at least pushed over the finish line by the media. If even MS NOW!!! knows she's a loser, she's not going to be able to develop any momentum.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (Riz8t)

391 Hai Karate!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I have a feeling that if I search for it, I'm going to find out that it's still being made.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (lXoJ5)

392 "IMHO, a man should smell of nothing...not soap, not aftershave, and for Gad's sake, no cologne."

I agree... but in my case The Missus is pleased with the occasional beard balm or whatever scent.

Keep Mama Happy lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (DgMqy)

393 Hoppes #9, just a dab behind the ear.

Like the rest of us Real Men.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 10, 2026 10:58 AM (y9nCu)

Ballistol is right out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (8zz6B)

394 381
But that is after 5(?) years of just shitting and pissing on the existing audience.

I am also seeing speculation that they will never call Steve Rogers Captain America. I can see it.

And Falcon was a good character, well done. Better than the comics and they had to fucking ruin it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 10:57 AM (bss/y)

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The Avengers brand is relatively untouched by the fouling of the overall Marvel brand, plus the desperate effort at "remember this?" will work with a lot of people.

I suspect a decent success.

However, the movie's stupid expensive (over $400 million, if I remember correctly) and will need to make something like $1.2-$1.3 billion to break even. Will it get there? Possibly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

395 'm retired and can't shave less than every two days, too itchy to go longer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

Rookie numbers. Not retired, and working on 3 years.

I do shave my head though.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (QVmho)

396 He should smell of the smoke of his hand-wrought fire and the blood of the kill he made to feed his family. A hint of paper from reading the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is allowed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And whiskey. You forgot the whiskey.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

397 Pinaud Clubman powder and sandalwood beard balm.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (luW68)

398 So, she's started losing in Democrat primary polls because of this?

Dems are selected or at least pushed over the finish line by the media. If even MS NOW!!! knows she's a loser, she's not going to be able to develop any momentum.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (Riz8t)

He's not going to give it up, Desantis primary guy, until after the primary. If she wins it, he's going to be insufferable. We are going to have to beat him to death with our shovels in the concentration camps.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (bss/y)

399 OK, folks, I'm calling it a day. Last day of work tomorrow!

See you all then.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (ufSfZ)

400 I do shave my head though.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (QVmho)

This is the way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (xcxpd)

401 .
NOOD

Punk Monkey (Rant) is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

402 390 Dems are selected or at least pushed over the finish line by the media. If even MS NOW!!! knows she's a loser, she's not going to be able to develop any momentum.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (Riz8t)

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This is why Joe Biden was called a racist by the preferred candidate in 2020 and still won.

Black vote is what matters now, not media coverage.

Until anyone shows any proof that Kamala is losing black support, she's the frontrunner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

403 Fox Sports Networks (FSN), justified the lewd disgusting anti-American halftime scumbag as "The NFL wasn't being political, only trying to expand their brand internationally."

lol gf
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 10, 2026 10:50 AM (0Eh0f)

Any other country that was trying to "expand their brand internationally" would be showcasing the appealing aspects of their own culture. If I were to travel to Italy, I want to try the native dishes and would have little interest in being fed hamburgers or fried chicken. I want to hear Italian music and see Italian architecture. I want to experience their culture. It would be silly for Italian hosts to try to make my visit as American as possible.

Why is the US the only nation that is expected to suppress our own culture to appeal to the rest of the world? What foreigners like about us are the things that make us distinct. Why erase that?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (FMtrg)

404 380 Bay Rum?

redrum > bay rum

Posted by: anachronda at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (sGtp+)

405 And whiskey. You forgot the whiskey.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)
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Oh, whiskey is the life of man
Whiskey, Johhny!
I drink my whiskey when I can
Whiskey for my Johnny!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 11:01 AM (bxiOq)

406 Puerto Rican statehood would mean 2 more Dem Senators and however many Dem Reps

also Amazon has more double edge blade choices than you can shake a stick at

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2026 11:02 AM (ZxPkt)

407 The monkey is up and at 'em

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 11:02 AM (8UiBJ)

408 398 He's not going to give it up, Desantis primary guy, until after the primary. If she wins it, he's going to be insufferable. We are going to have to beat him to death with our shovels in the concentration camps.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:00 AM (bss/y)

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Actually, I was a "Trump is easily going to win the primary, but I'll vote for DeSantis in the primary because I always throw my vote away and feel like incumbents should be afraid of primary challengers on principle," guy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

409 373 "The NFL wasn't being political, only trying to expand their brand internationally."

More likely imo because FIFA and the USA.

AI - FIFA and the USA have a significant relationship, highlighted by the USA co-hosting the expanded 2026 Men's World Cup with Canada and Mexico, marking the first time three nations have hosted; the US will host 11 of the 16 host cities, bringing major international attention and economic focus, alongside ongoing security and logistical planning by federal task forces. This event follows the U.S. Soccer Federation's long-term efforts, but recent political tensions and policies have sparked international calls for boycotts, questioning the US's suitability as a host due to immigration issues and perceived human rights concerns, creating complex challenges for FIFA and the host nation.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 11:02 AM (NFX2v)

410 Mug #2 of coffee. Breakfast was tube biscuits, spread with some of Miley's home made jam, which she very kindly gave me when I met her and Publius for dinner last year.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 11:03 AM (8zz6B)

411 The tooth. Remember the tooth.

Posted by: Dr. Wellington Yueh at February 10, 2026 11:03 AM (jc0TO)

412 G'day.

Barber. At first glance, I thought it was a tooth extraction. Also the barber's job.

What a bizarre agglomeration of cartoonish folk in odd poses. In dim light. And muddy tones. I always wonder, was it that brown when painted or has it accumulated mud over the decades?

Artfully awful. Or awfully artful.

Wot? Nood? I be willered again.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the artful codger at February 10, 2026 11:04 AM (kqXjy)

413 Californicated: Super Bowl-winning Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold won $188,000 in prize money for the game. His tax bill from Democrat-run California will be $202,000.

https://tinyurl.com/msa6va6d

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2026 11:04 AM (ZxPkt)

414 Actually, I was a "Trump is easily going to win the primary, but I'll vote for DeSantis in the primary because I always throw my vote away and feel like incumbents should be afraid of primary challengers on principle," guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

No, Archimedes was a DeSantis ride or die guy back when.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:04 AM (bss/y)

415 >>>He should smell of the smoke of his hand-wrought fire and the blood of the kill he made to feed his family. A hint of paper from reading the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is allowed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And whiskey. You forgot the whiskey.

Posted by: Bulg

>My smoking jacket smells like pipe tobacco. And scotch.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (xFfhU)

416 414 No, Archimedes was a DeSantis ride or die guy back when.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 11:04 AM (bss/y)

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Pronouns are hard, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

417 Am I the only one who uses shaving soap and a brush?"

Pretty much, yeah.

Braun...
Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

Norelco triple head since 1972. Rechargable. All I need. At my age, now, every three days. Even when I was young, my "beard" was not dark. Slovak genes from Dad's side, I guess, Magyar on Mom's side. Light colored whiskers.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 10, 2026 11:10 AM (5xuJ/)

418 Remember On the Three Stooges when told to Shave the Ice you Shave a Block of Ice with Shave Cream and Straight Razor

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 10, 2026 05:45 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 2/10/26

Good morning kids. To kick things off this morning, this certainly is something . . .

The daughter of Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson was stabbed to death in a botched murder-suicide over the weekend — leading her father to abruptly suspend his 2026 campaign.
Hallie Marie Tobler, 22, was discovered dead with multiple stab wounds inside her locked apartment in St. Cloud after cops responded to a medical emergency on Saturday evening, according to the St. Cloud Police Department. Tobler’s husband, 23-year-old Dylan Michael Tobler, was also critically wounded inside the home with what investigators believed to be self-inflicted stab wounds, police said. . . Dylan, who is now in stable condition, has been taken into police custody and is expected to be hit with homicide charges in connection with Hallie’s death following his release from the hospital, cops added. . .
. . . “Out of respect for his family and the enormity of this loss, Jeff has suspended his campaign for Governor of Minnesota. We ask all Minnesotans to join us in lifting up the Johnson family during this incredibly painful time.”
Johnson ran a campaign that was tough on crime, immigration and fraud in the North Star State, which has become the battleground of ICE operations and clashes between protesters and federal officers in recent months.

Indeed this is something but the question is, "Is this Something something?" Obviously we do not know as of yet the interpersonal dynamics of the relationship between the victim and her husband, nor do we know the politics of either, especially the latter. But, given what is going on in Minnesota as well as who the victim's father is, as well as the established fact that political terrorism and violence in service to ideology and the lust for absolute power are the stock in trade and sine qua non of the Democrat Party and leftists, it is well within the realm of possibility and most likely IMHO what will be the motive behind this attack.

That is not hyperbole my friends, as these next two items will underscore:

First up there's this awful AWFL...

A video by Democrat Suzanna Karatassos, who exemplifies the AWFUL acronym (“Affluent White Female Urban Liberal") better than anyone I’ve seen in the past 20 minutes, is going viral.
Suzanna is running for Georgia’s 120th District in the state legislature. She’s privileged, and she oozes virtue signaling from every pore. Suzanna’s “final solution” to the “MAGA problem” is to ban us all from the Internet for four years:
When this is all over, and Trump is gone, and Democrats are back in charge, and we’re rebuilding everything, the punishment for MAGA for voting Trump three times needs to be that they lose their internet access for four years. That they cannot post videos or comments on social media, for four straight years, so that none of us are subjected to their lies and misinformation. While we are rebuilding the chaos that they caused, the whole world and America gets to be without their BS online for four straight years. Can we all agree to this?

And as if mere muzzling weren't final enough, this next sick bastard sure has a solution that sounds pretty damn final to me:

After decades of American institutions of higher education teaching that whites are the “oppressors” in the intersectional hierarchy, Texas politician Gene Wu is encouraging other racial groups to team up politically based on claims of shared victimhood.
In a recently circulated clip from a December 2024 interview, Wu says:
“I always tell people, the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities, realize that … they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We … have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”
Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off:  "Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country."

I seem to recall another Socialist named Schickelgruber who after he and his supporters took over their country did what was needed by building high speed railroads so they could send their perceived oppressors and usurpers directly to the gas chambers and crematoria.

While Wu is a Chinese emigré there is no doubt that he still has very deep connections to the CCP. Who by the way are provably funding and fueling much of the mayhem in Minnesota.

Those Minnesota riots, once described by some as “spontaneous,” look more and more like a backdoor attempt by China, allied with extreme groups in the U.S., to foment violence and outright rebellion.

One Slippery Slope — Yup that is what we are on, dear reader . . . Regardless of who's funding the Democrat/Left insurrection, the strategy and tactics are quite revealing and very familiar.

When you think about recent events in the Middle East, it’s easier to understand what’s happening in Minnesota.
There are significant parallels between the tactics of Hamas and pro-illegal immigrant agitators. Start with this. Both have no realistic way to achieve their objective through conventional means. . . Outmatched in bullets and ballots, both groups have sought to use political pressure to achieve their aims. Putting their own people in danger is key to these efforts. Hamas hides its military infrastructure in and around hospitals and schools. Israel either avoids attacking legitimate military targets, or Hamas rushes out pictures of dead women and children.
Something similar is happening in Minnesota. Agitators are actively stalking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and then physically trying to prevent federal agents from arresting illegal immigrants. Crowd control should be a job for local cops. But Minnesota politicians have prevented local police from coordinating with ICE. In December, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara even told residents to call the cops on ICE.
Federal agents are put in a no-win situation. Either they allow agitators to stop them from arresting a criminal illegal immigrant, or they must use physical force to arrest the agitators. At a minimum, that will produce ugly-looking videos. Twice when an agitator has resisted, things have turned deadly. Illegal immigration activists then promote out-of-context videos and lob vile accusations at federal agents.

There is no negotiating with terrorists. What the Democrat/Left have been attempting to do for the past 200 years is coming to a head. Forget slavery and the Civil War. They have never accepted the American founding and have been attempting to overthrow the Republic ever since Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton. The only things that have changed are the personalities involved and the temporal issues real or concocted.

That said, it's funny how they keep calling us a Democracy which is why I find this comment from the execrable tosser Ossoff rather amusing in a vomitus inducing chutzpocritical way.

It has been evident for a very long time that the Democrat Left is a completely alien political/cultural entity that is antithetical to our own, and that co-existence is impossible. Even if there were to be some sort of national divorce and physical cleaving into two separate nations, like Islamic nations bordering Israel, they could never accept our existence. Beyond a complete collapse of their economy and inability to fend for themselves, feed house or clothe their populace, that we would be thriving as they starved and froze to death (think the iconic picture of the Korean peninsula at night, the north in total darkness and the south lit up like a Christmas tree), their innate desire to dominate and subjugate could never allow for accepting our independent existence.

Sad to say but it's us or them. As we head towards the semiquincentennial this summer, will we reach a tricentennial and all things considered, you have to wonder if we'll actually make it to 250.

Have a great day.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Hallie Marie Tobler, 22, was discovered dead with multiple stab wounds inside her locked apartment in St. Cloud after cops responded to a medical emergency on Saturday evening, according to the St. Cloud Police Department.
22-year-old daughter of Republican Minnesota gov candidate Jeff Johnson stabbed to death
From Gaza to Minnesota, the tyrants' playbook is the same.
ICE and Israel Face the Same Dilemma

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

Gene Wu, member of the Texas House of Representatives, encouraged select racial groups to engage in an intersectional struggle against their shared “oppressor.”
Texas Lawmaker Goes Mask Off: Non-Whites Can “Take Over This Country”
“We have the ability to take over this country.”
China’s Democrat Minority Leader in Texas Calls for Race War
She’s running in a solid Republican district, but with the election shenanigans we’ve come to know from Georgia, I wonder if she might slip in by the skin of her teeth.
Democrat candidate comes up with a ‘final solution’ to the ‘MAGA problem’
It is especially noteworthy that the anti-government protests are well-organized and funded, which suggests the involvement of groups with substantial networks.
Why Minnesota Keeps Erupting in Anti-Government Chaos
The ‘Seditious Six’ called for a mutiny, and the administration decided to ‘go on offense and make them tap-dance a little.’
The Trump Administration Defeated The ‘Seditious Six’ By ‘Going On Offense’
"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The report proves a large majority of the illegals detained by ICE are known threats to the American public.
CONFIRMED: Majority of Illegals Detained by ICE Have Criminal Records.
"It is a crime to smuggle illegal aliens into this country, and particularly horrendous to expose a child to untold dangers."
Feds Save Migrant Child From Sex Offender As Trump Cleans Up Biden Trafficking Crisis
“The Trump administration will not comply with a court order requiring due process for hundreds of Venezuelan migrants deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador last year, DOJ lawyers said,” reports Fox News Digital. “It sets up a heated clash in court next week in a case that is almost certainly headed back to the Supreme Court.”
The Trump Administration FINALLY Tells Boasberg to Pound Sand
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: A convert from Islam to Christianity issues a sobering warning.
‘America, Wake Up — and Don’t End Up Like England’
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The list also includes a policy analyst who accused Israel of terrorism and a 'Community Engagement Training Specialist' who said the Jewish state amounts to 'modern-day Nazi Germany'
Mamdani Hires Slew of Anti-Israel Activists, Including Brooklyn Borough Director Who Praised 'Heroes' Ripping Down Israeli Hostage Posters and Adviser Who Led College Divestment Movement
J-6 FBI/PELOSI-ENGINEERED FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH,
The move signals a significant reversal in the five-year legal saga involving Bannon and the corrupt January 6 Select Committee.
DOJ Moves to DISMISS Bannon’s J6 Conviction and Indictment.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The Guardian issued a correction, undermining the credibility of the newspaper and the related accusations against the Trump administration peddled by lawyer Andrew P. Bakaj, who helped orchestrate the first impeachment effort against President Donald J. Trump in 2019.
Top News Outlet FAKES NatSec Bombshell, Aided by Anti-Trump Impeachment Lawyer.
During Monday's Morning Intern-Murderer Joe, so-called ‘conservative’ writer Matt Lewis alleged ICE was “buying” local police forces across the country through the federal 287(g) program in order to serve as a “paramilitary” force for a possible plot by President Donald Trump to steal the midterm elections.MS NSDAP: ‘Paramilitary’ ICE ‘Buying Off’ Police to Help Steal Elections
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Less regulation can ensure data centers pay their own way.
The Answer to AI’s Power Problem? Free Markets
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The government does a poor job of educating students but excels at fleecing taxpayers.
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With Rosie Bsheer at the helm, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies brought speakers to campus who 'appeared to justify' October 7, according to Harvard's anti-Semitism report
EXCLUSIVE: She Was Dismissed From a Leadership Post at Harvard. Now She's a Candidate for Columbia's Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies.
“UW-Madison is a repeat offender, having previously resolved another OCR complaint regarding another BIPOC-only program, yet instituting and promoting the present BIPOC MOSAIC program anyway.”
Investigation Into UW-Madison Finds Closed DEI Unit Faculty Still Working on Equity Issues
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The SAVE America Act, a Republican-backed election integrity measure, would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote — including by mail — mandate photo ID for federal elections, direct states to verify citizenship and remove non-citizens from federal voter rolls.
Senate Republicans Have The Power To Force Democrats To Filibuster Voter ID — So Why Don’t They?
There is only one conclusion: Democrats want foreigners voting because they cannot win without them.
Democrats oppose SAVE Act because they cannot win without millions of illegal votes
Voter ID laws affect Democrats in much the same way that kryptonite affects Superman. These laws diminish the party’s strength, instill fear, and incite outrage.
When a Democrat Supporting the SAVE Act is News
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
That's why it all comes down to that original court case
Why Were So Many Powerful Men Comfortable With Epstein After His Arrest?
Maxwell was to be questioned during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she’s serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. She’s come under new scrutiny as lawmakers try to investigate how Epstein, a well-connected financier, was able to sexually abuse underage girls for years.
Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions from a House committee, citing 5th Amendment rights
Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in late July and answered questions about her ties to Jeffrey Epstein and her alleged role in the trafficking network. . . Honig said Maxwell’s decision to speak openly with Blanche may have weakened her ability to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
Elie Honig Explains How Maxwell May Have Inadvertently Waived Her Fifth Amendment Protection
Emails show that Plaskett, using the pseudonym 'LeRoy Daughter,' asked Epstein to fund a one-year project to 'create a new voter file' for the Virgin Islands
Democrat Rep Stacey Plaskett Pressed Jeffrey Epstein To Fund Project That Would Allow Her To 'Completely Outperform' Opposition
POLITICS
Welp. How much do you want to bet that Los Angeles becomes the third city with a socialist mayor?
Avowed Socialist Nithya Raman Enters Los Angeles Mayoral Race
On the favorability question, 72 of likely Republican primary voters said they had a favorable opinion of Paxton and 22 percent had an unfavorable opinion. Hunt came in second with 70 percent of the respondents saying they had a favorable opinion on him, and just 10 percent saying unfavorable. Only 61 percent of respondents had a favorable opinion of Cornyn and 30 percent held an unfavorable opinion.
Poll: Attorney General Ken Paxton Beating John Cornyn, Wesley Hunt in Texas GOP Senate Primary
But, but, but, Lefties keep insisting America is a "democracy?!" pfft! - jjs
(T)Ossoff: ‘We May Lose Our Republic’ if We Don’t Rebuke Trump in Midterms
IRAN ON the BRINK?!
Israel pushes for limits on missiles as Trump continues build up in the Middle East
Trump Huddles With Netanyahu As U.S. Military Show Of Force Builds Near Iran
Many of the involved accounts targeting Mora Namdar pose as anti-regime actors but are in fact aligned with the Islamic Republic
Inside the Iranian Regime's Online 'Bot Army' Campaign Against Trump State Department Official
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
“For forms sake we should send it to Jeff, however I am sure we will get it back many fold!”
A Reckoning Comes for the Epstein Pals Behind Israel’s PLO Deal
Israeli forces have discovered explosives hidden near the ceasefire line and faced renewed attacks from Hamas terrorists over the past several days
Hamas Works To Replenish Military Arsenal as Trump Admin Demands It Disarm
A group demoralized.
A Hezbollah Terrorist’s Despair
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
So at the same time, it’s clear, I think, that there is more room, more space for more dialogue. And I’m sure I have the impression that the President is willing to engage — he’s willing to engage with his own approach — which is about reaching an outcome. It’s not about discussing for the sake of discussion or conversation. So my message is, it’s very clear that the EU cannot and should not be seen as an adversary. On the contrary, we see that there is great potential for making the relation grow in terms of trade and in terms of the various things that affect us both from migration, from a number of files, connectivity, and so on. So Cyprus has now this role.
Exclusive — Cypriot Foreign Minister: President Trump in ‘Unique Position to Define Global Order and Developments’
What to do? Most conservatives favor military deterrence, while liberals seek arms control deals.
As U.S.-Russia Nuke Deal Expires, 2/3 Of U.S. Voters ‘Concerned’ About Nuclear War: I&I/TIPP Poll
The ruling could complicate upcoming U.S.-China negotiations and has drawn international criticism.
Who is Jimmy Lai, and Why Did He Just Get 20 Years for Opposing Chinese Communism?
Any growth in the U.S.-India trade relationship is a blow to China.
A Tentative Trade Deal with India, but What Does It Mean?
Vance called the agreement a "win-win" that will provide additional energy exports for the United States as well as economic development and security.
‘A New Beginning’: JD Vance Signs Nuclear Deal In Historic Visit To Armenia
Washington’s answer to China’s Belt and Road Initiative begins in Armenia, and Vice President JD Vance is in the South Caucasus to pave the way.
Vance Paves the Way for Trump’s Route to the Asian Heartland: The American BRI Starts in Armenia
Canadian tourists trapped in Cuba as fuel runs out.
Liberal Tourism in Danger as Cuba Runs Out of Jet Fuel
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Overnight, U.S. military forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Aquila II without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean. It ran, and we followed. The Department of War tracked and hunted this vessel from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean.
WATCH: U.S. Military Hunts Down, Boards Vessel Defying ‘American Power’ in Indian Ocean
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The law expanding the state’s culture of death will go into effect in six months to allow the Department of Health to put regulations into place, making New York the 13th state, plus Washington, D.C. to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Hochul released a statement equating assisted suicide with “freedoms” and a “right to bodily autonomy” — a similar argument used by pro-abortion and pro-transgender activists who promote mutilation and the killing of unborn babies.
New York Becomes 13th State to Legalize Assisted Suicide
The rise of medetomidine in street drugs poses significant public health risks and complicates efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
The Cartels Are Blending Fentanyl With Chinese Animal Tranquilizer to Boost Addiction.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Using data collected by the orbiter Cassini while it orbited Saturn more than a decade ago, scientists now think they have mapped out how the moon Enceladus interacts with Saturn’s magnetic field and helps create an aurora in Saturn’s polar regions.
How Saturn’s moon Enceladus causes an aurora on Saturn
In other words, the next rehearsal will focus almost entirely on fueling to make sure these issues are resolved. The agency however has not set a date for that countdown rehearsal. To launch in March, as presently planned, it must occur sometime in the next three weeks, and go perfectly. Otherwise that launch will slip again, and begin to bump up against the end of the launch window on April 6th.
NASA provides update on Artemis-2 repairs for future dress rehearsal countdown
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Medical fad meets legal reality.
Is This The End Of Transgender Hysteria?
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: A major change in the medical landscape on transgender surgeries on minors arrives, and the press is trying to ignore it.
When Medicine Abandons Children -– And the Reckoning to Come
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Hess, 27, sparked a backlash last week that spread from the internet to the White House after telling reporters in Italy about his apparent conflict in representing his home country.
American Skier with ‘Mixed Emotions’ About Representing the US, Suddenly ‘Cannot Wait to Represent Team USA’
He was making an inherently political claim that the left has been pushing for years, which is that the United States of America — colloquially known as America — isn’t for Americans and that national borders are arbitrary at best but illegitimate at worst.
The Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Literally About Erasing ‘America’
TPUSA decided to create a cool, all-American show that they knew conservatives would enjoy.
TPUSA staged a triumph amid Super Bowl halftime controversy
I want that 40 minutes of my life back, please.
TPUSA Halftime Show Ruled a Fumble
When politics upstage talent at the Grammys, it’s not just bad television—it’s proof that America’s cultural gatekeepers have traded art for ideology, and now want a monopoly to spread it.
The Grammys Were Bad, but at Least They Were Consistent
Christian Toto: 'Club Random' host suggests bipartisan critiques stopped pair from talking
Bill Maher: Jimmy Kimmel Ended Our Friendship Over Politics
HITHER & YON
Though I read a lot of good, detailed, and well-researched histories, I repeatedly find that if I really want to get a sense of the reality of times past, it is necessary to read something that was written by a person who lived at the time, and was an actual witness to great events.When you do this you instantly cut through the political narratives that color all histories, whether sincere or not.
What life was really like in the American wild west

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1

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 10, 2026 07:01 AM (DDJSl)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 07:01 AM (Hbs7G)

3 More Epstein stuff - now with some names unredacted:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxxzzad

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 07:03 AM (Hbs7G)

4 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at February 10, 2026 07:03 AM (S108+)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2026 07:09 AM (jtM2q)

6 Hola horde, and a rousing thank you to JJ!

May your spouse have a good day today on her road to recovery.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:09 AM (YXyUj)

7 Hola, Horde! Como estan todos?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 07:11 AM (jjoN6)

8 We are on a slippery slope. And the way the Left is overreacting to Trump, it looks like they want the slope to end in a cliff. My hope is that American voters have learned something in the contrast between Biden and Trump.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 07:13 AM (xNh50)

9 Aren't we supposed to be obsessing over Nancy Guthrie?

Posted by: Trying to keep up at February 10, 2026 07:13 AM (2Ez/1)

10 6 Hola horde, and a rousing thank you to JJ!

May your spouse have a good day today on her road to recovery.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:09 AM (YXyUj)

Thanks. Yes she had a great day yesterday and day by day she seems to be improving. Hoping she gets into a rehab unit ASAP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2026 07:13 AM (x0n13)

11 Investigation Into UW-Madison Finds Closed DEI Unit Faculty Still Working on Equity Issues

Strip state and federal funding until every single person who worked at the DEI unit is fired without any severance. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 07:15 AM (jjoN6)

12 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

13 For the life of me, I do not understand why this isn't a huge story. You do not hate the NFL nearly enough.

Nearly everyone who celebrated Bad Bunny has absolutely no idea what he was saying (looking directly at you, dumb shit John Kasich). Here is the translation of just a few lyrics.

https://tinyurl.com/7h35yahb

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:18 AM (buPQP)

14
Yo my flo
like a dyna-mo
Tail is flat
Full of fat
Wood chip sticken
In my teeth
Too much maple
Gotta queef

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

15 Unrelated news: I had every intention of working an extra hour M-Th this week to get back some PTO. And then my car decided to start having problems so it's off to the mechanic's today.

And I have to figure out when to get my wife her birthday card as well as some stuff for Valentine's Day.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 07:19 AM (jjoN6)

16 Congressional Democrats: We demand ICE agents use body cameras!

Trump, Noem: Sounds good. Consider it done.

Congressional Democrats: Whoa, whoa, whoa, just what do you plan on doing with those body cameras, fascists!?

It is to laugh...

Posted by: one hour sober at February 10, 2026 07:21 AM (Y1sOo)

17 Even if you weren't a horrible, evil person who wanted to have sex with minors. I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation?. Surely they could look at fast cars and eat better burgers in the U.S. I guess they wanted to visit the home of Castro.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 07:21 AM (7RYym)

18 > Those Minnesota riots, once described by some as “spontaneous,” look more and more like a backdoor attempt by China, allied with extreme groups in the U.S., to foment violence and outright rebellion.
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Several "experts" have made that observation too. And made the observation that those so-called riots look an awful lot like an insurgency you'd find in the Middle East.

Confined to Minneapolis is one thing... spreading nationally is quite another.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2026 07:22 AM (jtM2q)

19

Good morning, everyone.
Gene Wu, member of the Texas House of Representatives, encouraged select racial groups to engage in an intersectional struggle against their shared “oppressor.”

China’s Democrat Minority Leader in Texas Calls for Race War
She’s running in a solid Republican district, but with the election shenanigans we’ve come to know from Georgia, I wonder if she might slip in by the skin of her teeth.
Democrat candidate comes up with a ‘final solution’ to the ‘MAGA problem’

The Donks and commies (BIRM) really do want to move from the FA side of the equation to the FO side. It really won't go the way they think it will.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 07:22 AM (QVmho)

20 For 2022, it was estimated that for illegal aliens just in Texas, the cost of benefits and services provided was $9,942,111,305. According to the same report, when adding the costs of the children of illegal aliens in Texas, the cost to taxpayers was over $13 billion.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:23 AM (gbOdA)

21 JJS, the Artemis 2 link up top is broken.

Here is the right one,

https://tinyurl.com/5fux3dzd

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:23 AM (J9ulb)

22 Hoping she gets into a rehab unit ASAP
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2026 07:13 AM (x0n13)
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prayer up!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:25 AM (n+Zyl)

23 When this is all over, and Trump is gone, and Democrats are back in charge, and we’re rebuilding everything, the punishment for MAGA for voting Trump three times needs to be that they lose their internet access for four years.

Go ahead. Do it. Because if you think over 50 million people will meekly submit to having their internet access denied as 'punishment' for voting for Trump, you'll end up begging for a quick, painless death.

Items like this are why I say Trump needs the Morning Report shoved in his face every day. He needs to move and destroy the Democrats, legality be damned.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 07:26 AM (ufSfZ)

24 Democrat Suzanna Karatassos...

We can sure trust the Constitution and the survival of the Republic in xer hands.

Sounds like a frustrated podcaster who isn't getting enough attention.

Is it a requirement to be a Cluster B sociopath to have standing in the Demonic Party?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 07:26 AM (a4flb)

25 Why Minnesota Keeps Erupting in Anti-Government Chaos
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That has, early on, the standard sucking up to the Scandis. It's only about half way through it mentions their addiction to socialism. Everything in life involves trade offs.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 07:27 AM (AlhUl)

26 you'll end up begging for a quick, painless death.

And the answer will be "No."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 07:27 AM (jjoN6)

27 Mayor Madmani's death toll is now 18 people since the inauguration day order to cops not to forcibly move the homeless to shelters.

He has blood on his hands.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:28 AM (n+Zyl)

28 I didn't read the "It was a fumble" article about the TPUSA show. As far as I'm concerned it was an alternative to Bad Bunny and his crude lyrics sung in Spanish, and TPUSA can tune it up for next time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 07:28 AM (7RYym)

29 For 2022, it was estimated that for illegal aliens just in Texas, the cost of benefits and services provided was $9,942,111,305. According to the same report, when adding the costs of the children of illegal aliens in Texas, the cost to taxpayers was over $13 billion.

Now calculate the costs of the education for the H1Bs, each who have litters of children at a $250k each for K-12.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 07:29 AM (a4flb)

30 At what point, gentleman, will we take a final step to the rear and find our backs are at a tall and impenetrable wall? Will we then take to arms and restore our freedoms? Or shall we bend and surrender?

Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at February 10, 2026 07:29 AM (m0F9m)

31

Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer

Go away, Glowie

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 07:30 AM (QVmho)

32
Spin like water
Over the dam
Yo my homey
He be trans
Livin large
In beava city
Aint no hair
On that kitty

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

33 Go away, Glowie
Posted by: BifBewalski

"Three Letter Agent Man glow so bright!"

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 07:32 AM (jjoN6)

34 Yes she had a great day yesterday and day by day she seems to be improving. Hoping she gets into a rehab unit ASAP
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2026 07:13 AM (x0n13)

Good news, JJ. Prayers for both of you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 07:32 AM (ufSfZ)

35 I didn't read the "It was a fumble" article about the TPUSA show.

No one should. Anyone complaining about the TPUSA show, and the massive risk they took, but they did it anyway, is not a serious person, but is someone who needs to be shunned for being a blight on humanity.

I didn't watch the TPUSA show, and had zero interest in the Superb Owl and any of the manufactured hype around it, but for David to take a swing at Goliath, and some miserable bastard complains that David didn't take out Goliath's entire family and blood line is an idiot.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 07:33 AM (a4flb)

36 The IDF has battered Hezbollah so relentlessly that it can no longer withstand even the once-scorned Lebanese National Army that has been attacking its bases south of the Litani River. Israeli attacks have reduced its once-vast arsenal of missiles and rockets, some 150,000 of them, to 20% of its pre-war size. Israel assassinated its charismatic leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as well as his successor, Hashem Safieddine. The IDF has killed thousands of its fighters. And the “exploding pagers” wounded at least 3,000 Hezbollah fighters so severely that they lost hands, eyes, and other body parts, that they will never fight again. With the change of regime in Syria, Hezbollah can no longer be resupplied with weapons from Iran. And this man insists that he, and many of his fellows, are convinced that 70% of Hezbollah operatives “work with Israel.” No wonder he is demoralized.
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Tucker Carlson most upset.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:34 AM (n+Zyl)

37 Good news, JJ. Prayers for both of you

Amen, MP4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 07:34 AM (7RYym)

38
Hunter Hess has the courage of his convictions.

He simply doesn't have any convictions.

(I first encountered this expression in Will Cuppy's "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody".)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:35 AM (xG4kz)

39 The public schools and university system provide the “feed stock” for America. Education is actually a national security issue. Chew on that for a while, when you realize the whack jobs are in charge, and have been for a long time.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 07:35 AM (09exb)

40 fd's Bad Beaver has a long rap career ahead of him

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:35 AM (n+Zyl)

41 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

42 President Biden’s policies muzzled natural gas production and subsidized other forms of expensive energy (especially solar and wind), despite his own administration’s findings that natural gas was 3.3 times cheaper than electricity for residential power needs in 2023 and 2024.

Yes Wind and Solar require 100% backup with coal or gas as well a complete infrastructure system.
Texas Wind and Solar farms required a second cable system that cost more than the Wind and Solar.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

43 During Monday's Morning Intern-Murderer Joe, so-called ‘conservative’ writer Matt Lewis alleged ICE was “buying” local police forces across the country through the federal 287(g) program in order to serve as a “paramilitary” force for a possible plot by President Donald Trump to steal the midterm elections.
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Oh, for crying out loud. In addition to evil, the left is pathetic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:37 AM (n+Zyl)

44
Bad Beaver

Lyrics from "That's Hard Tarmac, Mack"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:38 AM (xG4kz)

45 Indeed this is something but the question is, "Is this Something something?"
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Naaaaah.
-the state media

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

46 Senate Republicans Have The Power To Force Democrats To Filibuster Voter ID — So Why Don’t They?
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Gee, I wonder. It's a mystery.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 07:39 AM (AlhUl)

47 Thx, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 07:39 AM (Cjt/F)

48 Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at February 10, 2026 07:29 AM (m0F9m)

Shakespeare does- much better job with this sort of thing. See Henry V.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 07:40 AM (7RYym)

49 Democrat Suzanna Karatassos...

Oh, Suzanna,
Won't you calm your tits
'cos I come from big ol' Texas
And darling first you can blow me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2026 07:40 AM (wVcYX)

50
That's great Bad Beaver!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:41 AM (xG4kz)

51 Can we all agree to this?
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This is one of their new code phrases
"We all agree"
"Let's agree to agree"
"We can all agree"

Who's this "we" comrade?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

52 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 10, 2026 07:41 AM (h06De)

53 Democrat Rep Stacey Plaskett Pressed Jeffrey Epstein To Fund Project That Would Allow Her To 'Completely Outperform' Opposition
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Looking at her, it's clear she wasn't performing services for Epstein's clients.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 10, 2026 07:42 AM (AlhUl)

54 I want that 40 minutes of my life back, please.
TPUSA Halftime Show Ruled a Fumble

Likely not a popular opinion here, but I agree. The whelming, it was under.

Posted by: Delurker at February 10, 2026 07:42 AM (gtcuf)

55 Voters will be required to show an enhanced driver's license that shows citizenship status; a government-issued photo ID card that lists citizenship status; a U.S. passport; a U.S. military identification card; any other valid government-issued photo ID card together with evidence of birth as a U.S. citizen or naturalization.

This is from Human Events and it is WRONG.
And Enhance ID is a chip id. Only a Real ID is need for SAVE.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

56 21 JJS, the Artemis 2 link up top is broken.

Here is the right one,

https://tinyurl.com/5fux3dzd
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:23 AM (J9ulb)

Thanks! Should work now fingers crossed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2026 07:42 AM (x0n13)

57 There are significant parallels between the tactics of Hamas and pro-illegal immigrant agitators. Start with this.
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I've been commenting about this from the start because it has been so blatant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

58 PS 97% of Mississippi Voter have a Real ID.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:43 AM (gbOdA)

59 35
No one should. Anyone complaining about the TPUSA show, and the massive risk they took, but they did it anyway, is not a serious person, but is someone who needs to be shunned for being a blight on humanity.

Strong words from someone who didn't watch it.

Posted by: Delurker at February 10, 2026 07:44 AM (gtcuf)

60 Yes Wind and Solar require 100% backup with coal or gas as well a complete infrastructure system.

The Wind & Solar are placed where there is wind and sun, and the land is available in great abundance to install these abominations - which makes them far away from where the power is to be used, which means RoW, thousands of miles of high power lines draped across the permanent scars through woods and fields.

Then when it mostly doesn't work, a whole different set of problems occur for coal and nat gas. Once again securing RoW, power lines, running pipe along scars in the earth for gas, finding adequate rail for coal, either digging new cooling lakes for the thermals (and the ED to get the land), or dropping a humming 24/7, brightly lit building near homes and parks.

Twice the electrical transformers, twice the wires, twice the securing of RoW, twice the NIMBY fights, twice the rounds of financing, twice the bureaucratic overhead, and twice amortizing the CapEx on consumer's bills.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 07:45 AM (a4flb)

61 Saw that you included the story about Cuba saying Sorry, no more jet fuel! That’ll put a crimp in tourism.
Was following up this story and found a piece that mentioned that over half the tourist resorts and hotels in Cuba are owned by the Cuban military. Presumably they’ve been using the hard currency earnings to enrich themselves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 10, 2026 07:45 AM (gCFgr)

62 "And Enhance ID is a chip id. Only a Real ID is need for SAVE.
Posted by: r hennigantx"

I would like to also add a simple test. "Name the three branches of the federal government of the United States".

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

63 Only a Real ID is need for SAVE.

And we know that the Insurrection States have issued those out to illegal aliens for years, and by the tens of thousands.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 07:47 AM (a4flb)

64 Gene Wu, member of the Texas House of Representatives, encouraged select racial groups to engage in an intersectional struggle against their shared “oppressor.”
Texas Lawmaker Goes Mask Off: Non-Whites Can “Take Over This Country”

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Unless one is a dimwit of epic proportion, this thought was why "people of color" was conjured up in their lexicon in the first place. It was and is meant to pit tan, yellow, black skinned people against the laughable "oppressor" white people. Its roots of purposeful division were evil to begin with, and it's no wonder this clown thinks this way.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 07:48 AM (qBdHI)

65
"51 Can we all agree to this?"
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Now do "National conversation."

Posted by: There's no such thing at February 10, 2026 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)

66 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Continued prayers for Mrs JJ 's recovery.
Mamdani not caring about 18 homeless dying from exposure should not be a surprise to anyone who knows the history of communism. The homeless make the state look bad so them dying is a win - win.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 07:49 AM (yI5mB)

67
Cuba is The Land That Ran Out of Everything.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:49 AM (xG4kz)

68 What is in the water in Minnesomaliasota?

Place is a fucking mad house.....a mad house!

Posted by: Dr. Zaius at February 10, 2026 07:50 AM (hXJe5)

69 Strong words from someone who didn't watch it.

Whether the TPUSA show was a bang or bust, they took the risk. The ankle biters who crab bucket achievers is what I take offense.

I don't need to be entertained to understand that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 07:50 AM (a4flb)

70 I have no problems with the TPUSA halftime event. The artists took a big risk with their careers going against the establishment entertainment industry and it gave tens of millions of Americans the opportunity register their disgust with the crap the NFL continues to try and shove down our throats.

Was it perfect? Obviously not. But that was never the point. It was a message and the message was received loud and clear.

BTW, Kid Rock's cover of Til You Can't is now the #1 song in all genres at iTunes, ahead of Bad Bunny.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 07:50 AM (viF8m)

71 "This is one of their new code phrases
"We all agree"
"Let's agree to agree"
"We can all agree"

The one I hate is "agree to disagree". No, I ain't agreeing to squit.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

72 "While we are rebuilding the chaos that they caused,"

What chaos would that be? Of course she means the chaos they've unleashed which she projects onto us.

I wonder how many on "our side," that is, our so-called political leaders, really understand the mental illness, the phenomenal derangement, of the Democrat Left; that we're dealing not with some political opposition (with whom we can work out our differences through any familiar electoral or civic means) but with genuine maniacs who will at first opportunity after reclaiming power set about to annihilate us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2026 07:50 AM (b4LBp)

73 Gene Wu doesn't realize that other minorities aren't real big on Asians. They are "white adjacent". The revolution will eat you as well Eugene

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 07:51 AM (yI5mB)

74 Even if you weren't a horrible, evil person who wanted to have sex with minors. I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation?
====
Maybe you're a Canadian?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

75 The terror group’s leaders have now demanded that Iran send it $2 billion, twice what the Iranians had agreed to provide. This demand has shocked the Iranians. It comes at a time when Iran’s economy continues to crater.

Obamas Stash

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

76 "Saw that you included the story about Cuba saying Sorry, no more jet fuel!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 10, 2026 07:45 AM (gCFgr)
****
Ahem, Mr. Servo...what about chet fuel?

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 10, 2026 07:51 AM (dAjAs)

77
Texas Lawmaker Goes Mask Off: Non-Whites Can “Take Over This Country

It appears that Wu has not yet received hos complementary knockout punch from a fellow Persyn of Non-Whiteness while walking out and about.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:51 AM (xG4kz)

78 How can you be sure that there aren't more frozen homeless under the massive piles of frozen garbage and filthy slush and snow? Thaw is coming now and might reveal further horrors.

Posted by: NYC Refugee at February 10, 2026 07:52 AM (oftw2)

79 67
Cuba is The Land That Ran Out of Everything.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:49 AM (xG4kz)

Except poverty, disease, and death.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

80 Horde, do not miss the translation of Bad Bunny @13.

Bad Bunny is scum of the earth.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:53 AM (n+Zyl)

81 That was one of the factors why the Texas (Texas!) grid failed a few years back.

Natural gas pipelines need pumps, to move the gas through the miles and miles of pipes. Long ago engineers decided that they would bleed off a tiny amount of the natural gas in the pipeline itself, to power the pumps, to move the gas through the pipelines. Thousands of these are needed, I expect.

Anyway, somebody with way too much time on their hands decided what’s really needed is to do away with this simple and extremely reliable expedient, and convert the pumps to solar powered or (battery driven?) pumps.

Right when the natural gas was needed the most, to fuel natural gas powered electricity generation for the grid, the pipelines failed. Plenty of gas, no way to move it through the lines. Just …. stupid. Completely and utterly unnecessary, to add insult to injury.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 07:53 AM (09exb)

82 He needs to move and destroy the Democrats, legality be damned.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 07:26 AM (ufSfZ)
=====

We say what is legality, peon.
-600 Federal District court judges

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

83
I saw Chet Fuel in and among the betting lines at FanDuel

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:53 AM (xG4kz)

84 A federal judge has given the green light to a class action lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi by more than 500 patriots who spent time in jail over January 6th.
The suit alleges that Pelosi set the whole thing up and lured peaceful protesters off the streets, later calling them "violent insurrectionists."
The class is suing for $350 million in punitive damages, which would bankrupt Pelosi.
"The accusations are serious. If she's found liable, she probably should lose everything.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 07:54 AM (enSNT)

85 Real ID has been compromised.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 07:55 AM (qFwJc)

86 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Someone has to say it at February 10, 2026 07:55 AM (2Ez/1)

87 Mamdani not caring about 18 homeless dying from exposure should not be a surprise to anyone who knows the history of communism. The homeless make the state look bad so them dying is a win - win.

--

Hey, he's got some opportunities coming up in about 6 months' time when the assisted suicide law comes into play. He can hire a bunch of commie stooges to go around with clipboards to all the homeless people and talk them into complimentary and compassionate suicide!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

88
Gene Wu looks like the spawn of a goldfish and Jesse Jackson

Bug-eyed

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2026 07:55 AM (x0n13)

89 Hunter Hess has the courage of his convictions.
===

Like, um, stuff and really, um, like.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

90 " I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation?"

I understand they have a wonderful health care system.

(to be read with a blue aardvark accent)

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at February 10, 2026 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

91 76 "Saw that you included the story about Cuba saying Sorry, no more jet fuel!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 10, 2026 07:45 AM (gCFgr)
****
Ahem, Mr. Servo...what about chet fuel?
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 10, 2026 07:51 AM (dAjAs)

The Jet Screamer fan club!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2026 07:57 AM (x0n13)

92 Real ID has been compromised.

--

The minute I heard that illegals were able to obtain it in blue states (of course), its purpose and legitimacy flew right out the window. It no longer means anything.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

93 " I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation?"
================
Great fishing

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:58 AM (YXyUj)

94
dumb shit John Kasich)

With apologies to Dusty Springfield --

"Among the boys who could never teach me
Was the failed son of a mail man."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:58 AM (xG4kz)

95 In the story about the Texas Senate primary poll that shows Paxton leading , it also showed on the Democrat side that Jasmine Crockett is leading that sad twink Talerico by a good margin. It amazes me that some are surprised by that; the Dem party in Texas is totally dominated by racial infighting and Crockett plays this up as much as possible.

So odds at this point are that in November, we’ll see a race between Ken Paxton and Jasmine Crockett. That oughta be fun!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 10, 2026 07:59 AM (gCFgr)

96 Even if you weren't a horrible, evil person who wanted to have sex with minors. I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation?

canadians, besides being perverts, are notoriously cheap, do not tip, are riddled with STDs and like to and be ass fucked.

Hence, cuban vacations.

Posted by: Zombie Fidel Castro at February 10, 2026 07:59 AM (hXJe5)

97 *Was the failed son of a mail man.*

I don't work in the rain.

Posted by: Newman at February 10, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

98

Donald Manes in Minnesota with the steak knife?

Clue...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2026 07:59 AM (x0n13)

99
Ahem, Mr. Servo...what about chet fuel?
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly

They're stacking up chets like cordwood in the failed state of Minnesota

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 07:59 AM (xG4kz)

100 He needs to move and destroy the Democrats, legality be damned.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 07:26 AM (ufSfZ)
=====

It's more clear every day that this must be his mission, what destiny has called him to do to save America. But I'm not sure it is in him, as an inveterate dealmaker, to understand.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2026 08:01 AM (b4LBp)

101 Continued prayers for you and spouse JJ

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:01 AM (ZCxQ+)

102 Canadian tourists trapped in Cuba as fuel runs out.

So much for their "dream vacations," eh?

This story makes me laugh, laugh, laugh. There should be an extra surcharge for refueling Air Canada in the USA if the flight is from Cuber.

(insert sad trombone here)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 10, 2026 08:01 AM (uQesX)

103 Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2026 07:50 AM (b4LBp)
====

They believe they are on the winning team, even though they belong to a different party.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

104
Even if you weren't a horrible, evil person who wanted to have sex with minors. I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation?

"It was either Havana or Flin Flon. Not a hard choice, eh?"

-- Canuckistanians

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 08:02 AM (xG4kz)

105 @98 JJ, haven't heard Manes name in years. Tried slitting his wrists, then later plunged a knife into his heart. Couldn't exist without corruption

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 08:03 AM (yI5mB)

106 "What life was really like in the American wild west"

Wild, really really wild.

Posted by: Robert Conrad at February 10, 2026 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

107 Murder suicide with a knife seems like an… unusual choice. I assume it would be extremely difficult to kill yourself with a knife… to overcome the pain and keep going after the first stabby…. I wince just thinking about it.

Awful horrible story

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:04 AM (ZCxQ+)

108 canadians, besides being perverts, are notoriously cheap, do not tip, are riddled with STDs and like to and be ass fucked.
====

Not to mention the inappropriate swimwear!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

109 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

110 96 Even if you weren't a horrible, evil person who wanted to have sex with minors. I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation?

canadians, besides being perverts, are notoriously cheap, do not tip, are riddled with STDs and like to and be ass fucked.

Hence, cuban vacations.
Posted by: Zombie Fidel Castro

If you go to the keys, taking a boat to Havana for the day is a good experience. You don't really see the decay, of course. But you do get to experience that the Cubans themselves are really great people in a really crappy situation.

Posted by: Piper at February 10, 2026 08:05 AM (2N3ca)

111 Sam Darnold just WON the Super Bowl...and LOST $71k because it was in California

Watch as Boomer Esiason explains why the players should block any future Super Bowls in California...

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:06 AM (enSNT)

112 >>It's more clear every day that this must be his mission, what destiny has called him to do to save America. But I'm not sure it is in him, as an inveterate dealmaker, to understand.

He's emptying out the country of illegals which will have an enormous impact on the census, could swing close to 20 seats in the House alone. The SAVE Act will further hammer Democrats on the national level helping secure elections. He's not negotiating on either of these, he's leading the charge. He's also crippling Democrats funding machines by gutting USAID and NGOs that funnel money to them.

Short of sending out death squads what else should he be doing?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:06 AM (viF8m)

113 I had one of the coolest names for a television character.
Ever.

Posted by: Artemus Gordon at February 10, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)

114 108
Not to mention the inappropriate swimwear!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February

A problem that plagues older European men as well.

Posted by: Piper at February 10, 2026 08:06 AM (PRqXW)

115 One frozen homeless is a tragedy.

Eighteen is a statistic.

Posted by: Mayor Mamdami at February 10, 2026 08:06 AM (wVcYX)

116 It no longer means anything.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)
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It still means that neither you nor I get on a plane without one, comrade.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:06 AM (RIvkX)

117 Not to mention the inappropriate swimwear!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Who made you the Fashion Police?

Posted by: Banana Hammock, Ltd. at February 10, 2026 08:07 AM (oftw2)

118 Canada is lost now it seems… but not that long ago way over represented in the realm of comedy. John Candy may he RIP

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:07 AM (ZCxQ+)

119 Mayor Zohran Mamdani committed a cardinal sin last week by dissing millions of area Catholics as the first city mayor in nearly 100 years — and possibly ever — to skip the local archbishop’s installation.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:07 AM (enSNT)

120 The American BRI Starts in Armenia

I hate to ask the obvious but can we get an American BRI in America first?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 08:08 AM (jjoN6)

121 From the I saw that coming files. A candle filled memorial in Switzerland to the night club fire victims was destroyed by... a fire

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 08:08 AM (yI5mB)

122 Short of sending out death squads what else should he be doing?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:06 AM (viF8m)
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Ref. J6

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

123 Even if you weren't a horrible, evil person who wanted to have sex with minors. I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation
———
Also, wait until you learn about Thailand!

Posted by: Piper at February 10, 2026 08:09 AM (PRqXW)

124 The article on the convert in Britain from islam to Christianity, and his warning to America is worth the read. Really disturbing to see playing out in real time how easily muslims and their enormous (unfathomable) influence have taken over the UK. Historic times...we're living in them. And it's so very tragic to see it happen.

Btw, the convert? He and his family have been living in hiding for a decade, in the UK, because his life is in grave danger. From the "religion of peace."

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

125 For years, artificial intelligence (AI) startups have been pitched as the vehicles of the next productivity boom.

But as product delivery lags behind the hype, some AI companies are slipping into a quieter, more troubling category: startups that are functional but no longer viable.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:09 AM (enSNT)

126 I had one of the coolest names for a television character.
Ever.
Posted by: Artemus Gordon at February 10, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)
---------
Okay.

Posted by: John "Nuke 'em" Sheridan at February 10, 2026 08:10 AM (bxiOq)

127 Short of?

Posted by: Guy who was kind of hoping for more at February 10, 2026 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

128 It's right there in the name.

Posted by: Bangkok at February 10, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

129 Posted by: Piper at February 10, 2026 08:09 AM (PRqXW

I think that there are probably people who go to Thailand other than to have sex with kids. I haven't heard anything redeeming about Cuba for decades .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 08:11 AM (Nx5jP)

130 Not so Great Britain's Starmer is going to have the UK's largest court case archives eliminated.

Epstein.

Rape gangs.

Girls trafficked to Pakistan.

I question the timing!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 08:11 AM (Hbs7G)

131 I entered my name in the DOJ's Epstein library search box. My name isn't in there, but Nancy Pelosi in listed more than 100 times.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at February 10, 2026 08:11 AM (uNwvV)

132 Do People Trust The Media Or Government More?

Respondents were asked whether they trust the government and the media to “do what is right.”

… put me down for neither

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM (enSNT)

133 During Monday's Morning Intern-Murderer Joe, so-called ‘conservative’ writer Matt Lewis alleged ICE was “buying” local police forces across the country through the federal 287(g) program in order to serve as a “paramilitary” force for a possible plot by President Donald Trump to steal the midterm elections.

This suggests to me that the left is worried about the midterms. They should come here and bask in all the posts about how Trump is doomed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

134 Murder suicide with a knife seems like an… unusual choice. I assume it would be extremely difficult to kill yourself with a knife… to overcome the pain and keep going after the first stabby…. I wince just thinking about it.

--

Yeah, my initial thoughts as well. Suicide by self-stabbing? Seems...a very odd method to choose in offing oneself.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM (qBdHI)

135 As president in 2023, Biden followed up by stating, “Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know.”

The Fake Tits Easter Hunt

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

136 Mayor Zohran Mamdani committed a cardinal sin ... to skip the local archbishop’s installation.
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:07 AM (enSNT)
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ISWYDT.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM (bxiOq)

137 Mayor Zohran Mamdani committed a cardinal sin last week by dissing millions of area Catholics as the first city mayor in nearly 100 years — and possibly ever — to skip the local archbishop’s installation.

Why on Earth would anyone want a spawn of Satan involved in their religious rites and services?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 08:13 AM (a4flb)

138 They've got a great car culture in Cuba. Where else can you find a 54 Chevy powered by an outboard motor?

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

139 132 Do People Trust The Media Or Government More?

Respondents were asked whether they trust the government and the media to “do what is right.”

… put me down for neither
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM (enSNT)

Organizations do NOT do the Right Thing as they are ran by Humans that tend to fuck up.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

140 The ungrateful Chinko Wu fool who wants to aggregate all of the "oppressed" invaders of our fine divine land demands the Coming to America retort:

"fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you. who's next?"

Posted by: Despise AWFL Marxist Rat Harlots at February 10, 2026 08:13 AM (9Ai3Q)

141 But once you dissect the data and strip out large orders, a very different picture emerges. The apparent surge in orders shrinks to a mere 0.9%.

What happened? Experience shows that this comes from “Other Vehicle Manufacturing,” which jumped roughly 9.5%. This category is dominated by defense equipment. In short: the federal government’s debt-financed special fund has found its way into German military production.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:14 AM (enSNT)

142 Btw, the convert? He and his family have been living in hiding for a decade, in the UK, because his life is in grave danger. From the "religion of peace."
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)
=====

I don't know about that. I'm a fervent, devout, observant, super duper uber Christian, and I feel comfortable here in the heart of Islam.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at February 10, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

143 The 1st story is a classic domestic...I wouldn't go looking for there, there, when the guy goes to the trouble of self-inflicting wounds on himself to try to get away with a cold blooded domestic murder...

I wish it wasn't a tale as old as time...but it is...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 10, 2026 08:15 AM (tOcjL)

144 136 Mayor Zohran Mamdani committed a cardinal sin ... to skip the local archbishop’s installation.
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:07 AM (enSNT)
----------
ISWYDT.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM (bxiOq)

>>>

Ya. Saw it too. Clever. Props

Posted by: Despise AWFL Marxist Rat Harlots at February 10, 2026 08:16 AM (9Ai3Q)

145 Although they also wrote that “[this] represents confirmation that American nuclear weapons will return to Britain for the first time since President Barack Obama withdrew them 17 years ago”, that was assumed in June after two announcements. The Ministry of Defense revealed that London will purchase 12 F-35As from the US and join NATO’s dual-capable nuclear aircraft mission. The Defense Minister then confirmed in November that the US would retain control over the nuclear weapons involved.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:17 AM (enSNT)

146 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 08:18 AM (77rzZ)

147 Senate Republicans Have The Power To Force Democrats To Filibuster Voter ID — So Why Don’t They?

Because some number of Senate Republicans oppose the SAVE Act and the pretend filibuster allows them to hide their true selves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

148 132 Do People Trust The Media Or Government More?

I think the answer on that poll is not going to be what they expect.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 08:18 AM (jjoN6)

149 I remember whenThe Beard died the jeep carrying his bloated and rapidly decaying body in the Cuba heat broke down during the parade.

Posted by: Culo! at February 10, 2026 08:18 AM (hXJe5)

150 The minute I heard that illegals were able to obtain it in blue states (of course), its purpose and legitimacy flew right out the window. It no longer means anything.
——

It means a great deal, don’t overlook the big pictures. Dereliction of duty by elected state officials and federal officials who overlook it. No system of laws or policies will ever function with idiots or saboteurs thrown in the mix.

Illegal aliens were deemed to have sufficient ID if they could produce an arrest warrant or deportation orders. Americans on the other hand have to subject themselves to all manner of indignities to merely fly on a plane, and get their fingernail clippers confiscated for the privilege.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 08:18 AM (09exb)

151 When she first traveled in 1874 to Fort Apache on the eastern end of central Arizona, it took her five months. First she took the Union Pacific railroad from Jack’s previous station, Fort Cheyenne in Wyoming, to San Francisco. Then she boarded a ship that took her down the coast, around the Baja and up the Gulf of California to Yuma. She then changed ships to continue up the Colorado River to Fort Mohave, about halfway up the state on its western border with California.

Thats nothing! People at the Station on the Cali Lightning Train to Nowhere will not see a train until 2031 or so..

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

152 142 Btw, the convert? He and his family have been living in hiding for a decade, in the UK, because his life is in grave danger. From the "religion of peace."
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)
=====

I don't know about that. I'm a fervent, devout, observant, super duper uber Christian, and I feel comfortable here in the heart of Islam.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at February 10, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

>>>
This is still a sad tale. Almost as bad as watching Candace Owen lose her mind in a dementia tailspin.

Posted by: Despise AWFL Marxist Rat Harlots at February 10, 2026 08:19 AM (9Ai3Q)

153 Today Is National Flannel Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

154 The Man Who Always Has Proof Tomorrow: Adam Schiff Cries Election Fraud Again

The intelligence community’s “Wimpy”

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:20 AM (enSNT)

155 “Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know.”
Posted by: r hennigantx

Real bravery is saying "There are only two genders and you can't switch."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 08:21 AM (jjoN6)

156 The Walt Disney World Monorail spans 14.7 miles (23.7 km), with around 50 million Disney guests traveling on the monorail each year.[9] The system opened with the rest of the Walt Disney World Resort on October 1, 1971. It initially featured four stations: the Transportation and Ticket Center, Disney's Polynesian Resort, the Magic Kingdom and Disney's Contemporary Resort.

Built in less than 2 years.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

157 National Flan Day >>>>>> National Flannel Day

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 08:21 AM (bxiOq)

158 153 Today Is National Flannel Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

Smell Like Teen Spit

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

159 "The SAVE Act will further hammer Democrats on the national level helping secure elections."

It's the hill to die on, no?

If enacted, it'll flip several states.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 10, 2026 08:22 AM (dtajH)

160 153 Today Is National Flannel Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Every day is Flannel Day!

Posted by: Dykes With Wallet Chains at February 10, 2026 08:22 AM (oftw2)

161
Why hasn't he come out as Tucker Qatarlson yet?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 08:23 AM (xG4kz)

162 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 08:23 AM (cYBz/)

163 The entire super sportsball game was a shitshow, including halftime.

meh. I don't pay for a streaming service, and we had plenty of food and drinks and comradery and mostly ignored a boring spectacle of horrible execution. I have not given the pathetic NFL a fucking dime since the 90s.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 08:24 AM (xFfhU)

164 Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

I think Trump should consider offering this guy and his family asylum.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 08:24 AM (Nx5jP)

165 Some staffers woke up Chuck Grassley and reminded him he’s opposed to the SAVE act… sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:25 AM (fQqaC)

166 Good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 10, 2026 08:25 AM (wtPTj)

167 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 08:25 AM (KN2gu)

168 97% of Mississippi Voter have a Real ID.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 07:43 AM (gbOdA)

Blacks and women only comprise 3% of the Mississippi electorate?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

169 160 153 Today Is National Flannel Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Every day is Flannel Day!
Posted by: Dykes With Wallet Chains at February 10, 2026 08:22 AM (oftw2)

Like most middle aged men that become women use Tootsie as a role model all the Lesbos seem to use Joe Dirt.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

170 Blacks and women only comprise 3% of the Mississippi electorate?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

kind a funny

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

171 138 They've got a great car culture in Cuba. Where else can you find a 54 Chevy powered by an outboard motor?
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

The US can send all their leftover stock of unpurchased EVs there, and they can do the jeepney Filipino thing with the carcasses.

Posted by: Roy at February 10, 2026 08:26 AM (lHwr/)

172 Meanwhile in Minneapolis, Antifa is now gluing dildos to they/them's foreheads. I have no idea why, but the WNBA is obviously hardest hit.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 08:27 AM (Aqf1y)

173 "Suicide by self-stabbing? Seems...a very odd method to choose in offing oneself.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM"
---
Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: To quote Dennis Miller at February 10, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)

174 Meanwhile in Minneapolis, Antifa is now gluing dildos to they/them's foreheads. I have no idea why, but the WNBA is obviously hardest hit.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 08:27 AM (Aqf1y)

That seems . . . suboptimal. How are the knitted skull caps going to fit now?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2026 08:28 AM (wVcYX)

175
Meanwhile in Minneapolis, Antifa is now gluing dildos to they/them's foreheads. I have no idea why, but the WNBA is obviously hardest hit.
Posted by: Ian S.

It's Dicks Out for 'Dishu Day

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 08:29 AM (xG4kz)

176 I don't understand why anyone would go to Cuba for vacation?."

Ever been there? The Old Man always told us that the island was the most beautiful place on earth - and he had been around...

Can't wait to go, myself. (yeah, I know - it's been 70 years)

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

177 Real ID has been compromised.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 07:55 AM (qFwJc)

We must enact Ultra Real ID. No petty bureaucrat would give one of those out for $100.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

178 That seems . . . suboptimal. How are the knitted skull caps going to fit now?
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2026 08:28 AM (wVcYX)

Move the eye hole up and to the center

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

179 I wanted to make myself feel good by telling myself the bad bunny halftime show failed… but alas by shear numbers: if you believe what I heard on the radio this morning, something like 120 million people watched bad bunny while only around 20 million watched the TPUSA alternative. 20 million is a huge number.. great… but so much smaller than what bad bunny got. I wish it weren’t so…. Perhaps a big part of it is inertia… in most households they didn’t go to the trouble of changing channels

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:29 AM (fQqaC)

180 Meanwhile in Minneapolis, Antifa is now gluing dildos to they/them's foreheads. I have no idea why,

The demons inhabiting them are bored.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 08:29 AM (a4flb)

181 In other news, schools are closed here.

Why aren't the teachers coming to work?

Well, Monday is a holiday and then its Chinese New Year's, and after all, fvck the kids.

Our Hero Educators

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

182 That seems . . . suboptimal. How are the knitted skull caps going to fit now?"

Specially made ones. Available on Etsy. Virgin woo... $29.99

Duh.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:30 AM (XuXeR)

183 Are the dildos being glued to foreheads… are they green?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:31 AM (fQqaC)

184 Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 08:27 AM (Aqf1y

I think it's their terribly subtle way /s of saying s*** my d**k to ICE agent s or that the ICE agents are d***s.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 08:31 AM (Nx5jP)

185 173 "Suicide by self-stabbing? Seems...a very odd method to choose in offing oneself.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2026 08:12 AM"
---
Police suspect fair play.
Posted by: To quote Dennis Miller at February 10, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)

"Oy gevalt!"

- - zombie Donald Manes

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2026 08:31 AM (x0n13)

186 something like 120 million people watched bad bunny while only around 20 million watched the TPUSA alternative

I mean, yeah, you're never going to actually beat the biggest broadcast of the year on streaming. The fact that it did that well is honestly way beyond what I expected.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 08:31 AM (Aqf1y)

187 179 I wanted to make myself feel good by telling myself the bad bunny halftime show failed… but alas by shear numbers: if you believe what I heard on the radio this morning, something like 120 million people watched bad bunny while only around 20 million watched the TPUSA alternative. 20 million is a huge number.. great… but so much smaller than what bad bunny got. I wish it weren’t so…. Perhaps a big part of it is inertia… in most households they didn’t go to the trouble of changing channels
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:29 AM (fQqaC)

It's all relative - 15M more watched last year's halftime show...so TPUSA took a large bite out of this year's crowd.

Since it's all about money, that matters. TPUSA didn't need Super Bowl numbers...the Super Bowl did b/c of the $7M/commercial charges to advertisers...you can't charge that if your viewers are down more than 10%...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 10, 2026 08:32 AM (tOcjL)

188 something like 120 million people watched bad bunny while only around 20 million watched the TPUSA alternative"

Interesting assertion. Was there any proof?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

189
And what were the numbers for those folks who did not watch any of the Superb Owl flustercuck?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 08:32 AM (xG4kz)

190 Only seven bombing days left til Ramadan!

Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 08:32 AM (y9ksN)

191 RealID has never been tried.

Posted by: Blue haired twentysomething with a tackle box face at February 10, 2026 08:33 AM (2Ez/1)

192 Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.

Especially anything related to statistics, distributed by regime apparatchiks. Superb Owl isn’t dead, it just smells like it.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 08:33 AM (09exb)

193 Especially anything related to statistics, distributed by regime apparatchiks."

So, boot production numbers might not be on the up and up?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:34 AM (XuXeR)

194 84.63% of statistics are made up.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

195 >>>Perhaps a big part of it is inertia… in most households they didn’t go to the trouble of changing channels

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

>The mute button is the most valuable button on the remote when you're preparing hors d'oeuvres and serving victuals.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 08:35 AM (xFfhU)

196 84.63% of statistics are made up."

On the internets? No Way!

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

197 84.63% of statistics are made up.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)
====
Precise but inaccurate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

198 >>It's the hill to die on, no?

>>If enacted, it'll flip several states.

It absolutely should be. Not only will it flip states as you noted it will make it even harder for a Democrat to win the presidency.

And it will open more eyes. It already is. There is absolutely no legitimate reason for Democrats to oppose mandatory voter ID when even a large majority of Democrat voters want it. Their arguments that it would somehow disenfranchise women and minorities is no longer working and they sound increasingly unhinged and dishonest by repeating it.

Keep hammering the left on all fronts. They are collapsing before our eyes.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:36 AM (viF8m)

199
The mute button is the most valuable button on the remote when you're preparing hors d'oeuvres and serving victuals.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

"Ahem"

-- the Off button

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 08:36 AM (xG4kz)

200
Two hunnert

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2026 08:37 AM (xG4kz)

201 84.63% of statistics are made up.
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

43.9% of all Americans know that.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 10, 2026 08:37 AM (y9ksN)

202 Elon Musk

@elonmusk
·
Feb 3
This is crucial to save democracy in America.
===========================

https://tinyurl.com/k4k68z9p

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 08:38 AM (Bapld)

203 All statistics are wrong.

Some are useful.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2026 08:38 AM (wVcYX)

204 "That said, it's funny how they keep calling us a Democracy which is why I find this comment from the execrable tosser Ossoff rather amusing in a vomitus inducing chutzpocritical way."

That is meant to appeal to independents, LIV's and some Republicans. Ossoff tries to come off as a moderate Dem and avoids the worst of the verbal attacks/insults on Trump and MAGA. However he vote 100% prog-Dem as directed by Schumer. Not a single independent thought in his skull.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2026 08:39 AM (PTDkx)

205 Guys, I don't think we can call Kamel-toe Harris a retard anymore. I think she's actually retarded.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 10, 2026 08:40 AM (cxFcK)

206 I wanted to make myself feel good by telling myself the bad bunny halftime show failed… but alas by shear numbers: if you believe what I heard on the radio this morning, something like 120 million people watched bad bunny while only around 20 million watched the TPUSA alternative.

They are lying to you. As usual. Go check yourself for Gell-Mann Amnesia.

TPUSA was across several mediums; they report preliminary well over 20 million view. They are having a third party auditor do the validations for the obvious reasons.

The enemedia lies about viewership, in the case of the Superb Owl, the number of households is multiplied by 2.5 to guesttimate the number of viewers. This courtesy was not given to TPUSA where a stream is considered to be only one viewer.

The Demonic Party does ballot counting the exact same way.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 08:41 AM (a4flb)

207 “ There is no negotiating with terrorists”

Someone needs to remind Trump of this. Because he did exactly that in Minnesota. Pulling out 700 ice officers in exchange for Some Bullshit promise of co-operation from local police.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 08:41 AM (y6810)

208 Like it or not, the NFL is the most lucrative sports enterprise on the planet. Can anyone else find companies willing to spend $10 million for a 30 second commercial? FIFA World Cup? Olympics?NCAA?

Posted by: Free Market Capitalism at February 10, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

209
Here's another Peacock remake/reimagining of an 80s movie that's just Too Wu For You!

Enjoy The 'Burbs

https://tinyurl.com/5n743z6p

Another Peacock* series for the lonely AWFL, annoying gay, or racist woke Black person in you!

Via Insty.

* Peacock is a pretty good descriptor for any guy who'd watch this mess.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 08:42 AM (iJfKG)

210 Ace says on twitter that Two-Tier Keir is firing every cabinet minister who failed to tweet support for Starmer by the end of the yesterday.

Anyone? ... Buehler?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 08:42 AM (Bapld)

211 Apparently, Paramount + has a show that is a contender for worse than Star Trek: Academy.

They have race/gender/sexuality swapped the mildly amusing movie "The Burbs" into a series.

When the left thinks they are better than you, this is the version of "better" they come up with.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 08:42 AM (HXT0k)

212 The Walt Disney World Monorail spans 14.7 miles (23.7 km), with around 50 million Disney guests traveling on the monorail each year.[9] The system opened with the rest of the Walt Disney World Resort on October 1, 1971. It initially featured four stations: the Transportation and Ticket Center, Disney's Polynesian Resort, the Magic Kingdom and Disney's Contemporary Resort.

Built in less than 2 years.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 10, 2026 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

What about the one in Ogdenville? Or North Haverbrook?!?

- Lyle Landley

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 08:43 AM (B4Se1)

213 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 10, 2026 08:43 AM (53oGX)

214 Ace says on twitter that Two-Tier Keir is firing every cabinet minister who failed to tweet support for Starmer by the end of the yesterday.

Anyone? ... Buehler?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 08:42 AM (Bapld)

Never be the first to stop clapping.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 10, 2026 08:43 AM (wVcYX)

215 OK, looked up Donald Manes and why he committed suicide. Man could have held on for a few more years and everything he did would be handwaved away.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 08:43 AM (jjoN6)

216 NFL skews far left. So it’s not surprising that audience was watching an anti American foreigner perform in Spanish and cheering him on.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 08:44 AM (y6810)

217 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

218 Like it or not, the NFL is the most lucrative sports enterprise on the planet. Can anyone else find companies willing to spend $10 million for a 30 second commercial? FIFA World Cup? Olympics?NCAA?
Posted by: Free Market Capitalism at February 10, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

You can get a good return on the investment of paying for a Super Bowl commercial. 'Til you can't.

Posted by: Doof at February 10, 2026 08:44 AM (B4Se1)

219 in the case of the Superb Owl,"

Sponsored by Sofa King?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

220 Peacock is a pretty good descriptor for any guy who'd watch this mess.

At least Peacock has Renfield and I get it for free. Not watching that show, however.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 08:44 AM (jjoN6)

221 Good morning!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 08:45 AM (48ipd)

222 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

Federal immigration agents are now adding leftists' name and photo to a NATIONWIDE DATABASE if they stalk and impede officers, per Reuters

YES! JUST as Tom Homan promised!

Multiple leftists have watched as agents take their info down, only to inform them their names are now being inputted into federal systems

This instance in Maine from a few weeks ago: "We have a nice little database and now you are considered a domestic terrorist!"

I VOTED FOR THIS.
https://tinyurl.com/42xjzmjc

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

223 So, hopefully, Andy Beshear ended his political career yesterday. He endorsed medical experimentation on helpless children.

https://tinyurl.com/bdsmf5cd

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 08:45 AM (Bapld)

224 >>>Like it or not, the NFL is the most lucrative sports enterprise on the planet. Can anyone else find companies willing to spend $10 million for a 30 second commercial? FIFA World Cup? Olympics?NCAA?

Posted by: Free Market Capitalism

>Were there any memorable commercials? I can't think of one.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 08:45 AM (xFfhU)

225 Last time I went to vote I showed them my ID anyway just to make the point that I believe in that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 08:45 AM (rZCVI)

226

The documents include a previously unreported 2019 FBI interview summary with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter. Trump had contacted the department shortly after reports of Epstein's criminal sex investigation became public.

The future president contacted Reiter to express relief that authorities were finally acting, suggesting his associates in New York had described Epstein's behaviors as "disgusting," and advised investigators to focus on Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he described as "evil."

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

227 I've seen reports that anti-ICE protestors are having their TSA Pre Check and Global Entry credentials canceled.

I voted for this too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

228 From the wisdom of Yudhishthira's Dice

I think a lot of people have a difficult time grasping the psychology of the Left, because they're sane. But it's really very simple. Just step back and look at the things they're passionate about.

The global warming scam, and attendant destruction of the energy system. Abortion. Homosexuality. Gun control. Child sterilization and genital mutilation. Pointless wars. Demonstrably disastrous socialism. Violent racism. Hatred of religion. And so on.

It's not complicated.

You're looking at a death cult.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

229 Morn' all... I believe the Stupid Bowl numbers regarding Dust Bunny, or Bad Bunny as some call him... It was out of curiosity because of all the hype....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 08:47 AM (HbB1p)

230 225 Last time I went to vote I showed them my ID anyway just to make the point that I believe in that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

And that's why you're on a list. -:-)

In all seriousness, the idea that we should not demand IDs at the polls is so idiotic that it rode the short bus to school.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 08:47 AM (jjoN6)

231 120 million people tuned in to watch the Super Bowl not the rabid rabbit.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:47 AM (viF8m)

232 I can’t believe I did this but last night I actually watched 30 minutes of a curling game (match?)… the American mixed doubles team beat an Italian team to advance to the gold medal game where they’ll meet Sweden. I can’t figure out why they furiously scrub the ice as the thing (I forgot what they call it) slides to its destination but it makes me chuckle to watch them furiously scrub…. Curling is a weird weird game (not a sport, a game)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:47 AM (fQqaC)

233 The Left is going beyond Stalin / Hitler hatred.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

234 Like it or not, the NFL is the most lucrative sports enterprise on the planet.
——-

They had a license to print money, practically speaking.

And they fucked that arrangement up. Like a soup sandwich. That’s how you can tell True Believers, Lunatics, and assorted neurotics are in charge.

No sane people would ever, ever do this.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 08:48 AM (09exb)

235 Speaking of asses Dutch speed skater Jutta Leerland has a nice one.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 10, 2026 08:48 AM (ZbPL4)

236 229 Donna, I agree.

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

237 Thee Italian curling babe was fairly attractive. Turns out, she's a cop.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 08:48 AM (Bapld)

238 I haven't watched feetsball in 30 years and didn't watch the game, or the Bunny. I did watch the TPUSA halftime show, but no one knows I did. I have Real America's voice on my Dish Network and watched it live there. I wonder how many others did. More people might have seen it than we think.

Posted by: Outlier at February 10, 2026 08:49 AM (oftw2)

239 You're looking at a death cult.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

And they think that complete destruction of everything is the only good out there.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 08:49 AM (jjoN6)

240 So, hopefully, Andy Beshear ended his political career yesterday. He endorsed medical experimentation on helpless children.

You underestimate how mentally and morally bankrupt the KY hill scoggin are.

Watch as Beshear replaces Glitch when the Senator finally vapor locks.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 08:49 AM (a4flb)

241 >Were there any memorable commercials? I can't think of one.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 08:45 AM
+++

Relax your tight end.

Posted by: Novartis at February 10, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

242 And that's why you're on a list
——-
If you’re not on a list by now, you should be ashamed of yourself!

Posted by: Common Tater at February 10, 2026 08:50 AM (09exb)

243
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (tljrc)

244 Republicans changed the usual calculus last year when they passed the OBBBA on a party-line basis, which provided roughly $300 billion in new defense and immigration-related budget authority on top of the discretionary budget. Under the OBBBA, ICE received roughly $75 billion in new budget authority—seven times ICE’s typical annual budget of $10 billion. These funds remain available to the current administration whether Congress passes an annual budget or not.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (RHGPo)

245 You're looking at a death cult.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)
---
The key point is that hitherto, this has been a cost-free belief system. In fact, under the DEI regime, it was actually a benefit.

Now that costs are being imposed, we shall see how resilient they are in acting on these beliefs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (ZOv7s)

246 Guys, I don't think we can call Kamel-toe Harris a retard anymore. I think she's actually retarded.
Posted by: Blutarski

The repeated actions she performed during her (ahem) rise to prominence have resulted in a Hypoxic/anoxic injury.

We see it every time she speaks.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (cYBz/)

247 I watched the TPUSA half time show on OAN

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (HbB1p)

248 >>I wonder how many others did. More people might have seen it than we think

As I mentioned above, Kid Rock's cover of Til You Can't is now the #1 song in all genres at iTunes.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (viF8m)

249 Describe the rioting suspects. Scruffy looking, smelled bad and had green dildos glued to their foreheads.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (yI5mB)

250 The Real ID requires you to provide birth certificate and all kinds of stuff that illegals won't have to prove they are citizens. Heck I couldn't get mine because I forgot to bring my marriage license to prove the name change. I said f it, I'm not going on a plane or going into a federal building so I don't care. It'll wait till next time around.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 10, 2026 08:52 AM (BCuCF)

251 I watched the Puppy Bowl...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

252 The NFL couldn’t destroy their business and profitability if they tried (and they are trying)… live sports are much superior entertainment to the crap that passes as network TV shows these days. They have zero competition….. will they die? Yes eventually everything does but it won’t happen in my lifetime

Owning an NFL team is like owning a money printing press. Even the perpetually awful teams (looking at you Bengals) make money hand over fist regardless of record

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:52 AM (fQqaC)

253 As I mentioned above, Kid Rock's cover of Til You Can't is now the #1 song in all genres at iTunes.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (viF8m)

It's a good song

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (HbB1p)

254
Bad Beava
He got a feva
For an otter
End zone receiva
Gonna drool
like a Golden Retrieva
This ain't Wynona's
big brown beaver

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (vFG9F)

255 The Real ID requires you to provide birth certificate and all kinds of stuff that illegals won't have to prove they are citizens. "

Si.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

256 Why do dildoes come in different colors, anyway? Do some people have fetishes about certain colors?

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (77rzZ)

257 Yeah, we're in the endgame. The bullets have already started flying, and Leftists from the street level on up are flatly stating that they're planning to turn this place into a totalitarian slaughterhouse the moment they regain power - which will likely be quite soon.

It's pretty surreal watching this play out.

On the one hand, you have them saying "it's good someone shot Trump and Kirk, you know you can't keep us at bay forever, and one day real soon we're gonna be back on top and we're gonna kill you mf'ers the moment it happens."

And on the other, you have no small number of people on the Right saying "Trump won, everything is awesome, and their spittle-flecked, bloodthirsty fanaticism is actually a sign of weakness."

It is not. It's the attitude of people who are well and truly fed up with being constantly denied the absolute power they crave, and are not going to put up with it anymore. This was supposed to be achieved through institutional subversion, the brass ring was snatched from their hand at the moment of victory, and now they're preparing for war.

Stop scoffing, and take this seriously. They certainly are.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (BI5O2)

258 San Franpsycho

Do onto others before they do onto you. One of the Commandments, right? On the Tablet that fell out of Moses hand while coming down the mountain.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 08:54 AM (u82oZ)

259 Immigrant groups have a message for their mostly White allies: Quit blowing the whistle on ICE. They also pointed to disproportionate impacts on "Black and Brown communities" that are already "overexposed to chronic noise pollution," which they linked to PTSD, anxiety, sleep disruption and heart disease.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

260 watched the TPUSA half time show on OAN
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 08:51 AM (HbB1p)
*******
I watched it on YouTube.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

261 Promethius.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 10, 2026 08:54 AM (Kt19C)

262 Minn. Governor Candidate Ends Campaign After Daughter, 22, Is Found Stabbed to Death in Her Home

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

263 If you watch the nfl you’re endorsing their politics. You can spin it all you want. Oh I don’t pay for it ,
I watch it for free. Ok but you still make money for the nfl when you watch it “for free” by giving them eyeballs which they then sell to advertisers. And the. They use that money do things like hire bad bunny and promote tranny cheerleaders and fuck whitey signs in the end zone.

Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (y6810)

264 Why do dildoes come in different colors, anyway? Do some people have fetishes about certain colors?
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (77rzZ)
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Yes, like green M&Ms.

We always separated them out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX)

265 The Hill: To save democracy, elect a Congress that will impeach Trump, add more justices. Before more violence erupts, more children are traumatized, more corruption consumes government, and more Americans experience moral injury, the U.S. must act decisively to remove President Trump from power.

...the republic can’t survive three more years of this president.

...moral injury is defined as “the sense that we do not really know each other and that our society doesn’t believe or act the way we thought it would. This can lead to a sense of hopelessness and loss of faith in individuals and organizations.”

...today, the people of Minneapolis are defending themselves against the federal government, rather than being defended by it.

...Because the Supreme Court has aided and abetted Trump’s authoritarianism, Congress would restore reasonable ideological balance either by adding several new moderate justices or removing some of the existing conservatives for ethical lapses (Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito)

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (JCZqz)

266 Damn, JJ. (re: pic up top.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (bss/y)

267 *Owning an NFL team is like owning a money printing press. Even the perpetually awful teams (looking at you Bengals) make money hand over fist regardless of record
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 08:52 AM*

They make a profit regardless of the quality of the product they put on the field.

Posted by: What a racket at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

268 Were there any memorable commercials? I can't think of one.

Usually there’s hype about commercials. This year the only one to draw attention was William Shatner making a series of poop jokes. Which, granted, was pretty funny.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (QZThv)

269 Shiffren finishes 4th, blowing it for her partner Johnson, who had put them in the lead for combined. A different, less known American team beat them for the bronze.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 10, 2026 08:56 AM (tOcjL)

270 he NFL couldn’t destroy their business and profitability if they tried"

FWIW, it's the stadiums/facilities. All of those $$$ offloaded to taxpayers for... something.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:56 AM (XuXeR)

271 I wanted to make myself feel good by telling myself the bad bunny halftime show failed… but alas by shear numbers: if you believe what I heard on the radio this morning, something like 120 million people watched bad bunny while only around 20 million watched the TPUSA alternative.

They are lying to you. As usual. Go check yourself for Gell-Mann Amnesia.

TPUSA was across several mediums; they report preliminary well over 20 million view. They are having a third party auditor do the validations for the obvious reasons.

The enemedia lies about viewership, in the case of the Superb Owl, the number of households is multiplied by 2.5 to guesttimate the number of viewers. This courtesy was not given to TPUSA where a stream is considered to be only one viewer.

The Demonic Party does ballot counting the exact same way.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Also, go to Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms. Watch video clips of the actual people in the stadium stands. They looked like zombies. Maybe one out of fifty was actually jamming to the music.

Most people were WTF? It went over like a fart in church. And that was a captive audience that couldn't turn it off.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 08:56 AM (KN2gu)

272 233 The Left is going beyond Stalin / Hitler hatred.

Indeed... What FOOLS these mortals be.

Proudly doing unto their own people, PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries -- they are ALL IN to sully Trump Presiding over America250.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3EzRAgjo_s
BattlestarGalactica: So say we All...

Satire is simply LOST upon the LIBs.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 10, 2026 08:56 AM (l4HQP)

273
They make a profit regardless of the quality of the product they put on the field.
Posted by: What a racket at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

Remember the Browns?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 08:56 AM (bss/y)

274 Rich Elites Ignored Climate Change by Flying Hundreds of Private Jets to the Super Bowl

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

275 It is not. It's the attitude of people who are well and truly fed up with being constantly denied the absolute power they crave, and are not going to put up with it anymore. This was supposed to be achieved through institutional subversion, the brass ring was snatched from their hand at the moment of victory, and now they're preparing for war.

Stop scoffing, and take this seriously. They certainly are.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (BI5O2)
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They think they are preparing for war, but they have not yet paid any costs for their beliefs. I'm curious as to what their endurance will be.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

276
Scene: NYC, 5 degrees F, wind 20 mph.

One of Mayor Mamdani's Socialist Angels: Won't you come into the shelter?

Homeless Derelict Sleeping on the Ground: No! Get away from me!

One of Mayor Mamdani's Socialist Angels: Pretty please?

Homeless Derelict Sleeping on the Ground: No! Fug yoo! *farts*

One of Mayor Mamdani's Socialist Angels: OK then. Have a nice day.

Homeless Derelict Sleeping on the Ground: *slowly freezes solid*

One of Mayor Mamdani's Socialist Angels: It's a mystery.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 10, 2026 08:57 AM (HLgI3)

277 Stop scoffing, and take this seriously. They certainly are.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (BI5O2)

258 San Franpsycho

Do onto others before they do onto you. One of the Commandments, right? On the Tablet that fell out of Moses hand while coming down the mountain.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 08:54 AM (u82oZ)
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Hordemind right there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2026 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

278 When this is all over, and Trump is gone, and Democrats are back in charge, and we’re rebuilding everything, the punishment for MAGA for voting Trump three times needs to be that they lose their internet access for four years.
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Following the maxim: All laws are or will be eventually enforced by men with guns and such always includes the possibility of death.
This is their mildest of threats; not what they really mean.

Which is to say, those f'ing retards like Massie and Paul and all the rest that think this is a mild spat that will blow over soon?
No.
Your stupid goofy ass will be right up against the wall with the rest of the "Nazis" no matter how much you blubber and cry "BUT I WAS A GOOD REPUBLICAN, I HATED TRUMP TOO!!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 08:58 AM (HXT0k)

279 270 he NFL couldn’t destroy their business and profitability if they tried"

FWIW, it's the stadiums/facilities. All of those $$$ offloaded to taxpayers for... something.
Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:56 AM (XuXeR)

Let me look it up...

*pages through bullshit manual*

Oh, here it is: You get 10x what you spend back in money spent in the city.

Well, not you, the tax payer of course.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 08:58 AM (bss/y)

280 >>Most people were WTF? It went over like a fart in church. And that was a captive audience that couldn't turn it off.

Wait until more people understand the actual lyrics of the song that degenerate was singing.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 08:58 AM (viF8m)

281 >>I think it's their terribly subtle way /s of saying s*** my d**k to ICE agent s or that the ICE agents are d***s.

Heh, didn't expect to see this was from you, Fen!

What it says to me is: I am a child still obsessed with genitals, so it makes sense that I express my anger b throwing dildos.

These people are children having public tantrums, yet no doubt believe themselves clever and edgy. GROW UP

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 08:58 AM (48ipd)

282 I can’t figure out why they furiously scrub the ice
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Melts the ice so the surface is frictionless.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 08:58 AM (bxiOq)

283 I was not familiar with Kid Rock, but he has a nice voice and I appreciated the additional lyrics he added.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 08:59 AM (Nx5jP)

284 Watch video clips of the actual people in the stadium stands."

It's corporate paid seating. I'd venture that a significant percentage of attendees couldn't idenify much about the game or participants.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 08:59 AM (XuXeR)

285 There's a difference between a Real ID and a drivers license. The problem is blue states are giving drivers licenses to illegals and then using the drivers license as ID for voting. Drivers licenses don't confer citizenship on anyone, but the morons in blue states keep using it as "the ID" for voting.
We have to stop referring to a drivers license/photo ID as required to vote. That is incorrect.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 10, 2026 08:59 AM (BCuCF)

286 I wanted to make myself feel good by telling myself the bad bunny halftime show failed… but alas by shear numbers: if you believe what I heard on the radio this morning, something like 120 million people watched bad bunny

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

120M had the channel on for the football game. 120M didn't watch the halftime show. I.e. nobody changed the channel

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 10, 2026 08:59 AM (2f+Mn)

287 Why do dildoes come in different colors, anyway? Do some people have fetishes about certain colors?
Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 08:53 AM (77rzZ)
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Yes, like green M&Ms.

We always separated them out.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

That's because the green M&M's made girls horny.

Hey. I didn't make the rules.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:00 AM (KN2gu)

288 In a message circulated among commuters Friday, the community group Defrost MN, which uses crowdsourced data to track federal immigration operations, warned residents of an “uptick in abductions” — which refer to arrests of both immigrant community members and legal observers — following Homan’s takeover and an increase in the number of government personnel and vehicles involved in those operations.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

289 *Remember the Browns?*

You mean the team whose stadium is named The Factory Of Sadness?

Posted by: Mistake By The Lake at February 10, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

290 That's because the green M&M's made girls horny.

Hey. I didn't make the rules.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:00 AM (KN2gu)

*takes notes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:00 AM (bss/y)

291 Most people were WTF? It went over like a fart in church. And that was a captive audience that couldn't turn it off.

People don’t pay a lot of attention to the halftime show. That’s prime bathroom and refilling your beer time. I actually got to go to the Super Bowl for work 20 years ago and people in the stadium don’t pay attention to the halftime. And that’s when it was a watchable halftime.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 09:01 AM (QZThv)

292 warned residents of an “uptick in abductions”

So, UFOs?

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:01 AM (XuXeR)

293 >>>Owning an NFL team is like owning a money printing press. Even the perpetually awful teams (looking at you Bengals) make money hand over fist regardless of record
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

>Coach Biden accomplished getting the Las Vegas Raiders the #1 pick, so you gotta give him credit for that.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:01 AM (xFfhU)

294 The Irish Times
@IrishTimes
Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, “not even a parking ticket”

Oh please. He was admitted on a 90 day visitor’s visa 20 years ago and never left. He was offered instant deportation to Ireland last year and declined so he’s awaiting his case in a detention center. His choice. Kafka? You undermine your own argument with such hyperbole.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

295 >>Wait until more people understand the actual lyrics of the song that degenerate was singing.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID HE SING IN SPANISH, BUT THE INTERPRETER FOR DEARING IMPAIRED USED RARELY USED PUERTO RICAN SIGN LANUAGE SO THAT EVEN THEY WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS SINGING.

(Puerto Rico's standard is ASL)

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 10, 2026 09:02 AM (48ipd)

296 Quit blowing the whistle on ICE.

Saw a video of a dude trolling these people by parking near protesters and blowing a whistle. It was a like a mating call for failed humans because they came out of the woodwork.

They also pointed to disproportionate impacts on "Black and Brown communities" that are already "overexposed to chronic noise pollution,"

Maybe if you people stopped having conversations at 120 db at 11PM, you'd be less traumatized.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 09:02 AM (jjoN6)

297 Which is to say, those f'ing retards like Massie and Paul and all the rest that think this is a mild spat that will blow over soon?

Massie and Paul, like all other politicians, are not human. They don't have a soul, they don't have a conscience, they don't have any wisdom. When they die, they will follow all of the others to their proper home in the bowels of Hell.

For a nation of 400 million people, the worst rises to the top of the toilet bowl.

Ignore what they say and do. They don't mean any of it. Their statements are just sounds that they feel will somehow benefit them and hurt their opponents. There is nothing more to it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 10, 2026 09:02 AM (a4flb)

298 For 2022, it was estimated that for illegal aliens just in Texas, the cost of benefits and services provided was $9,942,111,305. According to the same report, when adding the costs of the children of illegal aliens in Texas, the cost to taxpayers was over $13 billion.
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And that's just cost to the taxpayers from government.

Now add in personal increases for:
Housing
Food
Insurance

The entire government is bleeding us dry so that illegals can live what used to be our American Dream for free.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 10, 2026 09:03 AM (HXT0k)

299 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

In my newly expanded social horizons at the County Senior Center, I take no shit. I answer unhinged Leftist cant with a calm, factual argument. The Leftist don't like it, and the real target, the bystanders, appreciate my actions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 09:03 AM (u82oZ)

300 >Coach Biden accomplished getting the Las Vegas Raiders the #1 pick, so you gotta give him credit for that.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:01 AM (xFfhU

Loved. the old Oakland Raiders.. Used to watch years ago.. The Niners too when they had Montana and Steve Young... Really haven't watched since

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 09:03 AM (HbB1p)

301 Gene Wu = Alice Lele Guo

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:03 AM (2GVsD)

302 271 I wanted to make myself feel good... TPUSA alternative....
...
TPUSA was across several mediums...
Most people were WTF? It went over like a fart in church. And that was a captive audience that couldn't turn it off.

SuperbowlHalftime: The Fart Museum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDdp_N_lcR8

FutureOfSuperbowlHalftimes: The State of the Union Speaches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig446isvXlI

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell :: there will be no peace as long as (Charlie) Kirk is remembered -- Klingon Ambassador/Libbing-out

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 10, 2026 09:03 AM (Zf62f)

303 People don’t pay a lot of attention to the halftime show"

WHAT???? They're really here to see us perform.

/Band Jocks Everywhere

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:03 AM (XuXeR)

304 People don’t pay a lot of attention to the halftime show. That’s prime bathroom and refilling your beer time. I actually got to go to the Super Bowl for work 20 years ago and people in the stadium don’t pay attention to the halftime. And that’s when it was a watchable halftime.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 10, 2026 09:01 AM (QZThv)

I cannot imagine how much concessions are at the Superbowl.

I saw something the other day a guy was talking about the current state of Disney. Evidently you have to schedule which rides you want to go on in what order and time like months in advance. You cannot just walk up to a ride.

This is fucking stupid. That's like... so someone who decides to go on the day is just screwed and you piss on them. You people are fucking stupid evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:03 AM (bss/y)

305 Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

Maybe glance at the top story of the post before you cut and paste from other sources.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 10, 2026 09:04 AM (n9ltV)

306 I wanted to make myself feel good by telling myself the bad bunny halftime show failed… but alas by shear numbers: if you believe what I heard on the radio this morning, something like 120 million people watched bad bunny

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

120M had the channel on for the football game. 120M didn't watch the halftime show. I.e. nobody changed the channel
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 10, 2026 08:59 AM (2f+Mn)
******
Many people switched to side by side on their Televisions.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2026 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

307 >>Stop scoffing, and take this seriously. They certainly are.

I don't think anyone who watched what the left has done to us over the last decade isn't taking this seriously. They tried to blow Trump's head off after failing to stop him or us. They threw over 1000 in prison for a fake riot on J6. They sent the FBI out to harass Christians for following their faith. They flooded the country with millions of criminal illegal aliens to replace our votes. They stole election right in front of our eyes. They murdered Charlie Kirk and laughed about it. And on and on and on.

I don't think there are many here who don't understand the stakes. We hope that this can be stopped lawfully because that's who we are but if it isn't I think we know what comes next.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 09:04 AM (viF8m)

308 If you watch the nfl you’re endorsing their politics. You can spin it all you want. Oh I don’t pay for it ,
I watch it for free. Ok but you still make money for the nfl when you watch it “for free” by giving them eyeballs which they then sell to advertisers. And the. They use that money do things like hire bad bunny and promote tranny cheerleaders and fuck whitey signs in the end zone.
Posted by: Really?? at February 10, 2026 08:55 AM (y6810)

Can you pass the purity test? Everything you buy has zero connection to lefties? Your bank… grocery store… clothes… etc etc?? If you can pass the purity test you might not be living in modern society because as has been noted here many times institutional capture has happened all over… you pay your taxes they’re used for lefty causes. So excuse me if I don’t feel guilty for watching a football game…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 10, 2026 09:05 AM (ZCxQ+)

309 Maybe if you people stopped having conversations at 120 db at 11PM, you'd be less traumatized.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 09:02 AM (jjoN6)

Do you mean gunfights? Cause it kind of sounds like gunfire.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:05 AM (bss/y)

310 "BTW, Kid Rock's cover of Til You Can't is now the #1 song in all genres at iTunes, ahead of Bad Bunny."
Posted by: JackStraw

Glen Beck said Bad Bunny was like #87, on those "Top 40" charts. idk if that is true, but many had never heard of him before.

The left is moving on with their "White Man Bad/Evil" Warfare, which may not work so well for them, unless we move ever further toward dystopia. There is a lot of pushback.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2026 09:05 AM (vbXSk)

311 Soo pissed that Peacock is the only place I can watch the mixed doubles curling event today at noon. I don't have peacock. I wanted to record it to watch tonight. Damn.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 10, 2026 09:05 AM (BCuCF)

312 Owning an NFL team is like owning a money printing press. Even the perpetually awful teams (looking at you Bengals) make money hand over fist regardless of record
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

NFL revenue sharing is a system where the league distributes national revenue equally among all 32 teams, ensuring competitive balance and financial stability. In the 2024 season, each team received a record $432.6 million from league-wide revenue sharing, totaling over $13.8 billion in shared revenue. This includes income from national TV and streaming contracts, merchandising, licensing, league sponsorships, and 40% of ticket sales (with the remaining 60% kept by the home team).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

313 Here’s what many headlines are leaving out about claims that the Supreme Court is about to ban dual citizenship. The real issue started on February 7, 2026, with two new proposals: the Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025 and the Disqualifying Dual Loyalty Act. This is not a sudden move by the Court. It’s a clash between new laws being pushed in Congress and long-standing Supreme Court rulings. Supporters, including Senator Bernie Moreno, argue that someone should not owe loyalty to two countries, especially when national security and classified information are involved. They want U.S. citizenship to mean loyalty to only one country. The Supreme Court will decide whether Americans can be forced to choose or whether current protections stay in place.

What many don’t mention is the history behind this debate. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Naturalization Act, which created clear national rules for becoming a citizen. Before that, the system was chaotic and open to abuse. The 1906 law required new citizens to swear full and complete loyalty to the United States and give up all foreign allegiance.
(Cont)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:06 AM (KN2gu)

314 Now, 120 years later, the country is debating the same idea again: is citizenship about total loyalty, or is it just a legal status? A 1967 Supreme Court case, Afroyim v. Rusk, currently protects dual citizenship, but these new bills are trying to bring back the older idea that being American means choosing only one nation.

Supporters argue that allowing government leaders to hold loyalty to another country creates serious conflicts of interest. They say this debate is about protecting national sovereignty and putting loyalty to the U.S. first. For the first time in decades, dual citizenship is facing its strongest challenge in over a century.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:06 AM (KN2gu)

315 In a message circulated among commuters Friday, the community group Defrost MN, which uses crowdsourced data to track federal immigration operations, warned residents of an “uptick in abductions” — which refer to arrests of both immigrant community members and legal observers — following Homan’s takeover and an increase in the number of government personnel and vehicles involved in those operations.
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2026 09:00 AM (RHGPo)
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These people believe their words are magical. They talk big but are short on action. They think they can cast a spell and summon stormtroopers or something.

As the consequences pile up, we will see how strong their convictions truly are. Also, the rhetoric and increasing violence make a crackdown less alarming. They don't understand this at all. If you normalize violence, you also normalize it for the other side, which has much, much more capacity to inflict it.

This disparity works in your favor if you use peaceful protest and the other side overreacts, but when you are very clearly talking about killing and murdering everyone, no one believes your protest is peaceful.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)

316 AI 'slop' that is far better than any live performance by Bad Bunny and Lady Gag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B4524ot5BM

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:06 AM (2GVsD)

317 Comments here seem reflective of the immense ocean of lies and disinformation that permeates our national discourse. But we have a solution!

Posted by: (D)emocrats at February 10, 2026 09:07 AM (0sNs1)

318 I see Dems keep talking about all the things they are going to do to right leaning voters and pols if they regain power.

And under the Biden junta they arrested/destroyed a number of those pols at least.

But the GOPe seems to have no concerns whatsoever about what the Dems will do if they regain power do they...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)

319 >>120M had the channel on for the football game. 120M didn't watch the halftime show. I.e. nobody changed the channel

This.
One was passive vs. the one that was active: people who explicitly turned the channel or streamed the TPUSA show.

If it didn't matter they wouldn't bother even discussing it. The people who constantly protest and say "If it only saves one person blah blah blah" are shrugging off a show that motivated millions to reject the NFL show.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 10, 2026 09:07 AM (48ipd)

320 Comments here seem reflective of the immense ocean of lies and disinformation that permeates our national discourse. But we have a solution!

Arbeit mach frei?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:08 AM (2GVsD)

321 The Superb Owl was basically a warmed over edition of Thursday Night Football.

Posted by: With a lot more butts at halftime at February 10, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

322 but when you are very clearly talking about killing and murdering everyone, no one believes your protest is peaceful.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:06 AM

Well, "no one" is not everyone.

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at February 10, 2026 09:08 AM (0sNs1)

323 Wait until more people understand the actual lyrics of the song that degenerate was singing.

Hispanics and Puerto Ricans were claiming that they didn't know wtf language he was singing in.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:08 AM (KN2gu)

324 Why I know the left will fail; during the last great outbreak of this kind of thought in the 30’s and 40’s, the men of the left were hard, cold men determined to rule. Not just the German totalitarians but men like Stalin, Mao, and all their followers around the world. They had real plans and a grim determination to remake everything.

Their leadership today, worldwide, are a pathetic bunch of shallow and stupid narcissists who never think about anything seriously more than 12 hours in the future.

It’s like fighting a zombie army; they are numerous and relentless, but they have no brains, no real plans, and no true purpose except to fulfill their current emotional needs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 10, 2026 09:09 AM (gCFgr)

325 Freak out time at the UN: The United Nations said it is waiting to learn how much of the nearly $4 billion owed by the United States the Trump administration intends to pay, and when the funds will be transferred.

Nothing, you get nothing this year. See how you fuckin do without the hard working American citizens taxes.

Posted by: Sidney at February 10, 2026 09:09 AM (Uy/WF)

326 13 For the life of me, I do not understand why this isn't a huge story. You do not hate the NFL nearly enough.

Nearly everyone who celebrated Bad Bunny has absolutely no idea what he was saying (looking directly at you, dumb shit John Kasich). Here is the translation of just a few lyrics.

https://tinyurl.com/7h35yahb
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Sorry to repeat, but the horde really should read the translation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 09:09 AM (dBJSR)

327 Hispanics and Puerto Ricans were claiming that they didn't know wtf language he was singing in.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:08 AM (KN2gu)

LOL. Is he from the Hispanic version of Scotland?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:10 AM (bss/y)

328 >>Glen Beck said Bad Bunny was like #87, on those "Top 40" charts. idk if that is true, but many had never heard of him before.

Put me in that camp. I think the grammy thing was rigged to help build the image of this talentless hack as the next big thing as well.

As was said above if you haven't seen them watch the videos of the people in the stands while he was performing. There was zero enthusiasm. The whole thing was a big F U to normal people and it bombed.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2026 09:10 AM (viF8m)

329 I saw something the other day a guy was talking about the current state of Disney. Evidently you have to schedule which rides you want to go on in what order and time like months in advance. You cannot just walk up to a ride.

This is fucking stupid. That's like... so someone who decides to go on the day is just screwed and you piss on them. You people are fucking stupid evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:03 AM (bss/y)

There is a youtuber I watch, Zac Rios, who does compilation videos of tiktok stuff on various themes and one of them is people going tens, or hundreds, of thousands of dollars into debt in order to visit Disney parks several times every year.

It's madness.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

330 In the 2024 season, each team received a record $432.6 million from league-wide revenue sharing, totaling over $13.8 billion in shared revenue."

$14 Billion, huh? Wow, that's impressive....

*looks at $$$ thrown around by Big Gov. Nearly $ 40 thousand billions in debt*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:10 AM (XuXeR)

331 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: The immense ocean of lies and disinformation that permeates our national discourse at February 10, 2026 09:10 AM (2Ez/1)

332 Trump should send the UN a giant lump of coal with this note - make a diamond and sell it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:10 AM (2GVsD)

333 Just because you eat a pringles doesn't mean you did so because you saw a commercial, or agree with the politics of the corporation. It just means your taste-buds are out of calibration and you like the taste of sawdust.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:11 AM (xFfhU)

334 Hispanics and Puerto Ricans were claiming that they didn't know wtf language he was singing in.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:08 AM (KN2gu)

Nothing says Patriotism on Our 250th Anniversary than a Gayish Puerto Rican singing porn lyrics at America's Super Bowl in Spanish with gyrating women and flags from other Countries

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 09:11 AM (HbB1p)

335 Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 09:09 AM (dBJSR)

I don't sign into X, but I did read a translation elsewhere and the lyrics were very crude.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 09:12 AM (Nx5jP)

336 Nothing says Patriotism on Our 250th Anniversary than a Gayish Puerto Rican singing porn lyrics at America's Super Bowl in Spanish with gyrating women and flags from other Countries
Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 09:11 AM (HbB1p)

If they were red blooded American boobs, I'd be ok with that part.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:12 AM (bss/y)

337 reak out time at the UN: The United Nations said it is waiting to learn how much of the nearly $4 billion owed by the United States the Trump administration intends to pay, and when the funds will be transferred.

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Tanned, keffiyehed, and ready ! We have an extended portfolio and our success is known - look at the college campus and elections across the USA! Make koran great again!

Posted by: Qatar at February 10, 2026 09:12 AM (g47mK)

338 325 Freak out time at the UN: The United Nations said it is waiting to learn how much of the nearly $4 billion owed by the United States the Trump administration intends to pay, and when the funds will be transferred.

Nothing, you get nothing this year. See how you fuckin do without the hard working American citizens taxes.
Posted by: Sidney

My offer is this: nothing. And, if you'd like my continued membership in your gay little club, I'd appreciate you personally paying my dues.

Posted by: Don Trump Corleone at February 10, 2026 09:13 AM (JCZqz)

339 Missing from the foreign news is what appears to be an abject failure in Iran. Trump said he had the protesters backs, and so they went in bigger numbers to the streets. What they got was ultimately an opportunity to be mowed down by automatic weapons, many of them held by Iraqi Militia groups and mercs. He’s lost a great deal of credibility with his failure to act, and his delayed response is being seen by some as bending the knee to Qatar and people in his cabinet whose ear they have.

Nobody wants boots on the ground, and there were many other options. We have the assets to take out some of the militias and keep troops bottled up. Someone has been doing some of that heavy lifting to a small degree. It’s just not us.

There’s still an opportunity to pull this out. By assisting the downfall of the mullahs we can eliminate one of our countries biggest threats. But the fact the US is becoming an unreliable ally is now being further burned into the psyche of many in the Middle East. Let’s hope we take whatever opportunity is left to change that.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 09:13 AM (+t04h)

340 Why I know the left will fail; during the last great outbreak of this kind of thought in the 30’s and 40’s, the men of the left were hard, cold men determined to rule.
.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 10, 2026 09:09 AM (gCFgr)
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The International Brigades were made up of men who drank coffee cold, slept on the ground, lived on stale break and were armed with broken rifles.

These people need support animals and believe they can act with total impunity. They were shocked that their violence would turned against them.

The Tesla terrorism stopped as soon as arrests started to happen. Minnesota is their best shot at an insurrection and they are losing local law enforcement. Even in their sanctuary they are losing support.

Trump is moving slowly because he knows that the more Dems riot and their leaders promise more of it, the more toxic their brand becomes. Don't believe fake polls, look at the reality on the ground.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

341 the men of the left were hard, cold men determined to rule. "

No matter how dressed up - they mean to rule.

"Is he from the Hispanic version of Scotland?"

Yeah. "Spanish" is even worse than "English" in that regard. True story - DC Police were ordered to hire more "hispanic", so they went to State Dept. for their Spanish Language test.
9 of 10 applicants failed. Even legal immigrants...

Formal Spanish isn't even close to Spanglish...

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:15 AM (XuXeR)

342 315 In a message circulated among commuters Friday, the community group Defrost MN, which uses crowdsourced data ...
This disparity works in your favor if you use peaceful protest and the other side overreacts, but when you are very clearly talking about killing and murdering everyone, no one believes your protest is peaceful.

LIBs do, it's what their charter is:
to Reward the Guilty, they Punish the Innocent, they Champion the mediocre, the Unworthy, the DEPRAVED on the basis of their depravity.

LIB leadership knows their time is up. $12Trillion peace being formed right now, this week, in Miami, is an extinction level event for them -- backed by an additional $10T from chase to keep Dimon off the deposition list -- some would call that a bargain.

What's a LIB to do?
https://www.tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhenLIBsDisarm :: Alternately titled, when LIBs attack.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 10, 2026 09:15 AM (U2c17)

343 US no pay, no worries, get the best of USA! bring the UN to Qatar, land of opportunity ! American protection makes us a superb destination for fun, managed jihad and shopping !

Posted by: Qatar at February 10, 2026 09:15 AM (g47mK)

344 Just so we don't forget, everything the NY Times publishes on "climate change" is total horseshit.

https://tinyurl.com/4zy6t97a

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 09:15 AM (dBJSR)

345 Nothing says Patriotism on Our 250th Anniversary than a Gayish Puerto Rican singing porn lyrics at America's Super Bowl in Spanish with gyrating women and flags from other Countries

Honestly the gyrating women thing is pretty par for the course for this sort of event.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

346 " I think the grammy thing was rigged to help build the image of this talentless hack as the next big thing as well."

I never thought of that , Jack. Sounds quite plausible. I noted with some eye rolling that someone in a reply to x posted " I don't speak Spanish but now I want to learn. " Why? Because you like men who grab their crotch to sing rude lyrics about women and sex, or you think BB is cute? Sounds like that was a bot as well

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 09:17 AM (Nx5jP)

347
There’s still an opportunity to pull this out. By assisting the downfall of the mullahs we can eliminate one of our countries biggest threats. But the fact the US is becoming an unreliable ally is now being further burned into the psyche of many in the Middle East. Let’s hope we take whatever opportunity is left to change that.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 09:13 AM (+t04h)
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The Mullahs cannot survive a protracted conflict. You can cow the people for a time, but they will rise again and again. With no economy, no prospects for improvement, it will become clear to the military that if the want to eat, they need to make a regime change.

The ticking clock is our friend, not theirs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)

348 Just because you eat a pringles doesn't mean you did so because you saw a commercial, or agree with the politics of the corporation. It just means your taste-buds are out of calibration and you like the taste of sawdust.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:11 AM (xFfhU)
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It's the disodium inosinate that really adds to the flavor!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 09:17 AM (ESVrU)

349
Honestly the gyrating women thing is pretty par for the course for this sort of event.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

This is true,, But this Super Bowl falling on our 250th Anniversary should have been one that was red, white and blue God bless America.. Instead we get We hate America...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2026 09:17 AM (HbB1p)

350 The hottest decade in the US since we start measuring was the the 1930s.

Nothing in global warming theory explains that.

Nor that Europe was WARMER then now in the middle ages.

And the specific predictions that were made by global warming - coastal cities underwater, no snow except in the far north, extreme heat, etc all turned out to be wrong.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 09:17 AM (sKqQm)

351 *looks up lyrics*

I'm banging lots of girls...

They all want me...

Yadda yadda...

Me: Not exactly the Beach Boys but seems fairly standard for rap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:18 AM (bss/y)

352 340 Trump is moving slowly because he knows that the more Dems riot and their leaders promise more of it, the more toxic their brand becomes. Don't believe fake polls, look at the reality on the ground.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

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Trump isn't moving slowly. He's hitting hard with a large series of hammers.

What's different now from 2020 is that he's not backing down. He's actually ensured that the highest levels of his administration are actually on his side.

He put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration. That's the difference.

The protests in Minnesota are kind of pathetic at this point because Trump has been hitting them so hard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

353 Remember when manufactured musical groups were actually good? Like Led Zeppelin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:19 AM (bss/y)

354 The nfl is like a dirty public restroom with limericks above the broken shitter.

You know who likes to wait in dirty public restrooms, watching, rubbing their junk, waiting and hoping for the love that never comes.

Posted by: Bad Bunny at February 10, 2026 09:19 AM (hXJe5)

355 They think they are preparing for war, but they have not yet paid any costs for their beliefs. I'm curious as to what their endurance will be.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

I could say the same thing for our side, as far as 'endurance' is concerned.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:19 AM (ufSfZ)

356 For thirty years it seems twerking of enormous fat bottoms is the only form of dance allowed. Must say something about the state of the "arts".

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at February 10, 2026 09:19 AM (oftw2)

357 233 The Left is going beyond Stalin / Hitler hatred.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

They badly want a "More Evil than Hitler" villain to fight because they want to be seen as History's Greatest Heroes.

They want life to be a Marvel Movie where they're the Avengers fighting the Red Skull.

Posted by: XTC at February 10, 2026 09:20 AM (6Uni8)

358 And the specific predictions that were made by global warming - coastal cities underwater, no snow except in the far north, extreme heat, etc all turned out to be wrong.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 09:17 AM (sKqQm)
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The only science where all your predictions fail and you still keep getting grants.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 09:20 AM (bxiOq)

359 Just so we don't forget, everything the NY Times publishes on "climate change" is total horseshit."

Yeah, and the rest of their stuff ain't exactly rose petals and diamonds, either.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:20 AM (XuXeR)

360 356 For thirty years it seems twerking of enormous fat bottoms is the only form of dance allowed. Must say something about the state of the "arts".
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at February 10, 2026 09:19 AM (oftw2)

Cyd Charisse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:20 AM (bss/y)

361 Remember when manufactured musical groups were actually good? Like Led Zeppelin."

Hey hey we're the ....

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

362 Aetius

Changed LoRAs and made her a red-head on Tensor

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:21 AM (2GVsD)

363 I noted with some eye rolling that someone in a reply to x posted " I don't speak Spanish but now I want to learn. " Why? Because you like men who grab their crotch to sing rude lyrics about women and sex, or you think BB is cute? Sounds like that was a bot as well
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 09:17 AM (Nx5jP)

Poster on X: I want to learn Spanish because Bad Bunny is the NEXT BIG THING. I don't want to be on the outside, unable to appreciate the NEXT BIG THING. How else would I be able to appreciate the subtle romantic innuendos in the song. Stuff like WAP leaves me flat. It's just so sterile and lacing in sexual energy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

364 Remember when manufactured musical groups were actually good? Like Led Zeppelin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:19 AM (bss/y)
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The Monkees!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2026 09:21 AM (bxiOq)

365 Red Skull? Dr. Manhattan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:22 AM (2GVsD)

366 Remember when manufactured musical groups were actually good? Like Led Zeppelin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The Monkees!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:22 AM (KN2gu)

367 Changed LoRAs and made her a red-head on Tensor
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:21 AM (2GVsD)

I like both the reclining brunette and redhead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:22 AM (bss/y)

368 Remember when manufactured musical groups were actually good? Like Led Zeppelin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:19 AM

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: The Monkees at February 10, 2026 09:22 AM (0sNs1)

369 Trump isn't moving slowly. He's hitting hard with a large series of hammers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:18 AM (GBKbO)
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Two things can be true at the same time. Trump is using his power aggressively, but he is not using it as aggressively as he could.

He could have federalized the National Guard, but did not. He could invoke the Insurrection Act, but he has not.

He is saving those options, keeping them on the table, because he loves to have options. The left is pushing all of its chips forward as soon as it gets them, and still failing.

I think we will see a surge of self-deportation as it becomes clear that the Dems are powerless to stop Trump. All their judicial shenanigans, rhetoric and stupid protests have not slowed Trump's growing momentum.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)

370 361 Remember when manufactured musical groups were actually good? Like Led Zeppelin."

Hey hey we're the ....
Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

I just had a mental image of Jimmy Page snging that.

Strange.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:23 AM (bss/y)

371 seems twerking of enormous fat bottoms is the only form of dance allowed"

Indeed. IIRC, the so called "average weight" of 'murrican women is +/- 170 lbs.

And yes, I do remember the 70's... sigh.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:23 AM (XuXeR)

372 Lot of Monkee love here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:23 AM (bss/y)

373 noted with some eye rolling that someone in a reply to x posted " I don't speak Spanish but now I want to learn.

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LOL! music studios can hire and maintain bot armies just like Islamists can!

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2026 09:23 AM (g47mK)

374 Remember when manufactured musical groups were actually good?

I enjoy Babymetal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 10, 2026 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

375 I’m sure my State Rep wholeheartedly endorses Mr. Boo Hoo Wu (h/t, RWP).

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 10, 2026 09:23 AM (zgWR7)

376 And what about us?

Posted by: The Archies at February 10, 2026 09:23 AM (0sNs1)

377 365 Red Skull? Dr. Manhattan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:22 AM (2GVsD)

The Left probably wouldn't want to fight Naked Blue Gag Penis Nihilist Man.

Posted by: XTC at February 10, 2026 09:24 AM (6Uni8)

378 "Remember when manufactured musical groups were actually good?"

Milli Vanilli immediately leaps to mind.

Girl, You Know Its True!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 10, 2026 09:24 AM (DgMqy)

379 I submit that the Monkees were a better band that 90% of them nowadays.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 09:24 AM (vFG9F)

380 Lot of Monkee love here.

In a scientific way?
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Aetius, the new LoRAs are supposed to push it towards anime and mecha but instead is making it more pop culture.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:24 AM (2GVsD)

381 I could say the same thing for our side, as far as 'endurance' is concerned.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:19 AM (ufSfZ)
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Our people were imprisoned and persecuted, and they did not yield. Faith is like that.

Some folks wanted to see a rebellion, but as events have shown, the system actually came through. It's much better that way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)

382 " And what about us?
Posted by: The Archies"

Diabetes killed 'em.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 09:25 AM (vFG9F)

383 I just had a mental image of Jimmy Page snging that.

Strange."

Plant: "Heeeey a heaaaaa"
Page: *guitar solo*
Bonham: *rat tat tattty tat tat*

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

384 OT I did try baking bacon at 375.

I had to throw out the first batch because some mother's son said 20 mins- which turned them into cinders.

11 mins worked great at the same temp.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:25 AM (bss/y)

385 Ask your doctor if Disodium Inosinate is right for you.

Posted by: Big Farma Marketing at February 10, 2026 09:25 AM (2Ez/1)

386 369 I think we will see a surge of self-deportation as it becomes clear that the Dems are powerless to stop Trump. All their judicial shenanigans, rhetoric and stupid protests have not slowed Trump's growing momentum.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)

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DHS forcibly deported 700,000 in the first year from the interior, and ICE expansion from the OBBB passed last year is only just now beginning. As of September, both the Census Bureau and BLS were estimating 2.1 million had left total (forcible deportations were only about 400,000-500,000 at the time).

Trump didn't invoke the insurrection act because the MN protests are small and insignificant. They just got a lot of attention and noise in the media. The protests outside the St. Paul hotel?

Like, 20 people. There were more journalists there than protestors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

387 I see Dems keep talking about all the things they are going to do to right leaning voters and pols if they regain power.

And under the Biden junta they arrested/destroyed a number of those pols at least.

But the GOPe seems to have no concerns whatsoever about what the Dems will do if they regain power do they...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)

Because they really don't think the rhetoric and actions will apply to them. As I've mentioned before, the GOP is convinced it can wait out MAGA, which, IMO, will die once Trump leaves the scene. Should the Dems actually begin a program of arrests and un-pseroning, it will - to the GOP - only affect the MAGA scum who've hijacked their party.

They won't believe it until someone like Miss Lindsey is put up against the wall.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:27 AM (ufSfZ)

388 Manufactured groups?

Well that defines New Kids on the Block and that Spanish group Menudo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 09:27 AM (2GVsD)

389 They think they are preparing for war, but they have not yet paid any costs for their beliefs. I'm curious as to what their endurance will be.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

I don't know. These people(Our Betters) aren't as smart as they think they are, they always repeat what worked before.

I think they're are upping their violence game to get all the normies to say, "I just want this violent mess to be over!!! I want to go back to normal. Let's vote for the Democrats and this will stop. Give the tantrum babies their bottle."

It's worked before multiple times.

I guess we'll see how far this assholery spreads and how Trump handles it.

If the Chinese are really funding these rioting/violent groups, I want arrests, trials, and hangings for treason.

Eh, we'll see.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:27 AM (iJfKG)

390 We've reached the point in a Republic where a large minority despise it and want it swept aside altogether, and the rest have lost confidence in its legitimacy.

That can only end with *someone* taking power in hand and putting an end to politics.

The only question at this point is who it'll be.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2026 09:27 AM (voQc3)

391 Like, 20 people. There were more journalists there than protestors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:26 AM (GBKbO)
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The Dems will try a summer surge for certain, but by then much of their infrastructure and financial resources could be gone. Also, I don't see a lot of black people being willing to riot and loot on behalf of Somalis and Venezuelans.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)

392 You know one that does not get enough love?

The Ventures

https://tinyurl.com/2u8tbd29

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 09:28 AM (bss/y)

393 "...seems twerking of enormous fat bottoms is the only form of dance allowed"
+++
Used to be we made the rocking world rotate about it's axis.

Posted by: Large Booty Females at February 10, 2026 09:28 AM (2Ez/1)

394 OT I did try baking bacon at 375.

I had to throw out the first batch because some mother's son said 20 mins- which turned them into cinders.

11 mins worked great at the same temp.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Depends on the thickness. Kroger's butcher case bacon, the bacon you have to ask the actual butcher for?

400 for 22 minutes.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2026 09:28 AM (KN2gu)

395 >> I'm curious as to what their endurance will be.

The protesters are only one element of their asymmetric operations. One of the main elements is focused on elections and that’s where the greatest risk resides. Trump has engaged on all fronts, executive power, the courts and in Congress. The courts are noticeably slow and often corrupt. Unfortunately that’s the main front and there doesn’t seem to be an offsetting asymmetric option to deny that advance. Democrats first goal is to gain power in the midterms by using the election subversion currently in place. Combined with the low turnout by Republicans they may likely win a majority. They will then use that power to stop everything in its tracks. There is a long battle ahead and people who state that Democrats agenda is toxic, ergo they won’t be elected are in for a defeat that shouldn’t be a big surprise. Having seen they will go to any length to gain power, including assassination, I’m dumbfounded that anyone would think this is going to be some kind of layup. YMMV

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 09:29 AM (+t04h)

396 both the Census Bureau and BLS were estimating 2.1 million had left total "

I'm beginning to believe some of those numbers. Recall the influx NE of Houston? It's over. The roach coaches all over the place, parked half wrecked vehicles, groups of *mostly* guys hanging out from time to time...
Almost all just *gone*

It's very strange, and oddly enough, completely unreported on.

Go figure.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

397 I think they're are upping their violence game to get all the normies to say, "I just want this violent mess to be over!!! I want to go back to normal. Let's vote for the Democrats and this will stop. Give the tantrum babies their bottle."

It's worked before multiple times.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:27 AM (iJfKG)
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Name an example of it working.

Don't say 2020 because the scope of the steal is now unquestionable. Biden got trounced.

Honest elections would cost the Dems massive losses across the board. California and the Left Coast would be in place and Minnesota would be red.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

398 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at February 10, 2026 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

399 That can only end with *someone* taking power in hand and putting an end to politics"

Indeed. IMO, some day (don't know when), someone will cross the Rubic... Potomac.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:31 AM (XuXeR)

400 396 I'm beginning to believe some of those numbers. Recall the influx NE of Houston? It's over. The roach coaches all over the place, parked half wrecked vehicles, groups of *mostly* guys hanging out from time to time...
Almost all just *gone*

It's very strange, and oddly enough, completely unreported on.

Go figure.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

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ICE activity isn't reported in Texas because ICE doesn't need large street presences to do its job.

If an illegal is pulled over for a broken tail light, local cops arrest the illegal and call ICE. Far less of a need to go out into the community when the local cops do that kind of work for you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

401 What about us, you misogynists?

- - Josie and the Pussycats

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 09:32 AM (ufSfZ)

402 Bad Bunny speaks ghetto Spanish, but Puerto Ricans claiming they don't know what he's saying is laughable.

He's popular, so unless they are admitting they listen to something they can't understand, they are, shall we say, gilding the Lilly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 09:33 AM (XV/Pl)

403 I'm old enough to remember when twerking originated in a strip club in Compton.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 09:36 AM (xFfhU)

404 399 That can only end with *someone* taking power in hand and putting an end to politics"

Indeed. IMO, some day (don't know when), someone will cross the Rubic... Potomac.

Posted by: man at February 10, 2026 09:31 AM (XuXeR)

I'm not sure there's currently a big enough killer to do it on his own.

Posted by: XTC at February 10, 2026 09:37 AM (6Uni8)

405 I think they're are upping their violence game to get all the normies to say, "I just want this violent mess to be over!!! I want to go back to normal. Let's vote for the Democrats and this will stop. Give the tantrum babies their bottle."

It's worked before multiple times.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:27 AM (iJfKG)
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Name an example of it working.

Don't say 2020 because the scope of the steal is now unquestionable. Biden got trounced.

Honest elections would cost the Dems massive losses across the board. California and the Left Coast would be in place and Minnesota would be red.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

I will say 2020 because I heard people I know saying that almost exactly, and pixel people on the internet saying the same things.

I also heard/talked to people not voting for Trump, because he was the cause of all this chaos. Including, Our Republican Betters.

Sure, the steal was on. But, even the steal required the voting numbers to be "plausible".

Don't pretend BLM/antifa had no effect.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

406 405
Sure, the steal was on. But, even the steal required the voting numbers to be "plausible".

Don't pretend BLM/antifa had no effect.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

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300,000 ballots in GA alone have no chain of custody.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (GBKbO)

407 >> The ticking clock is our friend, not theirs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 10, 2026 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)

I’ve heard this many times before. Right now they’re not going anywhere and see what has happened thus far as weakness. They are gaining allies and material. Go watch the Russian and Chinese transports coming in day after day with transponders on. That’s not an accident. Someone, and I won’t say who I suspect, is running a small irregular warfare op on the ground. It’s frustrating some of the mullahs operations, but it’s not enough. There are now credible reports from people I trust of ten of thousands of protesters murdered, disappeared or imprisoned. That initiative is being lost and true or not the blame Trump. What he said gave them hope. What he did was zero. I see the reports of our transports moving in large numbers. But a lot of that is not atypical of our regular military movements. It’s also not indicative of any buildup. Summarily there was a great opportunity here to wipe out a lot of our enemies including this SOB Iraqi militias who killed some of my brothers. The fact is we lost that opportunity for some curious reason…

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (+t04h)

408 >>noted with some eye rolling that someone in a reply to x posted " I don't speak Spanish but now I want to learn.

Heh, about as legit as the Coffee Party that popped up in response to the Tea Party.
That was a social media astroturf.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (48ipd)

409 Sure, the steal was on. But, even the steal required the voting numbers to be "plausible".

Don't pretend BLM/antifa had no effect.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

======

300,000 ballots in GA alone have no chain of custody.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:38 AM (GBKbO)

But, the "win" was still plausible enough that a recount/recheck was denied and everybody went, "Well, alrighty then" and went home. Including Our Republican Betters.

As always the Left is about creating convincing conditions for their unpopular, unAmerican bullshit.

It worked...they got what they wanted and severely damaged America.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

410 409
But, the "win" was still plausible enough that a recount/recheck was denied and everybody went, "Well, alrighty then" and went home. Including Our Republican Betters.

As always the Left is about creating convincing conditions for their unpopular, unAmerican bullshit.

It worked...they got what they wanted and severely damaged America.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2026 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

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It wasn't convincing. More than half of the public was registering doubts about the veracity of 2020 for several years in polls rather consistently.

It's also why social media had to become tyrannical in clamping down on criticism and investigations. It's also why Congress put up barbed wire for months afterwards.

And the courts? The ones who dismissed everything because of standing without actually ruling on anything on merits?

It was an outright steal that everyone knew was an outright steal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 10, 2026 09:44 AM (GBKbO)

411 It's also why social media had to become tyrannical in clamping down on criticism and investigations. It's also why Congress put up barbed wire for months afterwards.

It is interesting to compare it to the 2000 election. In that election the left screamed "stolen!" and the authorities gave them access to the ballots for a forensic analysis. Why? Because they had nothing to hide.

In 2020 the government/FNM instead tried to restrict access to any sort of analysis which you only do if you know there is something to be found there

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2026 09:53 AM (sKqQm)

412 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

From above, "Those Minnesota riots, once described by some as “spontaneous,” look more and more like a backdoor attempt by China, allied with extreme groups in the U.S., to foment violence and outright rebellion."

>US is fourth for 'Countries With Largest Overseas Chinese Populations in the World' (Juwai Asia, July 2025). (The UK is tenth.) Reportedly, the New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia.

The largest Chinese populations in the USA are concentrated in the states of California, New York, and Texas. Further, recent immigration has led to a diversification of the Chinese population in the U.S., including increased Mandarin-speaking residents, particularly in areas like Flushing, Queens.

>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), founded in 1994, is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

And they're deep in cahoots in this country, but that's only imho.

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

413 Inside China, it has engaged in repressive campaigns for decades against certain religious & ethnic minorities under the guise of combating religious extremism. Particularly, it has imposed severe restrictions upon & persecutes Uyghur Muslims, mostly settled in Xinjiang.

Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group primarily native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, with a population that largely practices Sunni Islam. They are culturally and historically connected to Central Asia, with a history spanning over two millennia. As the second-largest Muslim ethnic group in China, they possess a distinct language and identity. (Wiki)

>BBC, 'Who are the Uyghurs and why is China being accused of genocide?'

"Xinjiang is now covered by a pervasive network of surveillance, including police, checkpoints, and cameras that scan everything from number plates to individual faces. According to Human Rights Watch, police are also using a mobile app to monitor people's behavior, such as how much electricity they are using and how often they use their front door."

>Authentic Traveling, YouTube, 2 yrs. ago, 'The REAL differences between Shia and Sunni Islam'
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Good day 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 10, 2026 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

414 I was excited by the link on Vanished Arizona written by the wife of an Indian Wars Army Officer. I am very happy to report, it is available on amazon Kindle for $0.00

Posted by: ned at February 10, 2026 02:47 PM (86oqS)

415 All Commie scum suckers should be relocated to the Deeper Amazon with just the clothes on their backs lets see them survive without their GPS

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 10, 2026 05:54 PM (wGqjj)

416 Hey check out my new album "Straight Outa Toronto" featuring these steamy hot tracks:

Who Birch Dis Is?
Lodge Yur Complaint
(gettin) Lucky Wit Bucky
Surprise Otter Daughter
Dub Dam Jam
That's Not Cheese
Mama's A Merkin
I Like Flat Tails
Puta Penguin
Bad Snatch Fever

Posted by: Bad Beaver at February 10, 2026 06:10 PM (vFG9F)

Daily Tech News 10 February 2026

Top Story

Get your ass to the Moon. (Ars Technica)

It may be a harsh mistress, but it's a lot closer to the shops.

SpaceX is refocusing on lunar colonies as a short-term goal, and strip-mining the surface and feeding raw materials into railgun launch systems to provide the resources for the company's planned cloud of orbital datacenters and/or inconveniencing pesky bureaucrats on their holidays.

SpaceX didn't mention any such thing, of course, but Eric Berger has read the classics.

Tech News

Intel's Nova Lake platform will support up to 48 PCIe lanes. (Tom's Hardware)

That's 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes from the CPU for slots and 8 for storage, plus up to 12 PCIe 5.0 and 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes from the chipset. Given that even an RTX 5090 is barely slowed down by only having 4 lanes of PCIe 5.0 available, that's a pretty healthy number.

And 8 SATA ports and approximately 40 USB ports.

There are five different chipsets planned, though the W980 offers pretty much everything including support for ECC memory... Which is not a chipset function but a CPU one, but something Intel likes to do.
Linux 7.0 is almost here. (Tom's Hardware)

It's one louder.

Canonical hopes to ship it in Ubuntu 26.04 in April, which is cutting it pretty close. But that's a long-term release and perhaps they'd rather have the very latest kernel in a version they will be supporting for a decade.
GitHub fell over. (GitHub Status)

Because reasons.
Nope. (BBC)
The company [Rilla> has become something of a poster child for a fast-paced workplace culture known as 996, also sometimes referred to as hustle culture or grindcore.

In simple terms, it puts a premium on long working hours, typically 9am to 9pm, six days a week (hence "996").

For most of us, that would be gruelling. But according to Will Gao, head of growth at Rilla, its 120 employees simply don't see it that way.
When the "head of growth" says employees don't see it that way, you can take it to the bank that they absolutely do.
"We look for people who are like Olympian athletes, with characteristics of, you know, obsession, infinite ambition.
Galley slaves.
He insists that while the hours are generally long, there's no rigid structure.

"If I'm like, 'Holy cow, I have a super idea I'm working on', then I'll just keep working until 2 or 3am, then I'll just roll in the next day at noon or something", he explains.
Nope.

I have to work weird hours sometimes. Comes with the job.

But I have a rule that when I do need to work late, I don't clock in again for twelve hours, minimum.
You'll need to verify your age on Discord by uploading government-issued photo ID if... You want to see porn. (The Verge) (archive site)

Didn't Discord already get hacked and leak a whole bunch of ID documents?

Why, yes. I do believe it did. (Ars Technica)

Also, who the hell watches porn on Discord? That's what Twitter is for.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Don't you know there are towns going hungry in Antarctica?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 04:02 AM (lJ0H4)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at February 10, 2026 04:02 AM (4nyld)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 04:05 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Going to be 71 today in Nashville land. Maybe a little rain. The tree trimming services have been making bank here in my area. That miserable sleet and ice storm we had damaged or destroyed so many trees here.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 04:06 AM (lJ0H4)

5 In simple terms, it puts a premium on long working hours, typically 9am to 9pm, six days a week (hence "996").

"Code well, 42, and live."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 04:08 AM (ufSfZ)

6 NYC meet Japan. 996 vs salaryman. Not a good way to die.

Posted by: clarence at February 10, 2026 04:09 AM (4nyld)

7 MP4,
Don't you retire tomorrow or do I have my dates wrong?

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 04:10 AM (lJ0H4)

8 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 16 bitter degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. 1-3 inches (probably more) of "wintry mix" expected tonight. Not something I care for.

What I do care for is that tomorrow is my last day working. I've got the usual 2+ hours of work waiting for me right now, so I will get to that and be back in a while. I would love to clock out early today, but I doubt that will happen.

Talk to you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 04:11 AM (ufSfZ)

9 The moon and then Mars is what the Boring Company is for. And the moon, because it is not in earth's magnetosphere, might be a better launch platform for Mars missions.

Posted by: clarence at February 10, 2026 04:13 AM (4nyld)

10 Will the people behind Git ever acknowledge it is headed for the bottom of the drain?

Posted by: clarence at February 10, 2026 04:16 AM (4nyld)

11 "996"? Damn. I though my previous employer was slave-driving at four 12's plus an extra 12 every other week...

At least we got overtime after 40hrs per week.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 04:17 AM (rdVOm)

12 Rejoinder: And?

Posted by: clarence at February 10, 2026 04:20 AM (4nyld)

13 Congrats on your upcoming retirement, MP4! Hope you get to leave early after all.

WooHoo!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 04:26 AM (rdVOm)

14 Before retirement, I worked as many hours as was needed to do a job..Might get called at 2 am and work until noon, simply took the next day off. Or traveled all day and up early to get to the work place and worked all day and then flew home. If I worked in a unionized place this would never happen. That was just the way it was and I didn't bitch. Did get free coffee and treats like donuts and endless brownies and cookies though.

Posted by: Colin at February 10, 2026 04:27 AM (e8qy3)

15 I worked a riverboat casino for a while. 6pm to 6am, 4 days on and 4 days off. Just short of 80 hours one paycheck and then overtime the next. Balanced out nicely. Too bad the management sucked.

Posted by: clarence at February 10, 2026 04:28 AM (4nyld)

16 Phone says 16 degrees, wife calls the deck thermometer at 19. Supposedly getting above freezing todat

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 04:28 AM (Ia/+0)

17 The unions tried again and again, to trick us into a card-check takeover. LOL. F them.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

18 One reason begged off retirement, other than I like to eat, was that night job was supposed to be going on in November but company bailed ouut of it. It was tough to do but pay was very nice.

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 04:41 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Belated BOING in mid-exercise!

Maybe 8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 04:46 AM (Hbs7G)

20 Get your ass to the Moon.
-

So... asstronaut?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 04:46 AM (Hbs7G)

21 One reason begged off retirement, other than I like to eat, was that night job was supposed to be going on in November but company bailed ouut of it. It was tough to do but pay was very nice.
Posted by: Skip

I put off retirement for so many years. I should have done it sooner. It certainly would have made taking care of my husband much easier but I found it hard to walk away from the good health insurance and other benefits.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 04:47 AM (lJ0H4)

22 "who the hell watches porn on Discord? That's what Twitter is for"

What search terms would you use for this? None of mine work so I'm beginning to doubt it's possible.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: purely an academic question at February 10, 2026 04:48 AM (F/35S)

23 29 going 40 today, we do need rain here.

Posted by: Accomack at February 10, 2026 04:50 AM (T8bqm)

24 996 is a mainland Chinese thing. It is how Chinese companies connected to the CCP manage to avoid hiring more people.

It goes along with paying very little, hiring only the connected and overqualified, and asking for headshots and body pictures of both women and men.

(For reasons totally unconnected to sexual harassment, of course.)

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at February 10, 2026 04:53 AM (p2GXS)

25 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 10, 2026 04:54 AM (sAmhv)

26 The Toms Hardware link to the Linux 7 article didn't quite work. The (.com) wasn't there. I added it and just searched for the article. Gaming and pron drives tech. I'm not sure how I feel about that. The article didn't mention pron. But, you know....

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 10, 2026 04:59 AM (sAmhv)

27 >>>Also, who the hell watches porn on Discord? That's what Twitter is for.

There's internet in the porn?

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 10, 2026 05:12 AM (dK+Kv)

28 Oops. A space crept in and broke the link. Fixed!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 10, 2026 05:12 AM (BLOW1)

29 "Dinner in the lab." I had a colleague that said "Maybe they can control when I leave work, but control when I arrive."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 05:12 AM (qFwJc)

30 "I control when I arrive."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 10, 2026 05:17 AM (qFwJc)

31 Catholic Bishops in Cuba discussing the oil sanctions against the country.

https://www.christiantoday.com/news/cuban-bishops-warn
-oil-sanctions-could-deepen-hardship-and-unrest

Because, by talking, men can understand each other. And whenever there is good will, it is possible to find ways to solve conflicts and seek the triumph of truth and goodness, of justice, love and freedom.

Tell me something gentlemen: Where is this peace love and understanding from the government that has been grinding the nation and its people down for decades?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 05:22 AM (jjoN6)

32 Evening and morning, AoSHQ people who will never submit to being galley slaves! Tiu's Day again, innit?

I would have always resented an employer who wanted me to work more than the standard forty in a week. At the courier company from time to time, they would offer me the opportunity to "pull a double," i.e., to drive another six- to eight-hour delivery or pickup shift after I'd already worn myself to a frazzle with my own route. "OT, man!" "No thanks, man."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 05:25 AM (wzUl9)

33 We look for people who are like Olympian athletes, with characteristics of, you know, obsession, infinite ambition.

This man speaks words of wisdom that counters that line of thought:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6x6oLEqqZc

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 05:25 AM (jjoN6)

34 Morning Horde. Day 3 of a miserable cold, that said we're flying out today to pick up our new beagle puppy. I hope I can make it through the flight without being quarantined by the airline for trying to cough up a lung. Bad timing on my part to be sick.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 10, 2026 05:26 AM (2NHgQ)

35 31 Catholic Bishops in Cuba discussing the oil sanctions against the country.

https://www.christiantoday.com/news/cuban-bishops-warn
-oil-sanctions-could-deepen-hardship-and-unrest

Because, by talking, men can understand each other. And whenever there is good will, it is possible to find ways to solve conflicts and seek the triumph of truth and goodness, of justice, love and freedom.

Tell me something gentlemen: Where is this peace love and understanding from the government that has been grinding the nation and its people down for decades?
Posted by: NR Pax

The answer to that would expose the Bishops hypocricy.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 10, 2026 05:26 AM (sAmhv)

36 Pixy, the home page is having issues loading on Brave on iOS and iPadOS, unless I turn JavaScript off. It works fine in Safari on the same device with JavaScript enabled. Brave on the Mac also doesn't have any issues. The article pages also load completely with JS enabled, once I get the link.

I haven't found the developer console in Brave on the device, so I'm not sure which file or files are causing the issue.

All of the devices are running iOS/ipados 26.2.1 or MacOS 26.2.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 05:26 AM (S/Y4j)

37 Doctor and man of fairh near Chicago explains Isaiah 41:13
There is a summary but you can just go to the video at bottom if you have an interest:

https://tinyurl.com/mppzbv53

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 05:28 AM (Nx5jP)

38 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 05:28 AM (Cjt/F)

39 Linux 7.0 is almost here

"It's got a 12 on the box"

Posted by: Name that movie at February 10, 2026 05:29 AM (56/oC)

40 I've been working 12 hours shifts for years now. It's about as good a schedule you can have with 12 hours shifts. 3 on-3 off, 4 on-4 off. It comes to an 84 hour in a 2 week pay period. The beltway bandit I work for won't pay that 4 hours(anything over 80), so sometime in that 2 week pay period, I take 4 hours off. Usually coming in late or leaving early. Must appease the accounting weasals!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 10, 2026 05:29 AM (sAmhv)

41 Mornin' Wolfus!

Yeah, OT pay is for the young 'uns... I was young once, and hungry... LOL.

Boss, can I skip the first 40 regular pay, and just work the time-and-a-half? Hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 05:31 AM (rdVOm)

42 Anyway! Congratulations to MP4 on his Retirement Eve.

I put off retirement for so many years. I should have done it sooner. It certainly would have made taking care of my husband much easier but I found it hard to walk away from the good health insurance and other benefits.
Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026

***
Kind of the same here, plus I was waiting for the projected monthly payout from my employer-sponsored IRA to reach a certain point. If I had known to take it and roll it all over into another IRA setup, as I have done (thanks, Notsothoreau!), I could have reached that point a lot sooner.

I stuck with work into the Sniffle Scare period because I *thought* I'd lose the IRA if I were fired. Then I actually spoke to them on the phone -- and they told me it was mine no matter how I separated from my job. That gave me the courage to prepare to get fired if my request for exemption from the mandated clot shot was refused.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 05:31 AM (wzUl9)

43 The answer to that would expose the Bishops hypocricy.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

Or they don't want to be martyred for speaking out. I've tried to get straight answers from the folks that claim the US is responsible for Cuba's misery on why they think that. The US is the only one with sanctions so other countries can do business with them. They could have had a better standard of living if enough help from the outside came in.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 05:31 AM (jjoN6)

44 Must appease the accounting weasals!
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Bean-counters über alles. *spit*

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 05:34 AM (rdVOm)

45 Speaking of retirement, I'm still waiting for Fidelity Investments to send me the paperwork for the pension deal that courier company set up for me long ago. I got in touch with them late in Nov.; they said I'd see papers in Jan.; I called late last month and was told they are still "calculating" it, and to call in mid-Feb. if I haven't seen anything.

It's been sitting there since 1987. I hope it's grown a bit into something worthwhile.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 05:36 AM (wzUl9)

46 Yikes, it's bedtime.

Good night, all!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 05:37 AM (rdVOm)

47 >>>I would have always resented an employer who wanted me to work more than the standard forty in a week. At the courier company from time to time, they would offer me the opportunity to "pull a double," i.e., to drive another six- to eight-hour delivery or pickup shift after I'd already worn myself to a frazzle with my own route. "OT, man!" "No thanks, man."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

>I watch co-workers commit to 60 hours a week, who then begin losing their minds, and hate me because I call them slaves. They're committed because they've racked up so much debt, they can't survive without the OT.

No thanks is right. It's called quality of life.

These people spend more time with their work peers than their wife and children.

Voluntary slavery is still slavery.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 05:39 AM (xFfhU)

48 As long as you pay me, I will work the required hours to get the job done.

Back in the day, we had to get 18 Avid Online rooms up and running to service a huge project we had won, four of us worked around the clock for two weeks.

But working that way long term, regardless of what you are being paid is a guarantee for burnout, anger and job seeking and loss of talent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 05:39 AM (XV/Pl)

49 The furry thugs are capering about, waiting for their breakfast. Miss Linda actually lifted Dagny into my cushion-padded lap last evening, and the little Siberian actually stayed for petting for some ten minutes. Plus big Stirling did *not* wake me today by leaping over me in bed and kicking my ribs. This might be a pretty good day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)

50 Good night, JQ.

Upon reflection: If a company is just getting started, long hours are the norm. I saw a Twitter post from a guy starting up his own company basically saying "If you say work/life balance, then you aren't a good fit for this company."

I'll stick to my normal hours and seeing my wife and dogs on a regular basis, thankyouverymuch.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 05:41 AM (jjoN6)

51 @49

>>This might be a pretty good day.

You touched the money, you never touch the money.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 05:42 AM (XV/Pl)

52 No thanks is right. It's called quality of life.

These people spend more time with their work peers than their wife and children.

Voluntary slavery is still slavery.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026

***
Not to mention it would have been dangerous for me to drive another six or eight hours. At the end of a shift, especially if it's a hot day (and we did not have A/C in those vans), your "raveled sleeve of care" needs knitting up. I could just imagine myself making a mistake out of weariness, driving in city traffic, and getting in an accident.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

53 Mornin' Horde. Now to catch up with the content and the comments.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

54 "It's one louder."

None. None more black.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

55 Father and daughter sing a lovely Christian song, " "Only Hope". From Faith Pot site:

https://tinyurl.com/59efz3pt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 05:45 AM (rZCVI)

56 >>This might be a pretty good day.

You touched the money, you never touch the money.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026

***
Most of the time I'm much more likely to say, "This is NOT going to be a good day." Lemme have my little pleasures!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

57 Good morning! Beautiful weather here with highs in the mid 70s and lotsa sunshine. Had to mow the damn lawn yesterday. Gonna start spring landscaping this weekend by cleaning up around the pond and getting a 'dosing' system put in. Then next week, we're gonna start prepping the beds for planting. Unfortunately, nothing goes in until the first week or two of march. Oh, and I still need a couple of tons of stone to finish the landscape for the side of the house and to fill in an area in the back for a storage shed.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2026 05:46 AM (3Ope8)

58 57 to 60 F. here, high humidity but almost no wind. Good workout conditions, and I skipped yesterday, so I need to go today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

59 Snappy tune this morning from Big Pig. Reminds me of the same vibe/beat from Jame Brown as a preacher in the Blues Brothers:

https://youtu.be/J0TEagjwEbQ

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

60 Voluntary slavery is still slavery.

Even though this job is probably the best I've ever had, allows me to work at home and keeps me isolated from other people, I still am glad to lay it all down at age 62. I'm hoping for a good 10-20 years of doing just what I want, but who knows?

As the old saying goes, nobody on their deathbed wishes they'd spent more time at the office.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 05:51 AM (ufSfZ)

61 Yesterday's "God incident." I met a woman at the supermarket and she told me she works in the memory care unit of a senior care center. She usually wears a flower in her hair, and even if they don't recall who she is , many remark on the color of the flower and like it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 05:51 AM (rZCVI)

62 Also Big Pig gave us "I Can't Break Away" from the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure soundtrack:

https://youtu.be/GJpuE-ABtCs

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 05:51 AM (O7YUW)

63 @49/Wolfus:

At least Stirling isn't jumping up on the bed and kicking you repeatedly like this cat does to a door:

https://youtu.be/75y-fIrvkow?t=9

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

64 Oh, yes, while I was at the market I got some money from the little bank machine at the store. In a moment of abstraction. I wandered out and forgot about it. When I came back to the machine it was still there, so I am grateful for either the honesty or the inattention of the folks there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 05:55 AM (rZCVI)

65
SpaceX is refocusing on lunar colonies as a short-term goal, and strip-mining the surface and feeding raw materials into railgun launch systems to provide the resources for the company's planned cloud of orbital datacenters and/or inconveniencing pesky bureaucrats on their holidays.

The EU will promptly levy fines for violating EU regulations.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 05:58 AM (tgvbd)

66 I am in awe of what Elon Musk has been able to accomplish, but what I'm reading is that Mars is almost an impossible leap. Muscles atrophy, cosmic rays, no Chinese takeout...

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 05:59 AM (zbs0v)

67 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2026 05:59 AM (AN2gy)

68 66 I am in awe of what Elon Musk has been able to accomplish, but what I'm reading is that Mars is almost an impossible leap. Muscles atrophy, cosmic rays, no Chinese takeout...
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 05:59 AM (zbs0v)

It's no place to raise your kids.

Posted by: Bernie Taupin at February 10, 2026 06:00 AM (1U+Qc)

69 @39/Name that movie: "It's got a 12 on the box"

TRON: Legacy

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

70 >>> What I do care for is that tomorrow is my last day working.

Congratulations, MP4!

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2026 06:01 AM (AN2gy)

71
It's no place to raise your kids.
Posted by: Bernie Taupin at February 10, 2026 06:00 AM (1U+Qc)

Junk vehicles littering the landscape.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:01 AM (tgvbd)

72 mornin yall. 40 hours?? Luxury! When I started my first business we would have wept for 80 hours and overtime. As it was, I got paid for the first 20 hours over 100, and we liked it!

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:02 AM (vFG9F)

73 @166

>> but what I'm reading is that Mars is almost an impossible leap. Muscles atrophy, cosmic rays, no Chinese takeout...

There will never be a colony on Mars, at the most, perhaps a couple of astronauts will be sent on a suicide mission but that’s about it.

And probably not even that.

You first have to demonstrate you can get something to the planet, get it to the surface, get it back to orbit, get it back to earth.

Barring seeing that first step, it’s all masturbation.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2026 06:04 AM (XV/Pl)

74
There will never be a colony on Mars, at the most, perhaps a couple of astronauts will be sent on a suicide mission but that’s about it.

Strange to say, there's no shortage of people willing to make a one-way trip to Mars.

I don't know if it's true, but once I was told the reason that the English colonization of America was a success and the French a failure was that the English knew they would not be returning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:09 AM (tgvbd)

75 71
It's no place to raise your kids.
Posted by: Bernie Taupin at February 10, 2026 06:00 AM (1U+Qc)

Junk vehicles littering the landscape.
Posted by: Hadrian theision Sim leventh at February 10, 2026 06:

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Speaking of junk, there's talk about the Kessler syndrome: a catastrophic collision of satellites low earth orbit. That has a domino effect, which damages others satellites, eventually creating so much space junk that we're trapped your earth.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 06:09 AM (ScJiX)

76 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 10, 2026 06:11 AM (2Ez/1)

77 Mars bad, Mars cold. Mars dangerous! No sushi on Mars! Stay away! Stay Away!

Posted by: The Greater Barsoom Council of Jeddaks at February 10, 2026 06:13 AM (1U+Qc)

78 @65/Hadrian the Seventh: "The EU will promptly levy fines for violating EU regulations."

Trying to fine an extra-planetary entity that has giant rail guns it can express its displeasure with definitely ranks as "a bold plan".

The EU will find out, "It's not a war crime the first time."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 10, 2026 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

79 70 >>> What I do care for is that tomorrow is my last day working.

Congratulations, MP4!
Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2026 06:01 AM (AN2gy)

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Congratulations! Free time is nice, but you'll probably want to have a purpose as well.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 06:16 AM (ScJiX)

80 >>>When I started my first business we would have wept for 80 hours and overtime. As it was, I got paid for the first 20 hours over 100, and we liked it!

Posted by: fd

>Ah. Precisely. Gotta start young. I wish I had someone in my youth to advise me to start my own business. Working for others and corporations for over 40 hours is foolish, unless you're up to your ass in debt.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 06:18 AM (xFfhU)

81 You never know the technology humanity can come up with in the future to make space travel easier.

I'm not convinced, for example, that we won't achieve some kind of anti-gravity tech in the future.

If the rumors of the U.S., and other countries, having recovered alien craft are true, then we may already have the head start once we can figure out an energy source.

With some of these videos that have been released over the past ten years, it's apparent that somebody has this kind of technology, even if it's Russians, Americans, Chinese, or Aliens. Which means it's not only possible, but only a matter of time in finding a breakthrough and producing a vehicle.

Humanity will not survive as a one-planet species.
Eventually something will happen to end Earth's habitability, even if it means waiting several billion years for the Sun to expand and turn the planet into a burnt husk of an iron core.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:19 AM (6ydKt)

82 Two murderers escaped from a local jail. One is described as 5-foot-8 inches tall and 150 pounds with untwisted dreads. He has multiple face tattoos, including a dollar sign, a broken heart and the words "Baby Kay."

The sheriff's office has not said how the men escaped or whether they consider them a danger to the public.

I'm sure it will be fine.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:19 AM (vFG9F)

83
Congratulations! Free time is nice, but you'll probably want to have a purpose as well.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 06:16 AM (ScJiX)

Yes, this is important. Have an engaging hobby, volunteer, work around the house, things like that. Keep your mind and body active.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:20 AM (tgvbd)

84
Mary Kay >>>> Baby Kay

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:21 AM (tgvbd)

85 "Gotta start young."

And hungry. I don't know if I could do it again at this age, but I'm not that hungry anymore.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:21 AM (vFG9F)

86 MP4 I don't think it's good to be away from people so much. I will retire in June, but currently also volunteer at a nursing home to do Bible studies and a monthly worship service. The senior center is always having various programs for the Seniors. Perhaps you can find some way to show silent movie clips and talk about them. The older folks would really appreciate that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 06:21 AM (PFs9e)

87 “ In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it— one from the house of David— one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.”

Isaiah 16:5

Posted by: Marcus T at February 10, 2026 06:21 AM (pqVDs)

88 MP4, I'm happy to hear that your last day is tomorrow. Hope it helps you.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 06:22 AM (jjoN6)

89 Congratulations! Free time is nice, but you'll probably want to have a purpose as well.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 06:16 AM (ScJiX)

Yes, this is important. Have an engaging hobby, volunteer, work around the house, things like that. Keep your mind and body active.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:20 AM (tgvbd)

Thank you! I have plans - the first is to finish my novel, and then, when the warm weather comes, there are a number of house projects that need to be done, including finishing up the attic into a proper writer's den.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 06:23 AM (ufSfZ)

90
And hungry. I don't know if I could do it again at this age, but I'm not that hungry anymore.
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:21 AM (vFG9F)

I remember reading something like when you're young you succeed by never delegating anything you can do yourself and when you're older you succeed by never doing anything you can delegate to someone else.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:24 AM (tgvbd)

91 "I don't think it's good to be away from people so much. "

Different strokes. When my retirement is complete you will need a 4wd vehicle just to get to the swamp I will be on the other side of.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:24 AM (vFG9F)

92 When my retirement is complete you will need a 4wd vehicle just to get to the swamp I will be on the other side of.

"A couple of acres and a clear field of fire."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 10, 2026 06:25 AM (jjoN6)

93 Good morning from the NC foothills. 31 degrees and predicted to be sunny and maybe 70 today. I am very excited to see the last of the snow and ice go away. Wishing everyone a great day.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 10, 2026 06:25 AM (dAjAs)

94 I found this an interesting article about medieval Augustinian monks and their green thumb miracles . From " Good News Network" site:

https://tinyurl.com/25ujh3an

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 06:25 AM (PFs9e)

95 >> Eventually something will happen to end Earth's habitability

We mammals have maybe 250 million years left before Erf becomes uninhabitable for us. Complex life, 800 million, maybe a billion more years before the Sun's luminosity gets too great. Nothing by prokaryotes for a while after that.

All sorts of things can happen before then. Figure about 20,000 years until the odds of some big extinction or near extinction level event. This includes asteroid impacts, supervolcano eruptions, gamma ray bursts, and all the ELE type things that can happen.

20K years and odds are something big will have happened.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 06:26 AM (w6EFb)

96 Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:24 AM (vFG9F)

Of course. I do know extreme isolation is not good for some people, especially those who have problems with chronic depression.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2026 06:27 AM (PFs9e)

97 I had an idea for a Canadian rapper that raps in his native language. Bad Beaver.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:30 AM (vFG9F)

98 Two murderers escaped from a local jail. One is described as 5-foot-8 inches tall and 150 pounds with untwisted dreads. He has multiple face tattoos, including a dollar sign, a broken heart and the words "Baby Kay."

The sheriff's office has not said how the men escaped or whether they consider them a danger to the public.

I'm sure it will be fine.
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:19 AM (vFG9F)

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It would be good if they had a sheriff like Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida. He loves catching the bed guys, and bringing justice to them. He also encourages citizens to be gun owners.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 06:32 AM (hpxA0)

99 People are capable of enjoying long hours. My kids went to a high school that had required classes six days a week. Not all day, every day, they has required sports on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, but classes met all six days. They loved it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 06:32 AM (buPQP)

100 Well, today or tomorrow, we will finally lose the wonderful snow cover we've had for the last few weeks. Temperatures are forecast to rise to 34 today and 35 tomorrow.

The snow has stayed remarkably pristine over the last few weeks, unlike normal when car exhaust and general stuff on the roads would normally have turned the snow various shades of grey or black.

It's been nice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 06:36 AM (buPQP)

101 20K years and odds are something big will have happened.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 06:26 AM (w6EFb)

Agreed.

And there's also the possibility of a self-inflicted extinction event because somebody thought it would be fun to play with nukes, or whatever crazy stuff (AI) we invent that can come back to haunt us to death..

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

102
All sorts of things can happen before then. Figure about 20,000 years until the odds of some big extinction or near extinction level event. This includes asteroid impacts, supervolcano eruptions, gamma ray bursts, and all the ELE type things that can happen.

Nuclear War!!!! Caused by Trump!!!

Actually, the more I read, the more I'm convinced that the Jonathan Schell/Annie Jacobson scenarios of nuclear omnicide are pure bosh (not that any such war is desirable).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:37 AM (tgvbd)

103
20K years and odds are something big will have happened.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 06:26

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Who knows what discoveries will be made in the future? Wormholes in space? Faster than light travel? This is not just progress from horseback to air travel; this is a new kind of physics

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 06:38 AM (7sNE7)

104
The snow has stayed remarkably pristine over the last few weeks, unlike normal when car exhaust and general stuff on the roads would normally have turned the snow various shades of grey or black.

Snow
Day 1: Silent, crystalline, pristine beauty
Day 2+: Grey-black frozen muck

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:38 AM (tgvbd)

105 Huh. "Baby Kay" is a nickname for "Kentravious". Cute name for a murderer.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

106 27 degrees, crescent moon

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:41 AM (Cjt/F)

107 I always said that the end of mankind will come when one nut has the power to destroy the entire planet with a push of a button, or nowadays, a touchscreen.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

108 What some morons refer to as “CIA Barbie”, I refer to as “Swineberger”

Posted by: Fenderbender at February 10, 2026 06:43 AM (1FEc1)

109
When I lived in New Haven lo these many years ago, the city used some kind of reddish sand on the streets after a snow storm. After a couple of days, it looked like the Cat in the Hat had been through town.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:44 AM (tgvbd)

110
I always said that the end of mankind will come when one nut has the power to destroy the entire planet with a push of a button, or nowadays, a touchscreen.
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

My scenario: cats acquire opposable thumbs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:44 AM (tgvbd)

111
The snow has stayed remarkably pristine over the last few weeks, unlike normal when car exhaust and general stuff on the roads would normally have turned the snow various shades of grey or black.

Snow
Day 1: Silent, crystalline, pristine beauty
Day 2+: Grey-black frozen muck
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:

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Day 2+ is when letting the dogs go out in the yard makes a cleanup chore every time they come in. God love them.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 06:44 AM (AQ5h9)

112 99 People are capable of enjoying long hours. My kids went to a high school that had required classes six days a week. Not all day, every day, they has required sports on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, but classes met all six days. They loved it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 06:32 AM (buPQP)

You have a some very rare kids, Huck.

I'm trying to imagine the laughter and insults I would've received had I told some of my HS classmates we really should to go to school 12 hours a day and 6 days a week.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:45 AM (6ydKt)

113 Greetings from the Carolinas. Looks like good weather this week.

Never heard of 996. In the world’s 2nd largest nuclear navy, that schedule was called “holiday routine.”

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 10, 2026 06:45 AM (zqeQL)

114 it really is, fd. makes a person wonder how he went bad.
maybe his fellow students teased him too much?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 10, 2026 06:46 AM (Cjt/F)

115
There's the notion of the Fermi Filters. How far can a civilization make it before something takes them out -- a series of hurdles. One big one is likely the nuclear filter. Once you figure out enough physics to be able to blow yourself up real good, can you make it past that?

I was listening to Elon on some podcast -- and he was likely smoking a big ol' joint while musing. He said that a decent civilization ought to make it 1 million years. If humanity could pull that off, he'd call it a good run.

If you want to get in that class, you've got to go interplanetary.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 06:47 AM (w6EFb)

116 Pixy, you choose great music!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 06:47 AM (7ULbr)

117 >>>I always said that the end of mankind will come when one nut has the power to destroy the entire planet with a push of a button, or nowadays, a touchscreen.

Posted by: fd

>Don't be too concerned about any Microsoft products. Worst case, after 25 touchs on the screen, the system hangs and crashes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 06:49 AM (xFfhU)

118
What search terms would you use for this? None of mine work so I'm beginning to doubt it's possible.
Prove me wrong.
Posted by: purely an academic question

Reddit, if you can ignore the progtarded lefties.

Use search terms you'd expect to be channels at pr0nhub.

Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 10, 2026 06:50 AM (QVmho)

119 The location of the goal posts change, but the game remains the same.

Posted by: The Tower of Babel at February 10, 2026 06:50 AM (2Ez/1)

120
Never heard of 996. In the world’s 2nd largest nuclear navy, that schedule was called “holiday routine.”

Ayn Rand was right.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 10, 2026 06:45 AM (zqeQL)

I remember reading about the US Navy in the Pacific during WWII. A couple of 27-year-old Lieutenants JG were described as worn-out and exhausted because they were too old for the job.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2026 06:51 AM (tgvbd)

121
About 75,000 years ago, there was the Great Toba eruption, the biggest supervolcano to go off in several million years. That nearly wiped out Homo Sapiens -- there's a big genetic bottleneck that's evident from that. That nearly killed us off.

If something like that happened now, it would wipe out civilization.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 06:51 AM (w6EFb)

122 115
There's the notion of the Fermi Filters. How far can a civilization make it before something takes them out -- a series of hurdles. One big one is likely the nuclear filter. Once you figure out enough physics to be able to blow yourself up real good, can you make it past that?

I was listening to Elon on some podcast -- and he was likely smoking a big ol' joint while musing. He said that a decent civilization ought to make it 1 million years. If humanity could pull that off, he'd call it a good run.

If you want to get in that class, you've got to go interplanetary.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb

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"Forbidden Planet", highly advanced civilization wipes itself out in one day.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 06:52 AM (AQ5h9)

123 Well, first batch of work cleared away. There probably won't be anything else until 9 o'clock.

I already told my supervisor that I wanted out as early as possible. We'll see what happens.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 06:52 AM (ufSfZ)

124 I'm trying to imagine the laughter and insults I would've received had I told some of my HS classmates we really should to go to school 12 hours a day and 6 days a week.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 06:45 AM (6ydKt)
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'Spose so. They were reminiscing the other day, one of those rare days when we had all of them here, and their spouses looked like they thought the idea of so much school was crazy.

But (as you might imagine), when you throw teenagers together for so much time, there was lots of socializing.

I think it was the required sports that made it harder for the whole group, as some kids just had zero interest in practice most days and competition against other schools on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 06:52 AM (kgPGi)

125 If something like that happened now, it would wipe out civilization.

"I can't die now! I haven't seen 'The Jolson Story!'"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 10, 2026 06:53 AM (ufSfZ)

126 >>>About 75,000 years ago, there was the Great Toba eruption, the biggest supervolcano to go off in several million years. That nearly wiped out Homo Sapiens -- there's a big genetic bottleneck that's evident from that. That nearly killed us off.

If something like that happened now, it would wipe out civilization.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

>Yellowstone Caldera status: Green. Stable.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 10, 2026 06:54 AM (xFfhU)

127 There's the notion of the Fermi Filters. How far can a civilization make it before something takes them out -- a series of hurdles. One big one is likely the nuclear filter. Once you figure out enough physics to be able to blow yourself up real good, can you make it past that?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 06:47 AM (w6EFb)
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There are lots of interesting variations on this theme in science fiction. In the series I'm currently reading ("Inhibitor Trilogy" by Alastair Reynolds), a superior alien intelligence is determined to wipe out all life that achieves interstellar travel to reduce competition in the galaxy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 06:54 AM (ESVrU)

128 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 10, 2026 06:56 AM (bQ4nt)

129 It will probably be something stupid like cannibalistic nanobots that eat everything including the Earth.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

130 Google (well, Alphabet) is flogging a "One Hundred Year Bond" to European investors right now, via underwriters in London. Given how few companies can survive for a hundred years that sounds like "give us your money and we're never giving it back" to me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:00 AM (YXyUj)

131 w00t late

Posted by: m at February 10, 2026 07:00 AM (+YA9H)

132 It will probably be something stupid like cannibalistic nanobots that eat everything including the Earth.
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2026 06:58 AM (vFG9F)
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*** Greg Bear's "Blood Music" has entered the chat ***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2026 07:02 AM (ESVrU)

133 Taiwan has told Washington that its proposal to move 40% of the island’s semiconductor supply chain to the U.S. was “impossible,” Taipei’s top tariff trade negotiator said in an interview.
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It turns out, building semiconductor manufacturing takes a lot of time, education, and management skills. Might not be replaceable at all. If China wasn't so threatening, it wouldn't be necessary, but I suppose if it wasn't China it would be something else.

Anyway, TSMC is working on it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:05 AM (YXyUj)

134
This a big pivot for Elon. He once recently said the Moon is a distraction, Mars is where its at. And no he comes around to this. I think it was reality setting it. Also, I think some come-to-Jesus moment with Isaacman/NASA/Trump 2.0.

Elon realizes the United States must endure as a going concern. Western Civ cannot fall. We've got to get out space legs on the Moon first, and establish ourselves before the Chicoms do. Chicoms on the Moon before us would be bad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 07:07 AM (w6EFb)

135 JJS

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2026 07:07 AM (YXyUj)

136 Yeah, I'm not seeing how any entity, including long-lived ones like governments, could possibly conceive of a 100 Year Bond.

How do you even price a century of uncertainty?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:10 AM (6ydKt)

137 Elon realizes the United States must endure as a going concern. Western Civ cannot fall. We've got to get out space legs on the Moon first, and establish ourselves before the Chicoms do. Chicoms on the Moon before us would be bad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 07:07 AM (w6EFb)

The article Pixy linked to speculates Elon and SpaceX are worried about how much progress Bezos is making with Blue Origin's plans for the moon/landers, etc.

Seems as good a reason as any.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 10, 2026 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

138 There's pr0n on Twitter?!?
Is that the stuff Ace keeps posting that tells me I have to login because it is "sensitive content"?

Posted by: GWB at February 10, 2026 09:23 AM (b3PBu)

139 It's been sitting there since 1987. I hope it's grown a bit into something worthwhile.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Don't get your hopes too high.
If it is an actual."pension", it's what's known as a "defined [j]benefit plan. That means that what you get is set in stone at some point, usually your last day working for that company. You get no accumulated interest, etc.
I have one of those, obtained by working past the 10 year vesting period. When I left that company in the early 80s, it was at $372/mo. When I started collecting it at age 65, more than 30 years later, you know how much I got? $372/mo.
Inflation? That's the problem.with defined benefit plans, at least from the retirees POV. For the employer, though, it's a good thing.
Some unions had enough clout to write inflation protection (and then some) into contracted pension plans, which is one of the many reasons why US Steel is a shell of its former self.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 10, 2026 10:07 AM (wTg85)

140 It turns out, building semiconductor manufacturing takes a lot of time, education, and management skills. Might not be replaceable at all.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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And we HAD it. And then let Intel, Mot, etc al, piss it away, setting up offshore facilities.
The US thought that we had "soft powered" Russia and China into opponents rather than enemies, so the government didn't do what is obvious the should have done: prohibited moving that IP overseas on national security grounds.
And here we are, asking the Taiwanese for help setting up.what we used to do on our own.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 10, 2026 10:18 AM (wTg85)

141 the problem with space is there's nothing there anyone wants

Mars is even worse because not only is it a hellscape of extremely toxic chlorine compounds wafting around in dust storms, it's also at the bottom of a very expensive gravity well

the Moon has less gravity but a lot of inconvenient moonquakes

so yeah, just throw material into orbit and let the Optimus bots build something nice where people will pay to live

Posted by: TallDave at February 10, 2026 12:00 PM (xZyKE)

142 here on the frontlines of the midwest grid 16hr shifts are held with any inclement weather event. this can last for weeks. compensation is acceptable.
i lied to get the job, they lied about the job. we're even.

Posted by: cmeat at February 10, 2026 01:17 PM (R11M+)

Overnight Open Thread [02/09/2026]

The burbs are great after a big snow. Especially when the temperature doesn't skyrocket afterward and the snow sticks around for a few weeks. My little town does a good job of clearing the roads, so driving is effortless, and the pleasure of a white wonderland is clear to see without having to slog through a big mess.

NYC is a different animal entirely, and they are welcome to their garbage-strewn streets and slush mountains. I'll take the pristine (for now) suburbs any day over 3:00AM Thai takeout and marijuana delivery.

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[Hat Tip: dhmosquito]

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This thing looks absolutely useless, and absolutely loads of fun!

Jetson One

It's just a drone writ large, and that makes it both reassuring and terrifying. But you can't get one until 2028...they are either backlogged, or it's all smoke and mirrors.

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A fish is swimming out in a lake, when he sees a fly flitting around, 3 feet above the water. The fish thinks to himself, "If that fly comes down about 5 inches, I can eat it!", so he sits and waits.
A bear sees the fish watching the fly and thinks to himself, "When that fly comes down a few inches, that fish is going to jump up and try to eat it. When that happens, I'm going to swipe that fish onto land and eat it."
A hunter eating a sandwich sees the bear watching the fish watching the fly, and thinks to himself, "When that fly lowers, the fish is going to jump up to get it, and that bear is going to try and eat that fish. When that happens, I'm going to shoot the bear and stuff him for my den," so he puts down his sandwich, and readies his gun.
A mouse is sitting there watching the hunter, watching the bear, watching the fish, watching the fly, and thinks to himself, "When that fish goes for the fly and the bear goes for the fish, and the hunter tries too shoot the bear, I'm going to go and eat his sandwich." so he sits and waits, keeping a watchful eye on the hunter and his sandwich.
A cat in the bushes sees the mouse watching the hunter watching the bear watching the fish watching the fly, and thinks "When that fly lowers 5 inches, the fish is going to try and eat it, then the bear is going to eat the fish, then that hunter is going to shoot the bear, then that mouse is going to try and eat the sandwich. When that happens, I'm going to eat that mouse." so he sits and waits. watching the mouse intently.
After a few tense minutes, the fly finally lowers itself.
The fish jumps out of the water, and catches the fly in it's mouth a split second before the bear swipes the fish onto land and begins to devour it, shortly before being shot in the face by the hunter, while the mouse lunges for the sandwich. The cat sees the action springing right in front of him, so he books it out of the bushes making a bee line for the mouse, but misses it completely, and falls face first into the lake.
Moral of the story; when a fly comes down 5 inches, a pussy gets wet.

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Researchers 'surprised' by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

Pass the pot to Grandma — her brain might thank you.
A new study is challenging long-held assumptions about cannabis, finding that middle-aged and older adults who use the drug may actually see some brain and cognitive benefits.
The twist comes as cannabis use is climbing among older Americans. Research shows that nearly 1 in 5 people ages 50 to 64 reported using marijuana in the past year, along with 5.9% of those 65 and older.

Biochemical research is mostly bullshit: filled with weasel words and ass-covering nonsense. If marijuana was that wonderful, we would have figured it out long ago.

You Know Who hardest hit!

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1 Artificial Intelligence is perfectly safe and safely perfect.

The Internet told me so.

Posted by: mindful webworker - mind, the final frontier at February 09, 2026 10:18 PM (kqXjy)

2 st!

Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 10:19 PM (Cjcf6)

3 yo

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 09, 2026 10:19 PM (UOTmo)

4 Finally!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 10:19 PM (cYBz/)

5 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 09, 2026 10:19 PM (SRRAx)

6 Sorry I'm late, my keys were dirty.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 09, 2026 10:19 PM (u28BA)

7 It's easy to grin
when your ship comes in,
and you've got the stock market beat.
But the man who's worthwhile
is the man who can smile
when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 10:20 PM (UOTmo)

8 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at February 09, 2026 10:20 PM (+HNx/)

9 booga booga

Posted by: gKWVE at February 09, 2026 10:20 PM (gKWVE)

10 Excellent joke.
It is now being read on three continents.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 10:21 PM (1VKLJ)

11 no...

Posted by: MkY at February 09, 2026 10:22 PM (q6tQZ)

12 love the key cleaner. joke's a groaner

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 09, 2026 10:22 PM (UOTmo)

13 Thanks for the ONT, CBD! Nice show ya got there.

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2026 10:22 PM (47diA)

14 7 It's easy to grin
when your ship comes in,
and you've got the stock market beat.
But the man who's worthwhile
is the man who can smile
when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Well? We're waiting!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (Riz8t)

15 Thomas Massie is the Tori Amos of Corey Feldmans.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (DJAE9)

16 It's too bad Elmer Fudd didn't show up on the Jumbotron during last night's halftime show. I would have loved to hear "Shh! Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. Hehehehe."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (S/Y4j)

17 15 Thomas Massie is the Tori Amos of Corey Feldmans.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (DJAE9)

Better Feldman than Haim.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (u28BA)

18 Oof. That's a lot of snow.

Did I mention that I went sailing in 80 degrees and sunshine yesterday?

*ducks*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2026 10:24 PM (+HNx/)

19 Huh. I guess I picked the wrong decade (of my life) to give up pot.

Meh. Modern pot isn't as good as the good old days, anyway. Bring back Acupolka Gold! 🙄😲😆

Posted by: mindful webworker - pass the air freshener at February 09, 2026 10:25 PM (kqXjy)

20 We're finally about to break out of the single digits, and have temps into the high 20's low 30's

#tropical

Posted by: browndog with icy paws at February 09, 2026 10:25 PM (3sXRv)

21 Evenin' CBD. Howdy Horde!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at February 09, 2026 10:26 PM (H/suN)

22 ***Pass the pot to Grandma — her brain might thank you.
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Big Pot paid for that study.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 10:26 PM (6W1vz)

23 Never met anyone who sounded smarter high. But I am definitely a prude when it comes to these things. I will absolutely admit it!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 10:27 PM (Wmg4n)

24 The two Coreys. Hollywood sucks.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 10:27 PM (/WQyy)

25 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 09, 2026 10:27 PM (lUFok)

26 Nice ONT, CBD!

Especially loved the fish joke. Didn't see that punchline coming!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 09, 2026 10:28 PM (kB9dk)

27 Biochemical research is mostly bullshit: filled with weasel words and ass-covering nonsense. If marijuana was that wonderful, we would have figured it out long ago.
You Know Who hardest hit!
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Same goes for that pain relief crap.
Talk about the power of suggestion.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 10:28 PM (6W1vz)

28 "This thing looks absolutely useless, and absolutely loads of fun!"

Here's what happens if you buy one, Actual delivery of the vehicle:

https://tinyurl.com/4dhdu4ba

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 09, 2026 10:28 PM (w/O5Q)

29 "Researchers 'surprised' by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40"

...another surprise cannabis benefit is psychosis and violence.

Posted by: Joemarine at February 09, 2026 10:28 PM (y171U)

30 Nice jokes.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

31 In 13 above, I meant snow, not show.

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2026 10:29 PM (47diA)

32 another surprise cannabis benefit is psychosis and violence.
Posted by: Joemarine at February 09, 2026 10:28 PM (y171U)

I am betting emphysema too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

33 23 Never met anyone who sounded smarter high

Maybe raimondo.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 09, 2026 10:29 PM (gKWVE)

34 If the electrical puns start amping up, I'll have to leave. Not willing to take it in the shorts.

Posted by: Pull My Wire at February 09, 2026 10:29 PM (oftw2)

35 We normally have winters that look just like that top photo. Snow on the ground in our yards for 2mo starting in November.

The weather this year said, "Sorry! All the snow is going East, mate!" I grieve but will get over it. Will now settle for snow in the mountains and rain here. Life is grand otherwise.

I have not been happy about the lack of snow. Those of you who have it have probably not been happy at times, either.

However, in the Intermountain states we envy you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 10:30 PM (WONhk)

36 Thomas Q. Massie (the Q stands for Quisling).

Posted by: Joemarine at February 09, 2026 10:31 PM (y171U)

37 33 23 Never met anyone who sounded smarter high

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Guys who are high think they sound smarter when they're high.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2026 10:31 PM (+HNx/)

38 Watt's happening?

Posted by: mot at February 09, 2026 10:31 PM (fIPNY)

39 28 "This thing looks absolutely useless, and absolutely loads of fun!"

Here's what happens if you buy one, Actual delivery of the vehicle:

https://tinyurl.com/4dhdu4ba
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 09, 2026 10:28 PM (w/O5Q)

I see many issue here ...

Posted by: zombie I at February 09, 2026 10:31 PM (3sXRv)

40 Mah haid got cut off ...

Posted by: zombie Isadora Duncan at February 09, 2026 10:32 PM (3sXRv)

41 If the electrical puns start amping up, I'll have to leave. Not willing to take it in the shorts.
Posted by: Pull My Wire

To be honest, I'm shocked the puns haven't already started.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 09, 2026 10:32 PM (lUFok)

42 To be honest, I'm shocked the puns haven't already started.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

I expected resistance.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 10:33 PM (cYBz/)

43 NYC is a different animal entirely, and they are welcome to their garbage-strewn streets and slush mountains.

________________________

Pull up a chair and grab the popcorn. NYC is about to have a bit of a warm spell. It's the first one since the garbage collection problems. And, I'm telling you right now, the rats are excited. If you've never spent a lot of time in NYC, then you might now be aware of how big the rat population is. You get a taste of it everytime the subway tunnels flood. But, nothing's more appetizing to a population of rats than rising temperatures and free food in the winter time.

Enjoy the show.

Oh, and about that Jetson 1 passenger drone. I'm sure Special Ops branches within the military are already playing around with one to dampen the noise. Those are a tool they'd love to have in the arsenal.

Posted by: Orson at February 09, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)

44 I'm shocked the puns haven't already started.

CBD even lobbed in Ohm in a tale . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2026 10:33 PM (47diA)

45 Extra Strength Placebo does well in double blind studies

Posted by: Common Tater at February 09, 2026 10:33 PM (0OORa)

46 However, in the Intermountain states we envy you.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

After three weeks of glaciation here in The Swamp, you can have it. Not seeing the appeal, unless it scours away all the commie bastards around here.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 09, 2026 10:34 PM (UOTmo)

47 If the electrical puns start amping up, I'll have to leave. Not willing to take it in the shorts.
Posted by: Pull My Wire at February 09, 2026 10:29 PM (oftw2)

Careful. You don't want your shorts grounded due to capacitance.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 09, 2026 10:34 PM (S/Y4j)

48 Huh.

That Bing Crosby song, sounded kinda like Dean Martin.

With a glass of apple juice.

Posted by: mindful webworker - buh buh buh booo at February 09, 2026 10:34 PM (kqXjy)

49 Somebody wired the key cleaner wrong.

.....unless it really is a key cleaner. Then, bravo.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

50 Watts Going On?

Posted by: 4 Non Blondes at February 09, 2026 10:35 PM (+HNx/)

51 29 "Researchers 'surprised' by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40"

...another surprise cannabis benefit is psychosis and violence.
Posted by: Joemarine at February 09, 2026 10:28 PM (y171U)

violence?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 09, 2026 10:35 PM (w/O5Q)

52 This thing looks absolutely useless, and absolutely loads of fun!"
Here's what happens if you buy one, Actual delivery of the vehicle:
https://tinyurl.com/4dhdu4ba
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 09, 2026 10:28 PM (w/O5Q)

Watched the video. I, for one, wouldn't stand next to the cockpit to give instructions to the pilot when the propeller blades are deployed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 10:35 PM (aMrr2)

53 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 09, 2026 10:35 PM (sAmhv)

54 Good catch mikeski. That's neutral lol.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 09, 2026 10:36 PM (UOTmo)

55 However, in the Intermountain states we envy you.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

What states are the Intermountain States?

Posted by: Libtards at February 09, 2026 10:36 PM (5rh/l)

56 Speaking of electricity - I removed a 25 year old transfer switch (that wasn't wired to any power source) today. What a mess. I'm powering up (HAH) to add some backup power capability to my system. I'm considering some battery storage, portable solar panels, and a portable generator.

Lots of offerings out there - looks like it's time to get into the weeds with all the info.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

57 Well, we did our good deed of the day today. We are paying for a young lady (junior high) who we have known since before she was born to go to a STEM camp this summer. She was nominated by one of her teachers, and it is a leadership program. She will be able to stay on campus at a local college for a week.

She is a great kid. Her mom has been Rebecca's massage therapist for about 15 years now; her husband - this young lady's father - died very unexpectedly 10 years ago, so they live on one income.

They didn't know how they would be able to afford to pay for her to attend this program. Since we are in a position to help out these ladies who are very much like family to us, we told them that if they weren't able to secure a scholarship we would pick up the cost so that this young lady could attend this program.

What a joy to be able to do this for such a wonderful young lady! She is very excited, and we are excited for her. And we are so grateful that we are able to help make this possible for her ♥️♥️♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 09, 2026 10:37 PM (SRRAx)

58 Emiru issued an apology for being honest about lacking an opinion on ICE.

So naturally the Twitterati mob that had attacked her originally have not accepted her apology and continue to savage her.

When can social media just die already.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD)

59 The two Coreys. Hollywood sucks.
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It does. It seems like there a mild movement to pretend that Epstein wasn't about sex with the under-aged (because he was all about the money...? How would that be any different?). Yet, the history of cinema says that casting seems to be all about that. Are we supposed to believe that Epstein's clients had little in common with Hollywood?

Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 10:39 PM (Cjcf6)

60 Well done, TiFW!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2026 10:39 PM (47diA)

61 If someone stuffed a key in the neutral side, it probably won't pop like that. That looks like a grounding problem or too much load. Also the receptacle could be a $3 piece of junk.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 10:40 PM (xFfhU)

62 What states are the Intermountain States?

The states that are in ter mountains. (NM, CO, WY, MT, ID, UT, NV, eastern WA, eastern OR, eastern CA, and AZ)

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 09, 2026 10:41 PM (lUFok)

63 45 Extra Strength Placebo does well in double blind studies
Posted by: Common Tater at February 09, 2026 10:33 PM (0OORa)

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Maybe, but does it have a good jingle?

Posted by: Jardiance at February 09, 2026 10:41 PM (+HNx/)

64 If they can give the Jetson a range of 60 miles and a pilot weight of 250lbs, it will be a billion dollar industry. In warm weather states that becomes the commute of choice. A secondary industry will be the landing ports.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 10:41 PM (1VKLJ)

65 What a joy to be able to do this for such a wonderful young lady! She is very excited, and we are excited for her. And we are so grateful that we are able to help make this possible for her ♥️♥️♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 09, 2026 10:37 PM (SRRAx)

This is awesome, what a blessing you are to her!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 10:42 PM (Wmg4n)

66 Teresa, that is wonderful you can make a difference for that young girl.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 10:42 PM (/WQyy)

67 Evening all,

There are two new updates to our cat blog tonight.

Big Boy, the black cat that arrived just before dad passed, then disappeared after a couple months has shown up and injured. We had to do an emergency after hours vet visit to get him checked.

https://tinyurl.com/dg65258

Posted by: Joyenz at February 09, 2026 10:43 PM (2F0/Y)

68 I enjoyed the TP "halftime" show, with two caveats:
1) Fire the guy on the sound board. The vocals were muddy, and more often than not, the backup vocals/ instruments were on top.
2)They lied about the timing. They promised that it would be synced with the game, but when I switched back to the game, it was already at 14:03.
It was pretty much amateur hour. Each act was internally good, except for the aforementioned sound issues, but the timing leading from one performance to the next wasn't on. It was obvious that they didn't rehearse getting on and off.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 09, 2026 10:44 PM (pk60q)

69 I’m tired.

Last night was crazy.

Gotta get some sleep.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 10:44 PM (IhIKR)

70 What is the failure recovery method for a 4 rotor drone? I suppose each blade has its own motor. If one motor stops producing power, is the geometrically opposite rotor shut down and do the remaining 2 rotors have enough energy to "land" the thing? Inquiring minds (or at least mine) want to know!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2026 10:45 PM (47diA)

71 What a joy to be able to do this for such a wonderful young lady! She is very excited, and we are excited for her. And we are so grateful that we are able to help make this possible for her ♥️♥️♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 09, 2026 10:37 PM (SRRAx)

That's great. I hope she enjoys the experience!

Posted by: Joyenz at February 09, 2026 10:45 PM (2F0/Y)

72 Structural engineer's report came in today. Looks like I'm moving soon. Just two miles away, though, so not a big deal.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 09, 2026 10:46 PM (lUFok)

73 The Jetson: Incoming copyright infringement lawsuit? Or maybe they properly licensed the name.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 10:46 PM (aMrr2)

74 62 What states are the Intermountain States?

The states that are in ter mountains. (NM, CO, WY, MT, ID, UT, NV, eastern WA, eastern OR, eastern CA, and AZ)

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 09, 2026 10:41 PM (lUFok)

So, aren't the states between the Appalachians and the Rockies intermountain states? Heck, it seems almost every state is an intermountain state. Even Hawaii - it's between the Sierra Nevadas and the Urals.

Posted by: Libtards at February 09, 2026 10:46 PM (5rh/l)

75 It's just a drone writ large, and that makes it both reassuring and terrifying.

I prefer my helicopter blades to be non-coplanar with the pilot.

Not that it matters if something goes wrong 1000 feet up.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)

76 Researchers 'surprised' by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40
"Greater lifetime use was also linked to better performance in learning, processing speed, and short-term memory. "

Complete and total bullshit.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 09, 2026 10:47 PM (D0HYP)

77 73 The Jetson: Incoming copyright infringement lawsuit? Or maybe they properly licensed the name.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 10:46 PM (aMrr2)

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Spacely Sprockets owns the rights.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2026 10:48 PM (+HNx/)

78 Nice ONT CBD

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 09, 2026 10:48 PM (ZF6+q)

79 64 If they can give the Jetson a range of 60 miles and a pilot weight of 250lbs, it will be a billion dollar industry. In warm weather states that becomes the commute of choice. A secondary industry will be the landing ports.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Bargained with Grok for a self driving car and an Optimus - offered cash. No deals. No discounts.No\
Optimus and the best deal on a self-driver is $36,990 plus $99 a month for the FSD option.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 10:49 PM (6W1vz)

80 Teresa, that is some very sweet news. Hope she fully embraces the opportunity.

Joyenz, that is some good news. Hope it all turns out well.

I've also had a missing cat return. Thankfully young little Pip is still very healthy and vocal. Isis is adjusting to having her adopted kitten back. Detente is the best they manage right now along with claw swipes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 10:50 PM (2GVsD)

81 >I prefer my helicopter blades to be non-coplanar with the pilot.

Not that it matters if something goes wrong 1000 feet up.
Posted by: mikeski
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You can pass out from blood loss on the way down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 10:50 PM (6W1vz)

82 If marijuana was that wonderful, we would have figured it out long ago.
You Know Who hardest hit!

So what's your excuse for forgetting his name?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 10:51 PM (KAi1n)

83 It turns out the pot research consisted of watching Seth Rogen movies. "Amazing!" one researcher said. "They smoke pot, and right away, they get smarter and cooler."

Posted by: Wally at February 09, 2026 10:52 PM (0e5Te)

84 82 If marijuana was that wonderful, we would have figured it out long ago.
You Know Who hardest hit!

So what's your excuse for forgetting his name?
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 10:51 PM (KAi1n)

***

Snort!
Well played!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 10:52 PM (1VKLJ)

85 what's your excuse for forgetting his name?
Posted by: Dark Litigator

I smoked two joints

Posted by: the toyes at February 09, 2026 10:53 PM (gKWVE)

86 So what's your excuse for forgetting his name?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 10:51 PM (KAi1n)

I have never forgotten anyone's na...hey! Is that popcorn?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2026 10:53 PM (n9ltV)

87 What day is this?
It's freaking Monday, where is everyone?
Blue Monday just wear you out? Oh, blue Monday...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 10:53 PM (6W1vz)

88 If the electrical puns start amping up, I'll have to leave. Not willing to take it in the shorts.
Posted by: Pull My Wire
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Don't let the step function hit you in the ass.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 09, 2026 10:53 PM (pk60q)

89 Electrical puns can have such a snap to them. Then a pop. And then a trip to the hospital.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 10:54 PM (2GVsD)

90 Posted by: Tonypete
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Ecoflow has a smart circuit box along with enough scalable battery capacity to run a substantial house up to about a week if you wish. Costco has some of their products or you can order them online or even Ebay as Ecoflow has a refurbished storefront on Ebay.

They also have the smaller and more portable types. And portable solar cells.

Jackery does okay with the smaller batteries as does Bluetti and both also sell portable solar cells for recharging.

A simple gas/propane generator can also ease issues with the battery generators. If you do have electronics or electronics heavy appliances, the line sags and surges from normal gas/propane/nat gas generators (not inverter types) can damage those. Using the generator to charge one of the battery generators avoids that problem if you run items off of that.

E.g. our pellet stove requires about 300 watts to ignite and about 100 watts per hour for fan and feeding pellets. But since computerized control, requires pure sine wave electricity to keep it running. Battery generators generate sine wave supply that it needs.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 10:55 PM (2swu2)

91 Good evening morons ותודה רבה CBD

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

92 64 If they can give the Jetson a range of 60 miles and a pilot weight of 250lbs, it will be a billion dollar industry. In warm weather states that becomes the commute of choice. A secondary industry will be the landing ports.
Posted by: Diogenes

Devil's Advocate Position: After the first half-dozen fatal Jetson-Jetson mid-airs at liquor stores after dark, or the first six incidents of soccer moms crashing into each other at 35 feet over Panera stores, no one will be able to afford flying insurance for a Jetson.

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 10:57 PM (5rh/l)

93 Don't let the step function hit you in the ass.
Posted by: buddhaha

Ohm my god, not this again.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 10:57 PM (KAi1n)

94 So what's your excuse for forgetting his name?
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 10:51 PM (KAi1n)

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It's the flashbacks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

95 Gref

Or even worse, wine-box soccer Moms locked in an aerial duel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

96 >>>Electrical puns can have such a snap to them. Then a pop. And then a trip to the hospital.

Posted by: Anna Puma

>Watch your ass when you're around those people into AC/DC.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 10:58 PM (xFfhU)

97 Good evening morons ותודה רבה CBD
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

Hey San Franpsycho, had a great time in the city. Sitting in the airline waiting to board. Really enjoyed myself.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 10:59 PM (1VKLJ)

98 >Watch your ass when you're around those people into AC/DC.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

My balls are always bouncing to the left and to the right
It's my belief that my big balls should be held every night

Posted by: gKWVE at February 09, 2026 10:59 PM (gKWVE)

99 At least it's not fish puns tonight.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 11:00 PM (aMrr2)

100 Thanks whig - I've been looking at the Ecoflow products. I need to work on the deep dive but so far, they look promising. My electric provider (a TVA coop) has pretty inexpensive kW rates BUT we are in a high wind, lotsa trees environment so periodic outages are a thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 11:00 PM (cYBz/)

101 Devil's Advocate Position: After the first half-dozen fatal Jetson-Jetson mid-airs at liquor stores after dark, or the first six incidents of soccer moms crashing into each other at 35 feet over Panera stores, no one will be able to afford flying insurance for a Jetson.
Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 10:57 PM (5rh/l)

The FAA will step in once this gets serious. Just like for drones. But common sense regulations can fix a lot of the issues.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:01 PM (1VKLJ)

102 Structural engineer's report came in today. Looks like I'm moving soon. Just two miles away, though, so not a big deal.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

What happened?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 09, 2026 11:01 PM (ZF6+q)

103 At least it's not fish puns tonight.

The eel you say?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

104 Ugh. My wife is watching some romcom movie with Ryan Raymonds and that hot chick from Demolition Man, about how immigration fraud is awesome, as long as you're a hot white chick instead of some Aztec hobbit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:01 PM (BI5O2)

105 >>>My balls are always bouncing to the left and to the right
It's my belief that my big balls should be held every night

Posted by: gKWVE

>Cause I'm V.F.D., I'm Dynamite!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:02 PM (xFfhU)

106 Don't let the step function hit you in the ass.
Posted by: buddhaha

Better than taking its derivative in the ass.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 11:02 PM (dhHpw)

107 At least it's not fish puns tonight.

The eel you say?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

I tried the tuna for the hailbut.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 11:03 PM (/WQyy)

108 I saw Aztec Hobbit open for...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 11:03 PM (aMrr2)

109 A throwback ONT from 1998!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 11:03 PM (1+Dhc)

110 95 Gref

Or even worse, wine-box soccer Moms locked in an aerial duel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

Yup. It will be a re-run of the earliest WW1 air-to-air combats. Soccer moms shooting pistols at each in contests for prime landing spots at nail salons.

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 11:04 PM (5rh/l)

111 What happened?

Report was for a new (to me) house that has some cracks visible on the outside. Offer was contingent on the results of the inspection.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 09, 2026 11:04 PM (lUFok)

112 Flying cars aren't exactly new, of course. The Chineese demo'd a flying car back in '22.
x.com/i/status/1580591685867753474

Flying cars will be a lot better if they can use something besides old-fashioned head-chopper type blades. I've seen examples. Here's one:
https://youtu.be/iYsoDS0UM4c

Another, sorta
https://youtu.be/MGy8jvf-DZ0

Another toroidal example
https://youtu.be/E8L8I0dLh_o

Comic relief, loosely related, page 12 from my old webwork series "Getting From Here to There,"
The 500 Cars of That Guy
https://bit.ly/500-cars-of-that-guy
(click on Larger Image for a larger image)

Posted by: mindful webworker - i need one to fly to the South 40 at February 09, 2026 11:04 PM (kqXjy)

113 Aztec Hobbit, Thousand Millimeter Reich's Mexican la lucha dora cousin?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)

114 Lemme guess the story…

Guy hates girl. But she needs a green card and he needs money. So they make a deal,
Money for pretending to be married.

But - get this - they end up falling in love. And then get for real married and live happily ever after.

Am I close?

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:05 PM (y6810)

115 Hey San Franpsycho, had a great time in the city. Sitting in the airline waiting to board. Really enjoyed myself.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 10:59 PM (1VKLJ)
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Glad you enjoyed.

Did you get that "secondary screening" I called in for you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

116 The jokes; I laughed.

Check out the disembodied guitar strings vid at the end of the Jetson one. Magnets got some power!

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at February 09, 2026 11:06 PM (t/Eo5)

117 The best part of the AWFLs fighting in their Jetsons will be seeing the Coexist bumper stickers on the flaming wreckage.

Posted by: Wally at February 09, 2026 11:08 PM (0e5Te)

118 "Magnets? Whoa!" ICP fans.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

119 I saw Aztec Hobbit open for...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 11:03 PM (aMrr2)

Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas at the Alamodome in '99.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 11:08 PM (/WQyy)

120 Cuckerberg joins Bezos in buying a home in tax free Florida.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:08 PM (y6810)

121 MAGNETS! HOW DO THEY WORK?!

Posted by: JUGGALO TEARS at February 09, 2026 11:09 PM (mFz+I)

122 The chick from Demolition Man is a horrible bitch who runs some kind of publication, but her beleaguered secretary has to pretend to be her husband so she doesn't get deported for flouting our laws.

I hope this ends with both of them in CECOT.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:09 PM (BI5O2)

123 I hope this ends with both of them in CECOT.

That will be the sequel Pounded to Love.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:11 PM (2GVsD)

124 101 Devil's Advocate Position: After the first half-dozen fatal Jetson-Jetson mid-airs at liquor stores after dark, or the first six incidents of soccer moms crashing into each other at 35 feet over Panera stores, no one will be able to afford flying insurance for a Jetson.
Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 10:57 PM (5rh/l)

The FAA will step in once this gets serious. Just like for drones. But common sense regulations can fix a lot of the issues.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:01 PM (1VKLJ)

Traffic light engineers and police have a difficult enough time keeping chaos minimal in two dimensions. In three dimensions, chaos will be the norm, I fear. Also, what's the range if flyers have to hover for two minutes at stoplights every quarter-mile or less in urban areas and dense suburbs?

:-)

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 11:11 PM (5rh/l)

125 Ryan Reynolds is an alien ironically enough. Legal though I assume.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:11 PM (y6810)

126 118 "Magnets? Whoa!" ICP fans.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

LOL. I LOVE YOU. AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

Posted by: JUGGALO TEARS at February 09, 2026 11:11 PM (mFz+I)

127 I watched the first two films by Shinya Tsukamoto. "Tetsuo" 1 and 2. They are fascinating but not for everyone.

Does your cable company offer the HR Giger Channel? If not, you might not get to see these. Which might be a good thing. You never know. I mean, I like them both a lot, but is that a recommendation or a warning?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 09, 2026 11:11 PM (CHHv1)

128 Seen on a boat:

AC/DC
For those about to fish we salute you

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 09, 2026 11:11 PM (S/Y4j)

129 Also, happy Monday to the best people on the planet.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 09, 2026 11:11 PM (CHHv1)

130 Never met anyone who sounded smarter high
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Guys who are high think they sound smarter when they're high.
Posted by: Cicero
++++

Homer Simpson's "thinking juice" agrees

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 09, 2026 11:12 PM (/lPRQ)

131 Cuckerberg joins Bezos in buying a home in tax free Florida.
Posted by: Really??

Next you are going to tell me that taxation policies have an impact on folks that have the ability to relocate.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 11:13 PM (cYBz/)

132 In warm weather states that becomes the commute of choice.

Sure enough.
And, Look Out Below.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 09, 2026 11:13 PM (zdLoL)

133 They made a second Tetsuo? Ye gads.

Go watch Lady Battle Cop as a palette cleanser.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:14 PM (2GVsD)

134 You know NBC hated reporting this....

President Donald Trump, in a call two decades ago to a Florida police chief, bashed former friend Jeffrey Epstein and called Epstein’s procurer Ghislaine Maxwell “evil,” the retired cop told FBI agents in 2019, a Department of Justice document shows.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 11:16 PM (tmn4j)

135 131 Cuckerberg joins Bezos in buying a home in tax free Florida.
Posted by: Really??

Next you are going to tell me that taxation policies have an impact on folks that have the ability to relocate.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 11:13 PM (cYBz/)

Leftist news outlets claim that wealth people fleeing from high-tax blue zones is a MAGA-spread Myth! Because the wealthy aren't bothered by high taxes!

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 11:16 PM (5rh/l)

136 Good jokes tonight!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:16 PM (8zz6B)

137 Thanks for the ONT, CBD!

Love the snow picture-- that's what it *usually* looks like around here in winter. But not this winter. (Yet?)

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2026 11:17 PM (rdVOm)

138 Went to see the Melania documentary today. It was enjoyable. 30 minutes of boring previews beforehand. At least 7 or 8 previews before the movie started. All were animated or had CGI, except for one Christian film.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 11:17 PM (/WQyy)

139 Don't let the step function hit you in the ass.
Posted by: buddhaha
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Better than taking its derivative in the ass.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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You seem to be an impulsive fellow.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 09, 2026 11:18 PM (pk60q)

140 Did you get that "secondary screening" I called in for you?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

I appreciate that. Kevin was my screener.
He promised to call.
Oh I hope he does....

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:21 PM (1VKLJ)

141 @133 They did, or rather he did. It's good. I mean, by my definition of "good."

There are a bunch more of his films on the Arrow box. Haven't got to those yet.

"Lady Battle Cop"...I am intrigued.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 09, 2026 11:21 PM (CHHv1)

142 If they can give the Jetson a range of 60 miles and a pilot weight of 250lbs, it will be a billion dollar industry. In warm weather states that becomes the commute of choice. A secondary industry will be the landing ports.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 10:41 PM (1VKLJ)

What happens if only one of the four motors fails?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:22 PM (8zz6B)

143 I can easily see Trump telling some cop that Maxwell is evil and a flesh peddler. It's totally in character for him, because he kept his nose clean in this thing, and he hated Epstein.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:22 PM (BI5O2)

144 ""My little town does a good job of clearing the roads, so driving is effortless, and the pleasure of a white wonderland is clear to see without having to slog through a big mess.""

One thing about jersey, they don't fuck around when it comes to snow removal. The roads are clear by the time you wake up. They run the plows all night. Can't vouch for the cities, but the burbs are always clear. I have never been snowed in.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 09, 2026 11:24 PM (snZF9)

145 Good jokes tonight!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The electrical puns have been shunted aside.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 11:24 PM (XeU6L)

146 Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:21 PM (1VKLJ)

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LOL

Next time we shall have a toast

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:25 PM (RIvkX)

147 Okay Pookie, do the honors.

I christen thee, the Flying WASP

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at February 09, 2026 11:26 PM (R86kT)

148 This has probably already been mentioned, but its new to me. California taxes must truly be a maze of crazy.

Apparently, the Seahawks quarterback owes more in taxes than he earned for the game.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 11:27 PM (7aioM)

149 What happens if only one of the four motors fails?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:22 PM (8zz6B)

We adapt.
What happens when you have a blowout at 70 mph?
We will have to learn.
I see these being restricted to less than 400 feet and along established routes.
We'll see.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:27 PM (1VKLJ)

150 Next time we shall have a toast
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:25 PM (RIvkX)

I look forward to it my friend!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:28 PM (1VKLJ)

151 I can easily see Trump telling some cop that Maxwell is evil and a flesh peddler. It's totally in character for him, because he kept his nose clean in this thing, and he hated Epstein.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:22 PM (BI5O2)
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You called it exactly right then.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 11:28 PM (7aioM)

152 >>>The electrical puns have been shunted aside.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

>We can rectify this situation but I'd rather not hear anymore about the Olympic transistors.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:29 PM (xFfhU)

153 Apparently, the Seahawks quarterback owes more in taxes than he earned for the game.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 11:27 PM (7aioM)
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Well, you got your
Hotel tax
Convention and Visitor's Bureau fee
Parking tax
Employment ordinance fee
Sales Tax

Enjoy!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

154
Leftist news outlets claim that wealth people fleeing from high-tax blue zones is a MAGA-spread Myth! Because the wealthy aren't bothered by high taxes!
Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 11:16 PM (5rh/l)

The people they accuse of being overly focused with cutting costs, like employee wages, are just going to ignore 15% off the top? Riiiggghht.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 09, 2026 11:32 PM (w/O5Q)

155 But common sense regulations can fix a lot of the issues.
Posted by: Diogenes

* looks at Washington D.C. *

Well, we're boned.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 11:32 PM (VHUov)

156 >We can rectify this situation but I'd rather not hear anymore about the Olympic transistors.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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You apparently have no capacity for sympathy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 11:33 PM (XeU6L)

157 Buncha Mhos in here.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 11:33 PM (Cqx++)

158
Dems got the Epstein Files from the Acme Corporation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 11:33 PM (tgvbd)

159 Apparently, the Seahawks quarterback owes more in taxes than he earned for the game.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 11:27 PM (7aioM)

The Jock Tax.
Take the number of days in state, equates to a %rage of total income. Pro athlete = Big $ for the state.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:34 PM (1VKLJ)

160 100 Thanks whig -
Posted by: Tonypete
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Good luck with your search. For the tax credit though get even a few solar cells with your battery system.

Ecoflow's smart circuit box, they claim you can basically run line power to it and it will charge the batteries (top them off) and instantly switch to battery power when you get line outages or even sags. Basically like a large scale uninterruptible power source.

Key factor is how long they last and some report having install problems with the smart circuit board. I like Ecoflow because it is scalable and you can add batteries as your budget allows.

I still have mostly dumb appliances or ones that I don't need in an outage but as those wear out, I am looking at the Ecoflow system for that reason.

Most of the new house wide battery systems allow charging by solar cells, generators, or line power to keep topped up.

I have a small Ryobi battery generator that uses their 40v yard batteries which are hot swappable and you can link one to another Ryobi unit as well. for the Pellet stove. Have a log burning Buck stove at the other fireplace.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:35 PM (2swu2)

161 >>>You apparently have no capacity for sympathy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

>Well, much of my life has been in vacuum tube, so not easily triggered.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:35 PM (xFfhU)

162
Texas Demoncrat Gene Wu tells Latino, black and Asian people to unite against US, we are the majority.

We have the ability to take over this country.

Is this incitement?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 09, 2026 11:36 PM (3ek7K)

163 Buncha Mhos in here.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Don't expect an admittance on their part.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 11:37 PM (XeU6L)

164 Texas Demoncrat Gene Wu tells Latino, black and Asian people to unite against US, we are the majority.

We have the ability to take over this country.

Is this incitement?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 09, 2026 11:36 PM (3ek7K)

Beyond incitement if you ask me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 09, 2026 11:37 PM (snZF9)

165 We adapt.
What happens when you have a blowout at 70 mph?
We will have to learn.
I see these being restricted to less than 400 feet and along established routes.
We'll see.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:27 PM (1VKLJ)

The only way I can see such flying machines be approved for general use is to have all under central robotic control, and you hire them like a taxi or an Uber. The passenger has zero input into the flight controls. If contact with master control is lost, the onboard system must go into "safe descent" mode, and make a rapid but hopefully safe descent from cruise altitude to the nearest patch of open ground. And then shut down.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:37 PM (8zz6B)

166 The North American Union would have used a cruise missile on Wu by now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:39 PM (2GVsD)

167 Yep- the jock tax. He owes over a quarter million dollars in state tax for playing the game in California, and the NFL paid him something like $187,000 iirc

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 11:39 PM (RZtQW)

168 Currently alternating between electricity puns and fish puns is like salmon going against the flow - shocking how few survive.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 11:39 PM (KAi1n)

169 Because the wealthy aren't bothered by high taxes.

I would think the wealthy would be bothered by anything taking their money. Well, unless they spend it on themselves.

Posted by: Case at February 09, 2026 11:39 PM (E7+ue)

170 The Asian people are hearing that Gene Wu speech and thinking, "Guess who's going to end up doing all the work"

Posted by: Wally at February 09, 2026 11:40 PM (0e5Te)

171 >>>Don't expect an admittance on their part.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

>After so may years, my reluctance has been earned.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:41 PM (xFfhU)

172 The Asian people are hearing that Gene Wu speech and thinking, "Guess who's going to end up doing all the work"
Posted by: Wally at February 09, 2026 11:40 PM (0e5Te)

Curly Howard censusing Gene's family: "woo, woo, woo, woo, woo...!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:41 PM (8zz6B)

173 Congrats Nurse. Your crew earned it.
And that key cleaner is hot!

Posted by: Gunslinger at February 09, 2026 11:42 PM (4pWEQ)

174 The Asian people are hearing that Gene Wu speech and thinking, "Guess who's going to end up doing all the work"
Posted by: Wally
+++

To each according to their ability
To each according to their needs
.
.
.
Those with ability have few needs
Those without ability have many needs

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 09, 2026 11:43 PM (/lPRQ)

175 >>Currently alternating between electricity puns and fish puns is like salmon going against the flow - shocking how few survive.
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It's like getting hit in the family Joules.

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2026 11:43 PM (rdVOm)

176 Maybe it's time for all of you punsters to just flux off!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:43 PM (xFfhU)

177 The only way I can see such flying machines be approved for general use is to have all under central robotic control, and you hire them like a taxi or an Uber. The passenger has zero input into the flight controls. If contact with master control is lost, the onboard system must go into "safe descent" mode, and make a rapid but hopefully safe descent from cruise altitude to the nearest patch of open ground. And then shut down.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Pe

That's a great idea in terms of controlling the airspace.
It might come to that, but the driver/pilot should still have the ability to take control.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:45 PM (1VKLJ)

178 “Researchers 'surprised' by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40"

Probably an expert. Plenty of first hand experience and observation tells me pot makes you lazy and stupid.

Posted by: Ripley at February 09, 2026 11:47 PM (PTDkx)

179 That's a great idea in terms of controlling the airspace.
It might come to that, but the driver/pilot should still have the ability to take control.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:45 PM (1VKLJ)

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It's obvious that you have never spent an afternoon watching dashcam videos on YouTube.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2026 11:47 PM (+HNx/)

180 That's a great idea in terms of controlling the airspace.
It might come to that, but the driver/pilot should still have the ability to take control.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:45 PM (1VKLJ)

That would require competence on the part of the passenger. Liberals are going to be buying these.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:47 PM (8zz6B)

181 >>Maybe it's time for all of you punsters to just flux off!

Yeah, we should quit flip-flopping around...

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2026 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

182 My understanding was that helicopters drop like a stone with no lift, don't you need some glide capacity for a safe crash landing?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:49 PM (xFfhU)

183 You can tune a piano but you can't piano a tuna.

Oh, electrical jokes?

You can't tune an electric keyboard, either.

Electric Tuna is a potential band name.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at February 09, 2026 11:49 PM (NZPfR)

184 I'm floundering.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 11:49 PM (/WQyy)

185 Texas Demoncrat Gene Wu tells Latino, black and Asian people to unite against US, we are the majority.

We have the ability to take over this country.

==

Proletariat of the World, Unite! It's Marxism. Pure and simple.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 11:50 PM (g47mK)

186 I saw Aztec Hobbit open for...
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Totorro, on the Come To Mexico tour.

https://youtu.be/FVCokrs51Cg

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)

187 Never met anyone who sounded smarter high. But I am definitely a prude when it comes to these things. I will absolutely admit it!
Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 10:27 PM (Wmg4n)

I never smoked pot but always had friends and family who did. I knew a number of researchers who said that smoking pot made them more creative. Apparently, pot does kill brain cells (and the comments about psychosis and violence are legit) but also increases the connectivity of the surviving brain cells, which explains both a) increased creativity at first and b) the burnouts you remember who forgot just about everything.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at February 09, 2026 11:52 PM (NZPfR)

188

I find weather interesting to follow.

Here in SW Wyoming we've had no snow and very
unseasonable weather. We've been able to grill a lot this winter.

The wildlife usually moves from the mountains to town starting in October.

Something is going to happen soon because the last two days the wildlife has moved into town.

Hopefully this a good sign, we need lots of snow to fill our reservoirs.

Animals know.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 09, 2026 11:52 PM (3ek7K)

189 I wonder if CBD has that Joe McCarthy picture as a poster in his man cave (the kitchen)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 11:52 PM (vzudA)

190 Maybe it's time for all of you punsters to just flux off!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:43 PM (xFfhU)

Sorry, I don't have enough plutonium to power the flux capacitor.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 09, 2026 11:53 PM (S/Y4j)

191 182 My understanding was that helicopters drop like a stone with no lift, don't you need some glide capacity for a safe crash landing?

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Conventional helicopters glide quite well. Check out the autogyro. Its rotor is free spinning yet it still flies like a fixed-wing plane.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2026 11:53 PM (+HNx/)

192 That's a great idea in terms of controlling the airspace.
It might come to that, but the driver/pilot should still have the ability to take control.
Posted by: Diogenes

Same problem as 99.9%-of-the-time self-driving cars.

If the human only has to take over in the worst 0.1% conditions, they're not going to improve the situation at all.

Practice to the point that driving is instinctual is how that works. Never being allowed to practice means it won't.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 11:54 PM (VHUov)

193 164 Texas Demoncrat Gene Wu tells Latino, black and Asian people to unite against US, we are the majority.

We have the ability to take over this country.

Except for the tiny little problem that the Left really, really doesn't want you to know...except for the collegiate Marxist part, none of the minority groups really like each other at ALL

Posted by: Azjaeger at February 09, 2026 11:54 PM (3/XaG)

194 My understanding was that helicopters drop like a stone with no lift, don't you need some glide capacity for a safe crash landing?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:49 PM (xFfhU)

As long as the rotor remains attached to the aircraft, and continues to be free to rotate, you have lift. Forward motion through the air causes the rotor to spin, and the flight controls can be used. Look up the bensen Gyrocopter, which had an unpowered rotor, and an engine driving a pusher propellor, giving it forward motion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:54 PM (8zz6B)

195 Modern pot isn't as good as the good old days, anyway. Bring back Acupolka Gold! 🙄😲😆
Posted by: mindful webworker

I've acu polka'd stoned. It was fun. I found that my feet went where they were supposed to go, on time, and without thinking about it.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 11:54 PM (KAi1n)

196 If you've never spent a lot of time in NYC, then you might now be aware of how big the rat population is.

Had cousins who lived in NYC as small children and they told me about seeing PSAs on TV between the after school cartoons, showing pictures of a rat and pictures of a cat, and telling children not to mistake a rat for a cat and try to pet it. I've never been able to confirm this I r gind a video online, but they swore it was true.

Posted by: Frankie at February 09, 2026 11:55 PM (tucOg)

197 Gene Wu is a smug looking bastard. Born in China, of course. Houston rep, of course. All I can think is Mr Wu from Deadwood. Cocksucka.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 11:55 PM (/WQyy)

198 Gene Wu is a smug looking bastard. Born in China, of course. Houston rep, of course. All I can think is Mr Wu from Deadwood. Cocksucka.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 11:55 PM (/WQyy)

"Careful with that axe, Wu, Gene!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:57 PM (8zz6B)

199 Wu was born in the PRC or the ROC?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:57 PM (2GVsD)

200 >>>Animals know.

Posted by: fourseasons

>Yes they do. Wind, rain, snow extreme cold and lightning storms. When the temperature is dropping to -20 or below, they're are everywhere, migrating to the nearest river. 500 to a 1000 head of elk is not uncommon.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 11:57 PM (xFfhU)

201 "Careful with that axe, Wu, Gene!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Best pun of the night!

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 11:58 PM (KAi1n)

202 Go ahead guys and then when you are trying to storm the barricades:

'Where's Wu?!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:59 PM (bss/y)

203 If there's one guy you can count on, it's that a Chinese guy won't abuse his authority.

Posted by: Wally at February 09, 2026 11:59 PM (0e5Te)

204 Anna Puma. PRC. Guangzhou

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 12:00 AM (/WQyy)

205 On Ace of Spades, the Pun has some appeal
Currently, the shocking truth is real
One ought not mix the sea
With electricity
Unless the hook is an electric eel
🙄

Let this be my swan song for the evening.🦢

https://youtu.be/2Ui_Q4qBDJY

G'nite, y'all 🕚💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - just in time at February 10, 2026 12:00 AM (kqXjy)

206 "Resistance is useless!"

Posted by: Some Vogon throwing a couple of guys off the ship at February 10, 2026 12:01 AM (O7YUW)

207 BarelyScaryMary

Then Wu needs the Hot Needle of Inquiry applied forcefully to make sure the US does not have an Alice Leal Guo situation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 12:02 AM (2GVsD)

208 The Asian people are hearing that Gene Wu speech and thinking, "Guess who's going to end up doing all the work"
Posted by: Wally at February 09, 2026 11:40 PM (0e5Te)

all the non-Chinese start remembering what happened when the Chinese ruled their country

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2026 12:02 AM (rbvCR)

209
Bad Bunny scrubbed his social media today.

Asshole

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 12:02 AM (3ek7K)

210 Except for the tiny little problem that the Left really, really doesn't want you to know...except for the collegiate Marxist part, none of the minority groups really like each other at ALL

Posted by: Azjaeger at February 09, 2026 11:54 PM (3/XaG)

True. This is why DJ Jizzy Crockett ain't likely to win TX.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 12:02 AM (/WQyy)

211 Bad Bunny, what a puta

Good riddance to bad garbage.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 12:03 AM (2GVsD)

212 Just published some nice art to Tensor, link in nic.

Now to work on giant Japanese anime mech with cute GAINAX red-headed waifu.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 10, 2026 12:05 AM (2GVsD)

213 188.fourseasons

I hope y'all get snow too. I don't like it but you need it there .
We get plenty of rain here in the Spring. Sometimes we get too much. Weather is just one of those things we can't control. Have to take it as it comes.

Posted by: Case at February 10, 2026 12:06 AM (E7+ue)

214 Bad Bunny scrubbed his social media today.

Asshole
Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 12:02 AM (3ek7K)

Huh. I would have thought he would have been proud. He just owned all the chuds.

He's a shock artist. What does he have to be scared about?

Oh wait, did some hispanic dudes call him out on their kids hearing his song lyrics?

Oh. No.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:08 AM (bss/y)

215 Heh. Your take on Amelia is nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:08 AM (bss/y)

216 Is it really all that surprising that seniors are smoking dope? Keith Richards is 80 years old.

> I am betting emphysema too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

I'm skeptical. While I haven't smoked any in decades, even back then I didn't know anyone who smoked 20 or 40 joints a day, like cigarettes. And that was with the weak-sauce weed they had back then. With the rocket fuel they have nowadays, I'd be very surprised if anyone managed to smoke enough to produce emphysema.

Posted by: Genghis Khan at February 10, 2026 12:11 AM (IG3/x)

217 Mongol sock off.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 10, 2026 12:11 AM (IG3/x)

218 > except for the collegiate Marxist part, none of the minority groups really like each other at ALL

Posted by: Azjaeger at February 09, 2026 11:54 PM (3/XaG)

They envision a future in which all their Little Brown Brothers and Sisters heap praise on their white Marxist saviors, and obey them forever and ever and ever.

What would actually happen: slavery, starvation, and mass murder.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 10, 2026 12:14 AM (IG3/x)

219 With the rocket fuel they have nowadays, I'd be very surprised if anyone managed to smoke enough to produce emphysema.
Posted by: Genghis Khan at February 10, 2026 12:11 AM (IG3/x)

My point is that the smoke is a LOT harsher (even cooled in a bong), but you could be right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:14 AM (bss/y)

220
Case,

It has been a strange winter here.

We've had no rain or snow for months.

The two concerns here is the reservoir and wildfires.

There is a wildfire already over in the Lander area and people are being evacuated. It's strange in winter.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 12:14 AM (3ek7K)

221 Is it really all that surprising that seniors are smoking dope? Keith Richards is 80 years old.

> I am betting emphysema too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

I'm skeptical. While I haven't smoked any in decades, even back then I didn't know anyone who smoked 20 or 40 joints a day, like cigarettes. And that was with the weak-sauce weed they had back then. With the rocket fuel they have nowadays, I'd be very surprised if anyone managed to smoke enough to produce emphysema.
Posted by: Genghis Khan at February 10, 2026 12:11 AM (IG3/x)

See, that was why Jenjis Kaahn attacked China- to get better weed.

Posted by: John Kerry at February 10, 2026 12:15 AM (NZPfR)

222 What would actually happen: slavery, starvation, and mass murder.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 10, 2026 12:14 AM (IG3/x)

No. What would really happen: The Islamists will immediately rape all the white women. And then treat the government exactly the way the somalis do or how we saw them in Iraq- the spoils system. Each group will get in power, loot the government to the fullest of their ability, punish all their enemies and then rape some more white women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:16 AM (bss/y)

223 See, that was why Jenjis Kaahn attacked China- to get better weed.
Posted by: John Kerry at February 10, 2026 12:15 AM (NZPfR)

Ching-gis, I believe is the fey pronunciation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:17 AM (bss/y)

224 Teresa in Fort Worth, what a wonderfully kind thing you did.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 10, 2026 12:17 AM (JuSDn)

225 No. What would really happen: The Islamists will immediately rape all the white women. And then treat the government exactly the way the somalis do or how we saw them in Iraq- the spoils system. Each group will get in power, loot the government to the fullest of their ability, punish all their enemies and then rape some more white women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 10, 2026 12:16 AM (bss/y)

I am comforted in knowing I have a bullet to eat before that happens to me.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 12:21 AM (/WQyy)

226 The inherent problem with the anti-white tribalism peddled by garbage people like Wu is that non-white is not a tribe; blacks, hispanics, and asians, each of which has its own subdivisions, have very little in common with one another. So Wu is up a creek without a paddle, because blacks and hispanics would beat himself to death with it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2026 12:21 AM (guCHD)

227 Aztec Hobbits? I never run into any of them.

Posted by: Bubba Hotep at February 10, 2026 12:22 AM (cqO0M)

228
Mary,

I feel the same way.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 12:23 AM (3ek7K)

229 @ 150k per the jetson wont proliferate into soccer mom status anytime soon........however the point that we really dont need the sheeple airborne at all. Even if the flying pinto had caught on we would be extinct due to dumbass

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 10, 2026 12:24 AM (jrgJz)

230 I am comforted in knowing I have a bullet to eat before that happens to me.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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No. No no no, that's not how you do it!

30-rd mag. Take 29 of them out first. If there are any left? *Then* you eat the last round, IF that's what you believe you must do.

At least go out fighting. That's my plan anyway...

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

231 No one's going to be raping me!

Posted by: Karen Winemom at February 10, 2026 12:25 AM (0e5Te)

232

The lastest I've read about the Guthrie news is law enforcement is looking close to home.

Ya think?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 12:26 AM (3ek7K)

233 I'll go out fighting JQ. But I won't be their white bitch.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 12:26 AM (/WQyy)

234 No. No no no, that's not how you do it!

30-rd mag. Take 29 of them out first. If there are any left? *Then* you eat the last round, IF that's what you believe you must do.

At least go out fighting. That's my plan anyway...
Posted by: JQ

Seven magazines is base load.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 10, 2026 12:26 AM (/lPRQ)

235 222 What would actually happen: slavery, starvation, and mass murder.
Each group will get in power, loot the government to the fullest of their ability, punish all their enemies

Essentially NY, only this time it is being run by someone who looks like a 1960's Klingon::Madmani.

If their words were water, they would drown us all -- REMAIN KLINGON!

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RemainKLINGON
Senior Hamas Official Vows Terror Group Will Never Disarm, Rejects Foreign Pressure

History always records these famous last words as a savage and primitive people are never missed.

https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
... the more brazen and relentless one’s acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one’s door offering to forget, to forgive, and to give forgiveness a bad name.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 10, 2026 12:27 AM (k2j4C)

236 Modern pot isn't as good as the good old days, anyway. Bring back Acupolka Gold! 🙄😲😆
Posted by: mindful webworker

I've acu polka'd stoned. It was fun. I found that my feet went where they were supposed to go, on time, and without thinking about it.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 11:54 PM (KAi1n)

I could use some of that now. After decades of putting it off I decided to learn Eric Johnson's cliffs of dover. Its going good, but I keep getting distracted by shiny objects. I used to focus like a laser with weed, because yeah it puts you in the zone. With that song, I need to be in the frigging zone.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 12:28 AM (snZF9)

237 No one's going to be raping me!
Posted by: Karen Winemom
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Sure, honey. You may be ugly, but that's not what r@pe is all about.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

238 Also, the Kim Darby-John Newland "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" is still one of the creepiest things you can see. Even though it was "made for TV."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 10, 2026 12:30 AM (CHHv1)

239 I am comforted in knowing I have a bullet to eat before that happens to me.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
------------

No. No no no, that's not how you do it!

30-rd mag. Take 29 of them out first. If there are any left? *Then* you eat the last round, IF that's what you believe you must do.

At least go out fighting. That's my plan anyway...

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

Solid plan.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 12:32 AM (snZF9)

240 148 This has probably already been mentioned, but its new to me. California taxes must truly be a maze of crazy.

Apparently, the Seahawks quarterback owes more in taxes than he earned for the game.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

Giggity....

Posted by: Gavin Newsom gazes benevolently in the camera at February 10, 2026 12:34 AM (sAmhv)

241 On a lighter note. DJT's Superbowl party, LOL

https://tinyurl.com/46vvwsjm

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 12:35 AM (/WQyy)

242 Dad & I talked about it once.. over the gub-grabbing BS years ago. Both agreed we'd go out in a pile of empty brass if that's what it came down to.

Dad was cool. (Wish I'd realized it sooner!)

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

243 214 Bad Bunny scrubbed his social media today.

Asshole
Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 12:02 AM (3ek7K)

Huh. I would have thought he would have been proud. He just owned all the chuds.

He's a shock artist. What does he have to be scared about?

Oh wait, did some hispanic dudes call him out on their kids hearing his song lyrics?

Oh. No.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

LOL!! Hell hath no fury than unintended consequences scorned.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 10, 2026 12:37 AM (sAmhv)

244 JQ,

Yep, same here.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 12:38 AM (3ek7K)

245 I'm skeptical. While I haven't smoked any in decades, even back then I didn't know anyone who smoked 20 or 40 joints a day, like cigarettes. And that was with the weak-sauce weed they had back then. With the rocket fuel they have nowadays, I'd be very surprised if anyone managed to smoke enough to produce emphysema.
Posted by: Genghis Khan at February 10, 2026 12:11 AM (IG3/x)

A friend of mine put it this way when talking about today's weed. He said if we had this shit back in school we would have never graduated. Friends of mine who were big weed heads back in the day will take 3 days to smoke 1 joint when dealing with the current shit. Back in high school you could easily burn 10 in day, no problem, because it was basically crap. Today, hell no, and if thats what they are doing these days no wonder they are fucked up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 12:39 AM (snZF9)

246 On a lighter note. DJT's Superbowl party, LOL

https://tinyurl.com/46vvwsjm

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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HAHAHAHAHA! Thanks for that!!!!!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

247 Dad & I talked about it once.. over the gub-grabbing BS years ago. Both agreed we'd go out in a pile of empty brass if that's what it came down to.

Dad was cool. (Wish I'd realized it sooner!)

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

This would be the ballad of me and Mr Scary.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 12:41 AM (/WQyy)

248 CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists in Virginia SSR have made me a criminal. Because of the cartridges for my .9mm FPC. They are over 10 round cartridges. The 17 and 23 round cartridges that came with the gun are now contreband. I'm trying to figure out how this will drop the crime rate, which will now rise because CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists are releasing rapists, murderers, and pedos. It's like they really are Bolsheviks.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 10, 2026 12:41 AM (sAmhv)

249 Today, hell no, and if thats what they are doing these days no wonder they are fucked up.
Posted by: Berserker
---------

No joke! I'm good for one puff, maybe two. Cheap date, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)

250 The big problem with helicopter failures is altitude; they fly too.low.
Yes, with forward momentum, the rotor will "autorotate" and the helicopter will act like a plane with no.engine - it will."glide" and maybe you can find a golf course or something.
BUT... when the engine fail, the rotor stops. Now, you're a brick. If you can "get it into neutral " it will autorotate, eventually. If you're too close to the ground, the rotor never gets to enough rpm to actually have some lift.
Getting the machine into autorotation mode is part of helicopter pilot training, but if your under 500 ft with with 80 mph forward speed... Lower forward speed at the time of engine failure raises the necessary altitude.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 10, 2026 12:44 AM (pk60q)

251 stop buying round cartridges......get square ones instead.

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 10, 2026 12:47 AM (jrgJz)

252 243: LOL!! Hell hath no fury than unintended consequences scorned.

Gabriel Shear/Swordfish
"Anyone who impinges on America's freedom. Terrorist states, Stanley. Someone must bring their war to them. They bomb a church, we bomb ten. They hijack a plane, we take out an airport. They execute American tourists, we tactically nuke an entire city. Our job is to make terrorism so horrific that it becomes unthinkable to attack Americans."

Gabriel: "You have the power to cure all the world's diseases, but the price for this is that you must kill a single innocent child; could you kill that child, Stanley?"

Stanley: "No."

Gabriel: "You disappoint me; it's the greatest good."

Stanley: "Well, how about ten innocents?"

Gabriel: "Now you're getting it. How about a hundred? How about a thousand? Not to save the world, but to preserve our way of life?"

President's Analyst/1967: how little has changed.
"You want to be the great humanitarian? You want to save the world? Then take the gun. Because the only way you’re going to save the world is by killing the people who are trying to destroy it."

The only thing necessary for Evil to prosper is for Good Men to do Absolutely Nothing.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 10, 2026 12:47 AM (hz1Ru)

253 CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists in Virginia SSR have made me a criminal. Because of the cartridges for my .9mm FPC. They are over 10 round cartridges. The 17 and 23 round cartridges that came with the gun are now contreband. I'm trying to figure out how this will drop the crime rate, which will now rise because CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists are releasing rapists, murderers, and pedos. It's like they really are Bolsheviks.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Clean 'em up, cosmoline 'em, vacuum seal into heavy Mylar and bury them out in the woods where you can get to them but not on your property. If they ask, you disassembled them and flattened them and recycled the.metal. Buy a couple of 10 round mags to maintain proficiency at the range.
If you.move to the United States, collect them on the way out of state.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 10, 2026 12:52 AM (pk60q)

254 On a lighter note. DJT's Superbowl party, LOL

https://tinyurl.com/46vvwsjm

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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HAHAHAHAHA! Thanks for that!!!!!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

I miss parties like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 12:53 AM (snZF9)

255 "Resistance is useless!"
Posted by: Some Vogon

Resistance is juiceless

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 12:53 AM (KAi1n)

256 It's like they really are Bolsheviks.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 12:54 AM (dhHpw)

257 I disagree on the strength-of-dope stuff. You're getting more THC and less of everything else, like aromatic hydrocarbons and such. It's also what you do when you're stoned. If you passively consume stimuli that is different than if you actively engage your brain.

Hey Berserker - what's your favorite song on Sad Wings of Destiny? (I assume being in a Priest cover band in 1980 you were playing the old stuff.)

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 12:57 AM (KAi1n)

258
When I turned 50 my parents flew in to celebrate my birthday.

They went to bed early.

We and our friends sat on the patio smoking pot.

It was most awesome birthday ever, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 12:58 AM (3ek7K)

259 255 "Resistance is useless!"
Resistance is juiceless

But Impedance is Real.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 10, 2026 12:58 AM (1f36Y)

260 I liked The President's Analyst. In high school, I used a large movie rating guide that they had at the public library -- I forget the name, but it graded very carefully on a four-star scale where a typical popcorn flick was two stars, competent but not cinema -- and then mixed borrowing movies from them with renting from the video store. Made my own home double feature with that and Rustler's Rhapsody, two different kinds of surreal.

Posted by: SciVo at February 10, 2026 01:01 AM (Sy6m/)

261 Electric Tuna is a potential band name.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at

Hot Tuna says we got here first.
And we play both acoustic and electric.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 10, 2026 01:03 AM (sl73Y)

262 Well, time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 10, 2026 01:04 AM (8zz6B)

263
Goodnight AOP and sleep well.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 01:05 AM (3ek7K)

264 I miss parties like that.
Posted by: Berserker
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A guy I worked with-- and his wife-- would party like that, even into their 40s. Oh, boy!

He passed out and his wife applied makeup to him omg, and his buddies took pictures.. They had many xerox copies made & another guy brought a stack into work. Taped them up *all over* the department. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)

265 Hot Tuna. I thought Jorma and Jack were enjoyable listening. That Fur Peace ranch thing. No thanks.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 01:11 AM (/WQyy)

266
Hot Tuma,

Tuna casserole?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 01:15 AM (3ek7K)

267 Goodnight AOP.

Scary, I loved the DJT party video!

Hi JQ, how are you doing?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 01:15 AM (0nHVk)

268 Hi, Debby!

Doin' okay... Day 3 and I haven't k!ll3d anyone yet, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

269 Hope you've had a good day too, Debby!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

270 Hi Debby!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 01:20 AM (/WQyy)

271 ... DJT party video!
First Person Superbowl Halftime of the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig446isvXlI

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 10, 2026 01:28 AM (1f36Y)

272 I had a very good, very lazy day here, did nothing that I was supposed to do, went out for a two Bloody Mary's lunch with my neighbor and he had to vent to me about having to watch the halftime show at his liberal sister-in-law's house yesterday. We had fun, he is the little brother that I never had. I came home and took a nap!!

BTW, his SIL told him that English is not our country's official language. I thought that English was our official language, hasn't that been codified into law?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

273
Debby,

WTH is wrong with people ?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 10, 2026 01:31 AM (3ek7K)

274 I thought that English was our official language, hasn't that been codified into law?
Posted by: Debby
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Not sure. Every medical billing still comes with a separate page of "privacy notice" in about 20 different languages.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

275 For Debby. Show him this. Your neighbors' SIL can pound sand.

https://tinyurl.com/4mmp2tce

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 01:42 AM (/WQyy)

276 BTW, his SIL told him that English is not our country's official language. I thought that English was our official language, hasn't that been codified into law?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

Not a law (yet). Donaldus Maximus finally made it so by an Executive Order.

"Mar 1, 2025 In 2025, President of the United States issued an executive order declaring English as the official language of the country. The order revoked a previous policy of providing services in multiple languages and rescinded related guidance documents."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 10, 2026 01:44 AM (aMrr2)

277 fourseasons, I honestly don't know, but where I live there is this level of craziness everywhere.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 01:45 AM (0nHVk)

278 BSM, I thought PDJT had made an EO about it, but wasn't sure. Even so---

"BUT TRUMP!!!" blahblahblah

And that's it. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

279 I thought English as the official language was an executive order from Trump, and so is in effect but isn’t permanent.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 10, 2026 01:46 AM (dhHpw)

280 Hey Berserker - what's your favorite song on Sad Wings of Destiny? (I assume being in a Priest cover band in 1980 you were playing the old stuff.)

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 12:57 AM (KAi1n)

Tough one. I would have to go with tyrant. That was always a crowd pleaser. Was definitely fun to do. We did almost the whole album. We had a really great singer for a very short period, so we did dreamer deceiver and deceiver while we had him. We did victim of changes, but I hated that frigging song, so we used to rotate between that, the ripper, and isle of domination. But yeah, I have to go with tyrant as my fav. We did it consistently, and never removed it. I did it in a few other cover bands too. It was just that good.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 01:48 AM (snZF9)

281 A guy I worked with-- and his wife-- would party like that, even into their 40s. Oh, boy!

He passed out and his wife applied makeup to him omg, and his buddies took pictures.. They had many xerox copies made & another guy brought a stack into work. Taped them up *all over* the department. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)

I partied like that well into my 50's. I still do when its that kind of party. I'm a text book metal guitar player asshole. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 01:51 AM (snZF9)

282 Prayers please for Mr Scary. He goes for 4 week post op visit tomorrow for his shoulder surgery. He has not had a lot of pain.issues. He has done well, i believe. But he has been bored and aggravated.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 10, 2026 01:52 AM (/WQyy)

283 Bers, you're so hardcore. LOL! More power to ya!

I'm a wimp... haven't partied like that since my 20s. Thankfully, was never on the receiving end of the post-passout shenanigans.

Bartending was better, in my 30s-- just stood back and observed from a safe distance!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

284 Prayers up for both of you, BSM. Glad your hubby is healing well!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

285 Thank you all for that info, I have bookmarked it and will send it to him tomorrow. I told him that we need to fight back with cold hard facts.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 02:02 AM (0nHVk)

286 Bers, you're so hardcore. LOL! More power to ya!

I'm a wimp... haven't partied like that since my 20s. Thankfully, was never on the receiving end of the post-passout shenanigans.

Bartending was better, in my 30s-- just stood back and observed from a safe distance!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah standing back and observing from a safe distance was never my style. lol

The thing is you have to know your limitations. I stayed away from hard drugs, didn't drink to where I got stupid. I would stay in control...usually.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:04 AM (snZF9)

287 Tyrant is my favorite Priest song. I prefer the slower, doomier, studio version. The lyrics are fantastic.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 02:07 AM (KAi1n)

288 Well Bers, if you ever partied in any place where I worked... (probably you didn't, but...)

Thanks for the free entertainment!

You know what I mean, hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

289 Elon Musk retweeted
X Freeze@XFreeze . 10h

SpaceX will have the first Moon base and it's much closer than most realize

Starship can carry the highest tonnage to space of anything ever built and it's fully reusable, which changes everything

Tesla Optimus robots could do most of the construction work, with minimal human intervention

Tesla already makes solar panels at scale, perfect for powering a lunar base

Even Tesla's Cybertruck could be adapted for lunar transport

When you factor in all the pieces working together, a Moon base isn't decades away...it's happening sooner than we think

Once established, the utility of a lunar outpost will scale exponentially, creating the foundation for humanity's permanent presence beyond Earth

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:10 AM (6W1vz)

290 Tyrant is my favorite Priest song. I prefer the slower, doomier, studio version. The lyrics are fantastic.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 02:07 AM (KAi1n)

Like I said, it was always a crowd pleaser. Over time a lot of the older priest songs fell to the wayside because so much new shit was coming out. Maiden, Ozzy, Dio, Accept, etc. Not to mention newer priest albums. We kept tyrant, had to, but then you had the hellion/electric eye, screaming for vengeance, bloodstone, then defenders of the faith came out. There was no more room at the fucking Inn, lol.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:12 AM (snZF9)

291 Bunch of USS Midway sailors on TDY to 'my' club in Japan... Long Island Iced Teas all around...

Now THAT was a party! And no one got (seriously) wounded. Not much blood, anyway. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:13 AM (rdVOm)

292 I want some pot grown in moon dust.

Posted by: Reforger at February 10, 2026 02:13 AM (J/fgw)

293 Once established, the utility of a lunar outpost will scale exponentially, creating the foundation for humanity's permanent presence beyond Earth

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:10 AM (6W1vz)

Hopefully it will be heavily armed. Ours, get the fuck off. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:15 AM (snZF9)

294 I want some pot grown in moon dust.

Posted by: Reforger at February 10, 2026 02:13 AM (J/fgw)

Right? 1/6 gravity weed. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:16 AM (snZF9)

295 Bunch of USS Midway sailors on TDY to 'my' club in Japan... Long Island Iced Teas all around...

Now THAT was a party! And no one got (seriously) wounded. Not much blood, anyway. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:13 AM (rdVOm)

You were bar tending in japan??? Damn...

I love long island ice teas. Thats my usual drink when I go out.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:18 AM (snZF9)

296 The Chinese may be problematic, at first. Or they may be totally bankrupt by then.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:19 AM (6W1vz)

297 Growing in moon dust--

Wonder what's the pH of that? And what nutrients does it have? Would any of our earthly flora actually grow in it?

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)

298 I still party like that if I get the chance, I can't be driving though and you may as well cancel any events for the following two days.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 02:21 AM (0nHVk)

299 We all know Elon is serious too. If I live to welcome my grandsons home from a trip to the moon in high school I will have lived a full life better than 99.9999% of the lives ever lived.

Posted by: Reforger at February 10, 2026 02:21 AM (J/fgw)

300 You were bar tending in japan??? Damn...

I love long island ice teas. Thats my usual drink when I go out.
Posted by: Berserker
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Mostly I was cocktail waitressing, but learning to tend the bar there. I was a "dependent wife of active duty USN service member" at the time. On Misawa AB.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

301 Growing in moon dust--

Wonder what's the pH of that? And what nutrients does it have? Would any of our earthly flora actually grow in it?

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)

It pretty nasty stuff really. I remember reading about it. Its really abrasive, fine, and sharp like glass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:22 AM (snZF9)

302 still party like that if I get the chance, I can't be driving though and you may as well cancel any events for the following two days.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 02:21 AM (0nHVk)

you're going to have to make it to my christmas party. You can be an asshole and crash here. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:23 AM (snZF9)

303 Bing: How are the stranded Chinese astronauts doing?

The Chinese astronauts, members of the Shenzhou 21 mission, are currently stranded aboard the Tiangong space station without a reliable return craft. They are living on the station without a lifeboat, and the situation is expected to be temporary. China has a standby lifeboat available at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, which can be launched to the station as little as 8.5 days later. The Shenzhou 21 crew is due to return to Earth early next year, and the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft will be launched at an appropriate time in the future.

The astronauts are safe and the situation is being managed by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) to ensure their safety and the safety of the station's crew.
Space.com
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:24 AM (6W1vz)

304 The astronauts are safe and the situation is being managed by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) to ensure their safety and the safety of the station's crew.
Space.com
+

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:24 AM (6W1vz)

In other words they're dead men walking...or floating.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:26 AM (snZF9)

305 >>The astronauts are safe and the situation is being managed by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) to ensure their safety and the safety of the station's crew.
Space.com
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They have Laika the Space Dog to keep them company.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:28 AM (rdVOm)

306 In other words they're dead men walking...or floating.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:26 AM (snZF9)
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Ground control to Major Wan.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 02:31 AM (Hbs7G)

307
They've grown some plants in lunar dirt returned from Apollo. It's not ideal, but it can grow some stuff. They also do experiments with simulated Martian dirt.

I do not know what all would be involved, but there is active research on lunar and Martian greenhouses to grow shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 02:32 AM (w6EFb)

308 Thanks, publius! Can't imagine that gritty dust could grow much besides cacti?

It'll be interesting to see the results of that research.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:34 AM (rdVOm)

309 LOL Bers, I don't want to be that asshoe. I used to urge hubs to move his friends along after 24 hours, God Bless him, he never uttered a word about my brother living with us every summer for several years. Not the crazy brother, the normal one, he was my best friend in the whole world.

I still want to come to your Christmas party, Bers, I will surely be a novelty to your friends.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 02:38 AM (0nHVk)

310
The Chicoms succeeded in sprouting some seeds, cotton seeds I think, on one of their landers on the Moon. It didn't use lunar soil, but earth soil in a sealed biocontainer. They sprouted, but didn't last too long.

They also had some insect eggs and some other stuff, but that didn't take. They had problems with temperature control or something.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 02:38 AM (w6EFb)

311
I do not know what all would be involved, but there is active research on lunar and Martian greenhouses to grow shit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 02:32 AM (w6EFb)
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Earth dirt, a premium commodity on mars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:39 AM (6W1vz)

312 LOL Bers, I don't want to be that asshoe. I used to urge hubs to move his friends along after 24 hours, God Bless him, he never uttered a word about my brother living with us every summer for several years. Not the crazy brother, the normal one, he was my best friend in the whole world.

I still want to come to your Christmas party, Bers, I will surely be a novelty to your friends.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 02:38 AM (0nHVk)

Not that much of a novelty. Theres probably a few older than you that will be there. You'll fit right in.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:40 AM (snZF9)

313 Its really abrasive, fine, and sharp like glass.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

That sounds just like my wife.

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at February 10, 2026 02:41 AM (KAi1n)

314
The proper term for dirt on other astronomical bodies is "regolith". "Soil" is technically an earth thing, with organic material and all that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 02:41 AM (w6EFb)

315 Ground control to Major Wan.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 02:31 AM (Hbs7G)

Ground control to major tong
you fucked up there's sumpting wong

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:41 AM (snZF9)

316 I have a friend over in the peoples republic of WA state, what grew some really awesome stuff a couple years ago. Yeah. Just in the backyard, even.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

317 I wonder if it's possible to grow shrooms in decaying pot. That would be wild if a hybrid could grow naturally.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 02:44 AM (KAi1n)

318 >>I wonder if it's possible to grow shrooms in decaying pot. That would be wild if a hybrid could grow naturally.
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Beats picking them out of cow patties!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:45 AM (rdVOm)

319 Beats picking them out of cow patties!
Posted by: JQ

Which beats not picking them out of cow patties.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 02:46 AM (KAi1n)

320 I found some Shaggy Mane mushrooms at Dad's place last year. They were a bit too old to eat, darn it.

But I picked them & crumbled them over a shady spot in my yard. Will see if any of the spores take hold this spring.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:47 AM (rdVOm)

321 Toby Li@tobyliiiiiiiiii . 13h

SpaceX is now shifting their priorities into building a Moon Base - doing so in less than a decade.

This proposal from the ISU involves converting a Starship into a lunar base, Skylab-style.

Starship’s ~1000m^ 3 of pressurized volume would result in a copious base.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:49 AM (6W1vz)

322 Beats picking them out of cow patties!
Posted by: JQ

Which beats not picking them out of cow patties.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 10, 2026 02:46 AM (KAi1n)

yikes, they can stay in the shit pile if you ask me. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:50 AM (snZF9)

323 Which beats not picking them out of cow patties.
Posted by: Dark Litigator
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I dunno... tried them once & it was mellow. Not real exciting but I definitely got a buzz. Didn't care for the taste-- we made 'tea' out of some dried ones. Meh. Maybe we were "doing it rong."

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:50 AM (rdVOm)

324 Toby Li@tobyliiiiiiiiii . 13h

SpaceX is now shifting their priorities into building a Moon Base - doing so in less than a decade.

This proposal from the ISU involves converting a Starship into a lunar base, Skylab-style.

Starship’s ~1000m^ 3 of pressurized volume would result in a copious base.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:49 AM (6W1vz)

yeah, because everybody wants to live on the moon in a crashed space ship. Maybe he'll call it botany bay. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:51 AM (snZF9)

325 True confessions, hubs was well into the Alzheimer's and still at home, we went to the neighbor's for a party. I walked him home at about 1am and tucked him into bed, I stayed for a while and once he was asleep I went back to the neighbors as promised. I left my keys at home. Left their house at 4am and came home only to find myself locked out. I went back and pounded on their door and slept on the couch. I am not a good person sometimes.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 02:52 AM (0nHVk)

326 Liberty Caps are everywhere when it's warm and rainy. Not interested.

Have fun if that's what you like, though.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

327 True confessions, hubs was well into the Alzheimer's and still at home, we went to the neighbor's for a party. I walked him home at about 1am and tucked him into bed, I stayed for a while and once he was asleep I went back to the neighbors as promised. I left my keys at home. Left their house at 4am and came home only to find myself locked out. I went back and pounded on their door and slept on the couch. I am not a good person sometimes.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 02:52 AM (0nHVk)

Eh, shit happens.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 02:53 AM (snZF9)

328 Why not haul the ISS to the moon?

Posted by: Reforger at February 10, 2026 02:54 AM (J/fgw)

329 Aw, Debby-- you were just trying to still have a normal life!

Doesn't make you a bad person.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:54 AM (rdVOm)

330
This is one hell of a complex subject, and there is a lot of active research going on. I asked Grok "what is known about growing plants in Lunar and Martian environments".

It can and will have to be done for some actual sustained base on the Moon or Mars. The regolith can be used, but it will have to be "amended" big time. Organic material will have to be added, and you'll have to inoculate it with various bacteria and all that to get something suitable. That's where the current research is focusing, how to amend it.

And yes, human waste (with pathogens removed) would be some of the organic material needed to be added.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 02:57 AM (w6EFb)

331 And speaking of my new word for the evening, "regolith". - And I'm just going one after the other.

Toby Li@tobyliiiiiiiiii . 10h

Regarding GCR exposure mitigation, it is discovered that lunar regolith layered up to 45 g/cm2 is effective at shielding against heavy ions and decreasing the effective dose equivalent (EDE) (Blunier et al.).

Above 105 g/cm2, lunar regolith radiation shielding becomes more effective at a linear rate (Blunier et al.). However, with layers from 45 to 105 g/cm2, the ionizing radiation from GCRs interacting with the regolith shielding produces undesirable secondary particles (Blunier et al.).
Analysis from Akisheva and Gourinat (2021) shows that the addition of a 5 cm polyethylene layer reduces the generation of secondary particles, and that, at least of lunar regolith is required to meet the Jamestown Base radiation exposure baseline with this configuration.

cont

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:58 AM (6W1vz)

332 cont

this configuration.
According to the findings of Akisheva and Gourinat (2021), a 40 cm thick 4.0 g/cm3 compacted lunar regolith will be utilized for GCR exposure mitigation and for greater habitat thermal insulation and lower heating power requirements, as further expanded in Section 6.3 (Akisheva & Gourinat).

The shielding requirements derived solely for GCRs are insufficient to protect the crew during intense SEP events.

In addition to the baseline habitat shielding described earlier, a SEP storm shelter is needed.

Akisheva and Gourinat (2021) indicate that such a shelter requires a minimum of 150 cm of compacted regolith at 2.7 g/cm3and lined with a 5cm polyethylene shelter in order to limit SPE-induced doses to the blood-forming organs below the short-term non-cancer limit of 250 mGy-Eq and remain within NASA’s 30-day effective dose limit of 250 mSv.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:58 AM (6W1vz)

333 JQ, I only tried mushrooms twice, the first time I got violently ill, the second time I was convinced that plants were growing rapidly around me, not really interested in exploring them again. We are allowed to grow six marijuana plants for personal use here, I haven't done so, but some friends have and they have shared and it is good, organic even.

JQ, and Bers, you are kind, thank you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 03:02 AM (0nHVk)

334 To amend the Martian soil we import earthworms to do their duty. However the continents of the Martian soil effect them in unexpected ways and they turn into Graboids. ...Fred Ward to the red phone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:02 AM (6W1vz)

335
Good evening all. I do not think humanity's future is in space.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 10, 2026 03:03 AM (n7rxJ)

336 I am not a good person sometimes.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Shit happens with Alzheimer's patients. I learned to expect the unexpected. Don't beat yourself up about it. I had to call the police several times when my husband decided to go walkabout despite my attempts to keep him from doing it. The police were very kind and hunted him down but I still felt guilty about raising such a ruckus.

Posted by: Tuna at February 10, 2026 03:07 AM (lJ0H4)

337 Aw, Debby-- you were just trying to still have a normal life!

Doesn't make you a bad person.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 02:54 AM (rdVOm)

Exactly. The bass player that comes to my house on saturday has a paralyzed wife. He has nobody to take care of her. He leaves her for a few hours like a slab of beef in bed and comes out to jam for a few hours. He has to get out for a few hours to maintain his sanity.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 03:07 AM (snZF9)

338 The one and only time I tried peyote, gave me one *h3ll* of a stomach ache! Never again.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:08 AM (rdVOm)

339 Let's give a big warm welcome to the new Florida Man:

https://tinyurl.com/4ubapawy

What this means to California(ns):

https://tinyurl.com/5au8j2je

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 03:08 AM (Hbs7G)

340 328 Why not haul the ISS to the moon?
Posted by: Reforger
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One of the reasons he switched to stainless steel for rocket constriction was reuse of materials after the rockets arrived at Mars.

The re-purposing of the rocket body on the Moon will be the first examination of the necessities to accomplish reconstruction.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:10 AM (6W1vz)

341 One of the reasons he switched to stainless steel for rocket constriction was reuse of materials after the rockets arrived at Mars.

The re-purposing of the rocket body on the Moon will be the first examination of the necessities to accomplish reconstruction.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:10 AM (6W1vz)

Pretty cool concept actually.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 03:12 AM (snZF9)

342 He has to get out for a few hours to maintain his sanity.
Posted by: Berserker
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Yes, it is very important to take breaks. At least he doesn't need to worry that she'll go out and wander!

Hubby got to the point that I couldn't trust him home alone. He'd do odd and dangerous things while I slept. Seems he'd wait for me to fall asleep and then get into things like a toddler. A devious and disobedient one! I had to hide the vehicle keys and remove the range control knobs.

One day, I walked into the room and he had the pellet stove open while it was burning. I closed the front of it. Then, he opened the pellet stove hopper! Ugh! (Good way to set the whole thing on fire)

Made me afraid to even go to the store for a few minutes. That's when I knew it was "time"

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

343
There is just about zero nitrogen on the Moon. And that's one of the biggies plants needs, N, P, and K. The P and K are there, but not too abundant and what's there is not in bioavailable form. So, we're going to have get the N there, and some P and K. Think in concentrated form.

The regolith itself will be a decent base to make soil, but it's going to have be amended big time, and it will take time.

A lunar greenhouse for the Moon base will probably start out as hydroponics. That's the start. You get that going, and then slowly start to amend the existing regolith, blending in the waste products and bacteria and all that.

Trucking up "potting soil" from earth, while it would be nice, would be terribly inefficient and expensive. Impossibly so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 03:20 AM (w6EFb)

344 Earth dirt, a premium commodity on mars.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 02:39 AM (6W1vz)

Easy Peasy. Just get some space cows on the job. Cow poo for the win!

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 10, 2026 03:24 AM (I40wl)

345 A response to the usable area from the Space ship.

Shay Monat@shmonat . 1h

Sorry for being picky on the details but it's 1000 m^2 of usable floor space and 2500 m^3 of liveable volume. That's 2.5 times the ISS
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Guess pedants have their place.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:28 AM (6W1vz)

346 >>So, we're going to have get the N there, and some P and K. Think in concentrated form.
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Miracle-Gro FTW! And start a compost pile..

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:28 AM (rdVOm)

347 One day, I walked into the room and he had the pellet stove open while it was burning. I closed the front of it. Then, he opened the pellet stove hopper! Ugh! (Good way to set the whole thing on fire)

Made me afraid to even go to the store for a few minutes. That's when I knew it was "time"

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah, when it gets to that point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 03:31 AM (snZF9)

348 Oh my gosh JQ, I fell asleep once and woke up and couldn't find him anywhere in the house, He was seated in the driver's seat of my minivan in the garage, it was fully loaded with an unusual amalgamation of household goods. The car was fully loaded, he had been out there for a while.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 03:33 AM (0nHVk)

349 Wow, Debby. That's scary! Was that *the moment* for you?

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:35 AM (rdVOm)

350 Easy Peasy. Just get some space cows on the job. Cow poo for the win!
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Put ankle weights on them so they don't jump off the moon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:36 AM (6W1vz)

351 >> I do not think humanity's future is in space.

Depends on just what you mean by future. Mammals like us have maybe 250 million years before Erf becomes inhospitable for us. That's also the chaotic time limit for the orbits of the solar system. "Anything could happen", some gravitational butterfly could've flapped its wings and earth gets ejected from the solar system. Not likely, but not impossible.

As the Sun slowly evolves, it gets hotter and hotter. Complex life will be impossible after maybe 800 million years, 1 billion tops.

Note all this happens well before the Sun becomes a red giant.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 03:40 AM (w6EFb)

352 Easy Peasy. Just get some space cows on the job. Cow poo for the win!
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Put ankle weights on them so they don't jump ~~off~~ over the moon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:36 AM (6W1vz)
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FIFY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 10, 2026 03:40 AM (Hbs7G)

353 The Daily Mail cited Pentagon funding proposals to report in late December that the US plans to once again store tactical nukes in the UK upon renovating Lakenheath Airbase.

... They added that “The U.K. will receive its (12 F-35A) jets at the end of this decade and it will be the first time it has had an air-launched tactical nuclear weapon since 1998.
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maybe we should keep the warheads?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:41 AM (6W1vz)

354 Time to get moving

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2026 03:41 AM (Ia/+0)

355 @bennyjohnson , 6h

Unsealed court documents detail how Trump called the police about Jeffrey Epstein in 2006 where he described Ghislaine Maxwell as Epstein’s evil “operative”.
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People think otherwise but Trump is very strict.
Watch how he follows the law, to the letter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:43 AM (6W1vz)

356 On "good" days, hubby wanted to help out. Wanted to mow the lawn (this was a couple of years ago, before he got really bad) which had been 'his' job for over 30 years...even before we got together!

So, once the yard was cleared of fallen sticks, I called him out & helped him onto the mower (a rider.) He couldn't remember how to work the controls.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:44 AM (rdVOm)

357
Other bad stuff will likely happen will before then. In a 100,000 years, a medium super volcano will likely have gone off. By 1 million years, a heap big one will be likely. These are civilization killer events.

One of those went off 75,000 years ago, and nearly wiped out homo sapiens. Big genetic bottleneck from then.

And in about 500,000 years, almost certain for 1km ELE asteroid strike.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 03:47 AM (w6EFb)

358 And in about 500,000 years, almost certain for 1km ELE asteroid strike.
Posted by: publius
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SMOD! Finally!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:49 AM (rdVOm)

359 SOD-NY 10/18/19

...knew Epstein was disgusting. TRUMP said MAWELL was EPSTEIN's operative, "she is evil and to focus on her". TRUMP told redacted that he was around EPSTEIN once when teenagers were present and TRUMP "got the hell out of there". TRUMP was pm pf the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating EPSTEIN.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:51 AM (6W1vz)

360
I think about 20,000 years is the expected time for something big, some civilization threatening event (volcano, asteroid, plus a host of other big things) to have happen.

If we want human civilization to last 100, 000 years, maybe a few million years (there's all sorts of musing on just how low homo sapiens could last), we are going to have to go off planet.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 03:52 AM (w6EFb)

361 And in about 500,000 years, almost certain for 1km ELE asteroid strike.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 03:47 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah, bad day for earth.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2026 03:53 AM (snZF9)

362
There's some chances of a close gamma ray burst thrown in that mix, too. There are some candidate stars that could do it, if aimed just right. Wake up one day and the planet receives lethal, sterilizing doses of gamma rays from space, killing everything on the side facing it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 03:54 AM (w6EFb)

363 So glad that I (probably) won't live long enough to see TEOTWAWKI. After everything that's happened, not sure I could handle any more major changes.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:55 AM (rdVOm)

364
I remember some podcast with Elon, probably smoking a big joint, musing about all this, and he figured 1 million years would be a good run for human civilization. If we can last that long, he'd call it good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 10, 2026 03:56 AM (w6EFb)

365 >>So, we're going to have get the N there, and some P and K. Think in concentrated form.
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Miracle-Gro FTW! And start a compost pile..
Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:28 AM (rdVOm)

Not Brawndo? It's got electrolytes!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 10, 2026 03:57 AM (S/Y4j)

366 Sweet dreams Horde, yes, that was my moment JQ. i am sleepy now and I need to do all of the stuff tomorrow that I didn't do today.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2026 03:58 AM (0nHVk)

367 LOL.

Brawndo! It's got what plants crave!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:58 AM (rdVOm)

368 'Night, Debby.

Sweet dreams!

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 03:59 AM (rdVOm)

369 Trump to Repeal Finding That Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Endanger Public Health, Sources Say -- WSJ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 03:59 AM (6W1vz)

370 Time for me to go. Say good morning to Pixy for me.
'night good people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 10, 2026 04:07 AM (6W1vz)

371 'Night, Braenyard.

Take it easy...

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 04:12 AM (rdVOm)

372 Yeah, I think that stuff about calibus being helpful is b*******. Especially since I hear that weed is much more potent than it was when I tried it as a teenager.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 05:07 AM (VM5Oa)

373 Especially since I hear that weed is much more potent than it was when I tried it as a teenager.
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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Weed definitely is not what it was "back then"

It is way more potent and stinks a lot worse.

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2026 05:13 AM (rdVOm)

374 "Biochemical research is mostly bullshit." -- CBD. Sounds about right. I read somewhere that 30% of studies can't be reproduced, just papers published with no real skepticism.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 05:51 AM (hXFMA)

375 Well, good night good people. Sleep well.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 10, 2026 05:53 AM (hXFMA)

376 Sam Darnold Seahawks QB gets 178000 apart from his game check salary. 7 days in CA will be 249000 is state tax. he gives up his entire superbowl win bonus+ part of the game check for being there 1 week in Santa Clara. this is the jock tax. The Seahawks play in that west NFC division against the 49ers and Rams 2 times so for these 4 days they also get a calculation for being in CA "earning money".

Posted by: paulnjax at February 10, 2026 06:40 AM (PPnyU)

Ghost Walk Cafe

A little hike in the Swiss Alps

Cute little deep-sea mutants.

If I had a pool you better believe it would be free entry for duck families. And sure, I'd race a duck.

Ducks are very underrated animals. No one ever thinks of them but the minute you see one you smile.

I don't know how to reconcile this but sometimes I go to a Chinese restaurant that specializes in Peking Duck. I guess they make me smile there, too.

Speaking of races: human v. border collie v. greyhound, the latter just toying with the other two.

Old vid, but it proves that dogs want to help and are 75% human.

It's like Melrose Place but with dog affairs.

Some animals are unherdable, little guy.

Gooooooooaaaatsss

Pretty girl bats her eyes and wags her tail.

Pup on a swing.

This is how I've felt since my Thanksgiving/Christmas weight gain.

When is summer? Tomorrow will be the first day of non-freezing temperatures for me. Gotta get out for a hike.

I became aware of this clickbait style post last year, when I saw questions asking do you see A or B when the answer was obviously C. And that bothers you, the idea that it's so obviously C but this idiot doesn't see it. I know this is just preying on the deep human instinct to correct someone. But I just keep falling for it. That one is especially hard to resist.

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1 Meep meep!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (QMfMe)

2 Woohoo! Cafe!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (Wmg4n)

3 Hi Nurse!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:30 PM (Wmg4n)

4 Hi ace! Thank you for the cafe! Seattle is all happy and silly because the Seahawks won. It’s a fun time to be here. Big parade on Wednesday.

And contrary to popular belief, there were no riots or looting or dumpster fires last night. That’s not how we celebrate.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (QMfMe)

5 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

6 I called 'em.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (zYpTz)

7 Willowed:

And I will repeat this again.
The British Museum has a new exhibit running until May 4th about an aspect of Japan.
Namely they say half of the Samurai were female.
Now who is doing cultural imperialism again?
Posted by: Anna Puma

"Samurai" as in katanas and lacquered armor?

Or "samurai" as in the social class?

The former is dumb on its face, and the museum curator should commit seppuku forthwith.

The latter might be true in an Obi-Wan Kenobi sort of way..... was a samurai's wife given the same deference as her husband by the underclasses?
Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 07:20 PM (VHUov)

Well, they're probably confusing things a bit with the naginata, which was a Japanese noble woman's weapon.

If the town or castle was over taken, the noble women were expected to fight. And, in fact, they trained on the use of the weapon.

If you saw the recent remake of "Shogun", you saw the noble women using it when the castle was over-run.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 09, 2026 07:33 PM (iJfKG)

8 And I just learned won won the SB

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)

9 "Well, they're probably confusing things a bit with the naginata, which was a Japanese noble woman's weapon."

Based on an exaggerated sandwich making implement.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 07:34 PM (vFG9F)

10 Hi Piper!

Have you stopped shivering yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 07:35 PM (QMfMe)

11 There's a house up the street from me that has a few ducks in their backyard, along with a few chickens.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 07:35 PM (ESVrU)

12 10 Hi Piper!

Have you stopped shivering yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09

Yes! 66 tomorrow, 70 Wednesday. Congratulations on the Seahawks. I didn’t watch, but it wouldn’t have mattered who was playing.

I did watch the peeps game and that was really funny.

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:36 PM (Wmg4n)

13 Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (QMfMe)

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Congratulations on the SB win, nurse! How did the locals celebrate?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 09, 2026 07:36 PM (u73oe)

14 Pro tip, it is damn near impossible to wring a duck's neck. Chickens are a snap.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 07:37 PM (0KSrI)

15
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are home after nearly two weeks on the road. I immediately blotted my copybook by the discovery that I entered TBD in the wrong shows. There are two consecutive weekends of shows at the same location and I entered the wrong weekend. Can't undo the mistake.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:39 PM (tgvbd)

16 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (cYBz/)

17 Those "deep-sea mutants" are, indeed, cute. They look like some weird species of submarine owls.

Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (2L+MU)

18 But the duck didn't win the race

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

19 But the duck didn't win the race

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

20 Don't know how that double posted

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:42 PM (Ia/+0)

21 Pretty girl bats her eyes

No pretty girl, of any species, penguins her eyes. Odd that.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

22 Skip - Maybe you're turning into Jimmy Two Times.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (cYBz/)

23 Hadrian everyone has 'the book' and the real book
Don't worry about it, its our secret

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)

24 m r ducks

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)

25 Evening, Ace, and discerning Cafe Patrons!

Top pic: Can I have your stuff when you die? Except the mountain climbing gear. Won't be needing that. Nope."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (8zz6B)

26 Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are home after nearly two weeks on the road. I immediately blotted my copybook...

So that's what the kids are calling it these days.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 07:45 PM (u5LSF)

27 This place is duck central. Birds of all types really but ducks out the wazoo.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 07:45 PM (viF8m)

28 Hadrian, you are a saint.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 07:46 PM (0KSrI)

29 I aint buying they are takkng tiny steps, they are all on top of Roomba

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

30 The curvature of the Earth in that image up top is a conspiracy!

I actually have a friend -- old co-worker -- who is a "Q Anon" (he pedantically & frequently reminds me that there's "Q" and "Anons" but no "Q Anon"), and believes NASA never went to the moon.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (0Eh0f)

31 Can't undo the mistake.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:39 PM (tgvbd)

Could you bonsai him into a Chihuahua?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (8zz6B)

32 Lake Como video: Tourists getting excited about seeing the outfall of the city's storm drainage system.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (u5LSF)

33 Is this like the one time husbands wash her red top in hot water, shrink it, then never get asked to wash her clothes again?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (u82oZ)

34 tHe guy in them top picture has a good "On Belay" stance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (u82oZ)

35 er Majesty and The Big Dummy are home after nearly two weeks on the road. I immediately blotted my copybook...

===

So that's what the kids are calling it these days.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 07:45 PM

You learn things here, man.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

36 Well long commute tomorrow, and probably a few days so better get to bed.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)

37 Our neighbor has a greyhound, literally the first one I've ever seen up close. He's a rescue dog, a former racer that ran in Florida. He has an incredibly sweet disposition. Are they known for being like that, or is old Jones, here, atypical of the breed?

Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (2L+MU)

38 >>> 30 The curvature of the Earth in that image up top is a conspiracy!

I actually have a friend -- old co-worker -- who is a "Q Anon" (he pedantically & frequently reminds me that there's "Q" and "Anons" but no "Q Anon"), and believes NASA never went to the moon.
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (0Eh0f)

*sigh*

Tell that dummy that we did too go to the Moon.

We used technology reverse-engineered from the crashed Roswell saucer!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:49 PM (ULPxl)

39
Could you bonsai him into a Chihuahua?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (8zz6B)

_________

Wouldn't make a difference. The shows I should have entered him in closed for entries last week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:50 PM (tgvbd)

40 "And that bothers you, the idea that it's so obviously C"

It's obviously a hippotato. Or Adam Schiff.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 09, 2026 07:50 PM (ywU9+)

41 Peking Duck special restaurant name please!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Assist#3 at February 09, 2026 07:51 PM (vUhDf)

42 37 Our neighbor has a greyhound, literally the first one I've ever seen up close. He's a rescue dog, a former racer that ran in Florida. He has an incredibly sweet disposition. Are they known for being like that, or is old Jones, here, atypical of the breed?
Posted by: Paco at February 09

My understanding is they turn into couch potatoes once they come down from racing.

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:51 PM (OoFl2)

43 Light the beacons~! And the bacons~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 09, 2026 07:51 PM (diia5)

44 Paco, the two that I have had were very good natured . One came from the track and even after that was a sweetheart.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (0KSrI)

45 Ducks are hilarious and very loyal. Once they imprint on you, they'll follow you everywhere.

I was bailing hay one summer years ago and happened to run over a mallard duck's nest. One egg survived so I took it home and incubated it off of a heating pad. Cutest little shit.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (xFfhU)

46 24 m r ducks
Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)

Y s m r.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (zYpTz)

47
Are they known for being like that, or is old Jones, here, atypical of the breed?

Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (2L+MU)

__________

Greys really are a sweet breed. Excellent house dogs because they're only hyper outdoors. Spend most of their time sleeping, so soundly you have to check to make sure they're alive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (tgvbd)

48 Hadrian the Seventh

Does this mean Her Majesty will stay home more?
So you two lovebirds can "Blot the Copybook" more?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (u82oZ)

49 Still Bat and Sea Stack free in 2026. What a great year so far!

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (oftw2)

50 >>I actually have a friend -- old co-worker -- who is a "Q Anon" (he pedantically & frequently reminds me that there's "Q" and "Anons" but no "Q Anon"), and believes NASA never went to the moon.

He's about to get another opportunity. Musk, not NASA, recently announced that he is temporarily putting Mars on hold and focusing on going to the moon instead. Says he can build a base there in half the time it would take to build one on Mars.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m)

51 That ghost dance is fascinating. I think I find all graceful movement fascinating because that is the exact opposite of what I am. I have the grace of Bullwinkle the moose.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 09, 2026 07:53 PM (JbyEi)

52 Big day here today. Our new puppy pug and our standard poodle tentatively played together today. The puppy was too afraid of the much bigger poodle but she's finally figuring out that he's just a big goof who just wants to play.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 07:54 PM (J+Psw)

53 I was bailing hay one summer years ago and happened to run over a mallard duck's nest. One egg survived so I took it home and incubated it off of a heating pad. Cutest little shit.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (xFfhU)

Did you teach it the Mallard Reaction when it grew up? Ask CBD. he know de wey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 07:55 PM (8zz6B)

54 Tom Servo

"That trick never works!"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:55 PM (u82oZ)

55
Does this mean Her Majesty will stay home more?

__________

Yes, I won't be a grass widower for the next couple of weeks.

I think she spends so much time on the road to get away from me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (tgvbd)

56 The deep-see mutants are AI, of course.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (XMwZJ)

57 >>> 50
==
He's about to get another opportunity. Musk, not NASA, recently announced that he is temporarily putting Mars on hold and focusing on going to the moon instead. Says he can build a base there in half the time it would take to build one on Mars.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m)

It's about 3 days to the moon vs a year or so to Mars...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (ULPxl)

58 How we yearned for Lake Como in the camps...

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. at February 09, 2026 07:57 PM (oftw2)

59 Alberta Oil Peon

So the esteemed Reverend was after tasty and browned duck?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:57 PM (u82oZ)

60 51 That ghost dance is fascinating. I think I find all graceful movement fascinating because that is the exact opposite of what I am. I have the grace of Bullwinkle the moose. - Tom Servo

Are we quite certain that they're not cruising around on concealed Roombas?

Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:57 PM (2L+MU)

61 I wonder why it took Musk so long to come around to going to the moon first. It seems obvious to me. Maybe it was always supposed to be that way.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 07:58 PM (vFG9F)

62 52 Big day here today. Our new puppy pug and our standard poodle tentatively played together today. The puppy was too afraid of the much bigger poodle but she's finally figuring out that he's just a big goof who just wants to play.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good

Awwwwww

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:58 PM (OoFl2)

63
With AI and robotics I'm sure a Moon base can be built prior to astronauts landing there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:58 PM (tgvbd)

64 Japanese snow thrower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvp7DqnsJlM

Posted by: DaveA at February 09, 2026 07:58 PM (FhXTo)

65 fd

Elon wanted more distance from Earth, to create a population choke point.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:59 PM (u82oZ)

66 47 Greys really are a sweet breed. Excellent house dogs because they're only hyper outdoors. Spend most of their time sleeping, so soundly you have to check to make sure they're alive. - Hadrian the Seventh

Yes, the neighbor tells us that Jones sleeps an awful lot!

Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:59 PM (2L+MU)

67 Nobody's going to Mars any time soon. Maybe in a hundred years or so...maybe.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 09, 2026 07:59 PM (XMwZJ)

68 Hadrian the Seventh

That is Elon's expressed plan. Robots first, then humans.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 08:00 PM (u82oZ)

69 >> I wonder why it took Musk so long to come around to going to the moon first.

Reality set in against his very optimistic ideas about Mars.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (w6EFb)

70 Musk, not NASA, recently announced that he is temporarily putting Mars on hold and focusing on going to the moon instead.
Posted by: JackStraw

"To the Moon, Elon!"

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (KAi1n)

71 It's about 3 days to the moon vs a year or so to Mars...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (ULPxl)

Plus he can prove techniques for rad shielding and construction there.

I remember seeing something that said the moon sucks ass. The soil/rock/gravel is insanely abrasive and gets in everything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

72 >>>Did you teach it the Mallard Reaction when it grew up? Ask CBD. he know de wey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

>I suppose I could have fattened him up and kill him and ate him, but at that time is was illegal to 'own' or possess a wild species. As soon as he could fly he was free to go.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 08:02 PM (xFfhU)

73 Bacon zoomies!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 09, 2026 08:02 PM (Wnv9h)

74 It's about 3 days to the moon vs a year or so to Mars...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (ULPxl)

Moon would not be a bad place to assemble a station/ship to go to the moon. You need something better than an apollo capsule to go to Mars.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:02 PM (8avO+)

75
Elon needs to get his Starship HLS and the whole orbital refueling thing with multiple Starship tanker launches actually working.

The current NASA plan to get boots back on the lunar ground depends on Starship HLS. If we're gonna do that, then his Mars pie in the sky needs to wait.

Once we've got the Moon base working, the Mars pie in the sky is much closer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb)

76 I remember seeing something that said the moon sucks ass. The soil/rock/gravel is insanely abrasive and gets in everything.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

You could probably roll it in a water tank like they do for jewelry and abrade the sharp bits off pretty quickly. No water erosion on the moon.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:04 PM (8avO+)

77 Musk, not NASA, recently announced that he is temporarily putting Mars on hold and focusing on going to the moon instead.
Posted by: JackStraw

"To the Moon, Elon!"
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (KAi1n)
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The Moon really will be the proving ground for the human race. If we can figure out how to make the moon livable for any extended period of time, then we have a chance--and only a chance--of colonizing the rest of the Solar System. Reaching the stars may still be several centuries away, if it's even possible.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 08:04 PM (ESVrU)

78 m r ducks
Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)

Y s m r.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM

LIB. MR Ducks!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 09, 2026 08:04 PM (Wnv9h)

79 It's about 3 days to the moon vs a year or so to Mars...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Maybe Sparkle Beach Ken can build high speed rail to Mars.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 08:04 PM (J+Psw)

80 Have a great night, everyone.

May you please those around you, and vice versa.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 08:05 PM (u82oZ)

81
The lunar south pole is the target for the manned missions and possible base. That's where water is. Also, near month round sunlight at the top of some peaks down there.

It's also very cold, surface temperatures in the permanently shadowed regions get pretty damned low.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:06 PM (w6EFb)

82
The Moon really will be the proving ground for the human race. If we can figure out how to make the moon livable for any extended period of time, then we have a chance--and only a chance--of colonizing the rest of the Solar System.

___________

I don't know how we can pull it off without Grievance Studies professors, marketing fags and HR girlbosses.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 08:06 PM (tgvbd)

83 I remember seeing something that said the moon sucks ass. The soil/rock/gravel is insanely abrasive and gets in everything.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Like Vegas.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 08:07 PM (J+Psw)

84 If Earth didn't have a Moon, would we even *think* about going to Mars?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 08:09 PM (ESVrU)

85 The lunar south pole is the target for the manned missions and possible base. That's where water is. Also, near month round sunlight at the top of some peaks down there.

It's also very cold, surface temperatures in the permanently shadowed regions get pretty damned low.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:06 PM (w6EFb)

Their are weird gravity anomalies there, the Indians tried to land there and something confused the robo lander and it crashed a while back.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:09 PM (8avO+)

86 Nobody's going to Mars any time soon. Maybe in a hundred years or so...maybe.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 09, 2026 07:59 PM (XMwZJ)

We could get there way sooner, but the public's ability to accept loss is completely screwed up. We accept higher rates of death for demo pilots who are basically just recruitment ads, than bona fide explorers. Even unmanned rockets exploding seem to get more bad press than fatal air show mishaps.

Posted by: Sjg at February 09, 2026 08:10 PM (aqZN1)

87 Less than 4 weeks till Daylight Saving Time starts

Posted by: SMOD at February 09, 2026 08:10 PM (GITLP)

88 If Earth didn't have a Moon, would we even *think* about going to Mars?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 08:09 PM (ESVrU)

well we might not exist in that case.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:10 PM (8avO+)

89 No pretty girl, of
any species, penguins her
eyes. Odd that.

Haiku?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (rbvCR)

90 >> If Earth didn't have a Moon, would we even *think* about going to Mars?

If we didn't have our big ass Moon, we might not even be here at all, much less think about going anywhere. :-)

The Moon stabilizes earth's axial tilt against chaotic resonances. Also the tidal basins are thought to be a crucial thing for getting life on land going.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (w6EFb)

91 87 Less than 4 weeks till Daylight Saving Time starts
Posted by: SMOD at February 09, 2026 08:10 PM (GITLP)

FML. It will take weeks after that for my circadian rhythm to adapt.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (zYpTz)

92 @elonmusk
·
4h
SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.

This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (viF8m)

93 >> Their are weird gravity anomalies there, the Indians tried to land there and something confused the robo lander and it crashed a while back.

Some of the woo-woo types I look at were going on about some "mysterious anomaly" they found a while back, talking big cover-up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:13 PM (w6EFb)

94 There were women samurai.

They guarded the Women's quarters of castles & large estates.

At places like Hakone, were everyone was searched before being allowed to proceed ... men searched men & women (samurai) searched women.

Did women fight on the battle field? A few, especially archers. But mostly women samurai were last line of defense of the home / estate.

During the last battles of the Meiji restoration, pretty much the rebel male samurai were dead. So the last charges against the new Imperial forces were women. Soon they were dead too.

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Wisdom & Folksy Sayings Critic . . . Old Wives Tales Kicked In for Free at February 09, 2026 08:14 PM (3ZUWJ)

95
FML. It will take weeks after that for my circadian rhythm to adapt.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (zYpTz)

___________

I never recovered when we went to Standard. My sleep cycle is still messed up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 08:14 PM (tgvbd)

96 "SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon."

Welcome to New Australia

Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 08:15 PM (KAi1n)

97 What can you do on the moon? It's like a giant bouncy-house, so I guess the kids would love it. Based on what Aetius451 AD said above about the surface, a golf course seems out of the question. If you get some pioneers of a certain age, you might get a pickleball league going.

Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 08:15 PM (2L+MU)

98 SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.

This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩
Posted by: JackStraw

I don't like leaving my neighborhood.

Posted by: Shut-In By Choice at February 09, 2026 08:16 PM (oftw2)

99 test

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 09, 2026 08:16 PM (bxiOq)

100 Woman discovers that babies are adorable. Some of us already knew.

https://is.gd/BQUbcm

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 08:16 PM (Riz8t)

101 Goodnight.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 08:17 PM (viF8m)

102 Musk, not NASA, recently announced that he is temporarily putting Mars on hold and focusing on going to the moon instead.
Posted by: JackStraw

Living in microgravity is really bad on people, not only the radiation, but the effects on the body is hard. Even harder is the changes in pressure that can mess old broken up people like me on Earth.
Also, there has to be a better way of maintaining the habitat and hygene. ISS is reportedly smells like a sewer with BO and Mir reportedly was like living in a sewer with BO that was built by Soviet industry.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 08:17 PM (rbvCR)

103 Greys really are a sweet breed. Excellent house dogs because they're only hyper outdoors. Spend most of their time sleeping, so soundly you have to check to make sure they're alive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That stiff-legged way they sometimes sleep looks like rigor mortis, which doesn't help.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (VHUov)

104 44 Paco, the two that I have had were very good natured . One came from the track and even after that was a sweetheart. - Ben Had

I think the rescues are just so grateful to retire, they share their joy with everybody.

Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (2L+MU)

105 Also, there has to be a better way of maintaining the habitat and hygene. ISS is reportedly smells like a sewer with BO and Mir reportedly was like living in a sewer with BO that was built by Soviet industry.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 08:17 PM (rbvCR)
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And then, there's the Wolowitz Waste Distribution System...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (bxiOq)

106 Congratulations on the SB win, nurse! How did the locals celebrate?
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Lots of fireworks and the younguns went to Pioneer Square near the stadium to party in the streets till the wee hours. No busted windows. No looted stores. No overturned cars. There was a fair number of beer cans and bottles strewn about, but no damage. No shootings. No assaults.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (IhIKR)

107
Re moon dust. Some people, and Harrison Schmitt was one are quite "allergic" to it. Lunar hay fever, they call it, and it's a bitch. Some of the people in the lunar receiving lab who got a whiff of it got that as well.

It is crazy abrasive. Smells like gunpowder. If interested read how the Apollo astronauts described the smell once they got back inside the LM, and exposed that dust to the oxygen atmosphere inside.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (w6EFb)

108 C M WANGS?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 08:19 PM (IhIKR)

109 I tried a version of Pete Bog's spare ribs that CBD posted Sunday morning. A loosely-based version, but used the Stubb's spicy BBQ sauce as a base, lots of ginger and garlic, home-brew five spice, honey, soy sauce, a dollop of plum jam (no plum sauce avail in micro-town grocery) and cooking sherry. Braised and then finished in the oven. Pete Bog's looked better, but these were pretty danged good. Anyway, the photo was inspirational!

Posted by: ErikInTexas at February 09, 2026 08:19 PM (4b7CV)

110 Paco, the two that I have had were very good natured . One came from the track and even after that was a sweetheart. - Ben Had

I think the rescues are just so grateful to retire, they share their joy with everybody.
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (2L+MU)
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Greyhounds were very common around Portland when the dog track was active.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 09, 2026 08:19 PM (bxiOq)

111 SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.
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Under the current system, I don't want to fly to Denver. If ANY of those same assclowns are involved in flights to the Moon, I'll pass.

Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 08:20 PM (Cjcf6)

112 Sadly, we have not had a penguin-free Café in 2026. The extra amount of work those little mierdas cause is incredible, not to mention the hit on our quarterly supplies budget for the tanker-loads of industrial-strength disinfectants and Febreeze.

Posted by: AoSHQ Cafe Janitoria Staff at February 09, 2026 08:21 PM (nnW9Q)

113 There were old plans to go to the lunar poles as an extension of Apollo. There were books written about it. It was cancelled by Nixon.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 08:21 PM (dhHpw)

114 I think reef has some greyhound in him. Insane energy. Has the same build- all legs and rib cage. Different head a bit. When he does sleep he is like that. Legs rigid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:21 PM (zZu0s)

115 Canadian scientists once accidentally released an experimental duck/penguin hybrid , known as the "puck", into the wild. It's prolificness and public complaint lead the Mounties to declare a year round open season to eliminate the mephitic menace from the skies over Montreal and other major Canadian cities. The campaign's slogan, "Get the puck outa here", was enthusiastically taken up by the besieged residents.

The reason for the creation of this bizarre hybrid are still unknown, as Penguin Facts' inquiries to the Canadian scientists were met with the cryptic response "Take off, you hoser".

Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 09, 2026 08:22 PM (vFG9F)

116 That stiff-legged way they sometimes sleep looks like rigor mortis, which doesn't help.
Posted by: mikeski

Just remembered; greyhound owners call it "roaching." Image search "greyhound roaching" and you'll see pictures of dogs sleeping in postures that make all my joints hurt.

Despite being hot-climate dogs, there are a few in MN. One of the injun casino/racetracks has greyhound races. I guess it's not exploiting the animals when the injuns do it.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)

117
Had we kept up with the Apollo plans, we would have a Moon base by now, and likely have already had manned missions to Mars.

We'd probably be gearing up for long term missions to the outer solar system now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (w6EFb)

118 If interested read how the Apollo astronauts described the smell once they got back inside the LM, and exposed that dust to the oxygen atmosphere inside.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM

So, evidence that penguins came from the moon?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (0sNs1)

119 I've recently been watching a bunch of footage of the Soviet withdrawal from the Afghanistan.

Two interviews stand out to me.

1.) A bourgeois Afghan shopkeeper lamenting that once these Russian troops leave, nobody will be left to buy the Western goods he stocks in his store.

2.) A Russian soldier lamenting that Afghan regime troops were just as worthless as the mujahideen, that he had no sense of who would win and didn't care, because he'd lost a bunch of pals, including two close friends, and just wanted to go home - this closely resembles things I heard from friends who went there later.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 08:25 PM (BI5O2)

120
L, M No Puppers

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 09, 2026 08:28 PM (QVmho)

121 We'd probably be gearing up for long term missions to the outer solar system now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM

Go here: https://wilderwealthywise.com/music-collection/

and scroll down near the bottom for:

We Gave Up The Stars For This

It encapsulates how many of us feel.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:29 PM (0sNs1)

122 I still wish they had tried ORION. The real ORION.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:30 PM (zZu0s)

123 "So, evidence that penguins came from the moon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax"

With Nazi collaboration, they have certainly been there.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 09, 2026 08:32 PM (vFG9F)

124
Elon needs to get to work on the Epstein Drive. Constant thrust trajectories using insanely high specific impulse engines.

That would be the game changer indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:32 PM (w6EFb)

125 Elon needs to get to work on the Epstein Drive. Constant thrust trajectories using insanely high specific impulse engines.
Posted by: publius

Is it powered by underaged girls, or unexplained suicides?

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 08:34 PM (VHUov)

126 "Elon needs to get to work on the Epstein Drive. Constant thrust trajectories using insanely high specific impulse engines."

I hope he dedicates it to Epstein's mom.

Posted by: Putashack at February 09, 2026 08:35 PM (vFG9F)

127 >> Is it powered by underaged girls, or unexplained suicides?

The name *is* most unfortunate.

https://is.gd/g2hAVL

Solomon, not Jeffrey.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:37 PM (w6EFb)

128 Some of the woo-woo types I look at were going on about some "mysterious anomaly" they found a while back, talking big cover-up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:13 PM (w6EFb)

It just means some dense rocks or something. The moon is kinda wierd, its hard to keep things in orbit because it more like a balloon of rocks than a solid billiard ball gravitationally.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:38 PM (8avO+)

129 If one could build an interstellar drive fueled by goose shit, we'd be able colonize the solar system. The fucking Canadian geese running around here crap on everything.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 08:38 PM (xFfhU)

130
At a 1g acceleration/deceleration trajectory, travel time to Mars would be just 1.5 days.

That gets so fast it's almost straight line trajectories, as the target would curve so little in the short time to get there. Point and shoot almost.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)

131 Pretty much all geese do is shit, be aggressive about territory and make gosling.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

132 Had we kept up with the Apollo plans, we would have a Moon base by now, and likely have already had manned missions to Mars.

We'd probably be gearing up for long term missions to the outer solar system now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (w6EFb)

There was an old SF story where the US Army landed on the moon, but soon detected another base. They knew it wasn't other nations, was it aliens? No, it was a US Navy base.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:40 PM (8avO+)

133 At a 1g acceleration/deceleration trajectory, travel time to Mars would be just 1.5 days.

That gets so fast it's almost straight line trajectories, as the target would curve so little in the short time to get there. Point and shoot almost.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)

a 1 G drive would take absurd amounts of fuel.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:41 PM (8avO+)

134
Jupiter would be about 6 days. #2 weeks to Neptune and 21 days to Pluto.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:42 PM (w6EFb)

135 There was an old SF story where the US Army landed on the moon
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:40 PM

And in the latrines within their base could be found "FTA" incribed upon the walls.

This, of course, stands for "Fun, Travel, and Adventure", an Army recruiting slogan beloved by junior enlisted.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:43 PM (0sNs1)

136 You also have to slow down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

137 Extracts gold snuff box from pocket of yellow satin vest, administers a pinch, sneezes violently, frantically retrieves bag wig from fireplace, dips flaming queue in finger bowl, replaces wig on head, shoots cuffs, latches on to lapels of bottle green coat.

The problem is not merely that the gallimaufry of obsessions, delusions and manias contained within the wormy frames of the thought boxes possessed by anti-penguin fanatics disturbs the peace of their rational and well-adjusted neighbors; nay, we must also consider that their soi-disant expertise rests upon a fundament of mendacity from which emanates a miasma of intellectual mephitis that corrupts bona fide discourse - as noxious in its various manifestations as is the stench in their own nostrils that the Spheniscidaphobes would have us believe is generated by the objects of their hatred.

Fearing the laws of neither God nor man, respecting neither the persons nor the sensibilities of honest citizens, a more wayward and ill-disposed parcel of contumelious bastards has rarely been seen within the environs of civil society. As you value your equanimity, countenance them not.

Posted by: Junius at February 09, 2026 08:44 PM (2L+MU)

138 this closely resembles things I heard from friends who went there later.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 08:25 PM (BI5O2)
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Family, clan, tribe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:44 PM (RIvkX)

139 An expression I hadn't heard before. A posh Brit is drunk on his ass in a fancy Brit bar and makes a fool of himself. He excuses himself saying, "I appear to be in an advanced state of refreshment."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 08:44 PM (J+Psw)

140 21 days to Pluto.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:42 PM

Why go to a non-planet?

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 09, 2026 08:44 PM (0sNs1)

141 132 Had we kept up with the Apollo plans, we would have a Moon base by now, and likely have already had manned missions to Mars.

We'd probably be gearing up for long term missions to the outer solar system now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (w6EFb)
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In spades. The stupidest thing they could come up with was the shuttle. Oh, we're going to go up to low/mid earth orbit and dick around until we figure out.

WTF? Figure out what? Asshoe. We've been there, we know how to get there. Do something there. Fool.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:45 PM (6W1vz)

142 >> You also have to slow down.

That's the whole idea. Accelerate at 1g. Then, roughly half way, flip around, and decelerate at 1g, maintaining nice "artificial gravity" the whole time.

With chemical propellants this is impossible. However, with nuclear fusion engines, the physics works, it's just the engineering is far beyond anything we're capable of. There's a few fusion reactions that produce mostly charged particles as products, which could be steered by EM fields, which would act as the thrust plate to push the exhaust against.

Specific impulses at 10% c are possible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:46 PM (w6EFb)

143 That’s one reason I liked The Expanse.
they way tried to portray space travel, and living in space, realistically.

Especially the need for something like an Epstein Drive and how it changed everything.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 08:47 PM (6ydKt)

144 For something completely different, two kinds of pooh.

1.
youtube.com/watch?v=_iV4mol-Otw

2.
youtube.com/watch?v=9s_oAV9LtJE

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:48 PM (6W1vz)

145

A federal judge in Los Angeles just blocked a new California law that was supposed to force ICE agents to unmask.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)

146
Of course, you would not light off a 0.1c exhaust velocity rocket in earth's atmosphere on the ground -- it would be space only, with a nice 100km safe radius around the tail pipe.

That thing would be like a continuous tactical nuke going off.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:49 PM (w6EFb)

147 Elon needs to get to work on the Epstein Drive.

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The internal perversion engine?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 08:49 PM (J+Psw)

148 In spades. The stupidest thing they could come up with was the shuttle. Oh, we're going to go up to low/mid earth orbit and dick around until we figure out.

WTF? Figure out what? Asshoe. We've been there, we know how to get there. Do something there. Fool.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:45 PM

Orbital bases, from which we could launch missions to the rest of the system are necessary.

"If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:50 PM (0sNs1)

149 An expression I hadn't heard before. A posh Brit is drunk on his ass in a fancy Brit bar and makes a fool of himself. He excuses himself saying, "I appear to be in an advanced state of refreshment."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Gonna keep that one in my waistcoat pocket for future use, old chap.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 08:50 PM (VHUov)

150 Evenin’, All. Happy Tuesday Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at February 09, 2026 08:51 PM (77rzZ)

151 I haven’t seen all of it vut the Apple TV show ‘For All Mankind’ is all about what would have happened had the space race been different and the U.S. never stopped competing.

i hear it’s a good show in regards to what could have been had we not changed course with the end of Apollo going to Skylab and then the Space Shuttle.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 08:51 PM (6ydKt)

152 The Epstein drive is powered by BCC'ed emails to Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman.
Well... funded.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 09, 2026 08:52 PM (gKWVE)

153 Space Shuttle.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 08:51 PM (6ydKt)
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I was told I would fly to Tokyo in 20 minutes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (RIvkX)

154 131 Pretty much all geese do is shit, be aggressive about territory and make gosling.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Good yardbird for the uninvited.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (6W1vz)

155 Perversion engines could be fueled by penguins, whose polymorphous perversities really aren't rivaled in the animal kingdom.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)

156 With chemical propellants this is impossible. However, with nuclear fusion engines, the physics works, it's just the engineering is far beyond anything we're capable of. There's a few fusion reactions that produce mostly charged particles as products, which could be steered by EM fields, which would act as the thrust plate to push the exhaust against.

Specific impulses at 10% c are possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:46 PM (w6EFb)

Ion drives usually figure to be great for distance, but the acceleration rates are low.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM (8avO+)

157 The money that has been wasted on Lerning Centers and the like over the past 50 years would have paid for a damn nice space program.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM (vFG9F)

158 RC F-14 Tomcat

https://tinyurl.com/mym7cawx

Posted by: Don Black at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (ZxPkt)

159 Orbital bases, from which we could launch missions to the rest of the system are necessary.

"If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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We have a pre-fab orbital base, - m o o n.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (6W1vz)

160 Perversion engines could be fueled by penguins, whose polymorphous perversities really aren't rivaled in the animal kingdom.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)
==

I think you mean polyamorous?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (RIvkX)

161
I was told I would fly to Tokyo in 20 minutes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by '76 we'll be A-OK

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)

162 I was told I would fly to Tokyo in 20 minutes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (RIvkX)

We stopped hearing about sub-orbital air flight as soon as the Global Warming craze started.

I remember seeing Boeing designs for sub-orbital planes years ago, then poof, never hear about them again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (6ydKt)

163 The money that has been wasted on Lerning Centers and the like over the past 50 years would have paid for a damn nice space program.
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM

One man's waste is another's rice bowl.

Posted by: (D)emocrats at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (0sNs1)

164 I think you mean polyamorous?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM

That's just one of their documented perversities. Truly, if it's perverse, penguins do it.

Posted by: (D)emocrats at February 09, 2026 08:58 PM (0sNs1)

165 The money that has been wasted on Lerning Centers and the like over the past 50 years would have paid for a damn nice space program.
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM

One man's waste is another's rice bowl.
Posted by: (D)emocrats at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (0sNs1)

Learing Centers

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:58 PM (8avO+)

166 One man's waste is another's rice bowl.
Posted by: (D)emocrats

And ... the Human Centipede has entered the chat ...

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Wisdom & Folksy Sayings Critic . . . Old Wives Tales Kicked In for Free at February 09, 2026 09:02 PM (3ZUWJ)

167 Ghost walkers can just dance they asses outta here.

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2026 09:04 PM (LHPAg)

168 This is a refreshing change from many past Olympic Games:

"Buon Appetito! Athletes rave about Olympic Village food in Milan and Cortina"

Italy, Food, Good. What else would you expect?

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 09:04 PM (5rh/l)

169
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by '76 we'll be A-OK
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)
Don't forget the spandex jackets.

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2026 09:06 PM (LHPAg)

170 Italy, Food, Good. What else would you expect?

Posted by: Gref

If they made a souvenir tiramisu, they'd be making bank!

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Wisdom & Folksy Sayings Critic . . . Old Wives Tales Kicked In for Free at February 09, 2026 09:07 PM (3ZUWJ)

171 157 The money that has been wasted on Lerning Centers and the like over the past 50 years would have paid for a damn nice space program.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM (vFG9F)

But if Learing Centers helped one child...that's worth more than any space program!

Posted by: Libtards at February 09, 2026 09:08 PM (5rh/l)

172 157 The money that has been wasted on Lerning Centers and the like over the past 50 years would have paid for a damn nice space program.
Posted by: fd
---

Cover the money some people whine about SS.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 09:08 PM (6W1vz)

173 132 There was an old SF story where the US Army landed on the moon, but soon detected another base. They knew it wasn't other nations, was it aliens? No, it was a US Navy base.
Posted by: Oldcat

Project Hush, by William Teen. One of his first SF stories.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 09:08 PM (u82oZ)

174 I think you're talking about the Pervengine. It was the Microsoft space vehicle built by Gates to compete with Musk, but using innocence as an energy source.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 09:10 PM (BI5O2)

175 But if Learing Centers helped one child...that's worth more than any space program!
Posted by: Libtards at February 09, 2026 09:08 PM (5rh/l)

What my Grandma said back in the 80s. By the same token her line on immigration would be... harsh by today's standards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:11 PM (zZu0s)

176 Antiquated musings defending a self declared menace to mankind show a disconnect from reality that is often the result of huffing penguin farts.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 09, 2026 09:12 PM (vFG9F)

177 I really like those owl fish in the first link. I'd put those in a fish tank, but they'd die.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (n5tGW)

178 William Tenn. A humous writer, for sure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (u82oZ)

179 I am not even sure what to call this. Funny.

Count Dankula:
https://youtu.be/pr89Tr4COac?
si=0P14CwEhSjM8NluU

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)

180
There was an old SF story where the US Army landed on the moon, but soon detected another base. They knew it wasn't other nations, was it aliens? No, it was a US Navy base.
Posted by: Oldcat

Did they play football?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (Cqx++)

181 Have a great night, everyone. Again.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 09:14 PM (u82oZ)

182 @nypost
22-year-old daughter of Republican Minnesota gov candidate Jeff Johnson stabbed to death

Posted by: Don Black at February 09, 2026 09:14 PM (ZxPkt)

183 @nypost
22-year-old daughter of Republican Minnesota gov candidate Jeff Johnson stabbed to death

It was her husband. Terrible.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 09, 2026 09:15 PM (gKWVE)

184 @nypost
22-year-old daughter of Republican Minnesota gov candidate Jeff Johnson stabbed to death
Posted by: Don Black at February 09, 2026 09:14 PM (ZxPkt)

Fucking commie sons a bitches.

Too soon?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:16 PM (zZu0s)

185 G-d only knows why the 22yo was killed. I'm sure we'll find out soon enough, it bleeds, so it'll lead.

RIP, in any event. 22yo.

*shakes head*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 09:20 PM (BI5O2)

186 In college, being an idiot, I went with friends & cross country skied from one canyon to another. They knew darn well I was not as experienced as they were, but if I was asked to go somewhere I said yes. I had cross country skied many times before, but mostly to enjoy fresh air & wine & goof around getting exercise.

The top photo spine looks almost as bad...twice as wide. Not as high at 10k feet, however high enough to die if you slipped and fell down either side. Only wide enough to follow the tracks made ahead of you.

I did not dare look down on either side of that path once we got to that part, which was about 100yds across.

I think we got to someone's cabin (this is how I rolled, as I was not into details) about 4pm. Could have been a serial killers's cabin; but I knew my apt mates well & they generally took care of me.

I remember changing into dry clothing & collapsing in front of the fireplace til the next day. No bed, the floor and a pillow and blanket are fine, thanks. I don't recall eating dinner.
We drove home the next morning & did not return to where we started that adventure. I was thankful for that small mercy and being alive.

I was once one crazy college girl.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 09:27 PM (WONhk)

187 I didn't see a cat or mouse in the potato but a hippo lying down on his knees.

Granted I don't know if hippos even lie down like this or not.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 09:30 PM (WONhk)

188 As pointed out in many authoritative YouTube videos, the unreleased audio and film from the Moon landings contain warnings from the races who had bases up there millennia before the pyramids were built. We were told not to come back, to stick to our own world. Musk knows about this. The whole "going to Mars" thing is just an op to keep his wealth growing.

I think the reason we're not respected is we call our planet the Earth (dirt, land) and we call our moon the Moon and we call our sun the Sun. (It's like how primitive tribes have a word for their people which basically translates to The People.) Even SF only has us using words like Terra, Luna, and Sol. Yeah, Latiny; real creative species.

The United Civilized Peoples of the Universe have a name for us. It translates to "Morons."

Naturally.

https://bit.ly/exploring-the-foreword

Posted by: mindful webworker - mind, the final frontier at February 09, 2026 09:30 PM (kqXjy)

189 I am not even sure what to call this. Funny.

Count Dankula:
https://youtu.be/pr89Tr4COac?
si=0P14CwEhSjM8NluU
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)

Count Dankula was arrested for a hate crime because he taught his pug to give the Roman salute and then posted it.
Then he was fined by the Scottish courts, and he told them he wouldn't pay, and so he started calling them once a week for the cops to come pick him up. Eventually they asked him to stop

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 09:33 PM (rbvCR)

190 According to the post article they said it might be a murder suicide thing as he had life threatening stab wounds as well.

Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:34 PM (zZu0s)

191 I was once one crazy college girl.

====

The world was different then...

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 09:34 PM (g47mK)

192 Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 09:33 PM (rbvCR)

I knew he had divorced his first wife. Per the comments, they think this is his form of dating.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:38 PM (zZu0s)

193 Been watching YouTube shorts showing the guys behind the counter at Katz's in NYC building brisket sandwiches.

OMG. Yum.

You wan' mustard?

$40 per but one feeds four.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 09, 2026 09:47 PM (KiBMU)

194 "greyhound roaching"
--------

My silly Cat does that too! Flat on his back, with all fours in the air. I chuckle every time.

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2026 09:47 PM (rdVOm)

195 191 I was once one crazy college girl.
====
The world was different then...
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 09:34 PM (g47mK)
.....................................
Indeed it was...and a lot of fun!

I look back and at least twice think these two apt mates,older male grad students with girlfriends and other friends thought,"Let's see if THIS will kill her!"

All I know is that ski trip and later a hike, that should be with a ranger in a National Park due to difficulty and the chance of getting lost, but, nooooooooooo, they knew the back way! They could have killed me, age 20yrs.

The hike in a National Park included, but it was not all, climbing down a 40' "chimney." I watched one guy, then I came down with them encouraging me (I guess first guy could have sort of broken my fall), and the other one coming after me. Yay! Continued hiking and trusting these nitwits. Did not think much about the insanity at the time.

Watch this! You can do it! And I did.

I would never advise it for anyone now that I am grown and normal.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 09:50 PM (WONhk)

196 Sigh

Both granddaughters are now fast asleep, our first time having both of them for a sleepover.

Why on a weeknight? Because their Mom is having morning sickness due to #3 being on the way, she has an early dr. Appt with her OB, so we said "we'll take the kids, so you can get a good sleep."

God is good.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 09, 2026 09:57 PM (8AONa)

197 God is good.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 09, 2026 09:57 PM (8AONa)

Indeed. Wife and I hope to be grandparents. Elder son is marrying a wonderful young lady in April. They want lots of kids.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 09, 2026 10:06 PM (0aYVJ)

198 Elder son is marrying a wonderful young lady in April. They want lots of kids.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 09, 2026 10:06 PM (0aYVJ)

Thats wonderful, Pug.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:10 PM (zZu0s)

199 OT: how woke is “The Expanse”?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 10:12 PM (dhHpw)

200
I knew he had divorced his first wife. Per the comments, they think this is his form of dating.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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

I was wondering what had become of Dankula. Glad to see he's still clowning around out there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 10:13 PM (n7rxJ)

201 how woke is “The Expanse”?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 10:12 PM (dhHpw)

Very. It's worth a watch, but it has many flaws.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2026 10:14 PM (n9ltV)

202 There's been a report of a missing ONT. We'll be questioning each of you in private.

Posted by: The AoSHQ House Dick at February 09, 2026 10:14 PM (+HNx/)

203 how woke is “The Expanse”?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 10:12 PM (dhHpw)

First couple of seasons are good. It went bad very abruptly (exactly the same time as one of the actors got me tood and they immediately killed him in the show.)

He may be an asshole, but the difference after that was stark.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

204 WHERE IS THE ONT?!?!?!?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 09, 2026 10:15 PM (SRRAx)

205 191 I was once one crazy college girl.

====

The world was different then...
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 09:34 PM (g47mK)

***

Our streakers were actually nekid!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 10:15 PM (1VKLJ)

206
The lady in the French skating pair has some great legs. She's also taller than the guy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 10:17 PM (tgvbd)

207 Our streakers were actually nekid!

Posted by: Diogenes

=====

Don't look, Ethel!!!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 09, 2026 10:18 PM (8AONa)

208 Our streakers were actually nekid!
Posted by: Diogenes

Ah yes, spring quarter of '74. Twas a grand time.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 10:18 PM (cYBz/)

209 Finished Landman last night.

Jacob Lofland is a great young actor. He was Neckbone in "Mud," an excellent movie about boys being raised well by men.

He was also in one of the Justified seasons, the one with the execrable Michael Rappaport.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 09, 2026 10:20 PM (0aYVJ)

210 NOoD ONT

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 10:22 PM (/WQyy)

211 ONT is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)

212 211 ONT is nood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)

Thx!

Posted by: Joemarine at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (y171U)

213
Wings were a fetish for the A.F. guys, hence the shuttle.

The starship case is far from being made.

Posted by: Auspex at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (Y8DZL)

Japan's "Ultra-Right-Wing" Extremist PM Wins a Shockingly Large Victory By Running on Promise to Seriously Restrict Immigration to the Island Nation

Keemochee, I said in a high-pitched Japanese voice. Oooh Sugai!, I added, squealing in delight.

These are just a couple of Japanese words I happen to know. Why do I know them? Shut up, narc. I just know them, okay? We don't need to get any more detailed than that.

PM Sanai Takaichi won a landslide, giving her conservative party its biggest lower-house majority in history.

The upper house often frustrates the will of the people by vetoing the decisions of the lower house, but now she has a veto-proof two thirds super-majority.

NPR is of course very sad and rushes to soothe its meltbrain medicated AWFUL readers about all the way this crushing victory could turn in a huge disaster!

SEOUL -- Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) its biggest electoral victory in its 71-year history, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she herself says could "split public opinion."

Oh no! She's going to push her agenda so hard that it might alienate the Japanese equivalent of RINOs so, you see, in a way, her victory is really a Secret Loss.

The snap elections for the lower house of parliament were held despite the shortest campaign period in post-war history, and massive snowstorms across much of Japan.

Oh that's right -- I saw comment that people were so enthused about voting for her they had to climb over ice and snow to get to the polling places.

Benefitting from Takaichi's popularity, the LDP won a two-thirds majority in the lower house, enough to override vetoes by the opposition-controlled upper house.
It would also allow the LDP to initiate amendments to Japan's pacifist constitution, which the party has sought to revise since its founding in 1955, and Takaichi said she would pave the way for an eventual referendum on the issue.
It's the biggest majority any single Japanese party has won in the lower house in the post-war era. An unprecedented 90% of candidates fielded by the LDP won.

Charismatic Japanese leaders, including Takaichi's mentor former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have helped the LDP stage comebacks before.
It's a feature of Japan's politics, which RAND Corporation Japan expert Jeffrey Hornung says "are always very personalistic. People always look to the leader, not so much the party."

Oh I get it, they're just dummies who are mesmerized by her Dark Charisma. No one actually agrees with her policies.

...
Questions and criticisms remain about how Takaichi will pay for these priorities, given that Japan's government debt is more than 200% of GDP.

She's talking about increasing military spending to 2% of GDP and that's when NPR suddenly wonders "Wait how can the government pay for all of these goodies...?!"

But Takaichi apparently feels her mandate will empower her to sweep aside obstacles.
...
Takaichi's lopsided victory comes amid a general shift to the political right in Japan.
Following Takaichi's election as LDP president last year, the LDP's coalition partner of 26 years, the centrist Komeito Party, left the bloc. The LDP then joined a new coalition with the right-wing populist Japan Innovation Party.
Komeito joined a new coalition called the Centrist Reform Alliance, which lost most of their seats in the snap election, prompting their leaders to resign.
...
Takaichi pledged to continue to use the Japan-U.S. alliance as the cornerstone of foreign policy, and plans to meet with President Trump next month.

Celoteh Dunia
@CelotehDuniaku

A historic shift for Japan. With 316 seats, PM Takaichi now holds a supermajority that effectively bypasses Upper House gridlock. This mandate will likely fast-track her hawkish security agenda, including increasing military spending to 2% of GDP and boosting offensive capabilities. The regional security landscape is about to change significantly.

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
7h
Japan got literally the tiniest bit of migration and micro intrusion on their culture. They responded with the most right wing electoral result in history and essentially banished the left from any bit of power. Absolutely beautiful to see.
As I've long said, I admire Japan more than any other country. You could lick their streets they're so clean. Tokyo is decades ahead of other cities. They're fiercely protective of their unique culture and people. They're nationalists of the best kind.
They enjoy others from a distance and are happy to befriend you but the moment you disrespect them they want nothing to do with you. Total respect from me. Congrats Japan!

🚨BREAKING: It's confirmed that the left-wing parties in Japan are now down to just THREE seats in Japanese Parliament

Takaichi absolutely slaughtered them. pic.twitter.com/6NA0RYQnKQ
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) February 8, 2026

If you told me that there would be a Second Coming of Margaret Thatcher with even more conservative stances on immigration and defense, and that SHE would be LOVED and not despised by the youth in the 2026th Year of Our Lord, I simply would't believe you.

But yet, here we are.� pic.twitter.com/wk2u5mQQAD
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) February 9, 2026

Let's look at how the AP frames this:

BREAKING: Japan's ultra-conservative prime minister is set to seize more power after an exit poll had her securing a big majority in the country's lower house.

🔗 Read more https://t.co/i5neKwCNF1
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 8, 2026

She "seized more power" by (checks notes) winning a democratic election.

In a similar way, Trump "seized more power" in 2024.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:15 PM

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Posted by: GF at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (UjrO3)

2 Good for Japan.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 06:18 PM (/WQyy)

3 From the looks of her, she was in her teens when Joe Biden was born.

Posted by: MikeN at February 09, 2026 06:18 PM (8uQGY)

4 Climb Mount Nitaka

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:20 PM (2GVsD)

5 ace is a devote of hentai. Who knew?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:20 PM (zZu0s)

6 No more Dirty Gaijins!!! Nice campaign slogan.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:20 PM (pDt9x)

7 Pouncing and seizing!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 06:21 PM (W2Pud)

8 No more Dirty Gaijins!!! Nice campaign slogan.
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:20 PM (pDt9x)

To be honest... more power to her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:21 PM (zZu0s)

9 I see the Rand Corporation still takes US Government money.

Cult of personality, go look at Gaylord

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:21 PM (2GVsD)

10 Now she needs the younguns over there to get busy having babies.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:22 PM (pDt9x)

11 Immigrants mean instability.

And guess what Japanese hate the most?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:22 PM (zZu0s)

12 8 No more Dirty Gaijins!!! Nice campaign slogan.
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:20 PM (pDt9x)

To be honest... more power to her.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:21 PM (zZu0s)

It is their country, their rules.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:23 PM (pDt9x)

13 Banzai!

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:23 PM (dK+Kv)

14 This...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uds7g3M-4lQ

Sorry it's not Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 06:23 PM (jtM2q)

15 11 Immigrants mean instability.

And guess what Japanese hate the most?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:22 PM (zZu0s)

I am aware.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:24 PM (pDt9x)

16 Happy Keiko Matsui music on the stereo enjoying the ascendence of the iron fist in a velvet glove. Find the assasins early and often.

Posted by: kingsman at February 09, 2026 06:24 PM (ehY6c)

17 Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:24 PM (/rtBI)

18 Bonsai

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 06:24 PM (0KSrI)

19 The Art of War

by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2026 06:25 PM (wVcYX)

20 I worked for a Japanese company for eight years. They may embrace some American culture but in my experience they think opposite of Americans in almost every aspect.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:25 PM (cwGMH)

21 Japan's ultra conservative prime minister set to seize more power, exit poll shows

I can play that game too!!

CIA BARBIE AND HER MERRY BAND OF MARXISTS SEIZE POWER IN VIRGINIA.

Fun little msm games are a two way street.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 09, 2026 06:25 PM (sAmhv)

22 ‘ and massive snowstorms across much of Japan’

Odd that when that loathsome Democrap recently won the district in TX, the same media made no mention of insanely cold (for TX) weather, which IIRC included snowstorms.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 06:25 PM (ZmaZ9)

23 Banzai!
Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:23 PM (dK+Kv)

You missed:

I fear all we have done is awoken a sleeping giant and given him a painful erection...
-Alexander S

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

24 Now for some Japanese city-pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lC2O1oIew

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:26 PM (2GVsD)

25 Ah, so she is from the Seizing part of the right wing. I assumed she was from the Pouncing side.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 09, 2026 06:26 PM (Dv3i1)

26 Why wouldn't anyone want foreign rape gangs raping young native girls?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 09, 2026 06:27 PM (Vh9CX)

27 Japan has zero immigration.

SO they gonna drop people in the ocean.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 06:27 PM (gbOdA)

28 Off sock

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:27 PM (cwGMH)

29 Samurai Politician, starring Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2026 06:27 PM (wVcYX)

30 >>>She's talking about increasing military spending to 2% of GDP . . . .

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:27 PM (dK+Kv)

31 increasing military spending to 2% of GDP

Godzilla better get his shit together and act right.

Posted by: DaveA at February 09, 2026 06:28 PM (FhXTo)

32 Tora Tora Tora

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 06:28 PM (gbOdA)

33 Tomorrow
And Tomoorow
And Tomorrow
Creeps in its’ petty pace -
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:28 PM (pDt9x)

34 Konnichiwa, bitches.

Posted by: PM Takaichi-sama at February 09, 2026 06:29 PM (TbWk/)

35 The only sad part is I can't immigrate there now. I guess I'll have to fight the muzzies and commies here.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 09, 2026 06:29 PM (n5tGW)

36 I grew up in Wrigleyville with a bunch of Japanese kids. They were 'Nisei,' the folks released from the WWII internment camps. They were wonderful people who did everything they could to assimilate American. The kids all had American names like "Roy" and "Elaine." Everybody spoke perfect English.

They were smart, neat, industrious, and education-focused. If there's any good in me, it rubbed off from associating with them.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:30 PM (N8ZBc)

37 Thailand also had an election yesterday, and a right-wing party surprisingly won over the left-wing populists and some gay loving progressive party that was supposed to win.

Posted by: the lower depths at February 09, 2026 06:30 PM (4QwTz)

38 Oh kami-sama, the people who called the anime GATE Japanese military propaganda are probably spazzing out right now.

And that is totes a good thing, they deserve it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:30 PM (2GVsD)

39 Stuff Alexandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, Vol I, II, & III

Please attribute all quotes from me by using the above books. Thank you.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:30 PM (sAmhv)

40 Permanent Residents: 918,116

That was a typical quarter of illegals under Biden

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 06:31 PM (gbOdA)

41 Leftist parties now only have three seats.

Can we call them the Three Little Pigs? If so, then place me in the category that roots for the Big, Bad Wolf.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at February 09, 2026 06:32 PM (f8hsW)

42 I lived in Japan for a while. Always thought about retiring there, at least for the winter months. Too hot and humid there in the summer.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ZmaZ9)

43 She "seized more power" by (checks notes) winning a democratic election.

In a similar way, Trump "seized more power" in 2024.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:15 PM

---
Of course President Trump "seized more power."

He was better at stealing the election than the Democrats.

That's exactly how they see it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ESVrU)

44 She better watch her ass.

Japanese can get very stabby.

Posted by: pawn at February 09, 2026 06:33 PM (uvB+6)

45 Toughest job in the world is being a police sketch artist in Tokyo.

Posted by: Al Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:33 PM (oftw2)

46 Fuck the secret police, coming straight from the underground!

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Straight Outta Gulag at February 09, 2026 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

47 Stuff Alexandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, Vol I, II, & III

Please attribute all quotes from me by using the above books. Thank you.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

"How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?"

-- Vol I.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 06:33 PM (cYBz/)

48 >>5 ace is a devote of hentai. Who knew?

ugh no, just normal Japanese adult videos

I'm an anti porn crusader

https://youtu.be/PwCjWkNswvA?

si=_wYwXhdM1p6OPPXF&t=32

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 06:34 PM (1wjle)

49 24 Now for some Japanese city-pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lC2O1oIew
Posted by: Anna Puma

It reminds me of early 90s Lisa Stansfield. A little bit anyway. I honestly don't know any Lisa Stansfield post early 90s. I was stationed over there then, and Lisa Stansfield got LOTS of air play.

youtu.be/JVuuatjHGnY

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 09, 2026 06:34 PM (sAmhv)

50 The best part was when she backflip repelled into parliament wearing nothing but her thermoptic camouflage suit, roundhouse kicked a commie, then disrobed in front of everyone. Bad ass.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 06:35 PM (fjo1b)

51 "They may embrace some American culture but in my experience they think opposite of Americans in almost every aspect."

How so? Seriously interested.

Posted by: pawn at February 09, 2026 06:35 PM (uvB+6)

52 I despise each and everyone of you!

Posted by: Koichi Toyama, Bald and Loving It at February 09, 2026 06:35 PM (Ksqrb)

53 So, the coalition won 356 out of 465.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:35 PM (zZu0s)

54 You'd think the feminists at the AP would be all for a strong woman PM.

I'm not sure why she fell out of the middle of the Ally Stack as an Asian woman, but she did.

Simply because she's conservative and likes Trump?
Because she's against immigration?

Because the CCP told them to be mean to her?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt)

55 Stupid idiot media is the same everywhere.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 09, 2026 06:36 PM (ZbPL4)

56 Oh, how we yearned for some Lisa Stansfield in the camps....

Posted by: Alex Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:36 PM (oftw2)

57 Sumo, baby. That's where it's at.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 06:37 PM (0KSrI)

58 Ace is a cyclone ranger

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:37 PM (2GVsD)

59 Japan has zero immigration.

SO they gonna drop people in the ocean.
Posted by: r hennigantx

I seem to remember that they took in some Kurds.

Who proceeded to make such (possibly Islamic) nuisances of themselves that the Japanese said GTFO

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 09, 2026 06:37 PM (a+4eV)

60 I lived in Japan for a while. Always thought about retiring there, at least for the winter months. Too hot and humid there in the summer.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ZmaZ9)

I was stationed there when I was in the Navy.

I loved Japan. Love the place, the people, the food.

The elegant and exquisite Mrs naturalfake and I have plans, when retired, to go live there for a few months.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 09, 2026 06:37 PM (iJfKG)

61 The best part was when she backflip repelled into parliament wearing nothing but her thermoptic camouflage suit, roundhouse kicked a commie, then disrobed in front of everyone. Bad ass.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 06:35 PM (fjo1b)

Heh. Stellar Blade, Japanese PM.

Korean game, probably would not appreciate the joke.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

62 Does she have a sister ... to replace some of our RINO squishes in the House and Senate?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 09, 2026 06:37 PM (HlyYF)

63 Oooh Sugai!

Why do I know them? Shut up, narc. I just know them, okay? We don't need to get any more detailed than that.

So if I point out it's spelled wrong, I'm in the same detail. So I won't.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 06:38 PM (VHUov)

64 /sings

I'm going Japanese I think I'm going Japanese

I really think so...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 09, 2026 06:38 PM (mP0Kj)

65 Japan's own Iron Maiden Lady!

Shinzo Abe, your pupil has avenged you.

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:38 PM (gWBY1)

66 >>> Heh. Stellar Blade, Japanese PM.

Korean game, probably would not appreciate the joke.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

Way earlier, Ghost In the Shell, Major’s big scene.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 06:39 PM (fjo1b)

67 Ichiban!

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2026 06:39 PM (LHPAg)

68 The best part was when she backflip repelled into parliament wearing nothing but her thermoptic camouflage suit, roundhouse kicked a commie, then disrobed in front of everyone. Bad ass.

Watching the original Ghost in the Shell movie again?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2GVsD)

69 64 That song is about jerking off, BTW.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:39 PM (N8ZBc)

70 日本火蟻

斜眼看

紅色的中國。

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 06:39 PM (6W1vz)

71 You'd think the feminists at the AP would be all for a strong woman PM.

I'm not sure why she fell out of the middle of the Ally Stack as an Asian woman, but she did.

Simply because she's conservative and likes Trump?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Yes, and yes.

The Left claims to be in favor of grrl power, but only if the grrl is Of The Body. Nobody to the right of Renee Good need apply.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 06:39 PM (VHUov)

72 So if I point out it's spelled wrong, I'm in the same detail. So I won't.
Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 06:38 PM (VHUov)

The only place I know the one word from is when it is stretched across the chest of a barely in a shirt woman. I think I looked it up once and it was a milk product?

*snicker*

Which... ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

73 Does she wear a machine gun bra?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 09, 2026 06:40 PM (ZbPL4)

74 3 From the looks of her, she was in her teens when Joe Biden was born.
Posted by: MikeN at February 09, 2026 06:18 PM (8uQGY)

You must be looking at someone else.

Posted by: The Inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at February 09, 2026 06:40 PM (DPRVO)

75 51 "They may embrace some American culture but in my experience they think opposite of Americans in almost every aspect."

How so? Seriously interested.
Posted by: pawn at February 09, 2026 06:35 PM (uvB+6)
———

I lived there. Japanese do love American culture, clothes, and swlf-reliant cowboy “brand.” So many products (mainly clothes and fashion) were promoted as “American style.” But they don’t think much of our technology, manufacturing, or work ethic. They basically consider us the cool bad boy they’d love to party with, and who gets all the chicks, but they wouldn’t want us on their business team.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 06:41 PM (ZmaZ9)

76 Is she also pouncing? Can't have a good seize unless you also pounce.

Posted by: steevy at February 09, 2026 06:41 PM (YwEeS)

77 >>> Watching the original Ghost in the Shell movie again?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2GVsD)

I should. I hear they’re remaking SAC

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 06:41 PM (fjo1b)

78 Keemochee, I said in a high-pitched Japanese voice. Oooh Sugai!, I added, squealing in delight.

These are just a couple of Japanese words I happen to know. Why do I know them? Shut up, narc. I just know them, okay? We don't need to get any more detailed than that.
----
This could be used in a writing class for an example of how to hook your audience.

*****
Tokyo is decades ahead of other cities. They're fiercely protective of their unique culture and people. They're nationalists of the best kind.

They enjoy others from a distance and are happy to befriend you but the moment you disrespect them they want nothing to do with you.
----

We could learn a lot from this!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 06:41 PM (RkOfE)

79 Le porno, c'est mal.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

80 Now, why is it possible for this large, densely populated, highly desirable island country with long coastlines to secure its borders, but not us?

Why is their overtly racialized immigration policy acceptable, when our much more inclusive one is racist?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 06:42 PM (BI5O2)

81 She looks younger than Dr Jill. And without the Dr Jill Thotwear.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:42 PM (zZu0s)

82 I think we showed them in WW2 we could manufacture pretty well....

Posted by: steevy at February 09, 2026 06:42 PM (YwEeS)

83 'Watashi wa kō iimashita.'

- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:42 PM (N8ZBc)

84 >>> That song is about jerking off, BTW.
Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:39 PM (N8ZBc)

Handle’s Music for Royal Fireworks? I know bro!

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 06:43 PM (fjo1b)

85 Willowed from last thread:
So now we know why Bad Bunny's halftime show was all in Spanish...it wasn't to be multicultural, it was to get around censors.

The song he sang was beyond pornographic, apparently? And little Latino kids were exposed to it. Fine the NFL for indecency, if true. Hard.

I remember my good girl Christian Mexican immigrant friends (legal) complaining of the same thing when Despacito was a hit. It's so vulgar, yet everyone played it because white people didn't know the actual lyrics and had a fun beat. They hated that song.

It loses its pizzazz when a white guy reads the lyrics:

@0hour1
I have converted the SUPER BOWL song to English for the @nflcommish and the parents
Enjoy

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:43 PM (gWBY1)

86 I am so glad they have never made another anime inspired by Dominion Tank Police.

A remake of Stand Alone Complex if done by Netflix will stink

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:43 PM (2GVsD)

87 Takaichi's enthusiasm is beautiful.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 06:43 PM (RkOfE)

88 I think we showed them in WW2 we could manufacture pretty well....
Posted by: steevy at February 09, 2026 06:42 PM (YwEeS)

Unlike us, they have maintained a lot of their manufacturing base.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:43 PM (zZu0s)

89 I've posted about this before. The Japanese establishment was intent on importing Chinese shitbirds, African aholes, Hindi cowhumperz and Muslim MFers.

The people said nah, brah, we'd rather go down without losing our souls.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 09, 2026 06:43 PM (wBaIH)

90 Immigrants mean instability.

And guess what Japanese hate the most?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Makes sense. They're bigger than Guam, but still.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at February 09, 2026 06:44 PM (VHUov)

91 Better watch out. First Italy, then Japan. Just wait until the AdP wins, and Germany recreates the Axis.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 09, 2026 06:44 PM (AlhUl)

92
Who proceeded to make such (possibly Islamic) nuisances of themselves that the Japanese said GTFO
Posted by: FeatherBlade
--

They are doing same with Africans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 06:44 PM (6W1vz)

93 So I gather the first female prime minister of Japan is not stunning and brave?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 06:44 PM (RIvkX)

94 Also Willowed:
last night Kid Rock added a new verse about Christ to "Til You Can't," and it's beating Bad Bunny on the charts

God is good, all the time. And all the time God is good.

@nicksortor
🚨 BREAKING: Kid Rock’s rendition of “‘Til You Can’t” with his added verse about giving your life to Jesus has SURPASSED Bad Bunny on the charts
It’s now at NUMBER ONE, post-Super Bowl
WE ARE WINNING! 🔥🇺🇸

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:44 PM (gWBY1)

95 increasing military spending to 2% of GDP

Godzilla better get his shit together and act right.
--
Once he sees their Super Dimensional Fortress, he'll probably just enlist.

Posted by: Methos at February 09, 2026 06:44 PM (vSvIl)

96 "Handle’s Music for Royal Fireworks? I know bro!"

Grab that handle.

Green Day's Longview is also about jerking off. And Phil Lesh had one.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:45 PM (N8ZBc)

97 88 many Japanese companies are exporting their manufacturing to countries where there's workers and a market; ie the USA.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 09, 2026 06:45 PM (wBaIH)

98 The Japanese should take a weekend and develop and produce nukes.

Just to show they are serious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

99 They may embrace some American culture but in my experience they think opposite of Americans in almost every aspect."

How so? Seriously interested.
Posted by: pawn at February 09, 2026 06:35 PM (uvB+6

I found they expect certain respect and deference because of their positions and hesitate to contradict or offer alternatives to a superior.

They treat women in the workplace much different.

They apologize too damn much.

Contrary to conventional wisdom they don't work more hours than white collar Americans though they may spend more hours at work. Most of the extra hours are entertaining clients.

If truth be told I don't think they like round eye too much and still believe they are superior. Now that's the older Japanese I worked with. I did have one manager who was great and didn't get that feeling at all.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:47 PM (cwGMH)

100 What did Bad Bunny really sing about in his ghetto spanish last night?

Posted by: Culo! at February 09, 2026 06:47 PM (Ksqrb)

101 Next year Japan will showcase their fully operational Gundam mobile suit with beam-saber and nuclear bazooka.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:48 PM (2GVsD)

102 Don't say her name!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 06:48 PM (XeU6L)

103 "The Japanese should take a weekend and develop and produce nukes."

The Russians, Koreans and Chinese all have historical reasons to despise them. So, yes.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:48 PM (N8ZBc)

104 Who could have guessed that as a Marxist?

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 06:48 PM (Ia/+0)

105 Next year Japan will showcase their fully operational Gundam mobile suit with beam-saber and nuclear bazooka.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:48 PM (2GVsD)

Driven by a cute girl with big blue eyes and bright red hair shaped like an hourglass on a diet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:50 PM (6ydKt)

106 The only place I know the one word from is when it is stretched across the chest of a barely in a shirt woman. I think I looked it up once and it was a milk product?
*snicker*
Which... ok.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There was an anime/manga--Uzaki-chan wants to hang out!--where the chesty lead often wore a shirt that said "Sugoi Dekai."

Literally "Super Big!"

Posted by: mikeski, bringing some cultural knowledge at February 09, 2026 06:50 PM (VHUov)

107 Next year Japan will showcase their fully operational Gundam mobile suit with beam-saber and nuclear bazooka.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:48 PM (2GVsD)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

108 How so? Seriously interested.
Posted by: pawn
------

They think that eating raw fish is a good idea.

Posted by: Mrs. Paul at February 09, 2026 06:50 PM (XeU6L)

109 At ScienceAdviser: "Punching influenza in the nose"

Scientists have developed teeny-tiny, very low molecular weight fists.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:51 PM (N8ZBc)

110 the best cover of Despacito was by the Colombian Armed Forces

youtu.be/8DNkV-CtltE

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 06:51 PM (rbvCR)

111 What did Bad Bunny really sing about in his ghetto spanish last night?
Posted by: Culo! at February 09, 2026 06:47 PM (Ksqrb)

He said "puta" about 50 million times last night, which means "whore".

So, you can probably assume what the rest was about.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 09, 2026 06:52 PM (iJfKG)

112 So if I point out it's spelled wrong, I'm in the same detail. So I won't.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 06:38 PM (VHUov)

Kimochi and sugoi are fairly common in normal Japanese conversation, it's all about context.

I'm sure Ace was simply watching some cute Japanese Animal Videos while the presenters repeatedly mentioned how pleasant it felt to pet a kitten and were subsequently very impressed by the size of a wiener dog.

Posted by: Sjg at February 09, 2026 06:52 PM (aqZN1)

113 The Japanese should take a weekend and develop and produce nukes.

Just to show they are serious.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
------

Yahmaha: Motorcycles, pianos, nukes.

Posted by: Mrs. Paul at February 09, 2026 06:52 PM (XeU6L)

114 They think that eating raw fish is a good idea.

Posted by: Mrs. Paul at February 09, 2026 06:50 PM (XeU6L)

And they regularly live past 100.

They might be on to something.

But I'll never understand the puffer fish thing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:52 PM (6ydKt)

115
If truth be told I don't think they like round eye too much and still believe they are superior.
----
Good for them, they should feel that they and their culture are superior. Every culture should feel that.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 06:53 PM (RkOfE)

116 Nyah?

Sushi oishii nyah!

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:53 PM (2GVsD)

117 Who are we to criticize their culture?

Posted by: A Press Puta at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (vFG9F)

118 "What did Bad Bunny really sing about in his ghetto spanish last night?
Posted by: Culo! at February 09, 2026 06:47 PM (Ksqrb)

He said "puta" about 50 million times last night, which means "whore"."

How many SBs featured musicians who use enword in their lyrics?

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (N8ZBc)

119 Yahmaha: Motorcycles, pianos, nukes.
Posted by: Mrs. Paul at February 09, 2026 06:52 PM (XeU6L)

Don't be silly. Hitachi builds nukes.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (rbvCR)

120 100 What did Bad Bunny really sing about in his ghetto spanish last night?
Posted by: Culo!

There is a post on 'X' of some spanish speaker saying American's shouldn't feel bad for not understanding Bad Bunny, they couldn't understand him either.

I watched a video a while back about the various Spanish dialects spoken around the New World. Apparently Chili won that contest of incomprehensible Spanish dialects.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (sAmhv)

121 >>> But they don’t think much of our technology, manufacturing, or work ethic. They basically consider us the cool bad boy they’d love to party with, and who gets all the chicks, but they wouldn’t want us on their business team.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 06:41 PM (ZmaZ9)

I have a friend that works in America for a huge international South Korean tech brand, on their innovation team. They have an American team, she confided, because while the Korean team members are excellent at the tech, they need the American team be the creative geniuses. When your culture encourages homogenized thinking, it's hard to think outside the box.

That being said, manga and anime are taking over. Not because Americans can't be creative anymore, or make new stories. It's because only one type of woke message and story is allowed to be platformed and told. And it's boring and everyone hates it. So American kids are turning to Japan instead.

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (gWBY1)

122 Ladies and Gentlemen, keep your eyes focused on the Steel Industry. Nippon Steel purchased US Steel in 2023. However, there were a number of caveats in the agreement that allowed US Steel to continu operating as normal in the US with significant investment from Nippon Steel.

What this did was allow that enttity (Nippon Steel/ US Steel) to become the second largest steel manufacturer in the world. It, also, showed the hand to Canada in the process. It improves the US's security in that there is expected to be a significant increase in domestical made steel.

The fact that Japan just swayed to the right makes this process much more easy, and hurts China significantly in the process.

Posted by: Orson at February 09, 2026 06:55 PM (dIske)

123 Good for them, they should feel that they and their culture are superior. Every culture should feel that.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 06:53 PM (RkOfE)

That's the definition of racism. Good job.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:55 PM (cwGMH)

124 Culture is not dependent on race.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 06:57 PM (vFG9F)

125 Maybe the three remaining Leftists will do the honorable thing.

Nah, they are Leftists.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:57 PM (2GVsD)

126 2% of GDP for defense.

We spend 3.4%. And we are responsible for defending Japan. Is it too much to ask that they spend the same share as us?

This is progress certainly, but it's really shameful these countries have spent so little on their own defense for decades.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 09, 2026 06:57 PM (vOtXJ)

127 126 Concur.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:58 PM (N8ZBc)

128 "105 Next year Japan will showcase their fully operational Gundam mobile suit with beam-saber and nuclear bazooka.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 06:48 PM (2GVsD)

Driven by a cute girl with big blue eyes and bright red hair shaped like an hourglass on a diet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:50 PM (6ydKt) "

oh please, yes, this.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 09, 2026 06:58 PM (Cjt/F)

129 That's the definition of racism. Good job.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:55 PM (cwGMH)

That's not my definition.

Maybe stop hanging out with RINOs and leftists.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2026 06:58 PM (n9ltV)

130 So American kids are turning to Japan instead.

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (gWBY1)

Yes.
It's been going on for 25 years now.

Before say, 2000, most Americans knew little about, or had even heard of 'anime', or 'manga'.

Now it's ubiquitous among two generations, and some older ones who remember and loved the likes of Speed Racer, and shows like those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:58 PM (6ydKt)

131 That's the definition of racism. Good job.
---
lol, thanks. I think it is a definition of nationalism.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 06:58 PM (RkOfE)

132 It's always "far right" when a huge majority of the population wants it.

Posted by: Spartacus Booker at February 09, 2026 06:59 PM (W+TLY)

133 JN Kaga and JN Izumo will both be deployed with F-35B aircraft aboard. Impressive.

Posted by: mrp at February 09, 2026 06:59 PM (rj6Yv)

134 Apparently Chili won that contest of incomprehensible Spanish dialects.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (sAmhv)

I've known a couple of Chileans. They had a hard, sharp accent, and dropped the end of words like crazy. So, yeah, took some getting used to. Colombians, on the other hand, are very easy to understand. Colombian Spanish is like Indiana English.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 06:59 PM (zYpTz)

135
"Ultra Right Wing" = Anyone to the right of Pol Pot

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 06:59 PM (tgvbd)

136 >>> There is a post on 'X' of some spanish speaker saying American's shouldn't feel bad for not understanding Bad Bunny, they couldn't understand him either.

That totally makes sense! A Mexican friend told me no one else can understand Puerto Ricans because they talk too fast and condense everything. "Buenos Noches" in Puerto Rican is "buena noche," for example, and they slur the words together fast.

I'm surprised JHo didn't find a way to get in on the halftime action since she is famously puerto
Rican, but they let Pedro Pascal in.

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:59 PM (gWBY1)

137 70. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

Translation: Japanese fire ant cross-eyed view of red China.

For real? 🙂

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (NFX2v)

138 I think a girl band made up of Takaichi, Meloni, and... three other kick ass female PMs, yet to be named would be great. Also, they would secretly fight crime, and have cool vehicles that would combine into a super fighting robot named MAGABABE

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (3uBP9)

139 Is there a Kennedy class carrier that is not scrap? Maybe we can sell that to Japan for $10.

Then let Mitsubishi develop some new carrier planes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (2GVsD)

140 Apparently Chili won that contest of incomprehensible Spanish dialects.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (sAmhv)
====

They speak Spanish as well as the Quebecois speak French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (RIvkX)

141 Still lots of people on the right who jump at the opportunity to 'call out racism.' Leave it to the lefties.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (N8ZBc)

142 That being said, manga and anime are taking over. Not because Americans can't be creative anymore, or make new stories. It's because only one type of woke message and story is allowed to be platformed and told. And it's boring and everyone hates it. So American kids are turning to Japan instead.
Posted by: LizLem

TIL I'm an "American kid." Totally rad, dude!

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 07:01 PM (VHUov)

143 Good for them, they should feel that they and their culture are superior. Every culture should feel that.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 06:53 PM (RkOfE)

That's the definition of racism. Good job.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:55 PM (cwGMH)

Welp, here's an unpopular opinion.

In a monocultural, monoracial society, which Japan essentially is, racism is not a particularly bad thing.
At all.

Because it doesn't cause crime or social unrest. It's an attitude but not a social weapon.

In America, yeah, sure racism isn't a good thing because we're a multicultural, multiracial society and some a-holes will act upon their racism.

Not the same thing, people.

You may now open fire.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 09, 2026 07:01 PM (iJfKG)

144
JN Kaga

_________

"Am I going to have to sink it again?" - Zombie Wade McClusky

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:01 PM (tgvbd)

145 I think a girl band made up of Takaichi, Meloni, and... three other kick ass female PMs, yet to be named would be great. Also, they would secretly fight crime, and have cool vehicles that would combine into a super fighting robot named MAGABABE
Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (3uBP9)
====

How could you forget Italy's prime minister?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (RIvkX)

146 123 Good for them, they should feel that they and their culture are superior. Every culture should feel that.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 06:53 PM (RkOfE)

That's the definition of racism. Good job.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:55 PM (cwGMH)

Why do you confuse culture with race?

Isn't it possible to have pride of one's traditional, national, culture without being a racist?

This fear of cultural nationalism since WWII has really warped some perceptions way past the stretching point.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (6ydKt)

147 That's the definition of racism. Good job.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:55 PM (cwGMH)

Not any more. It used to be that "racist" was a term that described when people hated minorities. Now it is a designation for people minorities hate.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (rbvCR)

148 Oh, you didn't my bad.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (RIvkX)

149 146 Concur.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (N8ZBc)

150 I also think that part of American nationalism is recognizing the good of other cultures and absorbing them into our own. An excellent trait which works so well at building unity that the enemies of American culture had to redefine it as "cultural appropriation".

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (RkOfE)

151 It took 20+ SBDs to sink Kaga.

Dick Best and four other dive bomber pilots sank Akagi

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (2GVsD)

152 That totally makes sense! A Mexican friend told me no one else can understand Puerto Ricans because they talk too fast and condense everything. "Buenos Noches" in Puerto Rican is "buena noche," for example, and they slur the words together fast.
Posted by: LizLem

Spanish is a "fast language" to begin with, so that could be trouble.

Works better in slow languages like English. Where we cut down phrases like "I am going to" to just "Ima."

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (VHUov)

153 "I also think that part of American nationalism is recognizing the good of other cultures and absorbing them into our own. "

Like tacos, and pizza.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 07:04 PM (vFG9F)

154

Is she going to pounce on power, too?

Posted by: imp at February 09, 2026 07:05 PM (g6TN6)

155 They have an American team, she confided, because while the Korean team members are excellent at the tech, they need the American team be the creative geniuses. Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:54 PM (gWBY1)

I had a project where we were teamed with a bunch of Astian guys. We get together, and the Americans do what Americans do - we all start bullshitting about how to solve the problem. We could do this, or that. How about this idea? nah, that will never work. Things rolling along.

The Austrians were upset. "Stop stop! You're doing this all wrong! before we do anything, we must elect a leader, and he'll tell us what to do."

We shrugged. So, we had an election, and the Americans all voted for the Austrian who was their spokesman to be the "leader". Once that was settled, we asked him what to do. He suggested we open the floor...for discussion. And the Americans started rolling on again, spit balling ideas. "Stop stop! We must all take turns each saying what their idea is."

This went on the whole time - a project Americans could have solved in an afternoon stretched out a week.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 09, 2026 07:05 PM (vOtXJ)

156 Japan got literally the tiniest bit of migration and micro intrusion on their culture. They responded with the most right wing electoral result in history and essentially banished the left from any bit of power. Absolutely beautiful to see.

I've seen a video trend of 'Hip Hop Nuisance Dancers' going to Japan and intentionally acting weird and in the face of Japanese people on the subways there.

Their response to "diverse vibrant culture" looks pretty smart. Stop it when it is idiots dancing before you get to the random stabbings and setting people on fire...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 07:05 PM (sKqQm)

157 The Austrians were upset. "Stop stop! You're doing this all wrong! before we do anything, we must elect a leader, and he'll tell us what to do."

Why its like this is a pattern with Germanic culture...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 07:06 PM (sKqQm)

158 48
'ugh no, just normal Japanese adult videos

I'm an anti porn crusader'

Common sense porn rules.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2026 07:06 PM (fd80v)

159 153 "I also think that part of American nationalism is recognizing the good of other cultures and absorbing them into our own. "

Exactly - American culture is based on what works and what doesn't. We steal anything not nailed down from other cultures and make it our won.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 09, 2026 07:06 PM (vOtXJ)

160 That totally makes sense! A Mexican friend told me no one else can understand Puerto Ricans because they talk too fast and condense everything. "Buenos Noches" in Puerto Rican is "buena noche," for example, and they slur the words together fast.
Posted by: LizLem

They are also, in my experience, really irritating. Worse than Chilangos.

However, I would argue that Chileans are nearly impossible to understand when they talk to each other. I suspect it is because Chileans sound so much like they are speaking Spanish

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 07:06 PM (rbvCR)

161 "This went on the whole time - a project Americans could have solved in an afternoon stretched out a week."

Or maybe even faster if they just let one competent guy handle it solo. Teams and meetings often suck.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:06 PM (N8ZBc)

162 >>> riven by a cute girl with big blue eyes and bright red hair shaped like an hourglass on a diet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:50 PM (6ydKt) "

oh please, yes, this.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 09, 2026 06:58 PM (Cjt/F)

Ok, but I'm reading the rules right now, and they basically require you to also have a horribly angsty teenage boy that just whines about everything and you want to slap him, but no one slaps him, at least not enough, which enough = constant slapping.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:07 PM (3uBP9)

163 Leftists everywhere: release Godzilla.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2026 07:07 PM (yI5mB)

164 Still lots of people on the right who jump at the opportunity to 'call out racism.' Leave it to the lefties.
Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (N8ZBc

The poster said you should feel superior to others because of your race. If you want to defend that okay.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 07:07 PM (cwGMH)

165 After Aum Shinrikyu used Sarin in the Tokyo subways, yes the Japanese are a bit sensitive.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:07 PM (2GVsD)

166 That being said, manga and anime are taking over. Not because Americans can't be creative anymore, or make new stories. It's because only one type of woke message and story is allowed to be platformed and told.

All of the younger males I know are into Japanese entertainment.

And there are certainly a lot more ideas being explored and different types of stories being told then in American pop culture.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 07:07 PM (sKqQm)

167
I haven't listened to an NPR show in ten years.

But if they're going to squeal like the little piglets they are, I'm back in.

Posted by: Auspex at February 09, 2026 07:08 PM (Y8DZL)

168 156 Those make me angry, even though I don't live there, and I'm not Japanese. Those a-holes can DIAF.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:08 PM (N8ZBc)

169 JN Kaga

_________

"Am I going to have to sink it again?" - Zombie Wade McClusky
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:01 PM (tgvbd)
==========

I mistyped. It's JS Kaga and JS Izumo. USMC F-35Bs were deployed to the Kaga as part of the Kaga's modification trials. Japan ordered 147 F-35s from the US.

Just the Japanese and US helicopter carriers alone offer a serious strike carrier threat to adversaries in the Far East, since they have been mostly modified to carry and support F-35s.

Posted by: mrp at February 09, 2026 07:08 PM (rj6Yv)

170 ugh no, just normal Japanese adult videos

Uh, wait, normal as in with tentacles or boring?

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at February 09, 2026 07:08 PM (sKqQm)

171 This went on the whole time - a project Americans could have solved in an afternoon stretched out a week.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 09, 2026 07:05 PM (vOtXJ)
====
You just described contemporary American governance.

Have you seen the Palisades?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 07:09 PM (RIvkX)

172 side eye
side eye

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 07:09 PM (6W1vz)

173 164 Virtue successfully signaled. Copy that. You are a good person, and now we all know it.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:09 PM (N8ZBc)

174 Ikari Shinji had issues.

Mother being eating by an EVA and having a power mad father who viewed him as a useful tool were just two of the bigger ones.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:09 PM (2GVsD)

175 Here is a supposed transcript of all the lyrics in the halftime show:

https://genius.com/Genius-english-
translations-bad-bunny-super-bowl-
lx-halftime-show-ft-lady-gaga-
and-ricky-martin-english-translation-lyrics

A sample:
"My di is being chased and I want you to hide it
Grab it like a bonga She took a pill that made her horny She fucks in the Audi, not in the Honda, ayy
If I give it to you, don't call me Cause this is not to make you love me If your boyfriend doesn't—
He better fu—, ayy, ayy
When she twerks she doesn't stop She smokes and gets horny, ayy She'll call you if she needs you, ayy But for now she is alone She twerks—

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 07:09 PM (gWBY1)

176 Why its like this is a pattern with Germanic culture...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 07:06 PM (sKqQm)

Asians as well.

They sometimes can't function without order, procedure, and hierarchy.

It's been trained into them for thousands of years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 07:09 PM (6ydKt)

177 Nukes and Magic Wands.

"Hitachi makes the Earth move for you"

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2026 07:09 PM (wVcYX)

178 What a double-barreled load of bias from NPR. Why is this outfit still in business?

Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:10 PM (2L+MU)

179 JN Kaga and JN Izumo will both be deployed with F-35B aircraft aboard. Impressive.

Posted by: mrp at February 09, 2026 06:59 PM (rj6Yv)

F-35B sugoi ja nai desu.

They need a proper carrier and some F-35Cs.

Posted by: Sjg at February 09, 2026 07:10 PM (aqZN1)

180 Also, as others have pointed out, culture does not equal race.

Especially American culture with its concept of the melting pot acknowledges that a culture can be built on values and not skin color.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:10 PM (RkOfE)

181 Ok, but I'm reading the rules right now, and they basically require you to also have a horribly angsty teenage boy that just whines about everything and you want to slap him, but no one slaps him, at least not enough, which enough = constant slapping.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:07 PM (3uBP9)

And a kinda cute little animal type thing that makes bad jokes and generally annoys everybody.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 07:10 PM (6ydKt)

182 What triggered the "Disinformation Expert" Ace?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:11 PM (0sNs1)

183 "Why is this outfit still in business?"

'Thanks to contributions from listeners like you.' It's the only thing worth listening to on my car radio (classical music.)

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:11 PM (N8ZBc)

184 Hitachi also makes construction equipment.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 07:11 PM (rbvCR)

185 Evangelion - Latin word, meaning; "Please slap the boy alot"

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:11 PM (3uBP9)

186 Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (6ydKt

He said THEY and their culture, not just culture. It was in response to me pointing out in a nice way that Japanese are racist.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 07:12 PM (cwGMH)

187

Fine, yes, they are racists, and thats ok. Just like the Chinese, the Indians, the Jews, and everyone else except the Western European world

Posted by: imp at February 09, 2026 07:12 PM (g6TN6)

188 It took 20+ SBDs to sink Kaga.

Dick Best and four other dive bomber pilots sank Akagi
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:03 PM (2GVsD)
=======

To be fair, the Japanese contribution to that four-plane strike's success was significant. Nearly everything that could go wrong was going wrong on the Kaga.

Posted by: mrp at February 09, 2026 07:12 PM (rj6Yv)

189 (cwGMH)

Baka yarro gaijin ne?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:12 PM (2GVsD)

190 And I will repeat this again.

The British Museum has a new exhibit running until May 4th about an aspect of Japan.

Namely they say half of the Samurai were female.

Now who is doing cultural imperialism again?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:14 PM (2GVsD)

191 Insert "sieze and pounce" comment that has not already been made by The Horde

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at February 09, 2026 07:14 PM (SugAx)

192 Went to Japan - you know what the issue with foreigners is? Japan decided to take a small number of African refugees and students (mostly Nigerians) some time back. Most work for the Yakuza as enforces or hustlers on the street. Basically coercing, forcing people into bars, giving them a "free" drink, then charging them some exorbitant amount of money, and refusing to let them leave till they pay up. Tokyo's Kabukichō and Roppongi districts.

They treat the locals like shit. Locals are fucking sick of them. There are about 4,000 of them, and most Japanese want them gone.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 09, 2026 07:15 PM (vOtXJ)

193 170 ugh no, just normal Japanese adult videos

Uh, wait, normal as in with tentacles or boring?

healing power of "and"?

Posted by: anachronda at February 09, 2026 07:15 PM (sGtp+)

194 Fine, yes, they are racists, and thats ok. Just like the Chinese, the Indians, the Jews, and everyone else except the Western European world
Posted by: imp at February 09, 2026 07:12 PM (g6TN6)

You mean except America which is the least racist country in the world.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 07:15 PM (cwGMH)

195 The unwanteds are from China, mostly, followed by Vietnam, the Philippines, and other Pacific rimmers.

There's a long history of hatred between them and the Chinese, but I don't know about the others.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 09, 2026 07:16 PM (KiBMU)

196 IT's not Japanese pr0n until all the naughty bits are pixelated.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:16 PM (2GVsD)

197
The poster said you should feel superior to others because of your race. If you want to defend that okay.
Posted by: Opinion fact

The poster was me and I will repost my comment for you to read, maybe a little slower.

115
If truth be told I don't think they like round eye too much and still believe they are superior.
----
Good for them, they should feel that they and their culture are superior. Every culture should feel that.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

I am happy to have this discussion because I want Americans to regain a sense of American superiority.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:16 PM (RkOfE)

198 I thought Anna Puma's opinion was that
Helldivers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SBDs?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:17 PM (0sNs1)

199 >>>This mandate will likely fast-track her hawkish security agenda, including increasing military spending to 2% of GDP and boosting offensive capabilities. The regional security landscape is about to change significantly.

China won't like that.

>>>Takaichi pledged to continue to use the Japan-U.S. alliance as the cornerstone of foreign policy, and plans to meet with President Trump next month.

China won't like that either.

But *I* like it, so it's all good.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 09, 2026 07:17 PM (syz1S)

200 >>> Insert "sieze and pounce" comment that has not already been made by The Horde
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at February 09, 2026 07:14 PM (SugAx)

In this case wouldn't it be a "glomp"?

Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:17 PM (3uBP9)

201
5 ace is a devote of hentai. Who knew?
=====
ugh no, just normal Japanese adult videos
I'm an anti porn crusader
https://youtu.be/PwCjWkNswvA?
si=_wYwXhdM1p6OPPXF&t=32
Posted by: ace

Bustly Asian Lesbian Pr0n for the win.
*queues up Kansas, Carry On My Wayward Son*

Posted by: Dean Winchester - at February 09, 2026 07:18 PM (QVmho)

202 197 Face it, we're all thoughtcriminals. Except that guy.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:18 PM (N8ZBc)

203 The British Museum has a new exhibit running until May 4th about an aspect of Japan.
Namely they say half of the Samurai were female.
Now who is doing cultural imperialism again?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:14 PM (2GVsD)
********************************************

Half the samurai caste being female, half the samurai warriors being female, what's the difference?

Posted by: New British Museum at February 09, 2026 07:18 PM (KKfil)

204 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 07:18 PM (wVcYX)

205 SB2C = Son of a B1tch 2nd Class

Aka the box a Dauntless came in.

Also known as the Beast since you had to work at flying it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:18 PM (2GVsD)

206 "So I gather the first female prime minister of Japan is not stunning and brave?
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

No. Not even historic.

Posted by: Ripley at February 09, 2026 07:18 PM (PTDkx)

207 斜眼看
xiéyǎn kàn

紅色的中國。
hóngsè de zhōngguó.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 07:19 PM (6W1vz)

208 *hyperticklesnuggleglomp*

Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:19 PM (2GVsD)

209 Or maybe even faster if they just let one competent guy handle it solo. Teams and meetings often suck.
Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:06 PM (N8ZBc)

^^^This. Collaboration is for commies.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 07:19 PM (zYpTz)

210 Ah Crimethink. I read about that somewhere. Also Crimespeak.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 07:19 PM (pDt9x)

211 Paco

NPR = brain damages Sirens.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:19 PM (u82oZ)

212 And I will repeat this again.
The British Museum has a new exhibit running until May 4th about an aspect of Japan.
Namely they say half of the Samurai were female.
Now who is doing cultural imperialism again?
Posted by: Anna Puma

"Samurai" as in katanas and lacquered armor?

Or "samurai" as in the social class?

The former is dumb on its face, and the museum curator should commit seppuku forthwith.

The latter might be true in an Obi-Wan Kenobi sort of way..... was a samurai's wife given the same deference as her husband by the underclasses?

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 07:20 PM (VHUov)

213 He said THEY and their culture, not just culture. It was in response to me pointing out in a nice way that Japanese are racist.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 07:12 PM (cwGMH)

They're an island nation that was pretty much isolated for thousands of year, still with a heterogeneous population for the most part. Of course they're a little racist.

I think they learned a lesson in 1945 about supremacy, though.

Personally, if I was Japanese I'd want to protect my culture, too. Just as I would if I were English, in about the same boat with regards to culture, and watching it all slip away due to the idiocy of their government.

Sometimes a little racial preference isn't a terrible thing as self-defense.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

214 Mikeski

I think they are deliberately conflating things to suit their Occidental agenda

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:21 PM (2GVsD)

215 SB2C = Son of a B1tch 2nd Class

Aka the box a Dauntless came in.

Also known as the Beast since you had to work at flying it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:18 PM

So what squadron is your 1/32 SB2C togged out for?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

216 I have ZERO SB2Cs in the stash. And it will remain that way.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:22 PM (2GVsD)

217 Mikeski

I think they are deliberately conflating things to suit their Occidental agenda
Posted by: Anna Puma

Seppuku it is, then.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 07:22 PM (VHUov)

218 He said THEY and their culture, not just culture. It was in response to me pointing out in a nice way that Japanese are racist.
----
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, a culture is "owned" by people, therefore "they" and their culture.

My misunderstanding came from not interpreting your comment as calling the Japanese racist. Now I see why you interpreted my comment the way that you did.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:22 PM (RkOfE)

219 153
'"I also think that part of American nationalism is recognizing the good of other cultures and absorbing them into our own. "'

I used to feel that way. But honestly I'm not sure my part of the culture benefits as much as the others.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2026 07:22 PM (fd80v)

220 106 There was an anime/manga--Uzaki-chan wants to hang out!--where the chesty lead often wore a shirt that said "Sugoi Dekai."

until recently pluto.tv showed a few episodes on sunday afternoons. they've stopped, which gave me a sad.

but now i'm all about the demon girl next door...

Posted by: anachronda at February 09, 2026 07:22 PM (sGtp+)

221 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
-------

The first non-fiction book that I received as a birthday gift, from my father. I was probably 9 years old at the time. He was a flight instructor during the war. I still have it, of course.

Posted by: Mrs. Paul at February 09, 2026 07:23 PM (XeU6L)

222 When she twerks she doesn't stop She smokes and gets horny, ayy She'll call you if she needs you, ayy But for now she is alone She twerks—
Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 07:09 PM (gWBY1)

So beautiful! (chef's kiss)

Posted by: Luther Campbell at February 09, 2026 07:24 PM (Ksqrb)

223 Anna Puma

In all my years of living and examining culture, I knew of no female Samurai warriors. Women were valued as part of the Samurai class, but not for war-fighting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:24 PM (u82oZ)

224 There *are* things in Japanese culture to be proud of. If their monoracial demographics bother you, start an NGO to diversify them, or to condemn them as apartheid. That worked out so well for SA.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:25 PM (N8ZBc)

225 173
'Virtue successfully signaled. Copy that. You are a good person, and now we all know it.'

I like good sarcasm.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2026 07:25 PM (fd80v)

226 They treat the locals like shit. Locals are fucking sick of them. There are about 4,000 of them, and most Japanese want them gone.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 09, 2026 07:15 PM (vOtXJ)

Only four thousand? Call out the scoops.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 07:25 PM (dK+Kv)

227 Oni-chan?

Not to be confused with oneechan.

Unless it is a blended family.

The ultimate oni-chan waifu - Ramu

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:25 PM (2GVsD)

228
Off Supernatural soc.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 09, 2026 07:25 PM (QVmho)

229 Even Wikipedia doubts Tomoe Gozen was a samurai warrior.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:26 PM (2GVsD)

230 Let's see how she handles it when the Lefties start baying at the moon. Godzilla has been in slumber for far too long.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 07:26 PM (xFfhU)

231 For them record, I shock the local Lutherans, Baptists, and woke Presbyterian by saying I was raised Shinto.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:27 PM (u82oZ)

232 She seized. But did she also pounce?

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 07:27 PM (y6810)

233 And I will repeat this again.
The British Museum has a new exhibit running until May 4th about an aspect of Japan.
Namely they say half of the Samurai were female.
Now who is doing cultural imperialism again?
Posted by: Anna Puma

"Samurai" as in katanas and lacquered armor?

Or "samurai" as in the social class?

The former is dumb on its face, and the museum curator should commit seppuku forthwith.

The latter might be true in an Obi-Wan Kenobi sort of way..... was a samurai's wife given the same deference as her husband by the underclasses?
Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 07:20 PM (VHUov)

Well, they're probably confusing things a bit with the naginata, which was a Japanese noble woman's weapon.

If they town or castle was over taken, the noble women were expected to fight. And, in fact, they trained on the use of the weapon.

If you saw the recent remake of "Shogun", you saw the noble women using it when the castle was over-run.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 09, 2026 07:28 PM (iJfKG)

234 What triggered the "Disinformation Expert" Ace?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:11 PM (0sNs1)

Earlier today, Ace concurred with the FBI report which says the Epstein Affair is a nothingburger. The Horde has mixed feelings about this.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 07:28 PM (u5LSF)

235 Anna Puma

What do you have against Helldivers?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:28 PM (u82oZ)

236 Katana!

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 07:28 PM (g47mK)

237 If only the Georgia election experts could have helped in Japan!

Posted by: Brad Raffensperger's fevered brain at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (pP43i)

238 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Found in a thrift story a copy of the book. Random House Wartime Book. Hardcover. First edition. 1943.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (2GVsD)

239 Have we learned nothing from Shogun

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 09, 2026 07:30 PM (dtajH)

240 Cafe is nood.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 07:30 PM (zYpTz)

241 Nood! Ghosts! boo!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (Wmg4n)

242 I didn't know that Japanese is a race.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)

243 We need allies. Japan would be nice.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (pDt9x)

244 Because the Helldiver proved that Curtiss had lost their skill. It was a flying hunk of junk.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (2GVsD)

245 Kyo wa yoi hida !

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (g47mK)

246 Hi Salty - good to "see" you. Raised Shinto? 🧐 I want to know more. 🙂

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (RkOfE)

247 Yoi domeikuni !

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 07:32 PM (g47mK)

248 They enjoy others from a distance and are happy to befriend you but the moment you disrespect them they want nothing to do with you.

When did Ace get a cat?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:32 PM (ULPxl)

249 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Found in a thrift story a copy of the book. Random House Wartime Book. Hardcover. First edition. 1943.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (2GVsD)

That's a cool find.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 07:32 PM (dK+Kv)

250 Ignoramus

We have, but not the show runners or Deep Staters.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:32 PM (u82oZ)

251 And I will repeat this again.
The British Museum has a new exhibit running until May 4th about an aspect of Japan.
Namely they say half of the Samurai were female.
Now who is doing cultural imperialism again?

Posted by: Anna Puma

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"Black Female Lesbian Trannies, Disinformation H8R!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 07:32 PM (0Eh0f)

252 What triggered the "Disinformation Expert" Ace?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:11 PM (0sNs1)

Earlier today, Ace concurred with the FBI report which says the Epstein Affair is a nothingburger. The Horde has mixed feelings about this.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at

I was wondering about this too.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:33 PM (RkOfE)

253 Great conversation - thanks everyone

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:33 PM (RkOfE)

254 All my knowledge of Samurai comes from James Clavell, where they consistently used the term "Samurai" to refer to both males and females of a particular social class.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 09, 2026 07:33 PM (pP43i)

255 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Found in a thrift story a copy of the book. Random House Wartime Book. Hardcover. First edition. 1943.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (2GVsD)

That's a cool find.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 07:32 PM (dK+Kv)

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"Torrid! Torrid! Torrid!"

/Muldoon weeps ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 07:34 PM (0Eh0f)

256 Don't tell Lady Gaga - you'll harsh her mellow!

Posted by: Tom Locker at February 09, 2026 07:35 PM (k2EKA)

257 Still lots of people on the right who jump at the opportunity to 'call out racism.' Leave it to the lefties.
Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (N8ZBc

The poster said you should feel superior to others because of your race. If you want to defend that okay.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 07:07 PM (cwGMH)

Last I looked "Japan" is not a race.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 07:35 PM (8avO+)

258 AmericanKestrel

Lived in Japan for four rears as an impressionable yute.

The Shito Priests blessing the Sumo Wrestlers before a televised match made a deep impression on me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:36 PM (u82oZ)

259
Is there a Kennedy class carrier that is not scrap? Maybe we can sell that to Japan for $10.

Then let Mitsubishi develop some new carrier planes.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 07:00 PM (2GVsD)

Nah. Frankly, I suspect that they could easily build their own bitchin' CATOBAR carrier that would be equal to or superior to the new US carriers.

But having Mitsubishi develop the Zero II? Yeah, they'd do pretty well with that.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 09, 2026 07:38 PM (y9nCu)

260 AWFL women of America, pay attention. This is what a real woman looks like. Family oriented mother of three. Educated. Unapologetic conservative. Truthful. Smart. Tough.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 09, 2026 07:38 PM (5FKHw)

261 '"I also think that part of American nationalism is recognizing the good of other cultures and absorbing them into our own. "'

I used to feel that way. But honestly I'm not sure my part of the culture benefits as much as the others.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2026 07:22 PM (fd80v)

It doesn't say the *people* of other cultures. Just the good stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 07:39 PM (8avO+)

262 Lived in Japan for four rears as an impressionable yute.

The Shito Priests blessing the Sumo Wrestlers before a televised match made a deep impression on me.

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Thanks for sharing this!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:39 PM (RkOfE)

263 Lived in Japan for four rears as an impressionable yute.

The Shito Priests blessing the Sumo Wrestlers before a televised match made a deep impression on me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:36 PM (u82oZ)

Nothing like disguising one of the most corrupt and match fixed sports with religious ceremony, eh?

Posted by: Sjg at February 09, 2026 07:40 PM (aqZN1)

264
Frankly, I'm Thrilled that the Japanese went right-wing, and therefore sane.

Theme Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uds7g3M-4lQ

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (y9nCu)

265 >> The British Museum has a new exhibit

They should put their culture on exhibit. It’s about to be extinguished.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (5FKHw)

266 さもじ = kimoji
すごい = sugoi

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 07:42 PM (dhHpw)

267 AWFL women of America, pay attention. This is what a real woman looks like. Family oriented mother of three. Educated. Unapologetic conservative. Truthful. Smart. Tough.
Posted by: Vengeance at

This! All of this.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (RkOfE)

268 Oldcat, I feel like you understand what I was trying to say, thanks for helping to clarify.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:46 PM (RkOfE)

269 Ok. Now I must away, perhaps to be back later.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 07:46 PM (RkOfE)

270 In this case wouldn't it be a "glomp"?
Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:17 PM (3uBP9)

Just got back from dinner. What is glomp?

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (SugAx)

271 There was a samurai class: who do you think samurai men married?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (dhHpw)

272 182 What triggered the "Disinformation Expert" Ace?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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I think he is tired of the whole shitshow of Epstein internet 'experts' crawling out of the internet fever swamps. The problem with X and other social media places are that they are a swamp filled with con artist influencers that are there for the rage, sadness, etc. clicks. If they get people to use their emotions rather than logic, then they have them hooked. And the best way to do that is lay out cookie crumbs of isolated facts while ignoring others that are contrary to the narrative you wish to show. That lets the person make their own conclusions from what is essentially a stacked deck. Yet they will defend those conclusions until the world ends because suddenly their competence, iq, and ego is involved.

The con artist then makes bank with rinse and repeat with another rube.

There is no shortcut, want to understand Epstein, then read the damn documents yourself and ignore the influencers. Start with the Palm Beach court documents, the Giuffre suit against Prince Andrew, and House testimony. Testimony that is under oath and the people named in them along with modus operandi.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (2swu2)

273 How many here have heard of Jimmy Dolittle?

You might know that he lead the crazy raid to bomb Tokyo from aircraft carriers to punch the Emperor in the nose following Pearl. But there's more.

That "futile gesture" ensured the Japs would move on Midway in retaliation, and we know how that turned out.

MacArthur couldn't abide Doolittle stealing his vainglory so Jimmy went to the European theater where he oversaw our bombing Germany into rubble.

But wait there's more. Before the war Doolittle was the fastest pilot in the World breaking and rebreaking speed records.

But wait there's more. While pursuing advanced degees at MIT, he invented instrument flying.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 09, 2026 07:51 PM (dtajH)

274 Nah. Frankly, I suspect that they could easily build their own bitchin' CATOBAR carrier that would be equal to or superior to the new US carriers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 09, 2026 07:38 PM (y9nCu)

Anti-nuke zealots still have a fairly strong influence on Japanese culture. That is a gigantic hurdle because non-nuke carriers have massive deficiencies.

Posted by: Sjg at February 09, 2026 07:51 PM (aqZN1)

275 さもじ = kimoji
すごい = sugoi

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 07:42 PM (dhHpw)

bzzt! incorrect!
きもち = kimochi

Posted by: Sjg at February 09, 2026 07:57 PM (aqZN1)

276 You didn’t find this.

IT FOUND YOU.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UxM5UgpXYM4

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 08:09 PM (dhHpw)

277 A sure way to find out if something is right or not: post it to the internet. Domo arigato. Check out the utube.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 08:17 PM (dhHpw)

Remember the Little Scottish Girl Who Armed Herself with a Knife and Ax to Defend Herself Against, She Said, Sexual Assault by a Foreigner? Remember How the British Government and Media Savaged Her as a Racist?

This was last August.

You'll remember the moment you see her photo:

The UK is experiencing record numbers of migrant rapes, and the police barely help

Teenage girls have resorted to defending themselves from being assaulted

And what did the police do?

They arrested the girls trying not to be raped

The UK has fallen to dystopian levels of� pic.twitter.com/2DcM2VBITe
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 26, 2025

She said she armed herself and wielded those weapons to protect herself and her little sister from an attack by a self-identified "gypsy gangster."

The police, of course, immediately arrested her, which is now standard UK police practice when a rough migrant sexually abuses a girl.

See Beege Wellborn's post for the cruelty poured upon this little girl by the British government and media, who attacked her as a despicable racist.

The First Minister of Scotland blamed... Elon Musk, somehow.

Well, more than six months later -- hopefully beyond the public's capacity to remember -- the police have made two more arrests in this matter. (This is not accurate, see the "clarification" at post's end. They just appeared in court yesterday. They were charged two weeks after the incident.)

And UK media is reporting these arrests in such a low-key, BTW, not for nothing kind of way designed to not have anyone pick up on the story.

Especially not that big meaning Elon Musk.

Care to guess who it turns out the actual aggressors were in this case?

There was a terse little article in the BBC yesterday, almost as if they hoped no one would read it. Or if they did, they left out items like 'axe' 'knife' etc., which would have connected the couple who are facing a trial to...guess who?

A man and woman have appeared in court accused of assaulting two girls in Dundee.
Prosecutors allege Ilia Belov, 22, approached and followed four girls, who were aged between 12 and 14, and made sexual remarks to them before seizing one of the girls and pushing her to the ground.
His co-accused Nadjedzha Belova, 20, is accused of repeatedly seizing and pulling another of the girls by the hair, dragging her to the ground, and punching her on the head to her injury.

That's right, it's the Gypsy Gangster Man and his whore girlfriend who turn out to have sexually attacked the little girls.

This is the man accused of harassing children & was threatened by the 14-year-old girl in Scotland.

Fatos Ali Dumana a self-described �gypsy gangster man�, who has posted saying he is �waiting for you whores to get in my super car� - is not a model migrant as the media claims. https://t.co/VAEa0kvVnd pic.twitter.com/URoYGhLluV
— Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 (@TPointUK) August 28, 2025

"Clarification," as Cate Brown would call it: Actually, police decided to charge this pair within a couple of weeks of their attack on the girls. The new news stories are about their first appearance in court, not the decision to charge.

But I sure didn't hear about this.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:12 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 09, 2026 05:13 PM (LdBR/)

2 Now to nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 09, 2026 05:13 PM (LdBR/)

3
Yo

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:15 PM (tgvbd)

4 It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the Saxon began to hate.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:15 PM (N8ZBc)

5 I hope they get rough jailhouse justice.

Posted by: Ann at February 09, 2026 05:15 PM (w9jrX)

6 Okay first.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:16 PM (pDt9x)

7
It's part of their culture. Who are we to judge?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:16 PM (tgvbd)

8 >>The First Minister of Scotland blamed... Elon Musk, somehow.

I know, right. We all know who is really to blame

Posted by: Tucker and Candice at February 09, 2026 05:16 PM (mymNa)

9 He needs to say he's a "Maryland Man"

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at February 09, 2026 05:16 PM (lNLJj)

10 Trump should give political asylum to UK subjects who need it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

11 Who says that US 'armada' over in the general vicinity of Iran has to focus its attention exclusively on the Tehran mullahs?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM (ULPxl)

12 All the good Scots left a while back.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM (pDt9x)

13 He looks like that kd lang singer guy

Posted by: NCKate at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM (uQzkA)

14 It's Super Bowl 61 half time star Gypsy Ganster Man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 05:18 PM (Cqx++)

15 KD Lang. Whatever became of him anyway?

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:18 PM (pDt9x)

16 He's got a cross tat. So they found the only Christian migrant?

Posted by: NCKate at February 09, 2026 05:18 PM (uQzkA)

17 "Trump should give political asylum to UK subjects who need it."

Seriously need to specify further restrictions on that, or you'll get Muslims and Africans.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:19 PM (N8ZBc)

18 Norman > Saxon

Posted by: Norman Bates at February 09, 2026 05:19 PM (eTwL2)

19 My Scottish translator says that's a dirk and tuagh.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 09, 2026 05:19 PM (XvL8K)

20 10 Trump should give political asylum to UK subjects who need it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)
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We cannot possibly absorb that level of influx of people who wouldn't know good food if it sat on their face.

Posted by: ballistic at February 09, 2026 05:19 PM (5aZAZ)

21 This Scottish girl was like the prototype 'Amelia', who's still going strong, btw, she's in my YT feed daily.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

22
All the good Scots left a while back.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM (pDt9x)

_____________

The only ones left are drunks and layabouts on the dole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:19 PM (tgvbd)

23 These pieces of shit love to pose with their cars. I think they love those cars sexually.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (y6810)

24 I'm 70 years old, and I'm sure I could pop the gypsy gangster's head off with no problem. I would enjoy it.

Posted by: Service With a Smirk! at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (oftw2)

25 I saw "big meaning" open for White Witch in Tampa in '74.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (Vpqw1)

26
Trump should give political asylum to UK subjects who need it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

_________

No Welsh.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (tgvbd)

27 We cannot possibly absorb that level of influx of people who wouldn't know good food if it sat on their face.

Posted by: ballistic at February 09, 2026 05:19 PM (5aZAZ)

I like fish & chips and beef roast on occasion.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (6ydKt)

28 Trump should give political asylum to UK subjects who need it.

==

NO way.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:21 PM (g47mK)

29 Hey, guess what the #1 baby name in Glasgow, Scotland was in 2025.

MOHAMMAD....as in, this is my brother, Mohammad, and this is my other brother, Mohammad.

Posted by: Orson at February 09, 2026 05:21 PM (dIske)

30 I am beginning to think that the world was attacked by pod people. This is the only explanation for why people have gone stark raving mad.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 09, 2026 05:21 PM (NpAcC)

31 These "gangsters" somehow migrate to countries with Christian roots, depending solely on the ingrained senses of decency to overwhelm its citizens' instincts to chop the little bastards into pieces and feed them to the fish.

It has worked. Thus far. Lots of folks are tiring of turning the other cheek. Chum's coming.

Posted by: red speck at February 09, 2026 05:22 PM (Ve/HL)

32 28 Trump should give political asylum to UK subjects who need it.

==

NO way.
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:21 PM (g47mK)

Half gay, nine out of ten socialist. Hard pass.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:22 PM (pDt9x)

33 The problem is the right wing uses "rape gang" as if it were a bad thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 05:22 PM (J+Psw)

34 All the good Scots left a while back.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM

Ah the no true Scotsman fallacy. Well played.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 05:22 PM (0N4FZ)

35 UK: Live on your knees, you know you want to.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 09, 2026 05:22 PM (HXT0k)

36 OK, would you rather import the English or Aghanis?

I know the answer is neither, but I also know which I'd pick if given the choice.

(And I mean English people, not the New English people).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:23 PM (6ydKt)

37 I think that kid has got some Viking in her.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 05:23 PM (vFG9F)

38
So, we're now to be bailing out the Brits? Again?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:23 PM (tgvbd)

39 Half gay, nine out of ten socialist. Hard pass.
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:22 PM (pDt9x)

more like 99% Jihadi garbage

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:23 PM (g47mK)

40 > atos Ali Dumana a self-described ‘gypsy gangster man’, who has posted saying he is “waiting for you whores to get in my super car” - is not a model migrant as the media claims.
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Nor is his car a "super car."

LMFAO 🤣 🤡

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 05:24 PM (jtM2q)

41 adds a 'f' in there somewhere ^^^

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

42 Europe is getting exactly what they wanted. Faster please.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 05:24 PM (abIsI)

43 How about we not import anyone for oh, say, a generation or so?

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:24 PM (pDt9x)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 05:24 PM (jtM2q)

45 To relate this back to the prior post, the notion that one's own government would not only actively cover up gang rapes of young girls, but would facilitate it and persecute those who objected to it, also sounds like one of those conspiracies too big to believe it could occur without whistleblowers. But that largely seems to be what has happened; unless I've just missed the coverage, the outing of this criminal conduct is from outsiders, not insiders.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 09, 2026 05:24 PM (wCQ1m)

46 This was always a given. The brits hate themselves.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2026 05:25 PM (lpVer)

47 OK, would you rather import the English or Aghanis?
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There's no right answer. Seriously.

The English are spineless cowards that would direct us to the train cars and report us if anyone stepped out of line. The Afghanis would run the ovens.

Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 05:25 PM (TN0g+)

48
Any of the Yurps and Brits looking to come here will have to take a pledge of allegiance to PDJT.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:26 PM (tgvbd)

49 Nor is his car a "super car."
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You didn't see his bumper sticker--it reads "My other car is a camel."

Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 05:26 PM (TN0g+)

50 "the notion that one's own government would not only actively cover up gang rapes of young girls, but would facilitate it and persecute those who objected to it, also sounds like one of those conspiracies too big to believe it could occur without whistleblowers"

Wasn't the Belgian govt hit with a kid sex and murder ring case within their ranks? It wasn't true, until it was.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:26 PM (N8ZBc)

51 Amelia before Amelia was cool.

She would look scarier with some blue face paint ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:27 PM (og9b4)

52 Kari Wuhrer played a gypsy girl in the movie Thinner. Here she is lifting up her dress. Only thing I remember about the movie.

https://youtu.be/vL7P0AVwJK0

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 09, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)

53 I'm just imagining the way things would go in Whitehall and at Number 10 if Trump up and announced he was allowing in politically persecuted refugees from England.

It'd be good for a month or two of entertinment.
Kinda like letting in the Afrikaners, but on steroids.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

54 English or afghanis? I'm reminded of that meme of Pam from the office. "They're the same thing".

Posted by: NCKate at February 09, 2026 05:27 PM (uQzkA)

55 So Camp of the Saints was prophetic.

Posted by: Jmel at February 09, 2026 05:28 PM (bVhJi)

56 Throwing people out and not letting people in is my mindset.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:28 PM (pDt9x)

57 It sucks to be a subject, without any bill of rights. The internet provides a glimpse into the freedom of speech, and then the limey gets his ass arrested for posting a picture of himself holding a gub in a foreign land.

I used to say UK needs to be re-invaded, well, turns out they have been.

Posted by: sTevo at February 09, 2026 05:28 PM (CWGlO)

58 Amelia before Amelia was cool.

She would look scarier with some blue face paint ...

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

... and maybe a purple bob.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:29 PM (og9b4)

59 You say "rape" like it's a bad thing.

I like rape.

Posted by: Bill Clinton, Rapist Elected More Than Once at February 09, 2026 05:29 PM (Ksqrb)

60 I like fish & chips and beef roast on occasion.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (6ydKt)
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Fish and Chips done correctly is a good example of "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then."

Posted by: ballistic at February 09, 2026 05:29 PM (5aZAZ)

61 When the Saxon began to hate."

Where are these "saxons"? So many brits are on the dole, and live on council handouts..

Not my circus...

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 05:29 PM (XuXeR)

62 Pookette is so dang naive (we live in a very low-crime area) that were I to hand her a knife to defend herself, my only hope is that her ancestral barbarian DNA would kick in if she were ever in that situation.

Posted by: pookysgirl, the souce of the barbarian DNA at February 09, 2026 05:30 PM (Wt5PA)

63 25 percent of Scotland's population is on welfare. 1 in 4 are on the government dole.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 05:30 PM (abIsI)

64 "Fish and Chips done correctly"

Arthur Treacher's. Loved it back in the 1970s.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:31 PM (N8ZBc)

65 There will not be any more James Bond Movies unless they hire Tim Walz as James Bond....

And Whoopie Goldberg as Pussy Galore.....

Posted by: Studmuffin Starmer at February 09, 2026 05:31 PM (OAePN)

66 47 English or Afghan? Increasingly a distinction without a difference.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 09, 2026 05:31 PM (wBaIH)

67
25 percent of Scotland's population is on welfare. 1 in 4 are on the government dole.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 05:30 PM (abIsI)

___________

*low whistle of amazement*

That low?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:31 PM (tgvbd)

68 The only thing I remember Kari Wuhrer from was that TV show [Sliders for a few years.

But she looked good as a gypsy, no doubt.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

69 Las time Russians were evacuating their key people from bases etc, was right before Syria fell, and before that , right before Israel hit that snake pit called gazzza..just an observation.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:32 PM (g47mK)

70 Kari Wuhrer"

Yes, please.

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 05:32 PM (XuXeR)

71
So Camp of the Saints was prophetic.
Posted by: Jmel

That's why it was banned.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 05:32 PM (Cqx++)

72 25 percent of Scotland's population is on welfare. 1 in 4 are on the government dole.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 05:30 PM (abIsI)

So much for Braveheart......

Posted by: Studmuffin Starmer at February 09, 2026 05:32 PM (OAePN)

73 69 Las time Russians were evacuating their key people from bases etc, was right before Syria fell, and before that , right before Israel hit that snake pit called gazzza..just an observation.
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:32 PM (g47mK)

Still waiting for Godot.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:33 PM (pDt9x)

74 What happened to Sand/Silica when it is super-heated such as a Nuclear Detonation ????

Posted by: Jackson at February 09, 2026 05:34 PM (OAePN)

75 74 You get trinitite. I'd like to find a piece.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (N8ZBc)

76 So much for Braveheart......"

Well, that was a movie. You know, like Prometheus.

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (XuXeR)

77 > When the Saxon began to hate.
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"The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.

The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone."
― Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (jtM2q)

78 And Whoopie Goldberg as Pussy Galore.....

Posted by: Studmuffin Starmer at February 09, 2026 05:31 PM (OAePN)

I must be having a nightmare.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (6ydKt)

79 It was amusing to see big blond russian women wearing hijabs and cryiung about gazzzza. Then Putin took those gazans who disembarked at Sheremetyevo and sent them to the front lines in Ukraine. For the Motherland!

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (g47mK)

80 There will not be any more James Bond Movies unless they hire Tim Walz as James Bond....

And Whoopie Goldberg as Pussy Galore.....
Posted by: Studmuffin Starmer

And Pete Buttigieg as Alonzo Moorehead.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (J+Psw)

81 @40 Martini Farmer-80’s Fiat

Posted by: JROD at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (3a5ey)

82 Amelia before Amelia was cool.

She would look scarier with some blue face paint ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:27 PM

Baby Boudica looks like she's gonna cut a bitch.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (Wnv9h)

83
Huh ah Huh ah, uh ah, uh ah
Well don't you know
That's the sound of the men
Working on the rape gang

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (wVcYX)

84 77 Good one!

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:36 PM (N8ZBc)

85 The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.

The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone."
― Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 05:35 PM (jtM2q)

Fake quote.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:36 PM (g47mK)

86 Thare's ah black penis in my hoovercraft!

Posted by: Scottish Tart at February 09, 2026 05:36 PM (abIsI)

87 80 There will not be any more James Bond Movies unless they hire Tim Walz as James Bond....

And Whoopie Goldberg as Pussy Galore.....
Posted by: Studmuffin Starmer

And Pete Buttigieg as Alonzo Moorehead.

And Schumer as Blofeld.....

Posted by: Jackson at February 09, 2026 05:37 PM (OAePN)

88 How many Muslims have joined the UK police force?

How many of them are turning a blind eye because in their culture there is nothing wrong with it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 05:37 PM (ESVrU)

89

We have to give Sir Kier enough time to bring this to the countryside, to change the UK to be more brown and less white, and less racist.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at February 09, 2026 05:37 PM (et1vG)

90 That’s a looong fake quote!!

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:37 PM (pDt9x)

91 *hic* *shart* *cackle*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 09, 2026 05:37 PM (xFfhU)

92 Starmer : hmm maybe we can import more just like the Gypsy Gangster so I can hold onto power. That's the ticket

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2026 05:38 PM (yI5mB)

93 Stop reposting that quote, Solzhenitsyn never wrote that.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:38 PM (g47mK)

94 Hey... it was on the internet, so it must be true.

H8ters

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 05:38 PM (jtM2q)

95 I like my 50 Bloody Mary's everyday Shaken and not stirred....

Posted by: Kami Harris at February 09, 2026 05:38 PM (J9q9v)

96 How about we not import anyone for oh, say, a generation or so?
Posted by: tubal
.....

And spay all the strays.

Posted by: wth at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (UjdFS)

97 Isn't the axe girl part of the Amelia video?

Posted by: Decaf at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (OP9Gm)

98 For some reason, defiling the procreative act seems to go hand in glove with all manner of degeneracies. I wonder why that would be the case.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (GPa4z)

99
This incident was turned in-side out and up-side down and shaken out, until internet analysts had shown that the girls staged the whole thing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (n7rxJ)

100 Trump should give political asylum to UK subjects who need it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

He should be generous and send our illegal immigrant loving douchebags over there.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (snZF9)

101 It's islam. They're brainwashed form youth to rape little girls, defraud benevolent nations treasuries, and outright murder innocent people. It's islam. We have no Jan Sobieski, no Charles Martel, no Thomas Jefferson, for that matter. We better step up.

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (LHPAg)

102 Have you ever read a classic and thought, "Boy, that'd be a great m*therf*cking book if there were just more m*therf*cking profanity?" Well, your prayers have been answered by Sweary Classics! Here's Alice In Wonderland.

https://is.gd/Hm5RTX

Pride and Prejudice

https://is.gd/wDWJXx

Several others.

https://is.gd/NOHm9F

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (J+Psw)

103 You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:40 PM (TN0g+)

104 88 How many Muslims have joined the UK police force?

How many of them are turning a blind eye because in their culture there is nothing wrong with it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 05:37 PM (ESVrU)

There are a good many, especially in Birmingham, Leeds, London, and just about every other major urban area.

Some are not only accused of turning a blind eye but helping the rapists and even participating.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

105 Has bonny King Charles ever said anything about Rotherham?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 09, 2026 05:40 PM (Vh9CX)

106 Stop reposting that quote, Solzhenitsyn never wrote that.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:38 PM (g47mK)

That's EXACTLY what he would want you to think.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 05:41 PM (xgA6p)

107 There will not be any more James Bond Movies unless they hire Tim Walz as James Bond....

And Whoopie Goldberg as Pussy Galore.....

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

Frequent use of the word "bloody" will conjure up multiple meanings.

"Pon ... TimPon."

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:41 PM (og9b4)

108 I would like the info on all 4 of those girls parent situations. Because why aren't 4 dads beating the holy shit out of this scumbag?

I am guessing not around, but I'd really like to know.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 09, 2026 05:41 PM (n5tGW)

109 That's EXACTLY what he would want you to think.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

the neever published, sekret quotes of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:42 PM (g47mK)

110 "I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you’ve gotta ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?”

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:43 PM (TN0g+)

111 the neever published, sekret quotes of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:42 PM (g47mK)

That's the genius of it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 05:43 PM (xgA6p)

112 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (J+Psw)

I misposted my answer on an earlier thread No; I have never thought that would improve novels.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2026 05:43 PM (8Xy/A)

113 I hope they get rough jailhouse justice.
Posted by: Ann at February 09, 2026 05:15 PM (w9jrX)

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More likely to be glorified.

Posted by: Decaf at February 09, 2026 05:44 PM (OP9Gm)

114 Well, damnit he should have said it. It's well said and timely.

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2026 05:44 PM (LHPAg)

115 45 To relate this back to the prior post, the notion that one's own government would not only actively cover up gang rapes of young girls, but would facilitate it and persecute those who objected to it, also sounds like one of those conspiracies too big to believe it could occur without whistleblowers. But that largely seems to be what has happened; unless I've just missed the coverage, the outing of this criminal conduct is from outsiders, not insiders.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 09, 2026 05:24 PM (wCQ1m)

The elites don't care about this in both cases because the victims are poor whites, whom they seem to hate.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 09, 2026 05:45 PM (8+C2v)

116 "Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true."

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:45 PM (TN0g+)

117 Have you ever read a classic and thought, "Boy, that'd be a great m*therf*cking book if there were just more m*therf*cking profanity?" Well, your prayers have been answered by Sweary Classics! Here's Alice In Wonderland.

https://is.gd/Hm5RTX

Pride and Prejudice

https://is.gd/wDWJXx

Several others.

https://is.gd/NOHm9F

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (J+Psw)

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

I presume the audiobook versions will be narrated by Samuel L. Jackson?

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:45 PM (og9b4)

118 All your quotes are belong to me.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:45 PM (xgA6p)

119 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (J+Psw)

I took a look at P&P. It's really dumb.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2026 05:45 PM (8Xy/A)

120 94 Hey... it was on the internet, so it must be true.

H8ters
Posted by: Martini Farmer
..............................................
It's a quote, someone posted it and attributed to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, but apparently he didn't say it. So, opportunity for you, Martini! It's your quote now!! Great quote, Martini Farmer!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 09, 2026 05:46 PM (sAmhv)

121 63 25 percent of Scotland's population is on welfare. 1 in 4 are on the government dole.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

25%? LOL
- Every major U.S. city

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 09, 2026 05:46 PM (Dv3i1)

122 the neever published, sekret quotes of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:42 PM (g47mK)

That's the genius of it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 05:43 PM

He and nostradomus got together one night, got drunk and wrote up a whole bunch of $hit that never got published and was later stolen by the Knights Templar who morphed into the Modern day masons and they have all of those manuscripts hidden.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 05:46 PM (0N4FZ)

123 Have you ever read a classic and thought, "Boy, that'd be a great m*therf*cking book if there were just more m*therf*cking profanity?" Well, your prayers have been answered by Sweary Classics! Here's Alice In Wonderland.

https://is.gd/Hm5RTX

Pride and Prejudice

https://is.gd/wDWJXx

Several others.

https://is.gd/NOHm9F

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (J+Psw)

Why the hell didn't I think of that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 09, 2026 05:46 PM (snZF9)

124 you know, believe it or not, but gypsies can tell the future. so stay away from them !

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:47 PM (g47mK)

125 'Cat Hair Kitchen:' the podcast where we cook in environments with high levels of ambient floating fur!

I'm thinking about livecasting one weekly.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:47 PM (N8ZBc)

126 Four score and seven years ago....yada, yada.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:47 PM (Dv3i1)

127
He and nostradomus got together one night, got drunk and wrote up a whole bunch of $hit that never got published and was later stolen by the Knights Templar who morphed into the Modern day masons and they have all of those manuscripts hidden.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 05:46 PM (0N4FZ)

I would watch this. I don't think I'd read it but I'd watch it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 09, 2026 05:47 PM (8+C2v)

128
Hey... it was on the internet, so it must be true.

H8ters
Posted by: Martini Farmer

__________

Happens a lot.

Posted by: Jefferson, Churchill, Einstein and Gandhi at February 09, 2026 05:48 PM (tgvbd)

129 4 It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the Saxon began to hate.
Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:15 PM (N8ZBc)
_______
But these girls aren't Sassanachs. They're Scots.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 09, 2026 05:48 PM (AlhUl)

130 I thought they said they were coming for the gypsies.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 09, 2026 05:48 PM (GPa4z)

131 Well the memory of Kari Wuhrer ruined. Searched Kari…….a current pic of her(plastic surgery) and below that “Inspirational Quotes of Kari Wuhrer” facepalm.

Posted by: JROD at February 09, 2026 05:48 PM (3a5ey)

132 Alexander Solzhenitsyn ripping me off again. Little bitch.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson said it at February 09, 2026 05:48 PM (sAmhv)

133 I did not get a chance to post new year Baba Vanga prophecies ! So here they are :

"Humanity will make contact with extraterrestrial life !" and you think , Great ! beam me up ! But then you get this : "possibly leading to a global crisis or apocalypse !"

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:50 PM (g47mK)

134 131 Well the memory of Kari Wuhrer ruined. Searched Kari…….a current pic of her(plastic surgery)
____

You can try to defeat me. You will lose and pay the price for your insolence.

Posted by: Father Time at February 09, 2026 05:50 PM (Dv3i1)

135 "You tell 'em I'm coming...and hell's coming with me!

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:50 PM (TN0g+)

136 We Leutonians are a jovial, amiable people, but we HATE Gypsies with a passion. They STEAL!

Posted by: The Schmenge Brothers at February 09, 2026 05:50 PM (oftw2)

137 The world will end in year 5079.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:50 PM (g47mK)

138 Kari Wuhrer played a gypsy girl in the movie Thinner. Here she is lifting up her dress. Only thing I remember about the movie.

https://youtu.be/vL7P0AVwJK0

I arrived in America's airport with clothings, US dollars, and a jar of gypsy tears to protect me from AIDS.

Posted by: Borat at February 09, 2026 05:51 PM (Ksqrb)

139 I maintain that the only aid I want to give to the native Britons is, if they ask politely, we should be willing to airdrop crates of Liberty Starter Kits with one AR-pattern rifle and a case of Freedom Seeds per kit. Then they can fight for themselves and their posterity, and take back their Isles from the Worldy traitors and foreign immivaders -- or not.

Posted by: SciVo at February 09, 2026 05:52 PM (Sy6m/)

140 You should see what Sofia Vergara has done to her face. She looks like The Joker.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 09, 2026 05:52 PM (XV/Pl)

141 4 It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the Saxon began to hate.
Posted by: gp
---

Sounds real purdy but me thinks Saxon's a bit late.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 05:52 PM (6W1vz)

142 Young girls should carry phones and record all the perverts being vile to them, and even attacking them. But better be sending it live to someone of the thugs will beat them and steal their phone.

Or maybe police could keep the Muslim slime from oozing all over the English women ... or is that too much to ask?

Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 05:52 PM (vbXSk)

143 You want me on that wall! You need me on that wall!

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:52 PM (xgA6p)

144 To relate this back to the prior post, the notion that one's own government would not only actively cover up gang rapes of young girls, but would facilitate it and persecute those who objected to it, also sounds like one of those conspiracies too big to believe it could occur without whistleblowers. But that largely seems to be what has happened; unless I've just missed the coverage, the outing of this criminal conduct is from outsiders, not insiders.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 09, 2026 05:24 PM (wCQ1m)

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

I remember a story from a few years back where a woman over there was raped by two Muslim immigrants -- and falsely initially blamed it on whites because she did not want to impune these poor "oppressed" groups.

Homicidal-Suicidal "Empathy" indeed ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:52 PM (og9b4)

145 I just wanted to be left alone.

Posted by: Chuck Norris at February 09, 2026 05:54 PM (5aZAZ)

146 My name is Ishmael motherfucker !

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 05:54 PM (cwGMH)

147 "Sure, you slingshot around the sun, pick up enough speed and you're in time warp. If you don't, you're fried."

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:54 PM (TN0g+)

148 25 percent of Scotland's population is on welfare. 1 in 4 are on the government dole.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 05:30 PM (abIsI)

___________

*low whistle of amazement*

That low?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:31 PM (tgvbd)

Scotland itself is on the dole. It could not survive without the transfer payments from the UK paying for a chunk of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 05:54 PM (8avO+)

149 Stop reposting that quote, Solzhenitsyn never wrote that.
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:38 PM (g47mK)

Well, he should’ve.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 05:54 PM (dhHpw)

150 "Stop reposting that quote, Solzhenitsyn never wrote that.
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:38 PM (g47mK)

Well, he should’ve."

I'll take credit if nobody else wants it.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (N8ZBc)

151 25 percent of Scotland's population is on welfare. 1 in 4 are on the government dole.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Newcomers are cutting into their largess.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (/lPRQ)

152
You can't close the leads you're given? You can't close shit? You are shit! Hit the bricks, pal, and beat it 'cause you are going out!

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (tgvbd)

153 To be, or not to fucking be, that is the motherfucking question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the shitstained mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of goddam fortune,
Or to take arms against a mish-load of troubles,
And by opposing r@pe them in the ass: to die, to fucking sleep

Posted by: Delurker at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (gtcuf)

154 97 Isn't the axe girl part of the Amelia video?
Posted by: Decaf at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (OP9Gm

By this time there are thousands of Amelia videos.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (K428S)

155 You can observe a lot just by watching.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (oftw2)

156 25 percent of Scotland's population is on welfare. 1 in 4 are on the government dole.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Newcomers are cutting into their largess.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (/lPRQ)
——

What percent of USA is on some kind of welfare? Probably close to 25%.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM (ZmaZ9)

157 Some are not only accused of turning a blind eye but helping the rapists and even participating.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

Of course, the same is true of the non muslim policemen.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM (8avO+)

158 They mostly come at night. Mostly.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM (xgA6p)

159 Well the memory of Kari Wuhrer ruined. Searched Kari…….a current pic of her(plastic surgery) and below that “Inspirational Quotes of Kari Wuhrer” facepalm.
Posted by: JROD at February 09, 2026 05:48 PM (3a5ey)

Hope you didn't have a thing for Rachel Ward or Bridget Fonda.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM (cwGMH)

160 THIS. IS. RUSSIA!!!!!

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM (ESVrU)

161 "Nothing wrong with shooting, so long as the right people get shot."

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 05:58 PM (TN0g+)

162 Scotland itself is on the dole. It could not survive without the transfer payments from the UK paying for a chunk of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 05:54 PM (8avO+)

And yet so many of them vote SNP because they'd like to separate from the UK, but don't ever quite get there because they are never sure if the EU will take care of them just as well as the English.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:58 PM (6ydKt)

163 Paul Joseph Watson shared examples of British men going around and stopping foreigners from taking advantage of girls coming out of bars and nightclubs where the foreigners would strong arm the girls and walk them down the street to take them somewhere to rape them.

The British men in the beginning of his video likely saved these girls' lives.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/400NDbk

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 09, 2026 05:58 PM (P5BPp)

164 What percent of USA is on some kind of welfare? Probably close to 25%.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM

If you take out the illegals it is probably close to 25%. If you include them it is closer to 50%.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 05:58 PM (0N4FZ)

165 Newcomers are cutting into their largess.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Hey Buddy, leave my largesse out of it!

Posted by: Kim Kardashian at February 09, 2026 05:59 PM (oftw2)

166 As Solzinitzen was fond of saying, With Great Power Comes Great Opportunity.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 09, 2026 05:59 PM (XV/Pl)

167 "At no time was I in the physical presence of John Weaver."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:59 PM (N8ZBc)

168 Isn't the axe girl part of the Amelia video?
Posted by: Decaf at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (OP9Gm

By this time there are thousands of Amelia videos.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (K428S)

There are so many references and references the AI could not manage to clarify in those videos it is hard to say. I don't remember seeing her, but on the other hand there are minutes of Amelia fighting a bad guy with a sword.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 05:59 PM (8avO+)

169 What percent of USA is on some kind of welfare? Probably close to 25%.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM (ZmaZ9)

the real number will shock you!

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:59 PM (g47mK)

170 Which of these three scumbags was the one in the video with the axes? There’s the two Russian scumbags that were arrested for attacking girls, but I don’t think they were the ones in the video. I think the scumbag in the video is the third guy, the Muslim guy.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 06:00 PM (ZmaZ9)

171 Of course, the same is true of the non muslim policemen.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM (8avO+)

It really should be interesting once the entire truth finally comes out.

They've been dancing around the edges officially for almost two decades now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:00 PM (6ydKt)

172 I fell sorry for the British girls being assault and raped without any government even interested

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 06:00 PM (Ia/+0)

173 What percent of USA is on some kind of welfare? Probably close to 25%.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 09, 2026 05:57 PM (ZmaZ9)

I think we recently had a post on the percentage of immigrants on welfare. It increases even more when you add second generation immigrants.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:00 PM (cwGMH)

174 "149 Stop reposting that quote, Solzhenitsyn never wrote that.
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:38 PM (g47mK)

Well, he should’ve.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 05:54 PM (dhHpw) "

exactly. I couldn't possibly care less whether he said it, or not.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 09, 2026 06:00 PM (Cjt/F)

175 Maybe the real prison camp was the friends we made along the way

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:00 PM (0e5Te)

176 Please have your pets spayed or neutered.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Barker at February 09, 2026 06:00 PM (oftw2)

177 Scotland itself is on the dole. It could not survive without the transfer payments from the UK paying for a chunk of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 05:54 PM (8avO+)

And yet so many of them vote SNP because they'd like to separate from the UK, but don't ever quite get there because they are never sure if the EU will take care of them just as well as the English.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:58 PM (6ydKt)

I call it the reverse way. The SNP is for them to talk big about leaving but never getting around to it and endanger those sweet payments. Since daddy UK is paying, the misrule of the SNP is shielded from consequences.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM (8avO+)

178 I maintain that the only aid I want to give to the native Britons is, if they ask politely, we should be willing to airdrop crates of Liberty Starter Kits with one AR-pattern rifle and a case of Freedom Seeds per kit. Then they can fight for themselves and their posterity, and take back their Isles from the Worldy traitors and foreign immivaders -- or not.

Posted by: SciVo at February 09, 2026 05:52 PM (Sy6m/)

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

We could call it "The Bourbon Airdrop."

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM (og9b4)

179 "What percent of USA is on some kind of welfare? Probably close to 25%"

If you regard SS as welfare (as I do, living off it for ten years so far,) then it's not insignificant.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM (N8ZBc)

180 exactly. I couldn't possibly care less whether he said it, or not.

==

then stop attributing that wooden collection of sentences to him

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM (g47mK)

181 @4 Most of us appear to have read two, maybe three Kipling poems in our whole lives, and bash them with a hammer to fit whatever we're pissed off about at the moment.

Kipling was of two minds about gypsies, at least.
Chew on this one and see if it fits your prejudices:
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-15157

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM (zdLoL)

182 168 Isn't the axe girl part of the Amelia video?
Posted by: Decaf at February 09, 2026 05:39 PM (OP9Gm

By this time there are thousands of Amelia videos.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 09, 2026 05:56 PM (K428S)

There are so many references and references the AI could not manage to clarify in those videos it is hard to say. I don't remember seeing her, but on the other hand there are minutes of Amelia fighting a bad guy with a sword.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 05:59 PM (8avO+)

This Scottish girl was a meme for a few weeks last year.
I really liked one where they had her painted up like Braveheart.

But she never took off quite like Amelia has.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

183 But what did Kipling think of tramps and thieves?

Posted by: Delurker at February 09, 2026 06:02 PM (gtcuf)

184 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:02 PM (/rtBI)

185 Remember the Alamo!

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:03 PM (mo6hN)

186 "Paul Joseph Watson shared examples of British men going around and stopping foreigners from taking advantage of girls"

I saw it. Looks to me like the girls were looking to be taken advantage of by somebody, anybody. That's the problem: Why do so many young Brits indulge that aimless, dangerous lifestyle?

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:04 PM (N8ZBc)

187 Remember the Alamoski!!

Posted by: Some Polish guy at February 09, 2026 06:04 PM (5xuJ/)

188 I call it the reverse way. The SNP is for them to talk big about leaving but never getting around to it and endanger those sweet payments. Since daddy UK is paying, the misrule of the SNP is shielded from consequences.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM (8avO+)

Yup, kinda like the Bloc Quebecois.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:04 PM (6ydKt)

189 "Do wah diddy Diddy dum Diddy do"

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:05 PM (XuXeR)

190 then stop attributing that wooden collection of sentences to him
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM (g47mK)
-----
The Paolo, he has some, how you say...wood you CAN attribute to him.

Posted by: The Paolo at February 09, 2026 06:05 PM (5aZAZ)

191 I'm tired of these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking prison camp.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:05 PM (0e5Te)

192 Remember the Alamo!

==

I don't care who said it , but it's a good one!

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 06:05 PM (g47mK)

193 Snatch was a great Guy Ritchie movie with Brad Pitt playing a traveling gypsy.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 09, 2026 06:06 PM (cwGMH)

194 "then stop attributing that wooden collection of sentences to him"

I didn't, but you do you ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 09, 2026 06:06 PM (Cjt/F)

195 "What percent of USA is on some kind of welfare? Probably close to 25%"

If you regard SS as welfare (as I do, living off it for ten years so far,) then it's not insignificant.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM

Not sure you can count social security as welfare when the vast majority of people have had tens or hundreds of thousands of
$$$$$ forcibly taken away from them to be returned at a later date with a negative rate of return.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 06:06 PM (0N4FZ)

196 " Snatch was a great Guy Ritchie movie with Brad Pitt playing a traveling gypsy. "

Recommended. You will need subtitling turned on.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:06 PM (N8ZBc)

197 I like big butts and I can not lie.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:06 PM (Dv3i1)

198 Lock Stock > Snatch

Posted by: ballistic at February 09, 2026 06:07 PM (5aZAZ)

199 If people don't want to come out to the gulag, nothing is gonna stop them.

Posted by: Yogi Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:08 PM (oftw2)

200 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

"Engage"

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:08 PM (XuXeR)

201 Mr Kruschev tear down this prison !

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:08 PM (cwGMH)

202 "Not sure you can count social security as welfare when the vast majority of people have had tens or hundreds of thousands of
$$$$$ forcibly taken away from them to be returned at a later date with a negative rate of return."

So far I've gotten more than I put in, maybe 2X more. That's a bad rate of return compared to competent investing, but it's not negative.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:08 PM (N8ZBc)

203 If you regard SS as welfare (as I do, living off it for ten years so far,) then it's not insignificant.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:01 PM (N8ZBc)

My wife and I have paid a huge amount of money into the social security system. Our return on investment is awful.

It's not welfare...it's theft.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2026 06:08 PM (n9ltV)

204 One ping only, Vasily.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:09 PM (5aZAZ)

205 wooden collection of sentences"

John?

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 06:09 PM (XuXeR)

206 Brave AI:
Approximately 30% of the U.S. population participated in one of the 10 major social safety net programs in 2019, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This includes programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP and others.

Without SS or Medicare:
Approximately 19% of Americans receive some form of means-tested government assistance—often referred to as "welfare"—in an average month, not including Social Security or Medicare.

I don't know if it's accurate but it sounds about right.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:09 PM (6ydKt)

207 I was once an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow to the knee.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:09 PM (/rtBI)

208 Prometheus

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:09 PM (XuXeR)

209 > "then stop attributing that wooden collection of sentences to him"
-------------
Then... who was it?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 06:10 PM (jtM2q)

210 The difference between SS and welfare is that American citizens pay into it the entire working lives.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 09, 2026 06:10 PM (wBaIH)

211 Odd. When you search it, it says it is attributed to the S man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

212 Slight correction:

The girl with the axe and knife was 12-year-old Lola Moir.

The girls whose voice is primarily heard in the video is her sister, 14-year-old Ruby Moir.

Because the media have tried valiantly to hide their names and to obfuscate the case, many people get the details mixed up and wrong.

What happened was:

Previously (months earlier), 12-year Loa and (then 13-year-old Ruby were out walking, and were sexually harassed by this guy, who wanted to pimp them out. (And he's a Bulgarian Muslim, btw.) So the girls already had experience with him.

Then the gangster-pimp and his "where-wife" on the day in question encountered the girls again. He was particularly interested in making 12-year-old Lola his sex slave. He and his "wife" followed them around and stalked them, beckoning Lola to become part of his harem. Ruby started creaming "Stop trying to rape my sister!" While the whore-wife then physically attacked Ruby, Lola went and got a knife and an axe to defend herself,and displayed them to the gangster-pimp to scare him off. She never used either weapon.

That's basically it in a nutshell.

Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 06:11 PM (se8lQ)

213 Then... who was it?"

"Sh*t Abraham Lincoln said on the Internet, Vol II"

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:11 PM (XuXeR)

214 My brother died one month before he could file for his Social Security. Guess who got that money.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 06:11 PM (0KSrI)

215 "Not sure you can count social security as welfare when the vast majority of people have had tens or hundreds of thousands of
$$$$$ forcibly taken away from them to be returned at a later date with a negative rate of return."

So far I've gotten more than I put in, maybe 2X more. That's a bad rate of return compared to competent investing, but it's not negative.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:08 PM

You called it receiving welfare in your OP, not investing, I said it was a bad investment. That is two different things. And I will not come anywhere close to getting back two times both my and my employers investment back unless I live to over 90.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 06:12 PM (0N4FZ)

216 55 So Camp of the Saints was prophetic.

Posted by: Jmel at February 09, 2026 05:28 PM (bVhJi)

Maybe. Today's Leftists haven't reached the level of surrender in the novel. Leftists in the novel surrender their homes, autos, well, everything they have, to the migrants. I am certain 99+ percent of today's Leftists here and in Europe are too selfish to directly hand-over any personal property or money to migrants knocking on their doors. I doubt the author could have imagined the selfishness of 21st Century Leftists.

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 06:12 PM (5rh/l)

217 "The difference between SS and welfare is that American citizens pay into it the entire working lives."

But the govt squandered and stole all of that, so now they simply print all the current payouts. It was a stupid govt promise that couldn't have been kept forever. It never should have been instituted in the first place.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:12 PM (N8ZBc)

218
Air Canada is having to send empty planes to Cuba to pick up vacationing commiecanucks and may face refueling issues stopping here on the way back.

Posted by: Auspex at February 09, 2026 06:12 PM (Y8DZL)

219 It’s better to burn out than to fade away.

- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 09, 2026 06:12 PM (u73oe)

220 My brother died one month before he could file for his Social Security. Guess who got that money.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 06:11 PM (0KSrI)

His wife if she was at least 60.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:12 PM (cwGMH)

221 We’re here mocking them, but about half our population wants us to become just like them, but even more cowed. And about 75% of our political leaders.

Posted by: rm at February 09, 2026 06:13 PM (n/1Oj)

222 I don't get it. Apparently Ilya & Nejedzha Belov did it, but then it's Fatos Ali Dumana in thr next post.

Modern media is so inscrutable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 06:13 PM (4JeQs)

223 He wasn't married .

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 06:13 PM (0KSrI)

224 Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 06:11 PM (se8lQ)

The media tried valiantly to hide the names of the underaged victims but you just named them?

Posted by: Delurker at February 09, 2026 06:14 PM (gtcuf)

225 Oh, and you barely even hear Lola's voice in the video -- the voice you hear is Ruby's, though she is mostly off-camera.

Because most people assume that the person with the weapons is the same person who voice is heard saying "Don't rape my sister!" they think the girl with the axe is the older one defending her younger sister. Not the case. She was defending herself, while her sister was verbally defending her. Because Ruby was closer to the microphone, her voice is much louder.

Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 06:14 PM (se8lQ)

226 "You called it receiving welfare in your OP, not investing, I said it was a bad investment."

You said it had a 'negative rate of return,' and my response was precisely to that point.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:14 PM (N8ZBc)

227 While the whore-wife then physically attacked Ruby"

Before she took her love to town?

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn-Rogers at February 09, 2026 06:14 PM (XuXeR)

228 My wife and I have paid a huge amount of money into the social security system. Our return on investment is awful.

It's not welfare...it's theft.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

You might be more prosperous had you taken the almost weekly counsel to burn down your residence, rather than continuing to pour endless $$$ into your Money Pit. The FWP Thread Morons have your best interests at heart.

Posted by: The Solzhenitsyn Trust at February 09, 2026 06:14 PM (oftw2)

229 That's basically it in a nutshell.

Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 06:11 PM (se8lQ)

I thought it was obvious at the time that this wasn't her first encounter with the creep.

She had had enough and was ready to end it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:14 PM (6ydKt)

230 Being self employed you get to pay both halves.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 06:15 PM (0KSrI)

231
Mr Kruschev tear down this prison !

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:08 PM (cwGMH)

___________

The most cheerful chapter in The Gulag Archipelago is the one where he's released and is taken to a small town to begin his exile. The day after he's out of prison, the announcement comes of Stalin's death.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 06:15 PM (tgvbd)

232 Go ahead, make my day.

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 09, 2026 06:15 PM (wVcYX)

233 God... please, if anything make my Alexandr Solzhenitsyn meme an enduring, forever lasting rejoinder here on Aof♤HQ.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 06:16 PM (jtM2q)

234 227 While the whore-wife then physically attacked Ruby"

Before she took her love to town?
Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn-Rogers at February 09, 2026 06:14 PM (XuXeR)

She's fourteen there, Kenny Rodgers. Slow the roasters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)

235 Young girls should carry sharp dirks and walk in packs. If they take a lesson from anyone it should be the Finns.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 06:16 PM (6W1vz)

236 224 Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 06:11 PM (se8lQ)

The media tried valiantly to hide the names of the underaged victims but you just named them?
Posted by: Delurker

Their names can be found, but the mainstream media refuses to name them.

Their mother gave an interview, and the mother was named in the interview, and in the interview she refers to her daughters by name, so the info was revealed.

Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 06:16 PM (se8lQ)

237 127
He and nostradomus got together one night, got drunk and wrote up a whole bunch of $hit that never got published and was later stolen by the Knights Templar who morphed into the Modern day masons and they have all of those manuscripts hidden.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 05:46 PM (0N4FZ)

I would watch this. I don't think I'd read it but I'd watch it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 09, 2026 05:47 PM (8+C2v)

But where does Epstein figure into it???

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)

238 We need someone to make a Welsh, Scottish, and Irish friend group for Amelia. They can band together to save young girls and get the UK lads off their duffers do something.

It would be beautiful if the foreign grooming gangs can unite the UK in the way not much else can. Before it's too late.

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (gWBY1)

239 "Young girls should carry sharp dirks and walk in packs. If they take a lesson from anyone it should be the Finns."

What they should not do: dress like whores, cruise bars, get shitfaced drunk, hoping to get picked up.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (N8ZBc)

240 Young girls and some of their fathers are the only one's that understand or appreciate what's going on.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (6W1vz)

241 I think what delurker is saying is that you usually do not name sexual assault victims names, zombie. To protect their identities.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

242 233 God... please, if anything make my Alexandr Solzhenitsyn meme an enduring, forever lasting rejoinder here on Aof♤HQ.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 06:16 PM (jtM2q)

Fame is a fickle bitch, MF.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)

243 The media tried valiantly to hide the names of the underaged victims but you just named them?

Posted by: Delurker at February 09, 2026 06:14 PM (gtcuf)

Well, word at the time was the police had arrested the 'victim'.
A lot of people were saying she was the aggressor or worked for the pimp.

The guy in the video was egging her on the entire time.
There were also rumors, with news articles, that she and her sister were runaways.

People wanted her name to make sure she wasn't in jail, or get her a GoFundMe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 06:18 PM (6ydKt)

244 NOOD Japan

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 06:19 PM (/WQyy)

245 Fame is a fickle bitch, MF.
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)

I mean, just look at Ezra Miller.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

246 The elites don't care about this in both cases because the victims are poor whites, whom they seem to hate.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 09, 2026 05:45 PM (8+C2v)

They need to just die already.

Posted by: Kevin D. Williamson at February 09, 2026 06:20 PM (TbWk/)

247 241 I think what delurker is saying is that you usually do not name sexual assault victims names, zombie. To protect their identities.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

They themselves want to be known. It's the media who are trying to "protect their identities" so they don;t become heroes.

Every "victim" (including underage victims) whom the leftist media think they can turn into a martyr or a hero are freely named (in fact they ram their names down everyone's throat), but they purposely deny identity and personhood to the other side's potential martyrs and heroes.

Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 06:24 PM (se8lQ)

248 So now we know why the Bad Bunny set at the halftime show was all in Spanish...it wasn't to be multicultural, it was to get around censors.

The song he sang was beyond pornographic, apparently? And little Latino kids were exposed to it. Fine the NFL for indecency, if true. Hard.

I remember my good girl Christian Mexican immigrant friends (legal) complaining of the same thing when Despacito was a hit. It's so vulgar, yet everyone played it because white people didn't know the actual lyrics and had a fun beat. They hated that song.

It loses its pizzazz when a white guy reads the lyrics:

@0hour1
I have converted the SUPER BOWL song to English for the @nflcommish and the parents
Enjoy

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:24 PM (gWBY1)

249 >>>But the govt squandered and stole all of that, so now they simply print all the current payouts. It was a stupid govt promise that couldn't have been kept forever. It never should have been instituted in the first place.
Posted by: gp
---

The govt. squandered and stole all of it.
So, we don't know how it would have fared if the money collected was put into and interest bearing account.

What we do know is that there would be a lot more money in the coffers than is there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 06:26 PM (6W1vz)

250 Also, last night Kid Rock added a new verse about Christ to "Til You Can't," and it's beating Bad Bunny on the charts

God is good, all the time. And all the time God is good.

@nicksortor
🚨 BREAKING: Kid Rock’s rendition of “‘Til You Can’t” with his added verse about giving your life to Jesus has SURPASSED Bad Bunny on the charts
It’s now at NUMBER ONE, post-Super Bowl
WE ARE WINNING! 🔥🇺🇸

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:26 PM (gWBY1)

251 I'm glad that the gypsy couple will be facing trial because it didn't appear that would happen when the story came out.

The bravery of the young girl was inspiring. From what I saw the men of the community began providing escorts for the girls after this story came out.

The "wooden" words rightly/wrongly attributed to S. would only appear wooden to someone for whom those words don't resonate in the soul.

I made safely home for those who were worrying 😉

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 09, 2026 06:28 PM (RkOfE)

252 A nood there is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

253 Being self employed you get to pay both halves. preach it sister

Posted by: DanMan at February 09, 2026 06:29 PM (8uzBS)

254 >>> 241 I think what delurker is saying is that you usually do not name sexual assault victims names, zombie. To protect their identities.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

I get protecting them. That is what the media SHOULD HAVE DONE. Instead they smeared them as deranged racist children when the story first broke. The still pics of the videos these monsters took exposed the girls' faces. There was no hope at that point of being anonymous again.

Now their reputations are destroyed, if their parents deem it ok to make their names known, so their names can get justice, I get that too.

When Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and forced to endure the unspeakable, she was thrust into a spotlight she never wanted. She used that spotlight to get justice and help other girls. She is amazing. If that is the path this girl faces too, I hope they find the same communal love and support.

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 06:33 PM (gWBY1)

255 Camp.of the Saints just missed the mark by that [ ] much

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)

FBI: Jeffrey Epstein Was a Child Sex Abuser But He Wasn't Running a Pedophile Sex Ring for the World's Rich and Famous

I've said previously that the idea that some people have, that Epstein was literally running a child sex brothel and billionaires were paying him for sex, was almost certainly false. I know that people don't like to hear this, but some alleged conspiracies are just too big to believe that no one ever blew the whistle.

He certainly does seem to have made young women available for the use of his pedophile pals. But this seems to have been a matter of ingratiation and favor-banking rather than a quid pro quo with billionaires paying Ghislaine Maxwell at the till before passing the turnstile and entering Pedo Island.

The FBI also says it did not find blackmail photos or videos in the Epstein files.

Ed Morrissey digests an AP story. I'll just quote some of the matter he quotes, and refer you to his post for more.

The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein's bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world's most influential people.
But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.

I think this might depend on what the definition of "sex ring" is. The strong form of it didn't apparently exist. But a weak form it, with Epstein maintaining his value to wealthy and powerful men by making young women available to them, and subsequently getting very valuable insider information, probably did exist.

Why did Peter Mandelson tell Epstein in advance of the then-nonpublic UK government decision to bail out the banks? What services was Epstein providing to him?

Or was it just a cash transaction in that case, with Epstein paying Mandelson and his husband off? We know Epstein sent $75,000 to Mandelson, even if Mandelson "can't remember" if he received that sum or not, and another ten thousand pounds to his husband.

Prosecution memos, case summaries and other documents made public in the department's latest release of Epstein-related records show that FBI agents and federal prosecutors diligently pursued potential coconspirators. Even seemingly outlandish and incomprehensible claims, called in to tip lines, were examined. ...
Investigators said they confirmed that Giuffre had been sexually abused by Epstein. But other parts of her story were problematic.
Two other Epstein victims who Giuffre had claimed were also "lent out" to powerful men told investigators they had no such experience, prosecutors wrote in a 2019 internal memo.
"No other victim has described being expressly directed by either Maxwell or Epstein to engage in sexual activity with other men," the memo said.

Yeah, I don't know. I do not believe that Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi have any incentive to lie about these things. The conspiracy theorists lose me when they start claiming that everyone who fails to support their conspiracy theories must themselves be in on the conspiracy. But, conspiracy theorists tend to do that. That's their go-to move.

I don't exactly feel satisfied by this report. I still think there's gotta be something more there.

But I don't know if I'd put much money on that.

Thomas Massie today:

�I�ve never said I have 20 names.�

Thomas Massie on 10/14/2025:

�We know at least 20 men are implicated in the files.�

He�s crashing hard. pic.twitter.com/fGyuKNUbhq
— Pino Americano (@PinoAmericano) February 9, 2026

Have you tried asking them to just�tell you the names? https://t.co/6cVneGOIS1
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 9, 2026

Thomas Massie today:

�I�ve never said I have 20 names.�

Thomas Massie on 10/14/2025:

�We know at least 20 men are implicated in the files.� pic.twitter.com/EbPhupzrSM
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 9, 2026

Turnabout is fair play. Massie is forever accusing Trump of a cover up.

Well release dem names, Massie. Or are you covering up for the Epstein Sex Ring yourself?

EPSTEIN: Rep Thomas Massie has been covering up the names of 20 Epstein clients for at least six months. Massie told the House Judiciary Committee about the list last September. Who is he covering for? pic.twitter.com/zyjyIFAomx
— @amuse (@amuse) February 8, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:02 PM

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1 well now

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 09, 2026 04:03 PM (jrgJz)

2 He was an arranger and a money launderer, and the yacht girls were most likely the equivalent of booth girls and the free toaster that plebs get at their savings and loans.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:03 PM (rbvCR)

3 And you believe this?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 09, 2026 04:05 PM (Vvh2V)

4 "I've said previously that the idea that some people have, that Epstein was literally running a child sex brothel and billionaires were paying him for sex, was almost certainly false."

I saw a couple of email exchanges on YT where Epstein and his correspondents used the phrase 'cheese pizza and grape soda' in strange contexts. There may be something there.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:05 PM (N8ZBc)

5 To few whistle blowers.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2026 04:05 PM (lpVer)

6 I believe the total opposite of what the FBI and Pam Bondi tell me.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:06 PM (abIsI)

7 During our Festivus gathering in December, I aired my grievance...
With seemingly the entire world going to Epstein's Island, how the hell did I not get the invite??!!

Posted by: UncleJefe at February 09, 2026 04:07 PM (gAuAm)

8 >>>2 He was an arranger and a money launderer, and the yacht girls were most likely the equivalent of booth girls and the free toaster that plebs get at their savings and loans.

yup

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:07 PM (1wjle)

9 >>>3 And you believe this?

How much am I expected to believe in the absence of evidence?

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:07 PM (1wjle)

10 Sure Jan.

Bet there are photos of Comey and Wray on Epstein Island.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 04:07 PM (KfXOG)

11 I think Epstein was routinely blackmailing politicos and billionaires to funnel money into his investment operation.

Whether that was at the behest of the CIA or MI5 or whoever is debatable.

But his primary gig was getting money to invest. BAMN

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (jtM2q)

12 ace, if you watched Mike Benz on Rogan, he put out the fact that when prosecuting an individual who is deeply tied into CIA or IC matters, the DOJ tends to prosecute and shallowly as possible, and drops anything that might expose the IC and what they are doing.
He talked about the prosecution of one of the organizers of the Cuban counter-revolutionaries, though it also matches Maxwell and P-Diddy

Viva Frei called it "limited prosecution" as opposed to "limited hangout" Of course there is a catchier way to say it, since Viva Frei is a lame Canadian lawyer. Maybe "limited hangout to dry"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (rbvCR)

13 I believe the term for what Epstein and Maxwell did is 'pandering' with the rich and famous.

Epstein and Maxwell kept the underage girls for themselves. They didn't like sharing their shiny new toys with their pals, but the older, slightly used ones were fair game for people like Clinton and Randy Andy.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (yxhRU)

14 "I've said previously that the idea that some people have, that Epstein was literally running a child sex brothel and billionaires were paying him for sex, was almost certainly false. I know that people don't like to hear this, but some alleged conspiracies are just too big to believe that no one ever blew the whistle."

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Agreed. Though for those who believe joos are behind all the other global conspiracies, it's all too plausible.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (36PRH)

15 The most interesting email I've seen so far is Edward Jay Epstein (no relation) inviting Ghislane to join the secret "shadow 9/11 commission"

Note, Ghislane didn't see to have any actual presence of her own at the time - she was Epstein f*ck buddy and gopher at the time

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

16 Just a guy in the Cincinnati office.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (QLKBy)

17 He certainly does seem to have made young women available for the use of his pedophile pals. But this seems to have been a matter of ingratiation and favor-banking rather than a quid pro quo with billionaires paying Ghislaine Maxwell at the till before passing the turnstile and entering Pedo Island.

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Remember...there was a trial.

The women were interviewed as witnesses, and most couldn't be used as witnesses. Because they helped him get more women.

And none of them were prepubescent.

Epstein himself reportedly liked 'em young, but the sex part of his operation was nubile, mostly legal women. I think in the Bahamas they were all legal (16 is the legal age there, I believe).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

18 look I'll just be straight: I think that PizzaGaters and QAnon people have a lot riding on the Epstein sex ring to vindicate their prior unevidenced claims. I don't have that baggage, so I don't *need* this case to pan out the way I think it *should* pan out.

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:09 PM (1wjle)

19 He was an arranger and a money launderer, and the yacht girls were most likely the equivalent of booth girls and the free toaster that plebs get at their savings and loans.

Mike Benz was just on Rogan again and he's making that same case. But with more background flavor, like that Epstein was likely involved with Iran-Contra.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 09, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG)

20 Yeah, I don't know. I do not believe that Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi have any incentive to lie about these things. The conspiracy theorists lose me when they start claiming that everyone who fails to support their conspiracy theories must themselves be in on the conspiracy. But, conspiracy theorists tend to do that. That's their go-to move.

I am saddened more than I can say by this incontrovertible evidence that Ace was in on the conspiracy.
*wipes away tear*

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:10 PM (Riz8t)

21 Yeah, I don't know. I do not believe that Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi have any incentive to lie about these things.
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I guess we'll see if Bongino goes back to sounding like he did before this bout in government. The other two still haven't impressed me much.

But that doesn't much matter as I don't believe any of them personally poured over the three million documents currently released (plus whatever is apparently waiting for the next batch), I think it's more likely they had underlings write summaries, and since *those* people are likely federal careerists, I don't much believe them.

Posted by: Methos at February 09, 2026 04:10 PM (vSvIl)

22 NEW: Ghislaine Maxwell Vindicates Trump In Closed-Door Testimony

Posted by: SMOD at February 09, 2026 04:10 PM (enSNT)

23 Please excuse Jeffrey from prison today. He's not feeling well.

Posted by: Epstein's mother at February 09, 2026 04:10 PM (NIB5L)

24 >>>Mike Benz was just on Rogan again and he's making that same case. But with more background flavor, like that Epstein was likely involved with Iran-Contra.

I mean....

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:10 PM (1wjle)

25 I saw a couple of email exchanges on YT where Epstein and his correspondents used the phrase 'cheese pizza and grape soda' in strange contexts. There may be something there.
Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:05 PM (N8ZBc)
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That'll be $10.77.

Same as Fry's pin number on Futurama.

Which Mom then used to steal $4.3 billion.

There's your connection.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 04:10 PM (ESVrU)

26 "PizzaGaters and QAnon"

The top online predator-hunter is Alex Rosen. He's seen it all. He regularly runs into the 'cheese pizza' stuff when monitoring predator comms. It's well established that the phrase is slang for CSAM.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:11 PM (N8ZBc)

27 "FBI: Jeffrey Epstein Was a Child Sex Abuser But He Wasn't Running a Pedophile Sex Ring for the World's Rich and Famous">>>

/Insert John Candy Meme "Sure, sure"

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 09, 2026 04:11 PM (zjgNU)

28 How much am I expected to believe in the absence of evidence?

Oh, so now we have to have *air quotes* "evidence"? We need to prove our assertions with *air quotes* "facts"?

What is this world coming to?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

29 "...I don't believe any of them personally poured over the three million documents..."
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You mean like with kerosene?

Posted by: Spelling nerd at February 09, 2026 04:12 PM (NIB5L)

30 It's the bad part that's so bad. Otherwise there's nothing to look at.

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at February 09, 2026 04:12 PM (dzZCL)

31 All doubt removed.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 09, 2026 04:12 PM (cS1cw)

32 HARRY REID is laughing his ass off in hell.

Posted by: ZooomZooom (R) at February 09, 2026 04:12 PM (byH8I)

33 >>>The top online predator-hunter is Alex Rosen. He's seen it all. He regularly runs into the 'cheese pizza' stuff when monitoring predator comms. It's well established that the phrase is slang for CSAM.

All I've seen is circular reporting with Pizzagaters claiming that pizza is a common code word for children and then when you look for where this originates, it turns out it's just from Pizzagaters saying it's "well known" pizza is code for children.

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:13 PM (1wjle)

34 I think Epstein was routinely blackmailing politicos and billionaires to funnel money into his investment operation.
Whether that was at the behest of the CIA or MI5 or whoever is debatable.
But his primary gig was getting money to invest. BAMN
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (jtM2q)

The minute a rumor came out that there was blackmail going on, his posh friends and the high class guests and the normies he needed for cover all decide not to go, since they all have things to hide and lots to lose.
He would wind up playing gin rummy with Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman. (ew)

He may have passed info on to the IC, so THEY could blackmail or turn them. And it is not like THAT is going to come out in open court.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:13 PM (rbvCR)

35 "Two other Epstein victims who Giuffre had claimed were also "lent out" to powerful men told investigators they had no such experience, prosecutors wrote in a 2019 internal memo.
___________

I have long said that 90% of the reporting and rumor-mongering on Epstein was wrong because it didn't jive with how this works in the real world.

In the real world, girls aren't "lent out" to powerful men. The girls eagerly seek out other powerful men in the group. Rich guys with yachts have yacht girls lined up at the marina. Puff Daddy had 100x more girls (and guys) who desperately wanted to go to his parties than he could invite. Epstein surely had lines of girls waiting to get on the jet to the private island.

This is hard for many people to accept, in part because they can't see girls selling themselves like that. But there are many many girls who can and do. Eagerly.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

36 I dunno. Occam’s razor.

A rich Wall Street type guy attracts people looking to cash in, and trades in favors that sometimes involved young women. And I don’t mean to sound cruel, but it seems a lot of these women knew exactly what had to be done. We will leave it at that.

I mean, this story is repeated hundreds if not thousands of times across the Wall Street population.

And yet it intrigues a whole groups of people because some of those involved are in politics.

Whatever.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 09, 2026 04:13 PM (PM/iv)

37 Semi related.

Apparently, they substituted an alternative dictionary when I wasn't looking.

WaPo says halftime show about degenerate sex with randos reflected "wholesome, traditional family values"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 04:13 PM (J+Psw)

38 Massie's in de cold, cold ground.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 09, 2026 04:13 PM (bxiOq)

39 I honestly don't think the island stuff is all that big of a deal. Many old regulars here have heard me talk about my niece (daughter of a cousin, really) who was approached by a woman (she's not sure if it was Maxwell) back in the 90s. These girls, underage though they were, knew exactly what they were going to the island for. She was told there would be unlimited drugs, alcohol, constant parties at night, all day on the beach, rich men everywhere.

Now, she said that it was presented more as happy endings and blow jobs, but there was no mistaking that sexual behavior, richly rewarded, was the intention. And some of those girls won't testify, because they got their very rich husband out of it.

What I want to know is, what happened at that ranch. Because if half of what I've heard is true... it's way way way beyond old men chasing consenting teenagers.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 09, 2026 04:14 PM (Vvh2V)

40 I believe the total opposite of what the FBI and Pam Bondi tell me.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:06 PM (abIsI)

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None more cynical! Come, let us bask in the glow of Healey’s virtuous cynicism!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 09, 2026 04:14 PM (u73oe)

41 "I've said previously that the idea that some people have, that Epstein was literally running a child sex brothel and billionaires were paying him for sex, was almost certainly false. I know that people don't like to hear this, but some alleged conspiracies are just too big to believe that no one ever blew the whistle."

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It would be like having taxpayers fund a bioweapon for years that was gonna kill millions, even to the point where they did dry runs the autumn before the release. Or stopping ballot counting in seven states that all matter and having a raft of fake ballots ready to go and actually swinging a national election. Too many moving parts. Would never happen. Someone would blow the whistle.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 04:14 PM (QLKBy)

42 Epstein was likely involved with Iran-Contra.
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Um, how old was he?

Posted by: Methos at February 09, 2026 04:15 PM (vSvIl)

43 "it's just from Pizzagaters saying it's "well known" pizza is code for children."

I don't know if Rosen is a Pizzagater, but you can watch his catch vids and see and hear it for yourself.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:15 PM (N8ZBc)

44 WaPo says halftime show about degenerate sex with randos reflected "wholesome, traditional family values"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 04:13 PM (J+Psw)
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The family that has degenerate sex with randos together stays together.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 09, 2026 04:15 PM (bxiOq)

45
Conspiracy or none, the scariest thing to me is how matter-of-factly these fuckers talk about this shit.

Whether actual pedos or jailbait chasers, these pieces of shit remind me of the question over whether fish are aware of water.

Posted by: biteme at February 09, 2026 04:15 PM (xWS9V)

46 I'm sure the thousands of documents "discovered" in the burn bags hidden in the basement didn't have much evidence. Just some post-it notes, shopping lists, and holiday messages.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:15 PM (abIsI)

47
So "patrons of child prostitution brothel" is the cover story? Because the truth is much more damaging than that?

These people losing their jobs and positions for being in the Epstein files are liabilities because of their secret-information-leaking and bribe-taking?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (kf4RM)

48 Rep. Massie says he has list of 20 suspected clients

You have more than that if you're holding a copy of the Congressional Record.

Posted by: t-bird at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (R8Lmn)

49 I mean....
Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:10 PM (1wjle)

Listen to it, this one is interesting. The dates match and no one can give a real explanation why so much money was being passed around and not flagged.
I mean, I get multiple calls when I try to wire $18K to a family member, and my savings and loan is generally pissed because they have to fill out paperwork

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (rbvCR)

50 >>Mike Benz was just on Rogan again and he's making that same case. But with more background flavor, like that Epstein was likely involved with Iran-Contra.

Iran-Contra was just the beginning...but, yeah. Dude had hands in ALL the CIA Banking Traffic from the late 70s going forward to the 20-teens.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (gH8T+)

51 I'm sure the thousands of documents "discovered" in the burn bags hidden in the basement didn't have much evidence. Just some post-it notes, shopping lists, and holiday messages.

Yoga and grandkids.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (Riz8t)

52 >>>In the real world, girls aren't "lent out" to powerful men. The girls eagerly seek out other powerful men in the group. Rich guys with yachts have yacht girls lined up at the marina. Puff Daddy had 100x more girls (and guys) who desperately wanted to go to his parties than he could invite. Epstein surely had lines of girls waiting to get on the jet to the private island.

right, rich and powerful men of supposed "standing" can't just be freaks and cultivate a group of 17 year old girls to have sex with. That's where Epstein comes in. He's a scumbag and doesn't care about his standing, so he can surround himself with girls/barely legal young women, and then his "friends" can visit him and if they get a massage or two, well, that's their business.

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (1wjle)

53 Some of these girls went home after whatever trips they went on. First, where the F were their parents. Second, they were not obligated to go. Yet they kept going.

I suppose we could get into the whole psychology of abuse. But it feels like the motives were money and a luxurious lifestyle. The fact the people they interacted with were trash scumbags is sort of a rule of the game.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (PM/iv)

54 No matter what the truth is people are not going to believe that there wasn't a mass conspiracy.

Posted by: steevy at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (YwEeS)

55 I have a feeling the Dems wanted us to focus on Epstein instead of Republicans focusing on the economy and winning elections.

It's alway been a distraction.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (NpAcC)

56 I don’t believe in the bigger conspiracy theories, but I don’t think Epstein was just a guy indulging in his fetishes. He clearly wanted powerful, influential people to be compromised so he could use and leverage them.

You don’t go out of your way to involve people like Bill Gates just because you think they’re fun to be around. He wanted something.

Posted by: Maroon at February 09, 2026 04:17 PM (KhBND)

57 Podesta just really liked pizza.

The art was a coincidence.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 09, 2026 04:17 PM (cS1cw)

58 Rep. Massie says he has list of 20 suspected clients

And the Dems will welcome him with open arms, while condemning Joe McCarthy. Irony is lost on the venal.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

59 I'm sure the thousands of documents "discovered" in the burn bags hidden in the basement didn't have much evidence. Just some post-it notes, shopping lists, and holiday messages.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Don't forget family recipes!

Posted by: Hillary! at February 09, 2026 04:18 PM (R8Lmn)

60 BeeF JeRkY is Kids!!!11!

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:18 PM (gH8T+)

61 Just to make sure, Ace, I gotta ask: you aren't suggesting the investigation should stop, are you?

There are still 2 million pages to be released.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:19 PM (N8ZBc)

62 Epstein and Maxwell kept the underage girls for themselves. They didn't like sharing their shiny new toys with their pals, but the older, slightly used ones were fair game for people like Clinton and Randy Andy.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 09, 2026 04:08 PM (yxhRU)

And they weren't kidnapping virgin tweenies out of orphanages and convents, either. There are plenty of young foolish women who think the life of a yacht girl is glamorous, and the ones hooked up will recruit others.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 04:19 PM (8zz6B)

63 OK, the Epstein stuff is real. But it is a Chinese intelligence operation. 100% Chinese, like the biolab.

Posted by: Alternative Theory at February 09, 2026 04:19 PM (33JYF)

64 well, oh boy, yeah, I mean, if the fbi says it, that's the gold standard, innit?

amirite? or amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 09, 2026 04:19 PM (Cjt/F)

65 >>> I don’t believe in the bigger conspiracy theories, but I don’t think Epstein was just a guy indulging in his fetishes. He clearly wanted powerful, influential people to be compromised so he could use and leverage them.
You don’t go out of your way to involve people like Bill Gates just because you think they’re fun to be around. He wanted something.

I kind of agree except with the suggestion about there being an explicit blackmail threat. Plus, just making yourself valuable to these men is enough to get them to do favors. If they want to keep visiting your island, they have to act like "friends," and friends do "favors" for each other.

This is what I mean about not believing that Ghislaine Maxwell is standing there with a credit card machine. That's not how it would work, usually.

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:19 PM (1wjle)

66 >>"The conspiracy theorists lose me when they start claiming that everyone who fails to support their conspiracy theories must themselves be in on the conspiracy."

This is exactly what someone in on the conspiracy would say!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 09, 2026 04:20 PM (mymNa)

67 Some of these girls went home after whatever trips they went on. First, where the F were their parents. Second, they were not obligated to go. Yet they kept going.

The feds have busted other child sex rings - the the Island Raid from Sound of Freedom.

Presumably there are documents that the FBI has on what normally happens to underage girls after going through something like this.

My guess would be they go on to become yacht girls/OF types.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:20 PM (sKqQm)

68 I have a list of 57 names …

Posted by: Senator John Iselun at February 09, 2026 04:20 PM (pY+ea)

69 Now, if you really want to reach out and poke the hornets' nest, lets ask about the "unaccompanied minors" that Homan has been rescuing in the US, and who had them and for what use.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:20 PM (rbvCR)

70 ""I've said previously that the idea that some people have, that Epstein was literally running a child sex brothel and billionaires were paying him for sex, was almost certainly false."

I thought the prevailing "conspiracy theory" was that Epstein was working for/with Mossad/FBI or other intel agencies. That was (is) my theory. By having some sort of evidence/blackmail on powerful people, he could find out things and/or influence outcomes.

Just how that would have been accomplished, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 04:20 PM (vbXSk)

71 people who do serious drugs together usually don't freely rat on each other (until they get charged) because they know their drug-using confederates could also rat on them. That's a kind of compromise, but it's not an explicit compromise. You don't have to tell the guy you do heroin with "don't tell anyone I do heroin." It's implicit.

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:21 PM (1wjle)

72 Massie is a useless circus clown. He’s like Bozo, only with two day razor stubble and a horn he keeps in his pocket to blow at unsuspecting pedestrians conspiracy theorists.

*beep beep* I have 20 Epstein names. Here you go frothy, conspiracy people.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 09, 2026 04:21 PM (PM/iv)

73 The real connection that did not get fleshed out, further in this round of dumps was the connection to the French 'Talent Scout' that also hanged himself in Prison.

Purely coincidental, that.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:21 PM (gH8T+)

74 Wikileaks had the codes in the legitimately creepy emails. Unless you think it's normal to talk about little girls and boys and meatballs on cheese and the other bizarre food "code" talk.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 04:21 PM (QLKBy)

75 The explanation I heard from Benz makes most sense to me: Girls Juice Deals. Epstein was a deal-maker and money launderer, and dealt with the kind of trash that lives in that world. The girls were party-favors - not the subject of the deal. Incidental to the larger purpose.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (bNf8H)

76 So here is a question I'd like an answer to. Let's suppose the large form of the Epstein scandal is false.

He personally was a pedophile and got Ghislane and a couple of his flunkies to help him get underage girls.

Why did he then share them with Prince Andrew and maybe Bill Clinton/Bill Gates and then no one else?

For example did Kevin Spacey go to Epstein Island to get money from Epstein? To have sex with legal yacht boys?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

77 My guess would be they go on to become yacht girls/OF types.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:20 PM (sKqQm)

A lot of molested kids go on to be the next generation, and have issues with drugs, prostitution and generally fucked up lives.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (rbvCR)

78 I have a Secret list of 11 Herbs and Spices.

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (gH8T+)

79 >>>64 well, oh boy, yeah, I mean, if the fbi says it, that's the gold standard, innit?

if patel says so, then yeah. This guy risked his career and possibly prison to show that Russiagate was a hoax.

And now he's, what, joined the Epstein Democrats? WHY?!

I mean, can someone explain that? Why are Kash Patel and Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi now on the Epstein sex ring payroll?

Just explain your theory about this. I want to hear ANY theory. Any one at all.

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (1wjle)

80 Awkwardly, the justice dept was developing press releases on the death of Epstein in custody on the 9th, when he wasnt found dead until the 10th.

Posted by: Typo? at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (6rdCx)

81 Don't forget the sweet heart deal Epstein got. All signs of bigger things.

I mean another coincidence.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 09, 2026 04:23 PM (cS1cw)

82 Some creditable commenters on teh @X were talking about how Jeffee was working with Mister Putin. It seemed to make sense to me.

Posted by: @58ARAMCOBrat at February 09, 2026 04:23 PM (x9HPv)

83 For example did Kevin Spacey go to Epstein Island to get money from Epstein? To have sex with legal yacht boys?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

To be one of the glittery people that were brought in to give the place tone and impress the people with the money?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:23 PM (rbvCR)

84 Awkwardly, the justice dept was developing press releases on the death of Epstein in custody on the 9th, when he wasnt found dead until the 10th.

Also, a few people like Crowder investigated if you actually could kill yourself the way Epstein did and found they couldn't.

If Epstein was just some normal investment guy and had "no help" how did he manage it?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:23 PM (sKqQm)

85 With all the political crap happening in the Intelligence Community ™ aka The Deep State ™ is it any wonder they missed the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of the modern Jihadist Islam , 9/11, etc, etc, etc?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2026 04:24 PM (yI5mB)

86 [i78 I have a Secret list of 11 Herbs and Spices.
Posted by: Colonel Sanders

I have a list of whose been naughty or nice - Santa

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:24 PM (abIsI)

87 78 I have a Secret list of 11 Herbs and Spices.

Posted by: Colonel Sanders

I have the recipe for New Coke, but for some reason, nobody wants to steal it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:24 PM (Riz8t)

88 >>>The explanation I heard from Benz makes most sense to me: Girls Juice Deals. Epstein was a deal-maker and money launderer, and dealt with the kind of trash that lives in that world. The girls were party-favors - not the subject of the deal. Incidental to the larger purpose.

yeah that's what I think. Military contractors used to provide girls, by which I mean prostitutes, to generals and admirals and Congressmen at their weapons shows. It wasn't a quid pro quo exactly. But people like people who do nice things for them, like introduce them to young girls who are for some reason very, very interested in 60 year old fat congressmen.

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:24 PM (1wjle)

89 Oh yeah, sure. Pull my other leg.

No, my other other leg.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 04:24 PM (vFG9F)

90 Like that old song, "It doesn't have to be one or the other." For some, the deal was the deal and the underage was just the sugar-rush on top. But I'm sure over time Epstein and associates figured out that for SOME, the underage was the deal, and money was just how somebody got access to the underage.

Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (TN0g+)

91 It has all the classic signs of Russian collusion...

Posted by: The media we USED to watch at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (NIB5L)

92 >>yeah that's what I think. Military contractors used to provide girls, by which I mean prostitutes, to generals and admirals and Congressmen at their weapons shows.

That's uncouth...

Posted by: Big Pharma at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (gH8T+)

93
We have had this discussion before. No one would attempt blackmail of the most powerful people in society since it would trigger a defense response from too many of those powerful people.

He ingratiated himself, and he created a mutual secret that both (a) protected him from any retribution since he knew things and (b) created position for himself as someone who could be trusted, and who could do favors. He was in the club.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (mymNa)

94 Also, a few people like Crowder investigated if you actually could kill yourself the way Epstein did and found they couldn't.

How exactly would one prove that definitively?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (Riz8t)

95 A lot of molested kids go on to be the next generation, and have issues with drugs, prostitution and generally fucked up lives.

I was watching a video on the deaths of b-list celebrities which included adult stars. While drugs was something shared between both the adult and non-adult stars, the adult ones added in murder, suicide, and AIDS....

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (sKqQm)

96 >>Just explain your theory about this. I want to hear ANY theory. Any one at all.

They don’t have a theory, Ace. It’s the same nics pushing the same bullshit Fay after day and it’s tiresome. Not only that but contra factual.

But they don’t come armed with facts. They bleat about Bondi and Patel ad nauseum.

Yeah they’re all in on it because the monster under their bed told them so. Or the person paying them told them to say it.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (PM/iv)

97 So Epstein ran this sex scandal just for himself, yet got all kinds of visitors to his fantasy island?

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (Ia/+0)

98 >>.Also, a few people like Crowder investigated if you actually could kill yourself the way Epstein did and found they couldn't.

sorry, my eyes are rolling

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:26 PM (1wjle)

99 And remember Don Lemon said it was illegal to read the WikiLeaks emails and that CNN would tell you what was in them

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 04:26 PM (QLKBy)

100 "no marksman, no matter how skilled, could possibly have hit Kennedy three times"

(while he was traveling at 5-10 mph at a distance of about 120 feet)

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:26 PM (1wjle)

101 This story fails to support my deeply felt belief in the utterly fallen nature of humanity, so I shan't believe it. No, I simply shannot.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 09, 2026 04:26 PM (BRvvM)

102 How exactly would one prove that definitively?/i]

IIRC he had someone rig up a neck guard that would stop him from in fact choking to death

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

103 "So Epstein ran this sex scandal just for himself, yet got all kinds of visitors to his fantasy island?"

Imagine you knew someone with a cabin on a lake and they invited you there for a weekend.

Many people would take up that offer.

This is the same thing: a Caribbean resort basically.

Posted by: coba at February 09, 2026 04:27 PM (IuIym)

104 For example did Kevin Spacey go to Epstein Island to get money from Epstein? To have sex with legal yacht boys?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

To be one of the glittery people that were brought in to give the place tone and impress the people with the money?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:23 PM (rbvCR)
__

It's the lure of glamor and fame and exclusivity. One thing that the "Epstein files" revealed is just how badly even people with no interest in young ladies -- or girls at all -- wanted to get in with Epstein. People don't realize (or don't remember) what a major player he was in the social scene at the time.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 04:27 PM (iFTx/)

105 I suspect the whole Epstein p3do ring story was manufactured by the deep state and their propaganda arm to deflect from some other p3do (or whatever) story.

Like, maybe the p3do ring the deep state and the propagandists are actually involved in. Or the continued efforts to overthrow the Trump administration.

I mean, there are a lot of reasons to suspect the whole story is as much an op as anything else the deep state conjures up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 04:27 PM (jtM2q)

106 Continued from the previous Left-Wing "Scoop" thread (and I think relevant here):

140 >>Tulsi must have something on Warner. He has been squirming like a toad lately.

During the Russia hoax, Warner was secretly communicating with Christopher Steele's lawyer Adam Waldman. Waldman was also the lawyer for Oleg Deripaska, at one time the richest oligarch in Russia.

He also is heavily invested in businesses in Ukraine. A lot of those investments were seized after the war began.

I've long believed that one of the main reason they wanted to get rid of Trump was they wanted the war in Ukraine and Trump did not.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 03:24 PM (viF8m)

I think it was overdetermined, with a vast constellation of reasons, and they all came down to this: Trump was proving that we didn't have to live like that.

We didn't have to accept a "managed decline" into corrupt, bureaucratic anarcho-tyranny. And we didn't have to accept a two-tier justice system -- Epstein was Federally arrested in July 2019 -- where the wealthy and well-connected get away with serious crimes, while the little guy is mercilessly ground under the heel of the State for regulatory infractions.

Posted by: SciVo at February 09, 2026 04:27 PM (Sy6m/)

107 Just explain your theory about this. I want to hear ANY theory. Any one at all.
Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (1wjle)

I'm not saying I buy this theory, but the theory would be that too many allies (or our own IC) are implicated in the Epstein op, so our IC (FBI included) has decided to admit as little as possible.

(Possible allies implicated: UK, Israel, EU, etc...)

Again, I'm pretty sure Trump would prefer to bring the IC to justice, so I doubt this theory, but that would be the answer, I believe.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (zjgNU)

108 and I'm the King of Eswatini.

Posted by: wth at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (UjdFS)

109 97 So Epstein ran this sex scandal just for himself, yet got all kinds of visitors to his fantasy island?
Posted by: Skip

and recorded everything that happened there in every room 7x24.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (abIsI)

110 I am not diving deep into this sewer of perversion and satanism:
1) Eptstein was an agent, whether CIA or Moussad
2) He created honey pots for politicians, royals, elites, and millionaires who would contribute to him...whether blackmail or what I obviously have no idea
3) Maxwell and others did the procuring of young girls (and boys?)
4) Pedophilia is real and apparently the taste of these wealthy demons
5) Trump was smart enough not to get involved, once he kicked Epstein out of Maralago. He is also a germaphobe, so I can't see him at orgies. Plus he dated supermodels of age
6) The Clintons were not as smart and Billy loved to party and wag his Peyronie's around. His hag, well, who knows what her proclivities are and I don't want to know what goes on with her, Huma or anyone else...and may tertiary syphilis rise up forever with a dash of herpes on the side
7) If the Dims had ANYTHING on Trump on Pedo Island they would have used this in 2016

I don't think Epstein hung himself. I would not be surprised if he is still alive
9) I care deeply about stopping satanic child trafficking and all that goes with this evil
10) Many are caught now, big names in politics and Hollywood. GOOD!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (WONhk)

111 He walked away with a wrist slap on something serious that you or i would still be in jail over. The US attny said the deal was IC related. He then winds up dead in max security. The video was off, then years later here it is, wait its missing a minute, no, here it is. Who is walking in the tier in orange?? Nobody knows. Oh and they where putting together a press release on his in custody death the day before he died. I totally get the conspiracy people. Totally. I am not all the way there, but i sure has hell aint pointing and laughing at them either.

Full stop.

Posted by: Soooooo at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (6rdCx)

112 How exactly would one prove that definitively?/i]

IIRC he had someone rig up a neck guard that would stop him from in fact choking to death

So he rigged up something that would prevent the occurrence of the very thing he said couldn't occur?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (Riz8t)

113 There is as aspect of human nature that wants the “ story” as scurrilous as possible. Akin to the gossip tree that is old as humans have been around.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (pDt9x)

114 11 I think Epstein was routinely blackmailing politicos and billionaires to funnel money into his investment operation.

Whether that was at the behest of the CIA or MI5 or whoever is debatable.

But his primary gig was getting money to invest. BAMN
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Most of those billionaires had security peeps that actually screen people around them. Billionaires are not that naive, Andrew might have been due to the Royal Family shit but he kept up with Epstein willingly and Sarah Ferguson flirted with Epstein as well. Most of the emails don't indicate any nature of blackmail but more of shared enthusiasm in human sex trafficking. You aren't friendly with someone that is blackmailing you.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (2swu2)

115 What was the prevailing media theory on Epstein until the "get Trump" op. Because we know THAT'S bullshit. Unless of course you think they were telling the truth about that one thing.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 04:29 PM (QLKBy)

116 The blackmail angle was always the stupidest of stupid takes.
No matter how much those who believe it thunder about their holy mission to get justice.
And accused everyone who doesn't of protecting pedos.

I mean, FFS, Epstein was a tiny little minnow in an ocean of sharks.
Sharks with lots and lots of money. And power.
Who have no problem hiring bodyguards with no morals.
They type of guys who hear boss is having some pipsqueak bother him over some Island Fun Time and know exactly how to make it go away quickly and quietly without being told a word.
Meaning, Jeffry wouldn't have died in a cell, he would have been dead decades ago.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 09, 2026 04:29 PM (HXT0k)

117 As has been noted, there are many data points to the bookends of being hired by former OSA operative Donald Barr to dying in a prison run by his son Bill Barr, one day all of these data points will be connected and explained.

Maybe Hollywood will make a Spotlight style film on the subject. Maybe get mark Ruffalo involved somehow.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 09, 2026 04:29 PM (Kw+Iy)

118 The US attny said the deal was IC related. He then winds up dead in max security. The video was off, then years later here it is, wait its missing a minute, no, here it is. Who is walking in the tier in orange?? Nobody knows. Oh and they where putting together a press release on his in custody death the day before he died. I totally get the conspiracy people. Totally. I am not all the way there, but i sure has hell aint pointing and laughing at them either.

Full stop.
Posted by: Soooooo
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For the record, under oath just recently, Acosta denies he was told that by the government.

Some speculate that Alan Deshowitz might have told him but that is speculation.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 04:29 PM (2swu2)

119 >>Imagine you knew someone with a cabin on a lake and they invited you there for a weekend.

I always get weirded out when my friends let their kids go on vacations with other people.

I know it can be innocuous...but, damn.
When my friend tells me his 14 yr old kid is at Elk Camp with his Youth Pastor/ Boyscout Troop Leader, I get nervous for that kid.

Posted by: Big Pharma at February 09, 2026 04:29 PM (gH8T+)

120 So Epstein ran this sex scandal just for himself, yet got all kinds of visitors to his fantasy island
.......

De plane! De plane!

Posted by: wth at February 09, 2026 04:29 PM (UjdFS)

121 Has Don Lemon found the plane yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at February 09, 2026 04:30 PM (NIB5L)

122 "I've said previously that the idea that some people have, that Epstein was literally running a child sex brothel and billionaires were paying him for sex, was almost certainly false. "

I don't want to be a poopy head but running a sex ring where people paid him to have sex with kids is IMO not much different than providing an island where the rich and famous could go and have sex with kids and not get caught amounts to basically the same thing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 04:30 PM (0N4FZ)

123 But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.

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Bullshit. This guy was a pimp for the powerful disguised as a friend and financier, working on behalf of the XXX and the XXXXXX.
He is exactly who we think he is/was.
If I get my hands on curated blackmail of the worlds rich and powerful with all the leverage that entails, it's not being released to congresscritters and temps like Bondi or Bongingo. Leverage loses its power if made public.

This ain't exactly a coverup, but there's white paint involved and Tom Sawyer is getting lots of takers to sling that brush for him.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 09, 2026 04:30 PM (Hx0tZ)

124 why hasn't Ghislaine Maxwell leveraged all the video she has of people having sex with kids to get herself out of prison?

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:30 PM (1wjle)

125 I don't know-know, I know!

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 04:30 PM (g47mK)

126 The explanation I heard from Benz makes most sense to me: Girls Juice Deals. Epstein was a deal-maker and money launderer, and dealt with the kind of trash that lives in that world. The girls were party-favors - not the subject of the deal. Incidental to the larger purpose.

yeah that's what I think. Military contractors used to provide girls, by which I mean prostitutes, to generals and admirals and Congressmen at their weapons shows. It wasn't a quid pro quo exactly. But people like people who do nice things for them, like introduce them to young girls who are for some reason very, very interested in 60 year old fat congressmen.
Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:24 PM (1wjle)
______

Everything is sold with girls and parties and drugs. Hell, back in the day exotic car dealerships had piles of coke and hot young things sashaying all over the place.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 04:30 PM (iFTx/)

127 How exactly would one prove that definitively?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:25 PM (Riz8t)

Maybe you could train up Democrats to act as guinea pigs?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 04:30 PM (8zz6B)

128 I mean, can someone explain that? Why are Kash Patel and Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi now on the Epstein sex ring payroll?

Just explain your theory about this. I want to hear ANY theory. Any one at all.
-
I think one of the running theories is that the full truth of the matter would take down too much of DC (Which could mean too many GOPers with Congress too close to risk, or literally *too much* in that there wouldn't be enough left of federal or corporate America to keep things working). So, paraphrasing Jackstraw's (I think) words from a few months back, 'everyone who has a good look immediately nopes out.'

Posted by: Methos at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM (vSvIl)

129 Now, Epstein might sweeten this by being known to have lots of eye candy at his island.

And those girls might want to go because they get a chance to maybe become some rich guy's trophy wife. or get to live it up.

Tons of people do this all the time for rock stars and movie stars.

Posted by: coba at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM (IuIym)

130 Dear Penthouse Forum,
This one time at Elk Camp...

Posted by: My 14 year old self at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM (NIB5L)

131 It has all the classic signs of Russian collusion...
Posted by: The media we USED to watch
.......

Earmarks.

Posted by: wth at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM (UjdFS)

132 pharmaSockOFF

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM (gH8T+)

133 75 The explanation I heard from Benz makes most sense to me: Girls Juice Deals. Epstein was a deal-maker and money launderer, and dealt with the kind of trash that lives in that world. The girls were party-favors - not the subject of the deal. Incidental to the larger purpose.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

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

I'm skeptical about this angle. This is common in industry as well because it is a form of exclusive and valued kickback -- the buyers "prefer" a certain supplier because they are feted. But the buyers are generally people who can not get those girls / diners / whatever on their own.

Bill Gates should have been able to walk through any building on his campus, pick a girl, fuck her in the break room, and then have HR and Legal pay off anyone around and cover his tracks. (Yeah, I kind of saw that too.)

He already had all the girls he wanted, so what did eppie provide?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM (mymNa)

134 >>I don't want to be a poopy head but running a sex ring where people paid him to have sex with kids is IMO not much different than providing an island where the rich and famous could go and have sex with kids and not get caught amounts to basically the same thing.

no but a more casual thing like I suggest would leave little evidence of it behind, which is, apparently what accords with the evidentiary record we have, which doesn't show that kind of a quid pro quo blackmail/extortion ring

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM (1wjle)

135 Massie really though he'd ride this wave, thinking he's gaining real Dem support, all the way to reelection.

Hey, how'd turning on the party for Dem Facebook likes work for Cheney?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM (HXT0k)

136 >>>1) Eptstein was an agent, whether CIA or Mossad

nah it was all totally for Russia, forget all the stuff he says about Israel, it was Russia

Posted by: MSM at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (jGJov)

137 Here's a picture of a Dallas PD officer handing down the REAL murder weapon from the ROOFTOP of the TSBD.

Pay no attention to the fact that he's handing down a shotgun, not a rifle, which no one in the history of ever has claimed was the murder weapon, nor to the fact that the shotgun just so happens to be the exact make and model assigned to the Dallas PD.

Posted by: Delurker at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (gtcuf)

138 Everything is sold with girls and parties and drugs. Hell, back in the day exotic car dealerships had piles of coke and hot young things sashaying all over the place.

You and I went to very different car dealerships.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

139 Also, a few people like Crowder investigated if you actually could kill yourself the way Epstein did and found they you couldnt.
==
No shit???

Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (6rdCx)

140 I'd still like to know why and who authorized Whitey Bulger to be moved from fed max to a minimum security prison and put into gen pop.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (Kw+Iy)

141 > I mean, I get multiple calls when I try to wire $18K to a family member, and my savings and loan is generally pissed because they have to fill out paperwork
Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:16 PM (rbvCR)

I could tell you stories about trying to move a largish chunk of cash from one state to the other, even though I had all the paperwork in order -- sold a house in one state, was buying a house in another state. Damned near lost out on the house I was trying to buy (and/or failed to have the check at the closing) because moving the money took days.

It was the first time I'd ever done an interstate transfer of that size. I learned my lesson there.

I'm thinking that maybe because it was interstate the feds got their snoopy noses involved? I don't remember, this was around thirty years ago.

Posted by: Genghis Khan at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (IG3/x)

142 A patient just now told me Trump was on the island eating babies with Epstein.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (W2Pud)

143 "I don't want to be a poopy head but running a sex ring where people paid him to have sex with kids is IMO not much different than providing an island where the rich and famous could go and have sex with kids and not get caught amounts to basically the same thing."

the problem is they are not kids.

they are 18 or whatever.

Posted by: coba at February 09, 2026 04:33 PM (IuIym)

144 Having spent time on Wall Street I can tell you this is the MO for a lot of people. Epstein didn’t make the mold. He took what he learned at Bear Stearns advising wealthy people and parlayed it into an enterprise. There are a lot of people who make him look like an amateur. They all have the same formulations including people who “procure” participants in whatever needs to be done. They all cause the wealthy clients for the money. Period. This isn’t that hard.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 09, 2026 04:33 PM (xn33A)

145 O/T and willowed from the post below:

While the world's eyes are on Arizona as the clock winds down on ransom deadline...I saw this youtube.

Musk and Trump are not playing about Greenland, if this turns out to be true. And I think it is plausable. We'll soon find out.

https://tinyurl.com/3rburfyd

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 04:33 PM (WONhk)

146 >>Everything is sold with girls and parties and drugs. Hell, back in the day exotic car dealerships had piles of coke and hot young things sashaying all over the place.

There's exactly One Universal Commodity.

And, roughly 50% of the population is born with it.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:33 PM (gH8T+)

147 See also Matt Gaetz.

Some girl who wants to go the Bahamas with a rich dude will lie about her age.

Posted by: coba at February 09, 2026 04:33 PM (IuIym)

148 Everything is sold with girls and parties and drugs. Hell, back in the day exotic car dealerships had piles of coke and hot young things sashaying all over the place.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
__________

I'm beginning to think you were Hunter S. Thompson's lawyer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 09, 2026 04:34 PM (XvL8K)

149 why hasn't Ghislaine Maxwell leveraged all the video she has of people having sex with kids to get herself out of prison?

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She may not have it. She did offer today to testify for an out of jail card.

Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins at February 09, 2026 04:34 PM (6rdCx)

150 "Everything is sold with girls and parties and drugs."

That's why business travel is so "necessary," when Zoom would do just as well. Junkets.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:34 PM (N8ZBc)

151 >>.Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins

good point, guys. It is well known, among people like garrett, that you can strangle yourself with a necktie and a doorknob. Those claiming you couldn't do the same thing with a bedframe and bit of string are just, I don't know, talking shit.

The other thing I can't stand is when they go "hyoid bone! hyoid bone!"

And this goes back to ME's saying that usually in hangings, the hyoid bone isn't broken, but in strangulations it is.

But then they start leaving out that word "usually," and claim that no hangings EVER result in a broken hyoid bone.

Which is just false and why I just cannot deal.

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:34 PM (1wjle)

152 Everything is sold with girls and parties and drugs. Hell, back in the day exotic car dealerships had piles of coke and hot young things sashaying all over the place.

You and I went to very different car dealerships.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (Riz8t)
____

I was a kid. Some friends had very rich dads. I went a few times with them to Ferrari and Lambo dealerships. They barely hid what was going on.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 04:35 PM (iFTx/)

153 >>> "No other victim has described being expressly directed by either Maxwell or Epstein to engage in sexual activity with other men," the memo said.

No direction.
It's about the tips and gratuities.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 09, 2026 04:35 PM (/lPRQ)

154 I've got a list.
Hoo boy, have I got a fucking list...

Posted by: Santa Claus at February 09, 2026 04:35 PM (gAuAm)

155 88 >>>The explanation I heard from Benz makes most sense to me: Girls Juice Deals. Epstein was a deal-maker and money launderer, and dealt with the kind of trash that lives in that world. The girls were party-favors - not the subject of the deal. Incidental to the larger purpose.

yeah that's what I think. Military contractors used to provide girls, by which I mean prostitutes, to generals and admirals and Congressmen at their weapons shows. It wasn't a quid pro quo exactly. But people like people who do nice things for them, like introduce them to young girls who are for some reason very, very interested in 60 year old fat congressmen.
Posted by: ace
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Not that my take means much but I have read all the depositions from the Palm Beach days plus a lot of what has been revealed. I don't think that Epstein was himself an actual agent for any party but he was very useful as an IC asset. Benz had provided quite a bit of background on Epstein the trader at Bear Stearns and its relationship with BCCI. BCCI, for those not around in the 80's, was an IC dominated bank out of Pakistan that did all kinds of money laundering for the intel community.
Look up the Safari Club.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 04:35 PM (2swu2)

156
used the phrase 'cheese pizza and grape soda' in strange contexts. There may be something there.
Posted by: gp

One of his clients was Radar O'Reilly.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 04:35 PM (Cqx++)

157 I saw a couple of email exchanges on YT where Epstein and his correspondents used the phrase 'cheese pizza and grape soda' in strange contexts. There may be something there.
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There's so much trash and false info in the "files" passed around as "true 'cause it was in the Epstein files" that I now won't believe anything that comes out.

This bullshit process that Massie et al forced to release it all w/o actual safeguards has completely destroyed any chance of any legitimate prosecution.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (HXT0k)

158 The FBI also says it did not find blackmail photos or videos in the Epstein files.
_____________________________

If you go back to news reported the day after Epstein was arrested (the second and most recent arrest) there are articles noting that a boat full of unidentified individuals arrived at Eptstein Island, stayed for approximately one day, and left. The FBI, at the time, confirmed that they did NOT have any personnel out on the island.

I'm not a big proponey of TheGatewayPundit. But, if you go back into their archives you will find a post documenting exactly what I stated above.

So, when I hear the FBI didn't find any blackmail photos or videos etc. I take it with a grain of salt, and still have no idea who those unidentified people were.

Posted by: Orson at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (dIske)

159 Okay.
So what was his job, then?

Posted by: Dr Slam at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (58ypb)

160 Oh. The FBI says. Well then.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (n4M+z)

161 Cucker Tarlson is still on in the Comet Pizza thing. Guess who was running the operation?

The Jewwwwsssss!!!

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (y6810)

162 My personal thought is that the girls were paid personal help of epstein and maxwell. The ones that made waves were the ones that didn't get paid what they thought they were worth.

Let the conspiracies flow!

Posted by: Will Robinson at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (mo6hN)

163 To be fair to the conspiracy believers, Epstein seems to have created fake folders and had that Clinton painting.

That definitely smells like blackmail.

I think some of these conspiracies are actually pretty decent - they are just missing a few things so they appear plausible.

And after Russia Hoax...

Posted by: coba at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (IuIym)

164 This child-pimp and his bottom bitch both had ties to intelligence agencies. Well documented ones.

Whatever was going here, it's certainly not a good old fashioned down home child pimping scenario.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (BI5O2)

165 >>Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:34 PM (1wjle)

That was uncalled for.

I know you are upset that your GAINZ have fallen off and you no longer feel attractive.

But, the truth is that someone your height can never be attractive. It's simply against the Laws of Nature.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (gH8T+)

166 Musk and Trump are not playing about Greenland, if this turns out to be true. And I think it is plausable. We'll soon find out.

https://tinyurl.com/3rburfyd

Big claims need big evidence, and I see none.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

167 I have sent my kids away to church camps, are you saying that's bad? Not every overnight camp is a den of pedophilia. I'm not saying it doesn't happen because I know it does, I'm not naive. But there are many more camps that are wholesome and enriching for kids than there are that abuse them.

Posted by: lin-duh at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (VCgbV)

168 I don't want to be a poopy head but running a sex ring where people paid him to have sex with kids is IMO not much different than providing an island where the rich and famous could go and have sex with kids and not get caught amounts to basically the same thing.

no but a more casual thing like I suggest would leave little evidence of it behind, which is, apparently what accords with the evidentiary record we have, which doesn't show that kind of a quid pro quo blackmail/extortion ring

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:31 PM

I agree with that, he was probably not extorting or blackmailing people he invited to his island to get their freak on.

Sort of like a billionaire who invites rich and famous people to his yacht for a week long cruise and he pays plenty of young nubile girls to entertain them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (0N4FZ)

169 I’m waiting for Massie to say he will give up the names for a $10,000 campaign contribution, fully paid trip to Turks and a stuffed cupi doll.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (xn33A)

170 > yeah that's what I think. Military contractors used to provide girls, by which I mean prostitutes, to generals and admirals and Congressmen at their weapons shows.

When I worked in a hotel as a young man, we had a convention of school superintendents. It was by far the rowdiest convention we had during my tenure.

All the major textbook companies had rooms with free booze and plenty of hot, easy-looking girls hanging around. I guess if you're selling expensive textbooks by the hundred or thousand lot, you can afford to sweeten the pot quite a bit.

I recall wondering what a supe would do if he recognized one of the book bimbos as a former student.

Posted by: Genghis Khan at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (IG3/x)

171 No shit???
Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins at February 09, 2026 04:32 PM (6rdCx)/i]

Epstein didn't have an overhang to use to properly hang himself.

The argument from the prison was that he fashioned a rope from his sheets, then tired it to his bed, that angled himself so that created enough tension to choke himself and break his hyoid bone.

Essentially if you can't hang from something above you it makes things way harder to do.

Crowder tried it and couldn't get enough force to break the hyoid bone and the other problem is you had to push to generate the needed tension so when you pass out you lose the tension which means you won't die.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

172 Is there a downside to pursuing the Epstein pedo investigation? Is it case closed, even with some evidence still unreleased? Is there a sighificant opportunity cost to continuing to look?

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (N8ZBc)

173 You don’t go out of your way to involve people like Bill Gates just because you think they’re fun to be around. He wanted something.

Posted by: Maroon at February 09, 2026 04:17 PM (KhBND)

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Maybe Epstein had a fetish for man boobs.

/I agree with you ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (nuyMR)

174 Prosecutors better hope that I am never on a jury where the FBI is testifying. I firmly believe that the FBI exists for only two purposes, protecting Bolsheviks and billionaires, and framing innocent people.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (n4M+z)

175 152 Everything is sold with girls and parties and drugs.

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Is this why my peanut brittle business failed?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 09, 2026 04:38 PM (mymNa)

176 Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 09, 2026 04:22 PM (bNf8H)

Perfect explanation.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 09, 2026 04:38 PM (Vvh2V)

177 >>>
If you go back to news reported the day after Epstein was arrested (the second and most recent arrest) there are articles noting that a boat full of unidentified individuals arrived at Eptstein Island, stayed for approximately one day, and left. The FBI, at the time, confirmed that they did NOT have any personnel out on the island.

I'm not a big proponey of TheGatewayPundit. But, if you go back into their archives you will find a post documenting exactly what I stated above.

So, when I hear the FBI didn't find any blackmail photos or videos etc. I take it with a grain of salt, and still have no idea who those unidentified people were.

...

I think we are operating on different premises here. You are arguing that there MAY BE evidence we cannot ever see. Okay, fine: Then what do we do with that?

I'm not the kind of person who makes decisions based on hypothetical evidence which MAY exist but I cannot see.

Should I convict Kash Patel and Dan Bongino on the basis of this hypothetical evidence which MAY exist but which they can't see?

Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:38 PM (1wjle)

178 >>>We know at least 20 men are implicated in the files."

He's being hysterical. Like the harridans on The View.

Posted by: m at February 09, 2026 04:38 PM (+YA9H)

179 Oh. The FBI says. Well then.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (n4M+z)

@79

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 04:38 PM (g47mK)

180 "One of his clients was Radar O'Reilly."

One correspondent was Epstein's urologist, the other was Larry Fink.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:38 PM (N8ZBc)

181 It was Comet Pizza. Not Comet Bagel. Tucker should go look into the Vatican.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 04:39 PM (BI5O2)

182 "I always get weirded out when my friends let their kids go on vacations with other people.

I know it can be innocuous...but, damn.
When my friend tells me his 14 yr old kid is at Elk Camp with his Youth Pastor/ Boyscout Troop Leader, I get nervous for that kid."

LOL. Agreed.

But in my example its an adult.

Its like Bill Clinton being asked to go by Epstein.

Posted by: coba at February 09, 2026 04:39 PM (IuIym)

183 Bill Gates should have been able to walk through any building on his campus, pick a girl, fuck her in the break room, and then have HR and Legal pay off anyone around and cover his tracks. (Yeah, I kind of saw that too.)
=
Bill was dipping it in the company ink well. Thats how be met mrs gates. Once she got married, she talked to HR and Bill was not allowed to be alone in a room with a young female.

Which is how he eventually winds up with VD from a Russian girl....

The more you know....

Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins at February 09, 2026 04:39 PM (6rdCx)

184 Another interesting thing I ran across in some of the released evidence is that Epstein had odd photos on his walls - you can see the people's bodies in unusual positions.

No explanation has been identified as to what they are - powerful people in embarrassing positions? Victims?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

185 We know Epstein sent $75,000 to Mandelson, even if Mandelson "can't remember" if he received that sum or not, and another ten thousand pounds to his husband."

There is more than one thing wrong with this sentence

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 09, 2026 04:40 PM (NtVYv)

186 How about that nasty shit parasite Reid Hoffman--a known frequent guest of Jeffery, solely for the sex treats--and Soros funding the SB ad ... against Trump over this?

"Where are the rest of the files, huh?! What are you hiding?!!"

And all the dick chuggers at the Man-Boy Lincoln Project were slapping their puds in glee over it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 09, 2026 04:40 PM (HXT0k)

187 or maybe Larry Fish. Not sure.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:40 PM (N8ZBc)

188 I never thought of it as a brothel but has a blackmail operation. My actual epstein file reading is zero however. But those rich and powerful men weren't hanging with him for nothing. He provided girls for them, I don't know what he got in return.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 09, 2026 04:40 PM (n5tGW)

189 I have a Liszt

Posted by: Franz at February 09, 2026 04:40 PM (gAuAm)

190 Kentucky's primary is in May. Massie is being primaried by Ed Gallrein who is a Shelby County farmer and retired Navy SEAL.

Please vote Massie out.

I have a feeling he's never going to leave and will run as an independent. Shades of Lisa Murkowski.
We can't seem to get rid of these backstabbers.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 09, 2026 04:40 PM (NpAcC)

191 Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins

good point, guys. It is well known, among people like garrett, that you can strangle yourself with a necktie and a doorknob. Those claiming you couldn't do the same thing with a bedframe and bit of string are just, I don't know, talking shit.

The other thing I can't stand is when they go "hyoid bone! hyoid bone!"

And this goes back to ME's saying that usually in hangings, the hyoid bone isn't broken, but in strangulations it is.

But then they start leaving out that word "usually," and claim that no hangings EVER result in a broken hyoid bone.

Which is just false and why I just cannot deal.
Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:34 PM (1wjle)
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I don't know if Carradine and Hutchins are the best examples. Carradine hung himself the old fashioned way. Hutchins was so fucking stoned out of his mind he probably woulda ODed anyway, which makes it that much easier to strangle yourself.

I don't know what to make of the claims that Epstein couldn't have killed himself the way he did.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 04:40 PM (iFTx/)

192 This is one of those can o'worms type deals.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 09, 2026 04:41 PM (36PRH)

193 So what, exactly, is Maxwell in prison for, if not for trafficking underage girls?

And I guess the idea, then is that Epstein was in jail for simply being a pedo himself?

Posted by: MrExcitement at February 09, 2026 04:41 PM (ovdkm)

194 Let's go back to Massie. What is he hiding?!

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 04:41 PM (g47mK)

195 >>I have sent my kids away to church camps, are you saying that's bad? Not every overnight camp is a den of pedophilia. I'm not saying it doesn't happen because I know it does, I'm not naive. But there are many more camps that are wholesome and enriching for kids than there are that abuse them.

Yes.
There is no safe Camp, School, Scout Group or Sports Team.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:41 PM (gH8T+)

196 Crowder tried it and couldn't get enough force to break the hyoid bone and the other problem is you had to push to generate the needed tension so when you pass out you lose the tension which means you won't die.
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Dont try it at home buddy. You lean forward and not over and you dont lose tension. You just die. We know.

Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins at February 09, 2026 04:42 PM (6rdCx)

197 An intel asset is kind of like a criminal informer for the Feebs. They may in fact be criminals, like Whitey Bulger, and their handlers can go so far as to cover up crimes their CI did in Mass for teh alleged greater good. Mueller got dirtied in that particular op and the FBI handler ended up going to prison over it. Three innocent guys were named for a murder that Whitey's gang committed and went to prison for it resulting in a huge settlement of the lawsuit when it came out.

For the IC folks, an asset is someone not an employee but useful for advancing missions (like untraceable money laundering, providing information to agents, connections as to get close to someone for actions by a real agent, or to influence others to play ball via recruitment etc. for the true agents. Most informed speculation on IC matters have pointed at Epstein as a financier and an asset of influence.

If there was an agent handler, that would probably be Ghislaine as her dad was definitely one to the extent that through his publishing of Breznev's books in the West, Robert Maxwell got up to private chats with Breznev for MI-6 that the KGB actively fought against. Ghislaine grew up in the life.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 04:42 PM (2swu2)

198 194 Let's go back to Massie. What is he hiding?!
Posted by: runner

His vagina?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:42 PM (abIsI)

199 We may never know the truth, they vowed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 09, 2026 04:43 PM (n4M+z)

200 Unfortunately, healthy skepticism about our government agencies has turned into disbelief, disrespect, and distrust. They have only themselves to blame-but they won’t.

Posted by: Unkaren at February 09, 2026 04:43 PM (cDrfF)

201 181 It was Comet Pizza. Not Comet Bagel. Tucker should go look into the Vatican.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 04:39 PM (BI5O2)

I looked it up today for a refresher on the names.

"Comet Ping Pong Pizza" is the full name.

I'd thought it was "Cosmic Pizza" for some reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 04:43 PM (6ydKt)

202 191

I don't know if Carradine and Hutchins are the best examples. Carradine hung himself the old fashioned way. Hutchins was so fucking stoned out of his mind he probably woulda ODed anyway, which makes it that much easier to strangle yourself.

I don't know what to make of the claims that Epstein couldn't have killed himself the way he did.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 04:40 PM (iFTx/)

----
Anthony Bourdain supposedly hung himself.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 09, 2026 04:43 PM (36PRH)

203 @201 And not Mystic Pizza

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 09, 2026 04:44 PM (36PRH)

204 Today's schadenfreudic pick me up news

Target to lay off 500 employees.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:44 PM (abIsI)

205 "Unfortunately, healthy skepticism about our government agencies has turned into disbelief, disrespect, and distrust."

For some. For some others, after only 12 month of our guys in control, the govt is now believed without skepticism. Crooked govt is a distant memory.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:44 PM (N8ZBc)

206 We know as much as they tell us. The rest we just have to make up, or speculate over, to put it more nicely.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 04:44 PM (pDt9x)

207 I don't have any evidence that the dogeater ate more than his share of sausages either but I'm pretty sure it's true.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 04:44 PM (vFG9F)

208 "The 72-year-old actor was found by a hotel maid on the morning of June 4, slumped in a closet in his suite"

Carradine was not a traditional hanging. He was seated. Rope also around his genitals.

Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins at February 09, 2026 04:45 PM (6rdCx)

209 184 Another interesting thing I ran across in some of the released evidence is that Epstein had odd photos on his walls - you can see the people's bodies in unusual positions.

No explanation has been identified as to what they are - powerful people in embarrassing positions? Victims?
Posted by: 18-1
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So did one of the Podestas, as did Jamie Lee Curtis seen in one such backdrop of an interview. Our elites are sick bastards by and large. But I think they hung with Epstein because he was a sick bastard too rather than being blackmailed by it.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 04:45 PM (2swu2)

210 I think I saw this story over at Insty.

Some couple in SF had a tech start-up way back when. And they had annual parties that all the techies would go to.
Well, they sold their start up; no real reason to keep having them.
But the Chinese showed up and paid them to continue to have the annual parties.
And they couldn't understand in the least why the Chinese were so eager to pay them to have these parties.
Where techies would get drunk around Chinese national techies also "invited."
They just thought they were fun people and everyone liked their parties.

That was Epstein on a bigger scale.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 09, 2026 04:45 PM (HXT0k)

211 I think Robin Williams hanged himself that way in the closet they found him in.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

212 Ok so here is a potential way to look at how possible it was for Epstein to kill himself that way - how many people do we have a record of doing so outside of him?

Not hanging from above, not high/ODing. How many people on record have managed to kill themselves with just a rope and a bedframe on the floor next to them?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

213 Walter Kirn: You'd better read this: The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning 'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government.

https://x.com/walterkirn/status/
2018511373320536571

Posted by: KT at February 09, 2026 04:45 PM (7vIsy)

214 There is video we have not seen and will never see. It is impossible for that to not be true.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 04:46 PM (vFG9F)

215 I'll say it again -- I read those "pizza" references from way back, and it sure as hell sounded like simple drug code.

This was very common for a long while. You never said pot, coke, etc. or gram, ounce, etc.... you had a substitute vocabulary that everyone understood.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 09, 2026 04:46 PM (mymNa)

216 190 Kentucky's primary is in May. Massie is being primaried by Ed Gallrein who is a Shelby County farmer and retired Navy SEAL.

Please vote Massie out.

I have a feeling he's never going to leave and will run as an independent. Shades of Lisa Murkowski.
We can't seem to get rid of these backstabbers.
Posted by: redridinghood

Scuttlebutt was that Massie announced his coming out as a Dem in an earlier thread.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (2swu2)

217 The ones that made waves were the ones that didn't get paid what they thought they were worth.

Let the conspiracies flow!
Posted by: Will Robinson

It is tradition in the hospitality industry for a cut of the tips to be sent to the bartender and kitchen.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (/lPRQ)

218 Cucker Tarlson is still on in the Comet Pizza thing. Guess who was running the operation?

The Jewwwwsssss!!!
Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (y6810)

Mark Levin says we should stop discussing Epstein's activities, and that investigating child trafficking is distracting us from the important things like invading Iran and Arab countries

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (rbvCR)

219 @184 Kama Sutra? Didn't he have a picture of Bill Clinton in a dress?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (36PRH)

220 Posted by: ace at February 09, 2026 04:38 PM (1wjle)
_________________________

Sure, there's evidence that will never be seen. Take a closer look at Epstein's first arrest back in 2008. He had like 13 charges against him laboriously put together by Palm Beach Police. Then, the Feds stepped in and dropped all but two of the lesser crimes in days. They, ALSO, gave him a NPA (Non-Prosecution Agreement) despite Epstein having no leverage. They didn't even tell the victims that they agreed to that (which is very rare).

Then, he was only sentenced to a half-way house with no records showing he even showed up.

Occam's Razor suggests a deal to provide something to the Feds (or alphabet agency) in exchange for the dropped charges (Alexander Acosta gave him that deal for some reason).

I don't think Epstein or Maxwell had any sort of list. I think they got assignments from a federal agency sporadically. And, the hosting of public officials, politicians and celebrities was to create a sense of being untouchable used to convince the marks that it was safe for them to accept the invitations, and those are ones who were blackmailed.

Posted by: Orson at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (dIske)

221 "There is video we have not seen and will never see. It is impossible for that to not be true."

If it's on BetaMax, we're really screwed.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (N8ZBc)

222 Explain what the code “beef jerky” means.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (dhHpw)

223 I suggest a look at the documents just released will indicate that, yes, Epstein provided sex toys of all ages to the rich and powerful.

Hell I've heard it credibly suggested that he might even be into human jerky.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

224 219 @184 Kama Sutra? Didn't he have a picture of Bill Clinton in a dress?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (36PRH)

Yes.
The blue Monica Lewinsky dress to be exact.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

225 "you had a substitute vocabulary that everyone understood"

In the 1980s, we had 'can of motor oil' for 'gram of coke.' Not joking.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:49 PM (N8ZBc)

226 I mean, there is a lot we can infer about what Jeffrey Epstein was and what his main job was, I think he started out as an asset that could make bad paper go away and who could hide and acquire money in the time before the internet, he then morphed into an asset the ic could use to monitor and control the aspects of finance, tech and certain echelons of royalty and Hollywood.

The child pedo stuff may have been reserved for him and select members who were into that sort of thing.

But I think his main purpose post, say 2006 was, the same thing that Carter Page was used for, Epstein is talking to these people, they can now be surveiled by the LE/IC.

Again, his story starts by being hired by Donald Barr, his story ends with him dying in prison run by Bill Barr.

That not irony. That's something else.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 09, 2026 04:49 PM (Kw+Iy)

227 Here are the 20 names on the Massie Epstein List:

Bill Clinton
Billy Jeff Clinton
B. Clinton
William Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton
Big Boy Bill Clinton
President W.J. Clinton, etc, etc, etc.

Posted by: The Names at February 09, 2026 04:49 PM (Ksqrb)

228 >>Explain what the code “beef jerky” means.

Baby Flesh. Obviously.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:49 PM (gH8T+)

229 >>>I have long said that 90% of the reporting and rumor-mongering on Epstein was wrong because it didn't jive with how this works in the real world.

Did someone say jive?

Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.

Posted by: zombie barbara billingsley at February 09, 2026 04:50 PM (Y1sOo)

230 And, I'm sorry, the FBI is not a credible source...if it ever was, it is no longer. The delays and covering for Epstein and his island were pretty damn blatant.

I suspect Epstein was useful to the IC and he was used by them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:50 PM (xcxpd)

231 This whole Epstein horseshit needs to just go away.. it's distracting from shit that actually matters

I think Congress knows less than we do

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 09, 2026 04:50 PM (XLfSN)

232 To repeat:

Neither Epstein nor any of his buddies were, technically, "pedophiles."

What they were was "epheobophiles"

There is a big difference.

Just to get everyone caught up on the terminology:

Pedophilia -- attraction PRE-PUBESCENT children (i.e. ages 0 - ~11).

Hebephila — attraction to PUBESCENT and EARLY ADOLESCENT children (i.e. ages ~12 - ~14).

Ephobophilia -- attraction to ADOLESCENT people (i.e. ages ~15 - ~1

.

Look it up if you don't believe me.

I've never seen any proof, evidence or even suggestion that Epstein went for pre-pubescent children, or even that he went after 12/13-years olds. It has only ever been alleged that he went after, basically, teenage girls.

Yes, it's illegal (in most jurisdictions), and it's considered morally wrong to seduce a minor, but the level of ephebophilia's immorality in our culture is considered much less than it is for actual pedophilia.

The majority of adult males are capable of being attracted to a teenage girl, if she's mature-enough looking. People are acting like Epstein's actions are grotesquely perverted, but every rock song about "jailbait" says otherwise.

Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 04:50 PM (se8lQ)

233 "Explain what the code “beef jerky” means."

Something that's too expensive to eat anymore.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:50 PM (N8ZBc)

234 So did one of the Podestas, as did Jamie Lee Curtis seen in one such backdrop of an interview. Our elites are sick bastards by and large. But I think they hung with Epstein because he was a sick bastard too rather than being blackmailed by it.

I remember the Curtis one - she had a photo by Betsy Schneider of a naked pre-teen girl on her wall and it was noticed when she posted a picture of her office with it on the wall.

Obviously as we see in the art threads here art is a very individual thing but why would you want a naked picture of someone's kid on your wall?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

235 @227
Also "Flex Jefferson"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (36PRH)

236 zombie Johnson is right!

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

237
Cucker Tarlson is still on in the Comet Pizza thing. Guess who was running the operation?

The Jewwwwsssss!!!
Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (y6810)

are you fucking joking ?

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (g47mK)

238 "223 I suggest a look at the documents just released will indicate that, yes, Epstein provided sex toys of all ages to the rich and powerful.

Hell I've heard it credibly suggested that he might even be into human jerky.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (xcxpd) "

at this point, knowing what we know, why not?
amorality doesn't really come with any intrinsic limits ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (Cjt/F)

239 Fun facts about the Epstein doc drop...the phrase 'pizza' appears 911 times often in strange contexts that does not correspond to dropping by Dominos.

#PizzaGate is a smear to cover up real shady shit.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

240 (auto-correction uncorrection:

"... ADOLESCENT people, ii.e. ages ~15 - ~18 "

Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (se8lQ)

241 Well, if one three-letter agency of the government releases a report exonerating other three-letter agencies of criminal conduct, that settles it for me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetric balls at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (wCQ1m)

242 238 "223 I suggest a look at the documents just released will indicate that, yes, Epstein provided sex toys of all ages to the rich and powerful.

Hell I've heard it credibly suggested that he might even be into human jerky.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (xcxpd) "

at this point, knowing what we know, why not?
amorality doesn't really come with any intrinsic limits ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (Cjt/F)

He seems to have been into a lot of weird stuff. Like him commenting about how much enjoyed 'torture videos'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

243 Ugh, -- misspellked the main word of my comment:

What they were was "epheobophiles"
=
What they were was "ephebophiles"

Posted by: zombie at February 09, 2026 04:52 PM (se8lQ)

244 Now, if you really want to reach out and poke the hornets' nest, lets ask about the "unaccompanied minors" that Homan has been rescuing in the US, and who had them and for what use.

Yeah, I think that's got a strong likelihood of being the actual scandal that people think Epstein is.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 09, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

245 This is hard for many people to accept, in part because they can't see girls selling themselves like that. But there are many many girls who can and do. Eagerly.
---
The same party that laughed about "drag a $100 bill through a trailer park and you never know what you'll catch" is the same party that now wants you to believe these poor, poor girls were forced--forced, I tell you!--to have sex with the world's richest and most powerful.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 09, 2026 04:53 PM (HXT0k)

246 Anthony Bourdain supposedly hung himself.

I hung myself and shot myself with a shotgun found thirty feet away.

Posted by: Clinton Connection Mark Middleton at February 09, 2026 04:53 PM (R8Lmn)

247 2008. He had like 13 charges against him laboriously put together by Palm Beach Police. Then, the Feds stepped in and dropped all but two of the lesser crimes in days. They, ALSO, gave him a NPA (Non-Prosecution Agreement) despite Epstein having no leverage
==
Yep. And the fed lawyer said it was an IC issue. Alex acosta. Then he winds up dead in max. Cameras not working for years. The oops here they are!! The wait there is a missing minute. Then sorry here it is!. Then who is the unidentified person walking on the tier wearing orange? There is some something up. I dont know how security classifications go but i wouldnt be surprised if they could absolutely bury things for 50 years. From everyone. Including successors.

Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins at February 09, 2026 04:53 PM (6rdCx)

248 Explain what the code “beef jerky” means.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
_________

The explanation I saw for that was that Epstein went nuts on some keto fad, and was truly obsessed with it. I guess that could be plausible. No idea.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 09, 2026 04:53 PM (XvL8K)

249 This guy.

*makes gestures with fist moving up and down by genitalia*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 04:53 PM (RIvkX)

250 i think we should conduct our own independent investigation

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 04:53 PM (g47mK)

251 "What they were was "epheobophiles""

Lovers of Epheobo Cates.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:53 PM (N8ZBc)

252 I’d bet you could have the (fill in the name) files for just about any tycoon. And you’d have 1000 names associated with him. Does it mean those 1000 people did everything that tycoon did? Powerful people know other powerful people and associate with them. If one’s a pedo, it doesn’t mean every one they ever said hi to is also a pedo. The whole premise has always been silly.

But it’s out there now and the conspiracies are already next level in sanity. It’s like everyone on Twitter is Candace Owens now.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 04:54 PM (y6810)

253 166 Musk and Trump are not playing about Greenland, if this turns out to be true. And I think it is plausable. We'll soon find out.

https://tinyurl.com/3rburfyd

Big claims need big evidence, and I see none.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)
....................................

Agree. And I said IF it turns out to be true as a disclaimer. I found it interesting since all the news for one week has been Arizona.

Everything on this video is from the last 6wks or so of quiet meetings. Obviously if true it will come out if negotiations flop like the EU appears to be flopping.

Something to watch, at any rate.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 04:54 PM (WONhk)

254 This is the same FBI telling us there's nothing to see here that just "discovered" a "device" on grandma Guthrie's roof AFTER THE NEIGHBOR TOLD THEM they should look up there. Liars and clowns.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:54 PM (abIsI)

255 Cucker Tarlson is still on in the Comet Pizza thing. Guess who was running the operation?

The Jewwwwsssss!!!
Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (y6810)

are you fucking joking ?
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (g47mK)

Sadly, no I’m not.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (y6810)

256 >>>I have long said that 90% of the reporting and rumor-mongering on Epstein was wrong because it didn't jive with how this works in the real world.

Did someone say jive?

Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.
Posted by: zombie barbara billingsley at February 09, 2026 04:50 PM (Y1sOo)

Golly!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (wVcYX)

257 I suggest a look at the documents just released will indicate that, yes, Epstein provided sex toys of all ages to the rich and powerful.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

He may have been farming high-level and powerful contacts, but he was doing so in part by providing access to children for sex, and it appears that is why many explicitlty were pursuing contacts with Epstein, especially post indictments.

Phrase it however you want. We know so much to be true. It was fine with TPTB and their elite handlers in the IC, until it wasn't.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (xgA6p)

258 Scuttlebutt was that Massie announced his coming out as a Dem in an earlier thread.
Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 04:47 PM (2swu2)
*******
Jesse Brewer, Elizabeth Mason-Hill, and Melissa Strange are running in the Democrat primary.

I guess the Democrats are happy they have a Dem running in Republican primary.

They've got all their bases covered.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (NpAcC)

259 Again, as we have seen over and over in the past 20 years...what was a 'conspiracy theory' is frequently shown to just be a spoiler warning 20 years later.

I have more faith in nutjobs than in our "elites". Their track record is better.

Alex Jones lies less than the Media or the FBI.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

260 Just got an email that the new Olympians LP is shipping out today.

Very excited these guys put out a 2nd LP.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (gH8T+)

261 Fun facts about the Epstein doc drop...the phrase 'pizza' appears 911 times often in strange contexts that does not correspond to dropping by Dominos.

Mike Benz can basically prove he was handling money laundering for CIA, MI5, Mossad, the Saudis, and possibly other allied intelligence agencies. It's entirely possible "pizza" was a code word, but it doesn't mean what a lot of people assume it does.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (2ocoG)

262 Fun facts about the Epstein doc drop...the phrase 'pizza' appears 911 times often in strange contexts that does not correspond to dropping by Dominos.

Billionaires. With executive chefs. Going out for pizza. All the time.

Posted by: t-bird at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (R8Lmn)

263 A common cry of the consiracy believers over and over again "why are they redacting the names of pedos?" yet the FBI has categorically said that none of the redacted names are males, all are of female victims.

Posted by: Serious Cat at February 09, 2026 04:56 PM (xqQi7)

264 Cucker Tarlson is still on in the Comet Pizza thing. Guess who was running the operation?

The Jewwwwsssss!!!
Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 04:36 PM (y6810)

are you fucking joking ?
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 04:51 PM (g47mK)

Yeah, there is a chunk of the interest in the Epstein matter that's particularly animated by the prospect that it can be pinned on Israel.

Posted by: Methos at February 09, 2026 04:56 PM (vSvIl)

265 Phrase it however you want. We know so much to be true. It was fine with TPTB and their elite handlers in the IC, until it wasn't.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (xgA6p)

Flounder Johnson is right!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:56 PM (xcxpd)

266 I suspect Epstein was one of the most careless of whatever number of cutouts, agents, con-men or whatever term you'd like to use. The IC and deep state have thousands of them. Everywhere.

I suppose if one were to royally fuck up... well there'd be some sort of recriminations for that.

Sometimes, those would be "messy."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 04:56 PM (jtM2q)

267 263 A common cry of the consiracy believers over and over again "why are they redacting the names of pedos?" yet the FBI has categorically said that none of the redacted names are males, all are of female victims.
Posted by: Serious Cat at February 09, 2026 04:56 PM (xqQi7)

Well the FBI wouldn't lie, so I'm certain now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

268 Epstein was a cutout for governments and politically connected around the world. He facilitated off the books financial transactions for things that couldn't be done publicly.

BCCI and gun running level stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 04:57 PM (viF8m)

269 Billionaires. With executive chefs. Going out for pizza. All the time.

As another data point, as you get older the amount of pizza you can eat does go down. Red sauce and grease are not good for some older digestive systems...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 04:57 PM (sKqQm)

270 "A common cry of the consiracy believers over and over again "why are they redacting the names of pedos?" yet the FBI has categorically said that none of the redacted names are males, all are of female victims."

Have the believers produced the evidence of the incorrect redactions? If they have the receipts, F what the FBI says.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 04:57 PM (N8ZBc)

271 >>Yeah, there is a chunk of the interest in the Epstein matter that's particularly animated by the prospect that it can be pinned on Israel.

They are absolutely giddy over the Rothschild refs.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:58 PM (gH8T+)

272 criminals are utilized by intelligence agencies, film at 11!

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 04:58 PM (g47mK)

273 Is there a Boomer Pizza? What would it be like?

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 04:58 PM (pDt9x)

274 Where would we be now if instead of Ms Guthrie's mom being gone, it were someone from FNC instead of NBC, say, Greg Gutfeld's mom?

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 09, 2026 04:58 PM (KiBMU)

275 261 Fun facts about the Epstein doc drop...the phrase 'pizza' appears 911 times often in strange contexts that does not correspond to dropping by Dominos.

Mike Benz can basically prove he was handling money laundering for CIA, MI5, Mossad, the Saudis, and possibly other allied intelligence agencies. It's entirely possible "pizza" was a code word, but it doesn't mean what a lot of people assume it does.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (2ocoG)

Again, take a look of the use of the word 'pizza' in context in those emails and tell me what you think it means. It sure doesn't seem like Papa Murphys.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:58 PM (xcxpd)

276 "But, conspiracy theorists tend to do that. That's their go-to move."

Remember, the key to being a conspiracy theorist is that ALL evidence supports your theory. Including missing evidence.

And contrary evidence? Obviously THEY seeded it to throw people off the track. Duh.

Posted by: can of spam at February 09, 2026 04:59 PM (14gFN)

277 Has anyone Cross Ref'd the Pizza and Jerky hits in the Files with Dates?

Does the Pizza stop when the Jerky starts?

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:59 PM (gH8T+)

278 Epstein was a connection rod of the Deep State. He ran the trains, started the mingling, and tried to be indispensable to the inner party.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 04:59 PM (u82oZ)

279 I think one of the most amusing email revelations was Bill Gates getting the clap from Russian hookers and then trying to get Epstein to give him anti-biotics he could slip his wife on the sly so she wouldn't know that Bill passed the clap along to her.

That amused me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

280 "Is there a Boomer Pizza? What would it be like?"

Shakey's. Barnaby's.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:00 PM (N8ZBc)

281 This is the same FBI telling us there's nothing to see here that just "discovered" a "device" on grandma Guthrie's roof AFTER THE NEIGHBOR TOLD THEM they should look up there. Liars and clowns.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 09, 2026 04:54 PM (abIsI)

Well, government agents need a good reason to check out a roof. It could be sloped, after all.

Posted by: Methos at February 09, 2026 05:00 PM (vSvIl)

282 So, Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world HAS to get antibiotics from Jeff Epstein? Ah okay then.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:01 PM (pDt9x)

283 Is there a Boomer Pizza? What would it be like?
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 04:58 PM (pDt9x)

Came out of a box.

Posted by: Chef Boyardee Pizza In A Box at February 09, 2026 05:01 PM (Ksqrb)

284 If I posted about Pizza, here, every time I thought about Pizza...well, it's look pretty bad is all I am saying

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 05:01 PM (gH8T+)

285 260 Just got an email that the new Olympians LP is shipping out today.

Very excited these guys put out a 2nd LP.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (gH8T+)

Local group? Haven't heard of them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 05:01 PM (xcxpd)

286 I just don't grok this 'stop looking nothing to see,' and 'trust the govt now' vibe I see here.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:02 PM (N8ZBc)

287 >>Local group? Haven't heard of them.

Soul / Funk Instrumental Band

DapTone Records.

Good stuff.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 05:02 PM (gH8T+)

288 285 260 Just got an email that the new Olympians LP is shipping out today.

Very excited these guys put out a 2nd LP.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 04:55 PM (gH8T+)

Local group? Haven't heard of them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 05:01 PM (xcxpd)

Mark Watt probably is in the band.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:02 PM (pDt9x)

289 I think it is interesting, because Cucker prostrates himself before and promotes Islamists who follow a pedophile as a form of religion, and marry 12 year olds to 60 year old men on a regular basis.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:03 PM (g47mK)

290 people don't like to hear this, but some alleged conspiracies are just too big to believe

As you probably know, I represent the Rothschilds.

Thank you Ace for all that you do.

Posted by: Jepprey Efstein at February 09, 2026 05:03 PM (MeJ0I)

291 Look, you don't think Epstein was a pedophile or provided children, pre-teens and teens to the rich and powerful...fine. I'm not your dad.

But don't piss on my leg and tell me I'm imagining my shoes are getting wet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 05:03 PM (xcxpd)

292 can of spam

Contradictory evidence in a theory is treated by modern, NSF-funded scientists like this:
"That data point is an outlier. Disregard and disappear it. "

Seen it done.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 05:03 PM (u82oZ)

293 Its a HIPAA class action suit. Contagion abounds. Yuck!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 09, 2026 05:04 PM (YlWIZ)

294 First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 05:04 PM (viF8m)

295 *fistbump*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 09, 2026 05:04 PM (Cjt/F)

296 >>Mark Watt probably is in the band.

I was going to suggest, earlier:

Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime

fIREHOSE: Ragin' Full On, From Ohio

Mike Watt: Ball Hog or Tug Boat, Contemplating the Engine Room

These are my suggestions for the Watt Curious

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 05:04 PM (gH8T+)

297
Epstein knew Jack Ruby!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:04 PM (tgvbd)

298
Okay, so maybe Epstein wasn't Mr. Pimp for the Rich and Famous, but quite a few of them have been resigning lately as their names were found in the files. I can't even remember them all. So what gives?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 05:04 PM (n7rxJ)

299 268 "Epstein was a cutout for governments and politically connected around the world."

The summary on "Blat" within the Walter Kirn thread (see 213) describes how people like him take over when legitimate governments start to fail.

Personally, I am concerned about his seeming fixation on scientists and mathematicians.

Posted by: KT at February 09, 2026 05:05 PM (7vIsy)

300 299 268 "Epstein was a cutout for governments and politically connected around the world."

The summary on "Blat" within the Walter Kirn thread (see 213) describes how people like him take over when legitimate governments start to fail.

Personally, I am concerned about his seeming fixation on scientists and mathematicians.
Posted by: KT at February 09, 2026 05:05 PM (7vIsy)

Maybe he had A Beautiful Mind.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:06 PM (pDt9x)

301 So what gives?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 05:04 PM (n7rxJ)

Are you just asking questions?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 05:06 PM (xgA6p)

302 "Personally, I am concerned about his seeming fixation on scientists and mathematicians."

Geeks who had no other way to get sex.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:06 PM (N8ZBc)

303 287 >>Local group? Haven't heard of them.

Soul / Funk Instrumental Band

DapTone Records.

Good stuff.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 05:02 PM (gH8T+)

I do like soul and funk. I'll check out what I can find about them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 05:06 PM (xcxpd)

304 I find it amazing the "GREAT SATAN" has ordered the FBI help find Savannah Guthrie Savannah Guthrie's Mother ......

Apparently, Savannah Guthrie's Mother Hated Trump .......

Posted by: Jackson at February 09, 2026 05:07 PM (X7dyz)

305 I think one of the most amusing email revelations was Bill Gates getting the clap from Russian hookers and then trying to get Epstein to give him anti-biotics he could slip his wife on the sly so she wouldn't know that Bill passed the clap along to her.

That amused me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

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

Throw in some pedos and kids -- and you've got yourself a Netflix film right there.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:07 PM (og9b4)

306 >>I do like soul and funk

Colemine Records should be on your short list.

They have a Spotify Chanel, I am sure.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 05:07 PM (gH8T+)

307 Also, Funk Night Records out of Detroit.

They mostly cover the Euro Funk movement.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 05:08 PM (gH8T+)

308 >>>As you probably know, I represent the Rothschilds.

Russia!

Posted by: MSM at February 09, 2026 05:08 PM (jGJov)

309 but some alleged conspiracies are just too big to believe that no one ever blew the whistle

This is such a weird default position for people who are living in a timeline in which astroturf politics, including protests and other organized mayhem, funding through government cutouts, like NGOs is a thing. Or one in which coordinated government censorship of social media and the internet took place behind the scenes. All without whistleblowers coming forward when it was occuring.

Posted by: bear with asymmetric balls at February 09, 2026 05:08 PM (wCQ1m)

310
I get the impression that there are a lot of prestigious people (professors, royalty, politicians) who, appearances aside, are often short of cash and fall prey to sleazy financiers who promise a quick buck.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 05:09 PM (tgvbd)

311 The explanation I saw for that was that Epstein went nuts on some keto fad, and was truly obsessed with it. I guess that could be plausible. No idea.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 09, 2026 04:53 PM (XvL8K)

You don’t need to freeze beef jerky, nor do you need someone to “walk the jerky over”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 05:09 PM (dhHpw)

312 rather than a quid pro quo

well, 20 quid; same as downtown

Posted by: anachronda at February 09, 2026 05:09 PM (sGtp+)

313 "such a weird default position"

'X has not been proven yet, therefore X must be false.'

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:09 PM (N8ZBc)

314 I find it amazing the "GREAT SATAN" has ordered the FBI help find Savannah Guthrie Savannah Guthrie's Mother ......

Apparently, Savannah Guthrie's Mother Hated Trump .......

Posted by: Jackson

I hope she is returned safely and then grieves every day for the rest of her life over her lost bogeyman.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 05:10 PM (xgA6p)

315 I find it amazing the "GREAT SATAN" has ordered the FBI help find Savannah Guthrie Savannah Guthrie's Mother ......

Apparently, Savannah Guthrie's Mother Hated Trump ......

Posted by: Jackson at February 09, 2026 05:07 PM (X7dyz)

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

I find it amazing that the MDM-MSM hasn't already accused Trump of being the kidnapper.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:10 PM (og9b4)

316 You'd think if he was running a straight child sex ring, he'd have the kids tested regularly so Bill Gates did not give his wife the clap.

If it was JUST a sex ring, then the harm to the client would have damaged that brand.

Instead the pedo shit was rolled into the high roller lifestyle epstein was providing these guys. So Chris Tucker gives this girl the clap and she passes it on to Gates and he passes it on to his wife (as an hypothetical.)

Fuck, thats horrible.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

317 Why is our local ABC affiliate reporting that DHS is going to be defunded by the end of the week?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 05:11 PM (W2Pud)

318 I find it amazing the "GREAT SATAN" has ordered the FBI help find Savannah Guthrie Savannah Guthrie's Mother ......

Apparently, Savannah Guthrie's Mother Hated Trump ......

Posted by: Jackson at February 09, 2026 05:07 PM (X7dyz)

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I find it amazing that the MDM-MSM hasn't already accused & defamed Trump as being the kidnapper.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:11 PM (og9b4)

319 313 "such a weird default position"

'X has not been proven yet, therefore X must be false.'
Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:09 PM (N8ZBc)

It means X is neither true nor false. Sort of a Schrodinger’s X. Both true and false until proof appears.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

320 Thank you Ace for all that you do.
Posted by: Jepprey Efstein at February 09, 2026 05:03 PM (MeJ0I)

Yes yes! Ace has restored our faith in humanity!

Posted by: Henry Jarecki's Man Boobs at February 09, 2026 05:12 PM (pkaxU)

321 I've been saying that there wasn't any fire in the Epstein smoke for a while. It would have come out by now if there had been.

Basically all we found out is that people we thought were terrible human beings were in fact terrible human beings.

No surprise there.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 09, 2026 05:12 PM (WYStd)

322 hey, did you guys know that Russian are evacuating their personnel from Busher nuke site ?

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 05:12 PM (g47mK)

323 319 Yup. It's a fallacy.

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:12 PM (N8ZBc)

324 Two things can be true, Epstein was a pervert and a sexual deviant who might have turned some of his friends and associates onto his freak and he was also a dirty money man that facilitated off the books shit like moving money and weapons with various political leaders.

Sometimes those circles overlap but not always.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 05:13 PM (viF8m)

325 nood

Posted by: gp at February 09, 2026 05:13 PM (N8ZBc)

326 You can trust us, Mr. O'Spades. We're Top Men.

Top. Men.

Posted by: Top. Men. at February 09, 2026 05:13 PM (eTwL2)

327 I'm eating leftover pizza from last night right now.

(and salad)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

328 Anyone know where I can get some good pizza and hot dogs? Especially hot dogs?

Posted by: B. Obama at February 09, 2026 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)

329 runner, I do know.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 05:14 PM (0KSrI)

330 317 Why is our local ABC affiliate reporting that DHS is going to be defunded by the end of the week?
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Parts of it are. DHS funding was stripped out of the overall funding bills so it only got a two week extension of funding. Affects other parts of DHS like TSA and Fema.

Border Patrol and Ice were funded under the BBB.

But a lot of DHS falls under essential employee exceptions to furloughs. So we shall see.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 05:15 PM (2swu2)

331 NOOD

UKgov is a bunch of fags and their shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 05:18 PM (ULPxl)

332 Have you ever read a classic and thought, "Boy, that'd be a great m*therf*cking book if there were just more m*therf*cking profanity?" Well, your prayers have been answered by Sweary Classics! Here's Alice In Wonderland.

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Pride and Prejudice

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Several others.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 05:18 PM (J+Psw)

333 It means X is neither true nor false. Sort of a Schrodinger’s X. Both true and false until proof appears.
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This is about where I am. I know something is up. I know there is a lot of shit in the game. I dont know that all the shit swirling around is true. But something is true, and its not great, and we dont know what it is. I dont think Trump is dirty. If he was they would have gladly used it long ago. Long ago. No, its worse for the dems and the stablishment. That shit weasel was every democrats best friend. Larry fcking summers was asking dating advice from him? Why? HIM? WHAT the fck does he know about banging chicks???

Posted by: David Carradine and Michael Hutchins at February 09, 2026 05:18 PM (6rdCx)

334 298
Okay, so maybe Epstein wasn't Mr. Pimp for the Rich and Famous, but quite a few of them have been resigning lately as their names were found in the files. I can't even remember them all. So what gives?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Other than Andrew in UK and Fergie, Peter Mandelson had to resign because it came out that he gave top secret information to Epstein about an impending bank bailout. Starmer's top aide man was also a protege of Mandelson and got some mentions in the files. Plus UK government in particular has a problem with rape and child trafficking in general. Starmer was the Crown Prosecutor over the Rotherham rape cases involving young white Brits and Pakistanis.

Norway, the Crown Princess was a top level pervert and a skank and her son has been charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault. Apparently she was a perv herself apart from Epstein.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (2swu2)

335 Well the FBI wouldn't lie, so I'm certain now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at
February 09, 2026 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

Then what's stopping Thomas Massie from viewiing the undredacted versions and claiming he's seen proof the FBI is lying about the redactions?

Posted by: Serious Cat at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (xqQi7)

336 Why is our local ABC affiliate reporting that DHS is going to be defunded by the end of the week?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 05:11 PM (W2Pud)

Because lies get eyes.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 05:20 PM (dhHpw)

337 "Fun facts about the Epstein doc drop...the phrase 'pizza' appears 911 times often in strange contexts that does not correspond to dropping by Dominos. #PizzaGate is a smear to cover up real shady shit."
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

yeah, there is "something" to all those weird messages, and iirc, the phrasing was directly from the real pedo language, used to find kids. Then there was the strange art of Podesta, several "not right" factors.

Hastert was Speaker of the House for 8 years, then found to be a "pedo". How big a club is it? We'll I'm not in it, so idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 05:21 PM (vbXSk)

338 They did not find blackmail photos or videos, because they did not secure the materials when they raided the island. They came back later, and what they saw the first time was not there anymore.

Also, the Epstein email have nearly a thousand references to pizza, but you should not think this is code.

Posted by: MikeN at February 09, 2026 05:22 PM (8uQGY)

339 And Comet Pizza is just a pizza place, where middle aged rich guys raved about the delectable pizza and grape soda

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 09, 2026 05:23 PM (wBaIH)

340 I find it amazing that the MDM-MSM hasn't already accused Trump of being the kidnapper.
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:10 PM (og9b4)

Runner thinks it was Tucker Carlson. He has proof.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 05:25 PM (rbvCR)

341 Jeffrey Epstein as an investor.

He was doing this stuff in the 80's and 90's.

People forget that.

So, he would do stuff like get people into European bank accounts etc. It sounds so dumb and boring now.

But in 1982 that wasn't so easy to do.

No internet.

So he could make his money by just running a very basic fund like that.

Now it sounds so easy and dumb we assume he must have been doing something shady.

Posted by: coba at February 09, 2026 05:25 PM (IuIym)

342 Look, I just want the Stephen Paddock files. Is that too much to ask? Deadliest mass shooting in American history. Epstein is scandalous, but much less so than the FBI looking like they're doing a coverup for the IC.

Am I the only one who remembers? The local police stalled on answering questions, using their technically open investigation as an excuse; then when the two-year limit was reached and they had to close it, they didn't make a new excuse for continuing to refuse. It was just, yeah, we got nothin'.

It seriously looked like the FBI was forcing the locals to clam up and they resented it, so they just did the bare minimum compliance, without even trying to make it look good. I will never, ever trust the Feds after that, and so those are the files we really need to see, for national healing and restoration of trust.

Posted by: SciVo at February 09, 2026 05:25 PM (Sy6m/)

343 and he would make the most money by getting BIG FISH so he could make his 1% off $100 million.

That's a million dollars.

Posted by: coba at February 09, 2026 05:26 PM (IuIym)

344 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at Februar

No, I can’t say I ever thought that. What weird ideas for books. “We’ll improve it by adding swearing.”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2026 05:29 PM (8Xy/A)

345 340 I find it amazing that the MDM-MSM hasn't already accused Trump of being the kidnapper.
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 05:10 PM (og9b4)

Runner thinks it was Tucker Carlson. He has proof.
Posted by: Kindltot
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It's true; He grabbed them by the pussy and snatched them away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 05:45 PM (6W1vz)

346 "He walked away with a wrist slap on something serious that you or i would still be in jail over. The US attny said the deal was IC related. He then winds up dead in max security. The video was off, then years later here it is, wait its missing a minute, no, here it is. Who is walking in the tier in orange?? Nobody knows. Oh and they where putting together a press release on his in custody death the day before he died. I totally get the conspiracy people. Totally. I am not all the way there, but i sure has hell aint pointing and laughing at them either.

Full stop.

Posted by: Soooooo at February 09, 2026 04:28 PM (6rdCx)"

Concur. And I don't know anyone who thinks Epstein's primary modus operandi was charging rich men to have sex with underage kids. The kids were the lingua franca, the thing that brought these evil people together, the shared interest that made them one of the members of the club. There are hundreds of emails already unearthed that are either totally nonsensical, or are made up of code language talking about something else. And those emails point to horrors too hideous to imagine.

Posted by: Sloucho at February 09, 2026 06:12 PM (B9ht/)

347 MTV Spring Break with guest Bill Clinton

Posted by: hurricane567 at February 09, 2026 06:37 PM (+ayKE)

348 305 I think one of the most amusing email revelations was Bill Gates getting the clap from Russian hookers and then trying to get Epstein to give him anti-biotics he could slip his wife on the sly so she wouldn't know that Bill passed the clap along to her.

That amused me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 09, 2026 04:59 PM (xcxpd)
..............................

I want to know Bill's plan to give Melinda antibiotics. I somehow can't see this working well in our house. "Here, honey, have this large pill three times a day." Me: "Why? What is it? I will find out and take it to the pharmacy. What have you done?"

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 09:36 PM (WONhk)

349 It's not an official sex trafficking ring without an LLC.

Posted by: cpurick at February 10, 2026 08:15 AM (lNjg1)

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